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Queerguru’s David Lagachu reviews ACTS OF LOVE: a film about moments of intimacy
As audiences, we are used to perceiving cinema as a coming together of various structural units – a story that has a beginning, a middle, and an ending. The director duo of Isidore Bethel and Francis Leplay are on a mission to dismantle this belief of ours. Their project Acts of Love is full…
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The National Theatre’s well timed revival of THE NORMAL HEART gets a ☆☆☆☆☆ review from Queerguru’s Ris Fatah
THE NORMAL HEART ☆☆☆☆☆ THE NATIONAL THEATRE, LONDON Larry Kramer’s seminal play, The Normal Heart, gets a well-timed revival at The National Theatre, London. This moving drama spans the first four years of the AIDS virus in New York City – covering 1981 to 1985 – and is a loosely autobiographical account…
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Queerguru’s Jonny Ward reviews Victor Esses autobiographical ‘Where To Belong’
Where to Belong☆☆☆ Casa Festival at the Monochrome Studios Where to Belong is not a conventional play but rather an intriguing mix of video production, photographs, music, song and even movement along with a very honest style of first-person storytelling aimed directly at the audience. It outlines the tender, moving autobiographical story of artist…
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The Pleasure Garden: A Vauxhall Musical : reviewed by Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden
The Pleasure Garden ☆☆☆☆ Above The Stag Theatre, London If you were thirsty for a better musical after this week’s release on Amazon Prime of the one dimensional and utterly forgettable Everybody is Talking About Jamie then fear not, to the rescue comes The Pleasure Gardens, which is fruity, spirited, and welcome as a bowl…
