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Queerguru”s Andrew Hebden reviews Tell Me Straight …… ( and writes ‘settle for nothing less’)
Tell Me Straight ☆☆☆☆ Kings Head Theatre, London Tell Me Straight will sound off-putting to a lot of people. A play about a gay man who has a succession of hopeless relationships with straight men conjures up images of a self-loathing tragic character chasing the impossible, doomed to unhappiness because he would despise anyone who…
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Queerguru’s Jonny Ward reviews an All-Male Jazz Ballet double-bill in London’s Garden Theatre
Coppelia and The Supermarket Suite ☆☆☆☆☆ St Gabriel’s Halls London This double bill of all-male jazz ballet starts with Supermarket Sweep set to The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky and concludes with Coppelia by Delibes. The opening scene of Supermarket Sweep sees life working in a supermarket through the eyes of two members of staff (performed by…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews ‘Happy Ending’ and warns it can be Slippery when wet
Happy Ending ☆☆☆☆ The Garden Theatre, London Fantasies are slippery things. Do you want what you want because you can’t have it? If you get what you want, will you still want it? Happy Ending by Ronnie Larsen at The Garden Theatre Summer Festival is a tricksy, fun, slap on the butt that manages to…
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Die Walkure at Hackney Empire : Like a Virgin – Opera for beginners
Die Walkure ☆☆☆☆ Arcola Theatre at Hackney Empire Here at Queerguru, we pride ourselves on being very much part of the Try-It-You-Might-Like-It -Club. Indeed one of the senior team is rumored to have that as a tramp stamp in cursive. However, when we got the invite to review Wagner’s opera Die Walkure at the…
