review
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Not The Edinburgh Fringe : Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden and a fistful of flyers
Not the Edinburgh Fringe ☆☆☆☆ Above the Stag Theatre, London For the second year in a row, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has been canceled. There are hordes of writers, performers, directors, and producers gasping to get their work in front of an audience. The Above the Stag Theatre, our current favorite Vauxhall venue, has stepped…
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The Cancellation of Crispin Cox : a one-man-play by Michael Conley
The Cancellation of Crispin Cox ☆☆☆☆☆ https://www.crispincox.com/ Queerguru may have been latecomers to the Michael Conley fan club . ….. we just discovered his comic brilliance earlier this year with The Fabulous Fox Sister ….. but after seeing The Cancellation of Crispin Cox, we are now full-paid up members. Conley has written and…
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Zola : a black comedy that verges on not-so-soft porn
Movies are often stories adapted from a stage drama, a novel, or a memoir but this is probably the first time we have come across based on a string of Twitter posts. This was the story of a very unusual road trip in 2015 by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King that was subsequently detailed in a…
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Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp waxes lyrically about Gothic Opera’s new production of BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE
Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartok Porchester Hall, London, July 8th-10th ☆☆☆☆ In mid-March 2020 – which feels now like eons ago – I waxed lyrical about a certain dancer, Carmine de Amicis, in his role as Jokanaan in a dance-theatre adaptation of Wilde’s Salomé . Then Covid19 struck and a hurdle-track of lockdowns prevented…
