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Queerguru’s Jonny Ward gets all his senses TICKLED @ Kings Head Theatre
Tickle the Musical ☆☆☆☆ Kings Head Theatre London Way back in 2016 David Farrier, a New Zealand TV reporter, got hold of a story and would not let it go. This was the murky world of “competitive endurance tickling”. The documentary explored the possible legal and ethical issues raised in the production of…
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Queerguru’s Jonny Ward checks out a new recording of beloved Brit Camp Comedy Up Pompei
UP POMPEI The Shaw Theatre “Titter ye not!” The eternal cry of camp icon Frankie Howerd. Welcome to ancient Rome, where the steps of the Forum are peopled by nubile slave girls and a range of outrageous characters including Lurcio’s owner, Ludicrous Sextus the Senator, his wife Ammonia, his son Nausius and his…
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ; and so does Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ☆☆☆☆ Union Theatre, London Directed by Sasha Regan Anita Loos’ 1925 novel (famously championed by James Joyce) was first turned into a stage musical in 1949, and must have seemed dated even then, much of the original novel’s caustic indictment of the Jazz Age already softened or lost on its postwar…
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Queerguru’s Jonny Ward checks out A PARTNERSHIP to see if two London lads can last together
A Partnership ☆☆☆ Theatre 503, London A Partnership has an in depth look at whether two men in modern-day London can have a long-lasting monogamous relationship. In real time over the course of an hour, partners Ally (Ben Hadfield) and Zach (Rory Thomas-Howes) have returned to their new flat after a night out to…
