Tag: review
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BEYOND THE AGGRESSIVES : 25 YEARS LATER revisiting aspirations of a group of six fabulous aggressives, masculine presenting/identifying queer people of colour
Conversations around gender and sexual identities are hot topics these days. In the heat of the moment, however, it’s useful to look back at how such conversations were framed in previous eras, and how our thoughts have evolved over time. Daniel Peddle’s ground-breaking 2005 documentary, The Aggressives, documented the beliefs, lives, and aspirations…
Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden ‘was getting so excited’ reviewing GINGER ALL THE WAY at Soho Theatre, London
GINGER ALL THE WAY ⚝⚝⚝⚝ SOHO THEATRE, LONDON Drag Race UK Season 5 winner Ginger Johnson (Donald Marshall) is living the dream. Self-described as a ‘helium balloon in the shape of a woman’ Ginger has landed disgracefully at the Soho Theatre to share their own happily melancholic version of seasonal mischief. The fiery…
Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews YOU CAN’T STAY HERE the latest drama by TODD VEROW
LOVE IS SUCH AN EASY THING. EASY TO GIVE, HARD TO TAKE… A fiction inspired by actual events, the film begins with Rick (Guillermo Díaz) reading to his son the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice from the First book of Mythology and ends with Blood (that leaves a stain) and out of focus. The…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews OUR SON the story of surviving a queer divorce
Divorce rates for gay marriages are about the same as straight marriages, running at about 2% a year. Lesbian divorce rates are, however, approximately twice as high as those for gay male marriages. This may reflect the fact that most divorce is initiated by women. So, if you’re a gay male couple getting…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah ⚝⚝⚝⚝⚝ review of DREAMING AND DROWNING an award-winning queer coming of age play
Dreaming and Drowning ⚝⚝⚝⚝⚝ Bush Theatre, London Dreaming and Drowning is a brilliant new, award-winning, queer coming-of-age play by Kwame Owusu, currently on at London’s innovative Bush Theatre. The cosy theatre, which recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, specializes in the development of new plays and playwrights, and this play is one of its…
