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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews MIDNIGHT AT THE PALACE a musical about the iconic drag troupe THE COCKETTES
Midnight at The Palace. ***** Edinburgh Festival Fringe “Midnight at the Palace” is a raucous, psychedelic, sparkling musical about the queer hippy drag troupe, the Cockettes, who performed in San Francisco in the early seventies. They may not be well known (in the UK) but their wild, gender-bending, counter-cultural anarchy affected many who came later,…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm’s rave review of TOM AT THE FARM @ Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Tom at the Farm ***** Edinburgh Festival Fringe This powerful tour de force of physical theatre unfolds like a homophobic horror story. You can’t fail to be moved by its emotional intensity and raw beauty. Written by Michel Marc Bouchard and first presented in Montreal in 2011, this version in Portuguese is skilfully directed…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘I WAS BORN THIS WAY’ on the life and legacy of Carl Bean
‘ Loving people that are different from us is the only way forward Lady Gaga A documentary by Daniel Jungle and Sam Pollard on the life and legacy of Carl Bean (1944-2021). Through an engaging rotoscope animation, footage, vintage photographs, interviews with music legends such as Lady Gaga, Dionne Warwick, Estelle Brown, Questlove, Iris Gordy…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm gets all hot and bothered reviewing SAUNA BOY @Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Sauna Boy * * * * Edinburgh Festival Fringe After a year-long tour of the US and Australia, Dan Ireland-Reeves, writer and performer of Sauna Boy, brings his semi-autobiographical production to the Edinburgh Fringe. It has erroneously been suggested that the title and subject matter of this show is just a ruse to get gay…
