Ris Fatah
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews The Rock ‘n’ Roll Alien, a journey through the musical legacy of David Bowie, which was on at London’s Adelphi Theatre.
The theatre and rock ‘n’ roll are slightly incompatible bedfellows, which is odd considering the similarities in staging, performance, and audience expectation. Rock ‘n’ roll can be theatrical, but theatre is rarely successfully rock ‘n’ roll. This is the challenge facing The Rock ‘n’ Roll Alien, a journey through the musical legacy of David…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Dagmarr’s Dimanche, an intimate 1930’s Berlin-esq queer cabaret at London’s Crazy Coqs.
The glamorous queer French cabaret artiste Hersh Dagmarr was born at the beginning of the Twentieth Century and has enjoyed performing on the dimly-lit, louche, velvet-lined cabaret stages of Paris and Berlin for almost one hundred years now. Luckily for us, he’s a vampire and as alive, energetic and note-perfect as ever. Dagmarr’s Dimanche is…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah previews Natural Behaviour, the latest show by the brilliantly named avant-garde dance theatre company Thick and Tight.
Avant-garde dance theatre company Thick & Tight (brilliant name – why has no one used this before?!) present their latest show, Natural Behaviour, on at London’s Battersea Arts Centre this 3-7th June. The show, a follow on from 2024’s Tits & Teeth show (also a genius name), is a collection of performed portraits of…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews My Boyfriend (El Fascista.) how politics can ruin your love life
Politics is increasingly polarised these days. Extremist news media, websites, and online social-media and other algorithms feed us what we want to consume – all with the aim of keeping us fearfully engaged for longer and longer, thereby satisfying advertising clients. This has led to an explosion in radical politics, in particular the rise of…
