Ris Fatah
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews This Bitter Earth, the directorial debut by Billy Porter of Harrison David River’s tense play about a mixed-race queer relationship at the dawn of the Black Lives Matter movement.
This Bitter Earth Soho Theatre, London If you’re in London this month, then a must-see is This Bitter Earth, Billy Porter’s (Pose, Kinky Boots) directorial debut of Harrison David River’s tense play about a mixed-race queer American couple navigating life during the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement. At Soho’s cute cabaret/theatre…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Korean conceptual artist Do Ho Suh’s new show ‘Walk The House’, currently on at London’s Tate Modern gallery.
We are all the sum of many influences, our family and friends, genetics, finances, our political, cultural and human rights environments, and our education. Our physical homes also affect our lives. Most of us move house several times in our lives, each time adding some part of the previous dwelling to our DNA. Korean conceptual…
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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…
