Riverside Studios
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the equally absurd and compelling ‘RON’ about controlling relationships @Riverside Studios
Many of us have had friendships with very controlling people. That unpredictable friend who blows hot and cold with you, builds you up and takes you down, makes you do things you don’t want to do, and who doesn’t like it when you make decisions without consulting them. But what if you also fancy that…
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Riverside Studios London : Still Playing Queer after 50 Years
Riverside Studios unveils a packed summer season of bold new theatre, comedy and special anniversary events celebrating 50 years of the iconic West London venue, including some great queer content. Here are just two of our top picks.’ Second Class Queer, Written, performed, and produced by Kumar Muniandy At a live, fast-paced gay speed-dating night in Berlin,…
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Queerguru previews the World Premiere of MOFFIE an excellent South African harrowing coming-of-age drama
South Africa may now have a reputation as Africa’s most gay-friendly destination which attracts thousands of LGBT tourists annually, but it wasn’t always that way. When it was a British Colony as part of the British Empire they had the english sense of morality and Christianity imposed upon them. This meant mirroring England’s…
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The Copla Musical : how a drag sensation, finds love… yet always struggles to merge her Spanish past with her American future.
The copla is a form of Spanish popular genre of risqué cabaret songs which had its heyday in the 1930s. The lyrics often feature marginalized characters, including prostitutes, sailors, escaped convicts, gypsies, and so on, and have themes based on the “illegitimacy of all relationships outside the recognized heterosexual marriage” (i.e., mistreated women,…
