Robert Malcolm
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm drew the lucky straw and got to review the (excellent) ‘THE HISTORY OF SOUND’
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, both familiar with portraying LGBTQ+ characters, deliver profoundly moving performances in writer Ben Shattuk’s tender love story The History of Sound. Often compared, somewhat lazily, to Brokeback Mountain, this film distinguishes itself by weaving the emotional magic of music into its narrative. It’s not love at first sight, but…
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Queerguru’s own Robert (Malcolm) reviews THE TWO ROBERTS that captures the lives + relationship of two of Britain’s greatest painters
Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun—queer, working-class, Scottish artists and lovers—lived defiantly together at a time when homosexuality was a crime. In The Two Roberts, Damian Barr reimagines their relationship from their meeting at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 until Colquhoun’s early death in 1962 at the age of 47. Barr sees MacBryde as…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews ‘The Fit Prince (who gets switched on in the square in the frosty castle the night before (insert public holiday here)’
The Fit Prince (who gets switched on in the square in the frosty castle the night before (insert public holiday here) **** Edinburgh Festival Fringe Yesterday I finished my visit to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the penultimate performance of “The Fit Prince” by Awkward Productions and Kings Head Theatre. It was a high camp…
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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,…
