Tag: theatre review
Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp reviews SALOME ‘full of sexual energy & spectacular dancing
Salomé ☆☆☆☆☆ EDIFICE Dance Theatre The Place, London Salomé is the biblical gift that just keeps giving, from Wilde’s scandalously decadent take on it and the Aubrey Beardsley drawings it inspired, to the curate’s egg of Ken Russell’s film version. Last year, I reviewed for Queerguru a production that cast Salomé as a pretty…
Tales From The Shadows : Jonathan Kemp reviews an Oscar Wilde Puppet Show
Wild(e) Tales: Tales From the Shadows ☆☆☆ Vault Festival, Waterloo It’s no secret that I worship and adore Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, so it was with a certain amount of trepidation that I took my seat for this shadow puppet show of some of his children’s stories, originally written for his two sons, Cyril…
Queerguru”s Jonathan Kemp reviews Bedlam Chorus”s production BUTTERFLY
BUTTERFLY (3.5 Stars) BEDLAM CHORUS VAULT FESTIVAL, LONDON This was my introduction to the work of Bedlam Chorus and my first thought was how appropriate that name is (in the best possible way, no shade). There’s something gloriously ramshackle about this outfit, from the malfunctioning home-made costumes to the, at times, barely audible storytelling.…
Frida : Stroke of Passion : the last week in her tumultuous Life
Frida: Stroke of Passion ☆☆☆☆ Matcha Theater, West Hollywood ‘Frida Stroke of Passion’ is a complex, fast moving story of the last week of the late great queer Frida Kahlo’s life. Frida (brilliant portrayed by Odalys Nanin – Writer-Director-Producer) who was in an accident and subsequently lost a leg turned to alcohol, pain medication and…
Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens : a richer and more diverse Inheritance
Elegies for Angels, Punks AND Raging Queens ☆☆☆☆ Union Theatre, London In a year in which The Inheritance claimed every kind of London theatre accolade it’s a tough job to put on an AIDS crisis era play without inviting comparison. Happily, when contrasted rather than compared, Elegies sets its own standard. It is different…
