The morning after The Morning After I was filled with questions, just like the play's character Thomas who wakes up to find himself in a strange bed after a few too many drinks. While Thomas’ questions were more of the rudimentary kind (Where am I? Who are you? Where is my underwear?) mine were more... Continue Reading →
The Glasgow Film Festival has announced its 2020 line up with a series of notable LGBTQ films receiving their UK and Scottish premieres, and a focus on female filmmakers. Scottish audiences will get their first chance to see acclaimed queer films Moffie (★★★★★), Rialto (★★★★) and Deux/Two of Us (★★★1/2). In addition there are three... Continue Reading →
Gay relationships are hard! Maybe it’s because it’s winter, maybe it’s because of Brexit, maybe it’s because that’s just life, but London’s season of domestic gay complications continues with Jake Brunger’s Four Play. London’s LGBTQ focused theatre, Above The Stag, has relaunched its studio space with this tight tale of two gay couples dealing with... Continue Reading →
James McAvoy is currently the hottest thing on London’s West End, playing a famously unattractive man. Tickets to Cyrano de Bergerac are in short supply thanks to the combined power of McAvoy and superstar director Jamie Lloyd. This reworked Cyrano is stripped back and refreshingly sexy. McAvoy is the star of the show, both in... Continue Reading →
Kevin Elyot’s debut play, Coming Clean, is back as the King's Head Theatre’s production returns to London’s West End. In pre-AIDS 80s Thatcherite Britain a gay couple Tony (Lee Knight) and Greg (Stanton Plummer-Cambridge) feel out the boundaries of their long-term relationship. Enter a young, sexy cleaner named Robert (Jonah Rzeskiewicz) who puts things to... Continue Reading →
For the first time in its 27 year history, an Australian LGBTQ feature film will open Queer Screen's 27th Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney. Ellie & Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt) is a Sydney-based rom-com focusing on a teenage lesbian love affair, looking at Australia's own civil rights movement. Starring Marta Dusseldorp (Stateless, Janet... Continue Reading →
FILM BRAIN (FB): What the fuck did we just watch? MUSICAL THEATRE BRAIN (MTB): Cats. FB: Yeah, but… what the actual… MTB: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats, you know the one that’s been around since 1981. We saw it when we were kids. FB: I know but… that film was… MTB: Yeah, I’ll admit, the... Continue Reading →
Reworking Shakespeare’s Richard III into American High School territory, Teenage Dick feels like a mash-up - take Netflix’s The Politician, mix in the social media of Dear Evan Hansen, a dash of Six’s feminine re-framing and serve nice and hot. Of course, most of these shows debuted after Teenage Dick first took to the stage... Continue Reading →
If the onset of winter, the continuing saga of Brexit and a looming general election is getting you down, maybe stepping back in time to a completely charming musical is what you need? That’s what the Menier Chocolate Factory is betting on with this bright and relentlessly cheery revival of 1950s hit musical, The Boy... Continue Reading →
British theatre is loving a bit of historical revision these days and & Juliet gives us re-written Shakespeare with liberal lashings of scandi-pop brilliance. I loathe jukebox musicals but & Juliet is just fantastic! What if star-crossed Juliet didn’t take her own life after Romeo died? What if instead, she woke up and got on... Continue Reading →
