Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterBernie Dieter’s LIttle Death Club ☆☆☆☆ Underbelly Festival, London’s South Bank Right now it is hard for burlesque to stay sexy without the audience feeling #MeToo rather than wanting to be ‘Me Next – Please!’ Bernie Dieter manages to succeed in this high wire act with audience domination, a thumping rock soundtrack, and a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterFITTER ☆☆☆☆ SOHO THEATRE, LONDON Heading off to a deconstruction of masculinity on a cold December night is not everyone’s idea of a festive treat. Thankfully instead of a smash n grab on a boy’s crown jewels Mary Higgins and Ell Potter have written a funny, and in parts incredibly moving ‘love letter to masculinity … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterHappy Ending ☆☆☆☆ The Garden Theatre, London Fantasies are slippery things. Do you want what you want because you can’t have it? If you get what you want, will you still want it? Happy Ending by Ronnie Larsen at The Garden Theatre Summer Festival is a tricksy, fun, slap on the butt that manages to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterOh! We Do Like to Be ☆☆☆☆ Turbine Theatre This play’s first half is already half full Like a ripening banana queer theatre in London is slowly poking its way out of the lockdown. And let us tell you Queerguru is more than ready to have at that fruit. One of the rare benefits of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterPublic Domain ☆☆☆ Stayhouse, London While some theatres have met the challenge of streaming during the pandemic by transferring their standard content to online Southwark Playhouse (or Stayhouse as they now call themselves) have done their version of the “Little Engine that Could” by producing a new musical that embraces the creative opportunity … Continue reading