Jerker, or The Helping Hand: A Pornographic Elegy with Redeeming Social Value and a Hymn to the Queer Men of San Francisco in Twenty Telephone Calls, Many of Them Dirty (commonly known simply as Jerker) is a 1986 one-act play by Robert Chesley. The two-character play traces the relationship that develops between a disabled Vietnam veteran, J. … Continue reading
JOCK NIGHT ☆☆☆☆☆ Hope Theatre Company King’s Head, Islington, London Adam Zane’s background is in verbatim theatre, and that commitment to verisimilitude is on clear display in his first full-length non-verbatim play, JOCK NIGHT. In the programme notes he details the months of researching chemsex, interviewing men whose lives have been affected by it. … Continue reading
Gently Down the Stream ☆☆☆☆☆ Park Theatre When a young man takes an older lover, is there always an ulterior motive, or can the reasons be purely romantic, sexual even? This is a question that is raised many times in ‘Gently Down The Stream’. The play is directed by Sean Mathias and written by … Continue reading
If you are having serious withdrawal symptoms waiting for the Netflix original series The Crown to come back with the much awaited season two, and are missing the British Royal Family, we have just come across something that we think you will love too. Last Sunday PBS’s Masterpiece Theater showed their stunning new controversial drama King … Continue reading
‘Welcome to Weatherhill!’ is how we are greeted at the start of this wonderful play written and directed by BAFTA award winner Glenn Chandler who adapted if from the book of the same name by Michael Campbell, the late Lord Glenavy. Set in a typical English boarding school in the 1967 – Parliament is in … Continue reading