Queerguru’s ANDREW HEBDEN reviews PUBLIC DOMAIN online from London’s Stayhouse

    Public 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

Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews REBECCA the musical, a tale of cheating, blackmail, murder and obsession.

    REBECCA  ✯✯✯ CHARING CROSS THEATRE, LONDON Written in 1938 the gothic novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier was quickly turned into a film. And that film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock went on to become Best Picture at the Oscars. The source material has enormous potential, but it was a huge challenge that Michael … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews REMEMBRANCE MONDAY with a finely balanced line between heightened emotions and histrionics.

Remembrance Monday ⚝⚝⚝⚝ Seven Dials Playhouse  The Seven Dials Playhouse in the West End is a tiny theatre. It only becomes more so in this Alan Souza directed play written by Michael Batten. The set is the smallest room in the house, the bathroom, a tub and a sink, and yet it still manages to … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews Ricky Sims – Coming Out to Dead People (An Asian Queer Story) ….’both touching and tickling the heart’

  Ricky Sims : Coming  Out To Dead People ⚝⚝⚝⚝ Soho Theatre, London   RIcky Sims does what he says on the tin. Coming out to Dead People is the guilt-ridden carousel of him wanting to come out to his Chinese Malaysian mother – just as she is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Hardly the deathbed … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews ROBBY HOFFMAN putting her finger on what’s wrong with the World!

  ROBBY HOFFMAN ⚝⚝⚝ SOHO THEATRE, LONDON   There is something deeply, awfully, indescribably wrong with the world. You know it, I know it and Robby Hoffman knows it. And whereas we maybe cannot quite put our fingers on it Robby Hoffman has certainly put her fingers on it or in it. We may not … Continue reading

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