‘Flights of Fancy’ is utter celebration of the possibility of being truly, wonderfully yourself, where and whoever you happen to be, it’s a reverie rooted in reality.
‘Flights of Fancy’ is utter celebration of the possibility of being truly, wonderfully yourself, where and whoever you happen to be, it’s a reverie rooted in reality.
London’s multi award-winning LGBT literary salon returns to the Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, as part of its tenth birthday tour, funded by Arts Council England. Curated and hosted by author Paul Burston with readings and performances from Sylvia Brownrigg, Cerys Evans, Alexis Gregory, VG Lee and John McCullough.
London’s multi award-winning LGBT literary salon returns to the Marlborough Theatre on Friday, October 20, as part of its tenth birthday tour, funded by Arts Council England.
Still buzzing from a jam-packed Brighton Fringe programme and clad in his retro lavender style – a look I’ve come to associate with the man behind the Marly – I sat down with Tarik Elmoutawakil to discuss the challenges and rewards that come with programming queer performance.
Hope Theatre Company’s latest production of Gypsy Queen isn’t a bad play; it’s everything you would expect to see in a gay play: repressed sexuality, conflicting masculinity, gay male stereotypes, jokes about tops/bottoms, a homophobic climax and full-frontal nudity. Even the show’s poster is obvious: two topless men. But what was most predictable was the audience I was sat with: White. Gay. Men.
Who do we fall in love with: a body, a soul, a gender? Emerging theatre company Flugelman Productions presents the premiere of The Poetry We Make, a new love story for our times, by Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal.
Operatic countertenor Magid El-Bushra’s acclaimed one-man drag opera cabaret A Willesden Liederkreis comes to the Marlborough Theatre this weekend (March 22). A Willesden Liederkreis (‘A Willesden Song-Cycle’) is a funny, provocative and touching work from acclaimed countertenor Magid El-Bushra, based on Schumann’s famous opus 39 song-cycle.
There are some places in the world, where being transgender wouldn’t raise a plucked eye brow. In Kava Girls a play with songs written, and directed by Sani Muliaumaseali’i you’ll find such a place.
An explosive new play about homophobia and bullying by award-winning playwright Billy Cowan. The play is a hard-hitting drama about homophobic bullying in the staff room of a school.
Siren a New Wave band who toured their lesbian feminist shows and played as a band throughout the 1980’s has reformed. Previously members of Brighton bands Devils Dykes and Bright Girls, Jude Winter, Tash Fairbanks, Jane Boston and Deb Trethewey formed the radical lesbian feminist company, Siren.
