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London theatre reviews and interviews
Category: LGBTQ+
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The Line of Beauty review transcript: The Line of Beauty at the Almeida Theatre is a play that presents a slice of someone’s life over three years. It’s set in the 80s. It’s about a young gay man who ends up living with the very posh family of his friend from university. And it’s an…
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REVIEW: George Sand (Léa des Garets), a successful French novelist, has writer's block. It's 1839, and she's both lauded by the press for her work and pilloried for her lifestyle choices. She likes to wear men's suits and has many lovers. Strapped for cash, she's asked to write a play, so she creates a story…
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Actor & writer Lea des Garets Léa des Garets is a queer award-winning actor, writer and theatre-maker from France. Through her company MQT Productions, Léa aims to give more visibility to hidden voices from the past and the present, focusing particularly on international voices, female-led narratives and the LGBTQIA+ community. Here, she talks to me…
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L-R Olivia Dowd, Ishmael Kirby, Jaye Hudson and India JJ. Photo: Harry Elletson GRILLS at the Camden People's Theatre is set in two time periods and two places connected by the queer experience and history. Four modern self-professed queer nerds – Vall, Bee, Jaz and Mo – are visiting the Glasgow Women's Library, which…
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Gemma Lawrence and Kathryn Bond in The Beach House, Park Theatre, Feb 2023. Photo: David Monteith-Hodge They say moving is one of the most stressful things you can do. What happens when you move to your dream beachfront home that is 'in need of renovation', you have a baby on the way, and your relationship…
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Helena Wilson and Maggie Bain in Linck & Mülhahn, Hampstead Theatre, Feb 2023. Photo: Helen Murray Writer Ruby Thomas was in the British Library when she came across a reference Linck and Mulhahn, a same-sex couple in 18th Century Prussia who'd been living as husband and wife. Using what information she could find as starting…
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The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs is one of those plays that unashamedly bursts off the stage, much like the lesbian choir around which the story revolves. The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs, Soho Theatre, May 2022. Photo: Helen Murray Fed up with being invisible, Connie (Shuna Show) puts the choir forward for an audition to perform…
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Travis Alabanza's play Overflow is set in the toilet of a club from where transgirl Rosie (Reece Lyons) has locked herself in. Overflow, Bush Theatre. Photography by Elise Rose. Art direction by Mia Maxwell She talks about the power of a 'pre-emptive pee' but it isn't just about being organised enough to empty your bladder…
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Rotterdam – Alice McCarthy, Anna Martine Freeman and Ed Eales-White, photo by Hunter Canning There is a scene in Jon Brittain's Rotterdam when Fiona (Anna Martine Freeman) is on the telephone to her parents. It is New Year's Eve and she is telling them she thinks she's a man. You can't hear what her parents…