Arts
Pic by Chris Jepson Photography Latest TV’s Andrew Kay has created a new play, John and Thomas, to launch a prize in honour of drag star Jason Sutton aka Miss Jason, whose untimely death shocked the Brighton and London gay scene. Andrew wrote a previous play, Morning Glory, specifically for Jason an
Theatre
My latest round-up of shows with queer themes or queer performers runs the gamut from Donna Summer to a drag queen becoming the evil child catcher. Mark Farrelly has a wonderful series of shows, many of them depicting some great gay icons – Derek Jarman and Frankie Howerd to name just two, and he’s
Film
Trans activist Paul B Preciado has taken Virginia Woolf’s 1928 gender-fluid classic novel Orlando and made a powerful film essay that combines the life stories of over 20 trans and divergent people with many elements and direct quotes from the novel. The effect is a stunning cinematic marvel, as the
Cabaret
After nine successful seasons in London, the Next Drag Superstar competition starts this week in Brighton for the first time. Brighton-based Felix Le Freak, co-producer and head judge, told me: “The London event has grown into a community of LGBTQ+ performers, working together in cabaret, panto and
Arts
Resound Male Voices are not a ‘belt it out, blood and guts’ choir, so the 18th century intimacy of Brighton’s Chapel Royal was a perfect sounding board for their summer concert of delights and surprises. Under the direction of Sam Barton, the 11-strong group were just that – strong – with lots of so
Arts
Brian Butler thinks another star has been born
Arts
A glimpse at some of this year’s queer shows at Edinburgh
Arts
Brian Butler finds a polished gemstone of a choral evening
Brighton Fringe
Pete has a silver tongue, and he is quietly and warmly welcoming as we take our seats. The long-standing charismatic pastor greets us to his church – what he calls his “family”. It’s a plausibly pleasant beginning to a sinister tale that will unfold over the next hour. And beneath that feeling of
Brighton Fringe
Zee and Ash are lesbians at opposite ends of the interactive spectrum: the new flatmates share poetry as an interest/job, but where Ash is loud and outrageous, with endless quick-fire one-liners, Zee is introvert, suspicious, hurt and thoughtful. Ash decides unilaterally she will string her undies u
Theatre
Dan Ireland-Reeves pulls back the curtain on the non-stop activities of a south coast gay sauna in his semi-autobiographical monodrama Sauna Boy, and there are some explicit revelations. While not shocking to regular sauna-goers, this is not your average kiss-and-tell drama. Dan has an energetic and
Brighton Fringe
Prince Henry is the only gay in a kingdom far far away, and he longs to be in what he calls “the real world,” and find his one true man. But as Rich Watkins brilliantly portrays, Henry has one obstacle after another to overcome in his path to being who he believes he really is. […]