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REVIEW: Double Indemnity @ Theatre Royal Brighton

REVIEW: Double Indemnity @ Theatre Royal Brighton

The raw animal magnetism that should make Walter's catastrophic decision feel inevitable remains frustratingly elusive. When the central seduction doesn't convince, the whole scheme feels less like irresistible temptation and more like a rather poor life choice.

Our Monstrous Bodies: Emma Cleary

Our Monstrous Bodies: Emma Cleary

Our Monstrous Bodies is a haunting literary debut that blooms with the dark desires we suppress or to which we surrender.

Make Sure You Die Screaming: Zee Carlstrom

Make Sure You Die Screaming: Zee Carlstrom

A queer novel about estrangement and grief that refuses sentimentality without abandoning love. It's mean and strange and necessary about the cost of surviving and still finding community on the other side of the wreckage.

This Must Be Heaven: John Tothill @ Komedia

This Must Be Heaven: John Tothill @ Komedia

Tothill offers wit as survival strategy, pleasure as resistance. Joy in his audience, in ideas, in history's odder footnotes, in the absurdity and abundance of being alive in a world that keeps offering buffets.

The Constant Wife: Theatre Royal

The Constant Wife: Theatre Royal

By the curtain, the laughter sits in your chest alongside something more complicated. That, one rather suspects, is exactly what Maugham intended all along, even if he could never quite say so.

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny — English National Opera, London Coliseum

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny — English National Opera, London Coliseum

The ticket price is, as the opera itself might argue, the least of what you'll pay — but it is very much worth it.

Queer Life, Queer Love 3

Queer Life, Queer Love 3

The serious sits alongside the subversive; autobiography crashes into wild imagination. You could crack this book at random and find something that grabs you by the throat or makes you laugh out loud—possibly both.

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