Cosi Fan Tutti: ENO
this staging softens some of the original's nastier implications without entirely sanitizing them. What emerges is opera as guilty pleasure: brilliant, frivolous, and self-aware enough to get away with it.
Eric Page
Cinderella Varna International Ballet
Varna International Ballet delivers a production where kindness, hope, and love lead somewhere worth going, all wrapped up in a formal classical approach.
REVIEW:The Brighton Alternative Pantomime: Dick (Remixed)
This is panto that throws endless jokes, puns, slapstick, songs, costumes and utterly daft plot twists at you until something sticks. And plenty does.
REVIEW: ‘The Midnight Wood’ by Alexandra McCollum
This is a story about love as both wound and remedy, about shattering the categories that make us legible but small. In slow-burning recognition, we find something radical: two queer people learning the real magic is in the terrifying act of being fully seen.
The Cut Up: Louise Welsh
The Cut Up works perfectly. Welsh delivers a thriller that honors character over contrivance, that understands queerness as texture rather than plot device, that knows chosen family means presence during precisely the moments things fall spectacularly apart.
Les Normaux: Magic, Desire, and the Radical Ordinary
Les Normaux reminds us that representation matters in texture and specificity. It's a love letter to messy beginnings, to finding your people, to the radical act of believing you deserve softness and romance. And a delight to just look at, the artwork flows in a sensual way.
A Queer Carol {v}: The Morning After, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Solstice
Scrooge learns what Sappho knew, what Hadrian knew, what the Ladies of Llangollen knew, what Marsha knew: Love is the opposite of hoarding. Authenticity is the opposite of scarcity. Community is the opposite of isolation.