Arts BOOK REVIEW: Speak it’s Name!: Quotations by and about gay men and women This collection of quotations by and about gay people is a celebration of the advances in LGBT rights in the UK over the last half-century and a demonstration of the battle against oppression and prejudice that led to them. From a diverse range of people across the world, funny ones are interspersed By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Ednapeadia: Dame Edna Dame Edna spares no one and nothing, especially the truth, in her quest to explain why Australia is the best darn place in the whole world. With her trademark honestly and subtle delicate prose Dame Enda, world famous housewife, chanteuse and satirist shows us once again why she is Australia’s most By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Nick Ford: Photographer extraordinaire Eric Page catches up with one of the cities energetic creatives; Nick Ford, photographer. He’s exhibited across the city, in galleries, festivals and has worked for many years at his chosen art. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache: Martin Aston Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache is a story for a wide audience, not just the LGBT community but a broad spectrum of music lovers who are fascinated by these characters, events, stories and songs By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: A Boxful of Ideas: John Dixon & Jeffrey Doorn There’s a strong selection of short stories, poems, all with a current take on topics of interest. It’s a superb anthology not just of good stories filled with humor, honesty and well written plots that will connect with all Queers readers, but also an anthology of style and prose. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Shakespeare Revue: Theatre Royal The Shakespeare Review is more sophisticated than it may appear to be at first glance, but as a charming evening of songs, routine and some music hall style parody it’s an engaging and enjoyable way to spend an evening in the warm velvety comfort of the Theatre Royal. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Lady Chatterley’s Lover@Theatre Royal The book, famously banned for being obscene is opened and parred own here here like a delicate flower, pressed into it’s perfume and essence, but it’s still a challenging analysis of what happens when patriarchy, entitlement and brutality are challenged by honesty, trust and tenderness. Tenderness w By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: BREMF: GAIA – Three Intermedi for a Living Planet The music was superb, opening with tremendous aplomb with Josquin des Prez’s Qui habitat. Astonishing opening, lifting, soring purity of voice rising into the high ethereal vaults of this highest of Parish churches, the programme of music was ambitious in scope and well thought out and balanced and By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Dr Dee’s Daughter and The Philosopher’s Stone: Palisander Palisander attired in courtly Elizabethan angelic gossamer and with hardly a pause to check the music, worked those wondrous recorders of all shapes and sizes in a deft performance, showing us the range of recorder music at its best, while the kids watched the antics of the puppety crows and shadows By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts OPERA REVIEW: Lulu: ENO Considered to be one of the seminal operas of the twentieth century, Berg’s score creates a unique sound world that combines his lyrical gifts with powerful orchestral writing. A gritty exploration of sexual desire, it follows the downfall of the enigmatic Lulu, who shatters the lives of her many lo By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts REVIEW: THE LILY AND THE ROSE: The Telling This concert and The Telling provided us with an illuminating and illuminated evening of evocative and emotionally vibrant music which highlighted not only the colour and sustained purity of their voicesboth solo and wrapped up together in tonal harmonic bliss but also the way in which this music, b By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Woodlandia: Patterns Patterns have transformed themselves into an enchanted forest filled with nostalgic and immersive visual feasts inspired by Britain’s woodlands and outdoors in winter. Inspired by Narnia, brought to life by a multi-level digitally projected and interlinked forest, complete with softly falling snowfl By Eric Page • 3 min read
