Arts REVIEW: Dominicanos by Ernest Montgomery This is an exceptional book, full of 128 pages of full colour photographs of some astonishingly beautiful men in a Caribbean country almost as breathtakingly varied as the men who live there. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Girl of the Golden West: ENO The ENO’s revival of this unfamiliar Puccini opera has successfully shown us the honest human story in this adolescent melodrama without trashing its very sweet and delicate heart. it can be so easy to mock, so difficult to produce free of irony, but the story is deftly handled here. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Xerxes at ENO This is a great production, full of froth and fizz and presenting a non-stop evening of entertainment, with as many musical highpoint as comedic moments and well worth going along to the ENO to see this gorgeous revival. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Comedy of Errors The Globe at Midnight (or at any point of an evening) is a great place to visit and start your night time adventures in London and being smack in the middle of the South Bank, you can always go clubbing afterwards if you really, really have to. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Otello at ENO This was a stark and emotionally harrowing production and one of the most thrilling and upsetting Otellos I’ve seen, but the utterly monstrous and slithering compellingness of Summers’ Iago is it’s real triumph. Perhpas this was Alders point all along, to redirect us into the dark heart of this Oper By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts Book Review: Out of Uniform It’s not all shiny buttons and crisp ironed uniforms; there are some unexpected twists in the odd story, a cautionary tale about playing with fire and one or two romantic dénouements too. But all the men featured are big, buff and well turned out; the basic rugged Hero type. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: This Book Is Gay It’s an honest book from someone who’s been there and like most of us eventually learned to love himself, celebrate his life and identify all the softly spoken, whispered crap we are fed as younger LGBT people and THROW IT OUT By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Dance: Casting Traces It was a subtly disturbing piece, full of reflection and meta reflection, us watching – being watching – watching ourselves watching while being watched, in the end it spiralled into softness, a mirror in a mirror, and I allowed the dancers the music and the ever moving set to just be and get on wit By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW:Will Grayson, Will Grayson: John Green and David Levithan This is a surprise and a well written one too, there’s so few decent books featuring a young gay character that the book should be welcomed just on that basis, the fact that’s it’s a beautifully written, enjoyable and moving story too, just makes it a great read. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Until the Sun Rises The collection covers a range of scenarios across the vamparic tradition and the plotting keeps pace with the action, of all types, allowing each story to reach a heaving erotic crescendo and satisfying the readers urgent need for horror too. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Review: Drag King Richard III Drag King Richard the Third is well worth catching, it’s a thoughtful and powerful piece of directly challenging modern drama while allowing the humanity of its subject matter to sit next to us, turn to face us and speak directly to our own experiences of life By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Pearl Fishers: ENO A mixed bag, some stunning set pieces then some irritating distractions, great voices, and a fabulously wired chorus who are kept oddly static. Like the Storm in this production, it washed over me, was enjoyable and nice to hear but didn’t leave me beached, panting at the over whelming thrill of the By Eric Page • 4 min read
