Partenope at ENO:
As frothy entertainment with queer sensibility, this Partenope delivers more hits than misses...with enough sparkle to sustain the evening. Seventeen years on, it remains a glorious show.
2025
Summer Hours by Alessandra Thom
Thom writes with precision and tenderness in equal measure—a formidable combination. One leaves Summer Hours slightly dazed, as if emerging from someone else's fever dream into the cold Scottish morning.
Family Matters: A Celebration of Queer Arab Kinship
Within these stories shine moments of hope and audacious resistance. With profound beauty in surprise friendships, patient lovers, and time's gentle healing. This anthology weaves individual testimonies into a sweeping portrait of queer Arab existence across continents.
Dead Man Walking at ENO: Grace Under the Shadow of Death English National Opera
Dead Man Walking resonates with devastating contemporary relevance.
This is opera at its highest capacity: posing unanswerable questions, creating space for profound feeling, then releasing us—irrevocably touched, fundamentally altered, alone with reconfigured thoughts.
Out of the Deep: A Decadent Redemption
This was a journey into the darkest of the night, lit by brilliant wit, fuelled by a perfect bonding of voice and instruments to illuminate this crepuscular programme with a refulgent burning urgency. Vache Baroque offered redemptive bliss, and we left all the better for it.
The Coast is Queer: A Lighthouse for LGBTQ+ Literature
Coast is Queer is what arts should look like when it's done with excellence, flair, and genuine commitment to artistic merit and democratic access.... something genuinely radical: where artistic rigor and radical inclusion aren't in tension but in harmony.
Queen of Hearts: The Gesualdo Six
There's something profoundly queer about ancient devotional music – the ecstatic surrender, the passionate veneration, the blurring of earthly and divine love. The Gesualdo Six's concert understood this implicitly, delivering an evening of 16th-century polyphony both ancient and contemporary.