Written and Performed by Daniel Orejon Directed by Flavia D'Avila ★★★★ The greatest stage and movie monsters of old were never really the fearsome beasts our protagonists contorted and twisted themselves into: but the worlds surrounding them. In their solo show, The Rotting Hart, writer and performer Daniel Orejon forges a performance saturated in storms and … Continue reading The Rotting Hart – George Mackay Brown: The Scottish Storytelling Centre
Written by Shaul Ezer Directed by Jen McGregor ★★★★ The number of conspiracies surrounding the playwright, poet, and historical and cultural icon William Shakespeare is vast. From ideas and intrusions of his sexuality, his supposed faked death, to the more infamous accounts of those with an inkling of theories of Christopher Marlowe’s hand in creating some of … Continue reading The Real William Shakespeare… As Told by Christopher Marlowe – Greenside @ Riddle’s Court
Written by Victor Esses Composed by Enrico Aurigemma ★★★ After finding his long-lost aunt Marcelle, Victor Esses, a Jewish-Lebanese Brazilian queer theatre and film-maker, chooses to document his time spent with a woman who he deeply loves but perhaps doesn’t always like. With a myriad of family stories to tell, a lengthy distance between them, … Continue reading The Death & Life of All of Us – Summerhall: Demonstration Room
Written by Max Percy Directed by James Newton ★★★★ Baklâ, It’s a noun in Tagalog meaning homosexual, specifically of a more feminine projection. The connotations of the word spread further into the disparaging, stereotypical and slanderous - from the off writer and performer Max Percy embraces the identification, simultaneously utilising the term to share their … Continue reading Baklâ – Summerhall: Demonstration Room
Based on the book by Édouard Louis, translated by Lorin Stein Adapted and Directed by Nora Wardell ★★★★ Politics is a life or death game – a chess board where the hands moving the players know not the weight they wield. Surrogate production’s touring piece, Who Killed My Father, is based on Édouard Louis’ (translated by … Continue reading Who Killed My Father – Traverse Theatre
https://youtu.be/Bn1RI37mcnQ Books & Lyrics by Robyn Grant & Daniel Foxx Music by Tim Gilvin Directed by Robyn Grant ★★★★★ Wicked witches, Cruel Stepmothers, Puppy-Skinners, Orphan-nappers, The villainous Divas of Disney have a lot to answer for, but one, more than any, has ruled these Queens and pushed her way into the Queer mainstream world. Please, … Continue reading Unfortunate – Underbelly
Created by Robert Madge ★★★★★ You’ve likely already seen the cute videos of the young kid, recreating the over-commercialised Magical wonder of Disney in their living room. For shame if not - in the videos of Robert Madge, Mickey Mouse signs autographs, Belle finds their Beast, Bert misses his cue, and Maleficent is once again … Continue reading Rob Madge: My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do) – Underbelly
Directed & Co-created by Cameron Carver Co-Creator & Sound Design by Jac Cooper ★★★★ There’s always one. Sat alone at the bar, watching, taking in the journeys and stories of those surrounding them. But thing is that person sat night after night, well, they too have a story. Or rather, they have two tales to … Continue reading No Place Like Home – Pleasance Dome
Written by Joe Hunter Directed by Rachel Fraser ★★★ Moot Point Collective, a queer-led creative company bring Joe Hunter’s new writing piece, Kneecaps, to the Assembly Roxy in Edinburgh. A surreal, and a darkly comic piece which seeds questions surrounding queer identity in a hostile world around the survival mechanics of a life-threatening epidemic. Isolated … Continue reading Kneecaps – Assemby Roxy
Written by Mark Farrelly Directed by Linda Marlowe ★★★★ Quentin Crisp, the infamous English writer, actor, and speaker was, in his own words, quite noticeable from an early age. A child from a conventional suburban background, Crisp was a gay man who seemed a touch of a contradiction – criticising gay liberation and the concept … Continue reading Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope – Stream Theatre
