Last year two performances from Nando Messias brought us the character of The Sissy: a feminine queer character who walks through life experiencing aggression and violence. In The Sissy’s Progress, the audience were led from the theatre to the street to parade with The Sissy, culminating in an artistic re-enactment of an actual act of […]
Peter Clements and Oliver Dawe have birthed a glorious monster diva in Frau Welt. Patrons of London’s Hackney Showrooms have had the pleasure of seeing her gestation and growth over the past couple of years and next month can experience a full length, one woman show exploring the world of this fictional legend. Fallon Gold […]
I first saw Fancy Chance many moons ago at a burlesque night in Leeds. She did her infamous Prince and Uhuru and I was blown away. It was, by a million miles, the best cabaret I had ever seen. Fancy holds the titles of Alternative Miss World and Britain’s Top Tranny and rightly so. Her […]
VAULT Festival continues in Waterloo, London with some spectacular shows and performances. Loverboy’s Fallon Gold is particularly excited about a tale of lesbian dogging, feminist porn, love and censorship. She spoke to playwright Naomi Westerman about what we can expect from this new queer piece of theatre. I’ll cut to the chase – most people […]
Loverboy is very excited about this year’s VAULT Festival in London. One of the standouts that speaks to our drag-drenched heart is Prom Kween. Fallon Gold spoke with playwright Rebecca Humpries about sequins, drag anarchism and making up dance routines with your gay bff to Mariah songs. With Prom Kween you’re melding two beloved pop […]
What does it mean to ‘be a man’? Oh god, right? Such a loaded and controversial question and one we, in our queer world, have been debating or unpicking or dismissing or whatever for an age now. With masc vs sissy, ideas of ‘born this way’ vs social construction and trans* experience getting more and […]
Theatre should provoke. And if it makes an audience uncomfortable then it’s doing its job. A very Brechtian approach, of course, and only one type of theatre but a type nonetheless. When it’s about right wing LGBTQI people then it really should shock and disturb. But I also suspect that Scottee’s directorial debut at The […]
Alexander Geist is something of a grand phenomena. The alter ego of queer performance artist La John Joseph, Geist is what we really need: a very queer, very pop star. But they are fictional. And that’s the glory and the shame of it. I say shame because whenever I see Geist perform or watch one […]
Queer theatre is having something of a magnificent renaissance in London at the moment with works by Nando Messias, Dickie Beau, Scottee, and Le John Joseph, (amongst many others) doing the rounds and leaving audiences moved, in awe, and talking about our queer lives. So, Loverboy’s art critic Fallon Gold was super excited to hear […]
