No doubt you’re feeling like you’re trapped in an episode of Prisoner: Cell Block H, or you’ve sold your soul in exchange for eternal working-from-home days – your probation is ambiguous, and the only way to escape is by mutilating your self-portrait that’s hidden in your attic, with Wilde and fatal consequences. Those sharing digs … Read more
The invisible enemy is rippling across Blighty much like chlamydia at a Stormy Daniels pool party. Our nation is on lockdown, we are housebound, confined to our overpriced bricks-and-mortar paying our eye-bleeding rents, or stratospheric mortgages – at least, for the time being, we’re getting our pennies worth. This unbelievable phenomenon has become all too … Read more
Pre-WW2 Grosvenor Square (GS) was considered one of the four most uber-cool hangouts in the Old Smoke – receiving its name from the reigning Duke of Westminster (1700-32) Sir Richard Grosvenor, who kicked off the square’s construction around 1721. In the 1920s GS was a playground for the ‘Bentley Massive’: Tim Birkin, Bernard Rubin, Woolf … Read more
Batten down the hatches, all hands on your AussieBums, and anchors – prudes advised to stay on dry land – aweigh. Gareth, Max and Fat Pam set sail for a new adventure on the Mediterranean awash with a couple of love interests in close-quarters. This is up-and-coming Playwright Martin Blackburn’s second production – an all-at-sea … Read more
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a couple of cut-price synthetic-fibre-clad drag queens, a Eurovision medley, and a huge sack full of festive double entendres and innuendos – we at Thabulous can’t wait for Kris Kringle to cum down our chimney – falalalala la la la la. Producer Catia Ciarico and The Royal Vauxhall Tavern’s production … Read more
There are no words to describe the flatulent result from last week. The toe-curling stench has made it over the pond and could seriously put nostril waxing therapists out of business. So rather than banging on about big farts or breadsticks – we’re going to admire the view of our fabulous Old Smoke from Greenwich … Read more
From AIDS to PrEP: Love, Sex & HIV If you met a moreish specimen of a man on Grindr, in Rupert St Bar or at a friend’s gatherette and there was immediate trouser-twitching, shimmies to the heart department and your thoughts turned towards naming your first pair French bulldogs – but then, after some time … Read more
Hotel for Criminals is a reworking of Louis Feuillade’s silent film Phantasmagoria – Director Patrick Kennedy’s adaptation of Richard Foreman’s musical went the other way and implements a form of Chinese torture, attempting to impair the audience’s eardrums sixteen times in the form of a deafening hand pump emergency horn buzzer. Nodding off isn’t an … Read more
You don’t have to be a fan of aquatic placental spout-squirting marine mammals to appreciate Andrew Wright’s take on Moby Dick – but a penchant for choreography that could power a fleet of trawlers, an affection for Glee-style musical numbers and an esteem for the male form, in two beautiful varieties, will help you stay … Read more
Sex is much like eating a curry: we all crave it after a few Cinzanos; we all like a different level of heat – some enjoy a bhaji, while others prefer to mop up their vindaloo with a garlic naan. Whichever way you like to chow down on ‘Indian cuisine’ there are fundamentals that can … Read more
