Links to reviews and feature coverage from this year’s Fringe, where I also delivered my Dr Duckie talk.
Holly Revell on her Transformations portrait series
The London queer-performance photographer talks about her long-exposure portraits, which show artists in and out of drag in the same shot.
Not Television’s top 10 posts of 2014
A round-up of 10 favourite blog posts from Not Television’s first year, 2014, on subjects including Mat Fraser, Alternative Miss World, Leake St graffiti tunnel and the threat of luxury redevelopment
Time to fight back: six ways to defend London culture from property development
London’s independent cultural spaces are dropping like flies. But we can start to fight back if we come together to inform, inspire and take action
Lip-synching the great beyond: Dickie Beau’s Camera Lucida at the Barbican
“Hello, everybody on the other side,” a voice booms. “Can you break through?” This is one of the recordings deployed in Dickie Beau’s new show Camera Lucida, which opens at the Barbican tonight (October 28 2014). It’s also a line that encapsulates something of the spirit of the piece. Camera Lucida uses Beau’s trademark technique […]
These are Paul L Martin’s favourite Battersea Barge memories. What are yours?
Over the past year or two, some of the institutions that helped shape the London cabaret scene since the turn of the century have bitten the dust: companies like the Boom Boom Club and Eat Your Heart Out; residencies like the DE Experience at the RVT and the Wam Bam Club at the Café de […]
Not Television’s Edinburgh Fringe 2014 cabaret preview
June has come which means one thing: Edinburgh time again! Sure, the Fringe itself doesn’t get underway till August but this year’s programme was launched last night and, for those involved in the fest, the next two months are basically spent bracing for the onslaught. In recent years, I’ve covered cabaret at the Fringe for […]
BFI Flare lights the touchpaper
Get those glad rags out… Tonight sees the launch of this year’s BFI Flare – the new name for the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival – which runs until March 30. I previewed the event for Sight & Sound magazine and you can read my piece below (reprinted with permission). There’s also a round-up […]
10 things to see at BFI Flare (formerly LLGFF) 2014
Who doesn’t love a makeover? For more than a quarter of a century, it’s been the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival but last year, the British Film Institute decided it was time to change things up and went looking for a new name for the capital’s biggest queer screenfest. The result is BFI Flare […]
‘Play the Nazi music!’ Why cabaret and drag are ideal for a show about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
During their period of compulsory national service, which kicks in at the age of 18, most Israelis serve in the military. When Nir Paldi was conscripted, he didn’t undertake combat training. He directed a production of Hair, the musical. “It’s hilarious,” Paldi says. “There’s this youth regiment in the Israeli army that works in collaboration […]
