The Eyes of Orson Welles review for Sight and Sound

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A review of Mark Cousins’s terrific documentary about Orson Welles’s drawings and paintings.

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Tranny Fag review for Sight and Sound

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A review of the documentary about trans Brazilian performers Linn da Quebrada and Jup do Bairro.

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Article about queer spaces for Urban Pamphleteer

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A post from this blog is featured in this new University College London publication.

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Orson Welles book review for Sight & Sound

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A review of a collection of essays on ‘avoided, overlooked, underappreciated, or misunderstood’ aspects of Welles, from political activism to theatre-film hybrids.

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Talking drag on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking

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Listen in as I join Lavinia Coop, Rhys’s Pieces and host Shahidha Bari at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern to discuss drag history, politics and performance.

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120 BPM review for Sight & Sound

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Enthralling, devastating, revelatory, galvanising, fragile: on Robin Campillo’s superbly queer feature about ACT UP Paris in the early 1990s.

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Christmas cabaret round-up for Evening Standard

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A selection of 10 shows (plus glances at more) playing in London over the 2017 festive season.

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Armando Iannucci on The Death of Stalin for Sight & Sound

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An interview about how Iannucci’s new film raises the satirical stakes and the challenges of engaging with a new politics that is less about winning an agreed game than defining reality.

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New hopes for Black Cap as campaigners and owner reach agreement

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Black Cap Foundation and Kicking Horse to work together to find new leaseholder for iconic Camden LGBTQ+ venue, with Night Czar’s support.

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Edinburgh Fringe 2017: Scotsman reviews (pt 3)

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My final set of cabaret reviews for this year, including Tomás Ford, Carla Lippis, Ben Hart, Elsie Diamond, Sweatshop and Phil Dunning.

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