Info about my recent and upcoming activity including responses to the coronavirus pandemic, Dr Duckie latest and coverage of BFI Flare’s Five Films for Freedom and Bourgeois & Maurice’s Insane Animals.
BFI Flare Five Films for Freedom 2020 round-up for Sight & Sound
A review of this year’s shorts selection – co-produced by BFI Flare and the British Council to be viewed online around the world – in the context of the festival’s cancellation because of coronavirus.
Connect, support, mutate
Coronavirus presents an unavoidable encounter with the real. How might we try to address chaotic reality with hope?
Review: Bourgeois & Maurice – Insane Animals at HOME Manchester
A review of the acclaimed cabaret duo’s debut musical, based on the Epic of Gilgamesh. Loosely.
March 2020 update
Info about my recent and upcoming activity including another Dr Duckie talk, articles about queer film and a contribution to an exhibition on reclaiming urban space.
Exhibition on urban activism at Conway Hall
Reporting my contribution to Urban Claims And The Right To The City, a collaboration between campaigners and researchers in London and Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.
On the ending of Hedwig and the Angry Inch for Sight & Sound
On the ending of Hedwig and the Angry Inch as a quiet rebirth that finds hope in the kindness of strangeness.
Review of And Then We Danced for Sight & Sound
A review of And Then We Danced, Levan Akin’s intense, moving drama set in the world of Georgian traditional dance.
February 2020 update
Info about my recent and upcoming activity including an article about Derek Jarman’s cottage; How to Build a Hope Machine (the Dr Duckie live event); and talks on queer space/queer fun.
Edinburgh 2019: Dr Duckie & Scotsman coverage
Links to reviews and feature coverage from this year’s Fringe, where I also delivered my Dr Duckie talk.
