REVIEW: The Good Scout, Space at Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews The Good Scout presented by Boys Of The Empire Productions at Space at Surgeons Hall as part of the Edinburgh Fringe,
Glenn Chandler
REVIEW: Fanny and Stella, Above The Stag Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews Fanny and Stella – The Shocking True Story by Glenn Chandler now playing at Above The Stag Theatre, Vauxhall.
Kids Play Transfers To Above The Stag
Edinburgh Fringe hit Kids Play by Glenn Chandler has announced that it will transfer to London’s Above the Stage Theatre.
REVIEW: Lord Dismiss Us, Above The Stag ✭✭✭✭
Lord Dismiss Us is packed choc-full of nifty one-liners and often lovely double-entendres, the occasional song or prayer, a spot of amateur dramatics, and laced it with a smattering of menace, seduction, threats, guilt, violence, betrayal and redemption through creativity.
REVIEW: Fanny and Stella, Above The Stag ✭✭✭✭
Gay themed theatre can be hit and miss at the best of times but Chandler, Miller, Dexter and Todd have fashioned an evening that could well break free of its LGBT base and find a wider audience.
Fanny And Stella at Above The Stag
Daring to be different may well be considered acceptable in modern times but spare a thought for Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park, two cross dressers in Victorian England. Showy and theatrical on and off the stage, which they so loved, Fanny and Stella were arrested at The Strand Theatre in 1870. They appeared in court next morning still in their evening gowns, and the trial for homosexual offences of this judge’s son and a bank clerk was the sensation of the age, especially when Boulton’s respectable and accepting mother, Mary Ann, took the stand. Their ultimate acquittal is all the more fascinating when compared to Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment less than 30 years later. Fanny and Stella: The Shocking True Story makes it’s debut at the Above The Stage Theatre, London’s only full time professional LGBT theatre on 13 May running until June 14,2015. This new play with original music has … Read more
