Hannah Gadsby curates a show of the ‘best queer talent’ she could find. Introduction When I booked, it looked to me that I had the
Category: Culture
Review of comedy show: Zoë Coombs Marr -The Opener
‘Hey, what’s up cunts?!’ is how Zoe Coombs Marr opened her show. ‘Cervix is the answer to that question, not always, let’s not be reductive, or transphobic. Yip, that’s my opener.’
That was Zoe being Zoe, a progressive woke comedian, not Zoe being Dave, the white ‘cis’ heterosexual xenophobic male parody character she’s created (though I do use that term loosely) and despises.
Greta Thunberg returns to the Southbank with friends
Last year the Southbank hosted Greta Thunberg for the launch of her book The Climate Book, covered by me in this blog. The then CEO committed to make environmentalism core to the Southbank’s values. Then it was reported that the Southbank was going to plant 390 trees outside the gallery in a pocket forest, which hasn’t happened yet, and I don’t think it will, given there is no space for such a huge numbers of trees.
Review of memoir: ‘Page Boy’ by Elliott Page
Another day, another trans memoir. Contains spoilers. Introduction Probably the cleverest thing about Page Boy is its title. Otherwise it is a fairly short (but
In conversation with Dawn Butler
Announced just four days prior to the event taking place, Dawn Butler, most famous for saying (in terf society at least) that babies are born without sex, was to be platformed by the British Politics Centre at Birkbeck. As a long time subscriber to their newsletter, the normal lead up is several weeks in advance, especially if it’s a biggish name. Therefore I suspect the approach was made by Butler herself.
Review of play: My Dad Wears a Dress
A wasted opportunity … The blurby bit A comedic, one-woman show written and performed by Maria Telnikoff based on her own experience of growing up
The Lies They Tell 
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