by David Lloyd-Davies | Jul 23, 2015 | Reviews
This Is Cabaret Rating: ★★☆☆☆ In case you’re kept awake at night worrying there hasn’t been a decent performance of Tennessee Williams’ bizarre yet glorious one-act play Suddenly, Last Summer since Maggie Smith and Richard E Grant tackled it on the small screen in...
by David Lloyd-Davies | May 11, 2015 | Reviews
Summary The Udderbelly late-night standard makes a disappointing return to the big purple tent. The Udderbelly Festival is back and with it comes their weekly cabaret showcase, Friday Night Freaks. In its sixth year, Freaks promises the “most twisted, rude,...
by David Lloyd-Davies | Oct 21, 2014 | Reviews
Guilt & Shame: Going Straight is the latest offering from comedy duo Robert Cawsey and Gabriel Bisset-Smith showing at the Soho Theatre. It tells the story of two friends, Rob who is gay and Gabe who is straight, who until recently partied together on the gay...
by David Lloyd-Davies | Oct 20, 2014 | Reviews, Variety
Miss Behave’s Gameshow is a one woman attack on the “narrow-minded” comedy scene. Deliberately lo-fi, chaotic and (almost) without structure, this is not an experience for the meek-hearted or the righteously offended. As I wait in line to enter the Spiegeltent I hear...
by David Lloyd-Davies | Sep 24, 2014 | Drag, Reviews
Betty Legs Diamond, the drag creation of Simon Green, is one of the founding members of Blackpool club Funny Girls but left in 2010 after 16 years apparently due to interfering producers. Since then she has taken up residency in Newcastle’s Boulevard. I saw her...
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