by Johnny Fox | May 15, 2013 | Cabaret, Drag, Reviews
It’s an old joke to suggest drag queens are “big down under” but Trevor Ashley’s production credits suggest he’s packin’ antipodean theatrical heat. In his native Australia, he played 600 performances as the curtain-raising Miss Understanding in Priscilla Queen of...
by Johnny Fox | May 11, 2013 | Cabaret, Drag, Reviews
As a gay man whose formative clubbing years were in the glamour-obsessed 80s, drag ought to be right up my (Danny La) Rue, “dear”, but it just isn’t. Never was. Even now I can’t see the irony in tipping up to a Soho bar in colourful wig, eyeliner and...
by Johnny Fox | Apr 30, 2013 | Cabaret, Reviews
Ms Ferret and I have history. Thirty years ago, I used to organise annual compulsory-fancy-dress Christmas parties for the architectural firm I worked for, and Eve sang at most of them usually dressed in the sort of basque and suspenders outfit that, in the pre-Ivy...
by Franco Milazzo | Apr 25, 2012 | Variety
This year’s Burger Queen was a five-week, four-heat, free-falling, too-good-to-be-true, wonderous affair. The contest championing plus-size talent across the capital and beyond was like a box of Quality Street chocs with the cheap caramels taken out: you never...
by Franco Milazzo | Apr 24, 2012 | Reviews, Variety
Put down that pot of healthy bio-yogurt and check this out: not everyone wants to be thin. Shocking, we know, but TIC columnist Scottee has never been one to adhere to society’s rules. The second year of his Burger Queen contest at the Royal Vauxhall Taven was a...
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