★★★ Gender and sexuality have always pulsed beneath the surface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Something about the Roaring Twenties setting, synonymous with speakeasies, flapper girls and cigarette smoke in a post-war world where traditional gender roles were being questioned made it a prime backdrop for the Modernist novelists of the era. Queer […]
★★★★ Since time immemorial, portrayals of the Grim Reaper have taken various guises, with dramaturges choosing to sidestep the scythe and cloak in favour of something subversive. From Bill and Ted’s lumbering Reaper to the undatable Death of Family Guy, to more serious fare like A Christmas Carol and The Book Thief. There’s Terry Pratchett’s […]
★★★ Within the tightly wound drama of Tender, Eleanor Tindall’s new play currently playing in the Bush Theatre’s Studio, are familiar elements of the romcom. Certain well-trodden tropes of that genre are peppered throughout: a meet-cute in a bar, an ongoing will-they-won’t-they dynamic, a boyfriend lingering in the wings thwarting the potential for our heroes […]
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