29th May2019

Myra Dubois: We Wish You A Myra Christmas (Theater)

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51505985_2043630809089742_4157495649236942848_nIt’s Christmas at the Soho Theatre in the Myra Dubois: We Wish You A Myra Christmas show.

And what a Christmas, and show, it is. Myra Dubois, the award-winning as seen on television, and perhaps the hardest working drag queen on the scene, has brought a Christmas show to London, and it works.

Dubois, wh just last mnth was in Bernie Dieters Little Death Club at the Underbelly, and regularly perfrms at Vauxhall’s Rya l Vauxhall Tavern and Clapham’s Tw Brwers, is in tp fr in her ill-timed Christmas, and all the favrite gags and jkes are there fr th AdMyra-ers, including bits where she picks n the audience and give ne lucky audience member a gift in the frma f a christmas jacket (and hat) that Myra takes back at the end f the shw – the scrge!

But it’s her vsin f The Twelve Days f Christmas that will have yu, and the rest f the audience, in tears. G see Myra Dubois: We Wish You A Myra Christmas show prnt, it ends this Saturday!

Myra DuBois: We Wish You A Myra Christmas
28 May – 1 June
9.30pm Tuesday – Friday & 10.00pm Saturday
21 Dean St, Soho, London W1D 3NE
£11.00 – £17.00
https://sohotheatre.com/shows/myra-dubois-we-wish-you-myra-christmas/

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27th May2019

Glass (DVD)

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Glass-Film-ReviewDirector M. Night Shyamalan had a huge hit with one of his first films ‘The Sixth Sense’, about a young boy who sees dead people. He’s now back a film with another supernatural theme called ‘Glass.’

Shyamalan has yet to repeat the success of ‘The Sixth Sense.’ He is very consistent in coming out with a film every two years or so, but the quality of his films seems to be getting worse and worse. ‘Glass’ is the third (and hopefully last) film in the fictitious Eastrail #177 train derailment series.

The series, which includes the 2000 film ‘Unbreakable’ and the 2016 film ‘Split, is where multiple characters have some sort of connection to the train disaster. But these characters are not normal people – they are superheroes with powers that they use for reasons that have never really been clear to me.

In ‘Glass’, which mostly takes place in a mental institution conveniently overlooking downtown Philadelphia, reunites Bruce Willis, James McAvoy and Samuel Jackson as the same characters from the previous films. Irrelevant of the plots of the first two films, ‘Glass’ is as silly and unbelievable as anything you would’ve seen at the cinema in years. All the characters wind up in the same mental institution, coincidentally, where there is not much staff on duty and the three of them seem to have free reign of the place.

A psychiatrist (a dismal Sarah Paulson) wants to convince all the men that they suffer from delusion (which is far far from the truth – can’t she see this?). Each of the men has, conveniently, one person who comes to visit them – all with some knowledge of their ‘illness.’ It all boils down to one messy showdown in the front parking lot of the institution and the view of the opening of a new downtown skyscraper which is talked about during the film quite a lot but doesn’t seem to have any connection at all to the characters. It’s all one big silly mess, and the people I saw it with (fellow film critics) shook their head as they walked out of the cinema. Avoid this one, please.

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13th May2019

Girl (DVD)

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01_girl_-menuet‘Girl’ is the story of a 15-year old boy who feels like he was born in the wrong body.
In an amazing turn by newcomer Victor Polster who plays the lead Lara,  ‘Girl’ takes us on a journey of a young boy desperately wanting to rush his hormone treatment to become a girl. But Lara also has a yearning to be a ballerina, and the pressures of being born in the wrong body to be able to fulfil her dream is the challenge that Lara may or not make it through. She lives in a apartment with her taxi-driving father and much younger brother, and suffers with the usuals pressures of school, including not being able to disrobe in the locker room. But first-time director Lukas Dhont draws us into Lara’s life by focusing the entire movie on her – we see and feel her emotions, the anxiety, fear, and at times happiness about the huge change that is going to take place in her life. And Polster is just simply amazing as Lara. ‘Girl’ has won lots of awards, including the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes last year, along with an award for Best Performance for Polster. ‘Girl’ also won Best Feature Film at the London Film Festival. 
 
‘Girl’ is not a perfect movie. There are lots of scenes of Lara while she is in ballet practice, and we are shown Lara’s bloodied toes from the rigorous training way too many times, and the ending comes as a bit of a shock, and is quite controversial. But see ‘ Girl’ for the story (written by Dhont and Angelo Tijssens) and the amazing performance by Polster.
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12th May2019

Little Death Club (Theatre)

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TBernie Dieter and Beau Sargent in Little Death Club at Underbelly - Credit Alistair Veryard Photographyhe best type of shows at the theatre have always been the ones that give you a bit of everything; comedy, singing, live music, and perhaps throwing in some death-defying performances, drag, and gratuitous nudity is always welcome. Little Death Club gives us this and more!

Playing until Sunday June 23rd, 2019, Little Death Club has literally something for everyone (the straights, the gays and all the in betweens). Compered by the sexy and slutty Bernie Dieter, she guides us through the all too short (one hour) show and introduces the acts, but she is an act unto herself. She sarcastically delivers with a Berlin/Rocky Horror sluttiness style, all with a bang, and involving some lucky male audiences members whom she involves in a bit of mischievous. But then immediately the acts come out fast and furious. The lithe and built body of the ever so graceful Beau Sargent who wows the crowd, scantily clad of course, as he does acrobatics and does bends and turns where the audience can see every line on his body; to the amazing Fancy Chance who hangs and spins by her hair – literally – and then decides she doesn’t need to wear any clothes – and does the spinning again – in the nude. Myra Dubios provides laughter and glamour to the proceedings, while disgruntled Josh Glanc tells why he is not a happy mine. But the show ends with a bang by the amazing Kitty Bang Bang, who eats fire and spits it out – so don’t get too close to her. This and more is showcased to a very happy audience at the Underbelly in the Southbank. You get a lot of bang for your buck, and you’ll want to go back and see it again (I will). The Spiegeltent, which has been home to many many cabaret and burlesque shows, might have found it’s best one yet. It’s excellent, breath-taking, hilarious, sexy, and with a bar attached to quench your thirst. What more could you ask for in a night at the theatre? It sure beats watching Dame Maggie Smith delivering a 100 minute monologue that’s for sure.
 
Little Death Club

Thursday 18th April – Sunday 23rd June 2019 Friday, Sunday – 7.15pm
Saturday – 7.15pm and 9.30pm
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – 7.45pm

Underbelly Festival Southbank, Jubilee Gardens, off Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX

www.underbellyfestival.com

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