REVIEW: Speakers’ Corner: The Public Shaming of Rufus Love

Reading Time: 2 minutesRufus Love brings the Speakers’ Corner from Hyde Park to the Hope Theatre in this rambunctious solo performance.

Reading Time: 2 minutesRufus Love brings the Speakers’ Corner from Hyde Park to the Hope Theatre in this rambunctious solo performance.

Reading Time: 2 minutesAt Birth opens with us meeting Anna and Isaac, at home, drinking wine, and discussing their earliest childhood memories. We learn both of them are queer as their discussion moves onto their recent breakups which both of them still seem to be getting over.

Reading Time: 4 minutesPrison chatter, the sound of officers communicating via their radios and cell doors closing rings through the speakers. Troup and Church seem bored or fed-up, but begrudgingly scan the audience as if we are the prisoners that they just need to watch over for a few more minutes before finally getting to clock-out after a long shift.

Reading Time: 2 minutesBlanket Ban begins with a punch of energy as Marta and Davinia burst onto the stage, dressed in white and red – the colours of the Maltese flag.

Reading Time: 3 minutesFirst produced at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre in 1996, Jason Sherman’s The Retreat sees its European premiere at the multi-award-winning Finborough Theatre, directed by Emma Jude Harris.

Reading Time: 2 minutesGlory Ride is the new inspiring musical that draws its narrative from the remarkable true life story of Italy’s most celebrated cyclist, Gino Bartali, and the valiant endeavours of him and his allies, Cardinal Ella Della Costa and Giorgi ‘Nico’ Nissim during the Second World War.

Reading Time: 3 minutesF**king Men is a dramatic comedy written by Joe DiPietro currently playing at the Waterloo East Theatre. First premiering in 2009 at the Kings Head Theatre, this show has gone through many different iterations with varying cast sizes and some updating of the script in order to keep it current and relevant.

Reading Time: 2 minutesDisability activist and equality trainer Josh Hepple approached writer Jon Bradfield with his idea for the play, centring around the rapidly blooming love life of twenty five year old David (Christopher John-Slater) - gay, disabled and profoundly horny.

Reading Time: 3 minutesSnowflakes, written by Robert Boulton, debuted in the Old Red Lion in 2021, and will now play at Park Theatre until 6th May.

Reading Time: 2 minutesWay back in 2019, Coleen Rooney started the fire that was Vardy v Rooney when she pointed the finger at Rebekah Vardy for leaking her private Instagram posts to the tabloids.