Category: LGBT
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A Case for the Existence of God (Seymour Centre) ★★★½
A Case for the Existence of God feels fresh in the way it handles male relationships and masculine ennui (or “crisis of masculinity” if you prefer).
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Holding The Man (Belvoir) ★★★★
Holding The Man is dear to me. I can’t remember how many copies of the original book I’ve given away over the years, or how many times I re-read it.
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Yentl (Malthouse) ★★★★★
This is first rate theatre with literally nothing to critique. Worth a trip to Melbourne to see it all on its own, we can only beg the theatre gods, or the yeytser ho’re, for a Sydney transfer.
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Homos, or Everyone in America (New Theatre) ★★★
What makes gay relationships different to straight ones? Set around the peak time of the fight for marriage equality in the US, Homos, or Everyone in America looks at tug of war between hetero-normative coupling, polyamory and what life for a gay couple is like once things become equal.
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Shitty (Belvoir 25a) ★★★★
What’s more horrific than turning 30 and looking for love?
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The Inheritance, Parts 1 & 2 (Forty Five Downstairs) ★★★★
The Inheritance, is a sprawling epic, very loosely based on EM Forster’s Howards End. It was lauded in London, but dismissed on Broadway, in Melbourne it’s back to being adored once more.
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Ruff Trade (The Motley Bauhaus) ★★★1/2
Ruff Trade starts off as a sex comedy about a 16th century male sex worker and unexpectedly ends up being a bitter tragedy. Strangely the heel-turn works, making for a satisfying, and gleefully historically inaccurate, short play.
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Sauna Boy (The Motley Bauhaus) ★★★1/2
Ever wondered what life is like for the people who work behind-the-scenes in a gay sauna? Dan Ireland-Reeves’s Sauna Boy has your answers.
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Overflow (Darlinghurst Theatre Co) ★★★★★
The bottom line is, yes, Overflow is as good as everyone says it is, go see it!
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Ode to Joy (How Gordon got to go to the nasty pig party) (Neilson Nutshell) ★★★★
It’s like How Stella Got Her Groove Back but instead of using Taye Diggs, it uses ketamine.
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