I went to gay Scottish country dancing tonight. And not just 'gay' in the way that all folk dancing is.

Anything that presupposes male-female pairs leaves a bad taste in my mouth. At The Gay Gordons, where the dances require two clear sets, apparently they do it with arm bands, but we did six or so tonight and none of them seemed to require people ( Read more... )

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When you cure me
by Jack Thorne
at Bush Theatre, Shepherd's Bush until 17 December ( Read more... )

ReviewLyd's nine months' pregnant and Griff's a bit of a drinker. They seem nice enough people, apart from the immediately obvious power imbalance in their relationship. In the course of the making of dinner Griff's neuroses escalate through paranoia to the point where he is holding a knife to Lyd's throat. It becomes clear that Griff is conjuring ( Read more... )