Based on Tom Congrave’s
award-winning book, and adapted for the stage by acclaimed playwright Tommy
Murphy, Holding the Man is a
hysterically funny, tender and powerful play following the remarkable true life
love story of Tim Conigrave and John Caleo. And if that doesn’t make you go – Jane Turner from Kath and
Kim is in it too.
Holding The Man Has become one of the most
successful Australian stage productions in recent years, breaking box office
records, achieving a total of 4 sell out seasons in Sydney, as well as scooping
collecting countless awards.
You’ll kick yourself if you don’t go and see it.
Trafalgar Studios, Whitehall, London
Until 3 July 2010
Victoria & Albert: Art & Love
Ignore the twee title, it’s not as Mills & Boon as it sounds. This landmark exhibition is a trawl through the Royal Collection revealing the hidden tastes of Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert. Victoria is exposed as having a liking for all things kitsch, whereas Albert seems to be more informed.
The exhibition highlights the couple’s mutual love for each other - perhaps something rare in modern royal romances? Collecting art was a non-stop passion for the pair who bought, and commissioned, it as a way of expressing their love.
Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, SW1
More or
Lesque! is a
deliciously sexy, witty and raunchy look at masculinity/femininity and why it
is that the mainstream media, such as Hollywood movies, is far more comfortable
with children seeing images of violence than they are with seeing two men
kissing. The show is a combination of comedy, song, acrobatic dance, saucy
innuendo and more than just a bit of seductive flesh – all guaranteed to put a
smile on your face. Come with your friends, come alone, come again.
Production Details
Major Suttle-Tease Presents
More or Lesque
28th June - 17th July 2010 (no Sunday
performances)
8pm
Tickets: £12 / £10 (Mondays
nights £6)
Venue The Tristan Bates Theatre, 1a Tower Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 9NP
Nearest tube Covent Garden,
Leicester Square, Tottenham Court Road
Box Office book online (no booking
fee)
www.tristanbatestheatre.co.uk
| 020 7240 6283
Love Never Dies
Ten years after the mysterious disappearance of The Phantom from the Paris Opera House, Christine Daaé accepts an offer to come to America and perform at New York’s fabulous new playground of the world – Coney Island.
Christine arrives in New York with her husband Raoul and their son Gustave. She soon discovers the identity of the anonymous impresario who has lured her from France to sing.
LOVE NEVER DIES is a rollercoaster ride of obsession and intrigue… in which music and memory can play cruel tricks… and The Phantom sets out to prove that, indeed, LOVE NEVER DIES.
Love Never Dies stars Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess, as the Phantom and Christine, Joseph Millson as Raoul, Liz Robertson as Madame Giry and Summer Strallen as Meg Giry.
