A boisterous musical with balls and a lot of heart!  

A theatre with a charming sense of community; a sense that everybody is made to feel welcome here. This is a great night out for the theatre’s target audience, their friends and allies.

A side-splittingly humorous and touching look at LGBT culture and relationships.

Pros: A fascinating and funny play in a tight, intimate venue, hidden under the Vauxhall Arches. Cons: For some, even if the subject matter doesn’t put you off, the rumbling of the trains overhead might just. Some plays just make no sense on paper. Who sits down thinking, “I know, let’s turn my biography of a barely known nineteenth-century homosexual prostitute into a play, and better yet, let’s make it a musical”? Thankfully, though, that seems just the thought process ...

A mixed bag: a flamboyant show but with some unfortunate flaws.

Eva de Valk casts her expert eye over the shows on offer this Christmas, and suggests something for every taste.

Perhaps a crowd pleaser for the regulars and a certain market. It doesn’t do what it advertises: it is not heart-breaking, nor a truthful exploration of forbidden gay love. 

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This show reminds us it’s still important to keep talking about HIV and does so with warmth, if a little too much reflection.

A rip-roaring pantomime packed with innuendo and some extremely close-to-the-bone gags, so (knowingly) bad that it was good