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Bootboy: Miracles

Did you hear about the man with AIDS, who then got leukemia? You’d think it would be curtains for him. The end of the road, the final twist of the knife, death coming a’knocking. Enough torment already, thanks very much, the trials of Job are nothing compared to the final straw on that spancelled camel’s [...]

thisispopbaby – Electric Picnic 2008

The coolest tent of the festival

Review: All Dolled Up – Project Theatre Dublin

Panti is back at the Project until Saturday and I urge you to go see this show if you possibly can. Book here now.
This is not the sort of show one would expect from a drag artist – or, perhaps, if one only associates drag artists with camp bints of nonsense. However, in exactly the [...]

Review: Taylor Mac at the Project Theatre Dublin

New Yorker Taylor Mac played on Sunday at the Project, a benefit for Belong2, in a wonderfully life-affirming performance art piece – or, as he would describe it, a play. This was entertainment using play in all its meanings: child’s play, theatrical play, sex play, wordplay. Highly intelligent and fluidly articulate, musically gifted and haunting, [...]

Bootboy: Gender

I went to see Alternative Miss Ireland for the first time, its 20th anniversary, at the Olympia. As it was all for charidee it’s not fair to criticize it, and indeed there’s not much to criticize when the event has no pretensions to quality. But I did laugh a lot, the four hour show was [...]