Torch Song

Torch Song, The Turbine Theatre, 2019

Cast: Matthew Needham, Daisy Boulton, Dino Fetscher, Jay Lycurgo, Rish Shah, Bernice Stegers.

Writer: Harvey Fierstein

Director: Drew McOnie

It was only as I typed this that I noticed the word "trilogy" is missing from the show title and yet it's still referred to like that in Harvey Fierstein's biography. I wonder what that's about?

This theatre is now closed, possibly because the person who ran it was awful, and that's a shame (excluding the awfulness) as it's another gay theatre space lost. I suppose it was a miracle it lasted as long as it did with just 92 seats in Battersea before the power station reopened.

I'm always going to enjoy this play. It's one of those things that's part of the gay landscape now, something that helped make men of a certain age who we are. I don't think we appreciate Harvey Fierstein enough.