Theatre reviews: Priscilla Queen regarding the Desert, Playhouse, Edinburgh
Theatre reviews: Priscilla Queen regarding the Desert, Playhouse, Edinburgh A young gay man is beaten up by local thugs IN a DARK street. Both in drama and in reality; and it’s no coincidence that it features in both of the big mainstage shows playing in Edinburgh this week, at the Festival and Playhouse theatres it’s a common scene. In Cabaret, it’s the rise of Nazi violence in the streets of 1930s Berlin; as well as in Priscilla Queen for the Desert, it is a lot of rednecks in a small city within the Australian bush taking it down on Adam (also referred to as Felicia), the young Sydney drag queen who may have accompanied our hero Tick and his older trans buddy Bernadette on a riotous coach journey across Australia to Alice Springs, where Tick – now likewise a drag queen in Sydney – wants to reconnect using the the son he fathered during a short youthful wedding. […]