IN A BLACK road, a new gay guy is beaten up by regional thugs. It’s a standard scene, in both drama plus in reality; also it’s no coincidence so it features both in regarding the big mainstage programs playing in Edinburgh this week, during the Festival and Playhouse theatres. In Cabaret, it’s the growth of Nazi violence regarding the streets of 1930s Berlin; as well as in Priscilla Queen regarding the Desert, it is a number of rednecks in a small city within the Australian bush using it down on Adam (also referred to as Felicia), the young Sydney drag queen that has accompanied our hero Tick along with his older trans buddy Bernadette for a riotous coach journey across Australia to Alice Springs, where Tick – now likewise a drag queen in Sydney – wants to reconnect with all the the son he fathered during a short marriage that is youthful. [Weiterlesen…]