Mattt D
@madmattt.bsky.social
Dr MAD. know-it-all, analytical chemist👨🔬 travel the 🌍 installing stuff. gay. 🏳️🌈. Theatre lover🎭 opinions=mine. he/him
Bradfield & Hooper have done it again with Beauty & the Beast-a Horny Love Story.
Twunky Bertie falls in love with his lairdly muscly beast, what's not to love? Christmas at its campest & gayest...
The best, silliest, smuttiest & queerest adult panto of the year (as every year) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
(68 of 2025)
Twunky Bertie falls in love with his lairdly muscly beast, what's not to love? Christmas at its campest & gayest...
The best, silliest, smuttiest & queerest adult panto of the year (as every year) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
(68 of 2025)
December 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Bradfield & Hooper have done it again with Beauty & the Beast-a Horny Love Story.
Twunky Bertie falls in love with his lairdly muscly beast, what's not to love? Christmas at its campest & gayest...
The best, silliest, smuttiest & queerest adult panto of the year (as every year) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
(68 of 2025)
Twunky Bertie falls in love with his lairdly muscly beast, what's not to love? Christmas at its campest & gayest...
The best, silliest, smuttiest & queerest adult panto of the year (as every year) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
(68 of 2025)
The Fit Prince is wonderful. @awkwardprods
at their finest. So much audience participation, so funny and so queer... Joseph gets to speak too 🤪
BAAB and their big hit Movement King show just how fun Swedonia and its prince can be.
@kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social
(67 of 2025)
at their finest. So much audience participation, so funny and so queer... Joseph gets to speak too 🤪
BAAB and their big hit Movement King show just how fun Swedonia and its prince can be.
@kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social
(67 of 2025)
December 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The Fit Prince is wonderful. @awkwardprods
at their finest. So much audience participation, so funny and so queer... Joseph gets to speak too 🤪
BAAB and their big hit Movement King show just how fun Swedonia and its prince can be.
@kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social
(67 of 2025)
at their finest. So much audience participation, so funny and so queer... Joseph gets to speak too 🤪
BAAB and their big hit Movement King show just how fun Swedonia and its prince can be.
@kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social
(67 of 2025)
The Liar the Bitch and the Wardrobe @ union 🎭
Silly, funny, adult panto
Peter & Edward are sent away to get str8. They get to Narnia through the wardrobe & get gayer
Brilliant spoof songs "Denying F*ggotry" to "Defying Gravity"😂
Joe Pieri excels as Edward-Wonderful movement, voice(😍😋)
(66 of 2025)
Silly, funny, adult panto
Peter & Edward are sent away to get str8. They get to Narnia through the wardrobe & get gayer
Brilliant spoof songs "Denying F*ggotry" to "Defying Gravity"😂
Joe Pieri excels as Edward-Wonderful movement, voice(😍😋)
(66 of 2025)
December 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The Liar the Bitch and the Wardrobe @ union 🎭
Silly, funny, adult panto
Peter & Edward are sent away to get str8. They get to Narnia through the wardrobe & get gayer
Brilliant spoof songs "Denying F*ggotry" to "Defying Gravity"😂
Joe Pieri excels as Edward-Wonderful movement, voice(😍😋)
(66 of 2025)
Silly, funny, adult panto
Peter & Edward are sent away to get str8. They get to Narnia through the wardrobe & get gayer
Brilliant spoof songs "Denying F*ggotry" to "Defying Gravity"😂
Joe Pieri excels as Edward-Wonderful movement, voice(😍😋)
(66 of 2025)
From the S̶u̶b̶l̶i̶m̶e̶ ridiculous to the ridiculous...
#StarWhores at the two brewers was so so so funny 😂. A great start to Christmas.
(65 of 2025)
#StarWhores at the two brewers was so so so funny 😂. A great start to Christmas.
(65 of 2025)
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
From the S̶u̶b̶l̶i̶m̶e̶ ridiculous to the ridiculous...
#StarWhores at the two brewers was so so so funny 😂. A great start to Christmas.
(65 of 2025)
#StarWhores at the two brewers was so so so funny 😂. A great start to Christmas.
(65 of 2025)
Daniel's Husband @marylebonetheatre is beautiful, powerful theatre. Daniel & Mitchell are a delicious, high achieving couple sharing an evening with their friend & his beau. Everything is going brilliantly except grumbles about marriage & an overbearing mother then Daniel gets ill...
(64 of 2025)
(64 of 2025)
December 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Daniel's Husband @marylebonetheatre is beautiful, powerful theatre. Daniel & Mitchell are a delicious, high achieving couple sharing an evening with their friend & his beau. Everything is going brilliantly except grumbles about marriage & an overbearing mother then Daniel gets ill...
(64 of 2025)
(64 of 2025)
#TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest is my favourite play. The West End transfer of the NT production is glorious. Olly Alexander is a wonderfully camp Algernon & Stephen Fry makes a spectacular Lady Bracknell. Gwendolyn & Cecily are strong, passionate & present.
A magical production.
(63 of 2025)
A magical production.
(63 of 2025)
December 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
#TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest is my favourite play. The West End transfer of the NT production is glorious. Olly Alexander is a wonderfully camp Algernon & Stephen Fry makes a spectacular Lady Bracknell. Gwendolyn & Cecily are strong, passionate & present.
A magical production.
(63 of 2025)
A magical production.
(63 of 2025)
Fallen Angels @menchocfactory is a masterpiece of Noel Coward's polite comedy.
Janie Dee & Alexandra Gilbreath are absolutely glorious as Julia & Jane, 2 friends batting off each other & getting v drunk as they raucously explore past exploits with Maurice - who's back in town... ⭐⭐⭐⭐
(62 of 2025)
Janie Dee & Alexandra Gilbreath are absolutely glorious as Julia & Jane, 2 friends batting off each other & getting v drunk as they raucously explore past exploits with Maurice - who's back in town... ⭐⭐⭐⭐
(62 of 2025)
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Fallen Angels @menchocfactory is a masterpiece of Noel Coward's polite comedy.
Janie Dee & Alexandra Gilbreath are absolutely glorious as Julia & Jane, 2 friends batting off each other & getting v drunk as they raucously explore past exploits with Maurice - who's back in town... ⭐⭐⭐⭐
(62 of 2025)
Janie Dee & Alexandra Gilbreath are absolutely glorious as Julia & Jane, 2 friends batting off each other & getting v drunk as they raucously explore past exploits with Maurice - who's back in town... ⭐⭐⭐⭐
(62 of 2025)
In Conversation with Graham Norton @waterlooeasttheatre
Jamie Kaye plays Mark, a lonely 15 yo boy in whose outlet is talking to a 🖼️. In its light moments it's fun & moderately believable & good fringe theatre. A superficial foray into suicide doesn't work, leaving a confused piece.
(61 of 2025)
Jamie Kaye plays Mark, a lonely 15 yo boy in whose outlet is talking to a 🖼️. In its light moments it's fun & moderately believable & good fringe theatre. A superficial foray into suicide doesn't work, leaving a confused piece.
(61 of 2025)
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
In Conversation with Graham Norton @waterlooeasttheatre
Jamie Kaye plays Mark, a lonely 15 yo boy in whose outlet is talking to a 🖼️. In its light moments it's fun & moderately believable & good fringe theatre. A superficial foray into suicide doesn't work, leaving a confused piece.
(61 of 2025)
Jamie Kaye plays Mark, a lonely 15 yo boy in whose outlet is talking to a 🖼️. In its light moments it's fun & moderately believable & good fringe theatre. A superficial foray into suicide doesn't work, leaving a confused piece.
(61 of 2025)
A trip to St Martin's 🎭for #themousetrap - the 🌍's longest running play.
Seeing this every few years shows the subtle changes. Joshua Riley plays Christopher Wren as an energetic, effete man with a thing for pretty 👮♂️
The twist is always a secret & I'll quickly forget again whodunit 🤣
(60 of 2025)
Seeing this every few years shows the subtle changes. Joshua Riley plays Christopher Wren as an energetic, effete man with a thing for pretty 👮♂️
The twist is always a secret & I'll quickly forget again whodunit 🤣
(60 of 2025)
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
A trip to St Martin's 🎭for #themousetrap - the 🌍's longest running play.
Seeing this every few years shows the subtle changes. Joshua Riley plays Christopher Wren as an energetic, effete man with a thing for pretty 👮♂️
The twist is always a secret & I'll quickly forget again whodunit 🤣
(60 of 2025)
Seeing this every few years shows the subtle changes. Joshua Riley plays Christopher Wren as an energetic, effete man with a thing for pretty 👮♂️
The twist is always a secret & I'll quickly forget again whodunit 🤣
(60 of 2025)
The Wanderers @ Marylebone🎭 follows 2 Jewish couples in New York. One orthodox & struggling with social expectations & restrictions. The other non-religious but struggling in a v confusing way. Brilliant staging with a simple set - snow, a glass wall & some creative use of white pen.
(59 of 2025)
(59 of 2025)
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The Wanderers @ Marylebone🎭 follows 2 Jewish couples in New York. One orthodox & struggling with social expectations & restrictions. The other non-religious but struggling in a v confusing way. Brilliant staging with a simple set - snow, a glass wall & some creative use of white pen.
(59 of 2025)
(59 of 2025)
#daddysfirstgaydate was a light-hearted, somewhat silly take on a newly-out bi man finding his feet in an unfamiliar world.
Good performances but a little disjointed and over-long. Trimming back to a 1h play would make it a tight fringe play.
(58 of 2025)
Good performances but a little disjointed and over-long. Trimming back to a 1h play would make it a tight fringe play.
(58 of 2025)
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
#daddysfirstgaydate was a light-hearted, somewhat silly take on a newly-out bi man finding his feet in an unfamiliar world.
Good performances but a little disjointed and over-long. Trimming back to a 1h play would make it a tight fringe play.
(58 of 2025)
Good performances but a little disjointed and over-long. Trimming back to a 1h play would make it a tight fringe play.
(58 of 2025)
The Producers s glorious - spectacular performances, very silly and featuring the campest n*zis ever...
Bialystock & Bloom did very right
(57 of 2025)
Bialystock & Bloom did very right
(57 of 2025)
October 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The Producers s glorious - spectacular performances, very silly and featuring the campest n*zis ever...
Bialystock & Bloom did very right
(57 of 2025)
Bialystock & Bloom did very right
(57 of 2025)
#Hercules proved to me that the big Disney musicals really aren't my thing...
Really strong performances, especially the solo numbers in the huge Theatre Royal but left me feeling cold - over produced, verging on pantomime at times & badly sound mixed in the big ensemble numbers.
(56 of 2025)
Really strong performances, especially the solo numbers in the huge Theatre Royal but left me feeling cold - over produced, verging on pantomime at times & badly sound mixed in the big ensemble numbers.
(56 of 2025)
October 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
#Hercules proved to me that the big Disney musicals really aren't my thing...
Really strong performances, especially the solo numbers in the huge Theatre Royal but left me feeling cold - over produced, verging on pantomime at times & badly sound mixed in the big ensemble numbers.
(56 of 2025)
Really strong performances, especially the solo numbers in the huge Theatre Royal but left me feeling cold - over produced, verging on pantomime at times & badly sound mixed in the big ensemble numbers.
(56 of 2025)
Happy Ending @waterlooeasttheatre is great fun - cheeky and camp with some brilliant plot twists. Jimmy Walker & Billy Essex were wonderful as a gay masseuse & his nervous client. They handled the set breaking at a key moment well & managed not to corpse at the odd blocking thereafter.
(55 of 2025)
(55 of 2025)
October 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Happy Ending @waterlooeasttheatre is great fun - cheeky and camp with some brilliant plot twists. Jimmy Walker & Billy Essex were wonderful as a gay masseuse & his nervous client. They handled the set breaking at a key moment well & managed not to corpse at the odd blocking thereafter.
(55 of 2025)
(55 of 2025)
"An Adequate Abridgement of Life as a Boarding School Homo" @ Theatre503 was clever engaging fringe theatre. The trials & tribulations of Johnny (Ned Blackburn) wittily played out against his lover/bully/teacher/headmaster/grandfather/former-pupil-who-left-suddenly (Harvey Weed)
(54 of 2025)
(54 of 2025)
October 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"An Adequate Abridgement of Life as a Boarding School Homo" @ Theatre503 was clever engaging fringe theatre. The trials & tribulations of Johnny (Ned Blackburn) wittily played out against his lover/bully/teacher/headmaster/grandfather/former-pupil-who-left-suddenly (Harvey Weed)
(54 of 2025)
(54 of 2025)
Parody of the Rings @ Wiltons
was great fun yesterday. Equipment failure means a 12h screening of the Lord of the Rings trilogy can't go ahead so the ushers "Peter" & "Jackson" hilariously perform a very abridged version complete with hobbits, elves, dwarfs, men & a giant spider...
(53 of 2025)
was great fun yesterday. Equipment failure means a 12h screening of the Lord of the Rings trilogy can't go ahead so the ushers "Peter" & "Jackson" hilariously perform a very abridged version complete with hobbits, elves, dwarfs, men & a giant spider...
(53 of 2025)
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Parody of the Rings @ Wiltons
was great fun yesterday. Equipment failure means a 12h screening of the Lord of the Rings trilogy can't go ahead so the ushers "Peter" & "Jackson" hilariously perform a very abridged version complete with hobbits, elves, dwarfs, men & a giant spider...
(53 of 2025)
was great fun yesterday. Equipment failure means a 12h screening of the Lord of the Rings trilogy can't go ahead so the ushers "Peter" & "Jackson" hilariously perform a very abridged version complete with hobbits, elves, dwarfs, men & a giant spider...
(53 of 2025)
Hamlet @nationaltheatre
I've seen a lot of Shakespeare but somehow not Hamlet before today...
Hiren Abeysekera was brilliant as Hamlet. Fransesca Mills' Ophelia was something else - utterly show stealing in her madness.
Clever staging & a big cast as you'd expect from the National.
(52 of 2025)
I've seen a lot of Shakespeare but somehow not Hamlet before today...
Hiren Abeysekera was brilliant as Hamlet. Fransesca Mills' Ophelia was something else - utterly show stealing in her madness.
Clever staging & a big cast as you'd expect from the National.
(52 of 2025)
September 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Hamlet @nationaltheatre
I've seen a lot of Shakespeare but somehow not Hamlet before today...
Hiren Abeysekera was brilliant as Hamlet. Fransesca Mills' Ophelia was something else - utterly show stealing in her madness.
Clever staging & a big cast as you'd expect from the National.
(52 of 2025)
I've seen a lot of Shakespeare but somehow not Hamlet before today...
Hiren Abeysekera was brilliant as Hamlet. Fransesca Mills' Ophelia was something else - utterly show stealing in her madness.
Clever staging & a big cast as you'd expect from the National.
(52 of 2025)
#Clarkston is a challenging play. Two young men find friendship and attraction working nights at a Costco and dealing with (very different) challenges. Locke & Mollica make a compelling duo.
(51 of 2025)
(51 of 2025)
September 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
#Clarkston is a challenging play. Two young men find friendship and attraction working nights at a Costco and dealing with (very different) challenges. Locke & Mollica make a compelling duo.
(51 of 2025)
(51 of 2025)
Entertaining Mr Sloane @ young vic
A solid performance of Joe Orton's play, especially Jordan Stevens as the alternately mock-innocent, raunchy & menacing Sloane and Tamzin Outhwaite as the not-so-naive Kath. A little lacking in subtly at the start, but with an impressively strong end.
(50 of 2025)
A solid performance of Joe Orton's play, especially Jordan Stevens as the alternately mock-innocent, raunchy & menacing Sloane and Tamzin Outhwaite as the not-so-naive Kath. A little lacking in subtly at the start, but with an impressively strong end.
(50 of 2025)
September 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Entertaining Mr Sloane @ young vic
A solid performance of Joe Orton's play, especially Jordan Stevens as the alternately mock-innocent, raunchy & menacing Sloane and Tamzin Outhwaite as the not-so-naive Kath. A little lacking in subtly at the start, but with an impressively strong end.
(50 of 2025)
A solid performance of Joe Orton's play, especially Jordan Stevens as the alternately mock-innocent, raunchy & menacing Sloane and Tamzin Outhwaite as the not-so-naive Kath. A little lacking in subtly at the start, but with an impressively strong end.
(50 of 2025)
@kitkatclubldn for a magical 4th time.
Plunging into the seedy Berlin nightclub atmosphere at 1 pm was interesting....
Rob Madge as the MC, makes the role his own with wonderful timing, looks & jokes.
The ominous ending felt too real, especially with a protest march audible outside.
(49 of 2025)
Plunging into the seedy Berlin nightclub atmosphere at 1 pm was interesting....
Rob Madge as the MC, makes the role his own with wonderful timing, looks & jokes.
The ominous ending felt too real, especially with a protest march audible outside.
(49 of 2025)
September 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
@kitkatclubldn for a magical 4th time.
Plunging into the seedy Berlin nightclub atmosphere at 1 pm was interesting....
Rob Madge as the MC, makes the role his own with wonderful timing, looks & jokes.
The ominous ending felt too real, especially with a protest march audible outside.
(49 of 2025)
Plunging into the seedy Berlin nightclub atmosphere at 1 pm was interesting....
Rob Madge as the MC, makes the role his own with wonderful timing, looks & jokes.
The ominous ending felt too real, especially with a protest march audible outside.
(49 of 2025)
#BornWithTeeth is exceptional theatre. Marlowe at the height of fame taunts Shakespeare as they collaborate. The tension and erotic ties between them grow more intense whilst Cecil's spy network confounds.
Gatwa is magnificent, his best work yet. A brilliant foil to Bluemel's Marlowe.
(48 of 2025)
Gatwa is magnificent, his best work yet. A brilliant foil to Bluemel's Marlowe.
(48 of 2025)
September 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
#BornWithTeeth is exceptional theatre. Marlowe at the height of fame taunts Shakespeare as they collaborate. The tension and erotic ties between them grow more intense whilst Cecil's spy network confounds.
Gatwa is magnificent, his best work yet. A brilliant foil to Bluemel's Marlowe.
(48 of 2025)
Gatwa is magnificent, his best work yet. A brilliant foil to Bluemel's Marlowe.
(48 of 2025)
Brigadoon @ Regents Park OAT was creatively staged with atmospheric use of bagpipes & classic musical theatre choreography. Louis Gaunt as Tommy Albright stole the show with a beautiful voice, hunky swagger. Great costuming invoked Scotland with tweed and subdued tartans
(47 of 2025)
(47 of 2025)
September 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Brigadoon @ Regents Park OAT was creatively staged with atmospheric use of bagpipes & classic musical theatre choreography. Louis Gaunt as Tommy Albright stole the show with a beautiful voice, hunky swagger. Great costuming invoked Scotland with tweed and subdued tartans
(47 of 2025)
(47 of 2025)
One of the weirdest and creepiest plays I've ever seen. *The Pitchfork Disney* @kingsheadtheatre builds from two troubled siblings to four truly bizarre characters in an almost indescribably weird one-room world. Wonderful performances of almost manic characters all round.
(46 of 2025)
(46 of 2025)
August 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
One of the weirdest and creepiest plays I've ever seen. *The Pitchfork Disney* @kingsheadtheatre builds from two troubled siblings to four truly bizarre characters in an almost indescribably weird one-room world. Wonderful performances of almost manic characters all round.
(46 of 2025)
(46 of 2025)
The Gathered Leaves @parktheatrelondon
Easter 1997, a family gathers for the 1st time in 17y for the overbearing patriarch's 75th birthday. Intertwined stories, pain & relationships are revealed, focussing on a brother's love & protective feelings for his autistic brother.
(45 of 2025)
Easter 1997, a family gathers for the 1st time in 17y for the overbearing patriarch's 75th birthday. Intertwined stories, pain & relationships are revealed, focussing on a brother's love & protective feelings for his autistic brother.
(45 of 2025)
August 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The Gathered Leaves @parktheatrelondon
Easter 1997, a family gathers for the 1st time in 17y for the overbearing patriarch's 75th birthday. Intertwined stories, pain & relationships are revealed, focussing on a brother's love & protective feelings for his autistic brother.
(45 of 2025)
Easter 1997, a family gathers for the 1st time in 17y for the overbearing patriarch's 75th birthday. Intertwined stories, pain & relationships are revealed, focussing on a brother's love & protective feelings for his autistic brother.
(45 of 2025)
The Daughter of Time was a clever, intriguing premise and story. A bed-ridden detective investigates one of the ultimate cold cases - the real Richard III before Tudor propaganda made him the evil hunchback. Well performed and enjoyable but very pedestrian staging.
(44 of 2025)
(44 of 2025)
August 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The Daughter of Time was a clever, intriguing premise and story. A bed-ridden detective investigates one of the ultimate cold cases - the real Richard III before Tudor propaganda made him the evil hunchback. Well performed and enjoyable but very pedestrian staging.
(44 of 2025)
(44 of 2025)