Mattt D
@madmattt.bsky.social
Dr MAD. know-it-all, analytical chemist👨🔬 travel the 🌍 installing stuff. gay. 🏳️🌈. Theatre lover🎭 opinions=mine. he/him
HMS Pinafore @englishnationalopera a glorious explosion of Gilbert & Sullivan genius. Wonderful performances, giant dresses & a v camp First Lord.
Conflicted about Mel Giedroyc's part - funny, v well done but felt v unnecessary. Hopefully it helps further expand ENO's audience base.
(2 of 2026)
Conflicted about Mel Giedroyc's part - funny, v well done but felt v unnecessary. Hopefully it helps further expand ENO's audience base.
(2 of 2026)
January 24, 2026 at 9:44 PM
HMS Pinafore @englishnationalopera a glorious explosion of Gilbert & Sullivan genius. Wonderful performances, giant dresses & a v camp First Lord.
Conflicted about Mel Giedroyc's part - funny, v well done but felt v unnecessary. Hopefully it helps further expand ENO's audience base.
(2 of 2026)
Conflicted about Mel Giedroyc's part - funny, v well done but felt v unnecessary. Hopefully it helps further expand ENO's audience base.
(2 of 2026)
Already Perfect @kingsheadtheatre was an interesting concept - a gay actor is having a bad day & explores his past with his AA/NA sponsor, musical numbers & his younger self.
A slow start but the no"Already Perfect" was beautiful & ended the story well. Lefevre & Mizrahi were wonderful.
(1 of 2026)
A slow start but the no"Already Perfect" was beautiful & ended the story well. Lefevre & Mizrahi were wonderful.
(1 of 2026)
January 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Already Perfect @kingsheadtheatre was an interesting concept - a gay actor is having a bad day & explores his past with his AA/NA sponsor, musical numbers & his younger self.
A slow start but the no"Already Perfect" was beautiful & ended the story well. Lefevre & Mizrahi were wonderful.
(1 of 2026)
A slow start but the no"Already Perfect" was beautiful & ended the story well. Lefevre & Mizrahi were wonderful.
(1 of 2026)
Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Cornley Drama Society chaotically attempts A Christmas Carol. Absolute genius comedy as Mischief 🎭 are renowned for.
Obviously Tiny Tim is a monstrous version of a disturbing ventriloquist's dummy & appears in odd locations. A ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ end to 2025's 🎭 for me.
(71 of 2025)
Cornley Drama Society chaotically attempts A Christmas Carol. Absolute genius comedy as Mischief 🎭 are renowned for.
Obviously Tiny Tim is a monstrous version of a disturbing ventriloquist's dummy & appears in odd locations. A ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ end to 2025's 🎭 for me.
(71 of 2025)
December 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Cornley Drama Society chaotically attempts A Christmas Carol. Absolute genius comedy as Mischief 🎭 are renowned for.
Obviously Tiny Tim is a monstrous version of a disturbing ventriloquist's dummy & appears in odd locations. A ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ end to 2025's 🎭 for me.
(71 of 2025)
Cornley Drama Society chaotically attempts A Christmas Carol. Absolute genius comedy as Mischief 🎭 are renowned for.
Obviously Tiny Tim is a monstrous version of a disturbing ventriloquist's dummy & appears in odd locations. A ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ end to 2025's 🎭 for me.
(71 of 2025)
Twelfth Night @barbicancentre
Silly comedy - Shakespeare style. A really strong cast with the brilliant Daniel Monks & Freeman Agyeman as the main nobles and Samuel West as the officious steward who's cruely brought down a peg or two. Loved the fool.
(70 of 2025)
Silly comedy - Shakespeare style. A really strong cast with the brilliant Daniel Monks & Freeman Agyeman as the main nobles and Samuel West as the officious steward who's cruely brought down a peg or two. Loved the fool.
(70 of 2025)
December 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Twelfth Night @barbicancentre
Silly comedy - Shakespeare style. A really strong cast with the brilliant Daniel Monks & Freeman Agyeman as the main nobles and Samuel West as the officious steward who's cruely brought down a peg or two. Loved the fool.
(70 of 2025)
Silly comedy - Shakespeare style. A really strong cast with the brilliant Daniel Monks & Freeman Agyeman as the main nobles and Samuel West as the officious steward who's cruely brought down a peg or two. Loved the fool.
(70 of 2025)
Fallen Angels @menchocfactory was just as funny the 2nd time (accidentally booked it twice🤦♂️). The drunken dinner is a tour de force of brilliant acting & Coward's cleverest writing. I could watch Janie Dee, Alexandra Gilbreath play 2 old friends drunk on cocktails & champagne for hours.
(69 of 2025)
(69 of 2025)
December 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Fallen Angels @menchocfactory was just as funny the 2nd time (accidentally booked it twice🤦♂️). The drunken dinner is a tour de force of brilliant acting & Coward's cleverest writing. I could watch Janie Dee, Alexandra Gilbreath play 2 old friends drunk on cocktails & champagne for hours.
(69 of 2025)
(69 of 2025)
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)