Who would have thought Jonathan Harvey would write a scene in which a character struggles to come out as straight? In this joyous musical comedy, the playwright, who made his name with the gay love story Beautiful Thing, plays a hilariously subversive trick.
This is 2023 and nobody doubts the sexuality of Terry (Andro Cowperthwaite), a camp dress designer with a love of Eurovision. Why wouldn’t he be gay? So when he falls for a girl, it paves the way for a brilliantly back-to-front reckoning in which his stand-in mother Lulu (Lindzi Germain) must mourn the loss of her rainbow-coloured future.
