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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nick Curtis

My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?) at the Garrick Theatre review: a joyful love letter to self-expression

This is the little show that could. Rob Madge’s short, sweet, autobiographical solo musical premiered at Battersea’s Turbine Theatre in 2021, was a hit at the Edinburgh Fringe and now comes to the West End in a burst of DIY fabulousness.

It’s a joyful love letter to self-expression and to Coventry-born Madge’s parents, who strove for six years to conceive a child through IVF, and then enabled their precocious, stage-struck only son to evolve into the charismatic, non-binary performer of today.

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