Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho
Trafalgar Studio 2, until 22 May
Holding the Man
Trafalgar Studio 1, until 3 July
Blogs and blogging, bloggers and bloggery. What’s it all about? At first sight blogomania looks like an entirely new literary form. A second glance reveals that it’s the oldest genre of the lot: oral history. A few years back, Clayton Littlewood opened a menswear shop in Soho and when business was slow he amused himself by writing an internet journal about the loafers and oddballs who popped in for a cigarette and a moan. Blog became book. Book became play. The material is rather like the novelty jockstraps Littlewood sells to passing woofters: it’s harmless fun and there’s not much of it.
The characters preen and mince in predictable fashion. Their costumes — blazer, crimped hair, silk neckerchief — are as dated as their ‘omey palomey’ dialect.
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