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La Cage Aux Folles, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre review - 40 years on, the drag show still entertains and educates by Gary Naylor

Feelgood show acquires added poignancy on an emotional night Forty years ago, the world was very different for gay men. AIDS was devastating their communities around the world, especially in the big cities where hard-won enclaves of acceptance were being hollowed out, one sunken-eyed friend after another. Media screamed "Gay Plague" and some politicians barely suppressed their glee at the "perverts'" comeuppance. …

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:19AM on August 16, 2023

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