Bent bureaucrats, ‘fake dykes’ and bad bakers — this week’s theatre

Eye of a Needle

Southwark Playhouse, until 20 September

Toast

Park Theatre, until 21 September

Eye of a Needle, by newcomer Chris MacDonald, looks at homosexuality and asylum. Gays from the Third World, who’ve suppressed all evidence of their orientation at home, find they have to leap out of the closet once they reach the UK, and provide documentary proof of their hot-tub marathons and nitrate-fuelled rubdowns.

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Taggedasylum, gays, Matthew Kelly, Park Theatre, Richard Bean, Southwark Playhouse, Toast, Uganda

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Bent bureaucrats, ‘fake dykes’ and bad bakers — this week’s theatre

Comic potential is squandered in Southwark Playhouse’s Eye of a Needle, while Matthew Kelly gives Richard Bean’s Toast an unexpected layer of pathos and humanity

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Comic potential is squandered in Southwark Playhouse’s Eye of a Needle, while Matthew Kelly gives Richard Bean’s Toast an unexpected layer of pathos and humanity

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