Shows at Greenside Lane

Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical

• Review
• ★★★★
• Edinburgh
• Greenside Lane
• 17th Dec, 2015

Australia is home to many curious creatures; a place where men are macho, except when they put on a frock, heels and make-up to sing along to disco classics. Whilst this musical theatre production is no place to analyse the homophobic/sexist/racist leanings of a country, it does use aspects of the themes to show how the two drag queens and one transgender woman overcome their own and others’ attitudes, and find acceptance whilst travelling across the outback in an unreliable bus named Priscilla...