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Life upon the wicked stage: Already Perfect at Kings Head Theatre

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Performing two shows a day on a Broadway run sounds exhausting enough. But when you’ve just had a not-so-great matinee and are having a crisis of confidence, I would assume the last thing you’d want is to confront your past. Yet that’s the situation in Already Perfect, writer-performer Levi Kreis’s slightly autobiographical journey of confronting the past and his younger self. With a series of toe-tapping and emotional songs in a sleek production, you’re invited to experience someone else’s therapy session. And with a show title called Already Perfect, you know what kind of session this is going to be. It makes for a show where nothing is left unsaid, even if it is unnecessary,  unbelievable or best left on a greeting card. It’s currently playing at the King’s Head Theatre .  The story begins in his dressing room after a matinee, with Kreis alone. The show didn’t go so well. Struggling after being dumped by a lover, pressure mounting on the evening show being filmed for poster...
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Tits a little bit later on Old Compton Street... it was a bit crowded and people were rubbing shoulder to shoulder, pec to pec and cheek to cheek... Well it is that sort of day...
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Scenes from the West End Saturday 16:09 - Much later after the march, lunch and a quick look at the rally in Trafalgar Square - approaching Shaftsbury Avenue you could spot a poof a mile away. Others used none-too-subtle baloons to help punters identify them...  
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Scenes from London Pride 13:51 - on Whitehall looking towards Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery.  
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Scenes from London Pride Saturday - A bit of colour and movement and heels... Clothing was definitely optional (except for covering the most naughty of naughty bits) for some... 
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Scenes from London Pride Saturday 13:10 - Hmm they must work out... 
Just another Summer Saturday in London Today was one of those days when you could have: Seen the women's final at Wimbledon (assuming that you had tickets) Gone to Live 8 at Hyde Park (assuming you won tickets on the mobile phone lottery) Participated in the London Pride (assuming you were a gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender person) I went the third one of these. There hadn't been so many gay men in central London since yesterday, but that didn't stop anybody having a good time. I wasn't planning on taking part in the actual march from Hyde Park to Victoria Embankment, but A convinced me to do so and before I knew it I was walking up Piccadilly getting applause (which is something that you don't get everyday). There was an interesting part near Pall Mall as well where anti-gay protestors had placards saying something about sodomites. A and his friends asked what we should be doing at this point and I said we should just do what everybody else was do...
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Scenes from Central London Tuesday 22:05 - Late evening Thunderstorms 
Office situations A colleague at work returned today to say goodbye to everyone. She left work in March to go to hospital, but has now left work completely. I suggested to F that her departure in March may have been to have a face lift. Today I can confirm that this was not the case. But I couldn't rule out botox...