Hir review: Felicity Huffman shines in post-jail role in queer black comedy

Hir review: Felicity Huffman shines in post-jail role in queer black comedy

Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman is the comedic core of the 2024 London revival of Taylor Mac’s absurdist black comedy, Hir – here’s our review. Mac created something of a revolutionary theatre show on gender expression, homogeneity and the constraints of the nuclear family when Judy (Mac’s pronoun) debuted Hir in 2015 – let alone when the cult US artist began writing it in 1996. There’s newly instated, grammar-obsessed matriarch Paige…