RADIANT BOY review by thespyinthestalls at Southwark Playhouse

RADIANT BOY review by thespyinthestalls at Southwark Playhouse

RADIANT BOY Southwark Playhouse Borough ★★½ “There are some neat, if underplayed, genre twists.” In its own publicity, Radiant Boy was described by one cast member as “a queer coming-of-age meets The Exorcist via A Taste of Honey”. That’s a tall order, cramming in a range of genres into a tight turn-around play. It also foresees the fault lines. It’s 1983. After an unexplained episode at a music academy in London, trainee vocalist Russell (Stua…