HOMOS AND HOUMOUS

Since 2016 queer Jewish theatre company and cabaret Homos and Houmous (H&H) has been schlepping around with a smorgasbord of new writing, devised physical theatre, drag, comedy, live klezmer, and politics.

 

It’s hosted by music hall grand dame Chanukah Lewinsky (think Julie Walters on speed) and drag punk pin-up That Ray (Peaches meets disney villain). Our vibe is Shabbat dinner argument meets Bette Midler doing musical stand-up in a New York bathhouse. 

 

We are a part of the emerging renaissance of Jewish leftist art making and Yiddish revivalism. Check out the rad projects of Vashti Media, Jewdas, Na'amod, and Yiddish Open Mic Cafe.

 

From 2021-2023 we were in residence at London’s Royal Vauxhall Tavern and the Royal Court Theatre. In 2024 we were part of the Royal Court Theatre's writers' group. Through 2026 we are working on not one but two new plays (ooh yes, plays): Uppers, and A Time To Eat. 

 

Night Czar Amy Lame has said of us: ‘This is what makes London, London, and we must not lose it.’ (BBC Sounds).