Image Credit Heinrich Brinkmöller-Becker Culture Chaos, Curtains, and Cannibalism: Nature Theatre of Oklahoma's "No President" Tests Every Limit ★★★☆☆ "No President" explores competition, artistic identity, and the absurdities of show business, blending high art and low comedy with a political edge. It's work that refuses to be easily categorised or dismissed, even when it's driving you to distraction. By Eric Page • 4 min read
England Spine-Tingling Spectacle: 'Ghost Stories' haunts Brighton Theatre Royal ★★★★☆ The disturbed perspective of the sets, subtly shifting lighting and sounds scapes all conspire to tip the audience into a state of unease; glimpses of wide eyes focus, expectant, held breathes, titialted nerve jingling. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Culture Treasures in the Dirt: 50 LGBTQ+ Finds: From the Portable Antiquities Scheme I learned some genuinely fun facts alongside historical insights, but I felt that little bit more affirmed in a truth we all need to hear: we've always been here. The book is particularly important in providing readers with concrete evidence to combat the bigotry that many LGBTQ+ people face. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Credit Clémence Rebourg Culture Wrestling with Giants: Piss/CARNATION's Ugly Sisters To experience this piece is the point—it's theatre that asks us to sit with difficulty, laugh at power, and find empathy even for those who would deny our humanity. Such artistic sophistication feels essential in times like these. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Culture A Gloriously Guilty Pleasure: Cruel Intentions Brings '90s Heat to Theatre Royal Now! that's not what I'd call a musical, but Cruel Intentions is a gloriously guilty pleasure that succeeds despite itself By Eric Page • 3 min read
Culture ★★★★★ Boys from the Black Stuff: A Masterclass in Masculine Vulnerability There's something profoundly queer about watching heterosexual masculinity stripped bare By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle A Cartography of Queer Becoming: Dylin Hardcastle’s A Language of Limbs By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Mannequim @ Brighton Fringe – Actors Brighton Fringe’s Mannequim is billed as a”ploem” – a mashup of a play and a poem, and it truly is, as much of its speech is cleverly in rhyming couplets. What Ted Gooda and Lexy Medwell have created is the dialogue between lifelong friends Alex and Michaela – Alex a boy desperately wanting to be [ By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: ‘The Shark is Broken’ @ Theatre Royal Brighton the production never loses its bite…navigating between laugh-out-loud moments and poignant examinations of creative pressure, making this a thrilling theatrical voyage By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Calamity Jane @ Theatre Royal Brighton Calamity Jane -West End actress and singer Carrie Hope Fletcher drives this stagecoach with relentless toe tapping energy By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Kinky Boots @ Theatre Royal Brighton Sequins, Salvation, and Societal Transformation at Kinky Boots, a fiercely luminous testament to resilience, identity, and radical empathy. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: La Bohème @ Theatre Royal This renowned romantic opera, telling the heartbreaking story of the consumptive Mimi and her penniless writer lover, was beautifully brought to life on stage. By Eric Page • 2 min read
