Arts REVIEW: The Chip Shop Wars by Terry Sanderson Love them or loath them you root for them to the very last page. Sanderson is our very own Queer Tom Sharpe, and serves up thick deep fried pure Northern farce, battered with crisp satire, served with a generous sprinkling of his tart vinegar wit. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Power Bear by Łukasz Majcher This all new Queer superhero comix with its interwoven stories covering the Alien creation of life on earth, a German bear couple who wrestle with the challenges of everyday life and a secret life of superhero adventures is a fun treat. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts PAGE’S PAGES: Eric Page reviews the best queer lit Queer book reviews from our resident book worm, Eric Page By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts REVIEW: Footloose @ Theatre Royal There are a few extra songs shoehorned in, including a rather delightfully silly rendition of ‘Holding out for a Hero’ which allows Jake Quickenden to show off their rather more muscular skills & body and offer the mostly older female audience some energetic but light titillation whilst Darren Day s By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Ignite: Fire & Fantasy at Nymans This winter after-dark experience offers the enchanting effects of fire, light and lanterns throughout the garden at Nymansm, a perfect setting for an illuminated trail, where you wander between flickering flames and majestic trees. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Village of Eight Graves by Seishi Yokomizo The book is a delight, twisting and turning in gothic wonder in your mind, bringing to life place and character with deft prose and the narrative grips from the off. I really enjoyed the grip of the tension and adored the slow in relentless discovery of the awful truth by the fun detective Kindaichi By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Fake-Up by Justin Myers This is a lovely exploration of people struggling to have it all and realising that perhaps it’s just each other that they really want, and managing their own, and others expectations of what love can, and should be about. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Queer Life, Queer Love The prose is world class, the arguments a clarion call, although not all of them recent, they chime in our daily lives still. The authentic narrative of personal experience of transition lift this book into Gospel and the poetry shakes it all back down again with metaphorical and emotional lightning By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Pirate Mums by Jodie Lancet-Grant & Lydia Corry I love seeing us reflected in stories and with young people it’s really important that they can see themselves as key parts of fun, engaging and constructive narratives. The Pirate Mums is all of that, inclusive to the bone, celebratory of LGBTQ+ families and lives and very gently challenging of pre By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide If you like books about sinister powerful elitist organisations who use all sorts of nefarious tricks to keep their holds on power you’ll love this book, but look in the mirror as it’s not a conspiracy thriller but the fictionalised narrative of institutionalised racism and individual prejudice focu By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Guy UsinU – Oil & fetish The book is an evocative and crepuscular exploration not just of the people and places of Brighton but also the psycho-sexual geography of the artist themselves. Where they lay, pause, linger, what they see, feel and embrace, and what they leave in the echoes of desire, control and abandonment which By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: This much is true – Miriam Margolyes A natural raconteur the book is a superb read and may challenge as much as it will certainly delight. By Eric Page • 1 min read
