Arts REVIEW: Beautiful @ Theatre Royal Molly-Grace Cutler as Carole King is touching, she’s totally there, filled with charming vulnerable and buoyant hope, it’s a beguiling performance, hinting at the steeliness at Carols core and her tenacity to be heard on her own terms, and the second half focuses more on her music than the AWOL plo By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts REVIEW: Writing Our Space: An LGBTQ+ Anthology Writing our Space with a foreword from editors Eilidh Akilade and Ross Tanner which explores the genesis of the book and the collection of short pieces elicited from a wide LGBTQI+ pool of writers is wonderful. I could gush about it, but I’ll say buy it, read it, enjoy it for yourself; then gush. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Edward Carpenter – A Victorian Rebel fighting for gay rights This excellent look at the life of Carpenter from (Hove based author) Brian Anderson uses previously unpublished material and personal letters from his lovers and friends to shine a bold new light over the contributions to developments around sexuality and identify that Carpenter gave with his early By Eric Page • 2 min read
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
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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
