REVIEW: Rough Crossing @Chichester Festival Theatre Two famous but desperate playwrights are stuck on an ocean liner headed for New York, feverishly trying to rehearse their latest show before reaching land, and opening night. But they are constantly distracted by their delicate composer’s attempts to end it all, having overheard his lover confess he By Eric Page • 2 min read
FILM REVIEW: Only Trumpets This is a modern queer parable told with care about the importance of acceptance via unconditional self-love, the triumph of hope over despair and how a night that changes everything, changed nothing. By Eric Page • 3 min read
INTERVIEW: Al Start chats about her current project for kids ‘Go Kid Music’ Renaissance women Al Start has been many things during her time in Brighton, but always creative – Eric Page grabs a moment to talk about her exciting new project and how it came about. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Pirates of the Carabina @ Brighton Dome Performed with heartfelt humour Pirates of the Carabina (gotta love that pun) bring to the stage all the skills, quirks and qualities that make their shows more than the sum of their individual performers. It brought forth genuine giggles and laughter from my companion and it’s a cool show which can By Eric Page • 2 min read
OPERA REVIEW: La bohème @ENO The end, swift, inevitable and so terribly comes as it must and leaves everyone awkward, struggling with the death of Mimi, filled with regret and angst but my mind turned to Musetta, the only one who really cares for Mimi, who looks out for her, this is the real triumph of this production. To bring By Eric Page • 4 min read
Brighton remembers trans lives lost in 2018 It was standing room only at the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigil at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church on Sunday, November 18. By Eric Page • 2 min read
BREMF REVIEW: Music & Silence @St Pauls Church This was an engaging afternoons music enlivened with some furiously catchy Irish music from Turlough O’Carolan and possibly the best rendition of John Downlands melancholy masterpiece ‘flow my tears’ that I’ve heard in some time. By Eric Page • 2 min read
BREMF REVIEW: LIVE! Showcase @St Pauls Church What a superb round up of emerging talent showing us a full range of expression and mastery of voice and instrument that goes a long way to show why the BREMF is consistently sold out year after year. By Eric Page • 2 min read
BREMF REVIEW: The Hanseatic League – a talk by Rodrigo Calveyra Although delayed after leaving a half-dozen of his instruments on the train from Gatwick, the charming and erudite Brazilian musician, Rodrigo Calveyra, an expert on the Hanseatic League and director of Canto Fiorito, arrived breathless and excited at the Friends Meeting House, for his very informat By Eric Page • 2 min read
REVIEW: Dracula @The Spire THIS Halloween, TRUESTORY present their evocative, thrilling and haunting tale of a cursed man’s eternal search for true love and world domination. Set in the atmospheric Spire, this new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s chilling classic combines physical, fast-paced storytelling with the company’s bold, By Eric Page • 4 min read
OPERA REVIEW: Porgy and Bess @ENO Director James Robinson’s authentic, charming and emotionally connective production has managed that most marvelous of operatic tricks, Robins has presented us with a classic, done in a classic way. Un-fiddled with, authentic but manages with understatedly magnificent shift of focus to give us a who By Eric Page • 5 min read
REVIEW: Graceland – The London African Gospel Choir @Brighton Dome The singers all originally from across Africa but now London-based performers are a mixed group of voices and genders forming an incandescent line up of 11 singers and their loud funky backing band, again all African London-based musicians. By Eric Page • 3 min read
