REVIEW OPERA: Salomé @ ENO By avoiding real gore and giving us my little decapitated pony cartoon gooey gore we are forced to confront our own desires, our own expectations and here director Adena Jacobs’s new production for English National Opera has done something interesting. He’s given Salomé back her dignity, twisted, d By Eric Page • 5 min read
REVIEW: Austentatious @ Brighton Dome The evening was one filled with light hilarity and ending as it should with a dénouement of romantic attachments, “Virtue and Vampyres” was a gentle frolic around the backwaters of the lost cannon of Miss Jane Austen’s works and brought to temporary life by the every delightful and utterly charming By Eric Page • 4 min read
REVIEW: Flowers for Mrs Harris @Chichester Festival Theatre Ada Harris spends her days dusting, darning, polishing and scrubbing. But her first glimpse of a ravishing Christian Dior dress sets her off on a journey that will change her life forever… By Eric Page • 4 min read
INTERVIEW: Arran Shurvinton – “Shall we not sit together awhile, my dear friend?” “Shall we not sit together awhile, my dear friend?” Arran Shurvinton won the spectacular first Big Drag Pageant staged at the Spiegeltent, during the Brighton Fringe with his magnificent gothic creation – Nosferatu. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Pride Cymru 2018 – Cardiff Pride in pictures Eric Page goes home to Wales to enjoy the The Big Weekend and celebrate Pride Cymru 2018. Huge crows attended the nineteenth annual Pride Cymru event on City Hall Lawns in Cardiff over the weekend of August 24-26 with ten thousand people taking part in the mile long parade. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Pride Cymru 2018 & The Big Weekend @Cardiff This was the 19th annual Pride Cymru event in Cardiff and this year’s event was bigger than ever. With 50,000 people attended the city’s main day of the three day ‘Big Weekend’ festival and record numbers pouring into the city all weekend. More than 10,000 people took part in the mile long parade w By Eric Page • 5 min read
Pride Cymru’s BIG Weekend line-up announced! Derrick Barry, Courtney Act, Sonique and Gabrielle are amongst this year’s acts who will be performing at Pride Cymru’s Big Weekend on 24 – 26 August 2018. By Eric Page • 2 min read
REVIEW: Return to the Forbidden Planet @Devonshire Park Theatre It’s a seriously odd show, shuttling Shakespeare up against rock and roll, review theatre, musical comedy and some slick and silly audience participation it’s a real curates egg, but not withstanding it’s weirdness it’s fun and this case, with their full octane performances give every ounce of their By Eric Page • 3 min read
REVIEW: Sounds and Sorcery’s Celebrating Fantasia @The Vaults, Waterloo Like Fantasia itself, depends on your taste and expectation, but when the thought had been invested and the enchantment comes to life then there are moments which are magical and entertaining. With a range of spaces to explore, some theatrical acts to watch, plenty of wandering to do and a few cool By Eric Page • 4 min read
BOOK REVIEW: Fruit: Recipes that celebrate nature by Bernadette Wörndl We love classic pairings, such as lemon and chicken, apple and pork, and cranberries and turkey, but there are loads of combinations we’re missing out on. Wörndl -a brilliant cook and food stylist shows you how to best incorporate fruit into everyday cooking. By Eric Page • 1 min read
REVIEW: Me And My Girl @Chichester Festival Theatre The show is a superb revival, no attempt to ram anything serious into its eel pie and diamond tiara flimflam; it joyfully declares its shallowness and takes it one step further into utterly enchanting daftness. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Fringe REVIEW: Circus’Sission @BOSCO Superb cross section of performers, the tent is fun, the atmosphere electric and we left having been entertained, a little bit of this, some of that and plenty of the other host Cal Harris who certainly knows how to keep a Brighton audience hyped up and the participants all have their own engaging t By Eric Page • 2 min read
