REVIEW: The Chalk Garden @Chichester Festival Theatre THIS play is an exploration of privilege, delusion, secrets, lies and as always with this kind of clockwork play where the narrative clicks past with the reassurance of a mantel clock, butler, tick, errant daughter, tock, mysterious stranger tick, judge for lunch, tock, gardens as metaphor tick, Fre By Eric Page • 3 min read
Festival REVIEW: Brownton Abbey @The Dome Costume, frenzy, ritual, we felt in the presence of something profound, then the music kicked off and back we were, we wanted more but Shabazz was done with us. He took my heart with him, still beating between his teeth. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Fringe REVIEW: Guru Dudu’s Silent Disco Walking Tours Guru Dudu returns to the Fringe with his shivering sexy flannel purple hot pants, his cheeky but fierce boyish looks and his dapper and daft patter as he takes us, a huge crowd of excited to be there festival folks on a dancing-walking tour. He’s updated the technology but kept the magic of the pied By Eric Page • 3 min read
REVIEW: And the Devil Will Drag You Under @Brighton Spiegeltent This is a piece of classic Brighton Fringe with a host who works hard to ensure an inclusive and attractive atmosphere, you got a lot of bang- bang for your money and long may it last. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Festival REVIEW: Gob Squad, Creation @Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts The drip drip of thought and pose, of counter pose and comparison along with a soft and ironic deconstructive narrative from the artists of both themselves and their process gave the evening a charming thoughtful edge, there are times when it feels more like a lecture than a performance but on refle By Eric Page • 3 min read
Fringe REVIEW: A night with Thick and Tight @The Marlborough I hardly had time to grasp my pearls before they were off, movements as melancholy as they were funny but no time to giggle before the mask is ripped off and the raw black abyss of loss is revealed. Compulsive moments recall happier moments, like psychotic zoo animals doomed to tread the same days a By Eric Page • 5 min read
Fringe REVIEW: DIY Chef @The Warren Egg whips it up into a froth of unexpected delights, some of the things he used, and the ways in which they are used belies a surreal and adaptable imagination and he’d certainly be on my list of people to share the Isle of Man with in a zombie apocalypse as much for his sheer entertaining company a By Eric Page • 2 min read
Book REVIEW: David Bowie Made Me Gay by Darryl W Bullock THIS comprehensive history encompasses a century of music by and for the LGBT+ community. Bullock has done some serious research but is also driven by a sense of the personal, the enlightening and the profoundly effecting, and as music is often the first place we learn to express who we are, recogni By Eric Page • 2 min read
Festival REVIEW: The String Quartet’s Guide to Sex and Anxiety @Theatre Royal The String Quartet’s Guide To Sex And Anxiety Theater Royal Brighton Festival The claustrophobic close and tempestuous relationship between sex, anxiety and music comes to a head in this remarkable highly focused production from one of Europe’s most exciting theatre directors, Calixto Bieito – he gr By Eric Page • 3 min read
Fringe REVIEW: Shit-Faced Showtime @The Warren By plan or delightful default it was one of the LGBTQ members of the cast who was getting drunk pre-show this time around, which added an extra frisson of #RuPaulDragRace campery to the usual inebriated revelry, we had a bender on a bender. There was some lovely moments of high kicking camp, the dru By Eric Page • 3 min read
Fringe REVIEW: Mamoru Iriguchi @The Marlborough Oh we adored Mamoru Iriguchi. He’s so sweet and geeky and utterly charming. The tech in the show is seriously clever although it’s about as mixed media, tech heavy Heath Robinson as you can get, and gets utterly bonkers by the end, but Iriguchi keep his boundless energy and charm beaming out. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Fringe REVIEW: Fix my Brain @The Warren Fix My Brain Two Surnames The Warren May 21 FIX my brain is fun and the boys have certainly done their work, they stay in character throughout, apart from when they poke some fun though their semi permeable fourth wall. The use of lighting to indicate flashback, or fantasy is fun and works well […] By Eric Page • 2 min read
