REVIEW: Post @Marlborough Theatre I had a glass of Cachaça, and it was nice to watch Xá lay the table and swirl around in his Vira skirt, he’s very softly spoken and engaging, but this is a hefty subject and we were promised much, I left unimpressed, uniformed and none the wiser. It’s rare to leave a Portuguese table feeling hungry; By Eric Page • 4 min read
Fringe REVIEW: A Berlin Kabaret! @The Warren Brighton Fringe winner of Best Cabaret and Argus Angel awards, ‘A Berlin Kabaret’ returned with Sphinx Theatre Company and they bill themselves as Lady Gaga meets Brecht in musical show of the 20th century avant-garde. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Today Saturday May 19: Bird la Bird’s Travelling Queer People’s History Show To mark IDAHOBIT – International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT) – in the city this year, the Brighton & Hove City Council LGBT Workers Forum (BHCC LGBT WF) and Jubilee Library present this innovative and entertaining rereading of Queer history. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Festival REVIEW: XFRMR @The Spire The Tesla Coil sat there, throbbing like some developmental dangerous god, an Old One angry and spitting the energy of destruction at us, and it felt like we were being led in to observe it’s humbling, with the cage always hinting at it’s destructive power, the power of life itself. By Eric Page • 2 min read
REVIEW: KAYA @Brighton Festival This was a story of easy migration, or perhaps a story of migration told and retold so many times that it had become a softened legend, losing it’s hard edges and human pain. Like hearing your grandmother tell of her grandmothers journey here from a country no longer on the maps, distant & remote. By Eric Page • 2 min read
REVIEW: Magnard Ensemble @Brighton Festival As charming as they are talented this young and fanatically gifted ensemble have far to go, it was a really pleasure to be able to listen to them take turns to introduce each piece and then play. They make music fun. We waved them off onto the tides of success as the Westerly Winds caught their sail By Eric Page • 2 min read
REVIEW: Woodland @Brighton Festival It’s a guided mediation into the very still heart of death, but within death it’s all life! Endless changing life! the crepuscular, muscular sweet stenching oozing splendour of each and every bit of your body being reused, transformed and recycled. It’s a smart phone app version of Job 19:26 By Eric Page • 4 min read
REVIEW: Butt Kapinski @ KOMEDIA This is pure festival gold! The narrative might be familiar, the plot might not always land well, but the hour spent in the ridiculous and coercive presence of Butt Kapinski has been one of the highlights of my festival so far. By Eric Page • 3 min read
REVIEW: The Comforter @ MARLBOROUGH There are moments of bonding which work in different ways and some daft interactions with the ghost of George Michael. The point of it appears to be something about life affirming choices but this felt muddled and undefined. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Fringe REVIEW: Fast @Purple Playhouse Theatre The new play Fast by Kate Barton is a dark drama based on a true story. Set at the turn of the 20th Century in the Pacific Northwest, the play examines ‘Doctor’ Linda Hazzard. Complex, mesmeric and driven, Hazzard advocated a fasting cure that gripped the press and divided the nation. Her ideas were By Eric Page • 2 min read
Fringe REVIEW: Gender Euphoria @Marlborough Theatre GENDER Euphoria is James Lorien MacDonald’s solo stand-up show with a focus on his ideas and experiences of gender and the way it affects him, us, the people around us and what people may think (or say) about us. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Festival REVIEW: Grand Finale @Brighton Dome We left churned and fascinated by the dancers and this dance and also vividly connected to the heaving mass of humanity and our own movements within it and well pleased by this return to the Festival by the ravishing Hofesh Shechter Company By Eric Page • 4 min read
