Arts OPERA REVIEW: Nabucco With some charming walk on by local young people and children from The Theatre Workshop this was a lovely engaging piece of opera presented in Ms Kent’s trademark way, lot’s of drama, quality singing and an intimate feeling of seeing good opera done in a straight foreword way By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Beijing Comrades: Bei Tong. The book follows the passionate and hugely engaging gay love story of Handong and Lan Yu and is placed in the upheaval of a China bursting out of the repressions of Mao and into a modern state. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Science of Instruments: Museum Lab Richard Earle, a Lewes-based oboe maker and player had endless fascinating throw away facts which would have taken a whole lecture just to tease apart and explore on their own and his charming modest and amusing tone kept the more arcane and technical sides of the talk interesting for a non player. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Brighton Early Music Festival: Nature & Science BREMF 2016: Nature & Science OBSERVATION, DISCOVERY, INVENTION, CREATION 28th October to 13th November Brighton Early Music Festival, known as BREMF, is a world leader in pioneering dynamic events which make music from the last 1000 years and from many parts of the world, relevant and exciting to mo By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: THE GOOD SON: Paul McVeigh Profound, funny, gripping and this book touched me moving deftly beyond life in Northern Ireland and getting to grips, with a confident prose with the bigger issues in growing up and out. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: BRIGHTON ART FAIR & MADE BRIGHTON: DOME BRIGHTON ART FAIR & MADE BRIGHTON Brighton Dome – The Corn Exchange Usually two separate events but due to the refurbishment of the Dome they are joined and skipping hand in hand though the weekend with a huge array of arts, crafts and plenty of artists and delightful things to see and buy. Brighton By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It Big, burly, lascivious, and soft around the edges: welcome to this hyper-masculine world. Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It is an in-depth introduction to nine of the most exciting comic artists making work for a gay male audience in Japan. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Books BOOK REVIEW: First tie your camel, then trust in god: Chivvis Moore Not an easy read, but not an easy subject, Moore gives us her own unfazed clarity of view and guides us into the heart of the community and the way it embraces and occasionally judges her, it’s been a long time since I’ve read a narrative with such force that has made me think so hard about received By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Gay Dad: David Leadain With a candid foreword about his own experiences from Coronation Street actor (and gay dad) Charlie Condou this is a timely book reflecting the experiences of a sizable part of our complex LGBT world. We all known a gay dad…it’s time to understand them a little more. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Dusty – An intimate portrait of a musical legend Never simple, always passionate this is a seriously good biography for all lovers of Ms Springfield. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: No Man’s Land @ Theatre Royal But this isn’t about Pinter it’s about the interplay between these two great actors on stage tougher, and that was utterly superb. Their humanity shines through along with the obvious love they have for performing for each other, and the dalliance of their actory hearts with Pinter’s crepuscular abs By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: A Bunch of lies by Lucy Rutherford Based in Brighton & Hove the plot of A Bunch of Lies follows a woman’s life unravelling as she searches for meaning following the hit and run death of her eight year- old daughter which slowly leads to the collapse of everything she thought she knew. After finding her daughter’s diary, a web of inte By Eric Page • 1 min read
