Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Wolf Meat Wolf Meat is about having fun, both with the performance, with theatrical convention, as well as the audience, and its dark silliness drags you into their world to revel fully in it. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Pink Fringe: La Poule Plombee La Poule is the triumph of self delusion, she’s a dangerously unstable mix of abandoned Norma Desmond, a soupcon of young gifted Streisand some hefty dollops of Little Eddie from Grey Gardens, all folded into the fragile body of a falling apart Minnelli it’s a heady frothy explosive intoxicating stu By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Jane Postlethwaite A hugely enjoyable and quirky show that highlights the inventiveness of Jane Postlethwaite and allows her crepuscular comical Northern charm to shine though and throw some serious shadows. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: FRINGE: The Tiger Lilies – PIAF The Tiger Lillie’s are a complex, dark acquired taste but an addictive one if they sate your appetite then it was a veritable feast served up at the Spiegeltent on Sunday, no one in the charged up thrilled audience left hungry. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Peppa Pig’s Surprise@Theatre Royal It’s a lovely day and Peppa is playing outside with her friends. Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig have got a surprise for her and George – they can’t guess what it is, can you? Peppa Pig, George and their friends are back in this brand new live stage show, Peppa Pig’s Surprise. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Club Briefs BRIEFS was born in the back warehouse space of a bookshop in Brisbane’s West End in 2008. The boys put on a club night to give performers the chance to try out some new late night cabaret/variety acts. There were no rules or restrictions. They weren’t answering to a brief or a venue or a funding bod By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Blackbird The play begins straight into the action with this challenging in your face piece of fresh writing and superb acting. A classic bit of thrilling chilling fringe theatre. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Torn Apart This play about the complexities of relationships and how our upbringing directly influences us and our ability to maintain loving relationships is a complex engaging piece of work. It focused on 3 relationships – American soldier and Polish woman in Germany, a young lad and girl from Melbourne, and By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Festival: Anthony Burrill Part of the joy of the Festival is it revels in its nerdyness and this lovely presentation, and talk from Sussex resident Anthony Burrill on the joys of simple expressive printing was a well-attended, informative and ultimately enjoyable night out. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Cabaret REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: CircoPitanga An excellent hour of well crafted and seriously impressive skill. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Cabaret REVIEW: Pink Fringe: Madame Señorita Valluerca managed the raucous fringe audience well, charming everyone with just a hint of Iberian Menace behind those flashing eyes. She has that wonderfully Spanish mix of dark and light so compounded in the Spanish soul, like Goya eating candy floss of getting your face sliced by las Meninas, Mada By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Pink Fringe: The Bear Space Thought proving and funny, in equal measure and never fully tipping from one to the other, a high wire of narrative balancing not an easy mix but one which Fouplay produce with verve, style and very engaging performers. Great fun. By Eric Page • 2 min read
