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
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Festival: The Last Resort We left with the solace of having done something together, something oddly intimate and exploratory. Not quite fun but certainly engaging and thoughtful. It’s an odd combination of Samuel Becket and Alan Bennett, unintentionally funny when clashing with the unpolished reality around u By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Borde Hill Sculpture Exhibition it’s a lovely place to wander; art, gardens, flowers and the hidden tea-shop is simply perfect with gushings of tea and huge slices of tea tucked into a little shaded dell with bluebells basking under the mottled sunshine, it was simply perfect. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Festival: SpyMonkey SpyMonkey & Tim Crouch Brighton Festival May 13th Theatre Royal Performed by Spymonkey: Aitor Basauri, Stephan Kreiss, Petra Massey & Toby Park Directed by Tim Crouch Well, what’s not to like about all of Shakespeare deaths rolling out in front of you for an evening’s entertainment. Certainly when i By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Aphrodite in Flippers The writers have a wonderful surreal sense of the absurd, but with such a fine, light and careful touch that it soars and takes wing into a special place of belief where performers and audience all agree to conspire in the daftness for the sake of the narrative journey By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Festival: Smoke and Mirrors This carefully explored, almost forensic due of endurance, acrobatic skills, and mesmerising body movements and dance is a very clean looking performance, lights, sound and set all stripped back to an essence By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Amalthea Duo@Dome Studio The Amalthea Duo are Klio Blonz on Flute and Siobhan Swider on Harp and between them they have an impressive pedigree of repertoire and performance experience. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Spiegeltent: Laura Moody Her music shouldn’t work, but how it does. Contradictory, clashing, cacophonies are all tied together with huge leaps of artistic faith, bridging gaps with harmonic reaches and plunging into the abyss with the rhythmic, percussive use of her Cello. She’s utterly nuts, and yet centred with a fearful By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Spiegeltent: Meow Meow Meow Meow is a collapsing Diva, an ego in freefall who pulls out the talent when the spot lights shine. She also happens to be a true cabaret performers deftly and effortlessly blending all the skills usually devolved out to a night on their own. She’s singer, comedian, hostess, clown, chanteuse, sh By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Pink Fringe: The Sissy’s Progress This was a Via Dolorosa with trombones. Part triumphant movement, part clown, dangerous and painted and unpredictable lurching forward into the unknown and part monstrously perfect, demanding affirming reclaiming of the streets. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Windmill Collective Open Houses More than 1,000 artists exhibit their work in venues citywide and in the surrounding area, providing art lovers with an engaging and inspiring experience and offering the opportunity to buy work and chat directly with the creators. The Windmill Collective is just one of the finest and queerest ones By Eric Page • 3 min read
