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Out of the Deep: A Decadent Redemption

Out of the Deep: A Decadent Redemption

This was a journey into the darkest of the night, lit by brilliant wit, fuelled by a perfect bonding of voice and instruments to illuminate this crepuscular programme with a refulgent burning urgency. Vache Baroque offered redemptive bliss, and we left all the better for it.

Review: The Little I Knew by Chiara Valerio, translated by Ailsa Wood

Review: The Little I Knew by Chiara Valerio, translated by Ailsa Wood

A meditation on small-town life, female relationships, and the secrets that pulse beneath seemingly placid surfaces. This novel unwinds with careful intensity, its narrative architecture mirroring the slow, sun-drenched rhythms of southern Italian coastal existence.

A Resplendent Celebration: Music Divine brings Gibbons to life in Brighton's BREMF

A Resplendent Celebration: Music Divine brings Gibbons to life in Brighton's BREMF

There's something rather magical about experiencing four centuries of musical heritage vibrating through the bones of a lurking Brighton church, Gibbons 400 was a transcendent journey marking 400 years since Orlando Gibbons' death.

The Coast is Queer: A Lighthouse for LGBTQ+ Literature

The Coast is Queer: A Lighthouse for LGBTQ+ Literature

Coast is Queer is what arts should look like when it's done with excellence, flair, and genuine commitment to artistic merit and democratic access.... something genuinely radical: where artistic rigor and radical inclusion aren't in tension but in harmony.

Six handsome men in black suits gathered in a brutalist concrete corridor with brick flooring and concrete pillars, engaged in conversation and smiling.

Queen of Hearts: The Gesualdo Six

There's something profoundly queer about ancient devotional music – the ecstatic surrender, the passionate veneration, the blurring of earthly and divine love. The Gesualdo Six's concert understood this implicitly, delivering an evening of 16th-century polyphony both ancient and contemporary.

The Coast is Queer: Friday's tide brings in a bounty of brilliant queer voices

The Coast is Queer: Friday's tide brings in a bounty of brilliant queer voices

Like a harbour at full tide, the Coast is Queer Festival's wealth of talent was a maritime procession of queer brilliance, each artist a different craft navigating the same glorious, tumultuous waters of LGBTQ+ experience.

Cast of eight in Regency costumes pose dramatically around "Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel" title on pink background.

A Most Delightful Evening of Theatrical Impropriety Austentatious at Theatre Royal Brighton, - 21 September

Wit, charm, and just a touch of the risqué, whether you are a devoted Austen enthusiast or newcomer to the world of drawing rooms and country estates, Austentatious are masters of daft comedy that shall linger long in memory.

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