Arts REVIEW: ‘The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions’ @ Southbank Centre This retelling and centring of queer history is a searing read of patriarchy and the audience buzzed as they left, entertained but unapologetically magically queered up by these faggots and their friends. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Twelve Angry Men @ Theatre Royal Brighton Patrick Duffy serves up a quiet, reflective convincing ‘good man’ performance. Both fascinating and keeping the focus on the slow deliberate unfolding action. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Books BOOK REVIEW: ‘From Mohair Suits to Kinky Boots’ by Geoff Deane This is a tale of a fortunate life, grasped and wrung out, told with self-depreciating humour by a man with some considerable insight into his own and the wider world’s bullshit By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie @ Theatre Royal Brighton It’s a triumphant toetapping trumpeting of gender diversity, celebrating untrammelled queerness as the core of being. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Brighton Early Music Festival BREMF review: Battle Cry: She Speaks @ St Nicholas Church This startlingly simple pairing of voice and instrument offered real insight into the emotional content of these pieces By Eric Page • 2 min read
Brighton Early Music Festival REVIEW: ‘The Whispering Dome’ by BREMF Lagnawi and Susso interacted exceptionally with the younger members of the ensemble and injected real energy into the performance, giving the younger people an opportunity to take part in something special with internationally renowned musicians. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Secret Byrd @ BREMF The Secret Mass was a beautiful opening gig to BREMF….with this sacred music made tangible, giving everyone something to sigh over By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts OPERA REVIEW: Peter Grimes @ London Coliseum (English National Opera) A night of grim fascinations. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: ‘DRAG: A British History’ by Jacob Bloomfield The book takes us by the manicured gloved hand and leads us, via clubs, shows, scandals, politics, intrigue, to some rather delicious Queer individuals and the way they used Drag to succeed and flourish on stage By Eric Page • 4 min read
Books BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Gaudy Image’ by William Talsman The seedy setting is uplifted by the glorious camp imaginations of Titania who can turn a dime into a diamond with a flick of her tongue. I was fascinated by this pre-Stonewall shard of LGBTQ+ life. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: A Strange Loop @ Barbican Theatre Loop lives up to the hype and effortlessly surpasses the publicity and cant, using originality wit and tenderness to offer up an almost unique theatrical experience wrapped in a comforting familiar style. By Eric Page • 7 min read
Arts Meet the Author: Redfern Jon Barrett @ the Ledward Centre tonight Join Eric Page as he gently probes author Redfern Jon Barrett at the Ledward Centre about his new book Proud Pink Sky – a vision of the world’s first gay state By Eric Page • 1 min read
