Brighton Festival REVIEW: Celestial Voices @ The Old Market (Brighton Festival) …possibly the most interesting intersectional cultural evening I’ve attended in a long time, full of beauty, cultural fertilisation, invocation, innovation and pure raw beauty. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts FRINGE REVIEW: You Bet @ Round Georges We feel Bet the woman, tender, whole, emotionally unfulfilled by her lovers, but not by her life. Bet the friend, turning over the disappointment from the other women in her life. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts FRINGE REVIEW: Lachlan Werner: Voices of Evil @ Spiegeltent Bosco ‘a delightful, daft and debauched hour of occult decadence..’ By Eric Page • 3 min read
Brighton Festival REVIEW: Moby Dick @ Theatre Royal (Brighton Festival) ‘Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.’ Seriously impressive puppeting , a wonderful evocative show and worth experiencing if you can get or beg a ticket. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Van Gogh Alive @ Brighton Dome Corn Exchange Eric Page reviews “engaging and thoughtful” Van Gogh Alive at Brighton Dome By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Panic Response by John McCullough This is superb LGBTQ+ poetry, poems from a queer voice of the highest quality, a book to return to, to open at random, to let into your mind to cavort. McCullough is also (and I’ve said this before) a bloody good read. By Eric Page • 3 min read
-credit-Darren-Bell Arts REVIEW: The Way Old Friends Do @ Theatre Royal Brighton Great fast paced fun for fans of modern relationship comedy, light touch while pretending to be something deeper, a must for those who worship at the Alter of ABBA with plenty of original music scattered throughout the evening. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Symphony of Sorrowful Songs by Henryk Górecki; English National Opera; London Coliseum; London, UK; 25 April 2023; Nicole Chevalier – soprano; Lidiya Yankovskaya – Conductor; Isabella Bywater – Director/Designer; Roberto Vitalini – Video Designer; Jon Driscoll – Lighting Designer; Photo: © CLIVE BARDA/ArenaPAL; Music Classical REVIEW: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs @ ENO This haunting performance of Henryk Górecki’s Third Symphony is a startlingly but soothing staging from the ENO yet again showing us what a dedicated team of people can do with imagination, flair and a determination to explore and share the very best of music with a diverse and invested audience. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Music Opera Review: la Bohème @ Theatre Royal Brighton This is an utterly charming performance, with some of Kents signature touches, a stage filling bit of spectacle, live orchestra, La Boehme is a romantically sad story, ending in tragedy but with some delightful set pieces celebrating love hope and beauty By Eric Page • 2 min read
Books BOOK REVIEW: First Time for Everything by Henry Fry Author Fry centres Danny’s increasingly erratic choices in the narrative allowing us to explore with him, enjoy the fall out, laugh at the raw painful awfulness of it and wallow in the reflective dialogue of his endless therapy and patient loving friendships. It’s a cool narrative engine and whilst By Eric Page • 4 min read
Books BOOK REVIEW: Rethinking Gender: An Illustrated Exploration by Louie Läuger This is a lively, informative, and engaging graphic novel/guide to gender from and by this author-illustrator ( see more of their published work here) who helps readers grasp how many different answers can be give to the question: “What even is gender?”. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Books BOOK REVIEW: Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Legacy of a Black Trans Revolutionary The ruthless sharp pointed humour gives this memoir a delirious tangy edge and offers you a peek and some insight into Miss Majors gentle inner warmth & pure power which has shaped LGBTQ+ struggles in American for more than fifty years. Miss Major is truly an Icon with a glorious Legacy! By Eric Page • 4 min read
