Arts What would Louis think? You may have seen Lloyd Daniels from the X-Factor singing at a gay club near you, but you’re likely to see a lot more of the Welsh wonder if you head down to the Marlborough Theatre next month as he’s appearing in internet dating comedy Up4aMeet….and he’s getting nekked! “Actually, getting naked isn By Kat Pope • 2 min read
Features & Longread Online, no one can hear you scream! At the risk of sounding like a Luddite I worry about the council, and indeed the government, expecting us to do more and more things online. Brighton & Hove Council leader, Cllr Jason Kitcat recently spoke about the council’s new-look website, saying “It’s the next step as we radically change how pe By Kat Pope • 3 min read
Theatre Dead Certain: Devonshire Park Theatre: Review Dead Certain, Marcus Lloyd’s taut psychological thriller brings to a close the Devonshire’s season of Murder in the Park, and it runs until June 29. Michael (Philip Stewart) is an out of work actor who thinks his luck’s turned when he gets what seems to be an easy gig; to act out a new play […] By Kat Pope • 2 min read
Community News City gardens open for the Sussex Beacon Dates for the annual Brighton & Hove Open Gardens in aid of the Sussex Beacon have been announced.This year’s event, taking place during the weekend of June 29-30, is to be in celebration of the Beacon’s 21st anniversary, with all money raised going to the charity. More than 70 private gardens and c By Kat Pope • 2 min read
Arts Donmar Warehouse: ‘The Night Alive’ In The Night Alive, Conor McPherson’s new play, Tommy (Ciaran Hinds), a middle-aged ‘moocher’ (as he calls himself) living in a squalid Dublin bedsit, has gone out to get some chips, but comes back instead with a bloodied and bruised girl. Aimee (Caoilfhionn Dunne) has been beaten up by her ex and h By Kat Pope • 3 min read
Features & Longread Can do: Can’t do! Do you trust anything this government says on disability? No, me neither, so it was with some caution that I approached a press release from them that editor James handed me to write up. “Celebrities join forces with disability charity on role models campaign” runs the snappy headline, puffing up a By Kat Pope • 4 min read
News Flown performed by Pirates of the Carabina at the Udderbelly Is it on to compare a circus with a circus? After all, these days circus is a broad church – a very broad church – so broad in fact that the South Bank feels confident enough to run three ring-based entertainment shows over the summer in its temporary tents, expecting each to make a profit. […] By Kat Pope • 4 min read
Arts The Amen Corner: James Baldwin: National Theatre: Review Since losing her unborn child, Sister Margaret (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) has put herself in the hands of the Lord. He’s made her a preacher in a small but thriving Harlem church, and he’s guided her hand as she’s brought up her now 18 year old son David single-handedly. But the Lord now seems to be l By Kat Pope • 3 min read
Features & Longread There’s food, damned food and statistics My son ate a yoghurt the other day. It was only afterwards that I told him to look at the ‘best before’ date on the lid. It was three months out of date. He went ballistic. I told him not to be such a twerp and that he should know by now that you can […] By Kat Pope • 6 min read
Arts Kat calls Hello m’dears! Kat here, beginning a new weekly column letting you in on what I’ve been to see each week. It’s a ragbag of odds and sods so you might be surprised. You might even be vaguely entertained. If not, you lucky people, you always have the option of shutting down your browser. I, on […] By Kat Pope • 18 min read
Arts A Chorus Line: London Palladium: Theatre Review A West End musical only two thirds full on a Friday night set the alarm bells ringing. Word had perhaps got around town but had missed tourist ears, as there was a frothing Babel drifting all round us at the Palladium. A Chorus Line is a seminal Pulitzer Prize-winning show which changed the face of By Kat Pope • 4 min read
Arts Strange Interlude: National Theatre: starring Anne-Marie Duff Strange Interlude, the National Theatre’s new production of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer award winning play, is neither very strange – more solid – and certainly not an interlude, being nearly three and a half hours long (cut down from the original, bum-numbing five!) Beginning in 1920s America and hin By Kat Pope • 3 min read
