> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # SPOTLIGHT ON: Brighton Fringe Part 1 - URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/spotlight-on-brighton-fringe-part-1/ - Published: 2022-05-02T13:53:08.000Z - Updated: 2022-05-02T13:53:08.000Z - Description: Brian Butler finds choirs, Queers and love triangles at this year’s exciting Brighton Fringe - Author: Brian Butler - Tags: Arts, Brighton Fringe, Previews, Brighton Gay Men's Chorus, Latest Music Bar, Michael Ball, Richard Crane A sideways look at Queer comic icon Kenneth Williams, a tongue-in-cheek nod at entertainer Michael Ball and Brighton’s Gay Men’s Chorus all feature in this year’s back-to-normal full-fat Fringe. ![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/maxresdefault.png) Queer comedian Kenneth Williams is the subject for Cult Figure- Kenneth Williams, at the new Rotunda Bubble Theatre in Regency Square, on 7 and 8 May, presented by [Apollo Theatre Company and starring Colin Elmer](http://www.apollotheatrecompany.com/cult-figure.html?ref=scenemag.co.uk). ![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/02-16-2022-145020-1636.png) Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus take 8 divas and Queer icons and put them through their paces in a reality tv setting. Only you decide who wins. The Divas concert is at[ St George’s Church on 6 and 7 May](https://www.brightongmc.org/shows/divas/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) Cocky and the Tardigrades is the latest offering by Richard Crane and Faynia Williams. It’s a futuristic peek at what might be a battle of the monstrous and the meek. It’s at [Latest Music Bar on 7 and 8 May.](https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/cocky-and-the-tardigrades-164279/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) ![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/03-05-2022-104501-1970-1.png) Unisex by Lea Sep is a one-woman show exploring the concept of feminism through comic and unapologetic story-telling. It’s in the cellar bar at The Brunswick on 9/10 May. Ay up Hitler! Probably distastefully reveals the Nazis planning of world domination post-1945 in their Yorkshire hiding place. It’s at the [Rotunda from 10-14 May.](https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/unisex-163558/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) [Lionel and Cindy – The Greatest Love Story](https://www.rialtotheatre.co.uk/whats-on/lionel-and-cindy-the-greatest-love-story?ref=scenemag.co.uk) – is also at the Rotunda from 12-15 May. It’s billed as a slip and a slide of naughty humour and a challenge to hetero-normative views of relationships and love. ![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/01-07-2022-131204-8922.png) Mike Bartlett’s terrific complex Queer dark comedy Cock is at the [New Venture Theatre 13-21 My](https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/cock-by-mike-bartlett-161952/?ref=scenemag.co.uk). Boy meets girl, but boy is already living with boy – in this sharp and witty study of a man torn two ways. Moral Panic, by Blue Dog Theatre is a tale of film censorship and murder. It’s at the Conclave 16-22 May. [![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/02-18-2022-163830-7733.png)](https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/the-silver-bell-157809/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) In The Silver Bell, Mico loses the male love of his life to motor neurone disease; he should be grieving but he does the next best thing: he punches a hole in the universe and travels to parallel worlds. It’s at St Augustine’s Arts and Events Centre, 16-18 May. [F\*ckboys by the 5 O’Clock Club,](https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/fckboys-160726/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) is a deep dive into a real-life story of boys, not men. It combines verbal storytelling and improvisation, asking is it Gay if I keep my socks on? Find out at Latest Music Bar, 16-19 May. ![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/03-06-2022-132032-7523.png) I ( Heart) Michel Ball is at The Lantern on 17/18 May. Split Infinitive takes us to the 10th bi-annual meeeting of the Michael Ball Appreciation Society, and there’s a fiendish plan to meet the blue-eyed boy from Bomsgrove. [Testimony by the Golden Age Theatre Company](https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/testimony-159690/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) gives us 8 monologues about toxic masculinity, the Me Too movement, gender identity,police corruption, fake news and trans humanism. It’s at the Rotunda 17-20 May. ![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/testimony-share.png) Look out next time for bodybuilders and action films, a Queer ventriloquist, a Queer revenge comedy, and a musical about laundry women. In the meantime you can get details of all Fringe shows at[ brightonfringe.org](https://www.brightonfringe.org/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)