Book review by Eric Page The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex, gender and mating shape modern relationships by Nathan H. Lents ★★★★★ This injects a timely splash of colour into a field increasingly given to dreary black-and-white thinking. Essential reading that proves Nature has always been the ultimate advocate for diversity, and has been having a perfectly marvellous time at it. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Book review by Eric Page Queer Georgians: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers and Homemakers By Dr Anthony Delaney ★★★★★ Queer Georgians is both deeply serious scholarship and a celebration of queer resilience. It takes the mythic sheen off our ancestors while making them infinitely more precious—as recognisably queer people who loved, struggled, thrived, and endured. unmistakably queer. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle A Cartography of Queer Becoming: Dylin Hardcastle’s A Language of Limbs By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Mannequim @ Brighton Fringe – Actors Brighton Fringe’s Mannequim is billed as a”ploem” – a mashup of a play and a poem, and it truly is, as much of its speech is cleverly in rhyming couplets. What Ted Gooda and Lexy Medwell have created is the dialogue between lifelong friends Alex and Michaela – Alex a boy desperately wanting to be [ By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Trans actress, comedian and content creator Dylan Mulvaney joins line-up of Charleston Festival Trans actress, comedian and content creator Dylan Mulvaney has joined the line-up of Charleston Festival in East Sussex for a special premiere performance of The Charleston Monologue: I thought this would feel good. The new commission, written by the acclaimed writer and performer Travis Alabanza in By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts 800 Not Out: eight years of writing previews, reviews and interviewing entertainment makers In this, my 800th article for Scene magazine, I look back at the last eight years of writing previews, reviews and doing interviews with entertainment makers. Article one was in May 2017 at Brighton Fringe – Joe Orton’s murderously funny Ruffian On The Stair at the Lantern Theatre – a show memorable By Brian Butler • 5 min read
Arts REVIEW: ‘The Shark is Broken’ @ Theatre Royal Brighton the production never loses its bite…navigating between laugh-out-loud moments and poignant examinations of creative pressure, making this a thrilling theatrical voyage By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Calamity Jane @ Theatre Royal Brighton Calamity Jane -West End actress and singer Carrie Hope Fletcher drives this stagecoach with relentless toe tapping energy By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Kinky Boots @ Theatre Royal Brighton Sequins, Salvation, and Societal Transformation at Kinky Boots, a fiercely luminous testament to resilience, identity, and radical empathy. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: La Bohème @ Theatre Royal This renowned romantic opera, telling the heartbreaking story of the consumptive Mimi and her penniless writer lover, was beautifully brought to life on stage. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Flutter Bye @ Brighton’s Ironworks Studios. This one-night only performance deserves a longer outing By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts Brighton Fringe 2025 Previews whacky and weird as usual Brighton Fringe has new venues – including Spiegel Gardens near the seafront and the Revel Puck Circus at the Level By Brian Butler • 2 min read
