Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE PREVIEW: Blooming @Sweet Dukebox Practicing Joy on the Road to Hell and Back. Author, Patrick Sandford asked 100 people “How do you know when you are happy?” The answers – provocative, kaleidoscopic, astonishing – jump-started this crazy, optimistic-in-spite-of-everything show. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FESTIVAL REVIEW: Endings @Old Market Saulwick come across like a retro-modern Madame Blavatsky using the vintage recording machinery and snatches of interviews to express her theosophical investigations, the temporary and temporal mashing up to form the present, the past and gone giving us creative material for the now, the reflection By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Fannytasticals @Sweet Dukebox If you are a man attending this show on your own – beware – for most of its duration you will be quite justifiably the target of sharp, witty and very crude humour from this 6-woman ensemble. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Super Hamlet 64: Parody DLC @ Warren 2 Day is an energetic and engaging performer; he is charming and fun and clowns with a furious passion, helped along by an ability to contort his plastic features and sinuous lanky frame in many ways at once. His ability to perform to extreme is aided by the well thought out video mapping and under-st By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Help! I Think I Might Be Fabulous @Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco It’s been quite a while since I’ve failed to connect with a show as deeply as I failed to connect with this one – it might as well have been performed in Lithuanian so little did I appreciate what was happening on stage. By Michael Hootman • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: For the Birds: Brighton Festival You hop on a bus, reminiscent of the mystery tours so favoured by aunts of mine in the 1970’s and are deposited in the dark, with some superb and wholly novel views of the city in the distance, it’s a long walk thought this night-time trail, like a crepuscular robotic nature watch we come across the By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts Twenty two performances of Fringe show cancelled Twenty two performances of the Shiny Town event, due to take place in Royal Pavilion Gardens during the last two weeks of the Brighton Fringe have been cancelled after a failure to get required planning permission from the City Council. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus: The Superhero Show The Superhero Show, Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus (BGMC) contribution to the Brighton Fringe on Saturday evening (May 6), was a feast of musical excellence and performance with first class production values. By Besi • 3 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: MacBlair@The Warren Studio 3 It’s 1994- the young ambitious Tony Blair and the irascible Gordon Brown meet three journalists – ‘hacks’ in a stairwell in Parliament. The “weird journalists” predict TB will be Leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister and King of the World. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts National Theatre unveils Queer Theatre event series The National Theatre is set to mark the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales by staging its first Queer Theatre event series from July 6 – 10, 2017. By Paul Gustafson • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Ruffian on the stair@The Lantern @ ACT Pretty much Joe Orton’s first play – written in 1964 – this 3-hander deals comically and darkly with love, sex for sale , Catholicism, homosexuality, lies, power and loneliness. By Brian Butler • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: ELVIS Las Vegas 1969@The Woodville, Gravesend ELVIS Las Vegas 1969 is really two shows in one. The first half, mainly spoken with little music is a dramatic reconstruction of the hours leading to Elvis Presley’s return to the stage on July 31, 1969, after a ten-year break from live concerts, while making movies in Hollywood. By Besi • 3 min read
