Arts BRIGHTON FESTIVAL REVIEW: Meow Meow: Souvenir I am a huge Meow fan, but this evening made me think about collaborations between superb fringe performers who OWN their venue and audience and take them on a journey into performance on trust and that of a Festival show which is deluged by the weight of its own expectations and slowly drowns in fro By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FESTIVAL REVIEW: m¡longa: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui To say the dancers were superb is an understatement and some of due and trio dances were astonishing; virtuoso performances of agility, technique and pure scalding sensuality, all contained in a stylised and ruthlessly executed Tango. There were separate stylised dances each shone with a brilliance, By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FESTIVAL REVIEW: Five short blasts An interesting boat trip, some food for thought, a moment feeling free of the land and riding the wild white breakers of the churning sea, safe in a boat, with a few moments of delightful silliness which I won’t spoil but contain more than one trombone it all adds up to something delightful, etherea By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FESTIVAL REVIEW: If I could I would: Mimbre Mimbre don’t challenge; they change and provide a healthy counter narrative to the usual edge-of-danger acrobatics and physical theatre and ‘If I could I would’ allows them to convince us that we’ve all got capacity to fly, have pools of resilience and sometimes you just need two cheeky old ladies a By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FESTIVAL REVIEW: Sarah Connolly: All Saints Church There was hefty representation from the gay composers tonight and the spread of their works balanced the simple but strong lyricism of the first half, with a wonderfully witty encore of a James Fenton poem offered up with panache. This was an evening of quality, musical excellence and pure vocal joy By Eric Page • 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 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
In The South BRIGHTON FESTIVAL PREVIEW: HIV experts to discuss Brighton’s ‘Fast Track City’ status Experts in HIV will attend a special Brighton Festival event hosted by Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS), in association with the Martin Fisher Foundation, to discuss the city’s United Nations ‘Fast Track City’ status. By Besi • 3 min read
Arts RadioReverb to partner with Brighton Festival RadioReverb, Brighton’s not for profit radio station will be this years’ Broadcast Media Partner for Brighton Festival 2017. The radio station, which started broadcasting in 2004 for two weeks during the Brighton Festival, and was then awarded a full community broadcasting licence from OFCOM in 2007 By Besi • 2 min read
Arts Singers invited to perform as part of Brighton Festival 2017 Brighton Festival is looking for 100-125 singers to perform as part of a special inter-choral choir for a large-scale, cross-art outdoor performance, featuring song, dance and physical theatre, as part of Brighton Festival 2017. By Besi • 2 min read
Kate Tempest Arts Brighton Festival announce Guest Director for 2017 Brighton Festival announce that the Guest Director for Brighton Festival 2017 is the acclaimed recording artist, poet, playwright and novelist Kate Tempest. Described by the Guardian as ‘one of the brightest British talents around,’ Tempest’s prolific artistic output across multiple disciplines has By Gary Hart • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Festival: Stella Neil Bartlett’s two-hander (technically a three-hander) is a complex meditation on gender and identity. It’s based on the life of Victorian cross-dresser Stella (born Ernest) Boulton who survived a scandalous court case and went on to have a successful career as a female impersonator. By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
