Arts Scene from the Sofa – 5 minutes with… Alan Bonner Graham Robson catches up with wandering troubadour Alan Bonner to find out about his new album, The Way Old Friends Do, which celebrates the work of ABBA, and his plans for the future… By Graham Robson • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: All I See Is You Brian Butler watches last year’s Brighton Fringe winner with sadness and anger By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts Award-winning play online for #lockdowntheatre All I See Is You, the award-winning play by Brighton-based TV, radio and theatre writer Kathrine Smith, has been put online for your viewing pleasure. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW Brighton Fringe: Too young to stay in, too old to go out! by Nigel Osner Nigel Osner returns to the Brighton Fringe and Sweet Venues with his new show Too Young to Stay In – Too Old to Go Out. He takes a quizzical look at the challenges and occasional opportunities for those who can no longer claim, even to themselves, that they are young. He looks at dating, love, work, By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW Brighton Fringe: Daphna Baram in Sugarcoating Daphna Baram’s sixth solo show finds this middle eastern Mary Poppins breathless, with good reasons. Just as she came to terms with her chubby wonderfulness she is told to lose weight or lose her toes. And just as she finally gets that coveted red passport, her new country folk vote out of Europe. W By Contributor • 1 min read
Arts PREVIEW Brighton Fringe: Passing On by Sean Denyer Brian and Tom, together for ten years, would like to have a child, to be as Tom says, “a proper family with two dads”. When their friend, Jane, agrees to act as a surrogate, it seems they can really have it all. But after Tom is very reluctantly pressed into finding out about his biological parents, By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Pelican @The Warren Studio 3 Pelican is one of the best sketch-comedies I’ve seen at the Fringe in years. Created and performed by ex-Footlights Jordan, Sam and Guy, the trio has charisma, likability and wit all rolled into one. By Spencer Charles Smith • 1 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Bourgeois & Maurice: How to Save the World Without Really Trying @Spiegeltent By far, one of the best shows I’ve seen in this year’s Fringe is Bourgeois & Maurice: How to Save the World Without Really Trying. By Spencer Charles Smith • 1 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Arr’ we there yet? Head First Acrobats If you’ve ever seen them then you know what they do, and they’ve adapted their impressive skills to suit both adult evening shows and this fun kids show. Swashbuckling daftness abound with some delightful daft tango’ing with mops as they swabbing the decks, climbing the rigging on a unsupported ladd By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: La Voix @Brighton Spiegeltent With new ventures taking La V out there, in the arts festival circuit this was a new move, with some seriously tongue in cheek acknowledgments of the (same) old material. The house was packed full of fans, who knew what they wanted, and weren’t disappointed. With a fan base of older gay men Brighton By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Gypsy Queen @The Marlborough Theatre Hope Theatre Company’s latest production of Gypsy Queen isn’t a bad play; it’s everything you would expect to see in a gay play: repressed sexuality, conflicting masculinity, gay male stereotypes, jokes about tops/bottoms, a homophobic climax and full-frontal nudity. Even the show’s poster is obviou By Spencer Charles Smith • 1 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: The Starship Osiris @Komedia Studio George Vere’s hour-long confection is a riotous piece of grade-Z science fiction in which a rather bijou starship has to battle cheaply made monsters, a demoralised cast, Vere’s monstrous ego and some of the worst sci-fi power ballads known to humankind. Slowly its creator’s ego trip, during which w By Michael Hootman • 1 min read
