REVIEW: Glenda & Rita: LIVE @ Brighton Fringe They really are black and white -costume, hair, make-up ; they’re monochrome humans. It’s a brilliant, bizarre & comic
REVIEW: Resound Voices at Brighton’s Chapel Royal The compact space of Brighton’s Chapel Royal suits the smallest of Brighton’s queer choirs – Resound Voices. The 14 singers, as always with this group, produce beautiful harmonies, and under the direction of Sam Barton they always please, surprise and entertain. Their early summer concert was entitl
BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: ‘Deadnamed’ Before we’re allowed into the tiny tent that is Rotunda Pip, in Regency Square, Brighton, we’re asked to leave a message on a post-it about the deceased whose funeral we are about to attend. As the lights come up – bright red – a man sits up in the coffin and says hello. This is […]
BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: ‘Provocateur’ You step down into the basement of Brighton’s Lantern Theatre and you’re in The Mistress’s dungeon – complete with latex, ropes, a strap-on and whips. In a black latex dress and corset, Tish Weinman, aka Letitia Delish greets us with a smile that gives you goosebumps: “my time is expensive; what you
BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: ‘Second Class Queer’ A speed dating evening in a gay bar in Berlin is the unlikely setting for Kumar Muniandy’s searingly honest examination of queer identity, racism, homophobia, displacement and guilt. Krishna is a Malaysian of Indian heritage, and he is outwardly calm, witty and attractive. But underneath he has a gu
BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: ‘C’est Magnifique’ His hair slicked back, gold glitter on his face; his costume is a tatty tail coat, a corset, bare chest with a pearl necklace, lacy panties and garters holding up his socks – this is Cyril, our MC at the Club Magnifique. He calls us “gays and theys”, and is out to shock and entertain […]
Lady Gaga dedicates record-breaking ‘Mayhem on the Beach’ show in Brazil to LGBTQ+ community Mother Monster aka Lady Gaga brought ‘Mayhem on the Beach’ to over 2.1 million fans on Rio de Janeiro‘s Copacabana Beach!