At Home With Hootman: From ‘Jules et Jim’ to ‘Lawrence of Belgravia’
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REVIEW: Circa Sacre @ Theatre Royal Brighton (BRIGHTON FESTIVAL)
The choreography is impressive: fluid and gliding and suitably gravity-defying. However, due to my manifest limitations, I wanted to leave after about ten minutes.
AT HOME WITH HOOTMAN: From ‘The Proposition’ to ‘Lot In Sodom’
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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.
REVIEW: Dealer’s Choice@88 London Road
Patrick Marber’s play is a jaundiced look at masculinity and shows how men fail at being fathers, sons and friends. During one night of poker the game itself becomes a kind of weapon which the play’s characters use to goad, taunt and humiliate each other. But the portraits presented, though far from
REVIEW: John Grant at the Dome
Last night Grant played an impressive set showcasing material from his latest album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure. It’s a work I’ve been having some difficulty with – some of the lyrics are maybe a tad arch – but seeing him live won me over.
DVD FILM REVIEW: SHOAH (AND 4 FILMS AFTER SHOAH)
This four-disc set starts with Claude Lanzmann’s nine-and-a-half-hour ‘documentary’ about the Holocaust. The word is in inverted commas as it’s a description the director himself rejects. It’s a collage comprising interviews with victims, perpetrators and innocent, and not so innocent, bystanders of