Arts “I always wanted to be that punk queer guy.” Brighton-based director and choreographer Andrea Walker speaks to Scene ahead of his show ‘Sad Book’ at Old Market, Hove When meeting someone new for an interview you always hope you will recognise them. No such problem with Brighton-based director and choreographer Andrea Walker. His shock of curly green hair and bare arms sporting some of his many tattoos tell you “here I am.“ He exudes a visceral sexuality that mat By Brian Butler • 4 min read
Theatre Nathaniel J Hall, HIV activist and star of ‘It’s a Sin’, to bring critically acclaimed play ‘TOXIC’ to the Old Market during Brighton Fringe Following its sell-out debut at HOME in Manchester in 2023, actor, writer and HIV activist Nathaniel J Hall, who starred in seminal series It’s A Sin, will be bringing his critically acclaimed play Toxic to the Old Market during the Brighton Fringe in May. Set in the hedonistic world of Manchester’s By Graham Robson • 3 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
General News Get fit, lose weight and raise money for the Martlets Hospice The Martlets Hospice is hosting the South Coast’s only UV Zumba Dance Party on Friday, March 6, at The Old Market, Hove. Zumba Glow is a three-hour glow-in-the-dark dance marathon led by professional Zumba instructors and will be a high-energy, challenging but fun, sponsored event to raise money for By Besi • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Briefs: ‘The Second Coming’ at the Old Market Take six Australian hunks and one New Yorker of differing shapes and sizes, add a fierce portion of drag and mischievous masculinity, infuse with dancing, tumbling, juggling, acro-balancing, trapeze, hula hooping, lip syncing, six-inch heels, cover in sequins frocks and glamour, season with wicked w By Besi • 3 min read
Arts THEATRE PREVIEW: Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho After a sensational sell-out at the Edinburgh Fringe, an award-winning run in Dublin at the International Gay Theatre Festival and an award-winning sell-out run at the Brighton Fringe Festival, the production returns to take part in the Brighton Comedy Festival on October 24 and 25 at 9.30 p.m. at t By Besi • 1 min read
