The Gift: Where Joy Meets Midwinter Magic
TOMS has conjured something extraordinary this season—The Gift, an audacious experience blending participatory theatre, communal feasting, and ritual playfulness.
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Bone Broth by Alex Taylor
Taylor has created something original: a thriller with real heart, horror laced with tenderness, and a trans protagonist we can recognize ourselves in.
Chloe Michelle Howarth's Heap Earth Upon It
Howarth's intricate web of suspense proves masterful: trust becomes currency, and she spends it with devastating precision — a writer excavating how we bury feelings at our peril, and how queer desire persists, insists, even in the most inhospitable soil.
Out of the Deep: A Decadent Redemption
This was a journey into the darkest of the night, lit by brilliant wit, fuelled by a perfect bonding of voice and instruments to illuminate this crepuscular programme with a refulgent burning urgency. Vache Baroque offered redemptive bliss, and we left all the better for it.
The Coast is Queer: A Lighthouse for LGBTQ+ Literature
Coast is Queer is what arts should look like when it's done with excellence, flair, and genuine commitment to artistic merit and democratic access.... something genuinely radical: where artistic rigor and radical inclusion aren't in tension but in harmony.
A Most Delightful Evening of Theatrical Impropriety Austentatious at Theatre Royal Brighton, - 21 September
Wit, charm, and just a touch of the risqué, whether you are a devoted Austen enthusiast or newcomer to the world of drawing rooms and country estates, Austentatious are masters of daft comedy that shall linger long in memory.
Spine-Tingling Spectacle: 'Ghost Stories' haunts Brighton Theatre Royal ★★★★☆
The disturbed perspective of the sets, subtly shifting lighting and sounds scapes all conspire to tip the audience into a state of unease; glimpses of wide eyes focus, expectant, held breathes, titialted nerve jingling.