Arts REVIEW: Brighton Festival: Smoke and Mirrors This carefully explored, almost forensic due of endurance, acrobatic skills, and mesmerising body movements and dance is a very clean looking performance, lights, sound and set all stripped back to an essence By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Amalthea Duo@Dome Studio The Amalthea Duo are Klio Blonz on Flute and Siobhan Swider on Harp and between them they have an impressive pedigree of repertoire and performance experience. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Spiegeltent: Laura Moody Her music shouldn’t work, but how it does. Contradictory, clashing, cacophonies are all tied together with huge leaps of artistic faith, bridging gaps with harmonic reaches and plunging into the abyss with the rhythmic, percussive use of her Cello. She’s utterly nuts, and yet centred with a fearful By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Spiegeltent: Meow Meow Meow Meow is a collapsing Diva, an ego in freefall who pulls out the talent when the spot lights shine. She also happens to be a true cabaret performers deftly and effortlessly blending all the skills usually devolved out to a night on their own. She’s singer, comedian, hostess, clown, chanteuse, sh By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Pink Fringe: The Sissy’s Progress This was a Via Dolorosa with trombones. Part triumphant movement, part clown, dangerous and painted and unpredictable lurching forward into the unknown and part monstrously perfect, demanding affirming reclaiming of the streets. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Food & Drink REVIEW: Wahaca: Mexican Street Market Wahaca is a very welcome addition to the growing city food scene from the Americans and their modern, original and well balanced take on Mexican cuisine, coupled with their superb location and serious commitment to charming, welcoming and knowledgeable staff mean this is a place to get familiar with By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Father: Theatre Royal Recommend for those who like their theatre with some substance and enjoy a tour de force of acting. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Of Mice and Men: Theatre Royal This is a complex play about simple people, doing simple things with terrible consequences, it’s about love, kindness and brutality and the ties that bind them done with a vivid lightness of touch that engages from the off. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Jackie: The Musical: Theatre Royal The Musical has all the ingredients of a superb night out. It’s nostalgic, frothy and as substantial as a bubble being lit by a disco ball and exactly what this audience wanted. The packed house loved it, were up on their feet for the end of the show and left singing, chatting nosily away as they he By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Herbal Bed @ Theatre Royal This is a lovely piece of work, of plausible women doing daily struggle in a world where there’s no rewards for her gender for intelligence, companion, adventure or discovery, whose wiles and ability to see the bigger picture and spin a greater, more convincing story steers a ship of male fools safe By Eric Page • 3 min read
Dance REVIEW: Ballet Rambert@Theatre Royal This excellent show is worth catching if you’ve an interest in contemporary dance but Rambert also reward the first timer with their accessible dance and the audience at the Theatre royal left buzzing after this energetic thrilling evening. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Collabro at Brighton Centre It’s not even been two years since the boys of Collabro won Britain’s Got Talent, but this show was proof that they’ve come a long way. Their ‘Act Two’ tour is based on their second album of the same name. It’s an eclectic mix that includes Mumford and Sons’ I will wait, Kodaline’s All I want, Queen By Michael Hydes • 2 min read
