Arts OPERA REVIEW: The Gospel According to the Other Mary This is something new, modern but accessible, understandable and moving. I would highly recommend this engaging production by the ENO, and if the music bores you a little, you can always float away with Banks and his vibrant, rhythmic angelic crumping or allow the chorus to astonish you. By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts MUSIC REVIEW: Peter and the Wolf: Chamberhouse Winds Chamberhouse Winds are a fun local group of professional orchestral woodwind players with a nice line in millinery who also know how to engage and hold the attention of young children for an hour or so and provide and entertaining and unusual performance for their parents too. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: The Queen of Clubs: Tobias International This is at heart a book balanced on suspense and if you’ve always wondered quote how much of that makeup, attitude and viciousness is left behind in the dressing rooms of Drag Queens then you will enjoy the rising tensions as these Drag Queens clash and wrestle and worse, and be taken up with the ne By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Brighton Comedy Festival The Brighton comedy festival offers the widest range of stand up and performance comedy outside of the Edinburgh festival with the very best up and coming acts, there’s plenty of choice. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Dominicanos by Ernest Montgomery This is an exceptional book, full of 128 pages of full colour photographs of some astonishingly beautiful men in a Caribbean country almost as breathtakingly varied as the men who live there. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Xerxes at ENO This is a great production, full of froth and fizz and presenting a non-stop evening of entertainment, with as many musical highpoint as comedic moments and well worth going along to the ENO to see this gorgeous revival. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Otello at ENO This was a stark and emotionally harrowing production and one of the most thrilling and upsetting Otellos I’ve seen, but the utterly monstrous and slithering compellingness of Summers’ Iago is it’s real triumph. Perhpas this was Alders point all along, to redirect us into the dark heart of this Oper By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Dance: Casting Traces It was a subtly disturbing piece, full of reflection and meta reflection, us watching – being watching – watching ourselves watching while being watched, in the end it spiralled into softness, a mirror in a mirror, and I allowed the dancers the music and the ever moving set to just be and get on wit By Eric Page • 3 min read
Reviews GROOVE ON DOWN THE ROAD: ZooNation at Southbank Centre: Review Will we ever tire of Dorothy and her motley crew’s journey along the Yellow Brick Road to Oz? I doubt it as it’s a story that’s perfect for reinvention and investment with new meanings and messages, and Kate Prince has done just that with Groove on Down the Road. Prince is artistic director of the [ By Kat Pope • 4 min read
