REVIEW: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel at Theatre Royal Brighton
A pleasant enough evening at the theatre with a stella cast and the most charming atmospheric set, but somehow lacking the heart of the film.
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Working-Class Family Ages Badly’ by Juno Roche
This is writing that takes us somewhere, sometimes through a shockingly forthright landscape. That’s a rare talent, one that they’re modest about. We’re offered up moments, captured in their minds eye, held up, turned in the light, reflections, refractions, thoughts playing off the shiny surfaces th
REVIEW: Morning Glory
Brian Butler sees himself in the mirror of this startling one-man show
REVIEW: Original Cast Recording- The Pleasure Garden
Brian Butler fins enchantment in the soundtrack of a Queer romance
BOOK REVIEW: Queer Beyond London by Matt Cook & Alison Oram
Part history, part dream, part political, part romance, part research but wholly celebratory. A book that tells Our story, by those that built and continue to build the spaces we choose to live in. The range of voices written in its pages reflects the diversity of our community back to us, but time
BOOK REVIEW: Flamingo by Rachel Elliot
Flamingo, at its dysfunctional heart, is a story of people learning to let go and grow, to accept and love people regardless of their flaws, to find a radical space in the heart for kindness to flow. It’s a book about chosen family, finding yourself and the way truly being seen is the safest place o
REVIEW: The Doctor @ Theatre Royal Brighton
Robert Icke’s The Doctor is very much an ideas-driven play. It’s a profusion of debates about race, gender, identity, morality, religion, medical ethics and wokeness which, against the odds, fit neatly into one production. It’s hard to know where the author stands on pretty much any of the themes he