Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Blackbird The play begins straight into the action with this challenging in your face piece of fresh writing and superb acting. A classic bit of thrilling chilling fringe theatre. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Torn Apart This play about the complexities of relationships and how our upbringing directly influences us and our ability to maintain loving relationships is a complex engaging piece of work. It focused on 3 relationships – American soldier and Polish woman in Germany, a young lad and girl from Melbourne, and By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Festival: Stella Neil Bartlett’s two-hander (technically a three-hander) is a complex meditation on gender and identity. It’s based on the life of Victorian cross-dresser Stella (born Ernest) Boulton who survived a scandalous court case and went on to have a successful career as a female impersonator. By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Am I F#*kable? The play begins with a montage of dating scenes spread over the generations and then plunges into some of the various dating and relationship challenges faced in today’s world. By Michael Hydes • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Festival: Anthony Burrill Part of the joy of the Festival is it revels in its nerdyness and this lovely presentation, and talk from Sussex resident Anthony Burrill on the joys of simple expressive printing was a well-attended, informative and ultimately enjoyable night out. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Cabaret REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: CircoPitanga An excellent hour of well crafted and seriously impressive skill. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Rainbow Chorus Sing Out Sing out is certainly what the Rainbow Chorus did on Monday evening. A fringe event that was a taster of their June concert, it was also a window into the workings of The Rainbow Chorus, and a chance to feel what it’s like to sing in a choir. By Michael Hydes • 2 min read
Cabaret REVIEW: Pink Fringe: Madame Señorita Valluerca managed the raucous fringe audience well, charming everyone with just a hint of Iberian Menace behind those flashing eyes. She has that wonderfully Spanish mix of dark and light so compounded in the Spanish soul, like Goya eating candy floss of getting your face sliced by las Meninas, Mada By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Pink Fringe: The Bear Space Thought proving and funny, in equal measure and never fully tipping from one to the other, a high wire of narrative balancing not an easy mix but one which Fouplay produce with verve, style and very engaging performers. Great fun. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Briefs I saw Briefs last time it was in Brighton a few years ago and loved it. It was fun and warm-hearted and featured some incredibly handsome men in pants. On the whole it’s very entertaining, but on second acquaintance a few cracks are starting to show. By Michael Hootman • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Festival: The Last Resort We left with the solace of having done something together, something oddly intimate and exploratory. Not quite fun but certainly engaging and thoughtful. It’s an odd combination of Samuel Becket and Alan Bennett, unintentionally funny when clashing with the unpolished reality around u By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Borde Hill Sculpture Exhibition it’s a lovely place to wander; art, gardens, flowers and the hidden tea-shop is simply perfect with gushings of tea and huge slices of tea tucked into a little shaded dell with bluebells basking under the mottled sunshine, it was simply perfect. By Eric Page • 2 min read
