Arts REVIEW: Brighton Festival: SpyMonkey SpyMonkey & Tim Crouch Brighton Festival May 13th Theatre Royal Performed by Spymonkey: Aitor Basauri, Stephan Kreiss, Petra Massey & Toby Park Directed by Tim Crouch Well, what’s not to like about all of Shakespeare deaths rolling out in front of you for an evening’s entertainment. Certainly when i By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Aphrodite in Flippers The writers have a wonderful surreal sense of the absurd, but with such a fine, light and careful touch that it soars and takes wing into a special place of belief where performers and audience all agree to conspire in the daftness for the sake of the narrative journey By Eric Page • 2 min read
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: Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus: Seven Deadly Sins There was something quite fabulous at seeing 60 men in glittery black sequined waistcoats singing (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life at the close of act one of the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus homage to the Seven Deadly Sins. By Besi • 3 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
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Windmill Collective Open Houses More than 1,000 artists exhibit their work in venues citywide and in the surrounding area, providing art lovers with an engaging and inspiring experience and offering the opportunity to buy work and chat directly with the creators. The Windmill Collective is just one of the finest and queerest ones By Eric Page • 3 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
