Arts REVIEW: What the Butler Saw at the Emporium Joe Orton’s final play is his masterpiece, a frenetic, surreal farce which encompasses madness, incest, nymphomania, cross dressing, male prostitution and the missing gentlemen’s parts of a statue of Winston Churchill. Dr Prentice (Brian Capron) is in the middle of seducing his secretary Geraldine ( By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Texas 25th Anniversary Tour Not many bands can boast such an extensive back-catalogue. Texas have just embarked upon their 25th anniversary tour after releasing ’25’, a commemorative album of their greatest hits on February this year. Their show at Brighton Dome was completely sold out, and in a reflection of their continuing By Alice Blezard • 2 min read
Arts OPERA REVIEW: Between Worlds: Tansey Davies Between Worlds is a spiritual, poetic and ultimately uplifting drama, based on the events of 9/11 but focussing particularly on the relationships and emotions of the people affected. This new opera addresses one of the most significant events of the twenty-first century, bringing the universal opera By Besi • 5 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Brush Fires in the Social Landscape: David Wojnarowicz David Wojnarowicz’s use of photography, writing and painting, was extraordinary. He was a fresh brash and multitalented artist and brought his furious and bright brain to bear on life as a gay man in the sudden and terrible crisis that hit gay culture following HIV. By Eric Page • 2 min read
News THEATRE REVIEW: Rebecca Following the mysterious death of his first wife, Maxim de Winter returns to Mandalay with his new young bride. Surrounded by memories of the glamorous Rebecca, the new Mrs De Winter is consumed by jealousy. She sets out to uncover the secrets of the house and a past fiercely guarded by the sinister By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts THEATRE REVIEW: Oklahoma From the wonderfully evocative opening sequence when Ashley Days’ big creamy voice rings out across the theatre and we all knew we were in for a wonderful journey across the Midwest. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Out of Orange: A Memoir Out of Orange chronicles Wolter’s time in the drug trade, her incarceration, her friendships and acquaintances with odd cellmates, her two marriages, and her complicated relationship with Piper.. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda With a bright enquiring and loving intelligent and geeky queer character at the heart of the narrative this coming-of-age, coming out story this is a splendid first novel from Becky Albertalli. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts THEATRE REVIEW: Therapy There were some find physical jokes too and for me the play really took off when the clowning was allowed to bloom, the Marlborough is an intimate space and with five folk being strange and manic on stage it can be quite an electrically funny. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Blood Relatives Alcock has written that most lovely of books, a wonderfully spot-on working class positive coming out story of the most precious kind, authentic, self-defined and rough, but veined with hope and life lived well. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: The Up Stairs Lounge Arson This grim but absorbing read covers the events of June 24, 1973, when a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. On Gay Pride Day in 1973, an arsonist set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. In the terrible inferno that followed, 32 people lost their lives, including a third of By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Anything Goes It’s highbrow and lowbrow married together beautifully and Porter’s wonderfully clever puns, rhymes and lyrics are mostly allowed to shine out and dazzle. By Eric Page • 4 min read
