Reviews KAT CALLS You find me still chasing my own tail, short on time, short on sanity, and short on patience with PC World. Very little new there then… SID IS AN IDIOT Now, summer wouldn’t be summer without a lovely outdoor Shakespeare (that’s half my readers lost), and Sid and I headed over to Worthing in plenty [ By Kat Pope • 14 min read
Music SHINE BRIGHT LIKE A DIAMOND: Star Studded Charity Gala Shine Bright Like a Diamond, a star studded charity gala in support of the hospice St Barnabas House and featuring the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus, takes place at the Pavilion Theatre, Worthing on Sunday, October 20. The event, which will take place in the presence of the Mayor and Mayoress of Worthin By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Music NEW JERSEY NIGHTS: Congress, Eastbourne: Review So, you’ve seen Jersey Boys but still need a bit of a Valli fix? Then New Jersey Nights might be the very thing for you. Kat Pope walks like a man to the Congress to find out. By Kat Pope • 3 min read
Reviews THARK: Park Theatre, Finsbury Park, London: Review Kat Pope visits Thark in Finsbury Park. Oh, the larks! By Kat Pope • 4 min read
Reviews PRIVATES ON PARADE: Theatre Royal Brighton: Review In Peter Nichols’s 1977 review-style play with music, we follow the story of an incongruous group of men who entertain the soldiers, sailors and airman stationed overseas in Malaysia in 1948 during the Communist insurgency. A motley bunch of naïfs and strays, the privates here on parade are mostly g By Kat Pope • 4 min read
Jason Sutton Features & Longread Jason chats about his ‘privates’ to Mr Ledward Many will know Jason Sutton through his outrageous alter ego Miss Jason, without doubt the campest creation on the UK drag cabaret circuit at the moment. Jason arrived in Brighton in 2006 via a career in local politics on Portsmouth City Council and Hampshire County Council where he was political as By Besi • 4 min read
Features & Longread The men behind the shows! Tim Anscombe and Stephen Holroyd are established professional in their respective fields and collectively they work together through their production company Anscombe Production Associates. Earlier this year they brought their production of DIAMOND the story of East End cross dresser Diamond Lil and By Besi • 4 min read
Interviews ICE ICE BABY : Robin Cousins talks to Kat Pope It’s not often that you find yourself comparing scars with an Olympic champion but that’s just what I found myself doing at the launch of Robin Cousins’ ICE, a brand new ice dance show which will be filling the Brighton Centre in that awkward period just after Christmas. “I had another knee reconstr By Kat Pope • 6 min read
Music GLENN MILLER WITH STRINGS ATTACHED! On Sunday some of Glenn Miller‘s rarer arrangements will be heard in Eastbourne when Ray McVay, Musical Director of the original BBC Come Dancing series, brings the world’s greatest big band to the Congress Theatre. Keeping the show fresh, this year the Glenn Miller Orchestra will be joined by a str By Kat Pope • 1 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
Reviews THE THEBAN SEASON: The Scoop, London: Review Free theatre in London? What, absolutely free? And running throughout the rest of the summer? Yep, that’s exactly what you get down at The Scoop, right next to Tower Bridge and City Hall, the one catch being that, boy, aren’t those paving slabs hard on the arse! Now in its 11th season, More London t By Kat Pope • 3 min read
Reviews HOME: The Shed, National Theatre: Review In Nadia Fall‘s new production at the National Theatre’s pop-up space, The Shed, she weaves together a narrative from 48 hours of interviews conducted with young people living in a large interim homeless shelter in East London. Listening to these voices could have made for a grim, dispiriting evenin By Kat Pope • 3 min read
