Arts Kat calls Hello m’dears! Kat here, beginning a new weekly column letting you in on what I’ve been to see each week. It’s a ragbag of odds and sods so you might be surprised. You might even be vaguely entertained. If not, you lucky people, you always have the option of shutting down your browser. I, on […] By Kat Pope • 18 min read
Arts A Chorus Line: London Palladium: Theatre Review A West End musical only two thirds full on a Friday night set the alarm bells ringing. Word had perhaps got around town but had missed tourist ears, as there was a frothing Babel drifting all round us at the Palladium. A Chorus Line is a seminal Pulitzer Prize-winning show which changed the face of By Kat Pope • 4 min read
Music ‘Drag Disgrace’ at Blind Tiger Drag Disgrace, an alternative drag night raising funds to stabilise the degree shows of University of Brighton’s art students, will be launching at the Blind Tiger on Wednesday, June 19 from 8pm. Presented by the House of Grand Parade, this evening of cocaine chic features burlesque artists, bands a By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Beautiful Thing: Theatre Royal: Review To celebrate its twentieth anniversary year, the award winning play has an uplifting and heart-warming new production directed by Nikolai Foster, designed by Colin Richmond and starring Suranne Jones. Beautiful Thing is a glorious urban love story between two young men coming to grips with their sex By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Strange Interlude: National Theatre: starring Anne-Marie Duff Strange Interlude, the National Theatre’s new production of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer award winning play, is neither very strange – more solid – and certainly not an interlude, being nearly three and a half hours long (cut down from the original, bum-numbing five!) Beginning in 1920s America and hin By Kat Pope • 3 min read
Arts All aboard for B.O.A.T. fundraiser Adrian Bunting, who died suddenly last month of pancreatic cancer was a well-known and much respected face in Brighton theatre circles. He founded the legendary performance platform ZINCBAR in the 1990s and his play, Kembel’s Riot, won Best Play at Brighton Fringe Festival a couple of years ago. A g By Kat Pope • 1 min read
Arts Hal Cruttenden: Tough Luvvie: The Udderbelly, South Bank, London: Review Last time I saw Hal Cruttenden he was acting his chops off in the tiny Trafalgar Studios in a show based on the works of George Orwell. “Yes, I’m a ‘proper’ actor,” he says in Tough Luvvie, his new solo comedy piece. “Three years at acting school, then bit parts on the telly.” So now […] By Kat Pope • 2 min read
Arts LIMBO: London Wonderground, South Bank: Review The round stage is 3.6 metres across. Tiny. And it’s bare, save 8 lightbulbs swinging over it. And I’m in the very front row, almost pressed up against the bare wood. I’m in Limbo, the show, and also in a state of unknowing. This is scary. The performers are going to be on top of […] By Kat Pope • 4 min read
Music Miss Nightingale at the Connaught Theare Over at the Connaught Theatre in Worthing you can catch some 1940’s burlesque in Miss Nightingale, a tale of gin, gents and garter-belts which runs til the end of the week. Not just a cabaret, this is a ‘proper show’ with a story ‘n’ all, starring Amber Topaz as the eponymous heroine. Northern songb By Kat Pope • 1 min read
Arts DIAMOND: Brighton Dome Studio: Theatre review DIAMOND is a story about what is possible if you believe in yourself, but more importantly like yourself. It is a love story about a relationship between two outrageous homosexuals in the 30s and 40s when it was still illegal to be gay. The main characters are Lil who yearns for a traditional monoga By Besi • 5 min read
Music The Perfect American by Phillip Glass: ENO: Review This portrayal of Disney from the book by Peter Stephen Jungk’s is one of a driven myopic racist man who is determined to make his name live on down the centuries and to sell the world an odd fantasy idea of backwoods American all sweet-as-apple-pie and creepy as hell in a Stepford way. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts Sex, Drugs & Music Hall visits Brighton & Hove Sex Drugs & Music-Hall arrives in Brighton and Hove in June. The show has been receiving rave reviews, for its unique insight into the interracial mixing in the UK based on the diaries of controversial African, Victorian Pentacostalist Thomas Brem-Wilson; the impact of his actions across 200 years, By Besi • 1 min read
