News Beautiful Thing: The Arts Theatre Soho: Theatre Review This is a wonderfully evocative play full of striking social comment all wrapped up in a gentle and honest romantic love story. This revival of this well loved play delighted the packed audience at the theatre this evening, brought a tear to my companion’s eye and left us all feeling a lot happier a By Eric Page • 2 min read
News Table Manners: The Basement: Theatre Review This year’s Festival didn’t appear to have an immediately obvious must-see. However, only three days in, I seem to have stumbled across what may turn out to be its absolute hit. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Features & Longread Strictly Confidential Strictly Confidential is a song-and-dance extravaganza dreamt up, directed and co-ordinated by Craig Revel Horwood, tell-it-like-it-is judge on BBC1’s runaway hit, Strictly Come Dancing. And it’s coming to a theatre near you. Starring Lisa Riley and professional dancers Artem Chigvintsev, Natalie L By Eric Page • 4 min read
Theatre To Sleep To Dream: Corn Exchange: Review The European premiere of EarFilms’ dystopian ‘auditory experience’ To Sleep, To Dream blurred the lines between reality and dream-land, using blindfolds to deprive the audience of sight. By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts Pride at the Fringe with Ceri Dupree tonight Brighton Pride are presenting a season of Pride Gala shows in the Ladyboys Sabai Pavilion on Victoria Gardens as part of the Brighton Fringe 2013. Ceri Dupree, the Queen of female impersonators, gets the season off to a spectacular start tonight, Sunday, May 5 with a glittering evening of witty, ele By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Argentinian trapeze star at Preston Park during Brighton Festival Some Argentinians thrive on tango—but for Sebastian Gutierrez a different kind of rhythm is his passion. Born in a small town 50 miles north of Buenos Aires, Sebastian now performs to big crowds in cities across Britain in silver skin tights with a reptile-like texture. A sash round the waist and ba By Besi • 4 min read
News The Contents of a House: Preston Manor: Brighton Festival An anti-guided tour around Preston Manor with call backs and internal references, soft dissection and themes of providence and pedigree woven into his narrative I expected something a littler more challenging, however it was a sweet wander around the house and Reder is inoffensively provocative and By Eric Page • 2 min read
News The Overcoat: The Old Courtroom Le Mot Juste bring their reimagining of Gogol’s classic short story The Overcoat to The Old Courtroom, Brighton later this month. The Russian writer’s tale of one man’s struggle to overcome his own mediocrity is given shape by this most physical of theatre groups. Through stylish and stylised moveme By Kat Pope • 1 min read
Arts 3 Days off Jesus: Caroline of Brunswick 3 Days off Jesus, a one-man night of comedic childhood tales of growing up in Ireland, plays at the Caroline of Brunswick as part of the Brighton Fringe from May 20-May 25. David Burke, born on December 22 and a self-confessed ‘sober’ Irishman, tells stories of growing up, religion and women at a sh By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Music La bohème: ENO: Opera Review An easy to access La Boheme accomplished and nonthreatening and one for Puccini fans to revel in. A good show to take as your first visit if you’re interested in going along to opera this spring and it’s warm, inviting atmosphere of this quality and assured production is classic ENO at it’s best. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts Thatcherwrite: Theatre503, London Thatcherwrite, a series of plays inspired by the life and death of Margaret Thatcher, will be playing at Theatre503, London in June. Written by Dan Rebellato, Fraser Grace, Judy Upton and Dominic Cavendish, this series of short plays will look back at the life, the politics and the legacy of one of By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts The Misanthrope: Theatre Royal: Review English Touring Theatre’s production of Roger McGough’s The Misanthrope is a truly splendid evening: beautifully overstated performances, a mischievous delight in language and more rhyming couplets that you can shake a stick at make for two hours of unalloyed joy. Based loosely on Molière’s verse pl By Eric Page • 2 min read
