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PREVIEW: Brighton Festival: Stella by Neil Bartlett

PREVIEW: Brighton Festival: Stella by Neil Bartlett

A theatrical encounter with a truly remarkable person, Stella is a new show inspired by the strange life and lonely death of Ernest Boulton – one half of the now-infamous Victorian cross-dressing duo Fanny and Stella.

REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: CircoPitanga

REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: CircoPitanga

An excellent hour of well crafted and seriously impressive skill.

REVIEW: Pink Fringe: Madame Señorita

REVIEW: Pink Fringe: Madame Señorita

Valluerca managed the raucous fringe audience well, charming everyone with just a hint of Iberian Menace behind those flashing eyes. She has that wonderfully Spanish mix of dark and light so compounded in the Spanish soul, like Goya eating candy floss of getting your face sliced by las Meninas, Mada

REVIEW: Pink Fringe: The Bear Space

REVIEW: Pink Fringe: The Bear Space

Thought proving and funny, in equal measure and never fully tipping from one to the other, a high wire of narrative balancing not an easy mix but one which Fouplay produce with verve, style and very engaging performers. Great fun.

REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Briefs

REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Briefs

I saw Briefs last time it was in Brighton a few years ago and loved it. It was fun and warm-hearted and featured some incredibly handsome men in pants. On the whole it’s very entertaining, but on second acquaintance a few cracks are starting to show.

REVIEW: Brighton Festival: The Last Resort

REVIEW: Brighton Festival: The Last Resort

We left with the solace of having done something together, something oddly intimate and exploratory. Not quite fun but certainly engaging and thoughtful. It’s an odd combination of Samuel Becket and Alan Bennett, unintentionally funny when clashing with the unpolished reality around u

PREVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Dr Ahmed, Doctor in the House

PREVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Dr Ahmed, Doctor in the House

British GP returns from Down Under to deliver dose of stand up comedy for cancer charity. A British GP, who left England for the sunnier shores of Australia, has returned to the UK to make a very important house visit.

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