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.
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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
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.
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
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
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
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