Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Hats off to Laurel and Hardy Tony Carpenter (Laurel) and Philip Hutchinson (Hardy) overcome the first big hurdle of a tribute show in Hats Off to Laurel and Hardy at the Sweet Waterfront – they actually look and sound like the originals. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FESTIVAL REVIEW: If I could I would: Mimbre Mimbre don’t challenge; they change and provide a healthy counter narrative to the usual edge-of-danger acrobatics and physical theatre and ‘If I could I would’ allows them to convince us that we’ve all got capacity to fly, have pools of resilience and sometimes you just need two cheeky old ladies a By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Sex addiction: The lecture @One Church I hadn’t intended on writing a review for The Queer Historian’s latest Fringe show Sex Addiction: The Lecture because I already submitted a preview piece in April’s issue of Gscene. And Tommy (The Queer Historian) has become one of my closest friends in Brighton since moving here in January, so I ac By Spencer Charles Smith • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Rubber Ring @The Warren Energetic and charming, just like its writer/performer, Rubber Ring is an engaging tale of adolescent uncertainty and a refreshing snapshot of growing up queer in Norfolk. Although somewhat predictable, the story was fast-paced and the script had moments of poetry and earnestness – I was genuinely h By Spencer Charles Smith • 1 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE PREVIEW: Blooming @Sweet Dukebox Practicing Joy on the Road to Hell and Back. Author, Patrick Sandford asked 100 people “How do you know when you are happy?” The answers – provocative, kaleidoscopic, astonishing – jump-started this crazy, optimistic-in-spite-of-everything show. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FESTIVAL REVIEW: Endings @Old Market Saulwick come across like a retro-modern Madame Blavatsky using the vintage recording machinery and snatches of interviews to express her theosophical investigations, the temporary and temporal mashing up to form the present, the past and gone giving us creative material for the now, the reflection By Eric Page • 4 min read
Comedy BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Good Grief: Stories at 207 West 88th Bruna is an Italian is an Italian woman of a certain age with hilariously broken English – the building superintendent of a New York apartment block. We first see her in the confessional saying to the unseen priest – “God he is pissed off with me”. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Fannytasticals @Sweet Dukebox If you are a man attending this show on your own – beware – for most of its duration you will be quite justifiably the target of sharp, witty and very crude humour from this 6-woman ensemble. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Super Hamlet 64: Parody DLC @ Warren 2 Day is an energetic and engaging performer; he is charming and fun and clowns with a furious passion, helped along by an ability to contort his plastic features and sinuous lanky frame in many ways at once. His ability to perform to extreme is aided by the well thought out video mapping and under-st By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Help! I Think I Might Be Fabulous @Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco It’s been quite a while since I’ve failed to connect with a show as deeply as I failed to connect with this one – it might as well have been performed in Lithuanian so little did I appreciate what was happening on stage. By Michael Hootman • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: For the Birds: Brighton Festival You hop on a bus, reminiscent of the mystery tours so favoured by aunts of mine in the 1970’s and are deposited in the dark, with some superb and wholly novel views of the city in the distance, it’s a long walk thought this night-time trail, like a crepuscular robotic nature watch we come across the By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts Twenty two performances of Fringe show cancelled Twenty two performances of the Shiny Town event, due to take place in Royal Pavilion Gardens during the last two weeks of the Brighton Fringe have been cancelled after a failure to get required planning permission from the City Council. By Besi • 2 min read
