Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Sweetie Darling Comes Again We excitedly skipped down to check out some of Brighton’s local cabaret talent taking to the stage for the final show in another hilarious Ab Fab dragged twist at the Gods ‘above Bar Broadway in Kemptown’ in Sweetie Darling Comes Again. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Wolf Meat Wolf Meat is about having fun, both with the performance, with theatrical convention, as well as the audience, and its dark silliness drags you into their world to revel fully in it. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Pink Fringe: La Poule Plombee La Poule is the triumph of self delusion, she’s a dangerously unstable mix of abandoned Norma Desmond, a soupcon of young gifted Streisand some hefty dollops of Little Eddie from Grey Gardens, all folded into the fragile body of a falling apart Minnelli it’s a heady frothy explosive intoxicating stu By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: FRINGE: The Tiger Lilies – PIAF The Tiger Lillie’s are a complex, dark acquired taste but an addictive one if they sate your appetite then it was a veritable feast served up at the Spiegeltent on Sunday, no one in the charged up thrilled audience left hungry. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Peppa Pig’s Surprise@Theatre Royal It’s a lovely day and Peppa is playing outside with her friends. Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig have got a surprise for her and George – they can’t guess what it is, can you? Peppa Pig, George and their friends are back in this brand new live stage show, Peppa Pig’s Surprise. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Club Briefs BRIEFS was born in the back warehouse space of a bookshop in Brisbane’s West End in 2008. The boys put on a club night to give performers the chance to try out some new late night cabaret/variety acts. There were no rules or restrictions. They weren’t answering to a brief or a venue or a funding bod By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Blackbird The play begins straight into the action with this challenging in your face piece of fresh writing and superb acting. A classic bit of thrilling chilling fringe theatre. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Brighton Fringe: Torn Apart This play about the complexities of relationships and how our upbringing directly influences us and our ability to maintain loving relationships is a complex engaging piece of work. It focused on 3 relationships – American soldier and Polish woman in Germany, a young lad and girl from Melbourne, and By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Tonight – 5 Guys Chillin’ post show question and answer 5 Guys Chillin’, written and directed by Peter Darney, is a graphic, gripping, funny and frank verbatim drama exposing the gay chem-sex, chill-out scene. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Summer of entertainment across three Eastbourne theatres Eastbourne is in for a bumper season of entertainment with three of its big venues, the Congress Theatre, Devonshire Park Theatre and Winter Garden promoting their summer programmes. By Paul Gustafson • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Avenue Q comes to Eastbourne You’d be a muppet to miss this Tony award-winning Broadway and West End musical! A smash hit on Broadway and in the West End, award-winning comedy musical Avenue Q will bring a host of fuzzy friends to Congress Theatre, Eastbourne from Tuesday July 5 – Saturday, July 9 2016. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Chichester Festival Theatre: Half a Sixpence Chichester Festival Theatre and Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of HALF A SIXPENCE introduces two young actors, Charlie Stemp as Arthur Kipps and Devon-Elise Johnson as Ann Pornick. By Contributor • 3 min read