Arts REVIEW: Away from Home An edgy, subversive award-winning one-man show – laced with sharp humour. With not one openly gay footballer in the UK professional game, Away From Home goes in for a hard tackle on football’s last taboo in a cool direct in your face way By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts Mamma Mia! and Les Miserables jointly take West End Eurovision crown Director, Andrew Keates bravely reveals his own true story about HIV. A celebrity-studded West End Eurovision returned to the Dominion Theatre this week for its seventh and final year in support of The Make A Difference (MAD) Trust. Mamma Mia! and Les Misérables jointly took the Winners Trophy. With By Besi • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Cosi fan Tutte: ENO Full of flirtatious passion and with a real sense of revelation and surprise designer Tom Pye’s evocative and surreal British travelling circus interpretation of a Coney Island fairground was a feast for the eyes it also allowed this most silly of operas to detach itself from reality enough to relax By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Hitch: Spiegeltent Slightly rough and ready, with a dollop of irreverent vulgarity, but I suspect this was ironically intentional. This in your face and rather delightfully sweet show fills an aching hole this week in the Spiegel tent and is well worth the trip out to see, it’s fun, silly and has some pretty cool and By Eric Page • 2 min read
Comedy REVIEW: Hedwig & The Angry Inch: New Venture Theatre This is an authentic production of Hedwig keeping to the spirit and intention of John Cameron Mitchell’s writing and giving us a Hedwig who demands our unconditional love whilst slightly scaring us with the intensity of a life lived at full throttle. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Alex Through the Looking Glass: Alex Bellos Bellos is at his best when talking about the gritty nerdy bits of numbers which seem to interest only him and although he seeks to share the joy of numbers by attaching curious personal stories to them, and he’s kind enough to share with us as long as we are kind enough to show enough interest By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Tea at 5: Old Joint Stock Theatre Company The polish on this show is as well buffed as the silver teapot that Hepburn serves tea from at one point, it’s reflective glare highlights not only the gloss of Hepburn but also the cracks and vulnerability of this tremendous tremulous women, By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Entertaining Mr Sloane Joe Orton’s play of sex, intrigue and murder amongst the lower middle-class is now fifty years old. Not surprisingly it’s lost some, perhaps most, of its power to shock and is now a respectable classic of English theatre. But of course shock will get you only so far – will its cast of scheming, hypo By Michael Hootman • 2 min read
Arts Pink Fringe and Traumfrau organise the Midsummer Backyard Festival Traumfrau, in collaboration with Pink Fringe, are organizing The Midsummer Backyard Festival, a mini festival featuring performance, dance, food, music and music outdoors at the Wagner Hall in Brighton on Friday, June 20 from 6pm. Performers will include the Greek-born diva A Man To Pet; Katy Baird By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Queens at the Queens – Davina’s cabaret dinner spectacular tonight! Miss Sparkles next cabaret and dinner evening will be at the Queens Hotel, tonight Friday, May 16. Davina will be joined by the hilarious drag queen Topsie Redfern and the ‘Queen of Visual Comedy’, Bella Berserck. On arrival you will be offered bubbly and canapes followed by a three course sumptuous By Besi • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Quartet: Heiner Muller The poster promised this to be sophisticated and disturbing, a study in decadence, depravity and vicious sex. The play can be all of these things; I left feeling soiled, disturbed and glad to get out under the stars. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts PREVIEW: Romeo & Juliet The Pocket Oxford Theatre Company bring their UK premiere production to the Marlborough for the Brighton Fringe. Teds Walker has been performing on the queer scene for the last 20 years. However six years ago he started the Pocket Oxford Theatre Company and has been touring ever since. This year the By Besi • 1 min read
