Brighton
Brighton Festival: The Locations That Make the FestivalFriday, 03 April 2015
Andrew Comben, CEO of the Brighton Festival, chooses ten locations that have resonance with the annual event. He talks about their past and future but, most particularly, what will be happening this May“Brighton Festival is all about the spaces and... Read more... |
10 Questions for Playwright Richard NelsonWednesday, 18 March 2015
Richard Nelson (b. 1950) is a leading figure in American theatre but also a consistent documentarian of his country’s liberal consciousness. His series of plays about the Apple Family, written between 2010 and 2013, have been critically acclaimed... Read more... |
Brighton Festival 2015 Launches with Guest Director Ali SmithWednesday, 18 February 2015
Prize-winning author and Brighton Festival Guest Director Ali Smith can barely keep still. She wriggles about in her seat before an audience of journalists at Brighton’s Dome Studio Theatre, gesturing around with unabashed enthusiasm. Sat beside her... Read more... |
Nick Mulvey, Komedia, BrightonWednesday, 22 October 2014
The humming is rising. Only three songs in and already a large section of the crowd is swaying, tranced out, from side to side, like southern Baptists, swept along by an extended version of “Meet Me There” from Nick Mulvey’s 2014 Mercury Music Prize... Read more... |
20,000 Days On EarthSunday, 14 September 2014
This excellent documentary considerably deepens the Nick Cave we know. If there is a Cave other than the spiritually and intellectually ravenous rock star with the raven hair, bone-dry wit and shamanic showman seen here, a bumbling secret identity... Read more... |
Dawn French, Brighton Theatre RoyalThursday, 26 June 2014
She may have been performing for more than 30 years, but it takes some cojones to do your first solo show at the age of 56. Dawn French, with neither long-time partner Jennifer Saunders nor fellow cast members on stage, makes her debut with Thirty... Read more... |
Spies: Fact & Fiction/Edmund White, Brighton DomeMonday, 26 May 2014
Espionage may have been the strict theme of the Brighton Festival’s Spies: Fact & Fiction (****), but the talk's perspective quickly widened towards broader aspects of statecraft, secrecy and surveillance. As might have been expected in a... Read more... |
I Believe In Unicorns, Brighton Dome Studio TheatreSunday, 25 May 2014
At first sight this children's theatre production could seem like a drab story circle for bored bairns. But despite a rocky start, I Believe In Unicorns develops into something rather magical.After finding her feet, solo performer and fabulist... Read more... |
Like Rabbits, Corn Exchange, BrightonThursday, 15 May 2014
Getting pubes in your teeth during sex is one thing. Rabbit fur is something else. The moment when Ben Duke removes a wisp of partner Ino Riga’s costume from his mouth following a particularly lusty tussle may not be planned. But it’s in keeping... Read more... |
Talk to the Demon, Brighton DomeWednesday, 14 May 2014
One of the mottos made famous by internationally renowned chocolatier Willy Wonka was: “A little madness now and then is relished by the wisest men”. Perhaps it’s a quotation that Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus, who put Talk to the Demon... Read more... |
Catch-22, Theatre Royal, BrightonTuesday, 13 May 2014
There are echoes of Lost in the crashed B-25 bomber that fills this often brilliant production with its rusting corpse. And they’re probably intended. Joseph Heller’s cult World War Two satire is, after all, about a kind of purgatory: US Army... Read more... |
Down by the Greenwood Side, Harvey's Depot, LewesTuesday, 13 May 2014
The question about Harrison Birtwistle’s Down by the Greenwood Side is: what is it? Designated by the composer as a “dramatic pastoral”, which is not very enlightening, it is not really an opera, nor a play with music, nor a piece of performance art... Read more... |
