One of the best received shows to play Brighton Festival Fringe’s first week was the UK-Premiere of Power Lunch (see pic).
Written by Alan Ball, the renowned writer of the Oscar-winning film ‘American Beauty’, the play was a highly amusing look at a relationship fuelled by emotional manipulation and confusing sexual attraction.
Impressing our reviewer, Howard Young, was the disturbing but enlightening Badac Theatre production, The Forgotten.Click here for review ..
It may have taken ‘musical similarities’ to get Beautiful South co-founder, Paul Heaton, to take the solo route – but the split has resulted in him creating a startlingly bright and inventive sounding album with a stripped back sound not heard from Heaton since 1986 and the birth of The Housemartins. The Cross Eyed Rambler is Paul Heaton’s fourteenth studio album but the first of his solo career. Heaton begins to sound like the Alan Bennett of his day with songs such as The Ring From Your Hand, The Pub and Little Red Rooster.... more >> By: Mike Cobley Read full story
“How do you approach something as mutable and mercurial as light?” asked Fevered Sleep, “As perspectives shift and the world is made anew, An Infinite Line (the show) redraws our ways of seeing.” This is very ambitious stuff. The question is; in their show at The Basement, do they actually achieve it? Well I am afraid that, largely, ‘no’ would be the answer to that question. This is in many ways a piece of conceptual art placed within a semi-theatrical context. As such, meeting its aims and objectives, at least partially, are crucial to the... more >> By: Howard Young Feedback: Editor Read full story
Sussex couple, Jonathan and Annika Brown are wearing many hats, both of them have a show in the Brighton Festival Fringe this year, and as each of them also shares the care of their two-year old child, Norah, it’s all hands on deck to both get everything ready for curtains–up, and keep Norah happy too. Annika said: “Luckily Jonathan isn’t jealous of my other love, my music, because while I practice for half the day, he and Norah have fun together. And then we swap over!”
Jonathan’s show ’The Father Monologues, Parts 1, 2 and 3’, was nominated... more >> By: Mike Cobley Read full story
Mixed Blessings Theatre Group are a new and diverse theatre group who are excited to be unveiling their debut play, ‘Let Justice Be Done’, later this month. The play addresses the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807 as seen through the eyes of a mixed race young woman DidoElizabeth Belle.
In order to be able to wear the obligatory 18th Century white silkstockings, without exposing his hairy legs, one... more >> By: Mike Cobley Read full story
After being led quietly up the single flight of stairs, the whole group is silent with nervous anticipation; you wait before a closed door. Inside you can just hear someone chanting: “running for the beast, running for the beast.” The door opens and you walk inside and then it hits you: “RUNNING FOR THE BEAST,” screams the man in concentration camp clothes as he runs on the... more >> By: Howard Young Feedback: Editor Read full story
Zeus sends the crazed driver of the chariot of the sun god crashing to the earth, the tree- women who bury him weep tears of amber, The Gorgons are slaughtered, Acteon, transformed into a stag by Diana for staring at her naked body, is ripped apart by the jaws of his own hounds, Arachne is turned into a spider by a jealous goddess and foolish Narcissus wastes away and dies, transfixed by his own beauty; all this, and more, in 75 minutes with the Ballet National de Marseilles at the Brighton Dome, last Saturday night. In a brilliant and fascinating performance the Ballet convert Ovid’s epic Roman poetic masterpiece into a stunning piece of contemporary dance theatre. Written at time when Rome itself was being changed by Augustus from a republic into an empire, the original work charted... more >> By: Howard Young Feedback: Editor Read full story
The Great Escape stages are now programmed and festival goers can check out exactly where they can see their favourite bands or decide which new ones they want to discover. Just announced artists for this year include The Go! Team, Mystery Jets, Santogold, Magistrates and The Ting Tings plus some very special guests still to be announced. This year MTV TWO are hosting three nights of mayhem at the Concorde 2, presented by... more >> By: Mike Cobley Read full story
Greg Starks & Aldo Zilli Launch Brighton Food Festival
TV chef Aldo Zilli helped launch the Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival recently, at the 106 restaurant at the Brighton Hilton Metropole, where the dates for this September’s festival were announced. Over one-hundred guests attended the foodie fun, sampling delicious Sussex produce canapés created by Greg Starks the hotel’s executive chef and sipping Sussex wine, cider and fruit juice. The trendiest city’s food festival is a celebration of the best of food and drink... more >> By: Mike Cobley Read full story
