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Good plays are timeless and make you think; of course to be successful they also have to be brilliantly performed as Strindberg’s Miss Julie was at the Joogleberry Playhouse.

The cast of three were directed superbly by Elena Knight and were all totally, convincing.

Robert Mellor was the chauffeur with pretentions to grandeur, Mary Proctor and Trudy Hodgson played the girlfriend/the maid who knows her place and.

Anya-Marie Vinci was the mixed up rich girl who thinks she can have anything and anyone but she finds to her cost that there is a cruel price to pay as the heart has a mind of its own.

The play was adapted by Elena Knight and Robert Mellor and set in 1920 which worked well (the original play was set in 1888) but personally I would have preferred a 2008 adaptation based in the royals’ favourite club Boujis in London’s Mayfair which I think would have made the play even more thought provoking.

But as I said at the beginning great plays are timeless. See.

Review by Bill Smith.

At the other end of the age spectrum 72-year-old Glen Campbell is a legend of rock and pop, having made over 70 albums, played for some of the greatest including Presley and Sinatra, had a few monster hits, hosted his own TV show for three years, acted alongside John Wayne in True Grit, had problems with alcohol and drug abuse, been married four times…

Well, the old terrier is at it again with Meet Glen Campbell, a collection of covers including tunes by the likes of Travis, Tom Petty, Foo Fighters, The Replacements, Velvet Underground, John Lennon et al. A superb countryrock sound throughout.

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Victoria Nangle examines the phenomenon of the comedy bolter

The danger, I have found, with doing bigger and better gigs is the combination of your own nerves and those of the people around you. The other comics stepping into an unknown environment. The look of panic when you see someone of similar physical proportions stepping into the holding pen at the back where the gaggle of comics sit and await their fate. And it’s back here where you start chatting.

“…waiting for their turn to take the mic, only to shoot out the door at intermission time, never to be seen again”

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It’s a very secret circle, stencilling, given the fact that it’s illegal in most countries, but it’s a form of urban expression that’s there to provoke a reaction, using the power of surprise to greet the unsuspecting passer-by.

Stencil History X is a collection of artists from the USA and France, two countries that don’t always see eye- to-eye politically, but whose secret stencil bandits present us with interesting urban landscapes, layers of colour, abstract expressionism and simple lines.

Stencil History X, Ink_d Gallery, North Road, Brighton, 4–28 September
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