» Review: Brighton Festival Fringe – A Wilde Night of Literary Cabaret
Festival & Fringe 2011, Fringe Reviews, Reviews: May 23rd, 2011
And the winner of Best Fringe Event Stage Set goes to… Pity that was the primary focus of this event. A gin palace appeared in Jubilee Square, replete with fake grass, fake glass, and blaggers fighting for their right to repartee. Oscar himself would probably have loved the incongruity of Brighton’s decadence sat in a faux-Victorian train carriage between a library and Chilli Pickle restaurant, but this was more bookish than spicy. Probably best summed up by a child promising to enter a story-writing competition, in order to win his mother some gin. Now that is genuine fin de siècle sleaze.
The Hendrick’s Horseless Carriage of Curiosities, 21 May
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Jim Milnes






