Five different experts speaking for fifteen minutes each. First, Martin Gayford spoke candidly about his interviews with the artist David Hockney. Next, Elif Shafak weaved a magical tale of superstition and childhood in Turkey. This was followed by an entertaining look at… Read more →
Brighton poet John Davies (AKA Shedman) celebrates 10 years of touring the country, participating in events and festivals with his shed. He plugs into our fundamental need for shelter, for solitude, and for sheds, and in this new show, he shares shed… Read more →
The re-creation of two scenes from Hamilton’s book is excellent, the atmosphere oppressive and the detailing immaculate. For anyone who has read the novel it makes for a chilling experience, and for some of us, the look is all to familiar as… Read more →
Simon Armitage was in playful mood for this Faber Social in the salubriously done-out Corn Exchange: all white-clothed and intimate tables, swapping the once raucous, sticky, mosh-pit of memory – a Fugazi punk gig dredged from the recesses. Coming from that era,… Read more →
This illuminating one-woman show by historian and author Rose Collis highlighted the stories of some famous, and infamous, twentieth century figures who crossed perceived gender lines in their public and private lives. Collis dressed formally, but this was an evening of cabaret,… Read more →
WARNING – This show features really ugly animals….but they are also really interesting, especially when someone as passionate and erudite as Nick Baker is talking about them. It was essentially a lecture, with Nick talking the audience through his various adventures (via… Read more →
Pam Ayres’ diminutive figure came out to a packed Pavilion Theatre and from the moment she opened her mouth, the audience were in her thrall. She presented a mixture of crowd-pleasing greatest hits, new poems, anecdotes and readings from her autobiography. Pam, witty… Read more →
Dr David Bramwell and Prof Matthew Clayton’s Wellsbourne Society is a new local interest group that combines history and psychogeography to unearth Brighton’s hidden tales. To a live soundtrack by musician Richard Norris, Clayton and Bramwell bookended this launch evening with imaginative… Read more →
With a combined age of 162, this dynamic duo delivered an inspirational evening of protest songs and stirring readings telling the history of the British layman’s ongoing struggle for equality and justice. Benn may have struggled to leave his seat but he… Read more →
Brighton-based poet, Bernadette Cremin pieces together a gorgeous and entrancing evening with these ‘six tales of untidy lives’. Playing the succession of characters, from debutante through to murderess, she hardly skips a beat. It’s an ask and what makes the performance is… Read more →
