Canary
With Jonathan Harvey’s first play, Beautiful Thing, being revived in the West End, it seems highly appropriate to see his much darker work Canary. Brighton Little Theatre tackled this immense and difficult piece with such skill that I felt that I was seeing the play for the first time. It’s a vast, sprawling work, complex, fantastical in parts, shocking in others, and delivered with Harvey’s usual dark humour – and my god they pull it off without the aid of stage technology, wizardry or a large budget. It was sparse in a material sense but rich in the quality of each and every performance with no one actor pulling ahead of the rest of this fine ensemble. This was theatre of the very highest standard, again emerging from the tiny confines of Brighton’s Little Theatre and with a cast and director that deserve the term professional in every real sense of the word.
Brighton Little Theatre, 3 March 2013
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Andrew Kay
Totally agree with this review. It was our first visit to this fantastic amateur theatre company, while on a weekend break from Derbyshire. We were all so very impressed with this production and enjoyed it thoroughly. The standard of acting was amazing and we also loved the little theatre. Congratulations to everyone involved – when we are next visiting Brighton we will try our best to make sure its when there is another production on at the Brighton Little Theatre.