Reviews

Emil and the Detectives

Emil and the Detectives

- 13 May 2013

No-one who grew up on Enid Blyton books or has read Emil And The Detectives...

Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey

- 13 May 2013

With just two actors, seven puppets and a box of props, Box Tale Soup has...

Rachel Mars: The Way You Tell Them

Rachel Mars: The Way You Tell Them

- 13 May 2013

Standing outside the venue after the performance had finished, the audience were left scratching their...

Play it Again Alan Rusbridger

Play it Again Alan Rusbridger

- 13 May 2013

Sales of the Guardian Newspaper in Brighton are higher than in any other comparable city...

Rob Auton – The Yellow Show

Rob Auton – The Yellow Show

- 13 May 2013

From the moment Rob Auton pinned up his celebratory ‘Yellow’ banner and then started draping...

How Do You Write Funny Books For Children?

How Do You Write Funny Books For Children?

- 13 May 2013

Aptly, festival director and acclaimed children’s author Michael Rosen hosted this talk, welcoming the three...

Lionel Shriver: Who Needs Another Book?

Lionel Shriver: Who Needs Another Book?

- 13 May 2013

The New Writing South Annual Lecture was a wise, waspish and witty meditation on the...

The Beethoven Project – Part 2, Elias String Quartet

The Beethoven Project – Part 2, Elias String Quartet

- 13 May 2013

The Elias Quartet continued to stamp their distinctive mark on Beethoven’s quartets, perhaps too distinctly...

No Moral Compass

No Moral Compass

- 13 May 2013

There is nothing I enjoy more than going out on a Friday night to see...

Patrick Monahan

Patrick Monahan

- 13 May 2013

Various issues delayed this gig by nearly an hour. However give him is due, Patrick...

Sutra

Sutra

- 13 May 2013

This collaboration between Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Syzmon Brzoska, Anthony Gormley and monks from the Shaolin...

2013 Conversations with Tony Benn

2013 Conversations with Tony Benn

- 13 May 2013

This Labour Representation Committee meeting didn’t start well as a key speaker (and Tony Benn’s...