Reviews

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- 7 October 2025

Seeing a play, a ghost story, for a second time has its pitfalls. Do you...

SEA WALL & WMD: WOMAN OF MASS DECEPTION

- 4 October 2025

Licensing conditions are in place that prohibit me from reviewing Simon Stephens’ Sea Wall. First...

Who Do They Think They Are?

- 2 October 2025

Funny, heartfelt and gloriously nostalgic, Who Do They Think They Are? is a life-affirming celebration...

THE LIGHTNING THIEF

- 1 October 2025

Most of us grow up with comics, The Beano, The Dandy, The Eagle for my...

BPO – A New World – Junyan Chen (piano), Joanna MacGregor (conductor)

- 29 September 2025

This concert season began so quietly with the gently lulling opening of Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Piano...

SPRING AWAKENING

- 29 September 2025

This extraordinary work, Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play Wedekind’s first major play Frühlings Erwachen, must have...

CÉST MAGNIFIQUE

- 27 September 2025

Ooh la la! Take a stage, probably less than four metres square in size, and...

LORD OF THE FLIES

- 26 September 2025

Golding’s novel sits so firmly in my childhood memory, a curriculum classic that at the...

BREMF Consort of Voices

BREMF: Palestrina Crawl – BREMF Consort of Voices, James Elias (director)

- 22 September 2025

Twenty minutes is quite long enough polyphony on a Saturday morning, especially when sung so...

HAMLET

- 19 September 2025

Three works by Shakespeare in one year, first the splendid revival of Nicholas Hytner’s A...

THE CRUCIBLE

- 15 September 2025

One can never fault Brighton Little Theatre for their ambition, year on year they take...

ERIC IDLE LIVE

- 15 September 2025

Let me start by saying that there is little doubt that Eric Idle is a...