Reviews

Fringe – Nerds – Resound Voices, Sam Barton (conductor)

- 10 May 2025

What nerve! For a happy troupe of mainly middle-aged men to adopt the label of...

PASSAGES

- 10 May 2025

Anoushka Shanka’s curating of the Brighton Festival 2025 has divided opinion, whilst many of us...

SECOND CLASS QUEER

- 9 May 2025

Kumar Muniandy’s one person drama is anything but second class, it goes beyond first class,...

Rune

Brighton Festival – Rune: Decameron Musicale

- 8 May 2025

Five excellent musicians – that is three singers, one also playing a Vielle (an early...

TOXIC

- 7 May 2025

Brighton Fringe 2025 has an impressive number of LGBTQ+ pieces, from comedy to the serious....

Brighton Festival –  William Christie with Les Arts Florissants

- 5 May 2025

Handel always sounds stately and special, especially when played by six such superlative musicians.  Directing...

HOFESH SHECHTER COMPANY: THEATRE OF DREAMS

- 4 May 2025

Where do you start? Where does he start? There was a post show discussion with...

COWPOKES IN A BUNKHOUSE

- 4 May 2025

Oblique Theatre are the stuff from which any fringe festival should be made of. The...

RETROSPECTIVE: BRIGHTON GAY MEN’S CHORUS

- 3 May 2025

Bare with me a moment, I’m just meddling with the tech to see if I...

THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR

- 2 May 2025

What a fun and genuinely entertaining way to start the festival season at Chichester. Gogol’s...

THE HERESY OF LOVE

- 1 May 2025

It’s the late 1600s, Mexico, governed by Spain and by the Catholic Church from Rome,...

SEVEN DRUNKEN NIGHTS

- 29 April 2025

If you like an Irish ceilidh then you’ll love this spectacular honouring the legacy of...