MacQueen’s first novel gives us an alternative history based around corrupt 1970’s England and the dark London underbelly of sex for sale and political intrigue
MacQueen’s first novel gives us an alternative history based around corrupt 1970’s England and the dark London underbelly of sex for sale and political intrigue
A pleasant enough evening at the theatre with a stella cast and the most charming atmospheric set, but somehow lacking the heart of the film.
Robert Icke’s The Doctor is very much an ideas-driven play. It’s a profusion of debates about race, gender, identity, morality, religion, medical ethics and wokeness which, against the odds, fit neatly into one production. It’s hard to know where the author stands on pretty much any of the themes he discusses; everything comes so thick […]
This book is a huge throb of love, from a woman who continues to give and share. Her love teaches us that radical unconditional love will get us through the darkest of times and give us an opportunity to build on the ashes of the glories of those who went before.
This is a fizzing fun and quirky show, I was delighted by it. It’s lovely to enjoy such a clever combination of writing, lyrics and music which pull the classic arc of musicals into a modern messy genre mixing focus. But in a charming surgery way which belies the sophisticated work going on beneath this engine of entertainment, there are no heroines in Waitress, just a huge amount of love and hope
Last night’s programme was well chosen with plenty of new material, some excellent solos and delightful break out groups that allowed the choir to highlight some exceptional talents.
We are ghosts in this narrative machine, and the action unfolds around us in small private performances or huge perfectly choregraphed set pieces, stunning in their reach and discipline.
Cluedo was this; a great farce trying to escape from a rather dull game, but trapped like a trap in a trap, wriggling with all the energy of a committed talented cast, sometimes fighting against their material with real verve and mostly succeeding, but there were quite a few moments where it didn’t work.
The Marian Consort in the sublime magnificence of All Saints Church in Hove was a wonderful pairing, the acoustics of this marvellous church allowing the resonant rolls of sound that the overlapping harmonic voices of the Consort generated.
Unchain Me Brighton Festival Unchain Me is inspired by Dostoyevsky’s novel, The Possessed, in which a provincial town descends into chaos as it becomes the focal point of an attempted uprising orchestrated by a shadowy conspirator, who disappears as soon as the seeds of revolution are sown. Kitted out with tablets strung round our necks, […]
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