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REVIEW: The Rise and Fall of Little Voice @ Theatre Royal Brighton

April 26, 2022

It feels like two plays have met in a bar, got a bit drunk, and forgot to untangle, when it shines Little Voice is brilliant and Bianco’s voice lifts the play way way up, but then when the miserable grubby grasping family drama restarts again, we lurch onwards into despair and hopelessness, no amount of gurning or great acting can save us from that. It’s a curious combination, like flicking between Xfactor and Corrie endlessly, and it left me feeling slightly disturbed as I wandered into the night.

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REVIEW: Beautiful @ Theatre Royal

March 30, 2022

Molly-Grace Cutler as Carole King is touching, she’s totally there, filled with charming vulnerable and  buoyant hope, it’s a beguiling performance, hinting at the steeliness at Carols core and her tenacity to be heard on her own terms, and the second half focuses more on her music than the AWOL plot.

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REVIEW: Writing Our Space: An LGBTQ+ Anthology

March 23, 2022

Writing our Space with a foreword from editors Eilidh Akilade and Ross Tanner which explores the genesis of the book and the collection of short pieces elicited from a wide LGBTQI+ pool of writers is wonderful. I could gush about it, but I’ll say buy it, read it, enjoy it for yourself; then gush.

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REVIEW: Edward Carpenter – A Victorian Rebel fighting for gay rights

March 18, 2022

This excellent look at the life of Carpenter from (Hove based author) Brian Anderson uses previously unpublished material and personal letters from his lovers and friends to shine a bold new light over the contributions to developments around sexuality and identify that Carpenter gave with his early writings on homosexuality.

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REVIEW: Footloose @ Theatre Royal

February 22, 2022

There are a few extra songs shoehorned in, including a rather delightfully silly rendition of ‘Holding out for a Hero’ which allows Jake Quickenden to show off their rather more muscular skills & body and offer the mostly older female audience some energetic but light titillation whilst Darren Day serves some hot silver Daddy action to please other thirsty demographics in the audience

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REVIEW: The Village of Eight Graves by Seishi Yokomizo

February 5, 2022

The book is a delight, twisting and turning in gothic wonder in your mind, bringing to life place and character with deft prose and the narrative grips from the off. I really enjoyed the grip of the tension and adored the slow in relentless discovery of the awful truth by the fun detective Kindaichi, mixed in with strange and foreign cultural ideas of curse, fate, forbidden love.

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