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“Big Brother is still watching you…”

Brian Butler October 31, 2024

George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, about a totalitarian state, was written 75 years ago and it’s depressing and scary that most of its futuristic visions have come true. As we enter the auditorium at Brighton’s Theatre Royal for Ryan Craig’s stage adaptation we are scanned by a camera in the huge screen centre stage – […]

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Musical Theatre

REVIEW: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ @ Theatre Royal Brighton

Brian Butler October 17, 2024

Evan Hansen is an isolated high school student with no friends and no life and on medication for social anxiety disorder- and he’s fallen out of a tree and broken his arm, now in plaster. When his doctor prescribes that he writes a daily letter to himself – hence the show title Dear Evan Hansen […]

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Arts

REVIEW: ‘The Kite Runner’ @ Theatre Royal Brighton

June 12, 2024

The Kite Runner soars as an emotionally harrowing but ultimately life-affirming play, the triumph of this adaptation rests on the shoulders of the phenomenal cast and their ability to breathe empathetic life into their flawed characters.

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Fundraising News

“A fabulous result!” Local HIV charity Sussex Beacon raises £450 from Everybody’s Talking About Jamie in Brighton

Graham Robson November 15, 2023

Local HIV charity Sussex Beacon raised almost £450 after two performances of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the feel-good musical which was at Theatre Royal Brighton this month. The Sussex Beacon said: “Although the show has left Brighton to entertain and thrill the people of Leeds, there’s no doubt everybody who saw the show at Theatre Royal […]

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Theatre

REVIEW: ‘2:22 A Ghost Story’ @ Theatre Royal Brighton

Andrew Kay October 25, 2023

Beautifully presented, designed and delivered, it does exactly what one might hope for – it mystifies, surprises and, at moments, shocks and, as a reviewer, to say more about the play would be doing audiences a disservice. I baulk at reviews that tell the story at the best of times, but with this kind of piece it would be disgraceful.

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