Thursday, July 20, 2017
How do we critique theatre by artists with learning difficulties? Are these performers regarded as less able than those with physical disabilities? Bella
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Despite starring two leading American actors and being directed by Jonathan Kent, but the standout feature of this Tennessee Williams production is
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Love and sex generally get more stage time, but the most intimate moment we will share with anyone is likely to be
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This pocket epic takes place at an atmospheric new venue at the Brighton Fringe. The Cave is a tiny walled courtyard in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:03AMThough this is the first Brighton Festival show for which sick bags have ever been provided, it also proves to be one
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Nirvana’s Come As You Are is the perfect opener for this Belgian dance piece about what it means to be part of
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Theatre has always embraced trauma. Less familiar to the stage is the subject of post-traumatic growth. Through their work with young people,
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As a 40-year-old man who made his name shouting “Bogies!” in public places, Richard McCourt is neat casting for a show about
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Brighton’s only professional panto for a fourth year running could hardly have been staged in tougher circumstances. In January, 88 London Road
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Edward Fox has played a number of repressed but essentially kindly aristocrats over his career. So this new one-man play about John
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Watching Cameron Mackintosh’s joyful revision of this Sixties musical, it’s possible to believe for a moment that all the world needs now is love sweet love and a shit-ton of banjos. Wit…
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Thought Terrence Rattigan was a playwright of the drawing room? Think again. A day after his defining work The Deep Blue Sea opened in an acclaimed revival at the National, Chichester Festiv…
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In a recent event on the Brighton fringe, playwright Edward Bond discussed the horrors of being bombed, children's need for theatre – and why he's so angry about the 'Bollywoodisation' of …
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You’ve arrived at a party in a pub, tagging along with a guy you just met. You’re attempting to catch the barman’s eye, while scouting for a friendly face. The band declares that every…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:52PMOf all the 400th anniversary tributes to Shakespeare, this ramble through an allotment just outside Brighton has to be one of the oddest, and most unexpectedly moving. Brighton Festival has …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 12:55PMThursday, May 5, 2016
If Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes were (a lot) more like Ibsen, our national viewing habits would be in good hands. But then, as the hero of ‘An Enemy of the People’ discovers, pr…
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Where are the artists with learning disabilities in the debate about diversity? What does work by young people with learning disabilities have to teach the artistic mainstream? With a showca…
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Smoking weed on the Orient Express. Drinking at a brothel in Paris. Tricking the military police in Istanbul. Smuggling a Da Vinci into Paraguay. As travel itineraries go, it’s certainly n…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:50AMThursday, October 29, 2015
Why is the work of learning disabled artists under-represented in the wider arts world – and why does this matter? This was the question driving yesterday’s Creative Minds conference, a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:09PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Everyone's a critic these days - so how do you sort the wheat from the chaff? And who is reviewing the reviewers?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMPerformers should take inspiration from their perspiration. Sweat is a good sign that something physical is at stake
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMSue MacLaine's play about Francis Bacon's muse invites the audience to bring sketchpads. What is it about painting on stage?In May, performer and playwright
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMSue MacLaine's play about Francis Bacon's muse invites the audience to bring sketchpads. What is it about painting on stage?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMTuesday, February 10, 2015
Theatre Royal, Brighton: Alan Bennett takes great satisfaction, at the close of his comedy about the value of education for education's sake, in revealing that the eight boys go on to b…
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Various venues, Brighton: With his new play Adler and Gibb opening at London's Royal Court this month, Tim Crouch has treated Brighton Fringe to a smaller but beautifully conceived expe…
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St Nicholas Rest Garden, Brighton: Sicilian oranges tumble across the stage and Benedick and Beatrice spar with youthful zest in this Globe Theatre on Tour production, which is likely to ear…
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Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome, Brighton: Amid a current trend for work about old age and dementia, Glasgow's Vanishing Point startle with this show about how it feels to look after peopl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMThe Spire, St Mark's Chapel, Brighton: Inspired by the six degrees of separation theory, this UK premiere (full title: Perhaps all the Dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waitin…
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Emporium Theatre, Brighton: Shock value may date; human tension doesn't - so there's no reason, 50 years since its debut, why Joe Orton's black comedy of sexual manipulation s…
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There are echoes of Lost in the crashed B-25 bomber that fills this often brilliant production with its rusting corpse. And they’re probably intended. Joseph Heller’s cult World War Two …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 09:45AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Studio Theatre, Brighton Dome: One is an autobiographical solo show in search of its own protagonist. Born in Iran, schooled in Paris and now based in Montreal, writer/performer Mani Soleyma…
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