Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMThursday, April 10, 2014
Emporium, Brighton: This is a pacy staging of Beckett's comic masterpiece about entropic apocalypse, with an engaging lyrical stride that runs counter to the slow grinding of Hamm'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMMonday, December 2, 2013
Emporium Brighton, Brighton: You might think a 120-seat theatre had as much chance of accommodating a traditional all-singing, all-dancing pantomime as the wrong foot of fitting a certain gl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMThursday, May 30, 2013
Brighton: Brighton has no shortage of piquant locations for site-specific fringe productions. But few have sounded so gimmicky, and proved so inspired, as the Brighton Laboratory's cool…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
The absolute loyalty of a little boy to his under-deserving friend is what swells The Kite Runner’s heart and fuels its tragedy. So you can’t really blame Matthew Spangler’s stage adap…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:54PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Studio Theatre, Brighton Dome, Brighton: A cross between a live music gig and a Lena Dunham-esque monologue, this confessional piece from the New York-based Young Jean Lee's Theater Com…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Preston Manor, Brighton: "You'll die in hospital with wires all over you," says Peter Reder, looking us each in the eye as we stand around a four-poster in the bedroom where L…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PMStudio Theatre, Brighton Dome, Brighton: What does it feel like to live with the mystery of a missing loved one? Is a body, in some ways, better? It's hard to imagine a more simple yet …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AMMonday, October 1, 2012
Minerva Theatre, Chichester: If the key to seduction is dressing to be undressed, Anthony Ward's lavish design for the Paris section of Private Lives invites lusty dismantling. As divor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMWednesday, September 19, 2012
There’s a vivid moment in this Joe Penhall revival when Christopher, a psychiatric patient suspected of suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, finds himself caught in the linguistic crossf…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:07AMWednesday, July 4, 2012
"I can’t live without horse flesh, if it’s only a piece of cat’s meat on a skewer.” So declares Patricia Hodge’s gung-ho racing fanatic Georgina in this straight-down-the-line revi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:14AMMonday, June 18, 2012
Theatre company dreamthinkspeak has cut, spliced, sped up and slowed down Shakespeare's tragedy. But unlike most remixes, this is a pure mashup of a single source textArmand Van Helden did i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:51AMThursday, June 14, 2012
You wouldn’t be surprised, in the programme for Elevator Repair Service’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s jazz age masterpiece The Great Gatsby, to find instructions for gentle exer…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:51AMSunday, May 27, 2012
As finales go, you can’t get much better than a pterodactyl flying from the torso of an iron giant and wheeling out over Brighton beach. Last night, as the 2012 Brighton Festival prepared …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:05AMTuesday, May 15, 2012
How different would stage history be without Desdemona's handkerchief? These uncredited accomplices are a vital part of the theatre experienceIn Nassim Soleimanpour's White Rabbit, Red Rabbi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMSunday, May 13, 2012
From theatre viewed through peepholes and camera obscuras to a dance piece you watch across a wasteland while wearing headphones, this year the Brighton Festival and Brighton Festival Fringe…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:02AMMonday, May 7, 2012
If you weren’t already aware that the Guest Director of the 2012 Brighton Festival is acting royalty, the preponderance of fop fringes and artfully flung scarves at the Dome Concert Hall o…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:58AMThursday, April 5, 2012
Theatre Royal Brighton: It was no great surprise when the original production of Anne Boleyn sold out Shakespeare's Globe in 2010 before opening night. Henry VIII's second wife, be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMMonday, May 23, 2011
Theatre-makers are turning domestic drama into a literal reality by staging plays in their kitchens, bathrooms and living roomsArtists' Open Houses has done it for the visual arts. Amateur p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08AMTuesday, May 17, 2011
Rarely have I seen so many genitals exposed in the name of theatre. But the aim is to explore human frailty rather than titillateBrighton may have a well-earned reputation for liberalism. Bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMFriday, May 13, 2011
Artists may bemoan the lack of contact, but there's no better way to highlight the festival theme of civil liberty than with the certainty its guest director won't be in the audienceThat unm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:34AMWednesday, February 16, 2011
Sue 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 Sue MacLaine will strip naked in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PMMonday, January 31, 2011
Theatre audiences are being encouraged to taste food, but with pasta 'vagina' on the menu it's not always easy to stomachI've always had a distaste for the concept of "pre-theatre" and "post…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMMonday, November 15, 2010
Performers should take inspiration from their perspiration. Sweat is a good sign that something physical is at stakeBeyoncé banned photographers from capturing her at it, Lee Evans can't ge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28AM 
