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Sunday, May 29, 2016

Brighton Festival: Stella, Theatre Royal by Nick Hasted

A Victorian transgender celebrity is a fitting and timely subject for this Brighton Festival premiere. Writer-director Neil Bartlett turns Stella’s scandalous life into a stark horror stor…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:44AM
Monday, May 25, 2015

Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson, Corn Exchange, Brighton by Nick Hasted

Margaret Atwood’s Forties childhood was spent knocking around the Canadian backwoods with her forest entomologist, proto-ecologist dad, and it shows. Interviewed alongside her husband Grae…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:01AM
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

The Lads In Their Hundreds, Theatre Royal, Brighton by Nick Hasted

World War One poems can become too familiar. So can the war itself, its five years of centenary commemorations so far suffering from excessive patriotism, a sense of uncomprehending disconne…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:38AM
Friday, May 2, 2014

Sunny Afternoon, Hampstead Theatre by Nick Hasted

The Kinks’ music deserves more than another jukebox musical. Joe Penhall has instead collaborated with Ray Davies on a musical about the pain and compromise musicians go through to fill th…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:13AM

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