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Friday, May 13, 2016

Brighton Festival: The Complete Deaths, Theatre Royal by Thomas H Green

The Complete Deaths refers to the complete onstage deaths in Shakespeare’s work, all 75 of them, including the “black ill favour’d fly” in Titus Andronicus. The latter becomes a pers…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:08AM
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Brighton Festival: Smoke and Mirrors, Corn Exchange by Thomas H Green

Smoke and Mirrors is a show based around circus skills. It’s by the Ricochet Project, a performing unit consisting of Berlin-based US performers Cohdi Harrell and Laura Stokes. However, th…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:34AM
Saturday, April 23, 2016

Shakespeare: The Top 10 Deaths by Thomas H Green

Today marks 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare. To celebrate this and, indeed, put the two together, the Brighton Festival 2016 commissioned The Complete Deaths, a show based a…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:16AM
Friday, March 18, 2016

10 Questions for Artist Marc Rees by Thomas H Green

Marc Rees (b 1966) is an interdisciplinary artist-performer from Wales whose works are renowned for imaginitively mixing media, as well as for their underlying sense of fun. Over the years h…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:01AM
Thursday, May 21, 2015

L'Oublié(e)/The Forgotten, Brighton Dome by Thomas H Green

Those expecting an evening at the circus tonight, such as L’Oublié(e)’s advertising hinted at, were in for a shock. I saw a few children in the foyer and would be intrigued to know what…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:45AM
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Periplum 451, Preston Barracks, Brighton by Thomas H Green

Free events at celebratory citywide occasions such as the Brighton Festival are a mixed blessing. Unfortunately, the fact they’re free means we’re supposed to be thankful even when they�…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:04PM
Friday, April 3, 2015

Brighton Festival: The Locations That Make the Festival by Thomas H Green

Andrew Comben, CEO of the Brighton Festival, chooses ten locations that have resonance with the annual event. He talks about their past and future but, most particularly, what will be happen…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:06AM
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

10 Questions for Playwright Richard Nelson by Thomas H Green

Richard Nelson (b. 1950) is a leading figure in American theatre but also a consistent documentarian of his country’s liberal consciousness. His series of plays about the Apple Family, wri…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:56AM
Sunday, January 4, 2015

Timber, Brighton Dome by Thomas H Green

Timber! would be best described as a folk-themed lumberjack circus show. Its creators, Cirque Alfonse, hail from rural Quebec, but often, as they indulge in jigs and reels, banjo and mandoli…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:21AM
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Summertime: the birth of Gershwin's American classic by Thomas H Green

Thomas H Green explores the origins of the ultimate jazz club standard

SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:00AM
Thursday, June 12, 2014

The Jersey Boys: the mob's biggest hit by Thomas H Green

As the Frankie Valli musical becomes a film, the creators explain how they made crime pay

SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:00AM
Monday, May 26, 2014

Brighton Festival Final Weekend - with the Family by Thomas H Green

Sitting outside Mrs Fitzherbert’s, the pub named after George IV’s notorious mistress, nursing a pilsner top and a packet of peanuts on a sunny Saturday afternoon, the world is a benevol…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:12AM
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Peaches Christ Superstar, Theatre Royal, Brighton, review: 'a bizarre experiment that works' by Thomas H Green

The Canadian shock-rocker Peaches delivers a surprisingly heartfelt performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar

SOURCE: The Telegraph at 12:44PM
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Bonanza, Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton by Thomas H Green

When absorbing any artistic experience we can be confounded by our own expectations. Such was the case for me with Bonanza. Rather confusingly, Berlin are a Belgian outfit majoring in cinema…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:50AM
Monday, May 5, 2014

Opus No.7, Corn Exchange, Brighton by Thomas H Green

The UK premier of Dmitry Krymov’s Opus No.7 took place at 5.00 PM. When it finished two and half hours later, a sun-dappled evening is bustling with the opening weekend of the Brighton Fes…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:24AM
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Interview: 10 Questions for Russian theatre director Dmitry Krymov by Thomas H Green

Dmitry Krymov (b 1954) is one of Russia’s most groundbreaking and celebrated contemporary theatre directors and set designers. Performances by his “Theatre Laboratory” are renowned for…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:53AM
Friday, May 17, 2013

Bullet Catch, Spiegeltent, Brighton by Thomas H Green

Magicians’ online forums are seething at Bullet Catch’s host and writer-director, the Scottish actor and magician Rob Drummond. This is because at one point in the show he levitates a sm…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:23AM
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Knee Deep, Theatre Royal, Brighton by Thomas H Green

Knee Deep, the show by four-person Brisbane acrobatic troupe Casus, is only an hour long but packs more eye-popping antics into its first 10 minutes than many circuses muster in three hours.…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:10PM

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