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 08:08AMSmoke 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 05:34AMToday 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 06:16AMMarc 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 07:01AMThose 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 04:45AMFree 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 07:04PMAndrew 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 07:06AMRichard 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 07:56AMTimber! 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 06:21AMThomas H Green explores the origins of the ultimate jazz club standard
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:00AMAs the Frankie Valli musical becomes a film, the creators explain how they made crime pay
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:00AMSitting 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 06:12AMThe Canadian shock-rocker Peaches delivers a surprisingly heartfelt performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 12:44PMWhen 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 07:50AMThe 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 07:24AMDmitry 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 04:53AMMagicians’ 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 07:23AMKnee 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.…
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