84 stories by "Bella Todd"
Performers should take inspiration from their perspiration. Sweat is a good sign that something physical is at stake
Sue MacLaine's play about Francis Bacon's muse invites the audience to bring sketchpads. What is it about painting on stage?
Everyone's a critic these days - so how do you sort the wheat from the chaff? And who is reviewing the reviewers?
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…
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…
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…
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…
The 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…
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…
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 sati…
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…
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'…
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…
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…
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 adaptation…
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…
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…
Studio 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 …
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…
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 crossfir…
"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 revival of Pin…
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…
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 exercises …
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 to…
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…
