Brighton Year-Round

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Brighton Year-Round 2024

1984

This is the fleetest most theatrical version I’ve seen for some time. Telegraphic in its conveying a nightmare world, it nevertheless does so by lightning strokes.


ACT Graduate Showcase

A fascinating showcase, featuring actors we shall see again.


ACT Playwriting Course

Mark Burgess and his students should feel immensely satisfied. And of course the students themselves divinely dissatisfied as they develop their craft.


Drop the Dead Donkey: The Reawakening

This is as fresh as an AI paint set, and far more transgressive than the original. The fizziest, most outrageous assault on common decency since – I’ll leave it to the gibbons. A must-see.


For Entertainment Purposes Only

Philip Ayckbourn’s songs are the heart of this collection. It’d be thrilling to see a full musical here; and staged in London. Enthusiastically recommended, there’s gems, with more of Ayckbourn’s elegiac sensibility than I’ve ever seen. More of this please.


Gareth Strachan Project M.E. The Rock Inn Pub

Strachan proves he can pull together serious talent who believe in his work. It’s a step up in all directions


Here You Come Again

As delicious and heartening as Parton’s last torch song.


Punchline

Destined to be a riveting play in Kay’s late-emerging canon.


Queers

All I can repeat is: see it.


The Vicar of Dibley

This is a must-see. If there’s a ticket, grab it.


Vanya

This is the greatest one-man performance I’ve seen, said a Chekhov-immersed director of 45 years’ experience next to me. Yes.