Brighton Year-Round
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Brighton Year-Round 2022
An exciting sense of being at the cusp of a new generation. There’s no knowing where this Dream might end.
All Saints Sara Oschlag Quartet Recital
A sovereign group, with Sara Oschlag a wonderful vocalist at its core
Don’t miss this authentic, touching, devastatingly comic anatomy of a marriage as soufflé, supremely served by Rhys-Jones and Dee.
Still an outstanding production we might take for granted, Stephen Daldry has overhauled it, and crafted new touches of comedy and music-hall exaggeration.
If it’s drama you’re after in Brighton Fringe, this is one of the two or three essential stops. Thrilling, authoritative, with Greene the jewel in a sparkling ensemble.
Chapel Royal Jane Faulkner and Gary Peacock in Mozart Violin/Piano Concert
Consummate Mozart performers - with a revelatory unskeining of the Lili Boulanger.
Chapel Royal Peter Sulski and Philippa Mo in Concert Mozart Violin/Piano Recital October 18th 2022
Sulski is sovereign in the viola, and Mo proves a radiant partner. An outstanding recital.
A superb revival of Bartlett’s warmest, most ground-breaking, perhaps most enduring play so far.
Sublime acting, light-filled production. Do see this quirky, off-beat play given its finest outing so far.
A paean to live theatre; soaring seasonal spirit, struck with tenderness, joy, sorrow, plangent affirmation.
A fascinating "tragi-comic solo performance about a writer who is looking for ‘Grace’.
Ghost Boy: a playwright’s progress
If you want a single account of the heady days of 1960s-70s British theatre, this has to be it
Assured, idiomatic performances. And Martin McDonagh’s distinction resonates in a manner peculiar to him alone.
An exceptional production in so many ways, this Hay Fever boasts some superb acting, on occasion great aplomb
With memorable music and ensemble singing added to a first-rate BLT production, there’s no better Christmas show in town.
John Collins St Nicholas Organ Recital
Yet another superb Collins recital. A hidden luxury we should enjoy.
Karen Wong Solo flute, piccolo & baroque flute
Karen Wong, solo or playing in trio, is clearly a driving force of new repertoire, often the prelude to a great career
As a definitive staged version of Kenneth Grahame’s life, it will certainly hold the stage in its subsequent tour.
Michele Roszak and Lynda Spinney: Love – Its Depths of Joy and Despair
A terrific way to blow the autumn leaves
Michiko Shimanuki Piano Recital at All Saints, Hove
Consummate exploratory playing by a composer-pianist wholly inside these idioms.
A small masterpiece of amused, unflinching reveal, which does something no-one else has done at all.
This is more than panto: it’s an affirmation of something that panto here welcomes in, in our time uniquely invoking layers as only Elizabethan/Jacobean drama can.
An outstanding must-see, even for those who might have seen Noises Off more than once before.
Kelly Hunter’s team have wrought a miracle of flight, realised by an outstanding cast who here at least, make us rank Pericles with Shakespeare’s other late Romances.
Private Lives can never disappoint: it plays itself and as far as it’s a work of verbal tennis this production won’t pall either
Short Plays 2022 New Venture Theatre, Brighton
Absorbing and a small feast of theme, acting and writing style.
Spirit of Woodstock 2 – The Sequel
There’s no greater writer/performer working in Brighton, or Sussex, and Spirit of Woodstock Parts I and 2 is Jonathan Brown’s most dazzling show to date.
One of the most vivid, aesthetically cogent, certainly funniest OFS productions
Actually improves on Brown with theatrical humour and bold gestures; with a set that tells the story almost as much as the strong cast.
A triumph for all concerned. Juliet Stevenson even gains in stature. Robert Icke’s revival could hardly go better than this.
Simply put: go see this if you’ve any feeling for postwar drama. It’s theatre on the rack and do we need it!
Certainly enjoyable and the second act shows what it might be. There’s not a moment’s longeurs
The Revlon Girl is a masterpiece of displacement as ritual. Tess Gill’s directed many fine shows for BLT, but she’s never bettered this.
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice sings out of damage into heartbreak and redemption. Those who don’t know the play or its outcome should see this, even those who have.
Unitarian, Kevin Allen Piano Recital
Kevin Allen stands among other composer-pianists who essay this territory: for whom the music is essential as composer and a language to breathe in.
Unsanctioned/Measure 2 Measure
You must see this intriguing, ingenious and superbly acted double bill.
Sarah Mann and Nathan Ariss lead a fine company into a dash to eternity and back. With a memorable finale of two weddings and a funeral.
Halfpenny raises soaring music theatre, an ounce of gold in the throat and stars six inches above it.
Yoko Ono and Paul Gregory Piano/Guitar Recital
Revelatory and a spellbinding introduction than in these performers hands, couldn’t be bettered.
