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Review: Resonant Void
Resonant Void is a Butoh-inspired solo performance exploring the space between birth and dissolution, presence and disappearance, and the hidden emotional landscapes of the body.
Review: Jane Eyre
Polly Teale has released the daemons, but Nettie Sheridan’s ensemble has delivered Jane Eyre’s feeling to a pitch remarkable even for BLT. With a twilight and sunny consummation at BOAT, it’s even more outstanding.
Review: Under the Shadow
Far richer than any ghost play haunting the tour circuit, it’s a blistering, scary must-see.
Review: John Bruzon Piano Recital St Nicholas Church, Brighton
John Bruzon returns in September. We're more blessed than we realise.
Review: The Beekeeper of Aleppo
It’s important to see it now. It’s none the less real for being fiction.
Review: Are You Watching?
Georgie Dettmer’s voice should be one of the leading dramatists of resistance. Yet more, Dettmer has already much to say about how to live now and next.
Review: Teeth ‘n’ Smiles
As Teeth ‘n’ Smiles ends, we’re left to feel the long withdrawing roar of the 1960s, and the bleaker horizons and disillusion Hare saw by 1975. A must-see.
Review: The Fastest Clock in the Universe
It hasn’t dated. As worthy of our attention as recent Ridley, and rivets us forever. A must-see.
Review: The Corinthian
A fascinating take on the career and life of Scotland's first black footballing captain.
Review: Resonant Void
A Butoh solo show - hypotonic - rare - a spiritual experience no to be missed.
Review: Do Not Attempt This Conversation
Mo Maka’s play though brief is superbly constructed and taut. I can hardly wait for Maka’s next play.
Review: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
This desperate elegy of betrayal, straight from Le Carré’s own hurt, will haunt you with the truth of its despair.
Review: The P Word
A bold yet tender exploration of what it is to be gay, Asian and humane. You come out cheering. A must-see.
Review: As the Winds and Waters Are
If you brought together four unrelated characters from four separte novels by one author ,what dynamics would unfold
Review: The Queen (WIP)
Ever-changing material [featuring] Queen Anne’s infectiously endearing antics!
Review: Crossing Paths Movement Collective
"A visual expression of the layers of each of our own experiences, all told through a language all can understand"
Review: Organised: Crime
Got things you need cleaned up on the QT? Angela's Angels - thorough and discrete
Review: Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances
Absorbing and attracted a sold-out brief run. Factually realist, but liminally fantastical, it wields potential for serious sly fun, and real drama.
Review: Scary Mary
Daughter of Feminism, Mother of Sci-Fi, the original Goth girlfriend: Mary Shelley is spooky AF.
Review: Are We Part of the .enclosure.?
Savage Art Escape's murder-mystery escape room in which the audience search for clues in the room before time runs out
Review: Wrap Party
A lightning-quick comedy about invisible labour, ambition and class set in a catering van on a film set.
Review: Mother Courage and Her Children
Brecht’s ferocious message that those who seek profit from war are often its victims too is driven home in the weight of dropped bodies, and Michelle Terry’s outstanding performance.
Review: Unforgettable: An Alzheimer’s Cabaret!
Unforgettable - a take on Alzheimer's that you don't want to miss.
Review: Paul Silverthorne MOOT Concert Unitarian Brighton
Above all thanks to Norman Jacobs for bringing world class new music to Brighton for so long. And not just in this series.
Review: Jenny Zed’s LOST THE PLOT
If Jenny Zed’s mind was Mary Poppins’ handbag, reaching inside wouldn’t pull out your average table, but an onslaught of laughter with maybe a guest appearance from a leg of lamb.
Review: Viola Lenzi and Isabella Gori Four Hands Piano Recital St Nicholas Church, Brighton
It'd be wonderful to see this superbly talented duo bring much else they've already performed. Stunning.
Review: Operation Mincemeat
This is the finest new musical I’ve seen for many years. End of. The hype, the Oliviers and Tony call it right. See it.
Review: Doohickey!
Easily the most accessible, sensory friendly, and fulfilling immersive theatre production for all ages
Review: Learning to CELEBRATE! When Life Hands You a Dysfunctional Family
An interactive party and one-person show through which Scoggins demonstrates the power inherent in choosing what, when, and how we celebrate.
Review: GULP!
"An expertly polished clown performance, confident and expressive through every jump, spin, fall, and crash!"
Review: Quartet in Autumn
Absorbing, a must-see for anyone asking questions of where we begin our endings.
Review: Toast: Stories from the End of the World
Some engaging, lean in science fiction dark comedy theatre
Review: Thikra: Night of Remembering
Dark, intriguing, ritualistic dance from UK superstar choreographer Akram Khan
Review: One Foot in the Dark
Two dance pieces combining contemporary and tradition styles with poetry
Review: Can’t Kill the Spirit
An earnest exploration of activism and conviction, elevated by moments of genuine historical resonance.
Review: The Dasslers
The Dasslers wields a potential beyond its current limitations – both in this brief production and in its current form. And Radford, clearly setting out his dramatic stall in history’s cross-currents, is a voice to watch.
Review: Wench
Standing ovations for this new behemoth of a piece, performed with complete control by the beautiful and intense Felix Le Freak.
Review: All-New Nik Coppin
It could be good, it could be bad. It could be great. But either way, it will be a lot of fun.
Review: Ben Hur – Cue Fanfare
Exceptional and Outstanding epic which never ceases to amaze and amuse!
Review: The Wooster Group. Nayatt School, Redux
Renowned for their avant-garde, multimedia approach blending archive, technology, film, sound, and live performance, the company has profoundly influenced generations of artists and theatre-makers internationally.
Review: Sherlock Holmes vs Arsène Lupin: A Drag Crime Caper
A legendary detective meets a master criminal . . .
Review: Theatre of Wholiness
A visually rich communal happening caught between ritual theatre and contemporary self-help philosophy
Review: The Love We Think We Deserve
It could grow into something both exceptional and even more necessary.
Review: Godot’s To-Do List, Krapp’s Last Tape
A performance of lessness writ large: a man shrinking from his environment, the memories taking over and kicking Krapp’s mere organic matter out.
Review: Oh To Believe in Another World
Shostakovich 10 with William Kentridge film; a fascinating combination
Review: That’s just the way it’s (un)done
A shattering piece, often grotesque and intentionally so, it is also sensual, thoroughly entertaining and infused with a sense of fun
Review: Nocturne Musical
An original musical rooted in Norwegian folklore filled with enchanting song, humour, puppetry and physical theatre.
Review: Lilla Multipass: Woman (33)
Who can really have the most tote bags to “take down the patriarchy”?
Review: The Dance of Time: A New Black Comedy
Here’s hoping it returns, clearly a play with a future as long as Tom’s is apparently short.
Review: Foal
The Finborough have form with five-star solo shows. This is clearly another flued and sanded with the ferocity of pursuit. Outstanding.
Review: Murder, Margaret and Me
Brave, bold and really worth seeing above much else: even in a busy Festival.
Review: Allegra
As an example of a Peter Quilter soufflé, this is the best of his I’ve come across; and Maureen Lipman gleams with a supreme gravity-defying performance. Irresistible.
Review: Patti Smith: An Evening of Words and Music
The Patti Smith plus Quartet raise high the roof beam(s)
Review: Teatro dei Gordi: Visite
As ever, the Coronet and its guests have scored something unique in the British theatre-world.
Review: I’m sorry to disappoint you all
Two friends tangled together. Cocooned in their high rise flat and swallowed by the vastness of the city, an unravelling begins
Review: Are you even Indian?
A British-born Indian woman and an Indian-born man love, spar and dance
Review: When Gary Left Annie (Almost)
A beautifully written romantic comedy with a slightly neurotic, awkward energy that makes ordinary people feel strangely lovable.
Review: Chunxiang’s Schoolroom Prank
A traditional Kunqu comedy from The Peony Pavilion by Tang Xianzu
Review: Jane Eyre
Polly Teale has released the daemons, but Nettie Sheridan’s ensemble has delivered Jane Eyre’s feeling to a pitch remarkable even for BLT.
Review: Neddy Goes to Glasto
Corrina O’Beirne masters the demotic, the lyrical, the witty and metaphorical, all at once. A must-see.
Review: Ashes and Diamonds
Exceptionally humane, humanly absorbing. It’s always 11.15. Till it isn’t
