Brighton Year-Round
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Brighton Year-Round 2024
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Mark Burgess and his students should feel immensely satisfied. And of course the students themselves divinely dissatisfied as they develop their craft.
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What brings this musical home is the drawing-together of threads that hang loose in Act One. And finally you believe in a story that doesn’t flinch from darkness and sings its distress. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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This is the finest Christie production I can remember. If you’re not a Christie fan, do see this anyway: it’s far more than a whodunnit.
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The last ten minutes in particular are the silliest stuff: which is why it works. Soon more of the show will tighten and we’ll see that quality retro-fit.
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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.
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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.
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Assured, idiomatic performances. And Martin McDonagh’s distinction resonates in a manner peculiar to him alone. A must-see for anyone in Sussex.
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It’s a phenomenal feat and even if you know Macbeth, it’s still a must-see for how a quintessence can be dusted off.
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Cook and team have shown commendable disregard for comfortable options, sharing a rediscovery.
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Neil Crossland Piano Recital, Unitarian Church, New Road Brighton
All in all an outstanding recital. Neil Crossland’s piano recital at the Unitarian Church is again on another level
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You’re not going to see anything this special in most (if any) revivals, however luxury-cast. In stripping-back, then regrowing a complete ensemble with even lesser songs, this is the most complete Oliver! we’re likely to see.
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In short, a fabulous example of British talent, now endangered, bringing quadruple threat to a magnificent production. Not all such mainstream shows on tour even approach outstanding, but this truly is.
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St Nicholas Duo Brikcius 2 Cello Recital
Overall a richly satisfying recital, letting us into worlds and sonorities, ways of listening to some music we knew, and much we didn’t, that I’d love to hear again. Superb.
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St Nicholas John Bruzon Recital
Sovereign performance, intriguing sidelights. An immensely satisfying recital.
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St Nicholas Kwanita Kwan-Lam Lau & Guangmel Chen Schumann Violin Sonatas
To have these Sonatas played and one after another too, is an absolute privilege, almost a luxury
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St Nicholas Louis-Viktor Bak Piano Recital
An exceptionally distinguished recital. We’re lucky to have Louis-Viktor Bak, and the Petroff piano might just tempt him – and others – to return.
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St Nicholas Richard Bowen Guitar Recital
Recommended for languorous afternoons such as the burst of May outside.
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St Nicholas Simon Carrey Fauré and Chaminade Recital
Simon Carrey is an exquisite and deeply-musical pianist, wholly in tune with Fauré. I’d love to have heard two hours of him, with an interval.
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Exemplary performances and production: with Charly Sommers outstanding as a woman hollowed out by everyone she knows. An auspicious full-length debut for Neil Hadley.
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Spellbindingly translated to the stage and here with more power even than before. Don’t miss it.
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This is the greatest one-man performance I’ve seen, said a Chekhov-immersed director of 45 years’ experience next to me. Yes.