The Royale Heading for The Tabernacle
Based loosely on the story of boxer Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world, The Royale will be gracing the stage at The Tabernacle this November. The…
Wine, Women and Richard Burton, and a lot of laughs….
If you take a walk past Churchill Square and into the more regal location of Hove, you may stumble on The Iron Duke Hotel. Immediately inside is a homely pub…
Kate Tempest Speaking Against The Grain
Spoken word is an art form that often evades definition or categorisation, and that is no bad thing. Regularly viewed as distinct from, although closely associated with, written poetry, it…
SUDs and SMuTs Q&A
Our Theatre Editor, Miles Fagge, interviews both Dara Meunier-Patterson, the star of SMuTs breath-taking production of Cabaret last term and SUDs member Emma Zambon, who gave a brilliantly chilling performance…
Brighton film: the Badger selection
Monica Cherrie Welcome to the film section of The Badger! For those of you who consider yourselves to be cinephiles, I would like to give you the 411 on how…
Ghostbusters: who you gonna call?
SUMMER REVIEW Monica Cherrie Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters did exactly what it set out to do: entertain. Since the film’s release at the beginning of summer, it has received a lot…
Sussex students set for the fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest and perhaps most famous arts festivals in the world. Taking over the beautiful Scottish capital every August it showcases some of the finest…
Our favourite theatres
Brighton is one of the most culturally exciting cities there is, and the theatre on offer here plays a big part in that. We put together a list of our…
East Review
Between the crowd’s gasps, laughs and did that really just happen? SUDS’s last show for this term was by no means the least — if anything it was the best…
The Night Manager
On March 27th BBC One aired the final episode of their six-part mini series, The Night Manager. Sustained continually with incredibly high viewing numbers – 10.18 million viewers tuning in…
Stabs In The Dark: Review
Taken on a whirlwind of vignettes, Stabs in the Dark from director Ka Wei Chan and producer Maddie Holderness is the perfect title for a play that penetrates that fragmentary…
An Evening of Shorts: Century 16 & Platform
Debuting on Wednesday, March 16th, Sussex University Drama Society (SUDS) presented an evening of two short, twenty-minute plays. The plays were completely unrelated, set in two different dimensions, and all…
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
It’s an awkward title isn’t it? Unwieldy, hefty, hard to define. At least ‘Man of Steel’ made sense, representing a fresh take on a cultural icon while emphasising the humanity…
There Is No ‘Society’?
SUDS’ last play of first term is a coming-of-age comedy drama, directed and written by Emma Phillips, entitled ‘Society’. The play is centred around five British teenagers of Thatcher’s era…
TV: Better Call Saul, Season 2
The Breaking Bad spin-off finally comes into its own, in its second instalment. Eventually defining its own identity as a programme in its own right, and not just a spin-off…
CABARET REVIEW: Where are your troubles now? Forgotten?
Oh Cabaret! Sussex University Musical Theatre Society (SMuTS) is at it again. This week’s musical spectacular was truly one of a kind. Directed by Joshua Clayton, the Goodbye To Berlin…
The Divergent Series: Allegiant Review
Before you start commenting on this review, I’d like to disclose that dystopian novels (which then get turned into movies) are my guilty pleasure and have been ever since I…
Komedia: Comic Boom
Comic Boom is Komedia’s sell-out monthly night of exciting new comedy without the gamble. The MC this time round was Mark Simmons, who did a fantastic job hosting a friendly fast…