Diana the Musical: Keeping it Camp, not Classy
Words by Ali Arief If I’m perfectly honest I think this was the most bizarre musical I have ever watched. Readers may recall my scathing judgement explicitly targeted at this…
Review: Leopoldstadt
A review and personal familial reflection on Tom Stoppard’s touching play Words by Rob Barrie I have experienced very few plays that extend as intrinsically on a personal level as…
Why We Don’t Need a Princess Diana Musical
Words by Ali Arief, Theatre Editor On the 1st of October, an absolute lesson in complete distaste is going to hit your Netflix account overnight. Unless you’ve been living underneath…
SUDS: Getting Involved, Auditions And Excitement
Words by Ali Arief, Theatre Editor Sussex University’s well known, well-loved and highly popular Drama Society (SUDS) is reopening with a bang and I am so excited to announce that…
A Review of The Woman in Black
By Ali Arief I would be lying to you all if I said that I wasn’t super excited to see this absolute wonder of a play. As soon as I…
A Well Awaited Festival
Words by Elijah Arief Brighton is set to play host to it’s annual Brighton Fringe Festival on the 28th of May after receiving a £143,000 fund from the governments Arts…
What’s on this summer in Brighton
Words by Robyn Cowie With optimism that theatre’s shall be reopening their doors to crowds, albeit with social distancing and one the day testing, all across the UK venues are…
BlackStage UK: Fighting Microaggressions, Assumptions and Institutional Racism in Theatre
Words by Elijah Arief BlackStage UK is a platform which seeks to support Black artists and creators within the theatre sphere, created by Gabrielle Brooks the platform exists to tackle…
Theatre’s to Reopen May 17th Says Downing Street
Words by Elijah Arief Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on the 22nd of February during a government briefing that theatre’s will be allowed to reopen with some restrictions on the…
‘On the day testing’ is Key to Theatres and Nightclubs Reopening
Words By Elijah Arief On February 15th the Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave a Downing Street briefing detailing how lateral flow testing is key for nightclubs, theatres and other entertainment…
‘The Container’: A Digital Theatre Review
Words by Elijah Arief Clare Bayley’s fast paced, paranoid and stomach wrenching play The Container is the piece of theatre I chose to stream this week. The play itself was…
How has the Coronavirus pandemic affected Drama at Sussex?
Words by Megan Taylor The Coronavirus pandemic hit the UK all the way back in January 2020 and it is safe to say it has had a significant impact on…
Unspoken Rules, ‘Getting it Wrong’ and Adaptive Superheroes: Nuerodivergency in Theatre Spaces
Words Elijah Arief In a world of rigid social structures and unspoken rules, where certain cues and the ‘right way to behave’ reign supreme, theatre is often a place where…
All About Sussex Musical Theatre Society (SMuTs)
Words By Harrison Fitzgerald At Sussex, as I am sure you are by now aware, there are literally hundreds of different societies for you to join in with, whether that…
Brighton: A Film Fan’s Guide
Words by Yazz James Cinemas Aside from the central, Przym-neighbouring Odeon or the Marina’s Cineworld, Brighton is home to many other cinemas and screens. Depot Reachable by bus or train,…
The Show Must Go Online: A Review of Digital Hamlet
Words by Elijah Arief Theatre and technology are two things which seem incongruent. Technology seems to create a barrier between us and the art, it is a wall of separation…
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Jinkx Monsoon on Together Again, Again, on LGBTQ+ and non-binary issues and on returning to RuPaul’s Drag Race
Editor-in-Chief Chris Ahjem sits down with RuPaul's Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon to discuss their new show, LGBTQ+ issues and whether they'd return to Drag Race.
The Music of The Shining
Words by Ryan Bridgewater From its opening helicopter shots of the Rocky Mountains scored by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind, music is fundamental to Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic The…
‘Stand-Up History Brighton’ – A Review?
I feel a particular ambivalence toward review and criticism. While I have used them in the past to filter my consumption, I’ve also found myself incredulous at what has appeared,…