Digital Tattoo Review
Katie Dale-Everett’s Digital Tattoo came to the Attenborough Centre last Tuesday, blending dance, projection and interactive theatre to critique our increasingly dependent relationship with social media. The first, and stronger,…
BONER KILLER Preview
Brighton’s queer performance venue The Marlborough Pub and Theatre will be showing Erin Markey’s BONER KILLER”. The show takes Markey’s story-driven stand-up into an intimate musical conversation between what Markey…
REMOTE Review
I went into this performance with few expectations, but I did have one: I was certain I would experience interactive theatre. This exciting possibility was my only preconception due to…
The Saga of the European King Live Review
Upon arrival at O N C A the event looked like a private viewing of a production. The space was picturesque, eccentric and hosted at an art gallery. The room…
Artist Focus: Brighton Through The Eyes Of The Locals
This week we talked with Constance, A recent English Literature Graduate, who is now taking her masters at Sussex University. How has being in Brighton influenced your photography? Brighton influences…
Blade Runner 2049 – Review
Science fiction, at its best, should be intellectual, philosophical and innovative. It should be creative, but also reflective of our own reality. Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is paradoxical in…
“Masterfully intelligent and endlessly creative” – ErictheFred Review
Darkly comic and technologically astounding, ErictheFred is a spectacular show encompassing everything that one hopes contemporary theatre can be. Profoundly moving one minute, outrageously silly the next, the performance twists…
“Smashing distinctions between theatre and music” – Medea Electronica Preview
A week on from The Marlborough’s own modern re-working of Medea, The Old Market raises to the challenge with its own experimental take on the Ancient Greek tragedy. This time…
“Intimate and superbly important” – Digital Tattoo Preview
This week the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) hosts Digital Tattoo, a multi-media dance piece created by KDE Dance. Handily located beside the library on Sussex campus, the…
Cambridge Rockers Alt-J at the Brighton Centre
A gig at the Brighton Centre is always a glittering affair and tonight’s offering of Leeds three-piece Alt-J proved to be exactly that. Hampshire rockers, Blaenavon, kick off proceedings with…
Seafront Club and Electronic Venue MONO to Close
One of Brighton’s finest clubs and a locals’ favourite for underground dance music is closing its doors. MONO has announced that it will be leaving the space at the end…
REMOTE Preview
Interactive theatre-makers Coney arrive at The Old Market in Hove for one night only on their UK tour of game theatre experience, REMOTE. Boldly proclaiming itself “theatre of the future”,…
Teatro Without Borders
In a world where borders have been – and remain – of great relevance, finding more reasons to fuel a segregating mentality can be very harmful. Spain and Britain’s relationship…
The Handmaid’s Tale – does Hulu do it justice?
Bruce Miller’s Hulu adaptation of award-winning classic ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has found an upsurge in fans since its release date on 26th April 2017. Yet when pitting the series and…
Get thrown into the flamboyant universe of 1960s adolescence with Dreamboats and Petticoats – Review
This week, the Theatre Royal Brighton has on stage plenty of dancing and singing with Dreamboats and Petticoats. This show is for all those who joyfully embrace the cheesiness of…
“A Wild, Strange Ride” – The Saga of the European King Live – Preview
On Friday evening, O N C A is presenting as part of Brighton Digital Festival, the first live performance of the audio drama: The Saga of the European King. The…
Pick of the Summer: Detroit – Review
Rare as it is for a film to contribute anything entirely new to cinema as a whole, Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit brings a stunningly original empathetic naturalism into the realm of…
Medea, Written In Rage Review
Jean-René Lemoine’s acclaimed production of Medea, Written in Rage came to Brighton’s Marlborough Theatre last week, telling the story of a woman who takes revenge on her former husband by…
“A twisted take on classical clowning” – ErictheFred Preview
Recently, we have found ourselves amidst a bizarre kind of “clowning renaissance”. From the unnerving and occasionally violent sightings across the US over previous years, to FX horror anthology American…
“Romances, rivalries and rock ‘n’ roll anthem” – Dreamboats and Petticoats Preview
Jukebox musical, Dreamboats and Petticoats, arrives at the gorgeous Theatre Royal Brighton this week, for its 10 year anniversary tour. Set at a British youth club in the early sixties,…
