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Picking A Number was an easy choice. Director and actor Tom Chown explains his love for Caryl Churchill and how her “lineage of plays throughout her career, from Cloud Nine…

Fame at The Old Market Review

The play, Fame, was superbly acted by the Brighton Theatre Group (BTG). The performance was well timed, and enthusiastic until the very end. The actors took their roles very seriously,…

Trump Depression Hotline Preview

Next week at The Marlborough, New York collective Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir will be making their next stop on their latest UK tour: Trump Depression Hotline. The…

Theatre on a student budget

Theatre often gets a reputation for being something of a middle-class amusement. Picture a busy auditorium and you’ll probably see flocks of white, middle-aged men and women in fancy clothing,…

“An eclectic mix of theatre and musical performance” – Medea Electronica Review

Drummer Sam Cox thrusts a drumstick skyward, interrupting the second refrain of Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights playing through The Old Market’s PA. A synthwave drum beat gives way to the…

FAME Preview

A remake of the 1980s television series Fame, which was also made into a 2009 feature film, is now being performed by the BTG (Brighton Theatre Group) Youth live at…

Dracula: The Bloody Truth Preview

With Halloween ominously looming around the corner, it seems only apt to delve into what Brighton Theatre’s weird and wonderful world has to offer this October. Next week at Brighton’s…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…