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The Tempest review

As the sun begins to set over Hove Green, tinnies of Red Stripe are cracked open, tartan blankets are strewn, and families tuck into their picnic hampers. It’s an unusual…

Shakespeare in the sun – The Tempest preview

In a world of dystopian King Lears and female Hamlets, Shakespeare’s classics are constantly being reimagined for the modern day. There’s something oddly refreshing then about the phenomenally back-to-basics traditional…

The Dangers of Solitude – My Floorboards Review

When I arrived at Brighton’s Open Air Theatre, I was apprehensive about My Floorboards. After some research, you would think I knew what I was in for. I was prepared…

Lord of the Flies Review

On a cold and rainy September evening in Hove, warm yellow light floods a stage strewn with leaves, branches and aeroplane parts. This is the island, and it is our…

“Method To The Madness?” – My Floorboards Preview

As a successful summer at Brighton Open Air Theatre draws to a close, French theatre company Bubblegum Parfum Desert presents My Floorboards. This translated work promises an explosive day of…

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.” Lord of the Flies Preview

Published in 1954 and now firmly cemented as one of the nation’s favourite classics, William Golding’s novel about the plight of young schoolboys stranded on a remote island, forced to…