Dracula: The Bloody Truth Review
At Hove’s The Old Market, the stage was spectacularly set for a ghoulish night of horror (and light-hearted entertainment) for fast-approaching Halloween. Unfortunately, Le Navet Bet’s performance of Dracula: The…
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,…
“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…
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…
“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…
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”,…
“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…
WHIST Review
Arriving at Brighton’s Old Market theatre, I was promptly ushered into a space inhabited by a number of intriguing marble-finish objects that appeared to be melting into an oil-like substance…
“A Journey Into The Unconscious Mind” – WHIST Preview
This September, Ashford-based dance company AΦE bring their five-star performance WHIST to the Old Market, Brighton. WHIST is an art installation come physical theatre piece inspired by the work of…
A Clockwork Orange: A history of ultra-violence
Charlie Jones When A Clockwork Orange burst onto the world cinema stage in 1971 it became an instant cult classic; shocking its audience with its brutal monochrome vision of a…