theatre

Komedia last week played host to a fun-filled stand-up ensemble who mixed their passion for comedy with that of history, archaeology and philosophy. The MC was Harry Househam who has…

Comedy quartet The Noise Next Door arrive at Komedia this weekend for their one-of-a-kind comedy show blending improv, music, geekery and a good helping of Christmassness for good measure. Having…

Ballet is about precise and highly formalized steps and gestures. BalletBoyz not only demonstrated high dancing precision, but challenged today’s preconceptions we have of ballet. Fourteen Days was a fully…

Can You See Me Now? is a powerful performance that deals with issues in the social services and policy-making decisions in Britain. With a mixture of heart-wrenching performances, the Miss…

Note: explicit performance discussed “Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another…. Every one of her actions – whatever…

Coming to The Old Market this weekend is yet another excitingly unique performance: Sixth Sense. Performer Luke Jermay is a distinguished mentalist and mind-reader. His official website proudly claims that…

Simon Amstell came to the Brighton Dome last weekend on his UK stand-up tour: What Is This? The comedian best known for hosting Never Mind the Buzzcocks, is also a…

A fun-filled mix of history and comedy is coming to Brighton’s Komedia next week. Dreamt up by Alex Farrow, at the time a History, Politics and R.E. student at Oxford…

After their success at the Brighton Dome last year, BalletBoyz returns to Brighton’s Dome to stun their audience with a high-end performance. In preparation for their arrival at Brighton, we…

We are told to be certain things in life, to fulfil certain roles, and not challenge what others tell us. Miss Represented works with young women from different walks of…

As the audience enters the auditorium, ‘Lady Marmalade’ blares from the speakers. Moments later a woman appears apologetically in her underwear. It is as apt an introduction to Vanessa Kisuule’s…

Matthew Spanglerʼs first foray into adapting text for stage came 22 years ago, at the University of Sussex, with a performance of Conradʼs Heart of Darkness. Fast forward two decades,…

Tragedy. Farce. Stage fright. The language of traditional theatre is threaded through our everyday vocabulary. You may not have ever stepped foot in a theatre, but you know what it…

How do you imagine the contemplations of the Bloomsbury Group in a modern cultural climate? The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) achieved exactly that, showcasing four outstanding and…

This weekend, critically-acclaimed comedian Simon Amstell will be visiting the Brighton Dome on his UK tour of stand-up show What is This?. Amstell rose to prominence on comedy panel show…

India’s tradition of dance-theatre is wrapped up in a contested historical narrative. A masterful mix of storytelling and footwork — or recitation and gesture — Kathak weaves tales from Hindu…

When I decided to feature Festival of the Spoken Nerd in The Badger, it was with plenty of confidence that the show would be a definite hit with the student…

I went to see Komedia’s monthly gay-friendly stand-up comedy show Bent Double on the 5th November. The show runs every first Sunday of the month and consists of 3 acts…

Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is a novel about change. It chronicles the progression of two inseparable friends, Amir and Hassan, and how their relationship is forever altered after an…

With Sexy, Vanessa Kisuule arrives at the Brighton Dome ready to ask some probing questions; what do you find sexy, are you sexy, and what does sexy even mean anyway?…