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Monsters, Movies and Mayhem – Comedians Cinema Club Preview

One of Brighton’s most bizarre comedy nights returns this coming Thursday with Komedia’s fourth instalment of Comedians Cinema Club: an improvised show where a team of comedians recreate cinema classics,…

“Expect Kings, Queens and everything in between…” – DragSoc East Slope Takeover Preview

On the Wednesday evening of Freshers’ Week, Sussex students new and old will be treated to an exciting evening of dancing and performance with the university’s very own Drag Society.…

“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…

“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…

“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…

State of Nature: Immersive political theatre

This wasn’t theatre, this was an interactive evening in Utah with the State Governor, Merriweather, come terrorist which blew me away, literally, there is a terror explosion in the first…

Rambert at the Theatre Royal Brighton

Leading UK contemporary dance company, Rambert, stunned audiences at the Theatre Royal Brighton on March 1 with a trio of strikingly innovative performances. The curtain opens on a lone man…

Reworking Gender Roles Through Performance Art

It seems to be the assumption of many that drama students their days either rolling around on the floor of the ACCA, pretending to be trees or belting High School…

Drinking and Drama: an interview with The Marlborough Pub and Theatre’s Abby Butcher

If you envisage culture and community as a sort of Matryoshka doll with the outermost one being the U.K., liberal Britain sitting inside it, and groups like the LGBTQ+ community…

The Absurdity of Modern Politics

It is fair to say that we are living in troubled times. Not only troubled though, they are becoming increasingly absurd, this absurdity personified by Donald Trump and his ridiculous…

‘Shirley Valentine’ Theatre Review

As I took my seat in The Marlborough Theatre and was greeted with Queen’s ‘I Want to Break Free’ I knew I was in for a good time. However, I…

Previews – The Judas Kiss

John Attridge Theatre Royal Brighton Mon 5th-Sat 10th November 19:45. £19-39 David Hare’s celebrated play comes from Richmond to the Theatre Royal, Brighton for a limited time this November. Set…

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…

Ghost Stories

As University students, the prospect of sitting through an 80 minute lecture may seem quite tedious. However, ‘Ghost Stories’ is a lecture with a twist, and one that should definitely…

Backstage at the Theatre Royal

Brighton’s Theatre Royal is one of the oldest continually-working theatrical venues in Britain. There’s been a theatre on this site for more than 200 years, with the original building gradually…

Audience Theatrics

Embarrassing stories from the Stalls During a performance of Breakfast at Tiffanys in November last year an audience member vomited over a balcony, showering six people below with sick and…

McGoughière

Liverpool poet Roger McGough has written plays before, but “never,” he modestly admits, with “as much success” as his adaptations of Molière. “It’s the combination you need, Molière and me”…

Rain Man

Having finished re-watching the film only an hour before the lights came up, I was doubtful any production of Rain Man would match the iconic film made over twenty years…

Our Man in Havana

Just over a year ago I visited Cuba and stayed there for two months. Havana, the capital, is a vibrant, energetic and charming city. It is a city that will…

Rocky Horror Show

Alright I admit it: I’m a Rocky Horror virgin. I have neither seen the stage show nor watched the film. I have in short completely bypassed the alleged brilliance of…