19th May 2016 The French Revolution, The Plague, Orson Welles “fucking up his second film” are – as Canadian born theatre producer and playwright Deborah Pearson suggests – all contingent factors on which our individual existences are predicated. A straightforward… Continue Reading
17th May 2016 The premise of this new production from Spymonkey was certainly an irresistible one: In commemoration of the 400 years since the Bard of Avon shuffled off this mortal coil, the Brighton based physical comedy troupe… Continue Reading
13th May 2016 (Photo by Zoe Manders) The prospect of re-enacting 17th century poet John Milton’s 10,000 line epic Paradise Lost via the medium of 75 minutes of dance based theatre involving a sole actor taking up the role of… Continue Reading
12th May 2016 David Guetta – ‘This One’s For You’ Like a toaster in a bathtub or Kev Livingstone at a Bar Mitzvah, music and football are surely two things that expound the Kipling idiom “never the twain shall meet”;… Continue Reading
7th May 2016 Compared to the most famous of the late, great musicians who have the eternal misfortune of membership to the now infamous 27 Club, fairly little seems to be widely known about Janis Joplin. While the passing of… Continue Reading
24th April 2016 One third of the way through his film, French born Australian director Philippe Mora ponders “How do you make a film about the Holocaust?” It’s a very good question, the most devastating genocide in history having been… Continue Reading
20th April 2016 Apparently 123,205,750 words will pass from the lips of the average person in a lifetime. Almost solely facilitating our social interactions, it is with words that we express our innermost thoughts, find common ground with others, nurture… Continue Reading
21st April 2016 Cage The Elephant – ‘Cry Baby’ Taken from last December’s Tell Me I’m Pretty, this new single from the Kentucky four-piece is a stomping slab of indie rock which combines retro psychedelia – as best exemplified in… Continue Reading