A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
Rape, homophobic bullying, knife crime and murder in a mental health/correctional institute, Mathew Bourne’s Romeo+Juliet is probably the most shocking and bold of his re-imaginin…
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
Ask the average punter in HMV what jazz is and they’ll describe squalling saxophones, pulsating trumpets, and the white heat of constant improvisation in a smoky bar.
Tom Stade calls his show The Essential as it contains topics and themes that he believes are international and integral to many different cultures and lifestyles, thus maximising i…
The Peatbog Faeries don’t really look like rock stars, or what you might call the traditional larger-than-life performer.
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s more often than not a badly-played oboe.
Looking for stagecraft and charisma is an odd part of reviewing a music show.
Feis Rois and Friends is a show by Feis Rois, an organisation which promotes traditional celtic and Scottish folk music.
Rock and Dole is Sam Avery’s story of how his band dBh (dirty Blue hooks) went from humble beginnings with their mums backstage at their first gig to touring Europe and even open…
Crunch the News is a panel show in the vein of shows such as Radio 4’s News Quiz and Have I Got News For You.
Bruce Fummey’s show is a chronicle of his learning the native language of Scotland.
I was so ready to tear this show down.
Sketch is arguably one of comedy’s hardest forms, requiring an individual to have the abilities of a writer, actor, comedian, director, and critic, all at the same time.
The venue Worbey and Farrell play in looks like it is reserved for an austere classical performance, with the solemn black piano dominating the stage.
Unavailable for Comment, hosted by Marcus Brigstocke, is a news-based quiz and sketch show.
Tired of playing soulless corporate gigs and run-of-the-mill crowd pleasers at the weekend, Geoff Norcott is taking the plunge with this show, his first where he talks about what h…
Moving Family is a play written by Paul Charlton, the Geordie from The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek.
Character comedy is slowly but surely leeching into stand-up.
When you get more laughs from riffing off your audience in the first five minutes then you do for the whole rest of your show, you know something’s wrong.
When Lior Attar comes on stage, he doesn’t look like much - a guy in skinny jeans with a beard and a guitar and let’s be honest, there’s lots of those about.
Steve Bugeja is certainly trying hard.
Jacques Brel is one of the most famous French singers of all time.
The Surrender is a play about sex.
I went into Anthropoetry not sure what to expect.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
Michael Che’s show Cartoon Violence offers a little fresh perspective on current issues such as racism, bullying, sex, and the recession.
They say that comedy is all about the delivery and no-one proves this more than Neil Hickey, whose show is a prime example of one that could be perfectly competent, but which is re…
Nish Kumar is in the throes of an identity crisis, only in this instance it is other people being confused about him, rather than him about himself.
Valvona & Crolla is a bit of a household name in Edinburgh, and that’s putting it mildly.
There is a saying in Hollywood that the gun you see in the first scene will go off in the third.
Within the House of Shadows, there is an explanation for cultural popularity that I found rather endearing.
It’s often the simple ideas that are the best.
If your knowledge of Mongolian history is limited to Genghis Khan, or if you think that folk music is merely background music for washed-out hippies, then Anda Union are the perfec…
Thank goodness for the British public’s ability to laugh at itself, otherwise the soggy weather might prove too much when it starts lapping at our ankles.
When it comes to unusual instruments, the harp probably is somewhere in the top 5.
I have a confession to make: until recently, I’d never been to the circus.
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
Euna Park produced an excellent performance in St.
Musical comedy is a risky business.
The Gillis Centre, situated in the leafy Grange, is far away from the hustle and bustle of the Fringe and its blizzard of proffered leaflets.
Free comedy is like cinema pick n’ mix.
The best often start out young.
Blues can be a difficult act to pull off.
It’s only when you look back at your childhood books and films that you realise how many of them are ripe for satire.
The idea of searching for a lost parent is particularly fertile territory.
When in the first ten minutes of the show there have already been several jokes about vaginas and a song essentially about paedophilia, it quickly dawns that few sacred cows are go…
I went into Sex Ed! a little wary.
Multitasking can be very difficult: Gerald Ford was famously said to not be able to walk and chew gum.
My main memory of French lessons is struggling to remember lists of increasingly bizarre irregular verbs, a recollection many will, sadly, find familiar.
Flowers are not only part and parcel of music lyrics, but also the pretty packaging on top.
For the first ten minutes of Ben Okri’s the Comic Destiny, I sat there entirely unsure about what was going on.
In the world of organs, the Frobenius brand is king.
The Prince and the Pauper has long been a staple of children’s bedtimes so the cast from Newman’s Art College had to satisfy not only children’s expectations but their parent…