Articles by Anna Gross

What would Beyonce do?

A stand up comedy show with a unique twist.

Twelfth Night or What You Will

For those not familiar with this Shakespearian classic, it opens with a shipwreck which leaves a brother and sister stranded on the coast of an island called Illyria.

Sunday Lunch in 2063

Review
★★★★
Anna Gross
Brighton Fringe
31st May, 2013

This was the event to wrap up all of the weird, wacky and wonderful treats that the Hendrick’s Carnival of Knowledge had put on over the past five days.

Vivascope

Review
★★
Anna Gross
Brighton Fringe
14th May, 2012

Another Dip Your Toe show, another trip into a bizarre fictional world in a Victorian bathing machine.

Spiegel Supper Club

Review
★★★★
Anna Gross
Brighton Fringe
22nd May, 2013

Broadway Baby doesn’t often get the chance to turn restaurant critic, but as Sam’s of Brighton have added their pre-show Supper Club at the Spiegeltent to the official Fringe p…

A Tchaikovsky Gala Concert

Review
★★★★
Anna Gross
Brighton Fringe
21st May, 2013

An impressive and beautiful rendition of Tchaikovsky’s music, performed with great talent by the Sussex Symphony Orchestra.

Puppet Paramour

Review
★★★★
Anna Gross
Brighton Fringe
7th May, 2012

Picture an intimate little room with white curtains all around you.

The Graduate-an adaptation for the stage

Review
★★
Anna Gross
Brighton Fringe
3rd Jun, 2013

This stage adaption of the book and film was experimental, wacky and creative – a cocktail which at times proved highly successful and at other times fell completely flat.

Peter Straker's BREL

Review
★★★
Anna Gross
Brighton Fringe
18th May, 2012

Peter Straker has one of those recognisable faces ‘off the telly’ having been a regular on the original Dr Who and the 1985 series Connie.

The Pardoner’s Tale

Review
★★
Anna Gross
Brighton Fringe
13th May, 2013

This was a weird and wacky take on the old Chaucerian tale which left itsaudience members altogether bemused.

Naked Homo Live!

Review
★★★★
Anna Gross
Brighton Fringe
28th May, 2012

Naked Homo Live! is set in a members’ only gay club, with an intimate audience of around twenty people, and one naked – completely hairless – performer.

1969 Show and Abbey Road

Review
★★★★
Anna Gross
Brighton Fringe
5th Jun, 2013

The Brighton Beach Boys gave a fairly electric rendition of some of the greatest and most celebrated musical bangers from the year 1969, as well as the Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’.

Major Jack Union's Victorian Monster-Hunting Tea

Review
★★★
Anna Gross
Brighton Fringe
28th May, 2012

Entering a room full of trays of sandwiches, scones, cakes and ‘tea’ which turned out to be minty cocktails in tea-cups (it is sponsored by Hendricks after all) held a whole lo…

Unusually Useful Contents of Kitchen Cupboards

Review
★★★★
Anna Gross
Brighton Fringe
31st May, 2013

If you weren’t lucky enough to venture to the wacky venue, Hendrick’s Carnival of Knowledge was situated in a gentleman’s beautiful seafront home – straddling the border be…