Articles by Lou Rogers

Nathan Cassidy: The Man in the Arena

Nathan Cassidy is pretty angry about a three star review he once received.

Circled in The Radio Times

John Osborne is a fabulous storyteller.

What if the Plane Falls Out of the Sky?

Idiot Child throws everything into this show, quite literally: glitter, mojitos, frazzles and mini chedders, balloons, badges, sweets, music, stories, nudity and endless energy.

Blooming

Patrick Sandford is engaging, entertaining and certainly knows how to hold an audience.

The Brexorcist

I was really looking forward to this show.

The Life & Death of Puppet King Richard II

Review
★★★★
Lou Rogers
Brighton Fringe
ONCA
15th May, 2017

This is Richard II as you’ve never seen him before, in a purple shell-suit wielding power over his puppet kingdom with subjects that range from beautiful two foot high hand carve…

WiFi Wars

If like me you whiled away many a Saturday stopping your dog’s tail from slightly moving your carefully balanced lead from your cassette player to your Spectrum ZX81, keeping e…

The Lamellar Project

Set in the year 2039, this is a world that man has destroyed.

Police Cops

With tight abs, even tighter moves and slick choreography, Police Cops runs at a pace that will make your head spin and is silly, fun and very entertaining.

Shit-faced Showtime: The Pirates of Penzance

The actors in Shit-Faced Showtime have a lot to deal with, a drunk member of their cast, remembering their lines, singing in tune, playing the piano and also dealing with drunk, an…

It's Okay, I'm Dealing With It

The Hiccup Project were the darlings of the 2015 Brighton Fringe with their show May-We-Go-Round, winning awards and accolades in abundance and that holy grail of all Fringe art…

King Lear

This is the second time Michael Pennington has donned the crown of Lear and this time it’s a Lear clearly made for a 21st Century audience; cut down and pacey.

The Last Five Years

Review
★★★★
Lou Rogers
Brighton Fringe
BHASVIC
29th May, 2015

The Last Five Years, by the darling of the Contemporary musical theatre world Jason Robert Brown, is about struggling actress Cathy and successful novelist Jamie’s five year rela…

The Marie Curie Project

This musical is billed as a work-in-progress showing as it will premiere at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer.

I AM NOT ANTIGONE

Antigone is about failed rebellion and fighting for fairness.

Mr Fogg: Youth

Mr Fogg was not at all what I was expecting.

Stalin's Daughter

Svetlana Alliluyeva was Stalin’s only daughter.

Known

Snippet Theatre Company is a new company made up of talented young graduates who have a very bright future.

Pond Wife

The Pond Wife is a fun, colourful and very sparkly modern adaptation of the Little Mermaid with a lot of 90’s pop thrown in performed by the bubbly Holly and Ted.

Camille O'Sullivan

If you think that going to a Camille O’Sullivan gig will be a nice way to spend an hour listening to music wash over you think again.

Stuck With You

This play is billed as an adaptation of Edwards Lear’s classic poem The Owl and the Pussycat.

Monte Cassino Morning

Set in a nursing home in 2014, Edward Kinsley tells us about his life and, ever the Gentleman, offers us tea.

The State Vs John Hayes

Huntsville Prison, Texas 1959.

Frank Sent Me

Two gangsters, Howe and Wallace, are trapped in a room, awaiting the inevitable knock at the door that will signal the end for Howe.

Peter Antoniou - Happy Medium

Peter Antoniou is a small guy in a small venue with a big mind blowing show.

Don't Tell Anyone About Sarah Callaghan

Sarah Callaghan wants to tell us a secret in her first one hour Fringe show.

Ernest and the Pale Moon

As the audience enter Ernest is sitting and watching the girl of his dreams, which he does every night.

Kevin Eldon and Some Colleagues

May 17th is World Neurofibromatosis awareness day and what better way to raise awareness and funds than two hours of top quality comedy.

The Horne Section

The Horne Section is part music, part comedy - or as Alex Horne describes it ‘like swimming whilst holding a picture’.

Complete History of the BBC (Abridged)

We were welcomed into the Cathode Ray Museum of Broadcasting, East Cheam by Terence (played by Bob Sinfield) in full evening dress.

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho

Feathers, glitter, gold lame and The Weather Girls.

'Bud' by Nick Darke

Bud by Nick Darke is a one-man show that was originally written for the RSC and performed in 1985.

Herbie's Jazz Breakfast

It was early(ish) on a Sunday, but still the Speigeltent was bursting at the seams without an empty seat.

Clever Peter: The Dreams Factory

‘We don’t just do adverts, we do dreams’.

Darren Walsh: Chicken Meow

I really wanted to like Darren Walsh’s new show - I saw him last year and raved about him.

IN TRANSIT a solo show

Review
★★
Lou Rogers
Brighton Fringe
24th May, 2013

It’s clear that Florence Leon is a performer with passion, but you need a little more than that to pull off a solo show.

The Kiosk: A See, Do, Connect Experience

Review
★
Lou Rogers
Brighton Fringe
31st May, 2013

By equity rules if there are more cast on stage than audience you don’t need to perform.

Someone else's shoes

Review
★★★
Lou Rogers
Brighton Fringe
21st May, 2013

Trailblaze Theatre Company are a young company with bags of enthusiasm who, according to their website blurb, specialise in interactive and immersive theatre.

Idlers of the Enlightenment, a Symposium

Review
★★★★
Lou Rogers
Brighton Fringe
27th May, 2013

Three of the most enlightened brains of the modern age, Tom Hodgkinson, John Mitchinson and Mark Vernon, are sitting on the small stage in the beautiful Hendricks Carnival of Knowl…

Bash

Review
★★★
Lou Rogers
Brighton Fringe
15th May, 2013

The Brighton Rep Theatre is a new company trying to achieve an admirable goal; repertory theatre for the local audience employing local professionals.

Pie Eyed

Review
★★★
Lou Rogers
Brighton Fringe
3rd Jun, 2013

A theme seems to be developing within this years Fringe.

Stuperstition

Review
★★★★★
Lou Rogers
Brighton Fringe
17th May, 2013

I am on stage at the Marlborough theatre verifying a magician’s mouth is empty.

Darren Walsh: I am a Giant.

Review
★★★★
Lou Rogers
Brighton Fringe
6th May, 2013

This is Darren Walsh’s first solo show and it definitely won’t be his last.

Mikelangelo And The Black Sea Gentlemen

Review
★★★★
Lou Rogers
Brighton Fringe
6th May, 2013

A Brighton debut of Spiegeltent regulars Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen.

Desperately Seeking the Exit

Review
★★★
Lou Rogers
Brighton Fringe
9th May, 2013

In 2007 Peter Michael Marino got stoned with a friend and came up with the idea of turning the 1980’s movie ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ starring Madonna and Rosanna Arquette …