Every good fringe deserves something wacky, and the five Dutch artists that put this show together have tried very hard to be that thing.  It’s described as part gallery, part shop and part concert. But it’s a shop with no true method of exchange, a gallery you can’t properly observe and a concert that is […]

Brighton Festival Associate Company Vincent Dance Theatre present two re-staged shows as part of the ongoing 21 Years/21 Works project documenting and celebrating their work since the company’s inception in 1984. Look at Me Now, Mummy was originally created in 2008; and Underworld in 2012. Audiences could choose whether to see them as two separate […]

Buddug James Jones’ opening words – ‘I am not an actor, but I’m going to give it a bloody good go’ – set the tone for an eccentric and fun-packed hour of biography by this talented young company. Fortunately for everyone, co-performer Max Mackintosh is a trained actor, while David Grubb, who doesn’t speak much, […]

Being There: one of an occasional series for Total Theatre Magazine in which an artist and a witness reflect on their different perspectives. Here, writer and performer Bernadette Russell and her first one-on-one audience member Dorothy Max Prior explore the debut outing for BED   Dorothy Max Prior writes: Bernadette Russell’s new show – she […]

An exuberant audience of children frolic in the pre-show holding area. The performance is taking place in a very smart room (the Ambassador Suite) within the Hilton Metropole hotel, on Brighton seafront. For now, we wait to be led in to witness the legendary French company Velo Theatre present From the bottom of the well, […]