Home, hope, fear, sacrifice… These are the themes at the heart of Dr Blighty, Nutkhut’s site-specific commission which, for the final week of the Brighton Festival, masterfully commandeered both the exterior of the gloriously oriental folly that is the Brighton Pavilion and its surrounding gardens. The show is inspired by the extraordinary First World War […]

Puppeteer Joni-Rae Carrack presents two shows, in rep on alternating days, at the Warren’s Brighton Fringe venue. At the heart of Buttons, the first show by emerging puppetry company Sort of Theatre, is a very powerful puppetry metaphor. Buttons, snipped from the clothes of Jewish people as part of the complete stripping of their resources […]

Robert Cohen has ploughed a lonely, yet finely turned, furrow in solo character comedies in the past few years, taking on communist-turned-informer in The Trials of Harvey Matusow or maligned (or was it malignant?) traffic warden in High Vis. This production has another misunderstood antihero at its heart: fratricidal usurper Claudius, whose actions (in)famously trigger […]

With a Little Bit of Luck can best be described as a mash up of garage rave and show. It has all the energy of a club night but the storytelling chops of a strong piece of theatre (written by rising star Sabrina Mahfouz). The one-woman show features Seroca Davis, who multi-roles a world of […]

Theatre has some pretty bloody antecedents and these are the subject (and lurking subtext) of interactive Brighton-based company FoulPlay’s latest puppet-centric feast for Brighton Fringe. We begin in an auction room where the bids (ours), for a host of relics from a certain Elizabethan entertainment establishment, are coming thick and fast. In 2014 the company […]