‘This is a true story. In the early 90s in Chicago, I fell in love with a man who was running for president – in a dress.’ George Orange’s entertaining and engaging autobiographical show starts with an entrance from the rear – ooh missus – as our George slides quietly into the auditorium and then […]
Writings
George Orange: How I Almost Became the First Lady of the USA
June 4th, 2016 by Dorothy Max Prior
Laura Burns & Emma Frankland: NOW 16 (Week 1)
June 1st, 2016 by Rebecca JS NiceThe Yard Theatre’s annual festival for contemporary theatre, NOW, runs a weekly programme showing a new double bill each week for five weeks. This gives artists time to develop work via repeat performances and to firmly establish a relationship with the theatre, the site, and their paired artist. This year, Week 1 opens with WISHBONE, […]
Mamoru Iriguchi: 4D Cinema
June 1st, 2016 by Matt RudkinThis is a refreshingly accessible live art work that is by turns amusing, intriguing, and oddly moving. It is constructed in two halves, with the quirky charm of the first setting up a quite ingenious formal / conceptual twist that delivers us back to the starting point in a highly satisfying way. The solo performer, Iriguchi, […]
Monski Mouse: Baby Disco Dance Hall
June 1st, 2016 by Beccy SmithThere aren’t many events for you in Brighton Fringe if your child is under three. I know, I looked, hoping to share bit of the cultural feast taking over the city with my one-year-old son. There are however two ‘baby discos’ – different venues, different price points, different musical aesthetic (one assumes). The retro styling […]
The Wardrobe Ensemble: 1972: The Future of Sex
June 1st, 2016 by Lisa WolfeAt my girls’ grammar school, the English class of ’72 found DH Lawrence’s descriptions of ‘fecund loins’ and ‘butting haunches’ both hysterically funny and utterly disgusting. For Penny, a college student in The Wardrobe Ensemble’s hugely enjoyable show, Lady Chatterley is a role model, an emancipated woman who ‘wants it as much as he does.’ […]
