In the words of Irving Berlin: ‘Sisters, sisters – there were never such devoted sisters’. Amy and Rosana Cade are sisters, born exactly 22 months apart in the mid 1980s. One (Amy) is tagged – or perhaps I should say self-identifies – as a sex-industry worker, the other (Rosana) as ‘a lesbian with a shaved […]

On a darkened stage, we see heaps of discarded junk – black plastic bags stuffed with goodness-knows-what, cracked white plastic chairs, a Brighton & Hove Council recycling box. A constant, amplified drip-drip-drip sounds. We hear muffled sounds of scraping and digging, and four boiler-suited figures enter, wearing miner’s headlamps. They speak in a kind of […]

Visual theatre, you say? Here it is in shed-loads: the awesome Opus 7 – created by Russian designer-director Dmitry Krymov and a team of performer-devisers and co-designers – is truly epic, and takes up every inch of the Brighton Corn Exchange with cardboard, paint, a football game, a giant puppet (she’d be ceiling height in most venues, […]

Matt Rudkin’s Happy Clap Trap variety night was winkled out from its familiar tiny stage at Brighton’s Marlborough Theatre for a one-off festival special at the Spiegeltent. The audience was rather scattered around the space; the Mayor and her entourage hiding in a back booth. A wise decision, given the over-enthusiastic antics of Moth-woman (Sarah […]

‘No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That’s all.’ Three young people negotiate the urban environment. A man in a red hoodie rolls across the ground (‘Like the rolling saint of India!’ says my companion). A woman with strawberry-blonde plaits scales the wall […]