Imagine you’re visited by an unearthly power that tells you that three hundred years from now, following the failure of the world’s economies and devastation caused by climate change, the only hope for the continuation of human life rests with one young woman. Aphra’s fate is sealed: in two weeks’ time she will slip, fall […]

Lucy Hopkins, last seen at Brighton Fringe provocatively swirling her red scarf in Le Foulard, wants to surprise her audience and herself. She is using her three shows in the Bosco to work out how and all are different. The performance that I see, on a blustery Sunday afternoon, has an audience small in number […]

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 […]