FLOWN at the Theatre Royal, 22, 23 & 24 May 2014
Reviewed by Andréa Childs
The audience packed into Brighton’s Theatre Royal could be forgiven for missing the start of Flown. Some were still taking their seats while the performers, in full view on the open set, prepared for takeoff. But… the man stumbling along the stalls suddenly appeared on stage and was soon playing washboard and saxophone in the live band. The joke of the show is that no one is […]
Posts from ‘May, 2014’
REVIEW: Flown – Brighton Festival 2014
B.fest – A festival for young people, by young people – May 2014
B.fest – A festival for young people, by young people. If you’re 13 – 19, or feel like you are, it’s for you.
With more than 40 events across Brighton & Hove, 13 – 19’s are taking over the city for one week from 24th till 31st May.
B.fest takes place in the last week of the Brighton Fringe and […]
REVIEW: Sinué at Brighton Festival
Circus Feria Musica :- Sinué
At Brighton Dome Concert Hall, 22nd and 23rd May 2014
Reviewed by Teresa Outhwaite for Child Friendly Brighton & Hove
If you were to combine watching lemurs at Drusillas and watching my children on the playground equipment at Hove lagoon …..then you’d have the feel of the opening sequences of Sinué …add to that the music played on an electro acoustic hurdygurdy and on recycled percussion instruments which evoked the soundtrack of being trapped in a lunatic asylum…and […]
Review: Safe House – Brighton Festival
Hove Park, Saturday 17 May 2014
Reviewed by Andréa Childs for Child Friendly Brighton & Hove
A free outdoor performance in Hove Park has become an annual event during Brighton Festival. Previous years have seen aerial acrobatics and live bands, and this year’s production, Safe House, ticked all the right boxes for an outdoor extravaganza – think a scaffold construction literally the size of a house, dancers suspended from wires and a throbbing soundtrack. Created by theatre company Metro-Boulet-Dodo, Safe House aims […]
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