The mission statement of Les Amazones d’Afrique is clear: empowering women and girls across Africa and beyond, and as Awa Sangho told the Brighton crowd, putting some much needed love out into the world.
Dance theatre that plays with the audience, confounding expectations, Blaas subverts notions of spectator and participant, outside and inside.
IT’S a whirlwind – a funeral, but not sombre; a comedy, but also emotional. Ugly Chief leaves you slightly stunned and blinking, emerging from the womb-like theatre back into the real world, feeling as if something transformative has taken place.
In the course of what cannot easily be compared to any other poetry reading or performance, Lemn Sissay seamlessly melded anecdote, tangental monologue, and comic one-liner with poems from across his back catalogue, including those from his latest collection Gold From The Stone.
PICKING apart the concept of identity and what it means to be British are the core themes of barristerturned-journalist Afua Hirsch’s timely book Brit(ish), and in conversation with fellow writer Colin Grant, she delved into some of the main themes.
Arranged in three parts, Seamus Scanlon’s play offered snapshots of the life of IRA assassin Victor McGowan during The Troubles of the 1980s, not a political drama as such, but the story of a deeply damaged character.
If any band could raise the roof in Hastings on a Sunday evening, it was going to be these guys, and they didn’t disappoint.
The recent graffiti “tagging” of a newly painted mural in Bond Street has caused quite a stir and throws up interesting questions.
It sounds like some dystopian fairy story; the ruler who believes he is immortal and who lives by his own set of values, steadily strengthening a vice-like grip on his country.
As the south of England turned largely blue at the end of last week, except of course in Brighton, there was a feeling of the country having shifted to the right.
