Visitors to this website are engaged in a lively debate on the best - and worst - of this year's festival and fringe.

Readers are able to add their own reviews of each show, as well as telling us what they think of critics' verdicts.

The Maids, which is being staged at the Old Ship Hotel on the seafront, is among the performances which has split opinion.

Our critic Bella Todd was impressed by the courage of Neil Bartlett's direction and the cast's "knockout performances".

Others felt differently. Kate McLachlan from Hove wrote that she had tried to leave after 30 minutes, but wasn't allowed, while Roland Webster from Brighton wondered whether he had seen the same play as the reviewer.

He wrote: "The play did not work, and the acting lacked the authenticity needed.

Perhaps her reference to 'knockout performances' referred to the amount of people who were asleep in the audience."

Another writer defended Bella's verdict of the Jean Genet play.

He said: "These are theatre-goers with no sense of danger or adventure.

"This is theatre - not television. This was a marvellous, atmospheric production of one of the 20th century's most renowned and enigmatic plays. "

But Kim from Brighton retorted: "I don't think l'd have found the performance dangerous' even if l had been watching it whilst hanging from the top of the Eiffel Tower by one finger nail.

"Thanks Nicholas though for pointing out it was theatre not television. One can never be sure what one is watching these days."

Googled Out!, a play about cyberaddicts, has also sparked a battle of words.

Critic Duncan Hall was underwhelmed by the performance, but PS Mason had a wonderful time.

She wrote: "The production was slick, professional and lively. The hour and ten minutes flew by in no time."

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