Brighton festival

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Corps extrêmes; Rose Until It Touched the Sky – review
Highliner Nathan Paulin, two extreme climbers and eight acrobats add up to one riveting show, while Three Score Dance throw a new light on ageing

Sarah Crompton

28, May, 2023 @8:00 AM

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Kizlar review – a dance of the warriors with hip-swinging swagger
Ceyda Tanc’s all-female troupe put on a display of sass and self-possession as they redesign a traditional Turkish folk dance

Lyndsey Winship

17, May, 2023 @11:25 AM

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‘Explicitly queer and trans’: the 1580s play that inspired Shakespeare’s cross-dressing love plots
John Lyly’s long-forgotten Galatea – featuring gods, mortals and a highly elastic approach to gender and sex – is being revived at the Brighton festival. We meet the team behind it

Kate Wyver

12, Apr, 2023 @11:04 AM

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Written in the Body review – subtle meditation on the sense of touch
Choreographer Charlotte Spencer probes our experience of the world via our bodies, skin and hands

Lyndsey Winship

25, May, 2022 @1:00 PM

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Circa: Sacre review – an original and awesome Stravinsky reboot
Australian circus group Circa debuts a beautifully detailed interpretation of The Rite of Spring

Lyndsey Winship

24, May, 2022 @11:58 AM

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The week in theatre: Oklahoma!; Unchain Me; House of Ife
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first musical is roughed up; dreamthinkspeak amble around Brighton; and a first for Amharic on the British stage?

Susannah Clapp

15, May, 2022 @9:30 AM

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Unchain Me review – Dostoevsky inspires secret mission on the streets of Brighton
dreamthinkspeak’s timely new production on inequality and abuse of political power offers its audience a choice: complicity or compliance?

Arifa Akbar

11, May, 2022 @11:01 PM

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Help, it’s 1,000 trillion degrees in here! The Big Bang artwork that makes scientists cry
Want would it have been like to be inside the Big Bang? We meet the ultra-hi-tech art duo who are using light, sound and sub-atomic astro data to recreate the biggest explosion ever

Stuart Jeffries

19, May, 2021 @2:45 PM

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Clowns review – a blast of bloodlust from the brilliant Hofesh Shechter
Shechter’s work begins in Regency-esque civility and ends in an orgy of highly choreographed violence

Lyndsey Winship

15, Apr, 2020 @11:02 AM

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Small-scale theatre isn’t just for the rich | Brief letters
Letters: Brighton festival | Languages of empire | Frictionless trading | Music’s purpose | From Paris by Morris?

Letters

30, Jul, 2018 @5:25 PM

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The big bangers: grime smashes into the Hadron Collider
They rapped in its tunnels and played instruments made out of old science equipment. Could this be Cern’s most amazing experiment yet?

Tara Joshi

22, May, 2018 @4:44 PM

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Bridget Christie review – gleeful in trashing the label that defined her
Award-winning standup serves up ruthless self-mockery in a show that is playful and pugnacious in equal measure

Brian Logan

20, May, 2018 @11:33 AM

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