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Ingoldsby Legends
- Review
- ★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton
- Presuming Ed
- 9th Feb, 2024
There is something gorgeously comforting about a show that within five minutes of beginning you know you can relax and enjoy, because even the things that are ad libbed and unscrip…
Tea & Toast Present: The Museum of Relationships
- Review
- ★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton
- The Actors
- 10th Sep, 2023
Improvising a whole rom com style comedy show around audience suggestions is not for the faint hearted, and this group’s approach is relaxed and confident.
The Unknown Soldier
- Review
- ★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble
- 11th May, 2023
The centenary commemorations of the First World War ending, held in 2018, ensured that it was once again in the consciousness of the nation, putting the tomb of the Unknown Warrior…
Fragile
- Review
- ★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 3rd Jun, 2022
Written and performed by Agustina Dieguez Buccella, Fragile is a one-woman show of how fierce independence is also isolating and can mask loneliness.
No One
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble
- 26th May, 2022
Sometimes you see a piece of theatre that is so superb and shines so bright in every single way that it knocks you sideways.
#BLEEP
- Review
- ★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- The Poets Ale and Smoke House
- 28th May, 2022
#Bleep is both a hilariously funny and deeply unsettling glimpse into part of a new doctor’s life.
Sylvia Vs The Fascists
- Review
- ★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- The Poets Ale and Smoke House
- 23rd May, 2022
This is an interesting experience from start to finish, as we are treated to moments from Sylvia Pankhurst’s life.
Dark Sublime
- Review
- ★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton
- Brighton Little Theatre Co
- 25th Mar, 2022
Watching the projected opening credits to Dark Sublime it would be easy to mistake it for an actual British sci-fi TV show of the 1980s.
Duty
- Review
- ★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- The Lantern @ ACT
- 23rd Jun, 2021
Duty is both fabulously simple and incredibly clever, shining the light on complex issues with deep and sympathetic understanding yet offering no glib answers.
Every Time A Bell Rings
- Review
- ★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Online & Broadcast
- The Place Theatre, Bradgate Road
- 30th Dec, 2020
The phrase "Every Time a Bell Rings" is well known and resonates especially at Christmas time: straight away we expect a link to the classic It’s a Wonderful Life, and …
Talk
- Review
- ★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton
- New Venture Theatre
- 18th Feb, 2020
Set in 1854 in the criminal wing of Bethlem Hospital for the Insane and being about the birth of psychotherapy, you would be forgiven for assuming this play will be heavy going.
The Amazing Adventures of Little Red
- Review
- ★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton
- Brighton Open Air Theatre
- 5th Aug, 2019
Brighton company JW Productions approach this inventive and fresh re-imagining of the old Little Red Riding Hood saga with gusto.
Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton
- Rialto Theatre
- 2nd Aug, 2019
The minute he walks calmly onto the stage and surveys the audience you know you’re in for something very special.
Numbers
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton
- Rialto Theatre
- 30th Jul, 2019
It is extremely unusual to see something completely new and fresh in theatre, let alone something surprising, but Numbers is just that.
Ogg 'n' Ugg 'n' Dogg
- Review
- ★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 2nd Jun, 2019
Ogg 'n' Ugg 'n' Dogg starts brilliantly, with Ogg and Ugg peering through the backdrop grasses, and simple choreography that made all the children laugh.
This Noisy Isle
- Review
- ★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- MEET: Brighton Spiegeltent
- 5th Jun, 2019
Even before it starts you are drawn in as you are given a bag with a story booklet inside, and you are invited to decorate your bag with the coloured pencils provided.
Beauty and the Beast
- Review
- ★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Blockhouse
- 2nd Jun, 2019
In a retelling of the classic Beauty and the Beast saga aimed at small children, four players multi-role in an uncomplicated and pleasant way.
Frankenstein the Pantomime
- Review
- ★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Blockhouse
- 25th May, 2019
Frankenstein and pantomime are two words which should not go together, but in this brilliant mashup, they curiously do.
Ross & Rachel
- Review
- ★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 20th May, 2019
Billed as a ‘dark, uncompromising play about the myths of modern love’, this starts promisingly enough but soon veers off.
A Steady Rain
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- The Lantern @ ACT
- 23rd May, 2019
Biilled as a dark duologue between two Chicago policemen and you would be forgiven for thinking that A Steady Rain might be categorised as 'niche' theatre.
Those Magnificent Men
- Review
- ★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 20th May, 2019
An intriguing tale made more interesting by the telling, Those Magnificent Men is both delightful and funny from beginning to end.
The Goose Who Flew
- Review
- ★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton
- Brighton Dome
- 17th Apr, 2019
The Goose Who Flew is a short, but delightfully told, allegorical tale of a dispossessed goose in a strange new land.
Trench Brothers
- Review
- ★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton
- Brighton Dome Concert Hall
- 19th Oct, 2018
Trench Brothers opens with a lone Indian Army First World War soldier walking slowly in spotlight through the audience.
Alan Bennett's Say Something Happened
- Review
- ★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 24th Aug, 2018
Alan Bennett is a national treasure, and his writings are justly well respected.
Por Favor
- Review
- ★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 25th Aug, 2018
Set against the backdrop of a school production of West Side Story, this is the story of Mr Taylor, a teacher in charge of putting on the production.
Beep
- Review
- ★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 25th Aug, 2018
Beginning in a frightening dystopia with five people wearing surgical masks manhandling one other as the audience enters, then as the show starts transforming to a happy young part…
James Dean Is Dead! (Long Live James Dean)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C aquila
- 25th Aug, 2018
Springing up from the wreckage of his famous car (a Spider), James Dean talks honestly, candidly and sometimes with discomfort about his life.
From Today Everything Changes
- Review
- ★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 25th Aug, 2018
Before Chris’s wife died, she made him promise to be himself.
3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle
- Review
- ★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 23rd Aug, 2018
This is an intensely personal, sometimes funny, sometimes uncomfortable window into the relationship of two sisters at the toughest point of their lives so far.
Cooked
- Review
- ★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 3rd Jun, 2018
With the teaser image of a banana on a plate and a blurb that includes previous accolades listed on its promotional material, Cooked promises to be a darkly comic rom-com where a n…
Goldilock, Stock & Three Smoking Bears
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Hat
- 2nd Jun, 2018
If you ever wondered what a fantastically dark comedy musical mash-up of the traditional tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the classic 1998 film Lock, Stock and Two Smokin…
The Gingerbread Man
- Review
- ★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Hat
- 31st May, 2018
If you want a wonderful retelling and reimagining of the classic tale, told by two talented performers on a deliciously simple, yet complex, set, then look no further.
This Boy Tom
- Review
- ★★★★
- Susanne Crosby
- Brighton Fringe
- The Old Courtroom
- 3rd Jun, 2018
An original musical about school bullying with only children in the cast might not seem a first choice for top Fringe viewing, but it absolutely is.
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