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Christian Brighty: Playboy, Brighton Fringe
I first saw Brighty as 1/3 of clown collective Privates, which is an unusual number of balls. Here, he plays a very different kind of testicle in the shape of eighteenth century heartbreaker Lord Christian Brighty – an ancestor, perhaps – in this very enjoyable hour of caddery, invisible ballroom partners, and ships struggling with… Read more
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Brighton Fringe: Luke Rollason: Bowerbird and Gämez presents: TV Pilots Live!
In a city as iconoclastic as Brighton, the Jubilee was always going to be weird. Friday was a combination of marauding day trippers and unbothered locals, with the Union Jack per square mile quotient pleasingly low. Luke Rollason I first saw a few years ago at The Vault Festival, dressed as a sperm. His current… Read more
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The Producers: a Mel Brooks musical, Bridewell Theatre, London
London has myriad nooks and crannies. Tucked away on an old alley off Fleet Street is the Bridewell theatre, where has-been Broadway producer Max Bialystok is resigned to a life of first-night flops and exploring certain other nooks and crannies in order to finance them. The Producers, a musical of a film about a musical,… Read more
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Brighton Fringe 2022: Bex Turner, Ishi Khan, Kate Martin and Daniel Foxx
It’s been a while since I’ve lived in a place where I can do what I did this evening. When I lived in Stoke Newington, one could walk home from club nights. Hop from a cafe. Be extremely blasé about the concept of “night buses”. Now, I am in Brighton, during the Brighton fringe. And… Read more
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Todmorden Folk Festival 2022
“What’s the name of the place we’re going to again? Post-mortem?” I’m with my brilliant, Spanish academic friend and we are on an adventure to a pretty little market town. Paula is the sort of person who talks to everyone and everyone. In this spirit, the previous night she had met an environmentalist Colombian percussion… Read more
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Kenzo
The last few weeks I’ve been hanging out with a dog called kenzo. Kenzo is a springer spaniel who lives with a fabulous musician who is out on tour with his legendary octogenarian mother. My job is to hang out, go on walks, and water the plants occasionally. Also, to not kill the fish, but… Read more
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The city is an onion
I was cycling over Blackfriars Bridge when I felt a tinge of anxiety. Am I being remade by my work? Is this who I am now? How do others perceive me, and how do I perceive myself? I had recently started a new part time job as a cargo bike courier, to supplement my dog… Read more
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Next Level Sketch with Hel MacCormack and Shelf Comedy
In cricket there is a mysterious affliction known as “the yips”, whereby a bowler can no longer bowl. Due to some unfortunate confluence of physical quirk and mental anguish, the ball will no longer come out of the hand as it is supposed to. On Tuesday night I felt I got the comedy yips. I… Read more
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