The largest and most established annual multi-arts festival in England – Brighton Festival – has launched today with award-winning Scottish author Ali Smith as Guest Director.
Recently named winner of both the Costa Novel award and Goldsmiths Prize for boldly original fiction, Smith has established herself as a pioneer of form; fearlessly pushing the boundaries of the novel with a deftness and accessibility that […]
Brighton Festival
Brighton Festival 2015 launches with award-winning author Ali Smith as Guest Director
REVIEW: Flathampton for over 5s, at Brighton Festival
Flathampton….
I went with my seven year old son and some friends with children aged seven and five. Upon arrival we were given a colored sticker and asked to wait at the ‘green’ bus stop in the foyer of The Dome. Soon enough a crocodile bus came to collect us to drive us into the exhibition […]
REVIEW: Flown – Brighton Festival 2014
FLOWN at the Theatre Royal, 22, 23 & 24 May 2014
Reviewed by Andréa Childs
The audience packed into Brighton’s Theatre Royal could be forgiven for missing the start of Flown. Some were still taking their seats while the performers, in full view on the open set, prepared for takeoff. But… the man stumbling along the stalls suddenly appeared on stage and was soon playing washboard and saxophone in the live band. The joke of the show is that no one is […]
REVIEW: Lauren Child at Brighton Festival 2013
Lauren Child at Sallis Benney, Sunday 12 May
Reviewed by Leonie Taylor, for Child Friendly Brighton & Hove
Like many nine-year-olds, my daughter has grown up on a diet of Lauren Child. We’ve equally enjoyed the imaginative charm of Charlie & Lola, in which, as Lauren Child puts it: ‘the tiniest things in life become really […]
REVIEW: Polly Dunbar “Tilly and Friends” at Brighton Festival
Polly Dunbar – “Tilly and Friends”, 25th May, Brighton Dome
Polly Dunbar at the Founders Room in the Dome was a magical experience for all the children who attended. There were cushions and blankets generously spread over the floor so the audience who were largely aged 3 to 5 were immediately comfortable and at ease. Polly Dunbar is so wonderfully engaging, and with the magic of her marker pen brought her characters to life on the flip chart as the story […]
Review: Safe House – Brighton Festival
Hove Park, Saturday 17 May 2014
Reviewed by Andréa Childs for Child Friendly Brighton & Hove
A free outdoor performance in Hove Park has become an annual event during Brighton Festival. Previous years have seen aerial acrobatics and live bands, and this year’s production, Safe House, ticked all the right boxes for an outdoor extravaganza – think a scaffold construction literally the size of a house, dancers suspended from wires and a throbbing soundtrack. Created by theatre company Metro-Boulet-Dodo, Safe House aims […]
REVIEW: Sinué at Brighton Festival
Circus Feria Musica :- Sinué
At Brighton Dome Concert Hall, 22nd and 23rd May 2014
Reviewed by Teresa Outhwaite for Child Friendly Brighton & Hove
If you were to combine watching lemurs at Drusillas and watching my children on the playground equipment at Hove lagoon …..then you’d have the feel of the opening sequences of Sinué …add to that the music played on an electro acoustic hurdygurdy and on recycled percussion instruments which evoked the soundtrack of being trapped in a lunatic asylum…and […]
Review: Why Mosquitoes buzz in people’s ears
A fun, vibrant musical theatre. The venue at the Warren was great and we were entertained by fantastic bongos and steel drums whilst waiting for the show to start. There were 8 animals on stage, a combination of puppets and people, great costumes and a lovely story with a moral angle all based around why the mother owl refuses to wake up the sun… and ‘mosquito’. My 4 year old said ‘it was too much fun, i loved the iguana […]
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