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Queer Highlights: Brighton Fringe 2024

Brian Butler April 16, 2024

This year’s Brighton Fringe has a bewildering array of talent on show – with well over 600 events, so here’s my first of two handy guides to what caught my eye among the shows offering LGBTQ+ performers or themes. Themes of mental health and sexuality are explored in Who’s Been A Naughty Chops, which combines […]

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LOOKING CIS: Conversation-changing satire about gender identity comes to Brighton Fringe 2024

Graham Robson April 11, 2024

Award-winning solo show Looking Cis will tour to the Brighton Fringe, playing two nights in The Actors on 23 & 24 May. Looking Cis is a conversation-changing satire investigating what we can and can’t say about gender when we know we’re being watched. It follows Ella, freshly evicted from tawdry reality show The Enbyist Enby, […]

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On stage: Drag Ballet, a hot cleaner in marigolds, Princess Diana resurrected and two gay sauna visits

Brian Butler April 3, 2024

Drag ballet, a Hollywood legend in the closet, a hot cleaner in marigolds and two gay sauna visits all feature in my latest round-up of queer shows in Brighton and London Mark Gatiss, the brilliant writer of Sherlock and Dr Who, has put together a series of monologues that chart LGBTQ+ history milestones. Queers, which […]

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Clowns, a one-way mirror and the Cuban revolution – that’s Brighton Fringe for you

Brian Butler March 13, 2024

Queer clowns who think they’re cats, a man in his pants watching the bin man through a one-way mirror, and the folk music of the Cuban revolution – what a launch party for the 2024 Brighton Fringe. The biggest arts festival in England promises its usual quirky, crazy, annoying mix if its launch is anything […]

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