Reviews

By Gary Murray, volunteer theatre reviewer Johnny Cash was an American icon. One of the greatest country singers of all time, he was a man of contradictions. A conservative, he could empathise with the poor, the oppressed, with prisoners and with Native Americans. But, addicted to amphetamines, Cash was surely

By Gary Murray, volunteer theatre reviewer This year’s summer season presentation at the Devonshire Park Theatre is Stepping Out, written in 1984 by Richard Harris. Given our preference for the underdog, the plot will be familiar. A bunch of no-hopers with back stories come to a weekly tap-

By Alison Norwood, volunteer arts reviewer The fourth of Towner Eastbourne’s Emerging Artists Fund exhibitions takes the visitor around an in-between world of swirling movement across an ever-changing cosmos. Its artist, Cecilia Fiona, depicts birth, death and eternity via spirits, seashells, and various creatures in this intriguing

By Gary Murray, volunteer theatre reviewer It’s that time of year again! Time to make the pilgrimage to Meads to see Eastbourne’s very own Rude Mechanical Theatre Company finish their summer tour with a short residency in a marquee (The Little Big Top) in Helen Garden, overlooking the

By Paul Bromley, volunteer writer I first came across the story of the successful wartime deception in the book The Man Who Never Was many years ago and the tale has stuck with me ever since. The 2021 film version of Operation Mincemeat with Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen and Kelly

By Alison Norwood, volunteer arts reviewer This calming exhibition at the De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, is curated by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b.1977), inspired by the rhythms of poetry and the jazz of Miles Davies. To quote her poem of the same title, ‘…claw your way to the summit;