Reviews

“You’ve arrived on a rather special night - the master is having one of his affairs”

By Gary Murray, volunteer theatre reviewer They say that your schooldays are the best years of your life … welcome to North Shore High School. Mean Girls came to Eastbourne last night as part of a nationwide tour of the musical. Based on the 2004 film starring Lindsay Lohan and Rachel

By Alison Norwood, volunteer arts reviewer If ever an opportunity for quiet contemplation was needed it is now, and this evocative new exhibition at Towner Eastbourne provides it. The ground-floor gallery has become a place of refuge, with white walls displaying the small paintings of Poppy Jones in her

By Gary Murray, volunteer theatre reviewer You may know The Talented Mr Ripley from the 1999 film starring Matt Damon or the Netflix series Ripley. Or you may be a fan of the original novel written in the 1950s by Patricia Highsmith. The play arrived at the Devonshire Park Theatre

By Gary Murray, volunteer theatre reviewer If you’re familiar with this Shakespeare play, then you would have noticed a few changes in this version by Printers Playhouse. The biggest change was that Oberon and Titania’s lines were swapped. I’m not convinced that ultimately there was a good

By Gary Murray, volunteer theatre reviewer The Boy at the Back of the Class is based on the novel of the same name by Onjali Q. Rauf, here adapted for the stage by Nick Ahad. This is a play about what it feels like to be ‘other’, to be misunderstood,