Viva Brighton Issue #81 November 2019

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COLUMN ........................................... John Helmer Rocks off Illustration by Chris Riddell “You fwoo my wock!” It’s 1994. I’m in the stalls at the Theatre Royal, Brighton for a performance of the panto Aladdin, and my two year-old son is furious with me. Earlier we were given a cuboid of foam rubber, to be hurled at the villain, Abanazar, on instruction. Come the critical moment, Freddy’s attention being distracted by a girl in the row behind us who was graphically and noisily being sick, I took it on myself to throw the rock, leading to this furious exclamation. “Freddy, I’m sorry I fwoo—I mean, threw your rock, but you weren’t really paying attention and if we hadn’t attempted to stone the villain to death just at that moment in accordance with the pantomime laws… look, life is all about timing, Freddy. You snooze, you lose. Especially in the Theatre.” Far from pacifying the lad, this inspires a paroxysm of rage that can only be kept under control with immense quantities of chocolate and ice cream. Hours later, when the grown-ups are drinking wine back at the mother-in-law’s, I catch Freddy darting furious glances in my direction, still. “If I’d known it would matter so much to him…” I say to my wife Kate, slightly exasperated. “Weren’t you ever two?” I think back to my first Panto, at the London Palladium in 1967. I was a fair bit older than Freddy and, Beatles/Stones fan that I was, had developed a certain pickiness about music. The star, Engelbert Humperdinck, played his current hit Dance to My Ten Guitars, which interrupted the dramatic flow somewhat, and even to my eleven year-old ears seemed not the strongest song in an oeuvre I was already beginning to consider a bit mouldy and crap all together. No rocks were given out at the performance, but if they were I would have flung one. Theatre itself was beginning to seem a bit mouldy and crap to me then. Heresy I know; but I was a child brought up on film, TV and rock music. Now, in 2019, I feel differently as I slip through a side entrance at Oxford Circus tube into Argyll Street and pass the Palladium, recalling not only Engelbert’s panto but also a night in the 1980s when I performed on that stage myself. It was a charity benefit, with a big bill of comedians. I remember standing in the wings close to Rowan Atkinson and Peter Cook as they welcomed Frankie Howerd off the stage after his slot. Three generations of comedy royalty. It was Howerd’s comeback after years in the wilderness: a moment whose significance was impossible even for me to miss. Heavy names to drop. But the memory feels as weightless as that foam rock in my hand; so light it is impossible to get any force behind. I watch as it plunges uselessly into the stalls, three rows forward. How dared I fwoh his wock? ....41....
Page 2 and 3: Come and support your wonderful Roo
Page 4 and 5: OPENING... 29 | 11 | 2019 BRIGHTON
Page 6 and 7: LEWES TOWN HALL FISHER STREET LEWES
Page 8 and 9: CONTENTS ..........................
Page 10 and 11: THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTIST .......
Page 12 and 13: BITS AND BOBS PLUS X COMPETITION Ea
Page 14 and 15: Plus X Work-health balance Join the
Page 16 and 17: CURATOR’S CITY ..................
Page 18 and 19: Looking for an alternative venue fo
Page 20 and 21: Focusing on you Counselling, Psycho
Page 22 and 23: CLARITY IN A COMPLEX WORLD Time to
Page 24 and 25: BITS AND BOOKS ....................
Page 26 and 27: THE PLACE TO MAKE Waves. History. Y
Page 28 and 29: BRINGING THE HOUSE DOWN A CONCERT A
Page 30 and 31: INTERVIEW .........................
Page 32 and 33: Sea differently BRIGHTON PHOTOGRAPH
Page 34 and 35: PHOTOGRAPHY .......................
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Page 42 and 43: THE BRIGHTON Waldorf School CHRISTM
Page 44 and 45: BRINGING HARLEY STREET TO BRIGHTON
Page 46 and 47: MARINA Tue 5 Nov THE AUSTRALIAN PIN
Page 48 and 49: TALK ......................... Simo
Page 50 and 51: NOVEMBER HIGHLIGHTS 01273 678 822 a
Page 52 and 53: THEATRE ......................... E
Page 54 and 55: PRISM CALENDAR GIRLS THE MUSICAL TH
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Page 60 and 61: 01444 405250 | @NymansNT | @NymansN
Page 62 and 63: ART ............................. J
Page 64 and 65: Surf and Turf Artists Christmas Ope
Page 66 and 67: CHRISTMAS Artists Open Houses Brigh
Page 68 and 69: Towner Art Gallery David Nash 200 S
Page 70 and 71: Images courtesy of Plunge Creations
Page 72 and 73: 28 September 2019 to 12 January 202
Page 74 and 75: THE WAY WE WORK Stephen Evans, Brig
Page 76 and 77: THE WAY WE WORK David Sheppeard, Th
Page 79 and 80: FOOD .............................
Page 81 and 82: RECIPE ............................
Page 83 and 84: FOOD .............................
Page 85 and 86: FEATURE ...........................
Page 87 and 88: WE TRY... .........................
Page 89 and 90: MY SPACE ..........................
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MY SPACE ..........................
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FEATURE ...........................
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WILDLIFE ..........................
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