Leslie Pumm

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Field of Anise is the debut play of Brighton-based writer Amir Amaar and it’s an at times realistically brutal, at times poetic story of loving and leaving. Zayd and Khalid are gay Syrian lovers who seek a new life and home away from their war-torn country.

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A Cartography of Queer Becoming: Dylin Hardcastle’s A Language of LimbsIn the intricate topography of queer narrative, Dylin Hardcastle’s A Language of Limbs emerges as a luminous exploration of desire, resistance, and the architectures of connection. Set against the vibrant and tumultuous backdrop of Australian Queer life from the 1970s onward, the novel is a symphony of almost-encounters, a delicate choreography of lives perpetually on the cusp of intersection.

2 weeks ago | gscene.com | Graham Robson |Leslie Pumm

Councillor Amanda Grimshaw BEM, who has been appointed as new Mayor of Brighton & Hove, will be supporting LGBTQ+ youth charity, Allsorts Youth Project, during her mayoral year. Elected as a Labour councillor in 2019, Amanda was appointed deputy chair of the Tourism, Equalities, Communities and Culture Committee. Now in her second term, Amanda represents Hangleton & Knoll and served as chief whip from 2023 to 2025.

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Brighton Fringe’s Mannequim is billed as a”ploem” – a mashup of a play and a poem, and it truly is, as much of its speech is cleverly  in rhyming couplets. What Ted Gooda and Lexy Medwell have created is the dialogue between lifelong friends Alex and Michaela – Alex a boy desperately wanting to be a girl when we first encounter them; and Michaela – Micky for short -an unhappy tomboy of a girl desperately wanting to be male.

2 weeks ago | gscene.com | Graham Robson |Leslie Pumm

Glenda Swing and Rita Herringbone are relics of a bygone Hollywood era. You might be thinking they were silent screen stars overtaken by the talkies. Not a bit of it. The platinum blonde Rita and her very grumpy partner are monochrome stars who didn’t make it into Technicolor. And the surreal reason is that they really are black and white -costume, hair, make-up ; they’re monochrome humans. It’s a brilliant, bizarre comic invention by Alexander Joseph as Glenda and Ro Robertson as Rita.