Architects, rejoice! For the space does make the place.

By Caroline Osella|March 27, 2018|Do You Belong to Worthing?, Uncategorized, Worthing|2 comments

The matinee audience for Northbrook’s Little Shop of Horrors is mostly students and families, but the cast gives as if they were on Broadway, with a tight and well-choreographed chorus and four protagonists who compel us into their world. I forget that Mushnik is not actually a middle-aged NY Jewish momma, so assured and technically strong is Emma Cobby’s performance. Joshua Rennells’ DDS pulls us in with a queasy and

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What Do Teens Think …. On a Night Like This?

By Caroline Osella|March 11, 2018|Do You Belong to Worthing?, Uncategorized, Worthing|3 comments

Gary and Bambi’s exhibition opens with a reception in the museum. There’s around 100 people taking in the works, huddled inside enclosures of huge pen and ink drawings in humanity’s most fundamental colours: white, red, black. Sumi-e style cats and rabbits are cheekily juxtaposed with Sailor Jerry-esque cheeky 1950s pin-ups.  Gary reads three of his poems, which always feel honest and vulnerable in a mood-tense so extreme that it risks gesturing

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