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An extract of the article in  VIVA LEWES Webmag

A man walks into the office, with a toddler papoosed onto his back. He hands me a leaflet. It reads: The Father Monologues. He turns out to be Jonathan Brown, who was nominated for the Best Male Performer in the Brighton Fringe this year, for two one-man shows, ‘Danny’ and ‘Jenny’, which he is performing over the weekend in the Hibbert Room of the Westgate Chapel. I decide to interview him there and then. He takes the child off his back. “Danny is about a Brightonian Chav, who starts behaving very strangely when his wife is pregnant with their second child,” he says. “She starts moving in home birthing circles, and tells him that he should see a regressional therapist. He’d rather go down the pub, or down the races.” Jonathan plays the part of Danny, who mimics all the other characters in the play. “On the whole people have been happy to accept where I’m asking them to go.”

The other play, ‘Jenny’, sees Jonathan go way into weird meta-theatre territory. “The play is about a transgender father,” he says. “There’s a Shakespearian play within the play, so I end up *playing a man playing a woman playing a man playing a woman.” Jonathan puts the baby back on his back, while telling me about the Brighton Fringe Awards Ceremony. “I was notified last minute, and had to come straight from a camping holiday in Devon,” he says. “I was in wellies, everybody else was in tuxes. Luckily I didn’t win.” (AL, Editor)