Show:
August 20th 7.30pm

Tickets:
Tickets £8.50/£6.50 concs.
Available in advance
on 01273 709709 at www.brightonticketshop.com
and in person at the Dome box Office, New Rd, Brighton
Also available 30 minutes before the perfoRmance on the door

Stuart Silver (of nobleandsilver) presents his ‘Big Picture’ monologue on getting perspective. A philosophical almost-narrative on the perils of received wisdom. A tragi-ballad on long-distance ambitions, with ukulele when you least expect it, and when you expect it.

Stuart Silver is a BAFTA nominated, Perrier Award Winning, Writer / Performer / Tutor working across Live Art, theatre and gallery venues, television, radio, public spaces and experimental educational and mentoring contexts. He is the co-founder of Multimedia double act (nobleandsilver).

Not suitable for people under 16 years of age.

This work has been funded by Arts Council England.

Show:
September 5th 7.30pm

Three 10-15 minute showings of very new work from three artists who may not be so very new!

Details of programme to be confirmed soon.

Shows:
November 11th and 12th 7.30pm 

Dancing Brick - 6.0 : How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won

Tickets:
Tickets £8.50/£6.50 concs.
Available in advance
on 01273 709709 at www.brightonticketshop.com
and in person at the Dome box Office, New Rd, Brighton
Also available 30 minutes before the perfoRmance on the door

”brilliant… it's intelligent and rather poignant, too, in the way it shows two people beaming with misguided optimism in the face of calamity. Like all of us, Heap and Pebble just carry on regardless; their fixed smiles never slip even as the polar ice cap melts.”
The Guardian

Dancing Brick is excited to present the company’s second smash-hit show, a beautiful play about loss, love, human survival and ice dance.

Five years ago the last of the world’s ice disappeared. A year after that the sport of ice dancing went with it. Tonight Heap Krusiak and Pebble Adverati, the greatest ice dancers the world has ever known, will attempt, against all odds, to bring back what the world took away by competing again, and proving once and for all that they will not be beaten. They face the greatest challenge of their careers, and the world is watching.

This is their incredible story, the story of sportsmen and women who never say die, the story of friendship and love when everything else has disappeared, and the story of how we cope when our environment stops providing us with what we need.

Winner of the Arches Brick Award
Shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award
‘Pick of the Fringe’ The Guardian
‘Brilliant...intelligent and poignant’ Lyn Gardner, the Guardian
Shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award

Shows:
April 18th 7.30pm 

Tickets:
Tickets £8.50/£6.50 concs. Available 30 minutes before the perfoRmance on the door

A Festival Fringe preview and taster of some of the work that has been developed at The Nightingale Theatre.

For more information see the Fringe programme below. 

Shows:
April 24th  7.30 pm 

Yoicks! An evening of varied comedy with special guests…

Thomas and Maloney

George and Guy

Tickets:
£8.50/6.50 conc
on 01273 709709 or at www.brightonticketshop.com
or in person at the Dome box Office,
New Rd, Brighton

”Delivering the most original and entertaining comedy I have seen so far this festival – brilliant.”
Three Weeks ****

Wilkie and Walker are Ian Angus Wilkie - CBBC's Mr Wymi, and Funny Women finalist Maggie Gordon-Walker. Angus has travelled to Brighton from The Hebrides to delight the audience with his tales of his eco-friendly lifestyle. He hadn't bargained on Mary Christmas being in that audience.... 

”Top Drawer Comedy...Borders on Genius! Television is a real possibility.”
Fringe Review ****

Comedians Andy Thomas and Robert Maloney tour the UK with their original line in character comedy. From Hitler's Bunker to The Streets of Victorian London, Thomas and Maloney create surreal worlds and bizarre characters. 
 
George and Guy give an exclusive preview of their Festival Fringe sketch show 'Bummer Lovin'. 

Shows:
Performed every 10 minutes as a one to one experience
May 1-3 2.30pm – 9.30pm
May 4-5 4pm – 11pm

Jake Oldershaw

Tickets:
£5
on 01273 709709 at www.brightonticketshop.com
or in person at the Dome box Office,
New Rd, Brighton

”A delightful nugget of theatrical waywardness and invention.”
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

This is a magical experience for individual audience members. Each participant chooses their own performance from a 'menu' of six highly individual tales of love, loss and life without intestines, sung to them by performer Jake Oldershaw. The theatre is re-set for each vignette to create a new environment for the unsuspecting audience member to enter into an unexpectedly intimate history.

Shows:
May 6 7.30pm
May 7 7.30pm and 9.30pm

Gunderkind

Tickets:
£8.50/£6.50 conc
on 01273 709709 or at www.brightonticketshop.com
or in person at the Dome box Office,
New Rd, Brighton

Phil Gunderson is a local resident telling his own tale of a physical and emotional journey with which many of us will associate – the commute between Brighton and London. This is a home-grown piece, developed at the Nightingale over a period of time, including the invaluable input of previous Nightingale Theatre’s manager Alister O'Loughlin. Using a child's karaoke machine to make the necessary train announcements, The Bridge tells of a man who becomes all the people whom he both loves and loathes along this well trodden path.

Shows:
May 8-10 7pm

Bill Aitchison

Tickets:
£8.50/£6.50 conc
on 01273 709709 or at www.brightonticketshop.com
or in person at the Dome box Office,
New Rd, Brighton

”An irresistible hour-long outdoor romp through the most wildly conceived and delusional of conspiracy theories...The earnest conviction of Aitchinson's delivery is central to this show's appeal. Richly deserving of a place in the Showcase, 2012 is so good, I really did buy the T-shirt!”
British Theatre Guide

In what may be considered a somewhat chaotic rant, Bill Aitchinson's 2012 charts a series of events, mystical connections and a solar alignment and ties them together into one long conspiracy theory. Fantastically, Bill travelled to China to begin his research into existing conspiracy theories before tying it all together around London's celebrations of the Olympic Games in that year. Only a performer of Bill's ability can hold all those strands together ... just about.

Shows:
May 8-9 4pm and 8.30pm
May 10-11 8.30pm

Adrian Howells

Tickets:
£12/£10 conc
on 01273 709709 or at www.brightonticketshop.com
or in person at the Dome box Office,
New Rd, Brighton

In An Audience with Adrienne, Adrian Howells’ cross-dressing persona openly and frankly explores Adrian's own upbringing, his relationships with his family and his journey through life, told in a gentle and honest way. Indeed honesty is at the heart of Adrian's work, and this work is part of his own artistic journey through a genre loosely termed confessional theatre. Performed in eighties décor in the Nightingale’s own living room, Adrian creates a space so safe and cosy, in a build-your-own-sandcastle kind of way, that you will walk away revitalised by the experience.

Shows:
May 12 7pm
May 13 7pm and 9pm

Plasticine Men

Tickets:
£8.50/£6.50 conc
on 01273 709709 or at www.brightonticketshop.com
or in person at the Dome box Office,
New Rd, Brighton

Based on a true story of two lighthouse keepers stationed for years on end on the remote Smalls Lighthouse two hundred years ago, Keepers tells, in darkly beautiful and haunting detail, the tale of these men forced together as strangers without a thought of how they may or may not get on. This is a story of the sudden loss of life and drawn out loss of sanity, but it is also the tale of a companionship which blossoms in a wooden box fifteen feet across, seventy feet above the dark ocean, twenty-two miles out to sea. Developed with the support of the Nightingale Theatre, Keepers is told in a physical language which transforms the space into precisely that small wooden box.

Shows:
May 14 7.45pm
May 15 -16 2pm and 7.45pm
May 17-18 7.45pm

Rick Bland Productions

Tickets:
£8.50/£6.50 conc
on 01273 709709 or at www.brightonticketshop.com
or in person at the Dome box Office,
New Rd, Brighton

”Aside from the virtuoso performances, the real genius lies in the play’s ability to flit between absurd humour and heart wrenching pathos.”
The Scotsman

A superbly emotional black comedy, Thick takes a swipe at how we use our language and asks us to see the world we know through the eyes of someone whose interpretation is just slightly awry. The central character is Rudolph, a boy who became simple-minded after being dropped on his head as a baby. His plain speaking naiveté and unfailing sense of optimism cushion him from the realities of his non-alcoholic gin drinking mother and the rest of the world embittered by the state of their own lives.

Shows:
May 15-16 5pm

Stillpoint

Tickets:
£8.50/£6.50 conc
on 01273 709709 or at www.brightonticketshop.com
or in person at the Dome box Office,
New Rd, Brighton

Steal Compass, Drive North, Disappear is a compelling, intimate and cinematic piece of new theatre created by Rachel Blackman, developed with the support of the Nightingale Theatre. Performed in the round it tells a witty, elegant and unflinching tale of the various ways in which we disappear from life. Centred around the successful but struggling Martin, and the parallel lives of the women around him – his lover is lost in Eurodisney, his biographer doesn’t like him and his wife couldn’t care less. He only his daughter to complain to ... what a pity she’s 5! Performed with Rachel's own exquisite physical capacity to embody each of the different characters this is a true road trip.

Shows:
May 17-18 6pm and 9.30pm

Broken Leg Theatre

Tickets:
£8.50/£6.50 conc
on 01273 709709 or at www.brightonticketshop.com
or in person at the Dome box Office,
New Rd, Brighton

”With dialogue good enough for a prime time sitcom, delivered to explosive laughter from the audience, this is a production that could run and run.”
Latest 7, Brighton

Broken Leg Theatre is a Brighton-based theatre company specialising in new writing. Their starting point is to always think about what makes people tick. They listen to what people say on buses, in pubs; they read bad magazines and watch daytime TV chat shows. They take people’s stories, twist them, stretch them, squeeze them and develop them into their plays. My Second Life, written by Anna Jefferson and Alice Trueman, takes an amusing look at that virtual world and the point where it crosses into real life. Experience tells us that these women can write comedy, and in the Nightingale they create a world that looks at how far people will go to escape real life through a virtual world on the internet.

Shows:
May 20-21 7.45pm
May 22-23 7 pm and 9.45pm

Cholmondeleys and Featherstonehaughs

Tickets:
£8.50/£6.50 conc
on 01273 709709 or at www.brightonticketshop.com
or in person at the Dome box Office,
New Rd, Brighton

”Killingly funny, and totally life-affirming.”
The Herald

Needs no introduction. Lea Anderson and her troupe of feisty performers are simply one of this country's most innovative and unique companies. Dancing on Your Grave is a dance to your death, though the performers already are! With live music written and performed by composer Steve Blake, and ukulele bashing minstrel Nigel Burch of The Flea Pit Orchestra, this offering is a humorous music hall act with an ethereal twist.

Shows:
July 7th 7.30pm

Tickets:
£8.50/£6.50 conc
Available in advance
on 01273 709709 at www.brightonticketshop.com
and in person from the Dome box Office, New Rd, Brighton

”Dingemans is an expansive figure of unfailing honesty and anarchic grace.”
Dance Europe

Nominated Outstanding Male Performance (Modern) 2009 by UK National Dance Awards.

Performers and dance-makers Robin Dingemans from New Zealand and Michaela Dancs from Romania make their first appearance at The Nightingale Theatre with a project about performance created with no rehearsal at all – this will not be an improvised performance, but one completely written and devised over the days leading up to the performance, guided by the ongoing development of a manifesto of vows. From 4th to 7th July, Robin and Mihaela will be working with members of Brighton and Hove’s excellent LGBT choirs to create a once in a lifetime performance experience on 7th July that can never be repeated.

Shows:
July 8th 7.30pm

Tickets:
Special preview price £6.50
Available in advance
on 01273 709709 at www.brightonticketshop.com
and in person at the Dome box Office, New Rd, Brighton

Three gritty short fictions about secrets are adapted for the stage in an absorbing live literature production. Weight is written by ‘Next Generation’ poet Catherine Smith and directed by Mark C Hewitt for LLL Productions:

Shows:
July 27th and 28th 7.30pm

Tickets:
Special preview price £6.50
Available in advance
on 01273 709709 at www.brightonticketshop.com
and in person at the Dome box Office, New Rd, Brighton

”Gurney-Randall is superb. Highly charged historical content combined with powerful acting means this is so much more than one man on stage.”
***** 3 Weeks

The country is on the brink of bankruptcy and divided by a disastrous war. Parliament is weak and riddled with corruption. Everyone hates politicians. No one knows what to do. Sound familiar? This is Italy in the 1920's. One man has the answer - unfortunately that man is Benito Mussolini - the devout socialist who invented fascism. This violent comedy is written by Ross Gurney-Randall and Dave Mounfield and directed by Fringe First Winner Paul Hodson.

Shows:
July 29th and 30th 6.00pm

Tickets:
Special preview price
£6.50 / £5.00 conc
Available in advance
on 01273 709709 at www.brightonticketshop.com
and in person at the Dome box Office, New Rd, Brighton

A charming, funny and deeply moving new one-woman show, co-written by performer Jade Blue and director George Dillon, inspired by Paul Auster and Weetabix!

Flora is a disturbed young woman, a mathematical prodigy, with an unbearable insight into the human predicament. Harry, her story-writer father, is an ordinary man with an extraordinary dilemma caught between doing the right thing and the thing that is best for everyone. Tonight he will see her for the first time in two and a half years ... and maybe for the last time ever. The audience will decide how the story concludes.

Shows:
July 29th and 30th 7.30pm

Tickets:
Special preview price
£6.50 / £5.00 conc
Available in advance
on 01273 709709 atwww.brightonticketshop.com
and in person at the Dome box Office, New Rd, Brighton

”An exciting piece of writing, witty and sharp, ironic, comedic and sometimes philosophical... and, as usual, a masterclass in delivery and individual performance.”
FringeReview

Who really wrote Hamlet? Award-winning performer George Dillon tells the comical, tragic, romantic and utterly scandalous history of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, the leading alternative candidate for the authorship of the works of William Shakespeare.