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SHORT CUTS
3rd & 20th May
7.00pm & 9.00pm
Tickets £8.50 / £6.50
An evening of four new performances by emerging artists Sonja Jokiniemi (Finland), Drunken Masks (UK), Augusto Corrieri (UK/Italy), and Matt Jackson (US). A dance performance of intimate portraits and plastic-like forms. A physical theatre piece looking at what happens when our masks break down. Short performance interludes that tease the audience’s expectations. And a puppet's abstract attempt at overcoming his regrets and finding resolution. Experimental dance and physical theatre come together in the work of four companies, exploring what lingers in the ruins: fragments, failures, what we would rather forget. Every ending contains infinite beginnings. The end. Ok, lets begin... |
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NORTHBROOK COLLEGE Presents
SCRATCH NIGHT
Tue 6th May 7.30pm
Tickets “Pay What You Can”
A scratch evening of collaborative work by groups of students in their final year on the BA (Hons) Theatre Arts at Northbrook College. For this project the students form their own companies combining different theatre disciplines and integrating a range of interests and approaches. Each company finds a starting source as a stimulus to devising the staging and performance of a short piece of theatre. The work presented at this scratch evening is approximately two thirds through
the project, which concludes in the week of 19th of May
with performances in Northbrook College’s theatre. |
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ON off
Devised and performed by Charlie Morrissey
9th & 10th May 7.30pm
Tickets £8.50/£6.50 conc
Charlie Morrissey uses the two words of the title to create a unique and highly physical performance composed live in front of the audience. The piece reveals a very intimate and human portrait drawn from Morrissey’s own life experience and from 20 years of performance making. Both immediate and surprising, the piece weaves together a diverse series of events to produce an extraordinary and compelling performance piece. Charlie Morrissey’s has been creating performance for 20 years. www.small-wonder.i12.com
“brave and articulate” The Independent “truly mesmeric”
The Stage
“hypnotic…gleeful…sublime…genuinely electric”
The Guardian |
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The Two Wrongies Present
THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
14th & 15th May 7.30pm
Tickets £8.50/£6.50
Two wrongs don’t make a right, right? Wrong! Like flashers in the park, the Two Wrongies expose their most vulnerable bits of carefully crafted choreography and poignant patter, revealing memories and aspirations trapped inside a world of chaos and lunacy. The double act who dare to do the dirty… *contains wanton dance with gay abandon. The terrible twins of performance concoct their work in a melting pot of influences from performative and artistic disciplines. They use comedy, choreographed moments and a considered visual impact that is impossible to pigeon hole. Supported by Basement Arts Production, South East. |
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THE QUAKE
A Prodigal Theatre Collaboration
with Andrew G Marshall
18th – 19th May 7.30pm
Tickets: £8.50/£6.50conc
The famous tenor Caruso was trapped in the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. In order to return home to the family he loved, he had to escape his collapsing hotel room, cross a city swept by fire and fight his way past the military on to the only ferry out of town. Beautiful storytelling and live opera singing combine to reveal the heart behind a legend. Performed by Ignacio Jarquin. Direction and Dramaturgy by Miranda Henderson Written by Andrew G Marshall www.prodigaltheatre.co.uk |
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bgroup present
THE DEMINISHING PRESENT
Choreographed and directed
by Ben Wright
24th – 26th May 7.30pm
Tickets £12 (£10 Conc)
Brighton based choreographer Ben Wright is best known for his work as a performer with the likes of Stan won’t dance, Ricochet, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake and LCDT. Utilizing the uniquely intimate quality of the Nightingale Theatre, bgroup’s 5 compelling dancers perform up close and personal, in an especially adapted version of this powerfully moving triple bill. Due to the nature of this performance, audience places are limited to 25 per night. www.bgroup.org.uk
“Ben Wright is a choreographer of scrupulousness and sensitivity”
Donald Hutera |
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Badac Presents
THE FORGOTTEN
4th & 5th May 7.30pm
Tickets £8.50/£6.50 conc
By 1945 six million Jewish people had been destroyed by the NAZI policy of extermination. The Forgotten is the story of one of those people. An anonymous man, at the moment of his liberation, retells his nightmare journey to his watching saviours. Beginning with the invasion of his city and ending in his imprisonment within the death camp at Auschwitz, he leads us through each stage of his and his family’s humiliation, degradation and ultimate destruction at the hands of the NAZIS. The Forgotten is an intense study of a process that was used to destroy millions of human beings Returning for the third year running. www.badactheatre.com
"The visceral power of the work is extremely rare"
Steven Berkoff. |
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Still Point Presents
THE ART OF CATASTROPHE
A new work by Rachel Blackman and Emma Roberts.
7th & 8th May 7.30pm
Tickets: £8.50 / £6.50conc
The Art of Catastrophe is a dark, funny and poignant look at the underbelly of love.
It begins on the morning you wake up and realise that you’re at the same desk in the same dull job and somehow 15 years has passed since you last had sex with your husband. “You know if you had nice hair, you could have a boyfriend too” Written, devised and performed by Rachel Blackman, devised and directed by Emma Roberts, technical production by Geoff Hense, production by Sally Christopher. |
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CARAVAN
The Nightingale will be hosting a series of events for the Caravan Assembly.
11th – 13th May
This is a three day event within the Brighton Festival and Fringe. Designed as a convivial event that encourages artists, commissioners, presenters, festival programmers and potential collaborators to explore new ways of working, share ambitions, reach new audiences, develop new ideas and ideally, create new art. We are delighted to be hosting a range of events within Caravan, bringing some of the very best theatre companies in the South East to an audience of international promoters, creating an exciting atmosphere in which creative partnerships can foster and grow. Events will include informal sessions involving companies including dreamthinkspeak www.dreamthinkspeak.com For more details visit www.farnhammaltings.com Due to capacity restrictions the Nightingale will not be open to the public during the Assembly, though we trust our audience will appreciate our decision to further support the region’s artists through this event. |
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CHAPLIN
Pip Utton
16th & 17th May 7.30pm
Tickets £8.50/£6.50 conc
Charlie Chaplin created The Tramp, the most famous cinema image of all time, an image he never truly succeeded without. He became the best-known, best-paid film actor of his age. But he was accused of sexual perversion by the press and the courts, vilified for his treatment of his ex-wives, and accused of being communist. In 1952 his American visa was revoked and he settled in Switzerland. Chaplin created a public image hiding the darker sides of his personality. Pip Utton steps in and out of the screen to become Chaplin, stripping away the myths and revealing the man beneath. www.pip-utton.com
“Utton really is the master of the one man show”
the Guardian
“and the young pretenders (of whom there are many at every Fringe) should take time out to see his show to learn how it should be done.”
The British Theatre Guide
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Jay Productions & makin projects
In association with Guildford’s
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Present
THE DEATH & LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
21st & 22nd May 7.30pm
Tickets £8.50/£6.50 conc
Arthur Conan Doyle tires of his famous sleuth and uses the arch villain Moriarty to dispose
of him. But as raising the spirits of the dead becomes an obsession in Doyle’s own life, so his fictional creations return to thrill, intrigue and dazzle us. A wryly humourous tale of murder, mystery and the occult. Roger Llewellyn returns as the great detective in this enthralling new play: By David Stuart Davies, Directed by Gareth Armstrong, Original score by Simon Slater.
‘An actor completely in charge… Llewellyn achieves a rare symmetry of excellence and entertainment"
The Times
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