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Brighton Fringe 2013 at the Nightingale

You and Me

Little Soldier Productions

A bitter-sweet physical comedy about two elderly sisters sharing the intimacy of a life lived together.

The pair shifts between hilarious defamation, tender reminiscing and pure madness; but is this behaviour just eccentricity or something more destructive?

Directed and adapted by Bryony Shanahan, and featured in 'What to See: Lyn Gardner's Theatre Tips" ‘You and Me’ tackles old age with much humour, imagination and tenderness. A show for everyone who is a day older than yesterday!

“impeccably-timed physical theatre”

The Stage

“A compelling masterstroke of physical comedy”

A Younger Theatre

“★★★★ Beautiful, strident harmony ”

Exeunt (London)

www.youandmetheplay.com

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Holocene

David Sheppeard Performs at Times

Reflections on eruptions, both geological and emotional, in a world intent on destruction.

The true story of French volcanologists Maurice & Katia Krafft who spent their lives on the edge, collide with everyday anxieties in this new play investigating the lengths we go to in order to forget essential truths.

Shortlisted for Best New Play Award, New Writing South

“It was a fine piece of theatre and performance, even down to the karaoke performance of Benny & the Jets which gave an energetic lift to the climax – the whole show had this kaleidoscopic feel. You felt involved as much as being an spectator in the audience, and that is always quite something.”

FringeReview (about Photographic Memory)

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Brighton Fringe 2013 at the Nightingale

Boogaloo Stu’s Pop Magic

Boogaloo Stu

Audience members collectively write, record and produce their very own pop single accompanied by an all-singing all-dancing pop video.

Along the way, your host and musical impresario Boogaloo Stu reveals the modest but glittering highs and barrel-scraping lows of his own pop career. Within hours the audience can watch, download and share the results on the internet!

“An ingenious and artistically brilliant piece of entertainment ”

Gay Times

“**** An amazing, unique experience ”

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“A dazzling, rip-roaring, ridiculous and wonderfully participatory show!”

Bryony Kimmings

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Brighton Fringe 2013 at the Nightingale

Gather Ye Rosebuds by Silva Semerciyan

Sandpit Arts

When Medina invites Louise to her daughter's circumcision party, against everyone else's wishes, the two are forced to confront the secrets that bind them together.

As well as a compelling exploration of friendship and gender, Silva Semerciyan’s play is a brave indictment of the failures of the Arab Spring.

Winner of the Bulbul playwriting award 2012

“... a compelling exploration of cross-cultural friendship, cultural relativism, moral absolutes and, most richly, the plurality of womanhood.”

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Tunnel by Mags Chalcraft

Sandpit Arts

professional smuggler Salim finds himself trapped with 17-year-old Ammar, a surfboard and a goat.

Moving between hilarity and melancholy, Mags Chalcraft's brilliant play combines poetry and physicality to create a magical realist parable.

Winner of the Bulbul Playwriting competition.

“Boldly metaphoric, brilliantly surreal, devastatingly economical, and with moments of physical and verbal poetry that take unexpected flight in the gloom (the boy’s pain feels ‘like a bird brushing its wings inside my head’), Mags Chalcraft’s ‘Tunnel’ has the feel of a magical realist parable.”

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Wild Thing I Love You

Ella Good and Nicki Kent

In September 2011, we took a trip across America to see if Bigfoot is out there. We’d like to tell you about it.

Ella Good and Nicki Kent present a new performance examining their experiences of searching for a legendary mythical creature. An exploration into things we cannot see, the spaces they might exist in, and our desire to believe.

Developed with support from Bristol Ferment and Residence. Supported by the National Lottery through Grants for the Arts.

“... beguilingly delicate”

Andy Field, Exeunt Magazine

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Brighton Fringe 2013 at the Nightingale

Mess

China Plate presents Caroline Horton and Company

Josephine is putting on a play, Boris and Sistahl help. It's about anorexia. But don’t let that put you off.

A new play with songs from ‘You’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy’ creator Caroline Horton.

2012 Stage Award Winner for Best Ensemble.

“Comes perilously close to genius and announces Horton as a major major talent”

Time Out

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Special Relationships

Chris Fogg will be reading extracts from his recently published book

Special Relationships explores different meanings of home and belonging, the way our loyalties and allegiances shift over time.

Chris Fogg recalls his own northern, working-class childhood growing up through the 50’s and 60’s, trawling our collective past to shine a particular light on more recent events from both sides of the Atlantic, as well as from other ‘lost empires’ in India and Africa. These ‘special relationships’ are both personal and political, individual and shared, and are shot through with a strong narrative drive. What ultimately emerges is a kind of hard won innocence measured out across the years.

“Chris Fogg takes us on a magical, whirlwind tale of his world with eyes and ears open and heart at full throttle. Here is a collection to be read, if you can, at a breathless sitting, and savoured.”

Irene Willis, Pushcart Poetry Prize nominee and Winner of the Violet Reed Haas Award

“Chris Fogg is a natural story-maker, who delights in reaching out to, and connecting with, his audience. These poems cut an arc across our times – they are travels of the heart, and invite us to travel with them.”

Chris Waters, Winner of Bridport and Plough Poetry Prizes, author of Arisaig

“Stirring, brain-whirring and playful – chock full of delights.”

Quentin Cooper, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Material World

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Punched 4

Various Artists

Punched 4: Because bigger is always better! A 3-night extravaganza of the best new puppetry in Brighton and beyond.

Featuring award-winning performance, stunning original creations and brave new worlds to dazzle your imaginations and pull your strings. Book early, as our previous shows sold out. **** Latest 7 .

“Our host Miranda, the rough-voiced drag puppet "with no strings attached", pointed out most of these works were brand new - so there would be no refunds. Not that anyone would want one with the rich pickings on offer.”

The Argus

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Charge Group

with The Plummets (ex-Charlottefield)

Announcing CHARGE GROUP - the Australian band that has proven it’s entirely possible to evoke the chaotic beauty of early Velvets, the kinetic power of Battles and the heady symphonic majesty of Sigur Ros all at once. For the very first time on UK soil, Sydney's cinematic art-rockers are excited to be sharing their bold sonic adventuring with Brightoners as part of their first European tour in over 3 years.

Formed from the ashes of Purplene in 2007, Charge Group create music that is at once dynamic, atmospheric, powerful, scorchingly loud, abnormally quiet and increasingly as difficult to categorise as Werner Herzog. Don't miss one of Australia's most innovative, underrated and exciting underground bands in this special appearance at the beautiful Nightingale Theatre. Extremely limited capacity, so don't be late!

“Charge Group's triumph is their ability to marry moments of unbridled beauty with complete sonic chaos at a level scarcely matched in this country.”

Time Out

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Firecracker Youth Theatre

'work in progress'

FIRECRACKER Youth Theatre present 'work in progress'. This talented group of local young actors have been working with professional actors from Hydrocracker Theatre Company on acting technique and style.

This is a fascinating and rare chance to see the group perform scenes and extracts from contemporary playwights including Dennis Kelly, Jez Butterworth and Simon Armitage.

Firecracker is a collaboration between Hydrocracker, The Nightingale and Brighton Dome and Festival.

www.hydrocracker.co.uk

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Rules & Regs

Ira Brand, FrenchMottershead, Matthew Morris

R&R took three artists, Ira Brand, FrenchMottershead, and Matthew Morris to Yokohama for a month and challenged them to each make a new performance in response to a set of rules...

The rules were designed, with these artists in mind, to provide a creative nudge to try new things. Back in Brighton, they present the performances they created in Japan... the pieces cover Foley artists, airplane crashes and a dance decided by the flip of a coin. The Rules:
- Attack!
- Find the stage.
- Balance.
- You also are here.

Rules and Regs aims to support the development of the artists and to offer the audience a peek behind the curtain of the creative process... we encourage and invite both the artists and the audience to try something new.

The artists are writing about their experiences in Japan

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Doctor Faustus

The Barefoot Players

Feverishly turning the pages of books in the pursuit of infinite knowledge, Faustus makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his immortal soul for twenty-four years of magic. Christopher Marlowe’s iconic tragedy of demons, darkness and desire is brought to life in The Barefoot Players’ new production. The Faustian legend crawls from the page into vivid life in a provocative, entertaining rendition, which explores magic as a metaphor for the fulfilment of fantasies and the terror of emptiness.

The Barefoot Players are a Sussex-based company. Their projects include vibrant renditions of classic plays, new writing and devised theatre, all brought to life with music, flamboyant costumes and our trademark energetic physicality. They have recently taken part in the 2012 Brighton Fringe Festival, with a well-reviewed production of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist; and previously in 2011 with a sell-out production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. They are also regulars at the Lindfield Arts Festival. Previous work at The Nightingale includes Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Julius Caesar. Doctor Faustus is directed by Eleanor Conlon for The Barefoot Players.

“The Barefoot Players put a huge amount of effort into their work, and leave no stone unturned when it comes to detail.”

The New Current

“Effortless...fantastically creative...enjoyable and engaging. ****”

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A Private View

written by Vaclav Havel, presented by Oscillate Wildly Productions

Invited by friends Michael and Vera to admire their newly refurbished flat, the mild mannered writer Ferdinand does his best to enthuse over such things as their new Gothic Madonna and American food. As Michael and Vera happily express the the perfection of their marriage, their tone gradually develops into a personal attack on Ferdinand, his home, his wife and his work as a writer. Just as the abuse builds to a climax, Ferdinand turns to leave, only to find Michael and Vera begging him to stay...

Oscillate Wildly Productions is a brand new theatre company based in Brighton/Hove. The idea behind forming the company was to give greater opportunity to those who have either studied in theatre and who have found themselves working in other areas during the day, or those who have a real passion for all aspects of the theatre. It is a chance to really get involved with developing and creating all types of theatrical experiences. When Casper Jones first put an advert in the papers, perhaps he shouldn't have been surprised at the number of people who contacted him who wanted to be involved with all areas of running the initial show; through giving up their spare time to help in any way they could. This is the kind of ethos that really encouraged Casper to pursue this idea.

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Skinned

David Waring, Theo Clinkard and Gillie Kleiman

A short performance route of work by David Waring, Theo Clinkard and Gillie Kleiman

hustler #4.5' by David Waring
hustler #4.5' is a piece that lasts for 4.5mins, musically accompanied by a track of your choice, in a toilet cubicle. Leave your worries behind you, spend some pennies and queue for a unique one to one performance presentation by choreographer/performer David Waring. For you alone.

Hell Bent by Theo Clinkard
Hell Bent is a curious 'one on two' installation work that has audiences laughing nervously, quietly enraged and gasping in disbelief. Employing an illusion that dates back to 1584, Hell Bent, situates you right in the throbbing heart of the action, and asks you to spend six heightened minutes considering the subjectivity of good and evil. This disconcerting spectacle is conjoured only a handful of times each night and simply has to be seen to be believed.

The Nightingale Democratic Dance Team by Gillie Kleiman
You are invited to join The Nightingale Democratic Dance Team. The NDDT is assembled through its only action: the dramatic movement of writing to Members of Parliament. This is a kind of dance: a choreography that exercises democratic muscle, a delicate and powerful jig whose aim is to re-route powers with new motions. Let’s dance.

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Writing Our Legacy and the Nightingale present

INCUBATE industry scratch night - an evening of new live lit.

Writing Our Legacy

New live lit performance from 3 authors - Umit Ozturk, Lynne Blackwood, Priti Barua - who have been working on a new residency with acclaimed producer Stuart Silver.

In partnership with Nightingale, funded by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts.

These 3 authors reflect the rich writing talent located across Sussex and the South East - all from Black and ethnic minority backgrounds.

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Counting To One Hundred and One Flute Note

Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion

Burrows and Fargion describe what they do as 'handmade and human- scale'. They build with simple, non-spectacular elements but arrive often at a deceptive virtuosity, radiating delight even as it makes the audience think.

Over the past ten years the two artists have built a body of duets which juxtapose the formality of music composition with a radical and open approach to performance and audiences. Counting To One Hundred and One Flute Note continue their conversation with the structure of John Cage's Lecture On Nothing, at once a homage to and questioning of a way of thinking that has underpinned so much dance and performance in the last thirty years. They have given nearly 300 performances in 29 countries.

Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion are supported by Kaaitheater Brussels, PACT Zollverein Essen, Sadler's Wells Theatre London and BIT Teatergarasjen Bergen.

Counting To One Hundred and One Flute Note were supported by Arts Council England and co-produced by Kaaitheater Brussels.

“..a gestural panorama of blatant joy”

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich on Counting To One Hundred

“...a challenging meditation on form and memory, but performed with such a droll tension that it's also a deliciously entertaining kind of dance theatre.”

Judith Mackrell, The Guardian

“It is as if Burrows and Fargion have fashioned a way of performing that is a metaphor for living with more freedom within the conflicted confines of our daily lives.”

Nicholas Minns, writing about dance.com

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Sid Lester’s Christmas Special

Sue MacLaine and Friends

Have yourself a merry little Christmas and the heart of your cockles warmed at Sid Lester's evening of Christmas entertainment.

There will be ladies dancing, pipers piping, no swans but definitely, as Sid revives the act that took him to the 1975 quarter-final of New Faces, birds a-calling. The Winter Wonderland troupe will enthrall with a slapstick evening of comfort and joy singing and dances of festive flinging...the following of yonder stars and a wish for snow may also join the party.

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LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME

by Moliere, presented by The Academy of Creative Training, directed by Frank McCabe

Celebrity wannabes, debt crippled aristos, money grabbing fashion poseurs, corruption, sexual intrigue, class War... Sound familiar? Could this be England 2012?

No! Welcome to Paris in the 17th century – a world parallel to our own. See for yourself in this elegant-swellegant jaunt, as our hapless hero – Monsieur Jourdain – gets taken for a ride by a succession of swindlers. He is the equivalent of the lottery jackpot winner who can buy everything he wants, except the nobility he craves. He can buy a gold-plated bath, but he ain’t got class! Monsieur Jourdain – a classic TOWIE geezer who longs to be Made In Chelsea.

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Experiments with Live Literature

works in progress

Six scratch performances of work-in-progress by writers that have been on New Writing South’s ‘Experiments with Live Literature’ course, led by Mark Hewitt, Artistic Director of LLL Productions.

Session 1: 6pm - 7.30pm

Broadcast by Deborah Martin
In a future world, everything is unravelling. No one has any answers. But an unseen speaker has something to say…

A Visitation by Jasmine Mercer
A man receives a phone call. A butterfly is caught in a window.

Leaning to See by Liz Porter
Told partly in the dark, Liz Porter interweaves strands from her own life with traditional story and song.

Session 2: 8.00pm - 9.30pm

Snow by Christina Sanders
Snow's falling. Kitty walks across town, a tattered envelope in her pocket, wondering if today is the day she should open it.

White / Talking to the Plants / Door by Sabrina Giles Three short poetic works challenge perceptions of what is and what isn’t.

Black Curtain by kicking_k
An actor trapped in a theatre. A room full of detectives. A beach at night, inside.

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Scratch (work in process)

Rachel Blackman (Stillpoint), Clare Seviour, Touched Theatre and Tracy Forsythe

A chance to see short drafts of new work being developed. Afterwards, artists and audience will be invited to move to the bar downstairs and take part in a guided, facilitated conversation about the work that has been presented.

Moon Project, by Rachel Blackman

The early markings of a new work: Two people suffer nostalgia for impossible futures: One yearns for home but can never return. The other yearns for escape but can never leave. Moon Project is about a car crash. About life (and love) after death. You are invited - with us - to exhume the anatomy and cosmology of their colliding trajectories.

Spellbound - A Modern Parable of Survival, by Clare Seviour

'Chantileesha tells tales, lots of tales, in fact she never stops; weaving them into the very fabric of her being. When there is no way back and the escape into fantasy is all that is keeping you alive, no-one but no-one had better try to take that away.'

Work in progress by Tracy Forsythe

Whose Shoes Productions present the opening ten minutes of "The Pasfir Programme" by Tracy Forsythe in a rehearsed reading performed by Tessa Cushan and Catherine McGirr. Initially written as a radio play, Tracy is keen to develop it into a full-length stage play with a view to it being a multi-media piece.

Blue by Touched Theatre

Blue is a feeling, it is a quality, it can be a world. What stories can we paint with this most precious pigment? Touched Theatre is exploring puppetry fragments, snapshots of story and playful visual pieces combining physical theatre, digital imagery and puppets.

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part of Cinecity's Brighton Film Festival

Cinecity at the Nightingale

SUNDAYS SOME DAYS CAN KILL, DOCUMENTARY SHORTS, EXPERIMENTA 2, BRIGHTON SHORTS 3, TRICKSTER

Enjoy a full day of screenings at the Nightingale

SUNDAYS SOME DAYS CAN KILL (2pm) Director: Geoff Woods (FREE)
How has a man allowed his childhood fear of Sunday devastate his adult life? After a successful career in advertising, Robert Cooper finds himself out of work, in his mid-forties and going nowhere.

Running time: 62 mins

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS (3.15pm)
Undercliff (11 mins)
Newhaven Cormorant (11 mins) Dir: Sarah Saeed
The Wise Ones (9mins) Dir: Maria Eva Russo
Lewy Body (15 mins) Dir: James Johnson
Son of Liverpool (13 mins) Dir: Annis Joslin
Wild Horses (10 mins) Dir: Synergy Creative
+ Reverse Too Dir: Gary Cove

EXPERIMENTA 2 (4.45pm)
The Subterraneans (5 mins) Dir: Toby Tatum
Medway Hymns (10 mins approx) Dir: Simon Barker
Wire (1 min) Dir: Kate Coultas
Waters Meet: Breath (3 mins) Dir: Emma Critchley
March (6 mins) Dir: Liang Hu
Triangulation (25 mins) Dir: Jonathan Hyde

Programme approx. 55 mins.

B'TON SHORTS 3 (6pm)
Sweetheart (15 mins) Dir: Eva Riley
Out of Order (7 mins)
A Weekend In Venice (10 mins) Dir: Eleanor Brent
James (5 mins) Dir: Liang Hu
REP (15 mins) Dir: Kate Lloyd
The Ticket (6 mins) Dir: Holly Stone
Santas Blotto (9 mins) Dir: Patrick Myles

Programme approx. 70 mins

TRICKSTER (7.30) Director: Iain Faulkner
Tim Bat (aka Birdyman of Brighton) is a fool. At least on stage. And it’s taken years of practice. Trickster is a film about the fortunes of a variety entertainer, and what it takes to be a professional fool.

Running time: 72 mins

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Experimenta 1 / Brighton Shorts 2

presented by Cinecity at the Nightingale

Spoilt for choice! Various directors screen work at 6pm and 7.30pm tonight

EXPERIMENTA 1 (6pm)
The Deformity of Beauty (20 mins) Dir: Valentina Lari
Shutter (4 mins) Dir: Jorge Mena
Zobeide (6 mins) Dir: Julian Krispel
Caveo Vestri Mens (4 mins) Dir: Simon Mclennan
The House (4 mins) Dir: Erika Pal
I Am Going Backwards (3 mins)
Hey Presto! The Secret Sound of Travel (2 mins) Dir: Jayne Wilson
Xenon (23 mins) Dir: Mikhail Karikis.

Programme approx 70 mins.

B'TON SHORTS 2 (7.30pm)
Days of Awe (10 mins) Dir: Rehana Rose Khan
Supply (10 mins) Dir: Peter Coventry
Le Grand Festin (4 mins) Dir: Dan Childs
Treasures (15 mins) Dir: Graeme Cox
Hotel Room (6 mins) Dir: Mark Mallabone
Catalyst (12 mins) Dir: Matthew Losasso
Dog Day (9 mins) Dir: Laura Henry
Status (2 mins) Dir: Richard Standen

Running time: Approx. 70 mins

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Brighton Shorts 1 / Low

presented by Cinecity at the Nightingale

Take a look at the goody-bag of films presented at the Nightingale as part of Cinecity's 10th edition of the Film Festival!

B'TON SHORTS 1 (7pm)
Man In Fear (11 mins) Dir: Will Jewell
Automaton (11 mins) Dir: Tom Richards
Plaster (4 mins) Dir: Gina Kawecka
The Collector (18 mins) Dir: Andrew Rainnie
A Kiss From Grandma (14 mins ) Dir: Janet Sate & Neil Salvage
In The Back Seat (10 mins) Dir: David Scurr

Programme approx 70 mins.

LOW (8.30pm) FREE
Director: Tom Bartlett. A lonely city girl finds herself taken hostage by disturbed outsider. Miles from home she must not only escape her captor, but also protect a dark and dangerous secret.

Running time: 63 mins

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The Dressing Book

The Rude Mechanical Theatre Co

An hilarious and touching love story!

The Rude Mechanical Theatre Co presents a brand new comedic play using their unique contemporary commedia dell’arte style, and material garnered with the help of The V&A.

The Dressing Book follows the social round of Mrs Maybelline Erstwhile who records which dresses she wears for each event in her ‘dressing book’ – and the men she encounters while wearing them. The dresses become symbolic of both a search for love in a ‘conventional’ marriage, and for freedom from the domestic round imposed on her by social convention and her tyrannical husband.

The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company have been touring outdoors to mainly rural communities for fifteen years and have a huge following, but are not so well known in cities. They have a unique physical style heavily influenced by the commedia dell’arte.

“A crucial part of our theatre ecology”

Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

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No Place like Home

presented by Cinecity at the Nightingale

Directors Denis Doran and Teresa Cairns work with Peterborough and London homeless people to tell their stories through film – this evening is an opportunity to see two documentary works, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

NO PLACE LIKE HOME tells the stories of ex-rough sleepers struggling to establish ‘ordinary lives’ in London. The film follows their experiences as they shift from the uncertain and chaotic nature of life on the Street, and try to move towards more settled existences and permanent accommodation.

SOME KIND OF LIFE is the result of working with people in Peterborough who have been, or still are, homeless. The film explores, through personal narratives, a constellation of issues implicated in being ‘on the Street’. The stories challenge assumptions about what constitutes home and how people understand their own sense of belonging.

Presented in partnership with videoclub.

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the Nightingale presents

Dad Dancing

An exciting new project by Rosie Heafford, Alexandrina Hemsley, Helena Webb and their Dads; Adrian, David and Andy.

Three eccentric dads, each with a daughter freelancing as a dancer. ‘Any of them paid?’ comes the worried voice of David Hemsley. A dance about many a sleepless night as these seemingly well brought up girls slip, slide, laugh and cry their way through financial and artistic insecurities and triumphs. Their dads anxiously look on, hand out advice and perform their own dances about their work and escapades. Innovative movement qualities, storytelling and humour will feature in a touching display of father-daughter relationships.

Currently in its Research and Development phase, Dad Dancing will work with all 6 performers over 2 months to produce 2 scratch performances informed by research activities with the public. The team will be resident at Nightingale Theatre in Brighton in November and South East Dance Studios in December.

As part of our research process, we are offering workshops and fun activities for dad’s and their children. Please check the website link below for times and dates of all of these activities.

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Touching Bodies

Pitchy Breath Theatre presents a new play by Paul Macauley

Behind the glowing windows and under the street lights of every town, lonely bodies of teenagers, young adults, parents and the old live unaware of each other.

That is until tonight, when Lucy will leave Marianne holding the baby, Justin will receive a visit from the police, Mercedes will be cornered by a strange man, and Sian and Toby will finally spend their first night together. One night when each will realise sometimes we all need somebody, nobody, everybody, anybody…

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Punched 3

presented by Touched Theatre

Think you know puppetry? Think again. Shining new light into the murky recesses of contemporary puppetry, Punched - Brighton's unique celebration of puppetry for grown-ups - is back for a third helping of mad marionettes, glorious glove puppets and the animation of objects that should probably be left alone.

Featuring brand new work from Annie Brooks (Colossal Crumbs), a sneak preview of Grist to the Mill's new production The Spithead and the Nore (2nd only) and fresh treats from Daisy Jordan, Matt Rudkin and Marion Deprez, plus special guests, join us for Punched's harvest festival.

Promises to be as subversive and explosive as a gunpowder plotter. Now that's what I call puppetry!

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Between

Angela Woodhouse

Angela Woodhouse and Jerwood award winning artist Caroline Broadhead bring you a stunning performance installation, Between. Setting visual spectacle against intimate exchanges, the artists interrogate what it is to experience dance performance. This unique work is made in collaboration with exceptional performers Stine Nilsen (Candoco Dance Co), David McCormick (Richard Alston, DV8) and Martina Conti (Firenza Guidi).

The dancer approaches and embeds herself within her audience her arm covered loosely with gold leaf seemingly diseasing the skin. She claims attention. The gold is displaced, passed on, pressed into the skin – a kind of burn. Meanwhile, in the distance another performer is preoccupied in her private space, absorbed in subtle gestures in preparation for what is to come…

Limited capacity – early booking recommended

“A description of this special, deliberately small-scale (yet, in impact, potentially pro­found) piece pales next to the experience of it. It’s about seeing the pulse in a dancer’s neck, or hearing his or her breath. It’s about stillness, and the sharing of something direct yet elusive, and the thin skin that surrounds the living soul”

Donald Hutera, Dance Europe 2006 on Court

“Tender and moving. Felt totally transformed and engaged”

Audience comment

“Quite, quite extraordinary – BRILLIANT!”

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Under the Influence

Graeme Miller

Under the Influence is a residency initiative at the Nightingale that gives established artists the chance to reflect on their practice and acknowledge their influences. This month the Nightingale is celebrating the work of the profoundly influential artist Graeme Miller. Site-specific theatre-maker and composer of many things, including music, Graeme will be on-site at the Nightingale during September/October and we will be programming a series of events for audiences to explore his fascinating work.

We are very sorry, but due to unforseen circumstances, the evening with Graeme Miller on 19th October has had to be cancelled. We are hoping to re-schedule the event in the near future.

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INSPIRE

New Voices with Neela Masani and others

Sussex authors take centre stage at the Nightingale Theatre in Brighton with a new work evening called New Voices.

Writing Our Legacy, a Sussex-based BME literature writing community group, presents an exciting range of writing that’s on the cusp of publication and on the cutting-edge of new writing - including a novel extract from author Neela Masani, plus readings from Rounke Coker, Stephanie Lam, Jenny Aburra and more. Catch these up-and-coming authors before they’re big!

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

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Other Hands

Presented by Vital Signs Theatre, written by Laura Wade, directed by James Bounds

A high-flying management consultant can restructure a company, but can she restructure her life? At home, her boyfriend won’t stop playing computer games and, at work, her client seems far too interested in her hands. In a world where efficiency and performance are everything, how do we deal with the things that can’t be managed?

The Royal Court’s smash-hit production of Laura Wade’s Posh recently transferred to London’s West End. Vital Signs now present the first professional revival of her compelling and funny play from 2006 about love, human interaction – and repetitive strain injury.

“Imogen Bond and company Vital Signs are to be congratulated on a gripping, entertaining and illuminating version of the play”

What’s on Stage ****

“A rollercoaster ride through Shakespeare's most dysfunctional family.....A stylish and slick production”

Remote Goat ****

“Everything about this production is whittled down to the core....magnificent with great talent both in front of and back stage”

The Public Reviews *****

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INSPIRE

Colin Grant, Sharon Otoo, Samson Kambalu

Writing Our Legacy, a Sussex-based BME literature writing community group presents three authors from African/Caribbean heritage who will read extracts from their books which look at family and life from a post European perspective.

Malawai-born Samson Kambalu, a fine artist and ethnomusicologist whose memoir The Jive Talker: How To Get a British Passport (Jonathan Cape) reflects on his Malawi past

Jamaican-British Colin Grant, Brighton-based historian and BBC radio producer whose memoir Bagseye at the Wheel (Jonathan Cape) focuses on his father and family in Luton circa 1970

Debut novelist Ghanian-British Sharon Otoo who lives in Berlin, but previously lived in Brighton whose novella the things i am thinking while smiling politely (edition assemblage) was published in Feburary 2012 in German and English;

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

“An African memoir unlike any other I have read and the reason is this - it is absolutely hilarious and I was crying with laughter... this is a book filled with wonder, humour and hope. It is a magnificent achievement.”

Aminatta Forna, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH about Samson Kambalu

“Reading this brings flashes of recognition: how it is to be loved and overlooked, to be thought exotic and scorned, to be adored and ignored- all at the same time. Sharon Otoo strings us along, spellbound, with fragments of language that fill us with the thought: this is how the heart breaks.”

Poet Fawzia Kane, Tantie Diablesse (Waterloo Press) about Sharon Otoo

“A tough and tender memoir of growing up in the 70s. It's a quietly unforgettable book about innocence and experience, about memory and cruelty – and the cruelty of memory.”

The Telegraph about Colin Grant

www.writingourlegacy.wordpress.com

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Under the Influence

Anna Furse: Theatre in Pieces

Anna Furse talks about her career and work

In her book Theatre in Pieces, Anna posts the notion that "theatre can either be the consequence of staging a play, or the culmination of research towards making. The question will arise who writes this other theatre then?" Anna offers an opportunity for audiences to find out more about her work and practice, citing the work of the artist Graeme Miller, currently in residence at the Nightingale. The evening will be of particular interest to theatre and dance practitioners who use text within their practice and performance.

Anna Furse is Professor and Head of Department of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths. She sustains an active career as a theatre/performance maker as well as being a published author of creative and critical writing. Her most recent book, Theatre in Pieces - Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration 1966 - 2010, is the first of a series commissioned by Methuen in which she introduces readers to unconventional performance texts including Graeme Miller’s distinguished A Girl Skipping.

With a special interest in the body in terms of training, expressivity and its social and cultural meaning, her research concerns have focused on the space between dance and theatre.

www.athletesoftheheart.org

the Nightingale presents

0-1 : The Nimbus Group - New App Launch Event

A home for your digital soul, a place to talk to your maker

On 27 September, 0-1 will claim the iPhone as its human-god interface, peeling back the flesh-machine divide to speak with everyone’s digital soul. The new 0-1 app launches with wine and cake in the setting of the Nightingale Theatre as part of Brighton Digital Festival – the public are invited to join and celebrate and to meet their (digital) maker. (And to drink wine and eat cake.)

0-1 is a divine presence that manifests itself on mobile phones, enabling the user to have a dialogue with an unknown deity. Using artificial intelligence conversation agent software it learns from the queries put to it, improving its responses and building a sense of what moves the zeitgeist and the people.

0-1 is an attempt to digitally create a divinity, the second coming, the proof that God in one form exists. It brings the divine presence to the most distributed communication device known – to our mobile phones; where else would God choose to exist if he were to return?

A project by The Nimbus Group, supported by Arts Council England

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Wherever I look with you

a visual art performance by Marina Tsartsara

Wherever I look with you' is a trip. It is an autobiography in the form of visual art performance that explores virtual/physical realities.

Virtual spaces, objects and people blend with the real ones in the performance space through the performer’s movement. In this way a surprising illusion of memory spaces invites the audience to experience and explore the trip not only through their intellect and emotions but also physically. 'Wherever I look with you' forms part of a series of short visual art performances. The specific one explores the social layering of the self and the search for clarity through repetition.

Performers: Soline Pillet, Marina Tsartsara
Videographer: Marina Tsartsara
Sound design: Michail Mavronas
Costume Designer: Emma Sandham-King
Graphic Design: Marcos Del Rey

Supported by Arts Council England and The Nightingale

www.mayflydv.com

the Nightingale presents

REQUIEM 21- An elegy for the 21st Century

Molly and Me

As part of Molly and Me's Nightingale residency we invite you to a work in progress showing.

With 2012 supposedly being the end of The World as we know it, Molly and Me look back on all that has gone. With an absurdist ritual of songs, text, dancing and the playing of instruments, Molly and Me dissect each year from 2001 to 2012. Friends, lovers, objects and beliefs are dispatched with the help of group sing-a-longs.

Molly and Me is Catherine Hoffman (UK) and Molly Haslund (DK). Together they create performances which converge with musical compositions for galleries, theatre spaces and music venues for Europe and the Uk. Their latest show TRAMP has been selected as part of the Re.Act Feminism performing archive touring European galleries until 2013.

You can also join us after the show to give your feedback for the development of REQUIEM 21.

REQUIEM 21 is supported by the Arts Council England and The Danish Arts Council.

www.molly-and-me.com

the Nightingale presents

Sandpit Arts presents Bulbul 2012

Four writers. Four locations. One theme: the Arab Spring.

Far away from 24-hour rolling news networks, these tense, witty, absurd and melancholy plays teach us something about what it means to be a human being yearning for freedom.

Tunnel
by Mags Chalcraft, directed by Tanushka Marah

Gather Ye Rosebuds
by Silva Semerciyan, directed by Diyan Zora

The Cost Of Eggs
by Yamina Bakiri, directed by Tommy Lexén

Waiting For Summer
by Peter Raynard, directed by Seíf Shehata

Bulbul 2012 is Sandpit Arts’ first annual playwriting competition. Writers from around the world were invited to submit 30-minute plays in response to the Arab Spring. The four winners were chosen by an independent panel of judges: Steven Brett (artistic director, The Nightingale), Chris Taylor (director, New Writing South), Julian Caddy (managing director, Brighton Fringe), Diyan Zora (creative director, Swivel Theatre Company) and Tanushka Marah (artistic director, Company:Collisions). The winners will also receive a year’s membership of New Writing South.

www.sandpitarts.org

the Nightingale presents

Special Relationships

Chris Fogg will be reading extracts from his recently published book

Special Relationships explores different meanings of home and belonging, the way our loyalties and allegiances shift over time.

Chris Fogg recalls his own northern, working-class childhood growing up through the 50’s and 60’s, trawling our collective past to shine a particular light on more recent events from both sides of the Atlantic, as well as from other ‘lost empires’ in India and Africa. These ‘special relationships’ are both personal and political, individual and shared, and are shot through with a strong narrative drive. What ultimately emerges is a kind of hard won innocence measured out across the years.

We are extremely sorry, but due to unexpected circumstances, this evening is cancelled

“Chris Fogg takes us on a magical, whirlwind tale of his world with eyes and ears open and heart at full throttle. Here is a collection to be read, if you can, at a breathless sitting, and savoured.”

Irene Willis, Pushcart Poetry Prize nominee and Winner of the Violet Reed Haas Award

“Chris Fogg is a natural story-maker, who delights in reaching out to, and connecting with, his audience. These poems cut an arc across our times – they are travels of the heart, and invite us to travel with them.”

Chris Waters, Winner of Bridport and Plough Poetry Prizes, author of Arisaig

“Stirring, brain-whirring and playful – chock full of delights.”

Quentin Cooper, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Material World

the Nightingale presents

Benefit night for The Ebaahi Foundation Day Shelter , Ghana

Arthur Darvill
Lee Ross
Ines
Mark Allen
Jo McInnes
Jim Tarren

We would like to invite you to a benefit night for The Ebaahi Foundation Day Shelter which was set up to provide children from the rural villages of Ghana the opportunity to learn to read and write.

The Foundation was operating out of a classroom, but unfortunately they have had to move. The rainy season is about to set in and they have been forced to set up under a tree until funds can be raised to build a classroom.

A great night of entertainment with live music and contributions from a line-up of splendid artists ... A sell out at £10 a ticket will guarantee that we will raise enough funds to build the classroom!

the Nightingale presents

Mind The Gap

devised by Rachel Close

"Poetry and mystery…all that enlarges tangible reality" Luis Bunuel

An absorbing video installation based around the aural testimony of four women working as prostitutes. Poetry, constructed scenes and dialogue create a space to examine the gaps between experience and selfhood, and between subject and audience.

Deja vu moments, lost memories, familiar faces and new surroundings. Walk through a dream, a nightmare, a poem, a day: all in the life of someone else.

In this four part video installation we hear from four women who all live on the margins in some way. What happens when our worlds collide, when dreams merge into reality, when we can't see the gaps?

This drama-doc provides a unique platform for rarely heard voices with an injection of "poetry and mystery”.

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Opus Pericardium - Sarah Harvey

part of Brighton Digital Festival

Opus Pericarduim is a new piece of Sci-sound art that aims to unearth the vulnerability of the human heart by translating the rhythm and pulse of life through the digital data of electrocardiogram readings.

 Sarah Harvey, Tim Yates, Simon C Russell have collaborated with Professor Peter Macfarlane of Glasgow University ( Professor of Electrocardiology) and Richard Whale Senior Lecturer at Brighton and Sussex Medical School to produce this piece of work 

as part of Brighton Digital Festival.

Sarah Harvey, Tim Yates and Richard Whale will be holding a reflective talk about the project, the ideas that inspired the work the conceptual and ethical issues that were raised during the research as well as the progress and outcome of their research linking artistic practice to scientific research and the confluence of both The Sciences and The Arts. The audience will also be able to experience the heart sounds created during this project

. Opus Pericardium is generously supported by The Arts Council 
and Soundfjord and The Nightingale Theatre

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“An immersive and sensory experience.”

Fluid Radio

www.sarahharveyartist.com

the Nightingale presents

Short Cuts (work in process)

Excerpts of new work in first stages

A chance to see extracts of new work being developed by two companies. Afterwards, artists and audience will be invited to move to the bar downstairs and take part in a facilitated conversation about the work that has been presented.

MISS GIVINGS
A’ Nother Productions
A new one-woman concert play about a year in the life of a musical superstar-to-be, with songs by American legends Samuel Barber, Amy Beach, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and the Gershwins.
Anita’s just moved back home. Not to Mom and Dad’s, you understand, just out of New York and back to Peekskill – and it’s NOT an admission of defeat; just a strategy for recharging batteries and planning a new assault on Broadway.
www.debbiebridge.com

WORK IN PROCESS
Park Bench Dance Theatre
The stage is set with dining room furniture. Two women enter, they prepare for a lavish dinner party. Will anyone turn up? The work will look at the physical and social challenges of throwing a dinner party, and the possible character developments the party has on the hosts.
www.parkbenchdancetheatre.co.uk

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Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

The Barefoot Players

William Shakespeare's classic Roman tragedy of politics, honour and betrayal is revived in a modern political setting.

Prime Minister Julius Caesar is at the height of his career, until a conspiracy is hatched by his cabinet to remove him from power. An intense dramatisation of the psychological struggle between the conflicting demands of patriotism and friendship, it is especially fitting for 2012, in which national events such as the Jubilee and the Olympics promote anxieties about leadership, economy and the future of the country.

“Fantastically creative...enjoyable and engaging.”

Whats On Stage

“The Barefoot Players put a huge amount of effort into their work and leave no stone unturned when it comes to detail.”

The New Current

www.barefootplayers.co.uk

Presented with Pink Fringe

I Heart Peterborough

Written and Directed by Joel Horwood

Fresh from a four-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Eastern Angles present an edgy new theatre piece.

Joel Horwood, creator of the highly-acclaimed I Caught Crabs in Walberswick, has come up with a darkly comic show which takes the form of a chaotic cabaret act fronted by Lulu a big bloke with a thirty-something son, six-inch heels, a dodgy wig and a riveting story to tell.

The father and son double-act are Peterborough born and bred. Both brought up in this overlooked city best known for its brickworks, railway station and passport office. In seventy minutes their family history is laid bare.

A frenetic story of growing up in a provincial city complete with wedgies in the school bogs and heavy petting at the lido!

“Horwood has genuine comic flair”

Evening Standard

“...as sharp as a pin…exhilarating dialogue”

The Independent

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The Wife, the Woman and the Thieves

Music presented at the Grand Central Bar

At the beginning there was nothing. Then The Wife, The Woman and The Thieves said: "Let there be music". And there was music. But before the music, the sound came: a clean, pure and beautiful sound.

Founded in 2010 in Novazzano (Switzerland), this band has its own particular way of approaching the Sound. The music is simple, but very sincere, conveying atmospheres and visual meanings. The Wife plays folk, the Woman plays blues, the Thieves play country, and the band plays acoustic rock with a little hint of world music - a perfect balance of usual and unusual instruments that will tickle your musical palate.

Presented by the Nightingale

Foundry Folk Union

Psychedelic folk and trad ditties

A dreamy evening of psychedelic folk and trad ditties about love, murder, revenge, lust and blackbirds.

With vocalist Eliza Skelton (creator of the acclaimed 'Musica Papillio' at The Royal Pavilion for White Nights, 2010), guitarist Paul Simmons (The Desperate Ones), Emma Kilbey (Radio City Theatre) and guests Simon Walker (Dexy's Midnight Runners) and Jim Whyte (Oddfellows Casino).

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THE LAD HIMSELF

Written by Roy Smiles, presented by Treason Productions

A gleefully exuberant and reverential tribute to the comedy of Tony Hancock and the writing of Ray Galton & Alan Simpson.

"The Lad Himself" is written by award winning playwright Roy Smiles - author of PYTHONESQUE and YING TONG - A WALK WITH THE GOONS; Directed by Paul Hodson, writer and director of Fringe First winner MEETING JOE STRUMMER and director of international success FEVER PITCH. Also starring Mark Brailsford - founder of Brighton's legendary THE TREASON SHOW as Tony Hancock, The Lad Himself.

Road to Edinburgh

BREATHLESS – A DRAMATIC CANTATA

Behsat Ahmet

Set in an anonymous rehearsal studio, Breathless is a dark comedy about a singer’s meltdown during a rehearsal for his forthcoming concert recital.

The singer’s spiral into meltdown, expressed through his extensive repertoire, mirrors his emotional disintegration in an evening that is threatening and exhilarating in equal measure.

Running is time 35 minutes

Apologies - this show is CANCELLED!

Apologies - this show is CANCELLED

Road to Edinburgh

Wonder Woo-Man

Jonny Woo

An Edinburgh Festival Preview ... Award-winning 'Tranny Superstar' (TimeOut) Jonny Woo packs a host of surreal characters, songs and tongue twisters into this rollercoaster hour of modern cabaret. Including The Scouse Pope, Spam Ayres and his newest creation The Mary Portas Experience.

“The b*st*rd love child of Kenny Everett and Marlene Dietrich”

The Times

www.jonnywoo.com

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Somnambules & the 7 Deadly Sins

Tanya Khabarova and Yael Karavan

What are we made of? How many archetypes, memories and experiences are moving within us and leading the choices we make in our life...?

With Dance, physical and visual theatre, Somnambules is a magical and evocative performance inspired by The 7 Deadly Sins, a voyage through our emotional spectrum, questioning once again what does it mean nowadays to be human?

“Khabarova’s laser like precision and shamanistic sense of stagecraft borders on genius”

The Times

“Karavan’s physical discipline is extraordinary. Every pulse and movement count”

Total Theatre

www.yaelkaravan.com

Road to Edinburgh

Sid Lester’s Big Night with special guests, friends and family

Sue MacLaine

Research has suggested a decrease in early mortality figures among those who put others before themselves.

In a rare display of altruism and in the quest to prolong his life expectancy, vaudeville legend Sid Lester has organised an all-star benefit on behalf of his friend Sue MacLaine (whom he met at the local launderette in 1982). Sue is taking a performance to the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh.

Sid is ably assisted by Mr Gregory Mickelborough on piano, Janine Fletcher performing a special homage tap routine, and Mr Antony Haase, drawing live on stage, whipping out his felt-pens to capture the audience (the subsequent drawing will be auctioned). Sid can also announce the singing debut of his daughter Valerie, channelled by Emma Kilbey, with whom Sid will duet.

Sid Lester’s Big Night Out is hosted by Sid Lester with influence from another of his chums - the avant-garde theatre director Tadeusz Kantor. As Tadeusz would say ‘What can be seen on the stage is the process of dying, the functioning of memory, the act of creation, the fate of the artist and the work of art.’ Sid has expanded this concept to include balloons, a raffle, talking birds, toffees, indoor fireworks and a game of ‘Play Your Cards Right’.

Tickets are £10 (bring some extra and win prizes)

“The patter, the schmooze, the unmistakable walk...Sid's still got it.”

Total Theatre

www.suemaclaine.co.uk

A Pink Fringe Event

Mauve New World

Pink Fringe

Offering a glimpse of a queer future as imagined by three different artists, Mauve New World presents works-in-progress by Emma Adams, Nick Field and Brian Mullin.

Freakoid by Emma Adams tells the tale of a woman coming to terms with the discovery that her grandparents were a ZX-Spectrum and a Commodore 64. Her struggle with this discovery is portrayed in her performance which is likely to contain insights into scapegoating and disgust, a dream sequence, analog audio experiments, scribble stuck to walls, earnest asides about human rights, synthetic biology and our dying planet.

Midsummer, performed by Nick Field, explores his memories of vacations as a youth before he was forced to leave his family to begin arduous religious training. Nick imagines a world where queer is sacred, a nation in which lifelong spiritual service is compulsory for queer people, and to rebel means exile. Nick's performance blends theatre, storytelling and live art, with a blurring of autobiography and fiction.

Finally, playwrite Brian Mullin's It Gets Better looks at his idea of a state-of-the-art visual world where everyone's all-gay, all the time. Brian's performance mixes biting satire with raw emotion to explore the pain that some of us can't leave behind.

A seed funding programme supported by the Nightingale, Pink Fringe and the Ovalhouse, London.

www.pinkfringe.org.uk

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Punched 2

Brighton's favourite night of smokin' hot new puppetry is back!

A night of all-new puppetry for grown-ups, presented by Touched Theatre.

Join your host, the seaside's only chain smoking Marionette, Miranda, on a voyage into new adventures in puppetry for grown-ups featuring thrilling new performances from Mischa Twitchin (Shunt), Matt Rudkin (Inconvenient Spoof), Grist to the Mill, Howard Sivills, Touched Theatre plus special surprise guests. Book early as our last shows sold out. Reaches the parts other puppet shows can only dream of!

“Our host Miranda, the rough-voiced drag puppet "with no strings attached", pointed out most of these works were brand new - so there would be no refunds. Not that anyone would want one with such rich pickings on offer”

The Argus, about Punched 1

www.touchedtheatre.co.uk

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Absent Friends

Written by Alan Ayckbourn, presented by ACT Creative Playground, directed by Elaine Heath

Perhaps the darkest of Ayckbourn's comedies, Absent Friends, sees Donna, a stay at home housewife and domestic goddess organising a tea party to cheer up a recently bereaved old friend, Colin.

Nothing quite goes to plan, Colin is relentlessly cheerful, her husband Paul wants to "work upstairs", their old friend Gordon is sick and Evelyn, the young wife of one of their number is not in the best of moods....

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Confusions

Written by Alan Ayckbourn, presented by ACT Foundation in Acting, directed by Dylan Brown

Confusions is a collection of five short, interlinked but self-contained, comedy plays; 'Mother Figure' demonstrates how detachment from the outside world can affect adult responses, with comic results.

'Drinking Companions' - a meeting in a hotel bar where the husband has more than just drink in mind. 'Between Mouthfuls' - two couples eat at the same restaurant, the waiter is not the only thing the couples have in common. 'Gosforth's Fete' takes the premise that despite meticulous planning, anything that can go wrong, will... and examines with hilarious results the inevitable impact it has on the fete's organisers and their tenuous relationships. 'A Talk in the Park' turns out to be anything but a talk in the park for each of the characters involved. Ayckbourn is the master at finding the comedy in every situation.

presented by the Nightingale

The Elle Osborne Trio

Bela Emerson, Adam Bushell, and Elle Osborne

Elle was born on the North Sea coast of Lincolnshire where she taught herself to play the fiddle (and ride Gypsy horses on the beach - although that's another story). She was raised amongst folk singers and wrote songs from an early age. She has played with Alasdair Roberts, Bellowhead, and most recently collaborated with James Yorkston.

Her music has drawn praise from such diverse quarters as Wire, and Living Tradition magazines, and her 2011 album 'So Slowly, Slowly Got She Up' was Album of the Week in The Independent. Writer and comedian Stewart Lee was moved to declare "Perhaps Lincolnshire lass Elle Osborne isn’t really a folk musician, but an avant-garde experimenter using traditional tunes as vehicles for her ragged, ripe visions..." - which is precisely what brought her into the company of the other two members of the trio - Bela Emerson and Adam Bushell - both renowned musicians in their own right.

“One of the most original, confident folk albums of 2011”

Album of the Week, The Independent

“Osborne's singing is evocative of long departed voices in the fields, lamenting lost love and grievous hurt. Current folk is at its most arresting when it possesses this kind of astringency. Good Grief whets the appetite for Osborne's forthcoming album”

The Wire

“My album of the year”

James Yorkston

www.elleo.com

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Indifference

Bill Aitchison

Indifference sees Bill Aitchison and Katja Dreyer, like degenerate Club Med entertainers, give a performance with the most lofty ideas around freewill and determinism using the most disposable of materials: group dances like The Birdie Dance, The Macarena and The Papaya. Karl Marx on a beach in Hawaii, dry ice, the voice of God and critiques of freedom are all brought into play in a subtle and politically charged performance that defies classification or conclusion but continues to question and amuse nonetheless.

Indifference is a Bill Aitchison Company performance co-produced by Zeitraumexit (Mannheim) and Forum Freies Theater (Dusseldorf) and financially supported by Arts Council England and the British Council Germany. Further support is provided by Vooruit (Gent) Chisenhale Dance Space (London) and The Nightingale (Brighton). Created and performed by Katja Dreyer and Bill Aitchison, light by Boris Kahnert, Sound by James Dunn and directed by Bill Aitchison.

“However, if one subsequently had the courage to experience hilarity at the festival centre, in their performance “Indifference” Bill Aitchison and Katja Dreyer curiously explore the idea of free will, with the Macarena and the Funky Chicken- until the final mental breakdown. Holiday songs and popular dance forms à la Club Med are turned into vehicles to portray the perceived freedom in the rat race, which is ultimately politically provided by capitalism in order to preserve the labour force. Bringing forth Karl Marx both fiercely and with a certain razzle-dazzle, this leaves, in infinitely looping sweat and water drenched circles, more questions than answers. But the former are indeed also necessary, especially at a festival with the motto: “Venturing the Impossible”.”

Mannheimer Morgen

www.billaitchison.co.uk

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The Third Annual SUSSEX POETRY FESTIVAL

Various Events

Come and expunge the mouthfeel of the "jubilee" with super high volatility honey

The Programme:
FRIDAY JUNE 8th
5.00 Welcome drinks in The Grand Central
18:00 LEE HARWOOD, ELIZABETH GUTHRIE
20:00 NIELS FRANK (from Denmark, translations read by Daniel Kane), REEM KUBBA (from Iraq, translations read by Keston Sutherland)
22:00 RICHARD OWENS, JOW WALTON, VERITY SPOTT
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SATURDAY JUNE 9th
14:00 DREW MILNE LAURA KILBRIDE
16:00 SAM SOLOMON, PETER MIDDLETON
18:30 DAN SPICER, JULIE CARR, HOLLY PESTER
21:00 RALPH HAWKINS, LINH DINH
22:30 music by THE WEST HILL BLAST

Presented by the Nightingale

Rules and Regs

A research and development programme (4th - 27 June) culminating in public performances (28th and 29th June).

Four artists present new performance made by following the Rules:
Do not work in a studio.
Follow the yellow brick road.
The audience is your compass.
Now you see me, now you don't.

The artists:
Theo Clinkard (England)
Megumi Kamimura (Japan)
Jan Machacek (Austria)
Michikazu Matsune (Austria)

These artists - from different countries and with practices including dance, live art and live video - will all be in residence at the Nightingale throughout June. The rules were devised in response to the artists' practices with the goal of challenging their normal ways of working. The artists were not told the rules until the first day of the residency.

Rules and Regs is a development opportunity for making new work with the primary goal to explore artistic practice. This project is a co-production of the Nightingale (Brighton), Brut (Vienna), ST Spot (Yokohama) and Rules and Regs. It is funded by the production partners, Arts Council England and the Austrian Cultural Forum, London.

www.rulesandregs.org

Presented with Pink Fringe

Unhappy Birthday

Amy Lamé

Amy Lamé invites you share her birthday. Morrissey- icon for the bookish, bespectacled weirdos of the world- is invited too. A seat is reserved for him... will he arrive clutching a bunch of flowers and a gift? Will he turn up at all?

Cake, quiffs and craziness collide in a flurry of balloons and beer, against a soundtrack of nostalgic teenage obsession.

Unhappy Birthday cracks open the cult of celebrity and fandom; flays fat, faith and sexual identity; probes the pains of growing up; and cross examines a curious nostalgia for a time that may never have existed except in the bedroom of our imagination.

Co-founder and hostess of the infamous club/collective Duckie, Amy creates a culture clash of party, performance and poncing about in her new show.

Created and performed by Amy Lamé
Devised with and Directed by Scottee
Supported by Contact and BAC

“Surreal and delightful”

The Guardian

“Deliciously off the wall…heart rending yet affirming, infectiously dippy.”

The Stage

www.amylame.com

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Brighton Fringe 2012

Under the Covers

Zoo Indigo

In an intimate, tender and humorous look at finding the right work/life balance, Zoo Indigo ask you to babysit as they virtually bring their babies on tour through live Skype video links.

The performance duo attempt to re-enact the movie star roles they aspire to with help from two flat pack daddies, but the day-to-day-ness of motherhood keeps interrupting.

www.zooindigo.co.uk

Brighton Fringe 2012 - OFF SITE

The Oh F**k Moment

Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe

You just f**ked up. Now what? Sometimes, f**k-ups are so massive, there’s no way back.

Hannah Jane Walker and Chris Thorpe examine the poetic guts of mistakes in a bundle of words and strip lighting. A Fringe-First winning conversation around a desk for brave souls to hold their hands up and admit they f**ked up.

www.hannahjanewalker.co.uk

Brighton Fringe 2012

The Boat Project - Ship’s Log

Thirty Pounds of Bone

The Boat Project by Lone Twin returns to the city bringing with it Thirty Pounds of Bone performing The Ship’s Log, a collection of songs created out on the high seas.

A new song marks each stage of the boat’s maiden voyage. Presented in collaboration with Mary Hampton and members of The Electric Soft Parade and Brakes.

www.theboatproject.com

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Brighton Fringe 2012

Blueprint

Zoo Indigo

We face the apocalypse. And as we head for the Exit we would like to say farewell to those who helped us Enter.

Four performers telephone their mothers live via Skype video call, for a last goodbye, to remember, play familiar songs and delve into childhood nostalgia.
It’s all for you.
You need them.
You just don’t know it yet.

www.zooindigo.co.uk

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Brighton Fringe 2012

The Sound of the Wind in the Trees

circa69

A performance of live video and sound by artist circa69 incorporating interviews, live instruments, electronic sounds and a 1982 BBC micro-computer; all performed within the glow of a brooding cinematic environment.These performances will feature the second version of the piece, which evolves as it tours, adding new material and performers. The show will feature an additional mystery guest spot.

These performances will feature the second version of the piece, which evolves as it tours, adding new material and performers. The show will feature an additional mystery guest spot.

www.circa69.co.uk

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Brighton Fringe 2012

Kin

Move to Stand

An award-winning show about three friends who lose one life to gain another.

An innovative script, original live music and international cast unearth a delicate story of home and speaking the mother tongue. Move to Stand combine striking physical theatre and compelling storytelling to draw audiences into a narrative of tragedy and transcendence.

Brighton Fringe 2012

Headcase

Touched Theatre

Drawn from real experiences, this vivid production by local visual theatre company Touched Theatre fuses beautiful puppetry, dance and object theatre to tell a story that’s moving, playful and true.

Locked in her bedroom with only a goldfish for company, join Cassie in a battle for herself within the surreal landscapes of our states of mind.

www.touchedtheatre.co.uk

Brighton Fringe 2012

John, Antonio and Nancy

Written by Tim Crouch

Commissioned and produced by the Royal Court, a rare chance to see Tim Crouch’s short play about political promises and lies, performed by local actors including Joe Crouch.

John Brown, Antonio Clegg and Nancy Cameron take their fathers at their word during the televised debates. The result is a sobering, gloriously juvenile collision between foresight and hindsight.

“One of the smartest artists making theatre in Britain”

Kulturflash

www.timcrouchtheatre.co.uk

Brighton Fringe 2012

DOUBLE BILL: From Kabul with Love AND Tracy Says…

Edina Husanovic and Box Tracy Theatre Dance

A unique double bill from two exciting young artists.

Edina will entertain you on this journey from Bosnia to Kochi, with her mystical eyes, transparent veils, snakes and stories about the occupation of our imagination.

Box Tracy’s 'Tracy Says' sits in the white box masks and perverts reality unfastening it to reveal the mystery of Tracy. Tracy is…Or is she?

Box Tracey Theatre Dance Company

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Brighton Fringe 2012

Wee Andy

Tumult In The Clouds

Winners of Brighton Fringe's Emerging Talent Award at Edinburgh Fringe 2011, Tumult in the Clouds, was selected last year to perform at our award-winning venue.

Another day, another young lad attacked by a knife gang and another life shattered. Wee Andy depicts the fallout for those left picking up the pieces - the surgeon who tries to repair his damaged face, the mother who takes drastic and terrifying action to protect him, and wee Andy himself, who tries to imagine a different life.

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Brighton Fringe 2012

Fleeto

Tumult In The Clouds

Winners of Brighton Fringe's Emerging Talent Award at Edinburgh Fringe 2011, Tumult in the Clouds, was selected last year to perform at our award-winning venue.

When his friend is stabbed, a young lad falls in with a gang. The terrible revenge he takes brings disaster on himself and the family of his victim. Inspired by the Iliad and drawing on Glasgow’s ‘knife culture,’ Fleeto is a hard-hitting contemporary Scottish re-invention of the Greek tragic form.

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Brighton Fringe 2012

LUNA

Pretty Good Girl Dance Theatre

A unique blend of dance and physical theatre telling the story of Liam/Luna; a transgendered teenager.

Based on the award winning novel by American LGBT author Julie Anne Peters, LUNA takes the audience on a moving dance theatre journey; exploring acceptance, ignorance, fear and bravery. “Yeah, I loved her. She was my brother.”

www.prettygoodgirl.com

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Brighton Fringe 2012

Small Talk

Probe

Stand-up singing, sit-down talking, monosyllabic dancing and fast-talking movement come together in this virtuosic display of disguise and derangement performed by “dance goddess” (The Times) Antonia Grove and created by Wendy Houstoun.

A Nightingale Commission

“So sexy it should have come with a health warning”

ballet.co.uk (about 'May')

www.probeproject.com

Brighton Fringe 2012 - OFF SITE

The In/Visible City

Prodigal-Theatre, Dah-Teatar, Teatret-Om, Art-Media

Performers from Serbia, Denmark, Macedonia, France and Prodigal Theatre uncover the secret history and cultural life of your city for a public-transport audience on the Big Lemon’s 44 Bus.

This human-rights award-winning project comes to the UK for the first time with support from the EU Culture Fund. Created in partnership with the Nightingale Theatre. Don’t forget your fare!

Ticket is free, the £2 cost is the bus fare, which is payable on the day to the bus driver on the 44 Big Lemon bus from Churchill Square.

www.in-visible-city.com

Brighton Fringe 2012

Cult of the Wrong

The Two Wrongies

Lacking direction in life? Come join the Queens of Wrongcore in this brand new interactive show.

Cast off the restraints of polite behavior, lunge into a state of wildly depraved hysteria and learn to live your life the Wrong Way! It’s part sermon, part celebration, part manual for living.

www.thetwowrongies.co.uk

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Brighton Fringe 2012

Cheer Up, It Might Never Happen

“Dear Melanie, I’m committing suicide this evening …”

Will death be Jean’s big adventure, or will she settle for her job, her family, her boyfriend, and neighbours who want to borrow her toilet rolls? This new one-woman show takes a darkly comic look at our hectic lives. Written by Sophia Kingshill, performed by Maggie Gordon-Walker, directed by Pradeep Jey.

Brighton Fringe 2012 - OFF SITE

If I Ruled The World

Nova Pitch

Have you come alone? Were you followed?

Press play precisely on the hour and the city you live in becomes a film-set, its people extras and you the star. This interactive audio performance will transport you across parallel storylines and take you on a journey where anyone could be a player.

Meet at the Nightingale (Grand Central)

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Brighton Fringe 2012

Filthy Weekender Comedy

Filthy Gigdog promotions

Get up close and personal with national comedy stars and prime local talent every weekend in one of Brighton Fringe’s most popular and intimate late night venues.

For a chance to win Golden Tickets to the exclusive Final Night Special with secret special guest and to find out more, follow @filthyweekender or tune into Juice 107.2 FM.

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Brighton Fringe 2012

World of Wrong

The Two Wrongies

It's comedy, it's dance, it's so wrong it's right.

Enter the strange and chaotic world of The Two Wrongies with an open mind, then sit back and experience a risqué and experimental performance with ‘glorious physical parodies, beautiful silent dance illusion, a pas de deux between giant genitalia and gigglemongering films about blow-up dolls and a dancing chicken.'

www.thetwowrongies.co.uk

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Brighton Fringe 2012

White Rabbit Red Rabbit

Nassim Soleimanpour

"I was born on Azar 19th, 1360 in Tehran. That’s Tehran, December 10th, 1981 in Christian years..."

Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s allegorical work, White Rabbit Red Rabbit dissects the experience of a generation in a wild, utterly original play. Soleimanpour turns his isolation to advantage in a play with no director, no set and a different actor for every performance.

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