BRIGHTON FESTIVAL FRINGE 2008
AT THE NIGHTINGALE THEATRE
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Tickets are available through the Fringe Website in most cases, and through www.brightonticketshop.com in all others, or you can call 01273 709709
World Premiere
3rd & 20th May @
7.30pm
THE NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Presents
SHORT CUTS
DEVELOPED WITH THE NIGHTINGALE THEATRE
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...
World Premiere
4th & 5th May 7.30pm
BADAC Presents
THE FORGOTTEN
DEVELOPED WITH THE NIGHTINGALE THEATRE
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.
Tue 6th May 7.30pm
NORTHBROOK COLLEGE Presents
SCRATCH NIGHT
DEVELOPED WITH THE NIGHTINGALE THEATRE
Tickets “PayWhatYou 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 ollege’s theatre. www.northbrook.ac.uk
World Premiere
7th & 8th May 7.30pm
STILL POINT Presents
THE ART OF CATASTROPHE
A new work by Rachel Blackman
and Emma Roberts.
DEVELOPED WITH THE NIGHTINGALE THEATRE
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
World Premiere
9th & 10th May 7.30pm
ON off
Devised and performed by
CHARLIE MORRISSEY
Tickets £8.50/£6.50 conc
DEVELOPED WITH THE NIGHTINGALE THEATRE
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
www.charliemorrissey.com
11th – 13th May
CARAVAN
DEVELOPED WITH THE NIGHTINGALE THEATRE
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. For more details visit www.farnhammaltings.com/news/caravan 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.
World Premiere
14th & 15th May 7.30pm
THE TWO WRONGIES Present
THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
DEVELOPED WITH THE NIGHTINGALE THEATRE
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
16th & 17th May 7.30pm
PIP UTTON Presents
CHAPLIN
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
World Premiere
18th – 19th May 7.30pm
THE QUAKE
A PRODIGAL THEATRE Collaboration with ANDREW G MARSHALL
DEVELOPED WITH THE NIGHTINGALE THEATRE
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
21st & 22nd May 7.30pm
JAY PRODUCTIONS & MAKIN PROJECTS
In association with Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Present
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
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
www.rogerllewellyn.co.uk
24th – 26th May 7.30pm
bGROUP present
THE DIMINISHING PRESENT
Choreographed and directed
by Ben Wright
DEVELOPED WITH THE NIGHTINGALE THEATRE
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
“BenWright is a choreographer
of scrupulousness and
sensitivity” DONALD HUTERA
www.bgroup.org.uk
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