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PAST PERFORMANCES AT THE NIGHTINGALE THEATRE Feb 4th 2004 - The Nightingale Theatre Launch THE WITHOUT SEASON - The Nightingale opened for performances with a season of performances played without theatrical lighting and/or sound. Feb 5th-7th 2004 Prodigal Theatre "THE TRAGEDIAN PART I - The rise to fame of Edmund Kean" Feb 12th-13th 2004 Northbrook College "SCENES FROM SHAKESPEARE" Feb 19th-21st, 26th-28th 2004 William Sutton "WHY LOVE SHAKESPEARE?" Mar 4th-6th 2004 Nikki McCretton "WORMHOLE" Mar 11th -13th 2004 Fireraisers "STORMIN' JACK NORMAN" Mar 18th-20th, 25th-27th 2004 Carlos Cortes "A THIN LINE" Apr 8th-10th 2004 Rebecca Skelton and Friends "WITHOUT KNOWING WHEN..." Apr 15th-17th 2004 Prodigal Theatre "THE TRAGEDIAN PART I - The rise to fame of Edmun Kean" Apr 23rd 2004 Voodoo Vaudeville "THE SKIN OF THE MOON" 2004 MAY FESTIVAL SEASON - For our first Festival we chose three plays to run for one week each. By the end of the Festival we were selling out every show...
May 4th-8th 2004 Bob Karper "THAT'S ME ON THE LEFT IN THE PARKA" May 11th-15th 2004 Slice of Life "SAY SORRY" May 18th-22nd 2004 Prodigal "THE TRAGEDIAN PART II - The fall to infamy of Edmund Kean" May 24th 2004 The Cretaive Actor Workshop "REHEARSED READING" 2004 SUMMER The summer was quite whilst all of July and August were given over to our In Kind Commission Rehearsals and Prodigal went to the Edinburgh Fringe to scout for shows and promote the Nightingale as a touring venue and commissioning house. Jul 1st-3rd 2004 Britt Forsberg "FIVE YEARS" Jul 15th 2004 Prodigal Theatre "THE TRAGEDIAN PART I - The rise to fame of Edmun Kean" Jul 16th-17th 2004 Prodigal "THE TRAGEDIAN PART II - The fall to infamy of Edmund Kean" Aug 27th 2004 The Nightingale In Kind Commissions "INVITED AUDIENCE SHOWING" 2004 AUTUMN SEASON Sept 23rd-25th 2004 The Prodigal Theatre Company "MALFI" Sept 29th 2004 MonkeyDog Productions "THE DEATH OF NELSON" Oct 1st-2nd 2004 In Kind Commissions - Polly Wiseman "RAVISH" & Raw Stone "I ADORE MY CHILDREN" Oct 17th 2004 Pier Playwrights/Sideshows "Rehearsed Readings". 2004 VISIONS FESTIVAL & LAUNCHPAD SEASON Oct 22nd 2004 Nitty Gritty "INSIDE OUT" Oct 23rd 2004 Lady Inert "SAP" Oct 24th 2004 IdolRich "THE MODEL" Oct 25th 2004 Matt Jackson "LIFE IS PRECIOUS" Oct 26th 2004 Mr Fortune's Puppetry Troupe "MR FORTUNE'S TANGLED TALES" Oct 27th 2004 Sleeping Dogs "MIGRANT OVERTURES" Oct 29th-30th 2004 Black Hole (Aus) "CARAVAN"
Dec 2nd-4th 2004 Pier Playwrights/Sideshows "A PLACE OF SAFETY" & "THE DEAL" 2005 Jan 23rd 2005 Pier Playwrights/Sideshows "REHEARSED READINGS" Jan 30th 2005 Nightingale "SCRATCH NIGHT" Feb 20th 2005 Pier Playwrights/Sideshows "REHEARSED READINGS" Mar 7th 5pm Puppetry Club of Tbilisi Georgia "MAKE IT AND MOVE IT" Mar 8th-11th 8pm Nortbrook College Foundation Degree Students 8th - 8pm & 9pm - Dance - "LITTLE MISS FRAGILES" 9th - 8pm - Musical Theatre - "SINGLES COLLECTION" 10th - 8pm & 9pm - Physical Theatre - "CURIOUS FICTION" 11th - 8pm - Drama - "FATH, HOPE & CHARITY" Mar 14th-18th THEATRICAL LIGHTING RIG AND SOUND SYSTEM INSTALLED Funded by The Arts Council of England, South East and Brighton & Hove City Council Mar 20th Pier Playwrights/Sideshows "REHEARSED READINGS" Mar 20th 7pm Nightingale Theatre Commissioning Board "SCRATCH NIGHT #2" Apr 13th Pier Playwrights/Sideshows "REHEARSED READINGS" MAY FESTIVAL FRINGE 2005 May 7th-8th 7pm & 9pm Bob Karper "BIG IN JAPAN or Three Steves and a Bob"
May 9th-10th 7pm & 9pm Pier Playwrights/Prodigal "THE ANTIGONE PROJECT" May 11th-12th 7pm & 8.30pm Dance Double Bill Rajyashree Ramurmurthi's "AVATAR" and The Freds' "LANDING" May 12th-13th 10.30pm, & 14th 9pm Volcano Theatre "HITTING FUNNY"
May 15th 7pm & 9.30pm Britt Forsberg "FIVE YEARS" May 16th 7pm & 9.30pm Britt Forsberg "BODY VOICE"
May 17th-21st 7pm, 18th & 20th 11pm Thorvald Aagaard "MIDDLE FLIGHT" May 17th-21st 9pm, 19th & 21st 11pm Baba Brinkman "THE RAP CANTERBURY TALES" May 22nd Prodigal Theatre "THE TRAGEDIAN TRILOGY"
May 23rd-24th 6.30pm & 9pm Carlos Cortes "QX" May 25th-26th 7pm & 9.30pm Strawberryman Productions present: "THE ORNATE JOHNSONS' COMEDY SHOW" May 27th-29th 7pm & 9.30pm PACK with Moving Word Theatre "NO TEARS"
June 3rd & 4th 8pm & June 5th 3pm Matinee 'Saki Shorts'
June 16th-18th 8pm (& 3pm Sat Matinee) A Post-Show Discussion will follow every performance except Thurs & Sat 8pm Sigma Productions present: 'From Within'
Previews an oak tree by Tim Crouch 15th & 16th July 8pm Bonnie in Brighton Erin Parks & Guy Picot 28th - 30th July, 8pm
29th, 30th September & 1st October 8pmA LIFE IN HER DAYby Hilary Chaplain
16th – 18th December at 8pm THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT
2006
14th and 15th January, & 17th February Jonathan Kay "Fool In a'Round" 19th February SCRATCH NIGHT #3 HYSTERIA Friday the 10th and Saturday the 11th of March at 8pm
SEX IN THE SEVENTIES Thursday 16th, Friday 17th and Saturday 18th March 8pm (& 3pm Sat)
Saturday the 25th March at 8pm HAS BEEN MANIA A brand new musical character comedy from Glen Richardson SCRATCH NIGHT #4 Sunday 26th March at 7pm Pay What You Can
TUESDAY 28th & Wednesday 29th @ 8pm DOUBLE BILL Northbrook College Foundation Degree Drama Students present Don Juan Comes Back From The War AND New Works # 1 Friday 31st March, Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd April Performerzone Presents PASS IT ON Sunday 30th April @ 7pm ONE NIGHT ONLY Aruba Devised by People Can Run In collaboration with and scripted by Rob Evans
The 2006 Brighton Festival and Festival Fringe THE NIGHTINGALE THEATRE A World Premiere Co-Commissioned by the Brighton Festival & Made In Brighton Prodigal Theatre Presents Ten Thousand Several Doors Based on Webster's Duchess of Malfi
Festival Fringe 15th May @ 7.30pm New Writing South 3 x 3 Festival Fringe 16th & 17th May @ 7.00pm & 9.00pm The Exploration Corporation (Unlimited) presents QX Evolution Festival Fringe 18th & 19th May @ 7.00pm & 9.00pm Perhilion Theatre presents One Man Rant Festival Fringe 20th May @ 7.00pm & 9.00pm A Dance Double Bill : Active Space Dance Co. presents Migrant PLUS Nimblelimbs present 21st & 22nd May @ 9.00pm Strawberrymen Productions Present The Ornate Jonsons
Festival Fringe 22nd May @ 7.00pm & 8.00pm Jonathan Gilhooly presents Never Odd Or Even
Festival Fringe 23rd May @ 7.00pm & 9.00pm Chopped Logic presents Paramour
Festival Fringe 24th May @ 7.00pm & 9.00pm, 25th May @ 11pm Unpacked presents No Obvious Trauma Festival Fringe 25th May @ 7.00pm & 9.00pm Pitt Rivers presents And Now It Is Today
Festival Fringe 26th May @ 7.00pm & 11.00pm Organic Theatre Presents Sheepskin
Festival Fringe 26th May @ 9.00pm Linda Marlowe Productions Presents Mortal Ladies Possessed Festival Fringe 27th May @ 9.00pm Linda Marlowe Productions PresentsBerkoff's Women From the works of Steven Berkoff directed by Josie Lawrence
Festival Fringe 27th May @ 7.00pm & 11.00pm 28th May @ 7.00pm & 9.00pm Badac Presents Ashes To Ashes
June 7th @ 6.00pm June 8th @ 7.30pm "A PLACE OF SAFETY" A reading of a new full length play by Sue long Direction and Dramaturge by Annie Castledine
Wednesday 14th, Thursday 15th and Friday 16th 8pm Sussex Downs College Theatre Students Pesent Three evenings of Devised Work
Thurs 22nd - Sat 24th June @ 8pm “Spy” A comedy in two acts 2nd July at 7pm SCRATCH NIGHT #5 PAY WHAT YOU CAN
27th and 28th July @ 8pm Inspector Sands and Stamping Ground Theatre Present HYSTERIA
THE CELEBRATING AGE FESTIVAL - 3 EVENTS AT THE NIGHTINGALE July 6,7,8 at 8pm, July 9 at 7pm July 13,14,15 at 8pm, July 16 at 7pm. K W PRODUCTIONS present Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris Sunday 23 July at 5pm OUTSIDE IN By Trevor Harvey Directed by Jo McInnes
Sunday 23 July at 7pm A Conversation With Linda Marlowe
Linda Marlowe - Performance and post-show discussion BELIEVE Friday 20th October @ 8pm
QUARTET (For Anna Akhmatova) By Augusto Corrieri Fri 3rd & Sat 4th November @ 7pm
DAH TEATAR RESIDENCY Wed 8th Nov @ 7pm Tickets £6 THE ROLE OF THE ARTIST IN THE DARK TIMES A Lecture with video presentations By Dijana Milosevic Thur 9th Nov @ 8pm Tickets £6 SINGING BODY DANCING VOICE Performance-Demonstration By Sanja Krsmanovic-Tasic
Carol Baggot-Forte Observed Workshops and Classes FUNCTIONAL VOICE TRAINING Fri 10th, Sat 11th & Sun 12th of November THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT November 30th – December 3rd @ 8pm THE ORNATE JOHNSONS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 5th & 6th of December @ 8pm The Academy of Creative Training presents ‘What the Dickens!’ A double bill featuring two new adaptations of Sykes and Nancy & A Christmas Carol 8th – 12th December @ 7.45pm GEORGE DILLON - VITAL THEATRE – ‘ECCE HOMO’ WORKSHOP 13 & 14th January 9am – 6pm on Saturday 10am – 6pm on Sunday 2007
January 25th, 26th & 27th @ 8pm detest (this thousand years I shall not weep). Angus Cerini – doubletap A theatre/dance/music work for a solo performer. Created by Angus Cerini. With music by Kelly Ryall.
February 11th @ 7pm SCRATCH NIGHT #7
February 16th @ 8pm SHERLOCK HOLMES – THE LAST ACT Roger Llewellyn
March 8th @ 8pm The Garden Jonathan Young - Shams theatre
March 9th 8pm An Evening of Fire Music Presented by Peter Swaffer-Reynolds & Anna-Helena McLean
Sunday 25th March 7pm SCRATCH NIGHT #8
Sunday 1st April @ 7.30pm NEVER EVER AFTER A New play by Ed Harris
Directed by Philip Dart Designed by Phil Newman Lighting by Paul Batten
Sunday 22nd April 7pm SCRATCH NIGHT #9
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BRIGHTON FESTIVAL FRINGE 2007
5th – 7th May @ 8pm Lunatics By Badac
8th May @ 8pm NORDIC NIGHT Maria Lloyd and Guests
9th – 11th May @ 8pm IDYLL – A COMIC LAMENT By Unpacked 12th – 14th May @ 8pm THE LITTLE GIRL WHO WAS TOO FOND OF MATCHES By Impetuous Kinship
15th & 16th May @ 8pm FIERCE – A GROTESQUE BURLESQUE by Fireraisers
17th May @ 8pm THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW By George Dillon
18th – 21st May @ 8pm The Confessions of Punch and Judy By NACL
22nd May @ 8pm BELIEVE By Matthew Hurt Performed by Linda Marlowe
23rd & 24th May BACON By Pip Utton
PLUS May 25th @ 7pm Young Scratch __________________________________________ ____________________________________
27th June to 1st July @ 8pm Sunken A New Comedy in Three Acts By Brian Mitchell
Strawberryman Productions
10th & 11th July @ 8pm ACT
A Christopher Durang Triple Bill Baby With The Bathwater The Actor’s Nightmare Medea
Sunday 15th July7pm SCRATCH NIGHT #10
Follow Me 21st & 22nd July @ 8pm
By Ross Gurney-Randall and David Mounfield Directed by Guy Masterson
Joanna Neary’s Little Moments 25th July @ 8pm
Performed by Joanna Neary Directed by Guy Picot
MY VERY FIRST KIDNAPPING 25th July @ 9.15pm
Phil McIntyre Entertainment by arrangement with PBJ Management Sarah Kendall
Edwardian Spectacular 28th July @ 8pm
Performed by The Ornate Johnsons presented by GSOH Productions
Poetic Clowning: 100 ways of falling in love 8th, 9th, 10th August 10am – 4pm
A workshop with Maria Lloyd
Cow Play 14th, 15th September @ 8pm
Directed by Andrea Brooks Written by Ed Harris Developed with the Nightingale Theatre
Terry Arkwright: The Man Behind The Helmet An evening with a masked vigilante 27th, 28th, 29th September @ 8pm
Written and performed by Les Hull Developed with the Nightingale Theatre
The Flame On The Bottom Of The Sea 7th October @ 7.30pm
Maja Mitic – Dah Teatar Work Demonstration
Quake 10th October @ 7.30pm
Written by Andrew G Marshall with music by Puccini, Rossini & Bizet Directed by Miranda Henderson Performed by Ignacio Jarquin Developed with the Nightingale Theatre
Quartet (for Anna Akhmatova) #2 12th & 13th of October @ 7.30pm
By Augusto Corrieri Performed by Donna Shilling
Fidus Achates 26th & 27th October @ 7.30pm
Presented by Janine & Avis Developed with the Nightingale Theatre
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 28th October @ 8pm
A Chalkfoot Theatre Production By Robert Tressell Adapted and Directed by Philip Dart
Sam & I 7th & 8th November @ 8pm
By Take the Space Samuel Pepys? …His Diary! … His World!! …His Women!!! How do you think his wife felt?
Hanging Hooke 9th & 10th November @ 8pm
By Take The Space Christopher Wren loved him. Isaac Newton loathed him. This genius of the C17th provoked intense loyalty, jealousy and hatred.
Scratch Night 23rd November @ 7.30 pm
Varndean Students College Dance 3rd December @ 7.30pm
Varndean Student College Dance
ECCE HOMO - Random acts of kindness and cruelty 14th & 15th Dec @ 7.30
By George Dillon Put 30 people together in an empty room and what will we do? Developed with the Nightingale Theatre
MASTERS SEASON 2007
Each year we run a series of workshops by international master-practitioners for a group of twelve locally based emergent artists. This year they include Derevo, Cois Ceim (in collaboration with Auora Nova Touring); Charles Perriere & Malik Diouf – two of the creators of Parkour; Teatro Della Contraddizione of Milan, and Maja Mitic of Belgrade’s Dah Teatar who will also present her work process demonstration to the public. Following these workshops participants will present their own site-specific performance on the 30th of November & 1st December in the North Laines. ACT Productions Presents The Government Inspector 17th, 18th, 19th December @ 7.30pm
Here Now Improvisational Dance performance 21st December @ 7.30pm
Performed by Kirstie Simson, Christian Burns and Charlie Morrissey. Sound played live by Scott Smith. This performance was composed in real time before the eyes of the audience, by four highly acclaimed international improvisers. All of them have taught and performed extensively across the globe with many of the seminal figures in the development of improvisational performance. "a force of nature" - The New York Times on Kirstie Simson.
Linda Marlowe Productions in association with Art Official presents THE TIME STEP 10th, 11th, 12th January @ 7.30pm
A new play by Matthew Hurt Directed by Linda Marlowe Puppetry and Design by Blind Summit Set Design by Nick Barnes Sound by Deeperred Cast includes Marnie Baxter and Suzanne Harbison
Developed with the Nightingale Theatre _______________________________ The Brighton Actors Ensemble presents
Diaspora Jigs
24th, 25th, 26th January @ 7.30pm By Seamus Finnegan Directed by Ian Barnes With Tina Tracey and Chris Willoughby ________________________ Goering's Defence 9th February @ 7.30pm Theatre Tours International in association with Guy Masterson Productions
Directed by Guy Masterson ____________________________________
Breaking the Silence 15th & 16th February @ 7.30pm
Written and performed by Liz Rothschild Directed by Sue Mayo Soundscape by Joseph Young
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