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 8pm

A LIFE IN HER DAY

by 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
8 Feet More

Festival Fringe

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

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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

www.marialloyd.co.uk

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

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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

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Goering's Defence

9th February @ 7.30pm

Theatre Tours International in association with Guy Masterson Productions

Performed by Ross Gurney-Randall
Written by Ross Gurney-Randall, Andrew Bailey & Guy Masterson

Directed by Guy Masterson

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Breaking the Silence

15th & 16th February @ 7.30pm

Written and performed by Liz Rothschild

Directed by Sue Mayo

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