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The Nightingale presents

Fifth Annual Sussex Poetry Festival

A weekend of avant guard poetry hosted by the Nightingale at The Marlborough

Sussex Poetry Festival is Brighton's most exciting annual poetry event, comprising two days of readings from international and local poets alike, bringing you the best contemporary writing has to offer. co-organized by Joe Luna, Samuel Solomon, and Keston Sutherland.

The festival brings together poets whose work is as stylistically diverse as it is unified by a commitment to formal experimentation and political dissent. Established poets will read alongside younger voices, and the festival aims to create a space of interaction, reflection and debate for all who attend.

*Featuring*
Caroline Adeyemi, Christina Chalmers, David Grundy, Danny Hayward, Rosa van Hensbergen, Chloe Lancaster, Stephen Mooney, J.H. Prynne (reading English translations of Ulf Stolterfoht), Will Rowe, Azad Sharma, Ulf Stolterfoht, Olivia Thomas, Benjamin Thompson, Juha Virtanen, Alli Warren

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the Nightingale presents

HOST

Tim Crouch

For Brighton Fringe 2014 we are proud to present Host, a new, off-site “relay performance” written by acclaimed Brighton playwright Tim Crouch.

Host is a free, one-on-one performance designed to be shared; passed from one person to another like a relay baton. It celebrates real-life connections in a digital age and reminds us that, wherever it happens, theatre is about people coming together. Pre-book your slot or walk up.

HOST is at the Bathing Machine venue, New Road on Fridays and Saturdays in May (3rd – 31st).
Performances run between 5-8pm and last approximately ten minutes.

“A cleverly constructed one-on-one piece that takes place in a bathing hut becomes a chain of performances … analogue viral.”

Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

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All Roads Lead To Rome

CHRIS DOBROWOLSKI

We are delighted to welcome back Chris Dobrowolski (you might remember Poland 3, Iran 2 at the Nightingale Fringe 2011). Part of the Nightingale off-site programme, this performance will be at THE MARLBOROUGH THEATRE.

Chris has lovingly repaired his family Triumph Herald Estate so that he can drive it from his childhood home in Braintree to Rome via Turin where this quintessentially English car was designed.

Part investigation into his father's time as a Polish soldier in the Italian Campaign and part muse on consumerism, All Roads Lead to Rome brings together car mechanics, a road trip, dictators and the fetishisation of possessions in a solo performance using old photos, new film and surprising mechanical objects.

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“A simple, effective and intellectual piece, told with warmth and a twinkle.”

FringeReview

“He takes us from the personal to the political, across a great swathe of 20th Century history, all without leaving the driving seat of the Triumph Herald.**** ”

The Scotsman

“Dobrowolski’s one man show is an hour of charismatic storytelling which invites its audience inside the Triumph Herald for a multimedia drive through his life. ”

Broadway Baby

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the Nightingale presents

the Nightingale Social # 5

Hosted by kicking_k in association with New Writing South and the Nightingale

The Nightingale Social is a monthly mini-conference for Brighton's dramatic types to network (or just mingle) ...

Simply show up, collect a colour-coded badge (to let others know if you're a writer, an actor, a director - or whatever other theatrical role) and allow us to start connecting you. This month will be the last in this venue - to tell you why, there will be a Q+A with the Nightingale's Artistic Director Steven Brett.

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A TALK, MOST ERUDITE

Red Herring Productions

In which we’ll share stories about the eccentric acts and weirdly wonderful performers who have graced the stages and streets of our saucy seaside resort, from the Theatre Royal to the Palace Pier, the twisting Laines to the Promenade.

The evening will include reminiscences from various characters that we have interviewed along the way as well as video clips of the best of Brighton’s entertainers.

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Side Shows Rehearsed Reading programme

Melody Bridges : #CardiganGirl

The Nightingale is pleased to be working with New Writing South on a new series of Side Shows, rehearsed readings that bring new scripts to life and give you the opportunity to see fledgling work move from page to stage.

#CardiganGirl is a play that sets the question: what happens when porn affects your teenage daughter, your son, and then your marriage? Annabel has lived for years in a cosy bubble but when explicit photos are brought in by to the house on a mobile phone she is forced to confront the reality that modern day life is not what it first seems.

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