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Brighton Fringe 2016
Keenly-anticipated new play by Jonathan Brown breaks new territory; it’s both theatrically challenging and disturbing.
Superb revival of Charlotte Jones’s play abut two women incarcerated for fifty years for bring different.
And the Rope Still Tugging Her Feet
Compelling, downright funny yet tragic true narrative of the Kerry Baby affair of 1984. Caroline Burns Cooke triumphs as writer and actor.
Conductors Unbecoming: Scenes from Orchestral Life
Gavin Henderson Presents: Fascinating insight into how the best-known Director of the Brighton Festival got things done as an orchestral manager.
Inspired off-centre situationist drama from acclaimed Wired Theatre about family, grief and sexual identities.
Disquieting premiere about sexual abuse torturing the memories of a child, her adult self, and her abuser
Patrick Sandford's groundbreaking play, acted by himself, of his own childhood abuse, acted alongside a sax player...
Clean focused reading by Bexelei Theatre's young talent of Jon Barton's new play on trolling
Jack Duffel's new play mixes extreme naturalism with verse in a play creatively probing death and displacement in the family
A touching brief play scooped out of the air by two bright students with only a title to go on.
Scintillating subversive and original take on Hamlet’s unhappy uncle, weighed down by doubts and too many jokers. Beware of complicity.
Spirited pacey revival of Ionesco’s first play, with one stand-out performance and superbly idiomatic one. A perfect introduction to the playwright.
Advice on how to sex up your life and your period appendages sets tongues wagging for a second year in this warm comedy from Alpha males to a wicked Omega-
A diamond in Shakespeare’s or Marlowe’s ruff? Ros Barber’s novel adapted for the stage, starring vaulting Jamie Martin.
Tremendously energised one-man play about an Australian minister's son on a mission, but which one?
Profoundly silly and farcically serious show with just the kind of anarchy that offers coke to audience members. Contains brief and ghastly nudity.
Fascinating sideling glimpse of Romantic poets and writers through a chaise-long laced with gothic intent.
