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Brighton Fringe 2016

1 in 3 is a brave, thoughtful and heartfelt new play which explores the deep and truthful world of chemotherapy

Brilliantly silly and profound meditation on the nature of memory loss as innocence

Keenly-anticipated new play by Jonathan Brown breaks new territory; it’s both theatrically challenging and disturbing.

A Really Really Big Modern Telly
A re-imagining of the myth of Narcissus and a contemporary fable blending live theatre & projection, which questions what happens when the consumer becomes the consumed.

Adam Vincent – Judgemental (work in progress)
"I would definitely recommend this show to fellow misanthropes, Adam Vincent has a wonderfully weird take on life."

Superb revival of Charlotte Jones’s play abut two women incarcerated for fifty years for bring different.

Go if you are a human being and reconnect with your ability to feel, deeply and joyfully.

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.

Blues and Burlesque: Pete Saunders, strikes whilst the iron is hot, calling on the seductress Ivy Paige to host an evening of sultry blues, bawdy comedy and strip tease

Bom-Banimals at Bom-Bane’s Restaurant
A new up close and extremely personal musical experience from Jane Bom-bane's famous restaurant.

Superb revival of Miller's late classic. Jerry Lyne's production is one of NVT's finest.

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.

Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl
Anthropology, jazz, romance and coffee. What's not to like?

Deftly structured, evenly paced, informative and entertaining, Crème de la Crem is a must see for anyone who'd like a great funeral.

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

Dusty Limits resents his first album of original work written with the brilliant Michael Roulston

An absurd yet deliciously delectable action packed hour and ten minutes of clowning, acrobatics, physical theatre and slapping

Riveting must-see revival of Mamet's breakthrough play at the Rialto directed by Roger Kay

Patrick Sandford's groundbreaking play, acted by himself, of his own childhood abuse, acted alongside a sax player...

Hip is a must see show. A Brighton-spirited séance with tequila, nibbles, tenderness and laughter.

This is a relentless one act play about the pressure placed on girls by the media. It unpicks the irony of being advised to resist peer pressure and be independent, yet being told what to buy, how to look and how to behave.

Mummy or The Art of Saying Goodbye
A brilliantly conceived, directed and performed piece of tragi-comic, food-for-thought theatre. If you get the chance to see it, jump at it.

Dave Chawmer takes a sensitive, funny and thought-provoking look at eating disorders, mental health and identity

Outside the Box: A Live Show about Death
A thought provoking, funny and moving performance by a masterful story teller, requiring us to think carefully about death and dying before it is too late.

Clean focused reading by Bexelei Theatre's young talent of Jon Barton's new play on trolling

Join Bard & Troubadour on a truly magical journary for all ages, as Pinocchio faces scoundrels, set-backs and sea monsters on his quest to become a real boy, in this loving recreation of the classic Italian fairy tale.

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.

Sonder by Broken Chair Theatre Company
An outstanding, raw and refreshing feat of physical theatre - A fast and furious adrenaline ride into Pandora's box

Spirited pacey revival of Ionesco’s first play, with one stand-out performance and superbly idiomatic one. A perfect introduction to the playwright.

Absurd and off-the-wall, this surreal funeral party is a bizarre experiment that really does pay off

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-

Vinyl Catastrophe, Chris Sav, Andy Hoggarth, Lewis Klein, Mathilde Segonds and Clarisse Mathevet are all individually intriguing artists, who I would happily watch perform again.

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.