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Dateline:
23rd February, 2006
Brighton Festival - the Programme
Celebrating its 40th Festival in 2006, Brighton Festival, the biggest
arts Festival in England, once again promises a programme of the highest
calibre, including ten world premieres - six commissioned exclusively
for the Festival - and a further five UK premieres.
Over 700 arts events, across theatre, dance, performance, music, books
and debates, children and family, street arts and exhibitions will take
place during May in venues across the City, which in this year's Festival
range from the Regency grandeur of Brighton Dome and the Royal Pavilion,
to Brighton railway station, a city basement, the streets and seafront
of Brighton, as well as out to Glyndebourne and Charleston.
This year's 40th Festival highlights include:
Ten World Premieres
- Performance: Lost and Found Orchestra, a specially commissioned
cross-artform spectacular by The Stomp Company and co-produced by
Brighton Festival
- Outdoor: Souterrain - a site-specific performance in Stanmer
Park from Wild Works
- Dance: Warp Moves - Random Dance collaborate with artists
from Warp Records
- Literature/Music: Stories in Motion - Chuck Palahniuk and
Irvine Welsh
- Classical: Five specially commissioned new works by Brighton composers
- Theatre: Ten Thousand Several Doors - Prodigal Theatre
Five UK Premieres
- Dance: La Cité Radieuse - Ballet National de Marseille
- Theatre: Access All Beckett - Gare St Lazare Players
- Theatre: There is a Rabbit in the Moon - Vélo Théâtre
- Theatre: Brand new version of Spymonkey's Cooped
- Outdoor: Groupe F: The Light Players - a special 40th Festival
pyrotechnic performance
Theatre
Nightingale Theatre
Saturday 6 May 2006 - Sunday 14 May 2006 7pm & 10pm
Ten Thousand Several Doors
Prodigal Theatre
World Premiere site specific theatre
Tickets: £12
The Basement
Saturday 6 May 2006 10pm
Texts for Nothing
Gare St Lazare Players
A dramatic recital by Conor Lovett
Access All Becket - A Beckett Weekend to celebrate the centenary
of Samula Beckett's birth
Tickets: £10
The Basement
Saturday 6 May 2006 - Sunday 7 May 2006 Sat 6 May, 8pm. Sun 7 May,
4pm
Worstward Ho
Gare St Lazare Players
A dramatic recital by Lee Delong
Tickets: £15
Pavilion Theatre
Sunday 7 May 2006 - Monday 8 May 2006 7pm
Beckett Trilogy
Gare St Lazare Players
Access All Becket
Tickets: £18
Theatre Royal Brighton
Tuesday 9 May 2006 - Saturday 13 May 2006 Tue 9 - Sat 13 May, 7.45pm.
Thu 11 & Sat 13 May matinee, 2.30pm
Paradise Lost
Oxford Stage Company
Voluptuous adaptation of our greatest epic poem
Tickets: £20, £15, £10. Thu matinee £16, £13,
£9
The Old Market
Wednesday 10 May 2006 - Saturday 13 May 2006 Wed 10 & Thu 11 May,
11am & 4.30pm Fri 12 May, 4.30pm & 6.30pm Sat 13 May, 11am
& 2pm
There is a Rabbit in the Moon
Velo Theatre
Magical theatre for 4+
Tickets: £7
Corn Exchange
Thursday 11 May 2006 - Sunday 14 May 2006 Thu 11 & Fri 12 May,
8pm Sat 13 May, 2pm & 8pm Sun 14 May, 2pm
The Evocation of Papa Mas
Told by an Idiot
Carnivalesque family show from the UK's most inventive and imaginative
theatre company
Tickets: £15, Family £45 (2 adults, 2 children)
Pavilion Theatre
Tuesday 16 May 2006 - Saturday 20 May 2006 8pm
An Oak Tree
News from Nowhere
Tickets: £10
Theatre Royal Brighton
Tuesday 23 May 2006 - Saturday 27 May 2006 Tue 23 - Thu 25 & Sat
27 May, 8pm Fri 26 May, 6pm & 9pm
Cooped
Spymonkey
Opera
In a week of opera at the Theatre Royal Brighton, Music Theatre Wales
perform a brand-new opera House of the Gods (15 May) by award-winning
composer Lynn Plowman and writer Martin Riley. This highly accessible
opera tells a tale of displaced Celtic gods running a seedy Docklands
pub in the East End of London, whilst concealing a bloodthirsty warrior
uncle in their cellar - Victorian melodrama for the 21st century.
The Opera Group perform Shostakovich's The Nose (17 May), based
on Gogol's absurdist tale of a pompous government official whose nose
develops a life of its own.
The Fairy Queen is brought to life by The Armonico Consort (19
& 20 May). Playing Purcell's exquisite score on period instruments,
the Orchestra of the Baroque add to the visual spectacle of this 17th-century
masterpiece in a fully staged modern fusion of opera, puppetry, dance
and aerial acrobatics.
Parallel to the main Festival, the Brighton Festival Fringe will also
present a packed programme of theatre, art, music, film, open houses,
art trails and late night events. The combination of the two festivals
makes Brighton a Mecca in May for arts lovers, pleasure seekers and
anyone looking for a real Festival experience.
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