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Dateline: 10th January, 2010
New Team at the Nightingale Prodigal Theatre moved to Brighton's Nightingale Theatre, situated above the Grand Central Bar beside Brighton Station, at the invitation of Inn Brighton Ltd in December 2002, opened it as a rehearsal/development space in February 2003, launched its manifesto in May of that year, supported by its patron Steven Berkoff, and on the 4th February 2004 launched as performance and receiving house. In 2006 the company gained funding for a three year project “Developing Development” which firmly placed the development of new work as the central activity of the organisation and since then has contributed to the development of over one hundred performances, 42 of them since gaining the project support of ACE and Brighton & Hove Council. There are currently another fifteen performances in various stages of development.
Prodigal Theatre is now handing the management of the venue over to Steven Brett and his team. Brett has worked as a producer on the Spill Festival, with the British Council as an arts officer whose region covered most of the southern hemisphere, and as both associate artistic director of, and a principle dancer for Rambert. His ambition for the venue builds upon the work of the last seven years whilst widening the scope and ambition of the venue.
He has invited Prodigal to continue as a resident company, and they will be doing so. The official handover will be on 4th February and will be celebrated by a performance of The Tragedian – The Decline to Legend of Edmund Kean, the third part of Prodigal’s multi-award winning trilogy on the life of Edmund Kean which was developed with, and premiered at, the Nightingale Theatre. A performance of Part I opened hre venue and the first festival season opened with the premiere of Part II. The company ends its programming tenure with its final Master Season, featuring three one-man shows by Pip Utton: Adolf (5th Feb), Bacon (6th) and Chaplin (7th).
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