The programme has been released for the 50th Brighton Festival, the largest multi-arts festival this side of the border.
This year, the Festival is curated by American Laurie Anderson who has worked as an artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, vocalist and instrumentalist.
The theme of the Festival, ‘home and place’, will be reflected across the music, theatre, dance, visual art, film, literature and debate events.
Amongst the theatre events are two special commissions marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, The Complete Deaths from Brighton-based Spymonkey collects together all the deaths in Shakespeare’s canon, whilst the site-specific Digging for Shakespeare by Marc Rees looks at 19th Century Shakespearean scholar James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps.
Other theatre events include Stella by Neil Bartlett, Operation Black Antler by Blast Theory & Hydrocracker and The Encounter by Complicite/Simon McBurney (inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petr Popescu).
The Brighton Festival runs from 7 to 29 May.