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Brighton Fringe 2013 | the Nightingale at Home

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Brighton Fringe 2013

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Be curious and visit us



In the last two years the Nightingale has branched out well beyond our home to make theatre happen in some very surprising places. Remember the Victorian-style bathing machines all over Brighton last year? That was us with our friends at Brighton Fringe and The Marlborough. This year we have decided to stay ‘at home’ throughout May. Almost all of our shows will be in the comfort of our own dining room for Brighton Fringe 2013. Don’t get too cosy though, as this programme is sure to make you laugh, cry and everything in between.

Welcome

the Nightingale has lots of visitors – artists and audiences – all year round. Our cover model Annie Brooks is one of the many artists, local, national and international, who benefit from using our spaces and expert knowledge to develop their work throughout the year. This sounds formal, and where necessary it can be, but day-to-

day we are simply there when needed and the Nightingale hums with the activity of an array of people creating and performing.

Our programme this year is a veritable smorgasbord of wonders, so don’t be shy, be curious, and visit us as often as you like. You will always be welcome!



online:Tickets available (24 hours) at www.nightingaletheatre.co.uk www.brightonfringe.org

By telephone:01273 91 72 72

in person:At Brighton Fringe ticket sales points or on the door at the Nightingale, 30 minutes before the show (cash only please).

Facebook: NightingaleTheatreTwitter: @NGTheatre

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Steven Brett Artistic Director & Programmer

Kate Gowar Theatre Producer

Janine Fletcher Assistant Theatre Manager

Liberty Martin Press and Marketing Manager

Gregory Mickelborough Production Manager

Camilla & Olivia Bates Technicians

Design: www.sarahferrari.com

Photo: Joe Murray

Model: Annie Brooks

With special thanks to Tramp Vintage Boutique

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josephine is putting on a play, Boris and Sistahl help. it’s about anorexia. But don’t let that put you off. A new play with songs from You’re Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy creator caroline horton. Winner of the 2012 Stage Award for Best ensemble.

Triggered@Warwick. commissioned by Battersea Arts centre and Parabola Arts centre. Funded by a Wellcome Trust Arts Award. Supported by Ovalhouse, london.

“�Comes�perilously�close�to�genius�and�announces�Horton�as�a�major,�major�talent” – Time Out

messchina plate presents caroline horton & company

4th / 5th May7.15pmDining roomTickets: £10/£8



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speakinGtanGram theatre company

Meet the genius behind the übercoolest moustache in scientific history, in the show where einstein = Musical comedy2. From the boys behind international smash-hit The Origin of Species…

“�Science�has�rarely�been�so�fascinating�and�never�so�much�fun” – The Stage on The�Origin�of�Species

“�John�Hinton�is�an�absolute�joy…�This�guy�would�get�anyone�interested�in�science” – Adelaide Theatre Guide

Preview 5th May 12th / 19th / 26th May5pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50. Preview Tickets: £7/£6 Suitable for ages 11+

A’Nother Productions presents Miss Givings, a new one-woman play with music about a year in the life of a musical superstar-to-be, with songs by American legends Samuel Barber, Amy Beach, leonard Bernstein, Aaron copland and the gershwins. Performed by Debbie Bridge, script by robert cohen and direction by Nicholas quirke.

7th / 14th / 21st / 28th May7.15pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50

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“ In September 2011, we took a trip across America to see if Bigfoot is out there. We’d like to tell you about it.”

held in a tent, for a limited audience, ella good and Nicki kent present a conversational and provocative performance examining their experiences of searching for a legendary mythical creature. An exploration into things we cannot see, the spaces they might exist in, and our desire to believe.

Developed with support from Bristol Ferment and residence. Supported by the National lottery through grants for the Arts.

“�...beguilingly�delicate” – Andy Field, Exeunt Magazine

Wild thinG i love you

ella Good and nicki kent

6th May3pm, 6pm & 8pm7th May9pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50limited capacity. contains mild swearing. Suitable for ages 12+



When Medina invites louise to her daughter’s circumcision party, against everyone else’s wishes, the two are forced to confront the secrets that bind them together.

As well as a compelling exploration of friendship and gender, Silva Semerciyan’s play is a brave indictment of the failures of the Arab Spring.

8th / 9th / 10th / 11th / 12th May9pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50contains swearing. Suitable for ages 12+

Gather ye roseBuds

By silva semerciyanpresented By sandpit arts

tunnelBy maGs chalcraFt

presented By sandpit arts

When a tunnel between egypt and the gaza Strip collapses, professional smuggler Salim finds himself trapped with 17-year-old Ammar, a surfboard and a goat. Moving between hilarity and melancholy, Mags chalcraft’s brilliant play combines poetry and physicality to create a magical realist parable.

“�Boldly�metaphoric,�brilliantly�surreal.” – Latest 7

8th / 9th / 10th / 11th / 12th May7.15pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50contains swearing. Suitable for ages 12+

WiNNerS OF The BulBul PlAYWriTiNg cOMPeTiTiON 2012 AND SuPPOrTeD

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a Girl called oWlWritten, directed and produced By Jon keevy,

perFormed By Briony horWitz

hot from South Africa after successes at The National Arts Festival in grahamstown, Arts Alive Festival and Festival of Fame in johannesburg, the Nightingale presents jon keevy’s quirky, heart-breaking one-woman show.

Olivia arrived in the town with her Dad; she was the new girl, the quiet girl, the weird girl. Then she met kay, the girl with the scar. Told in two parts, A Girl Called Owl begins with a new friendship in the heat of the Overberg summer between two ten-year-old girls, and finds them again six years later. it’s an honest picture of growing up different in the middle of nowhere; a story about climbing trees, punching boys and kissing girls. A story about growing up where nothing grows. Briony horwitz performs jon keevy’s script under his direction with choreography by Fiona Du Plooy and music by Brydon Bolton.

11th May3pm & 5pm12th May3pm15th / 16th / 17th May7.15pm18th May3pm, 5pm & 7.15pm19th May3pm & 7.15pm20th May7.15pm & 9pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50children (16 and under) must be accompanied by an adult



multipleXBy christopher William hill

act kids theatre

Multiplex shines a light on the shadowy existence of the usher. A humorous fantasy of what lies in the parallel world beneath the candy-coloured foyers of a multiplex cinema. To them, cinema is not just entertainment, it is life. The characters become as complex and varied as the screen stars they are watching. life really does reflect the movies. recipients of the best ‘group Acted Scene’ at the Springboard Brighton and hove Youth Performing Arts Festival 2010, 2011 & 2012.

13th May8pm30th / 31st May5pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50Suitable for ages 14+

BooGaloo stu’s pop maGic

BooGaloo stu and the tWo WronGies

Audience members collectively write, record and produce their very own pop single accompanied by an all-singing all-dancing pop video.

Along the way, your host and musical impresario Boogaloo Stu reveals the modest but glittering highs and barrel-scraping lows of his own pop career. just hours later the audience can watch, download and share the results on the internet!

10th May10.30pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50children (16 and under) must be accompanied by an adult



holocenedavid sheppeard perForms at times

reflections on eruptions, both geological and emotional, in a world intent on destruction. The true story of French volcanologists Maurice & katia krafft, who spent their lives on the edge, collides with everyday anxieties in this new play investigating the lengths we go to in order to forget essential truths. Shortlisted for Best New Play Award, New Writing South (for Photographic Memory).

14th / 15th May9pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50Suitable for ages 16+

Desperate times call for desperate pleasures: this spoken choir performance is an exhilarating comedy of trauma, where disaster, threat and survival are a way of life. Smell the fear, feel their pain, marvel at the devastation... shrug, and thank god it’s not you.

“�An�all-consuming�journey�through�a�kind�of�spoken�word�mash-up�sound�performance...�Funny�and�sophisticated.”�– Semiconductor

rowena easton has received the Art Plus Award for Art in Public Places, and an Arts & Business First Time Sponsor Award.

16th / 23rd May9pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50Suitable for ages 12+

“!” [hollyWood Blues]

roWena easton



Many mysteries remain about Billy the kid. Who he was? Why he did what he did? how many died at his hand? Finally the mysteries are resolved in this unique show performed by those who knew him personally; chevron Malaise (aged 154) and Acapulco Beans (aged 146). released from their retirement home for the day, chev and Al present words, music and stories about the legend that was Billy the kid. Performed by rex horan, Musician (Mama’s gun, Neil cowley Trio – Winner, uk jazz Artist of the Year 2013) and chris johnston, Actor/Director (Fluxx, rideout, the rSc).

21st / 22nd May9pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50Suitable for ages 14+

the liFe and adventures oF

Billy the kidpresented By livestock

you and melittle soldier productions

A bitter-sweet physical comedy about two elderly sisters sharing the intimacy of a life lived together. The pair shift between hilarious defamation, tender reminiscing and pure madness; but is this behaviour just eccentricity or something more destructive? You and Me tackles old age with humour, imagination and tenderness. A show for everyone who is a day older than yesterday!

17th / 18th / 19th May9pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50Suitable for ages 8+



Failure (& other opportunities For non-linear success)

mary pearson

Fashion victim, aspiring pop diva, and chronic underachiever is consumed by delusional fantasies of commercial success.

New solo performance bringing together visual absurdity with contemporary dance, comedy and social commentary. Written, directed and performed by Mary Pearson in collaboration with jules Beckman, Mamoru iriguchi, hannah Silva, and jamie Wood.

“�Mary�Pearson’s�warmth�and�incredible�sense�of�comic�timing�was�breathtaking”�– Total Theatre on Fool’s Proof Theatre’s�Je�Suis�Dead

22nd / 23rd / 24th May7.15pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50Suitable for ages 16+



Award-winning clout Theatre invite you to dive into the absurd world of russian poet Daniil kharms. Three storytellers let narrative escape them as metaphysical ponderings and senseless violence provide constant distraction. Silent film meets grotesque slapstick in a world where clocks have no hands and a cucumber can kill a man.

“An�hour�of�sheer�pleasure” – The Scotsman

25th / 26th / 27th May7.15pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50Suitable for ages 14+

hoW a man crumBled

clout theatre

hoW to host a dinner party

park Bench dance theatre

The stage is set with dining room furniture. Two women enter; they prepare for a lavish dinner party. join them on a journey of expectations, nerves and despair as the anticipation builds. Will anyone turn up? This minimalist dance work looks at the challenges of throwing a dinner party and how to overcome them...or not!

recipient of the ideasTap Brighton Fringe award.

24th / 25th May9pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50



Movements and improvisations for ‘electronically enhanced’ solo cello written and performed by acclaimed Brighton composer, Peter copley, with an accompanying text by Mark c. hewitt combining live and recorded voices.

This multi-media work explores memory, mortality, and the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.

lighting design by kristina hjelm.

27th / 28th May9pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50

eXpiry tBclll productions

speakers’ corner: a platForm For you

red herrinG productions

giving a voice to the social, political, contentious, eccentric, wonderful, irritating, heretical, the unwelcome and provocative…

This is a call to speak, to anyone who wishes to be heard, who needs a voice. Anyone can apply to speak on any subject – as long as it’s lawful and expressed with respect to others. Take part, speaking for 5-10 mins.

To reserve your slot please contact: [email protected]

25th May12-5pmOff-site – as part of Fringe city on New roadTickets: Free



A puppetry feast following the troubled tales of three solitary sea creatures – cuthbert (fish), ludwig (prawn) and Myrtle (sea cucumber) who all live in the same murky pond. Set within the style of a 1920s film, the story of this seafood medley is told using puppetry, narration and melodic accompaniment from Matti Bye.

recipients of an ideasTap Fringe Fund and supported by Arts council england.

29th / 30th / 31st May7.15pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50Suitable for ages 14+

Fish piecolossal crumBs

White canvasBespoke taylors

One man on a mysterious journey. When he looks back, he can’t see where he came from.

in this interactive show, co-written with Little Green Pig Writing Project, a strange world is brought to life with music, puppetry, paint and the audience’s artistic skills. With pens, paint and a world of paper, you will help create the adventure!

White Canvas is supported by the Nightingale, Arts council england and New Writing South.

27th May1pm, 3pm & 5pm28th May1pm & 3pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50Suitable for ages 7+



“ The last time I saw her she had on her blue jacket with the hood…”

Sylv Dee has disappeared. Will you help us find her? close-up puppetry, interactive mystery and rich visuals animate the Nightingale’s spaces in this new story of the green in our roots and the blue in our hearts. From the company who brought you the sell-out Punched series and Headcase.

“a�very�beautiful�and�moving�show” – Total Theatre on Headcase

1st / 2nd June3.30pm, 5.30pm & 7.15pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50limited capacity. Suitable for ages 12+

Blue: an eXperiment in puppetry

touched theatre

Buddhism: is it Just For losers?

inconvenient spooF

life isn’t complicated: it just requires the right type of effort, applied in the correct direction, and an appropriate choice of wall - or so says larry. But how happy is he? A compact performance-lecture with props, puppets and poetry, en route to a mid-life epiphany.

30th / 31st May / 1st June9pmDining roomTickets: £8.50/£6.50contains swearing. children (16 and under) must be accompanied by an adult



date time event paGe

Sat 4th May 7.15pm Mess p5

Sun 5th May 7.15pm Mess p5 5.00pm Albert einstein: relativitively Speaking p6

Mon 6th May 3.00pm Wild Thing i love You p7 6.00pm Wild Thing i love You p7 8.00pm Wild Thing i love You p7

Tues 7th May 7.15pm Miss givings p6 9.00pm Wild Thing i love You p7

Wed 8th May 7.15pm Tunnel p8 9.00pm gather Ye rosebuds p8

Thurs 9th May 7.15pm Tunnel p8 9.00pm gather Ye rosebuds p8

Fri 10th May 7.15pm Tunnel p8 9.00pm gather Ye rosebuds p8 10.30pm Boogaloo Stu’s Pop Magic p10

Sat 11th May 3.00pm A girl called Owl p9 5.00pm A girl called Owl p9 7.15pm Tunnel p8 9.00pm gather Ye rosebuds p8

Sun 12th May 3.00pm A girl called Owl p9 5.00pm Albert einstein: relativitively Speaking p6 7.15pm Tunnel p8 9.00pm gather Ye rosebuds p8

Mon 13th May 8.00pm Multiplex p10

Tue 14th May 7.15pm Miss givings p6 9.00pm holocene p11

Wed 15th May 7.15pm A girl called Owl p9 9.00pm holocene p11

Thurs 16th May 7.15pm A girl called Owl p9 9.00pm “!” [hollywood Blues] p11

Fri 17th May 7.15pm A girl called Owl p9 9.00pm You and Me p12

Sat 18th May 3.00pm A girl called Owl p9 5.00pm A girl called Owl p9 7.15pm A girl called Owl p9 9.00pm You and Me p12

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date time event paGe

Sun 19th May 3.00pm A girl called Owl p9 5.00pm Albert einstein: relativitively Speaking p6 7.15pm A girl called Owl p9 9.00pm You and Me p12

Mon 20th May 7.15pm A girl called Owl p9 9.00pm A girl called Owl p9

Tues 21st May 7.15pm Miss givings p6 9.00pm The life and Adventures of Billy the kid p12

Wed 22nd May 7.15pm Failure (& Other Opportunities…) p13 9.00pm The life and Adventures of Billy the kid p12

Thurs 23rd May 7.15pm Failure (& Other Opportunities…) p13 9.00pm “!” [hollywood Blues] p11

Fri 24th May 12.00-5.00pm Speakers’ corner: A Platform for You p15 7.15pm Failure (& Other Opportunities…) p13 9.00pm how To host A Dinner Party p14

Sat 25th May 7.15pm how a Man crumbled p14 9.00pm how To host A Dinner Party p14

Sun 26th May 5pm Albert einstein: relativitively Speaking p6 7.15pm how a Man crumbled p14

Mon 27th May 1.00pm White canvas p16 3.00pm White canvas p16 5.00pm White canvas p16 7.15pm how a Man crumbled p14 9.00pm expiry TBc p15

Tues 28th May 1.00pm White canvas p16 3.00pm White canvas p16 7.15pm Miss givings p6 9.00pm expiry TBc p15

Wed 29th May 7.15pm Fish Pie p16

Thurs 30th May 5.00pm Multiplex p10 7.15pm Fish Pie p16 9.00pm Buddhism: is it just For losers? p17

Fri 31st May 5.00pm Multiplex p10 7.15pm Fish Pie p16 9.00pm Buddhism: is it just For losers? p17

Sat 1st june 3.30pm Blue: An experiment in Puppetry p17 5.30pm Blue: An experiment in Puppetry p17 7.15pm Blue: An experiment in Puppetry p17 9.00pm Buddhism: is it just For losers? p17

Sun 2nd june 3.30pm Blue: An experiment in Puppetry p17 5.30pm Blue: An experiment in Puppetry p17 7.15pm Blue: An experiment in Puppetry p17


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