A unique opportunity to meet the filmmaker of "one of the finest movies about a great musician."(Observer).
'In Search of Beethoven' features extraordinary performances from some of the world's finest musicians. Following the screening, Phil Grabsky reveals how he has managed to show his film to audiences around the world.
Presented by Seventh Art Productions
Friday 7 May 2010 8pm
Tickets: £15.50 (£12.50) Age: 18+
AMATEUR TRANSPLANTS:
IN THEATRE
Amateur Transplants (aka deviant doctors Adam Kay and Suman Biswas) sing smutty songs at a piano. They are "Superbly politically incorrect, gloriously funny" (Scotsman), "Very very funny indeed" (Radio 1) and "A cult hit" (Sunday Times). 6 million people downloaded the London Underground Song - you were potentially one of them.
Continuing his sell out UK Tour, Daniel is bringing his show to The Old Market in Brighton for one night only!
At last...Pop Opera’s fastest rising star, Australian Daniel Koek, is back on British soil with a brand new and exciting show that brilliantly gives a platform to his unique tenor voice, which combines a trained classical sound with popular influences.
With rave reviews and delighting audiences in UK theatres as “Tony” in the 50th Anniversary production of West Side Story, which won The Stage Awards “Best Musical Revival, and with high acclaim for his debut CD “Self Titled Tenor”, Daniel has put together this exciting show featuring a wide range of songs – from the great show stoppers in West Side Story and other great musicals to other songs you will know and love.
Featuring special guest artist, Emma Lindars, who is currently playing one of the 3 divas in the Phenomenal Smash Hit Priscilla – Queen of the Desert.
If you want a night of music, magic and a truly memorable performance from one of the finest Tenor voices around, then this is one show you cannot afford to miss.
“Daniel Koek’s Tony melted hearts with his voice” - Birmingham Mail
Whats On Stage wrote “I am sure that everybody will be left truly mesmerised by the voice of Daniel Koek”
Presented byDRK Productions
Monday 10 May 2010 7pm
Tickets: £3 | Carers go Free
BLUE CAMEL CLUB
Blue Camel Club celebrates the artistic achievements of people with learning disabilities. The Club is for learning disabled people and their friends.
Presented by Carousel
Tuesday 11 May 2010 7.30pm
Tickets: £10 | £8 | Age 14+
DOUBLE SENTENCE
Tom Fry. Punished for the crime he committed. Punished for being deaf.
Double Sentence uses British Sign Language, captions and spoken word to be accessible to both Deaf and hearing.
Tom Fry is twenty-one and deaf. His passion is climbing, and he dreams of one day scaling the tallest mountain in Europe – Elbrus. When he is told he’ll never realise his dream because he can’t hear, years of repression and living in isolation take hold of him and he reacts violently and without thinking. Tom is sent to prison and finds himself not only being punished for the crime he committed but also punished for being deaf.
In prison, he finds himself alone, discriminated against and an outsider in a hearing environment that is both aggressive and claustrophobic. Life gets easier when he discovers another deaf prisoner, a horse enthusiast with an uncanny knack of picking a winner! Underscoring the entire piece is the Grand National – the greatest day in the horseracing calendar. Bets will fly and money will change hands. And lives will be destroyed. Double Sentence is based on interviews with deaf prisoners and ex-offenders, and charts a young man’s struggle to be understood in a world where even the loudest fight to be heard.
Presented by Deafinitely Theatre
Wednesday 12 May 2010
7pm Doors | Performance from 8pm
Tickets: £12.50 adv
NEIL COWLEY TRIO
‘Radio Silence’ Tour
In just a few short years, the Neil Cowley Trio have carved out a reputation as one of Britain’s most exciting live bands, and this spring they return to the stage performing tracks from their new and most cohesive recording to date, Radio Silence.
Blurring the boundaries between classical, rock, funk and jazz, pianist and band leader Cowley creates music that is both poignant and powerful. Delivered with a distinct streak of endearing English eccentricity, he and his bandmates, Evan Jenkins on drums and Richard Sadler on bass, take the listener on an enthralling sonic journey of ferocious exhilaration and heart-shattering tenderness in one dizzy sitting.
Friday 14 & Saturday 15 May 2010 7pm
(Matinée 2.30pm - Sat 15 Only)
Tickets: £10 (£8) Matinée: £8 (£6)
THE TITANIC SHOW
Directed by Cal McCrystal
Pluck, the classical string trio with a seriously silly side, presents a tribute
to the musicians who played on until the end. Nobody knows what filled the days of those brave few before tragedy struck...
So Pluck have made it up!
Sensitive lead violinist Wally and brutally sincere multi-instrumentalist
W'Theodore are joined aboard the fated vessel by stowaway Roger, a
strangely small yet enthusiastic young man.
As they entertain the guests
on board, tensions build as Wally and W'Theodore begin to suspect that
Roger is not quite the man he claims to be…
Featuring a real iceberg, one massive porthole and the biggest peanut you may ever see - and NO Celine Dion!!
“Gloriously funny” The Scotsman
“Classical music for all ages and shoe sizes” The Sunday Times
“A brilliant mix of high comedy, astonishing musicianship and a touch of
romance” **** The List
www.pluck.me.uk
Presented by Pluck
18 May 2010 - 23 May 2010 (For Show Times pls see below)
Tickets: £12.50, Festival Standby £10
Please call Brighton Festival Ticket Office: 01273 709709
MARINE PARADE
World Premiere
In a bed and breakfast on the Brighton sea front at the end of summer nine people's lives dance around the possibility and impossibility of love. Claire needs more money than she's ever owned. Christopher needs to see her one more time. Michael needs to tell Alison a truth he couldn't dare utter. Alison needs to never hear it. Gary and Ellie need one night alone. Archie needs to save some poor sod's life. Sally needs to get out of town, and Steve, who owns the whole desperate place to begin with, needs to tell her he loves her.
Over the course of 24 hours at the edge of England at the start of its final century all of their lives are changed forever.
A musical about addiction, sex, betrayal and hope, Marine Parade brings together one of England's most exciting new theatre companies Animalink with Olivier Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens and American Music Club's Mark Eitzel - 'America's greatest living lyricist' (The Guardian).
Simon Stephens has emerged in this millennium as an outstanding playwright.'Financial Times
Supported by Arts Council England, ETT and Yes/No Productions
PLEASE NOTE: Tickets are only available from Brighton Festival Ticket Office directly and are not on sale through The Old Market Box Office.
SHOW TIMES:
Tue 18 & Wed 19 May: 8pm
Thu 20 & Fri 21 May:
6pm & 9pm
Sat 22 & Sun 23 May:
3pm, 6pm & 9pm
Presented by Animalink + Brighton Festival
Sunday 23 May 2010 11am
Tickets: £10-£22
Students & Under 18's £7
~ Celebrity Festival Concert ~
PAUL WATKINS cello
HUW WATKINS piano
BEETHOVEN Seven Variations on ‘Bei Mannern welche Liebe fuhlen’
SCHUMANN Adagio & Allegro Op.70
PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata Op 119 in C
WATKINS Cello Sonata
RACHMANINOV Cello Sonata Op.19 in g
Paul Watkins is one of Britain’s foremost cellists, regularly acclaimed for his outstanding musicianship and moving performances.
“... is there a better cellist in the UK today?”
GLASGOW HERALD
“Huw Watkins is a pianist of alert intelligence and a composer with something to say”.
THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Saturday 29 May 2010
WEDDING RECEPTION
Monday 31 May 2010 7.30pm
Tickets: £15 (£10)
HEARING VOICES
What really goes on behind the doors of a psychiatric hospital?
Throughout this brand new play we hear the stories of six real-life people who recently met as patients on an acute secure psychiatric ward in a London hospital, the writer of this piece being one of them. The entire script is taken from interviews conducted by the writer with each of the patients and combined with extracts from the writer’s own diary about her time on the ward. The result is a unique and powerful piece of verbatim theatre, which explores the experiences of Mental Health Service Users behind locked doors.
The stories that are told in this piece represent the "voices" of the patients that were never heard by the consultants or the nurses on the ward. This ground-breaking piece of theatre reveals the views and personal histories of a group of people who are often hidden and excluded from mainstream society and allows their voices to finally be heard.
