A lively barn-dance evening with a ploughman’s supper, prizes and games.

Featuring Kate's Kitchen Band.

In aide of Crossroads, the charity that cares for carers.


Kate’s Kitchen Band is a vibrant eight-piece band, providing a variety of music for social dance and listening. They believe in giving the audience a good time - a foot-tapping mixture of sounds from start to finish.

They practice and eat hot buttered toast in Kate’s kitchen.

Brighton Crossroads helps and supports people who care for a disabled, ill or elderly person at home. They aim to help relieve stress in families or individuals responsible for the care of disabled people.

City College Collective is a dynamic group of event management students from University of Brighton and City College.






Presented by City College Collective

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.

Presented by Animalink + Brighton Festival