What's On
Current productions
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ACT Foundation In Acting present The extraordinary debut play from the Royal Court by two brothers from Siberia. A series of seemingly unrelated scenes portray the ordinary frustrations of everyday life:
office workers bickering, a couple committing adultery, grannies complaining about their husbands. But the scenes unfold to reveal the mistrust and dysfunction
that have become the norm, in Russia and elsewhere. |
The Lantern Theatre @ ACT Brighton 
Tue 10th July 2018, 8pm |
Past Productions
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ACT Diploma In Acting present A Flea in her Ear is a classic French farce hilariously written by Georges Feydeau and adapted by John Mortimer. |
The Old Market 
Tue 3rd April 2018, 7.30pm |
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ACT Diploma In Acting present Someone sneezes. Someone can't get a signal. Someone won't answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone's not ready to talk. Someone is her brother's mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone's never felt like this before.
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Tue 5th Dec 2017, 8:00PM |
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ACT Foundation In Acting present When King Leontes suspects his wife Hermione of adultery his jealousy tears the kingdom apart. The queen is banished and believed dead, while their daughter Perdita is abandoned among simple shepherd folk. Passionate tragedy interweaves with pastoral comedy, leading to one of Shakespeare's most magical and moving denouements.
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Tue 11 Jul 2017, 8:00PM |
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ACT Youth Theatre present Task 67 You have been invited to witness the culmination of months of testing and research, to view the final phase of our experiment wherein you are the final stage. The tests you will witness are all necessary to bring back the power of our once great nation, so we may combat the threats to our home. With the use of artificially induced psychogenic amnesia, sustained by a small computer matrix planted in the neck, we can ensure your safety, and if the test goes well - the safety of our people, long may we stand. |
Sat 10 June 2017, 7:30pm |
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An Introduction to Playwriting: Staged Readings 5 new plays from the students of ACT's Introduction To Playwriting Course.
Each student has developed a new short play during the course and these will be performed (script in hand) by professional actors. |
Sun 4 June 2017, 8:00pm |
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ATCL Diploma In Acting Showcase 2016 Our 2016 graduates have already acquired substantial stage and film experience and are an extremely diverse and highly castable group in terms of age, type and ethnicity. The academy positively encourages students who have had considerable life experience, having already pursued other careers and life ambitions. Having rigorously applied themselves to their actor training; these graduate actors now bring humanity, depth and understanding to their performances. We guarantee you an entertaining event with actors of potential and promise. |
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Industry Professionals - for complimentary tickets to the London or Brighton Showcase please contact the school on 01273 818266 or email info@actbrighton.org General Public - Tickets are available for the Brighton Showcase only and are £10.00. These are available online - see link below - or via the school 01273 818266 or email info@actbrighton.org or online. |
London: Invited Industry Only
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Act Foundation in Acting Filumena is Eduardo de Filippo's best-known work and arguably his finest comedy, drenched in Neapolitan atmosphere and full of entanglements at once romantic and cynical. Set in the balmy heat of late 1940s Naples, Filumena Marturano lies on her deathbed waiting to marry Domenico Soriano, the man who has kept her as his mistress for twenty-five years. But no sooner has the priest completed the ceremony, than Filumena makes a miraculous recovery. As he reels in shock, Domenico discovers that this brilliant, iron-willed woman has a few more surprises for him. Directed by Andrew Hoggarth |
5th - 7th July 2016 at 8:00PM |
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Act Foundation in Acting Boys' Life - An acerbically funny portrait of male behavior, Boys' Life tracks three young urbanites on the make. Howard Kissel of the New York Daily News proclaimed it 'utterly captivating,' and The New Yorker's Mimi Kramer called it 'the most balanced and intelligent comment on the battle of the sexes I've seen in a long time.' Directed by Sarah Mann |
9th - 11th July 2016 at 8:00PM |
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Act Diploma in Acting The course of true love never did run smooth... Hermia loves Lysander & Helena loves Demetrius but Demetrius is about to marry Hermia... the Duke tries to force the marriage & so the entangled lovers flee to the forest & fly into the fallout of marital discord between the King and Queen of the Faeries. Frying pan, fire, lust, desire - all conspire to create a melee of mayhem & hilarity. Directed by the celebrated Actor and Director, Sian Webber who has over 25 years experience in Theatre,TV & Film. |
4th April 2016 at 8:00PM |
Paintings by John Link |
Act Diploma in Acting If music be the food of love, play on... Shipwrecked twins land on the exotic isle of Ilyria, each believing the other has drowned. Disguise, deception, unrequited love, folly & confusion set the scene for this hilarious comedy of mischief, madness & infatuation. Directed by the highly esteemed, John Link who has over 45 years experience as a distinguished Theatre Director both here and abroad. |
11th April 2016 at 8:00PM |
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AKT Seniors Immune It's an ordinary day in an ordinary school and they are ordinary kids. A bully, a crush, a fight behind the bike sheds, showcase rehearsals and double chemistry! Today the chemical reactions will change them forever. When the bell rings today there's no going home. The adults are all dead, where does that leave the kids? Fugee Kojo is 14 but can't prove it. Ara's from Baghdad and still hears bombs. Cheung does back flips and is from a 1,000 yr old Chinese village. Orphans, abandoned in London, they are now each other's street family. Together, they tell Kojo's story of lost childhood, tall trees and a murder by a child that everyone says is a man. |
13th March 2016 at 7:30PM |
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Intro to Playwriting: Staged Readings Two nights of performed readings of 6 brand new plays created by students from the Inaugral ACT Playwriting Course. Introduced by Course Leader and Playwright, Franklyn McCabe, RADA graduate. In the last 18 months, he has had commissions from The Bush Theatre, Arts Council, The Nightingale and Hydrocracker. Recent work includes Red Sea Fish (Brighton Dome and 59E59 Theaters, New York), and Ten Men - The Lives of John Bindon (The Old Market, Hove and Rich Mix, London). Frank was one of the BBC WritersRoom 10 for 2014/15. Friday 19th February @ 8pm: Comin' Thru The Rye by Jasper Kent, Dolphins by David Page and Houseplant by Kate Lloyd. Saturday 20th February @ 8pm: Lif,Love & Nigella Lawson by Amanda Rose, The Local by Helen Colomb and Rivers by Alena Skalova |
19th & 20th April 2016 at 8:00PM |
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Act Diploma in Acting It's Cabaret, we've got our heads down and we're dancing and drinking as fast as we can. The enemy is on its way, but this time it doesn't have guns and gas, it has storms and earthquakes, fire and brimstone...You were the glimmer. At the end of the tunnel. And you went out. |
Wed 2 Dec 2015 at 8:00PM |
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Act Diploma in Acting A month after stating 'we will stop the top-down reorganisation of the NHS that has got in the way of patient care', the government launched the biggest top-down reorganisation the service had seen in its 65-year history. |
Tue 8 Dec 2015 at 8:pm |
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Act Foundation in Acting Morning in London, Autumn 2011. Across the city, people wake up from an identical, terrifying dream. At the same moment, a young man named John returns home after years away to find economic gloom, ineffective protest, and a Prime Minister about to declare war. But John has a vision for the future and a way to make it happen. |
Mon 6 Jul 2015 at 8:00PM |
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Act Diploma in Acting In a remote Russian town, Olga, Masha and Irina yearn for the adrenaline rush of life in Moscow - but their plans go nowhere. Disaster, deception, meaningless self-sacrifice - in Chekhov's heartbreaking masterpiece, each new twist of fate sees the sisters' control over their destiny slip away. Directed by John Link |
YR1 Diploma Production for an invited audience only.
Sat 18 Jul 2015, 8:00PM |
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Act Diploma in Acting Russia at the turn of the 20th century. Madame Ranevskaya, a once wealthy landowner returns home almost impoverished after five years abroad. Her vast and beautiful cherry orchard is to be sold off against her crippling debts. Struggling with the uncomfortable reality of the present, Ranevskaya ignores the insistent warnings and advice of Lopakhin, a peasant's son turned wealthy businessman, and instead seeks solace in the past. Directed by Viv Berry |
YR1 Diploma Production for an invited audience only.
Sun 19 Jul 2015, 8:00PM |
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Act Creative Playground Yerma (i.e., "Barren" in Spanish) is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It was written in 1934 and first performed that same year. Lorca describes the play as "a tragic poem." The play tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain. Her desperate desire for motherhood becomes an obsession that eventually drives her to commit a horrific crime. Because of the time she is living in, she is expected to bear children. When she cannot, she is forced to measures that those in her society would view as extreme. |
Thu 23 Jul 2015, 8:00PM |
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ACT Youth Theatre Present When Eloise is tasked with showing new girl, Beth, around the school, she takes her to the "Hackerspace" where her and her gang of nerdy friends hang out - a disused portacabin they've turned into a student-run IT lab. Although the gang call themselves Hackers, their activities are entirely harmless... Until the gang's self-elected leader, Archie, is humiliated by the school bully and Beth inspires them to use their tech-savviness to avenge him. Revelling in their newfound power, the group allow Beth to lead them in an increasingly dangerous direction. With Archie usurped and everyone in Beth's thrall, just what kind of hackers will they become and what will it take to stop them? Hacktivists appears as part of The National Theatre New Connections 2015- the UK's most exciting festival of Youth Theatre. NT Connections 2015 | ||||
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ATCL Diploma In Acting Showcase 2014 Our 2014 graduates have already acquired substantial stage and film experience and are an extremely diverse and highly castable group in terms of age, type and ethnicity. The academy positively encourages students who have had considerable life experience, having already pursued other careers and life ambitions. Having rigorously applied themselves to their actor training; these graduate actors now bring humanity, depth and understanding to their performances. We guarantee you an entertaining event with actors of potential and promise. Industry Professionals - for complimentary tickets to the London or Brighton Showcase please contact the school on 01273 818266 or email info@actbrighton.org General Public - Tickets are available for the Brighton Showcase only and are £8.50. These are available online - see link below - or via the school 01273 818266 or email info@actbrighton.org or online. |
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ACT Foundation Present Set in the fictional American small town of Grover's Corners, Our Town tells the story of an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted
through their everyday lives. |
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7th - 10th July 2014 |
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ACT Creative Playground Set in a run-down, South Coast hotel filled with genteel sadness, Separate Tables consists of two interlinked playlets. In the first, Table by the Window, a lonely divorcee tracks down her former husband, in order to resume a kind of half-life with him. In Table Number Seven, the second act, we witness the public exposure of a bogus Major accused of sexual assault in the local cinema. |
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20th - 22nd July 2014 |
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Brian Friel's free adaptation of Turgenev's timeless comedy is elegant, ironic and has a nice, contemporary bite. Love triangles abound during the balmy days of summer and temperatures rise as requited and unrequited loves form a daisy chain of desire... Natalya loves the young tutor, who is loved by her pretty teenage ward, who has a marriage proposal from the creepy old neighbour. The husband is oblivious and his best mate fancies Natalya too. A month of passion, frustration and hilarity ensues. If you love Chekhov, you'll love this version. Venue: The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, BN3 1AS |
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The true-life re-enactment of a small American town reeling in the aftermath of the homophobic murder of Matthew Shepard. On October 7th 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard's death provoked extreme reactions - from the GOD HATES FAGS preaching of Rev Fred Phelps to national outpouring of revulsion against hate - but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal and it's their voices we hear in this stunningly effective theatre piece. Moises Kaufman and his New York Tectonic Theatre Project travelled to Laramie four weeks after the murder. Over the following eighteen months, they interviewed more than 200 people affected by the death, thus bearing witness to the massive impact on that all-American town and its search for truth and reconciliation, while all America and the whole world was watching. ACT's revival of this astonishing piece comes 15 years after the original events. Matthew Shepard would have celebrated his 37th Birthday on December 1st - this year's World AIDS day - so we are raising money for the Terrence Higgins Trust in his memory - watch out for our 'ANGEL ACTION' on the streets of Brighton and Hove on Sunday 1st December. "We tried to tell the story of the town of Laramie. As opposed to telling the story of Matthew Shepard" |
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Habeas Corpus A comedy set in Brighton in the 1970s. The lust and longing of the permissive society has well and truly taken hold of the apparently respectable Wicksteed family. With a succession of characters ranging from a rampant doctor and a randy vicar to a frustrated flat-chested spinster and a baffled domestic cleaner, this rollicking farce is as saucy and English as a seaside postcard... Venue: The Nightingale Theatre, Surrey Street, Brighton |
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The best and the brightest of Brighton's new acting talentOur 2013 graduates have already acquired substantial stage and film experience and are an extremely diverse and highly castable group in terms of age, type and ethnicity. The academy positively encourages students who have had considerable life experience, having already pursued other careers and life ambitions. Having rigorously applied themselves to their actor training; these graduate actors now bring humanity, depth and understanding to their performances. We guarantee you an entertaining event with actors of potential and promise. Industry Professionals - for complimentary tickets to the London or Brighton Showcase please contact the school on 01273 818266 or email info@actbrighton.org General Public - Tickets are available for the Brighton Showcase only and are £8.00. These are available online - see link below - or via the school 01273 818266 or email info@actbrighton.org or online.
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Confusions is a collection of four short, interlinked but self-contained, comedy plays; 'Mother Figure' demonstrates how detachment from the outside world can affect adult responses, with comic results. 'Between Mouthfuls' - two couples eat at the same restaurant, the waiter is not the only thing the couples have in common. 'Gosforth's Fete' takes the premise that despite meticulous planning, anything that can go wrong, will... and examines with hilarious results the inevitable impact it has on the fete's organisers and their tenuous relationships. 'A Talk in the Park' turns out to be anything but a talk in the park for each of the characters involved. Ayckbourn is the master at finding the comedy in every situation. Venue: The Nightingale Theatre, Surrey Street, Brighton |
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"Some Rise by Sin & Some by Virtue Fall."
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ACT Diploma in Acting Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme The play is a sharp satire on the social pretensions of Parisian nouveaux-riches. Monsieur Jourdain wishes to acquire the social skills commensurate with his wealth; he employs a number of tutors for this purpose. In his efforts to obtain the favour of a marquise he enlists the help of Dorante, an unscrupulous aristocratic parasite.
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ACT Foundation in Acting Confusions Confusions is a collection of five short, interlinked but self-contained, comedy plays; 'Mother Figure' demonstrates how detachment from the outside world can affect adult responses, with comic results. 'Drinking Companions' - a meeting in a hotel bar where the husband has more than just drink in mind. 'Between Mouthfuls' - two couples eat at the same restaurant, the waiter is not the only thing the couples have in common. 'Gosforth's Fete' takes the premise that despite meticulous planning, anything that can go wrong, will... and examines with hilarious results the inevitable impact it has on the fete's organisers and their tenuous relationships. 'A Talk in the Park' turns out to be anything but a talk in the park for each of the characters involved. Ayckbourn is the master at finding the comedy in every situation.
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ACT Creative Playground Absent Friends Absent Friends - Perhaps the darkest of Ayckbourn's comedies, Absent Friends, sees Donna, a stay at home housewife and domestic goddess organising a tea party to cheer up a recently bereaved old friend, Colin. Nothing quite goes to plan, Colin is relentlessly cheerful, her husband Paul wants to "work upstairs", their old friend Gordon is sick and Evelyn, the young wife of one of their number is not in the best of moods....
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AKT Youth Theatre Journey To X A group of friends have formed a new band. Now all they have to do is raise the money to get to
London to audition for the world's biggest talent contest. Journey To X appears as part of The National Theatre New Connections 2011 - the UK's most exciting festival of Youth Theatre. NT Connections 2012
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ACT Diploma in Acting Cranford In the 1840s, Cranford is ruled by the ladies. They adore good gossip; and romance and change is
in the air, as the unwelcome grasp of the Industrial Revolution rapidly approaches their beloved
rural market-town.
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ACT Diploma in Acting How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found "What makes you who you are, Charlie? A name? An address? A random collection of experiences, a
few memories? You are who you can prove you are. You are what people think. And that's the easiest
thing in the world to change." 8th December - 12th December SOLD OUT Venue: The Nightingale Theatre, 29-30 Surrey Street, BN1 3PA |
See Showcase 2011 page for details and to book tickets |
ACT Two Year Diploma Graduate Showcase 2011
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AKT Youth Theatre - Fright Night AKT Youth Theatre presents scenes from 'Scary Play' by Judith Johnson and 'A Vampire Story' by
Moira Buffini as well as other devised pieces. |
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ACT Foundation in Acting Alarms & Excursions Michael Frayn's (Donkeys Years, Noises Off) Alarms & Excursions is a set of eight plays including
24 characters, one dinner party and an unusual flight announcement. Venue: The Nightingale Theatre, 29-30 Surrey Street, BN1 3PA |
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ACT Two Year Diploma Dying For It
by Moira Buffini Directed by Julian Kerridge A brilliant and penetrating comedy about a man in the depths of despair Semyon Semyonovich is going to shoot himself. As the news filters through the coffee shops and drinking dens of Soviet Russia, Semyon's poverty driven demise is suddenly interrupted by flocks of admirers desperate for a piece of the action. Idolized equally by everyone from aristocrats, artists, priests, the peasants and the downright horny, Semyon has become everything to all men. Now that he has finally made it, all he has to do is die. This fast paced satirical comedy, originally banned by Stalin before a single performance, was freely adapted by Moira Buffini and premiered at the Almeida Theatre in March 2007 to rave reviews. "A gloriously frenzied evening" ***** (5 stars) Time Out Venue: The Sallis Benney Theatre, 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY To book tickets on line please go to brightonticketshop.com or call the Dome Box Office on 01273 709709. |
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AKT Youth Theatre Bassett
by James Graham Directed by Janette Eddisford & Daniel Finlay Citizenship class at Wootton Bassett School and the supply teacher has gone a bit nuts, doing a runner and locking the pupils in. That's bad enough, but tensions are higher today than normal, a day when only yards from their confinement a repatriation of fallen British soldiers is happening along the high street - as it has over a hundred times before through this quiet Wiltshire town. And this one is more personal than most ... Dean needs the toilet, Aimee needs a coffee, Amid needs to pray, and Leo ... well, Leo really, really wants to be at the repat, and is determined to escape. As factions form and secrets are revealed, maybe he's not the only one who'll want to get away.
Bassett is a pacy, funny and exhausting look at young people who have inherited a world at war; who, as they grow older, are starting to ask questions about these conflicts, their country, and themselves. Bassett appears as part of The National Theatre New Connections 2011 - the UK's most exciting festival of Youth Theatre. NT Connections 2011 Venue: Chichester Festival Theatre To book tickets on line please go to www.cft.org.uk or call the Box Office on 01243 781312. |
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ACT Two Year Diploma Public Show Friday 10th & Saturday 11th December SOLD OUT Don Juan In Soho
by Patrick Marber (after Moliere) Directed by Philip Ayckbourn The Academy Of Creative Training Productions are proud to present Patrick Marber's awfully hilarious, shamelessly outrageous and disturbingly dark 2006 hit 'Don Juan in Soho'. Inspired by Moliere's 1665 classic, Marber throws us 400 years ahead to meet Don Juan, the infamous, amoral hedonist in a society entranced by sensation. The World Premiere was commissioned by and first presented at the Donmar Warehouse in 2006 and won rav...e reviews: "Savagely funny and disgracefully sexy. Absolute cracker" DAILY TELEGRAPH. "Thoroughly modern make-over for the worst sex-addict in theatrical history" EVENING STANDARD. Unashamedly proud of his sexual conquests, Don Juan barely ends one liaison when he is in pursuit of the next. From Croatian supermodels to saintly virgins, the 5000 numbers in his Blackberry are constantly juggled by his minder Stan. He is a lovable rogue who given the chance would shag a hole in the ozone layer. Venue: The Nightingale Theatre, 29-30 Surrey Street, BN1 3PA To book tickets on line please go to brightonticketshop.com or call the Dome Box Office on 01273 709709. |
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ACT Creative Playground Public Show Lysistrata
by Aristophanes Translation by Patric Dickinson Directed by Elaine Heath It's Lysistrata - but not as you know it! Best friends Lysis and Strata are fed up with their men being constantly away from home, fighting, whoring and spending money recklessly. So they call a meeting with their friends, Lampito, an Aussie Rock chick, Kalonike, Italian wag and fashion goddess and Myrrhinne a newly married sexpot behind the Acropolis Nightclub to propose a solution to all their problems. Venue: The Nightingale Theatre, 29-30 Surrey Street, BN1 3PA To book tickets on line please go to our Lysistrata Booking Page or call 01273 818266 (we are unable to take credit cards over the phone). |
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ACT Foundation Public Show - THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT - Waiting list on door from 7pm La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler Directed by Ralf Higgins A gripping, deliciously dark, sexy, production of Arthur Schnitzler's classic play La Ronde brought to life and thrust into the modern day; presenting glimpses of life behind closed doors. Highlighting the shocking truth of society's seedy underbelly, dangerous liaisons, and happenings in a world divided by class. A 'through the keyhole' view of the intertwining lives of ten couples, this production will surprise and thrill, as they embark on a journey of deceit and betrayal. A young wife driven into the arms of another by her loveless marriage. Her husband, wine and dines a juvenile girl. A young gentleman taking advantage of the hired help. A count waking up in a prostitute's boudoir and much much more.... Venue: The Nightingale Theatre, 29-30 Surrey Street, BN1 3PA To book tickets on line please go to our La Ronde Booking Page or call 01273 818266 (we are unable to take credit cards over the phone). |
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Graduate Showcase 2010
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Fugee
by Abi Morgan The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, BN3 1AS Directed by Elaine Heath
Fugee: Slang for refugee of political oppression or natural disaster. Kojo is 14 but no one believes him; he's just one of the unaccompanied minors arriving in London, abandoned on the streets of the UK. Ara's from Baghdad and still hears the bombs at night. Cheung can do back flips and is from village in China that is more than a thousand years old. Orphans in London, they are the only family they have now. Together they tell Kojo's story: a story of lost childhood, tall trees and a murder in motion; a murder by a child that everyone says is a man. AKT Youth Theatre are the oldest of our AKT - Act Kids Theatre groups which meet during term time on a Saturday morning. AKT Youth won 1st Place in 'Group Acted Scene' at this year's Springboard Brighton and Hove Youth Performing Arts Festival with an extract from Fugee. For more details please visit our AKT pages. Part of the Brighton Fringe Festival DATES: 2nd & 3rd May 2010 Contact Jo or Janette on 01273 818266 or info@actbrighton.org for interviews/production photos. Acting Workshops AKT are running Acting Workshops for 13-18 year olds interested in FUGEE or in becoming a member of AKT Youth Theatre on Mon 3rd May. Workshops will be lead by experienced members of the AKT staff and include members of the cast. All our AKT staff are fully CRB checked. Workshops will take place at The Old Market, Hove. Places are limited and must be booked in
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