Can I Be Bored Now?

Can I Be Bored Now?

Pebble Trust and Bird&BlendTeaCo bursary winning play ‘Can I Be Bored Now? is a theatre piece in which through dialogues, music and movement, two performers lead the audience on a … 

Can I Be Bored Now?

Can I Be Bored Now?

Pebble Trust and Bird&BlendTeaCo bursary winning play ‘Can I Be Bored Now? is a theatre piece in which through dialogues, music and movement, two performers lead the audience on a … 

Queen Mab: The Witching Hour

Queen Mab: The Witching Hour

Welcome to the Court of Queen Mab: The witching hour has descended, ushering in a phantasmagorical feast for the senses as this musical monarch takes to the stage. 

Queen Mab: The Witching Hour

Queen Mab: The Witching Hour

Welcome to the Court of Queen Mab: The witching hour has descended, ushering in a phantasmagorical feast for the senses as this musical monarch takes to the stage. 

Amy Winehouse Tribute

Amy Winehouse Tribute

A magical celebration of the late and great star Amy Winehouse. Joanna Rose Barton will be sure to wow her audience and bring Amy Winehouse back to life like you wouldn’t believe! 

Nicki's Variety Show

Nicki's Variety Show

Join my friends and I for a short variety show, comprising of poetry, mini plays, monologues, comedy/improvisation and music. 

Amy Winehouse Tribute

Amy Winehouse Tribute

A magical celebration of the late and great star Amy Winehouse. Joanna Rose Barton will be sure to wow her audience and bring Amy Winehouse back to life like you wouldn’t believe! 

Nicki's Variety Show

Nicki's Variety Show

Join my friends and I for a short variety show, comprising of poetry, mini plays, monologues, comedy/improvisation and music. 

Abatimbo

Abatimbo

As of our show description, we beat drums ,dance and sing all at once. 

Abatimbo

Abatimbo

As of our show description, we beat drums ,dance and sing all at once. 

Maison Mere Artists

Maison Mere Artists

As of our show description, we beat drums ,dance and sing all at once. 

Kakande African Drummers

Kakande African Drummers

Traditional West African music brought to you by Brighton’s longest running Djembe drumming group. 

Kakande African Drummers

Kakande African Drummers

Traditional West African music brought to you by Brighton’s longest running Djembe drumming group. 

Awful People

Awful People

Awful People by Julie Burchill and Daniel Raven. 

Awful People

Awful People

Awful People by Julie Burchill and Daniel Raven. 

The Dreams of Salvador Dali

The Dreams of Salvador Dali

The famous artist Salvador Dali gives us a lecture about Surrealism. 

Zip Me Up Darling!

Zip Me Up Darling!

Oliver and Isabel, middle-aged and middle-class, must host the perfect dinner tonight as the guest of honour is Oliver’s boss, and Oliver’s promotion depends on the success of … 

The Dreams of Salvador Dali

The Dreams of Salvador Dali

The famous artist Salvador Dali gives us a lecture about Surrealism. 

Zip Me Up Darling!

Zip Me Up Darling!

Oliver and Isabel, middle-aged and middle-class, must host the perfect dinner tonight as the guest of honour is Oliver’s boss, and Oliver’s promotion depends on the success of … 

Who Is No. 1?

Who Is No. 1?

1966. 

ANNA & MARINA

ANNA & MARINA

Two rival poets meet for the first time just as their country is being invaded by the largest military force in world history. 

The A Word

The A Word

When Brooke meets Moira, it seems like the perfect match. 

ANNA & MARINA

ANNA & MARINA

Two rival poets meet for the first time just as their country is being invaded by the largest military force in world history. 

Lemons Live

Lemons Live

As Lemons, artists Ole Hagen and Hannah Jowett perform material based on Ole’s 2021 poetry collection, Lemon In Orbit (Pindrop Press). 

Lemons Live

Lemons Live

As Lemons, artists Ole Hagen and Hannah Jowett perform material based on Ole’s 2021 poetry collection, Lemon In Orbit (Pindrop Press). 

RISQUE!

RISQUE!

Following on from our highly acclaimed and sold-out performances at Fringe 2019 we present another innovative sketch show, also entitled RISQUE! If you love saucy seaside humour, C… 

RISQUE!

RISQUE!

Following on from our highly acclaimed and sold-out performances at Fringe 2019 we present another innovative sketch show, also entitled RISQUE! If you love saucy seaside humour, C… 

The Acme Dating and Detective Agency

The Acme Dating and Detective Agency

A wealthy but curiously nervous businessman attends an interview at an exclusive dating agency with the aim of meeting the woman of his dreams. 

The Acme Dating and Detective Agency

The Acme Dating and Detective Agency

A wealthy but curiously nervous businessman attends an interview at an exclusive dating agency with the aim of meeting the woman of his dreams. 

Mark Bennett: Spy from the Future

Mark Bennett: Spy from the Future

Enter through the displays of 3-D photography, cold war spy equipment, and home-brewed absinthe. 

Mark Bennett: Spy from the Future

Mark Bennett: Spy from the Future

Enter through the displays of 3-D photography, cold war spy equipment, and home-brewed absinthe. 

Hard Times On Easy Street

Hard Times On Easy Street

A sexy and spirited musical created by Julie Burchill (words) and Robin Watt (music), Hard Times On Easy Street takes place in a louche Brighton nightclub fighting to survive - whe… 

Hard Times On Easy Street

Hard Times On Easy Street

A sexy and spirited musical created by Julie Burchill (words) and Robin Watt (music), Hard Times On Easy Street takes place in a louche Brighton nightclub fighting to survive - whe… 

A Trans Fairy Tale

A Trans Fairy Tale

A Trans Fairy Tale at the Latest Music Bar was a fairytale that focused on the most unsuspecting of characters - the Fairy Godmother. 

A Trans Fairy Tale

A Trans Fairy Tale

Think you know the truth about Fairy Tales? Meet. 

Ania Live

Ania Live

Ania Live with special guests Rapscallion is going to be one of those great live music nights full of sparkle and contrasts. 

Ania Live

Ania Live

Ania Live with special guests Sy Richards and Rapscallion is going to be one of those great live music nights full of sparkle and contrasts. 

F*CKBOYS

F*CKBOYS

A no holds barred deep dive through the real stories of boys. 

F*CKBOYS

F*CKBOYS

A no holds barred deep dive through the real stories of boys. 

Van Gosh

Van Gosh

Like the plaintive cry of the whippoorwill or the ‘boing’ of the minke whale, Van Gosh are a noise you never realised you could hear! Formed upon the stony beaches of England�… 

Van Gosh

Van Gosh

Like the plaintive cry of the whippoorwill or the ‘boing’ of the minke whale, Van Gosh are a noise you never realised you could hear! Formed upon the stony beaches of England�… 

Cocky and the Tardigrades

Cocky and the Tardigrades

Best Theatre Performance Brighton Festival and nine times Edinburgh Fringe First winners, Richard Crane and Faynia Williams return to premiere the third in their ‘superlative. 

Cocky and the Tardigrades

Cocky and the Tardigrades

Best Theatre Performance Brighton Festival and nine times Edinburgh Fringe First winners, Richard Crane and Faynia Williams return to premiere the third in their ‘superlative. 

Crunch!

Crunch!

Crunch! was a gentle yet hard hitting comedy set in an office, where three very different characters tried to get on with furthering their careers, but fell into the trap of not sh… 

Crunch!

Crunch!

‘Crunch!’ is about what can go wrong when we stop ourselves from telling people how we feel. 

EXIT THE QUEEN: She's The Bees Knees

EXIT THE QUEEN: She's The Bees Knees

Nine-time Edinburgh Fringe First Winner. 

EXIT THE QUEEN: She's The Bees Knees

EXIT THE QUEEN: She's The Bees Knees

Nine-time Edinburgh Fringe First Winner. 

The Secrets of Jack Roulette

The Secrets of Jack Roulette

A mysterious package, a private investigator, and a night club performer trapped in a hell of his own making. 

Miss Hope Springs 'I've Been Around'

Miss Hope Springs 'I've Been Around'

Comedy cabaret chanteuse Miss Hope Springs (winner Best Cabaret Edinburgh Fringe 2019 Broadway World Awards) was once the toast of Las Vegas, now she’s down on her luck and high… 

Miss Hope Springs 'I've Been Around'

Miss Hope Springs 'I've Been Around'

Comedy cabaret chanteuse Miss Hope Springs (winner Best Cabaret Edinburgh Fringe 2019 Broadway World Awards) was once the toast of Las Vegas, now she’s down on her luck and high… 

Kakande West African Drummers

Kakande West African Drummers

Back for our 4th year, providing the best African music of the Festival. 

Black Velvet Moon

Black Velvet Moon

‘Black Velvet Moon’ rising for one night only. 

Geoff Robb: The Music of Trees

Geoff Robb: The Music of Trees

Geoff Robb was the winner of the 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music Award for his solo show. 

Confessions of a Drag King

Confessions of a Drag King

A pole-esque tale, telling the story of one woman’s journey through pole, from the seedy underworld of Brighton, to her respectable reinvention as a drag king. 

Kakande Drummers

Kakande Drummers

Come and join in the fun with the longest-running African Drumming group in Brighton. 

Scott Lavene

Scott Lavene

Born in Essex, Scott Lavene was raised on power ballads, punk and swearing. 

Chaos Carousel

Chaos Carousel

Live Turkish and Greek music accompanied by mesmerising bellydance performances. 

Sass, Sex and Surrealness

Sass, Sex and Surrealness

How can one be sassy, sexy and surreal? The trans masc bear cub of the drag scene, Sammy Silver shows you exactly how through talk, song, video and dance. 

Baba Brinkman's Rap Guide to Consciousness

Baba Brinkman's Rap Guide to Consciousness

Fringe First winner and “peer-reviewed rapper” Baba Brinkman explores the scientific study of consciousness in his latest hip-hop comedy. 

Better

Better

Like, I suspect, many other members of the audience, I found myself identifying with Better as described in the Fringe guide. 

Geoff Robb - Original Spanish & Celtic Guitar + Vocal Explosion

Geoff Robb - Original Spanish & Celtic Guitar + Vocal Explosion

Geoff Robb is a guitarist and composer whose music blends his classical training with his love of Spanish and Celtic music. 

The Fannytasticals

The Fannytasticals

Brighton’s sell-out female comedy troupe present their rude and raucous topical humour. 

A Donkey Called Keith

A Donkey Called Keith

Remember that song you like? Well, The Dirty Carols have ruined it for you forever with their own dirty, funny, surreal musical take on the songs you know and love. 

Neon Moon

Neon Moon

Vocalist and synth-pop artist Matthew Callow presents a galactic exploration of love and affection. Live music accompanied by a projected film backdrop. 

2 Voices + 1 Sound

2 Voices + 1 Sound

A mysterious atmosphere vibrates through the small room in Manchester Street’s Latest Music bar as two women take to the stage and where flowers lie scattered beneath their feet. 

Quiz Night: The Musical

Quiz Night: The Musical

There comes an awkward point in some friendships when going to the pub is no longer quite enough entertainment. 

Caustic Comedy Nights

Caustic Comedy Nights

The name itself ‘Caustic Comedy’ is based on a particular form of humour: comedy that is acerbic, cutting-edge, even cruel or insulting but always amusing, indeed, corrosive an… 

Felt

Felt

This is about the most important thing Michael Clarke ever felt. 

Voice

Voice

A new one-woman show written and performed by Vikki Parker. 

King of the Fringe: Best Of

King of the Fringe: Best Of

Join us for some drag king cabaret by the seaside as we celebrate the bois from previous King of the Fringe competitions. 

Poetry and Jazz Layer Cake with John Harvey and the John Lake Band

Poetry and Jazz Layer Cake with John Harvey and the John Lake Band

Jazz and Poetry Layer Cake A delicious serving of modern original Jazz and poetry created by the award-winning author John Harvey (author of the bestselling Charlie Resnick series… 

Out and About in Brighton and Beyond

Out and About in Brighton and Beyond

Comedy sketch show featuring contemporary characters in Brighton and beyond. 

Mozzz!

Mozzz!

Mozzz! A week in the life of an undercover mosquito. 

... Yes?

... Yes?

Off the Top

Off the Top

Science rapper Baba Brinkman (Rap Guide to Evolution) teams up with neuroscientist Dr. 

Kakande West African Drummers

Kakande West African Drummers

Nominated for best music at Brighton Fringe 2016. 

Marilyn Carino with band

Marilyn Carino with band

Marilyn Carino’s torchy, existential electro-soul has been likened to “Nina Simone coming back from the dead to front Morcheeba”; her latest album, ‘Leaves, Sadness, Science’ deeme… 

A Really Really Big Modern Telly

A Really Really Big Modern Telly

A pair of comedic short plays simultaneously celebrating and condemning modern life, sandwiched in sketches: A re-imagining of the myth of Narcissus and Echo, and a contemporary fa… 

Kakande West African Drummers

Kakande West African Drummers

Ali Bangoura, from Guinea, with his troupe of Brighton-based drummers, are bringing the excitement and dynamic energy of Africa to Brighton. 

Going Down

Going Down

The Sex Shells present ‘Going Down’: a glittering, twisted, all-singing, all-prancing look at gay existence in the twenty-first century. 

Would Like To Meet

Would Like To Meet

Would Like to Meet presents an hour of real life dating stories brought into being by the melodramatic Ally, who is desperate to find love and get married; Liz who has grown bore… 

Leaving Home Party

Leaving Home Party

Belle and Sebastian/God Help the Girl’s lead singer performs a story set to song, celebrating our modern day notions of home and belonging. 

Unusual Subtext

Unusual Subtext

If you thought Brighton Fringe had been a little short in supply of freaks this year, then these five guys from London are set to prove you wrong. 

An Dhá: Urban Folk Music

An Dhá: Urban Folk Music

Experience the fire of Scottish traditional music, the delicacy of classical perfection, the spirit of jazz and the life of the city from Urban Folk duo, An Dhá. 

Sound and Vision

Sound and Vision

Standard Lamps, Tenderhooks, Idle Talk. 

Mercutio Loves Romeo

Mercutio Loves Romeo

Mercedes, or ‘Merc’ as she calls herself, has just landed a new job working at a nightclub; a nightclub with a sexist and homophobic doorman -Kai Henderson-, a highly stung and… 

Tonight Matthew Live! Rock

Tonight Matthew Live! Rock

Race down the memory lane of rock with ultimate seven-piece band, Tonight Matthew, in a twin-carb, Mk II Lotus Cortina, revved-up joy ride of homage to The Beatles, Bowie, Johnny C… 

Quantagasm!

Quantagasm!

Former freelance Thought Consultant John Kyron has come to bring you to ‘Quantagasm!’ Come along and experience the Quantagasm Personality Test, find out who really wrote The DaVin… 

Electric Nomad

Electric Nomad

An intimate late show presenting one-man-band The Sabio, a multi-instrumental journeyman with rare musical sensibility. 

Historical Fiction Now: Writing & Publishing Panel/Workshop

Historical Fiction Now: Writing & Publishing Panel/Workshop

Novelists Susanna Jones and Sally O’Reilly on why they started writing historical fiction and their publishing experiences. 

Keep Calm and Sing a Show Tune!

Keep Calm and Sing a Show Tune!

A stylish evening which takes you through the work of musical theatre geniuses from Webber to Jason Robert Brown. 

Eerie Silence

Eerie Silence

Have you ever been told to man up? Or be more ladylike? Our lives are shaped by the gender we identify with. 

V.D.

V.D.

Every year she’s single on Valentine’s Day, Sophie buys a cat. 

Snow White: The Whole Grimm Affair

Snow White: The Whole Grimm Affair

Feeling underwhelmed is something which you won’t experience at any point during Snow White: The Whole Grimm Affair and this is evident from the very start. 

Danielle Imara's in Jail

Danielle Imara's in Jail

Danielle Imara shares her experience of jail via a cutting-edge cabaret-style mix of upbeat songs, dance, and gritty dialogue. 

Quartet by Heiner Muller

Quartet by Heiner Muller

In a fin-de-siècle Parisien Salon, or post World War Three Bunker; the two leads of DANGEROUS LIASONS, Merteuil and Valmont, circle each other, probing for weaknesses. 

Twins

Twins

“Twins” is a play about a pair of Twins born two weeks apart. 

The Opinion Makers

The Opinion Makers

This light-hearted Beggar’s Opera-esque musical is definitely one of the most pleasurable shows I have seen in a while. 

The Big Bite-Size Late Breakfast

The Big Bite-Size Late Breakfast

Join us for a Late Breakfast of international award-winning new plays. 

Chaos Carousel

Chaos Carousel

Blending music of Eastern Europe and the Balkans with mesmerising Tribal Fusion Belly Dance, ‘Chaos Carousel’ takes us on a journey that not only crosses continents but also takes … 

Nights at the Music Hall

Nights at the Music Hall

I love a bit of late night showbiz. 

Twins

Twins

Joanne Lau and Hannah Warman, twin sisters and stand-up comics united from opposite sides of the globe with completely different appearances, outlooks and parents, bring you a hila…