There’s a proverbial sh*t-storm raging out here, but inside Crystalz Tavern exists a secret cabaret party that stops for nothing.
Set in cell for suspected witches in Medieval Britain, three women question what it means to stand in solidarity with women through exploring the vastness of obstacles hindering bo…
It's a very difficult thing to talk about Artificial Intelligence Improvisation by Human Machine.
In a time when we’re all threatened by a rhetoric of hate from the people in power ‘A Gay & a NonGay’ challenges many of our differences head on and promises that no matter who y…
Lorraine Bowen is David Walliams’ golden buzzer gal from ‘Britain’s Got Talent!’ With quirky songs, interactive games and creative challenges, her brand-new live show inspires kids…
Thick & Tight, a dance duo like no other, bring all the drama, musicality, farce and face you can cram into a show.
Oozing Gloop, the world’s premiere autistic, green, drag-queen/queer alchemist, is here to help you survive the 21st century, champion the communist hypothesis and put on the ol’…
24th May 2015 was the day that Ireland became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote.
if u like someone nd they dont text u back after u’ve had sex dw cos they must just b a ghost x ‘Ghost Sexxx’ is a performance which parodies paranormal techniques in an attempt…
A puppet show about sex! Real stories told by every kind of puppet, from socks and feather boas to sassy, singing-diva lady-bits.
You are invited to the ultimate test of brains, brawn, and brilliance.
What the f*ck is national identity? And what exactly constitutes a ‘nation’? And why the hell are so many ready to die for it? We live in an ever-shifting political and geogra…
The first thing to say about this show is that it made me re-think my (fairly nebulous) relationship with high-end fashion labels.
Join British-Chinese pop artist, Le Fil, as he, she or it explores a 24/7 world of gay-straight men, desire and objectification through a fusion of gender-bending performance art, …
Fancy a rollercoaster, time-travel ride about sex and gender? Come see SEXXES.
‘Susan Harrison is a Bit Weepy’ The latest multi character show from award-winning character comedian, Actress and Improviser, Susan Harrison.
Craigslist, for those unfamiliar, is a site where people can advertise jobs, sell things and also meet people for 'casual encounters' – which basically means no strings a…
Award-nominated writer and performer, Nicole Henriksen, presents the follow-up to her critically-acclaimed theatre debut.
Part ritual, part prayer, part rowdy revivalist rally, ‘The Comforter’ is a rite of passage that reclaims spirituality and proposes a new perspective on church.
‘Gender Euphoria’ is James Lorien MacDonald’s second solo stand-up show, and this time he’s taking on as many aspects of gender as will fit in his chaotic, mesmerising brain.
Meet ‘Gorgeous’ George O’Connell (Rob Ward) and Dane ‘The Pain’ Samson (John Askew), two hard as nails boxers both raised by their traditionalist fathers to defend themse…
Subira, in Swahili, means patience.
Half woman.
Fierce and funny, Sarah Blanc breaks down the rules of beauty in her new one-woman dance comedy show.
Morocco’s past colonisation by its European invaders meant stories and tales of the old Morocco were unwritten.
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It’s a celebration of song and dance, an international phenomenon that has swept across the globe like a tidal wave of soaring voices and stomping feet.
Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first Black judge in 1978.
Amsterdam Fringe 2016 award-winners: two dancers take on a relentless, physically and mentally challenging dance duet, where they, and the audience, experience the infinity and …
‘Who Do You Think You Are? Barbara Brownskirt’ is a darkly funny, pathos-fuelled show inspired by the TV show of similar name by writer and performance artist Karen McLeod.
Courtney Act, takes you over the rainbow and down under in her new show: The Girl from OZ! Chock full of hits and high notes, you will leave this show realizing there’s no place li…
Sex: we (almost) all do it, but we hardly talk about it.
In this delightfully satirical and shoddy retelling of Macbeth, spunky Heidi Niemi commands the stage with focus, hilarity and precision.
‘A Jealous Lassie’s Karma’ is a collection of mad cap poems, songs, skits and socio-political observations, all performed with linguistic relish, by the ‘terrifically energet…
One parent refuses to talk about sex.
Starting from a physical quest, we will search for intentions and ways to communicate with your audience non-verbally.
The WWII official secrets act is over and Eva is ready to set the record straight.
Constance Lloyd is rarely remembered in literary history.
It’s time for a show of radical gestures and tough words.
CTRL ALT DEL: Restart, Repeat, Restart, Repeat.
“The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime”.
In this highly anticipated follow up to her 2016 smash hit debut ‘On Record’, this exciting new voice and force to be reckoned with is back with another bold and original show.
Muriel Comedy, creators of viral videos ‘If Tube Lines Were People’ and ‘The Great British Political Bakeoff’ bring you their offbeat brand of peculiar characters, political satire…
We are presented with two bodies: a loud Jamaican dance hall music and disco lights.
Dutch comedian Johan Goossens is looking for love in all the wrong places.
Stacy Makishi’s new work, ‘The Comforter’, has the intimate quality of a prayer and the rowdy atmosphere of a rally.
This provocative comedy begins with two young men struggling to come up with ideas for a show they are performing the following week.
After sell-out shows and rave reviews across Australia, and following a buzzing Edinburgh Fringe run in association with Underbelly Untapped, alternative comedian Nicole Henriksen …
“The man I love.
Carol Cates has been performing as Lady Carol all over the world for over a decade, America, Canada, all over Europe and Australia.
Post-popular prodigy Lucy McCormick and her Girl Squad present a trashstep-DubPunk morality play for the modern world.
My first venture to the Marlborough could not have been more welcoming.
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Masculinity meets Artificial Intelligence in jukebox sci-fi ‘The Daddy Blues’.
Sarah-Louise Young and Michael Roulston remain on top form with their new laugh-out-loud spin-off Cabaret Whore, in which Young’s comic character La Poule Plombée is finally g…
Tonight We Strut is a fantastical hour of slapstick mayhem in the guise of a TV chat show.
Winner, Best Children’s Show - Ireland’s most lovable idiots bring their mischief and mayhem to a show for the whole family.
Award-winning The Dead Secrets bring you a labyrinthine sketch comedy adventure.
Mamoru Iriguchi performs live, rigged up with a screen around his face and a projector above his head.
“Imagine if Derren Brown was funny” (Evening Standard) Doug Segal (Winner: Best Cabaret Act, Brighton Fringe) is back in Brighton to preview his new show which is designed to make…
A tender and ridiculous show that clambers up your drainpipe with a rose between its teeth.
A phone rings.
Back by popular demand! Pinned on the arse-end of a night out, ‘Eggs Collective Get A Round’ is a show with lipstick on its teeth and Wotsits on its face.
Everyone wants their dad to be a hero.
The MA Performance and Visual Practices returns to the Marlborough Theatre for its annual show of surprise and delight.
Gaël Le Cornec (Argus Angel award-winner with Frida Kahlo) returns to Brighton with a new play on immigration based on refugees’ stories.
Debuting in Brighton following a critically acclaimed run at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe, ‘Madame Señorita: ¿Who are Tú?’ is a total riot of a show, lead by an idiot.
“We are sorry to have to tell you that in this country it all began with a bear.
As soon as Taylo Aluko, in the guise of Paul Robeson, takes to the stage we know we’re in for a treat.
Thoroughly entertaining, cleverly written and immaculately performed.
From the ashes and ruins of long dead earth and the infinite blacknesses of what will be the year 2116, emerges the Funeral Doom Spiritual.
With his unique take on drag, Alfie has become a stand-out act in the UK cabaret scene.
Tell, me about it, Stud.
To bully or be bullied? That is the question.
A show about the relationship between power and sexual desire, what it means to want to be someone else, and Bruce Springsteen.
Brighton’s only drag king competition is back! It’s time for bois to become men as they battle it out to win the crown (and 100 quid)! Expect a night of bulging biceps, protruding …
Slash/Theatre presents - come into your own slice of life! The land of the free has never been so easy to hide from.
Nando Messias was beaten up on the street in an act of homophobic hatred.
Join burlesque performer and naked stand-up, Miss Glory Pearl, for an intimate show where beautiful women read naked.
A cabaret piece about what happens when women are given just one hour a day to think about what it is to be a woman.
His teacher believes Jamie is being bullied because he’s gay.
Ascending the back stairs of the Marlborough to be greeted by the towering and magnificently coiffed Dr Sharon Husbands, doesn’t quite give an accurate taste of what follows.
Celebrating women in the brewing industry, we’re dedicating three days to the finest brewster stouts, saisons, pilsners and pales.
Dressed only from the waist up and ankles down, Truscott undoes the rules and rhetoric about rape, comedy and the awkward laughs in between.
Jude doesn’t want kids.
In this critically acclaimed new play, an ex-soldier casts an unflinching and at times darkly humorous eye over his childhood, its impact on his relationships, his experiences of w…
“Meta, self-referential bullshit” – the play’s words, not mine.
A bumbling, charismatic Tory MP and London Mayor challenges his enemies to become prime minister.
“I normally hate audience participation,” says the man sitting next to me.
You’ll be left shaken, stirred and thoroughly entertained by award-winning Australian cabaret crooner Tomás Ford’s noir-as-hell spy thriller.
Not how to get fat - no one knows how to do that - how to be fat.
Serial killer John Falkener is a dangerous psychopath who enjoys torturing his victims.
Three strangers trapped by fate.
“Imagine if Derren Brown was funny.
An award-winning solo character piece that uses heart-breaking comedy storytelling to evoke the life of librarian Ms Samantha Mann, giving an intricately crafted English twist to a…
Character comedy, stand up & satirical song make up this mad capped high-octane hour of hilarious joy from “gifted Comedian” (Evening Standard) Chris Fitchew as he embarks on t…
A brilliantly ridiculous take on Red Riding Hood, set in Grandma’s Croydon drugs den.
You like avant garde performance if it’s good, you like variety if its good.
Pinned on the arse-end of a night out, this is a show with lipstick on its teeth and Wotsits on its face.
Drag Queens are over and the boys are back in town! Strap on a strap on, bang on a beard and join your hosts for the Drag King competition of the century! Be amazed by the figurati…
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman… Who knew what being transgender was in the 1970s? Not Kate’s family.
Enter The CHRISTEENE MACHINE: A gender-blending booty-pounding perversion of punk dragged through a musical theatre gutter, commanded by CHRISTEENE: a human pissoir of foul hilarit…
Inspired by the life and works of Edith Sitwell.
I am making a show about my dad, but I don’t want him to see it.
Irreverent and dark, ‘A little Respect’ is a sexy little thriller filled with intrigue, waspish one-liners and homoeroticism.
Lynn Ruth Miller is 80 years old.
Join us for a street party like no other! Our outdoor stage will be showcasing the best Fringe music, off-beat performance, plus there’ll be arty surprises! Choose from a selection…
After storming Brighton 2014, award-winning House of Blakewell return to take on the happiness industry.
TIME OUT ★★★★ Eve is a 13 year old vampire.
Exploding drag, gender, queer shame and otherness, La Bouche is a human barely understood, born into a universe where conformity is key.
Devised storytelling and physical theatre combine to create a series of rather unconvincing everyday encounters in Yes No Maybe.
In a blend of physical theatre and contemporary dance, four women explore the effects of loneliness on emotional wellbeing and literature’s constant re-interpretations of madness…
Intuit This is a crash course in the art of absurdist comedy, throughout the audience sees the influences of Alan Partridge, The Mighty Boosh and The Fast Show to name a few.
After touring their unique shows across Europe, Pocket Oxford Theatre perform their UK première of ‘Romeo & Juliet’.
“Very, very funny.
Ever thought about running your own Brighton Fringe venue? Then this panel discussion is for you! Hear about the practicalities, pleasures and pitfalls of running a venue from a va…
Award-winning, Brighton-born sketch villains will fling their darkest, weirdest, strangest bits at you for an hour.
The premise of this show, delivered by the North London theatre company Chickenshed, is both stirring and foreboding.
Nine-year-old Tracey loves her Aunty Ben.
Male escorts, homosexuality and football: Away From Home takes on a lot in its one hour slot, and it scores perfectly in terms of tone, performance and narrative.
Ryan the Lion’s flying pants landed on my head.
Brydie has made mistakes.
We invite you to walk through the Marlborough to experience an evening of Live Art.
Peer into the secret thoughts of another or take a chance to reflect on your own love’s labour’s lost and found.
A late night Fringe adventure with Australian electronic cabaret urban legend Tomás Ford.
The provocative, punny title, combined with my interest in hearing women speak frankly about their sexuality in contemporary society led me to believe that this would be a performa…
I was relieved when Sailor (Matt Robertson) ran onstage starkers, as I was pretty sure that the stage adaptation of Magic Mike wouldn’t require the pen and soggy bit of paper I�…
Enjoyed performing at Brighton Fringe and want to take your show elsewhere? Not sure where to go or how to start? Join our panel of experts to find out how far in advance tours are…
Get advice on touring your show after the Fringe, both in the UK and internationally.
A woman with a shaved head takes your hand in the station.
Loose moraled, skintight cabaret-comedy-performance-mash up featuring the most audacious women of Brighton Fringe.
International burlesque performer and comedian Zoe Charles’ Memoirs of a Slutsky is an interesting, hilarious and heart-warming account of her less than conventional journey to a…
What do you love about Brighton Fringe? What could be improved? How could the Brighton Fringe team help you now and in the future? Come along and talk to us!
Lynn Ruth Miller is 80 and she’ll tell you how it feels in song and comedy: a bit of reality mixed in with a lot of laughter.
Two sisters reveal themselves in a physical, biographical piece directly examining their relationship, sexuality, experiences and choices.
Truth and taboo collide in this intimate visit with a phone sex operator.
Last year John and Josh realised James had never watched The Godfather.
String, Styrofoam, and a very large cardboard box – this is a show like no other.
Inspired by Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’ and directed by Alice Robinson.
Join us for a street party like no other! Our outdoor stage will be showcasing the best of the Fringe’s alternative music, snippets of off-beat theatre plus there’ll be arty surpri…
Presenting a series of endearingly awkward characters, ‘Overlooked’ weaves interlinking narratives into an uplifting and inspiring hour.
On a rainy day in 1994, Guy Plinge splits his life in two when he drops a teacup. His potential futures are examined in this satirical look at the fickle world of art.
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Perfect comic timing, razor sharp writing and the most dynamic and talented performers I have seen in a long time.
Welcome to Alice and Harry’s house party.
White Dog Poo! Angel Delight! Chicken In A Basket! Orville The Duck! All of this - and much, much more.
Barker is waiting.
Rarely has there been a version of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
The top deck of a disused city bus late on a Tuesday night is not where you might expect to find one of the most thoughtful shows I have seen at the Fringe so far, especially consi…