Brighton Dome Autumn-Winter 2015 Brochure by Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival

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Guaranteed to cause an uproar, Avenue Q will take up a rowdy residence in the Concert Hall this September, whilst circus troupe Pirates of the Carabina return with Flown this Christmas. Following an immensely popular run at Brighton Festival 2014, it’s daft, daring and a lot of fun. Theatre audiences are huge fans of Bryony Kimmings’ work, so we’re especially excited to bring her new show Fake It ‘Til You Make It to the Studio Theatre.

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I’m delighted to welcome back Brighton Festival 2014’s Guest Director Hofesh Shechter and his company with their brand new show barbarians, fresh from a rapturous response to its world tour. We’ve loved Hofesh’s imagination and dynamism for many years - whether you’re an existing fan or new to his work, I urge you to see the show. In the first of a series that puts the spotlight on those who bring our award-winning programme together, I’d like to introduce our music producer Laura Ducceschi to provide an insight into her autumn highlights…

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Welcome to another busy autumn season at Brighton Dome – it’s a packed programme of exciting performance, art and events for all.

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Andrew Comben, Chief Executive It’s a strong season of music this autumn. Well-known names include Sufjan Stevens and John Grant, two kings among men making music at the moment. Godspeed You! Black Emperor have been on the wish list for many years. As a programmer, every so often I say to people ‘Please just trust me and come to this.’ This is definitely one of those times. Also on the must-see list is an exclusive collaboration between Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 and Akala, significant both musically and politically. Seun continues the legacy of his father Fela Kuti, who advocated freedom of speech in a committed way: he and his band Egypt 80 were repeatedly thrown in jail for refusing to keep quiet. At Brighton Dome’s invitation, Seun is joined by Akala, a formidable contemporary voice challenging racism and suppression of human rights. The two performers on stage together represents more than a great gig, more than exceptional music: it is art for change! Finally, we see the return of our earsthetic season of sonic and visual work presented as the artist intended - this year featuring the new performance project of CocoRosie’s ever-creative Bianca Casady, an immersive audio-visual journey with The Tiger Lillies, and more to be announced. Laura Ducceschi, Music Producer

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Brighton Digital Festival Pushing all the right buttons this September, Brighton’s digital and arts communities take over the city for this annual month-long celebration of digital culture. Here at Brighton Dome we are hosting a range of conferences from Lighthouse, Brighton SEO, Reasons to be Creative and D-Construct, as well as other exciting events. Look out for a huge range of performances and events throughout Brighton & Hove and visit brightondigitalfestival.co.uk for more details.

Mini Maker Faire Brighton Mini Maker Faire is a one-day festival of making, craft, tech, learning and play for young and old alike. Come and meet makers from across the country as they show off their amazing creations. Get inspired and learn how to weave, felt, solder, hack, code and more. Sat 5 Sep, 10am-5pm Corn Exchange £4 early bird ticket, £6 online, £8 on the door. Under 16s free. Book and more information at: makerfairebrighton.com

Bring Your Own Beamer Beamer is back for its fourth year. Find a space, invite artists, ask them to bring a projector. A night of collaborative moving image, projection, participation and experimentation in Pop-Up Brighton’s creative free-for-all of light and colour. Get involved and be part of one of the biggest BYOB events in the UK by submitting for free at popupbrighton.com

Sat 19 Sep, 7.30pm Corn Exchange FREE

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Hofesh Shechter Company

barbarians A trilogy by Hofesh Shechter

‘Superb stuff: juicy, nervy ensembles and a wittily unsettling commentary’ The Guardian on the barbarians in love

the barbarians in love © Gabriele Zucca

As Guest Director of Brighton Festival 2014, Hofesh Shechter led a programme which the Daily Telegraph described as ‘visionary’. Now the infinitely unpredictable Shechter is back to present a sparse world for three wildly different takes on intimacy, passion and the banality of love.

together complete an evening showcasing the singular, wry voice of their creator and the versatility of his talented dancers.

Revealing his choreography at its most elegant and intimate, the highly acclaimed and perturbing the barbarians in love opens the evening. Trembling with emotion residing within order, six white-clad figures move as one to the strains of an ecclesiastic baroque score.

Hofesh Shechter Company is an Associate Company of Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival.

What follows, as two very different works unfold, is a volatile explosion of dubstep grooves in tHE bAD – at once joyous and trance-like – and a poignant duet which

Age 14+ (contains nudity and explicit lyrics) Co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells London, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Théâtre de la Ville - Paris, Berliner Festspiele - Foreign Affairs, Maison de la Danse- Lyon, Festival d'Avignon, HOME Manchester, Festspielhaus, St Pölten and Hessisches Staatsballett, Staaststheater Darmstadt / Wiesbaden.

Co-programmed in partnership with South East Dance

Tue 20 Oct, 8pm Concert Hall £10, £15, £17.50, £20 Under 26s £15 Schools/Student groups £7.50 (excludes top two ticket prices)

Highly visual performance

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Dance

Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Material Men & Strange Blooms

Renowned for creations of visceral energy, as well as her collaborations with outstanding composers, Shobana Jeyasingh’s works are powerful, precise, sophisticated and accessible. Here, the company presents a highly visual double bill of Strange Blooms (2013), a piece inspired by the cellular life of plants and commissioned for the company’s 25th anniversary, twinned with a brand new work. Material Men is a virtuoso piece for two dazzling performers of the Indian diaspora, one classical and the other hip-hop. Two different styles and two shared cultural origins create a dynamic exploration of rhythm, location and history. Material Men features newly commissioned music by Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin, performed live by The Smith Quartet. Plus post-show discussion. The music of Material Men was commissioned with funding from the RPS Drummond Fund. Material Men is commissioned by Southbank Centre

Tue 6 Oct, 7.45pm Corn Exchange £17.50, £15 (£12.50 concessions) £7.50 schools/student groups Highly visual performance

‘Long one of the most individual voices on the British dance scene, Shobana Jeyasingh never ceases to surprise us’ The Times

Dan Daw BEAST

Created in collaboration with choreographer Martin Forsberg, designer Jenny Nordberg and lighting designer Guy Hoare, the new full-length solo work performed by Dan Daw is an intimate, hyper-theatrical attempt to conjure the unseen with the familiar. Dan Daw is an artist who leads the conversation on dance and disability. A Candoco Dance Company Associate Artist and South East Dance/BBC Performing Arts Fund Fellow, Dan is a recipient of the Ausdance Outlet Dance Award, Russell Page Fellowship in Contemporary Dance and winner of the Best Dance Award at Adelaide Fringe 2009.

Plus post-show discussion. Watch the trailer at brightondome.org Plus symposium Get Better…Soon: Musings on a 21st Century Aesthetic. 2pm – 6pm. See brightondome.org

Age 14+ (contains nudity) A Compass Commission, BEAST is supported by the Greenwich Dance & Trinity Laban Partnership, Candoco Dance Company, South East Dance and Metal Peterborough and is funded by the Greenwich Dance & Trinity Laban Partnership, Swedish Performing Arts Biennale and Arts Council England (Grants for the Arts).

Tue 3 Nov, 8pm Studio Theatre £12.50 (£10 concessions) Highly visual performance

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Dance for young people

DESH © Richard Haughton

Akram Khan Company & MOKO Dance

Chotto Desh

Akram Khan’s DESH was an instant hit when it was first presented in 2011. Now, Akram Khan Company and Theatre-Rites director Sue Buckmaster have adapted this much-loved production for children and their families.

Presented in association with MOKO Dance, an Arts Council England supported dance partnership dedicated to opening the eyes of children and their families to the power of dance.

Chotto Desh, meaning ‘small homeland’, draws on Khan’s unique quality of crosscultural storytelling, creating a compelling tale of a young man’s dreams and memories from Britain to Bangladesh. Using a mix of dance, text, visuals and sound, Chotto Desh celebrates the resilience of the human spirit in the modern world and promises to be a magical, thrilling and poignant dance theatre experience for families to enjoy together.

Workshops are also available to accompany the performance - email hilary.cooke@brightondome.org

Age 7+

Chotto Desh is co-commissioned by MOKO Dance, Akram Khan Company, Sadler's Wells, DanceEast, Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Maison de la Danse / Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, Mercat de les Flors Barcelona and Stratford Circus Arts. Produced by AKCT. Co-programmed in association with South East Dance

Tue 27 Oct, 2.30pm & 5pm Corn Exchange £10 (£6 concessions) Highly visual performance

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Dance

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 2015 Fabulous, award-winning, scene-stealing... Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (or The Trocks to their friends) make a welcome return to Brighton Dome this autumn.

‘One of the funniest evenings you’ll ever spend in the theatre’

Hurtling through the classical ballet repertoire with their inimitable blend of skill, grace and wit as sharp as scissors en pointe, The Trocks have been a global phenomenon since they formed in New York in 1974.

‘Highbrow hilarity from New York’s marvellous all-male ballerinas. Priceless’

Effortlessly displaying their technical prowess and their no-less extraordinary make-up skills, the programme includes the show-stopping Swan Lake (Act II); extract from La Esmeralda; the Merce Cunningham-inspired Patterns in Space; and new for 2015, Don Quixote.

Time Out êêêêê

Sunday Telegraph êêêê Tue 3 & Wed 4 Nov, 7.30pm Concert Hall £12.50, £18.50, £22.50, £27.50 Schools 20% off

Presented by Brighton Dome and Dance Consortium

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With special guest Akala ‘Music has great impact on people's feelings,’ Seun Kuti says. ‘That's what music should be. Pop music today is all about me, me, me. Nobody is singing about we.’ The youngest son of Nigeria’s musical and political revolutionary Fela Kuti took control of his father’s band Egypt 80 at the age of 14. Hailed as continuing Fela’s musical legacy, he has been laying down a potent version of those indestructible rhythms ever since. Now frontman and saxophonist Seun firmly sets the classic Egypt 80 sound in the modern era, fuelled by call-andresponse hooks, breakneck tempos and combative, topical lyricism.

In this exclusive show for Brighton Dome, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 are joined on stage by London-born rapper, poet and journalist Akala, whose articulate, socially conscious hip hop has won him a MOBO award for best hip-hop artist and critical acclaim for his most recent album Knowledge is Power II. Sat 19 Sep, 8pm Concert Hall £19.50 standing/unreserved seating

Contemporary Music

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80

Akala Returning later in the autumn for a solo performance, Akala shows why he’s an artist that brings more to the UK rap game than most. Thu 3 Dec, 8pm Studio Theatre £13.50 standing

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Contemporary Music

Lokito Ya Congo plus African Night DJs

Lokito Ya Congo’s music is joyous, sweet and makes you want to move your feet. Keeping their roots firmly in Kinshasa, they fuse the styles of modern Africa and the new diaspora. They are led by Renato Mondele, a multi instrumentalist, singersongwriter and a charismatic dancer who brings a new dimension and style to soukous. Head to the dancefloor for the newest sound from the Central African music scene.

In association with Yaram Arts and African Night Fever

Sat 31 Oct, 8pm Studio Theatre £10 standing

Music of Benares

Making Tracks

Led by sitar maestro Pandi Shivnath Mishra and accompanied by his son Deobrat Mishra also on sitar with his great nephew tabla player Prashant Mishra, Music of Benares perform their unique thumri style of raga in this UK debut concert. Brighton's Spirit of Gravity collective will join the trio for part of this performance.

Bringing brand new music from the far-flung corners of the world.

Sun 8 Nov, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £10 (£8 concessions)

Söndörgö

Discover the beauty and distinctively different Balkan sound of 'one of Europe’s most versatile and exciting bands' (Songlines). Fast and furious, fingers flying with a fiery panache, the band brilliantly combines respect for tradition with a desire to innovate and a fizzing virtuosity. Sun 22 Nov, 7.30pm

Otava Yo

Bringing the abandonded traditions of Russain folk lore to the 21st Century

Sun 21 Feb, 7.30pm

Perotá Chingó

Itinerant voices of rare beauty and magnetic simplicity

Tue 5 Apr, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £12 (£10 concessions) Book all three Making Tracks events £28.50 (£24 concessions)

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Six years before Star Wars, George Lucas's debut feature THX 1138 depicted a dystopian future of enforced chemical brainwashing, constant surveillance and starred a young Robert Duval raging against the system. Now Asian Dub Foundation perform their new soundtrack to this cult sci-fi classic – a brutal, beautiful, sparse and thick interpretation to complement Lucas’s visuals.

Contemporary Music

Asian Dub Foundation: Live Score of George Lucas's THX 1138

As openers of Brighton Festival 2011, ADF proved why they remain a celebrated live act with their unique fusion of musical styles with political bite. Following the global success of live scores for La Haine and Battle of Algiers, THX 1138 serves as a timely reminder of our own surveillanceand information-driven world. Film certificate: 12A

Tue 27 Oct, 8pm Concert Hall £20, £17.50

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Contemporary Music

Richard Hawley Following the announcement of his eighth studio album Hollow Meadows, Richard Hawley will undertake his longest UK tour in three years, kicking off in our very own venue. Hollow Meadows sees Hawley return to the classic, sophisticated songwriting and subtle arrangements that made him so widely loved and revered in the first place. Meditating on such themes as ageing, fallibility and relationships, much of the album shares a brooding, yet wistful and romantic atmosphere in keeping with early albums Late Night Final and Lowedges, as well as touches of 2009’s Truelove’s Gutter and Standing at the Sky’s Edge. Sun 25 Oct, doors 7pm Concert Hall £27 standing/unreserved seating (stalls) reserved seating (circle)

John Grant Plus support

‘Positively spine-tingling’ The Guardian êêêêê

It’s been the most spectacular of journeys: from a time when John Grant feared he’d never make music again, to the success of Pale Green Ghosts – an album many considered one of the best of 2013, and which earned Grant a BRIT nomination for Best International Male. Now comes his third album Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, a veritable selection that continues to entwine his two principal strands of musical DNA: the sumptuous tempered ballad and the fizzing pop song. Don’t miss this standout performer at Brighton Dome – a select UK date in his current European tour. Fri 13 Nov, 8pm (doors 7.15pm) Concert Hall £24, £25.50 standing/unreserved seating (stalls) reserved seating (circle)

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With Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven regarded as one of the post rock’s definitive landmarks, Montreal’s pioneering eight-piece is back with the superb Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress, the first new material since the band reformed in 2010.

‘Ponderous and oceanic… the precision of a classical piece and the force of heavy metal’ The Guardian êêêê

Contemporary Music

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

With high praise for recent live shows, experience their widescreen rock filling the farthest reaches of Brighton Dome. Wed 28 Oct, 8pm Concert Hall £23.50 standing/unreserved seating (stalls) reserved seating (circle)

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Contemporary Music

SPECTRUM In association with

We love music and know how much talent there is locally, which is why we joined forces with Brighton’s favourite record shop Resident to create the Spectrum project. Each season we present musicians from all corners of the Brighton music scene in our Studio Theatre. Check brightondome.org and follow us on Facebook for the most up to date line-ups and news.

Forthcoming dates: Sat 19 Sep & Fri 30 Oct

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Olivia Louvel

Sam Walker

Headlined by award-winning French-born Brit Olivia Louvel, this Spectrum special focusses on women in the electronic music scene. Louvel crafts a fresh set of art inspired electronics. Or is it electronics inspired art? Within a few bars you know you are in the world of Louvel, unique, minimal, weird and wonderful electronica with a human breath. For full line up and details on the seminar to accompany this month’s gig – exploring women in the electronic music industry – see brightondome.org

December’s headliner Sam Walker (pictured) is this month’s Spectrum Residency Artist. He will be premiering his new show The Sweetness of the Gathering Night, which promises to be a oneman, multi-instrumental, multi media performance full of hope, fury and joy. Soaring melody, new stories and tender twists meet elastic vocal chords, boundless energy, stunning visuals and many instruments.

Fri 20 Nov

Wed 2 Dec

Venue B Takeover

All Spectrum gigs:

Venue B is a group of young people from Brighton Youth Centre who create and organise events by teenagers for everyone. This month the group take the helm of Spectrum. Expect raw energy, humour, political savvy and huge talent. The future is very bright and quite loud too.

Doors 7.30pm Studio Theatre £5

Sat 21 Nov

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This Brighton soul/hip-hop crew have a fresh sound: lyrically focused with three distinct vocals, jazz influenced guitars, warm bass grooves, tight rhythmic drums and memorable saxophone melodies. The band have a strong reputation

for their live performances, playing over 75 gigs last year, and have recently supported rapper Talib Kweli as well as Kate Tempest.

Contemporary Music

Normanton Street

Friday 6 Nov, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £8 standing (£7 concessions)

HERBERT (Live)

Matthew Herbert (One Pig, Brighton Festival 2012) has spent the last twenty years splitting opinion thanks to his use of everyday objects, concept albums on contentious issues and prolific recordings, production and remix credits under different names.

of house music in all of its forms. His line-up has its beginnings in a club set with a variety of singers, but he has also been known to introduce a super-tight horn section or even a live orchestra into the musical mix.

For this show Matthew revisits his Herbert incarnation from the midnineties and goes back to the roots

The most ambitious performance that Matthew Herbert has put together (and that’s saying something), expect a heightened

Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast

sessions of irresistible jazz with a cuppa on arrival – the recipe for a perfect start to your day.

Rise and shine for the best way to spend your weekend mornings. Herbie will be joined by a host of special guests over the season, so you can mix these ever-popular

Sat 12 Sep, Sun 8 Nov, Sun 13 Dec & Sun 27 Dec, 11am Corn Exchange

sense of theatricality, with costumes by a leading UK designer and lighting and stage design from collaborators who work regularly at the National Theatre and Royal Opera House. Thu 19 Nov, 8pm Studio Theatre £14 standing

£7.50 (includes tea/coffee on arrival)

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Contemporary Music

Sufjan Stevens Support from Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear

Fri 4 Sep, 8pm Concert Hall Returns only

An Evening with King Crimson Sat 5 Sep, 7.30pm Concert Hall Returns Only

Squeeze With Dr John Cooper Clarke

Mon 28 Sep, doors 7pm Concert Hall £49.50, £34.50 Limited availability

James Bay Mon 5 Oct 2015, doors 7pm Concert Hall Returns only

An Evening with Bryan Ferry Wed 7 Oct, 7pm (rescheduled date) Concert Hall Returns only

Kate Rusby at Christmas Fri 11 Dec (see p30)

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Contemporary Music

earsthetic Now in its third year, this mini-season gives you more than straightforward gigs or gallery installations. We go beyond to bring you boundary-breaking audio-visual works exactly as the artists imagined. Think immersion. Think beauty. And think sheer scale. More earsthetic events to be announced - see brightondome.org

Elaine Mitchener

Industrialising Intimacy The brainchild of vocalist Elaine Mitchener, in collaboration with choreographer Dam Van Huynh; computer music pioneer George Lewis; and sound artist, writer and musician David Toop. Wavering between observer and partaker, Mitchener draws on vocal improvisation, movement and sound to investigate our loss of privacy versus the strength of true intimacy in our search for centeredness. A classically trained vocalist at home in jazz, gospel, free improvisation, experimental and contemporary music, Elaine Mitchener has worked with a wide range of artists – from classical composer Heiner Goebbels and electronic artists Goldie and Aphex Twin to theatre director Deborah Warner and visual artist Christian Marclay.

‘Elaine Mitchener is a genrecrossing virtuoso’ Financial Times Sun 29 Nov, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £8

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The Tiger Lillies Lulu: A Murder Ballad Written by Martyn Jacques Performed by The Tiger Lillies and Laura Caldow Directed and Designed by Mark Holthusen

The Tiger Lillies’ genre-defying brand of otherworldly vocals and unnerving performance style have carved them a unique niche in the cabaret and music theatre scene. After a sell-out run of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the cult creators of the award-winning Shockheaded Peter now stage another adaptation of a macabre classic. The character of Lulu is one of the great creations of 20th century fiction, and one of its most disturbing. Her unbridled sex appeal, her youth, and her self-destructiveness combine to make her dangerous, unpredictable and tragic. With the men (and the women) who circle her, Lulu’s journey from street prostitute to the toast of society and back again, is told as a hypnotic and kaleidoscopic dance of death. Journey with her from Berlin to Paris and finally to the dark London streets of Jack The Ripper. The band's flamboyant live performance is enhanced by large scale virtual sets that create an immersive and richly atmospheric environment. Mark Holthusen, creator of the visual spectacle we saw in The Tiger Lillies last sell out show here in Brighton Festival 2013 – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner collaborates again with The Tiger Lillies in Lulu and for this project is joined by dancer Laura Caldow.

earsthetic ‘So morally provocative, intriguingly two-edged.’ The Times Presented by Opera North, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Warwick Arts Centre Opera North gratefully acknowlegdes financial support from PRS for Music Foundation for Lulu: A Murder Ballad Age 16+

Mon 30 Nov, 8pm Concert Hall £12.50, £16.50, £19.50

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Bianca Casady & The C.i.A. Fresh from David Byrne’s Meltdown at Southbank Centre, Bianca Casady steps out of the familiar context of CocoRosie to take to the stage with a new music performance project. Together with long time collaborators The C.i.A. and dancer Biño Sauitzvy, Bianca performs music from her upcoming album in a theatrical performance that marks her debut as a solo artist. Outside of CocoRosie, Bianca Casady has been writing and recording songs for many years. Her new record began with a hundredyear-old untunable piano and a collection of dusty typewriters, as piles of poems filtered into songs. She followed these dusty songs to Argentina where she finished the recording and mixing of the album. Meanwhile for theatre, Bianca recently wrote and directed Mother Hunting at the National Theater in Oslo, Norway, and continues to create music for theatre director Robert Wilson. Tue 1 Dec, 8pm Corn Exchange £14

earsthetic

The Works The Works is a regular night at Brighton Dome that provides a chance for theatre makers, dancers, choreographers and musicians to present their cross-artform and interdisciplinary work in development.

to attract, and an opportunity for people who care about performance to engage in collective dramaturgy and development. For more details visit brightondome.org

For this special earsthetic edition, a handful of artists will be selected to present short 10-15 minute excerpts of site-specific work in development; offering opportunity for them to seek the opinions of the audience they wish

Sat 28 Nov, 7.30pm Studio Theatre, Corn Exchange, Founders Room FREE but ticketed

earsthetic is curated in collaboration with artist in residence, composer and sound artist Sarah Nicholls

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Musical Theatre

‘You'd be a muppet to miss it!’ Edinburgh

‘The best musical of the decade’

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Avenue Q Winner of the Tony Awards ‘Triple Crown’ for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, Avenue Q is part flesh, part felt and packed with heart. Following five years in the West End, sell-out runs worldwide and packed with mischief, bad behaviour and political incorrectness, this hugely entertaining show is coming to Brighton Dome. Created by Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez (Co-creator of Book of Mormon and writer of the songs for Disney’s Frozen) Avenue Q is an irresistibly

charming musical which tells the story of the loveable characters on a downtown New York street trying to make sense of life’s burning issues. Cheeky and uproariously entertaining comedy with a terrific batch of songs performed by a cast of hugely talented performers and puppets, Avenue Q is a musical like no other. So don’t let your life suck – book your tickets today! Age 14+ (contains strong language and sexual content ) Duration 140 minutes (inc interval) Presented by David Hutchinson and Philip Rowntree for Sell A Door Theatre Company Ltd and Richard Darbourne Ltd.

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Tue 22 - Thu 24 Sep 2015, 7.30pm Fri 25 & Sat 26 Sep 2015, 5pm & 8.30pm Concert Hall Tue - Thu & Sat, 5pm £12.50, £18, £21, £25 Fri, 5pm £11.50, £16.50, £20, £24 Fri 25 & Sat 26 Sep, 8.30pm £14, £20, £22.50, £26.50 Under 26s £15 (Tue –Thu and matinees) £18.50 (Fri & Sat eve) Groups of 5 or more save 10% Groups of 10 or more save 20% 10% discount for members on all ticket prices on Tue 22 Sep, 7.30pm

Fake It 'Til You Make It Bryony is an outrageous, hilarious and fearless performance artist from London. Tim is an outrageous, hilarious and fearless account manager from a top advertising agency. Bryony and Tim are a couple. Bryony spends most of her life on tour, trying her best to change the world. Tim spends most of his life at a desk trying his best to sell the world. Six months into their relationship, Bryony found out that Tim suffers from severe clinical depression. He had kept it a secret for a very long time. Fake It ‘Til You Make It is the new work by Edinburgh Fringe First winner Bryony Kimmings (Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model) about clinical depression and men from two people who know all about it! A wickedly warming, brutally honest and heartbreaking show about the wonders and pitfalls of the human brain, being in love and what it takes to be a ‘real man’.

‘Beautiful and funny and intelligent and true’ êêêêê The

Guardian (Australia)

Theatre

Bryony Kimmings & Tim Grayburn

Winner: Best Theatre Award – Fringe World, Perth Winner: Best Theatre Award – Adelaide Fringe Festival Age 14+ Duration: 1 hour Presented by Avalon Promotions Ltd

Thu 10 & Fri 11 Sep, 8pm Studio Theatre £14 (£12 Concessions) Fri 11 Sep, 8pm: BSL interpreted by Sue MacLaine

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Theatre

Racheal Ofori

Portrait

A frank, funny and provactive look at the trials and tribulations of modern life, seen through the eyes of a young black woman. Candid and satirical, this one-woman show uses music, poetry and dance to challenge cultural stereotypes, explore identity and role models, and ask the critical question: just how do you navigate today’s world? An exciting debut solo show from writer, performer and rising talent Racheal Ofori, inspired by her own experiences. Plus post-show discussion. There is a workshop for women aged 16 – 25 exploring the themes of the show. Contact hilary.cooke@brightondome.org Age 12+ Presented by Fuel Supported by Arts Council England and the Royal Victoria Hall Foundation.

Wed 7 Oct, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £12 (£10 concessions)

Little Soldier Productions

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha

Two feisty senoritas and a downtrodden Englishman embark on a journey through Spain, taking on one of the most accomplished works of fiction ever written; Don Quixote. Accompanied only by an otherworldly guitarist whose presence there makes no sense

‘Jaw-droppingly entertaining.’ The Stage êêêê

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whatsoever, they will lead you to joy, pain and ultimate wisdom. A madcap rendition concluding with a common sentiment: ‘These guys did not read the book’. Award-winning company Little Soldier presents an hilariously inventive adventure of immense proportions, to be taken with a pinch of salt and a handlebar moustache. Age 14+ Duration 100 minutes inc interval Produced in association with Jacksons Lane, toured by house.

Thu 5 Nov, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £12 (£10 concessions)

Theatre

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Disco Pigs Written by Enda Walsh Directed by Cathal Cleary

Born seconds apart, Darren and Sinead, aka Pig and Runt, live in a fantasy world of their own in Cork city. Trash TV, disco beats and cheap booze have fuelled this obsessive friendship. But as they go for their 17th birthday binge, reality violently collides with their fantasy and their world begins to crumble. Written by Enda Walsh, award winning writer of The Walworth Farce, The New Electric Ballroom, Penelope and Camera d’Or winning screenplay Hunger, Disco Pigs is a furious, funny and violent dash through a friendship too close to survive.

‘Funny and terrifying at the same time, Disco Pigs is superb’ The Independent êêêê

Age 14+ Duration: 80 minutes (no interval) Recommissioned by house, winner of the JMK award 2011

Wed 18 Nov, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £12 (£10 concessions)

Chris Goode & Company

Men in the Cities Written & performed by Chris Goode Directed by Wendy Hubbard

‘An important, zeitgist-pricking piece from one of the UK's most interesting theatre-makers’ The Independent Hot on the heels of a second successful run at the Royal Court, Brighton Dome welcomes the experimental storytelling of Chris Goode, described by The Guardian as ‘a theatre maker of infinite talent and infinite compassion’. Framed by two violent deaths – the apparently inexplicable suicide of a young gay man, and the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich in 2013 – this Fringe First-winning solo show is a compelling piece about harm, complicity, and the forces that shape our relationships. Through fractured snapshots of seemingly disconnected lives, Men in the Cities presents a challenging but radically humane portrait of how we live now.

Audience Club discussion facilitated by Maddy Costa will follow in the Studio Theatre Bar In association with Royal Court Theatre Age 16+

Tue 24 Nov, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £12 (£10 concessions)

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Classical Section title Music

Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra

Stephen Hough Piano Barry Wordsworth Conductor

Gemma Rosefield Cello Barry Wordsworth Conductor

Martin Owen Horn Stephen Bell Conductor

Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1 Kalinnikov Symphony No.1

Elgar Sanguine Fan Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme Schubert Symphony No.9 (The Great)

Dvorák Overture: In Nature’s Realm Strauss Horn Concerto No.1 Bruckner Symphony No.4

The BPO’s 91st season opens with two works by Russian composers, one of which is rarely heard outside Russia. Tchaikovsky’s dramatic symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini describes the tragic fate of the heroine of Dante’s Divine Comedy. It is paired with Kalinnikov’s Symphony No.1, a tuneful work that established the composer’s reputation (endorsed by Tchaikovsky himself) shortly before his untimely death. The programme is completed by Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto performed by Stephen Hough in a wonderful start to the season.

The seven Variations on a Rococo Theme remain the closest Tchaikovsky ever came to writing a cello concerto: harking back to Mozart and Haydn, they show remarkable virtuosity and craftsmanship, here performed by Gemma Rosefield. We open this concert with Elgar’s Sanguine Fan, originally conceived as a one-act ballet in 1917 to raise money for charities during WW1; revived by Adrian Boult in 1973, it has been a concert favourite ever since. Also included are the majestic proportions of Schubert’s final symphony ‘The Great’, perhaps his most exciting piece for orchestra.

Richard Strauss wrote a number of works for solo instruments and orchestra. Completed early in his career, the Horn Concerto No.1 reflects the influence of Schumann and Mendelssohn on the young composer, and is performed here by soloist Martin Owen. The concert opens with Dvorák’s overture, one of a trilogy depicting nature, life and love in his native Bohemia. Meanwhile Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No.4 depicts a bygone era of knights hunting in the forest and life in a medieval city, nicknamed ‘The Romantic’ by the composer himself.

Sun 11 Oct, 2.45pm

Sun 8 Nov, 2.45pm

Sun 6 Dec, 2.45pm

New Year’s Eve Viennese Gala Barry Wordsworth Conductor Kiandra Howarth Soprano

BPO’s Viennese Gala concert will take you on a journey to Vienna, a city of music and dreams this New Year’s Eve. This is one of the most popular concerts in the season, full of the wonderful waltzes, polkas and marches of the Strauss family, who dominated the music scene in Vienna throughout the 19th century. Thu 31 Dec, 2.45pm All BPO Concerts Concert Hall £11.50, £16.50, £22, £27, £32.50 & £36.50

Pre-Concert Interviews: Join presenter Peter Back as he interviews one of the performers before each concert (except Viennese Gala), for a fascinating insight into the music and life of a musician, tickets £3.75

Book now for BPO Spring 2016

Sun 31 Jan, 2.45pm

Sun 14 Feb, 2.45pm

Sun 6 Mar, 2.45pm

Sun 20 Mar, 2.45pm

Matthew Trusler Violin

Melvyn Tan Piano

Howard Shelley Director/Piano

Weber Overture: Oberon Prokofiev Violin Concerto No.1 Brahms Symphony No.3

Programme includes: Mascagni Intermezzo Chopin Piano Concerto No.2 Rimsky Korsakov Scheherazade

Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.2 Mendelssohn Symphony No.3

Rob Clark Piano Brighton Festival Chorus

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Alwyn Overture: Derby Day Bernstein Symphony No.2 Vaughan Williams Symphony No.1

Fauré Suite, Pelléas et Mélisande Ravel Piano Concerto in G major Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales Debussy La mer Robin Ticciati conductor Louis Schwizgebel piano

Classical Music

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Robin Ticciati leads the London Philharmonic Orchestra in this celebration of exquisite orchestral craftsmanship. At the heart of this concert is Ravel’s toe-tapping concerto, a musical postcard from the streets of Harlem where he experienced the harmonic exoticism and rhythmic drive of jazz. The composer is a little more restrained in his teasing waltzes, which come with the same clarity and luminous restraint that imbues Fauré’s delicate reflection of the tragedy of Pelléas et Mélisande. To finish comes Debussy’s orchestral depiction of the sea, sketched down on the coast in Eastbourne: a swirling musical canvas unrivalled in its subtlety and evocation. Sat 14 Nov, 7.30pm

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Sat 27 Feb, 7.30pm

Sat 16 Apr, 7.30pm

Mozart Overture, Lucio Silla Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 Beethoven Symphony No. 7

R Strauss Macbeth Khachaturian Violin Concerto Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1945 version)

Adrian Prabava conductor Stefan Ciric piano

Andrés Orozco-Estrada conductor Kristóf Baráti violin

De Falla The Three-cornered Hat (Suite No. 2) Rodrigo Fantasía para un gentilhombre* Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts) Jaime Martín conductor Miloš Karadagli guitar * Please note a change to the work from originally advertised

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Coffee Concerts

In association with Strings Attached Supported by D V Newbold CBE

Elias String Quartet

Described by the Daily Telegraph ‘a true ensemble… moving as one, creating mellifluous, fascinating textures’, this outstanding UK ensemble is a versatile combination of strings and piano. Since becoming BBC New Generation Artists in 2006, the Aronowitz Ensemble has been featured extensively on BBC Radio 3, in addition to a busy schedule of engagements, bringing familiar and lesser heard repertoire to audiences across the UK and beyond. Sun 29 Nov, 11am

Sun 25 Oct, 11am

The Aronowitz Ensemble Dvorák Cypresses for String Quartet (selections) Beethoven Sonata in D major for cello and piano, Op. 102 No. 2 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

Book now for the remaining concerts in the series:

Royal College of Music Wind Ensemble Janácek Mládí (Youth) Suite for Wind Sextet, JW VII/10 Beethoven (arr. Robin O’Neill) Sonata No.8 in C minor, Op.13 ‘Pathetique’ Strauss Serenade in E flat major, Op.7, TrV 106 Mozart Serenade No.12 in C minor, K.388

Sun 24 Jan, 11am Supported by Griffith Smith Farrington Webb

Elias String Quartet

Stravinsky Three Pieces for String Quartet Schumann String Quartet No.2 in F Op.41 Mendelssohn String Quartet No.2 in A minor Op.13

The first of two concerts this season. For their Brighton Festival residency The Elias String Quartet fulfilled a long-held dream to perform all of Beethoven’s string quartets as a cycle: it was these late quartets that inspired Schumann’s String Quartet No.2, which Elias String Quartet performs here, alongside Stravinsky’s Russian folk-inspired String Quartet No.2 and Mendelssohn’s passionate String Quartet in A minor.

Coming up in 2016

Haydn String Quartet No.2 in C, Op.54 Britten String Quartet No.1 in D major, Op.25 Dvorák String Quartet in E flat, Op.51

Sun 21 Feb, 11am

Heath Quartet

Bennewitz Quartet Dussek String Quartet No.3 in E flat major, Op.60 Janácek String Quartet No.1, ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Schubert String Quartet No.14 in D minor Death and the Maiden

‘When the Bennewitz Quartet concluded their appearance with Smetana’s 1st String Quartet,’ the Worthing Herald reported after their last visit, ‘the audience were so affected and impressed they left the Corn Exchange and bought every copy [of the CD] on sale.’ We’re delighted to welcome back the prize-winning quartet for more repertoire from their Czech homeland (Janácek’s Tolstoy-inspired Kreutzer Sonata and Dussek’s rarely heard string quartet), alongside Schubert’s pillar of the chamber repertoire, Death and the Maiden. Sun 20 Dec, 11am

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Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546 Tchaikovsky String Quartet No.2, Op.22 Ravel String Quartet in F major

Sun 27 Mar, 11am All Coffee Concerts: Corn Exchange £18.50 (£16 Concessions) Full season tickets £99 (£84 concessions) for all six concerts. Half season tickets: £49.50 (£42 concessions) either concerts from Oct–Dec or Jan-Mar. Call 01273 709709 to book. Ages 8 – 25 free. Bookable in person only as part of Cavatina Scheme.*

*CAVATINA Scheme CAVATINA operates a ticket scheme that subsidises the attendance of young people (those aged 8-25, inclusive) to chamber music concerts around the country. We are delighted that we are able to include our Coffee Concerts in this scheme and provide the opportunity for young people to access this high quality chamber music for free. Visit brightondome.org/join_in for more details.

Christmas Concert

John Wilson & the John Wilson Orchestra

Gershwin in Hollywood A sensational new show, with special guests, celebrating the genius of George Gershwin. Featuring some of his greatest hits such as I Got Rhythm, The Man I Love, Somebody Loves Me Fascinatin' Rhythm and Strike Up the Band. Conductor James Morgan Mezzo Juliette Pochin Tenor Nicky Spence

Brighton Festival Chorus Brighton Festival Youth Choir Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra

Join Brighton Festival Chorus, Brighton Festival Youth Choir and resident orchestra the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra for this annual highlight – a joyous celebration of the very best in Christmas music, from

traditional to modern, including all your best-loved carols and festive favourites.

Classical Music

Brighton Festival Chorus

Sat 7 Nov, 7pm Concert Hall £31.50, £39, £42.50, £47.50

Sat 12 Dec, 6pm Concert Hall £12.50, £15, £20, £25

Brighton Dome Organ Showcase With Michael Wooldridge As heard on BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright Show and The Organist Entertains, master musician Michael Wooldridge will take you on a tour through his life in music - from big band favourites to musical theatre - as he puts Brighton Dome’s much-loved theatre organ though its paces.

Coming Soon: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Heroes and Aliens

Worthing-based Michael is one of England’s top theatre and electronic organists, having won both the ATOS UK Young Theatre Organist of the Year Competition in 1980 and the COS Ian Sutherland Award in 1984. At home with an organ, a keyboard or a piano, he regularly performs for concerts and theatre productions across the UK.

Boldly go where no orchestra has gone before in a fantastic blockbuster concert featuring music from some of the most iconic and successful space movies of all time.

Mon 9 Nov, 3pm Concert Hall £8

Sat 6 Feb 2016, 7.30pm Concert Hall £10, £15, £18, £23, £27.50

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Christmas

Pirates of the Carabina

FLOWN

After its huge success at Brighton Festival 2014, we’re thrilled to bring back Pirates of the Carabina's FLOWN to Brighton Dome this Christmas.

‘Exquisite moments of beauty… brilliantly athletic’

Packed with thrills, laughs, extraordinary feats and fantastic live music, a stunning troupe of acrobats, aerialists, daredevil stuntmen and musicians will put on a jaw-dropping spectacle just for you.

‘Skin-tinglingly good’

The Guardian êêêê

Time Out êêêê

But there’s a problem; no one is quite prepared: a flying aerialist is still ironing her dress, an acrobatic stage-hand gets tangled in the rigging, and is that one of the stuntmen dangling from the lighting bar? Get ready for confidently choreographed chaos where catastrophe is just one wrong move away… Watch the trailer and hear what Brighton Festival audiences said at brightondome.org/flown Suitable for all ages

Sat 19 & Sun 20 Dec, 3pm & 7.30pm Mon 21 & Tue 22 Dec, 7.30pm Wed 23 Dec, 7pm Sat 26 Dec, 5pm Sun 27 Dec, 3pm & 7pm Concert Hall £10, £15, £17.50 & £22.50 Under 16s half price Concessions/Under 26s £15 Family ticket: best seats £60 (£45 concessions) Wed 23 Dec, 7pm: BSL interpreted by Sue MacLaine

Sat 19 Dec, 7.30pm: Members get 25% off top price tickets and an invitation to a pre-show reception. RSVP for reception to members@brightondome.org

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Christmas

Oh wow! Grinning from ear to ear after our #Flown experience. Really quite something. Thank you

Amazing performance of Flown last night. Visuals + voices created an unexpected + extraordinary atmosphere!

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Christmas

Kate Rusby at Christmas Kate has enchanted audiences with her Christmas concerts for over 15 years and, for some, she is as synonymous with the festive season as mince pies and turkey.

the sounds and spirit of the best Christmases ever. With variations of familiar carols that, as Kate says, ‘were kicked out of churches during the Victorian era for being too happy’, this is a spirited and family affair sure to warm even the heart of Ebenezer Scrooge.

Embracing and sharing a local South Yorkshire tradition, Kate and her band — joined as ever by a brass quintet — embody

Fri 11 Dec, 8pm Concert Hall £23, £25, Under 16s £15.50

For the small ones All activities for ages 0-6

Crafty Christmas Two afternoons of seasonal arts and crafts, making Christmas decorations and other festive bits and bobs. Sat 12 & Sun 13 Dec, 1-5pm Café-bar FREE

Andrew Barnett Jones

The Panto Game

Snuggle-up Storytelling

Andrew Barnett Jones makes up stories for loads of top TV shows including The Amazing World of Gumball, Dick’n’Dom’s Diddy Movies and Diddy TV, Dennis the Menace and Gnasher and Shaun the Sheep.

Festive tales to warm the hearts of your little-ones. Ages 3-6 Duration: 45 minutes

Sat 12 Dec, 2pm, 3.15pm Founders Room

Oh yes he does!

£7.50 (child + parent/carer)

Today he’s going to make up a story for you – a brand new oneman pantomime. But he has no idea what it is yet. No title, no plot, not a single clue. Oh no he doesn’t! Instead, he’ll be playing The Panto Game, creating a fantastically funny festive fable from a handful of words, a roll of the dice and his own roller coaster imagination. Oh, and he needs YOUR help...

Little Worlds of Music at Christmas Ages 6+ (recommended 8 - 12 yrs)

Sat 12 Dec, 11.30am and 2.30pm Studio Theatre £7 (£5 concessions) £22 family ticket (2 adults, 2 children)

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A Christmas special of this workshop for making music, children and parents alike! Ages 0-5 Duration: 45 minutes

Sun 13 Dec, 1.30pm, 2.30pm £5 (child + parent/carer)

Christmas

Ballet Theatre UK

The Snow Queen What better way to round off the holidays than a sparkling retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s festive fairytale ballet? Join Gerda on an adventure across the frozen north in search of her friend Kay. Along the way, she encounters a band of gypsies, an enchanted reindeer and a mysterious Lapland woman before reaching the Snow Queen’s Palace of Ice. Can Gerda’s love for Kay finally break her curse of eternal winter?

‘fresh and vibrant… such a fine production will no doubt inspire the next generation to return again and again’ What’s On Stage

Following the success of The Nutcracker and The Little Mermaid, Ballet Theatre UK returns with another magical production, combining a talented company of international dancers with beautiful choreography, fine costumes and a captivating score. Age 3+ Highly visual performance

Sat 2 & Sun 3 Jan, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Concert Hall £10, £12.50, £15, £18.50 Under 16s half price

Christmas at Brighton Dome sponsored by

The performance on Sat 2 Jan, 2.30pm is a gala in the presence of Councillor Lynda Hyde, Mayor of Brighton & Hove with a collection for the Mayor’s charities.

Christmas

Christmas Open Day Join us for a day of free festive entertainment, where we’ll be taking over the Café-bar with a host of family-friendly entertainment and activities to get you into the Christmas mood.. Plus we’ll be bringing back our annual festive photo opportunity, so don’t forget to dust off those Christmas jumpers! Sat 21 Nov, 11am-4pm Café bar FREE

Midwinter Ceilidh With the Sussex Pistols

Brighton Dome Tea Dance With the Footloose Dance Orchestra

We transport you back to the elegant age of the 1920s and 1930s at our ever-popular tea dance. The 15-piece Footloose Dance Orchestra keep you on your toes as you twirl across the Corn Exchange to all of your favourite styles – from the swinging foxtrot and romantic waltz to the Latin lilt of the tango and rumba. Sun 6 Dec, 2pm Corn Exchange £14 (includes tea and slice of cake) £96 for 8 people

The best-loved winter knees-up on the block. Anyone who’s ever been to this annual step-fest will know the score: with Ceilidh maestros the Sussex Pistols at the helm (plus resident caller), you’ll soon be Stripping the Willow and dancing festive reels with the best of them. Tue 22 Dec, 7pm Corn Exchange £8 (£5 concessions) £22 family ticket (2 adults, 2 children)

The Treason Show

of the year is packed with a bumper crop of satirical songs and sketches from a year’s worth of Treason Shows.

Brighton’s favourite satirical comedy show is back with their annual ‘best-of’ send up of the bankers, politicians and celebrities that made the news in 2015. Now in its 5th year as a sell-out Christmas fixture, this festive review

Sun 27 – Wed 30 Dec, 8pm, Thu 31 Dec, 7pm Studio Theatre

That Was The year That Was 2015

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£16.50, £13.50 NYE ticket £22.50

A Christmas Carol A fun and unique adaptation of Dickens’ classic Christmas Tale.

Christmas

Box Clever

Box Clever’s production interweaves the traditional story with modern interpretation. Crammed full of dramatic scenes and characters, from Marley’s ghost to the saintly Tiny Tim and Ebenezer Scrooge himself, a cast of three brings the revolving stage set to life with puppets and music. Box Clever is an award-winning, writer-led theatre company dedicated to the creation of contemporary theatre for young people. This show will inspire and delight teens and adults alike. Age 12+ Duration: 65 minutes

Tues 15 Dec, 4.30pm Wed 16 Dec, 10.30am, 1.30pm Thur 17 Dec, 10.30am, 1.30pm Fri 18 Dec, 1.30pm, 7pm Sat 19 Dec, 1.30pm, 4.30pm, 7pm Sun 20 Dec, 1.30pm, 4.30pm Studio Theatre £12, £10 concessions/under 26s £40 family tickets (2 adults, 2 children) £6 Schools Sat 19 Dec, 4.30pm: BSL interpreted by Sue MacLaine Sun 20 Dec: Touch Tour (booking required)

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Comedy

Paul Foot Retrospective

‘Paul Foot is almost too good to be real, a creation of utter comedic beauty’ Time Out Australia By the Yard (2009) First performed at the Edinburgh Fringe 2009, The List described By the Yard as ‘revolutionary character comedy at its most brutally hilarious.The term ‘mad genius’ has been chucked around willy-nilly down the ages. It has surely found its rightful place stuck upon this man.’

Fri 4 Dec, 8pm Still Life (2011) The walls of Baron Ryan Carter's castle have ears and a rudimentary mouth, which whispers of the 23 comments of old that changed the world, now in the hands and voice box of Mr Paul Foot.

Sat 5 Dec, 8pm Kenny Larch Is Dead (2012)

Known for his musings, rants, 'disturbances' and apparent aversion to pop culture, cult comedian Paul Foot is one of comedy’s most original talents, and has been likened by the Daily Express to ‘a rare exotic bird’. Now for his legion of connoisseurs (he doesn’t have fans), Paulperfoms three of his hit shows back to backover three nights in this special retrospective. Age 14+

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Deep within the sinking sands of the perspex jungle of youth, in the forgotten nebula of nothingness, just off the warm waste waters of New Norfolk, comes an objet du désir: a trombone fruit. Needless to say, it's another warm year.Winner of Best International Act at the Perth Comedy Festival 2013.

Sun 6 Dec, 8pm Studio Theatre £15.50 for one show £37.50 for all three shows

Comedy

Alan Carr

Yap, Yap, Yap! 'A comedian who owns the space he is working in so much, he could put a flag up' The Independent No stranger to yap Alan Carr will be yapping his way around the UK & Ireland with his brand new stand up show. The BAFTA and British Comedy Award winning comedian, author and chat show supremo returns to his stand up roots with his hilarious take on life.

Thu 19, Fri 20 & Sat 21 Nov, 8pm Concert Hall

Age 15+

£31

Stewart Francis Pun Gent

'A brilliant comic brain... this stand-up cracks some of the best one liners I've ever heard' The Guardian The star of Mock The Week, Michael McIntyre's Roadshow and Live At The Apollo, embarks on a brand new stand up tour with a fantastic and hilarious new show! Age 16+

Fri 27 Nov, 8pm Concert Hall £22

Kevin Bridges

A Whole Different Story One of Scotland’s biggest exports, the rise of Kevin Bridges has been remarkable: a record-breaking tour; bestselling DVDs; acclaimed BBC1 documentaries; and an honest autobiography, all by the age of 28. Now Kevin’s back with a brand new stand up show, full of the social commentary and dead pan delivery that has made him one of the biggest stars of recent years. Age 14+

Sat 5 Dec, 8pm Concert Hall £26 (Returns only)

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Comedy

Andy Parsons

Live and Unleashed – But Naturally Cautious

‘A merciless, Swiftian dissection. Bubbling over with righteous and very funny indignation’ The Times With four sell out national tours, three DVD releases and a special for Comedy Central already under his belt, Andy Parsons, is back on the road in 2015. Andy’s fifth show will see the star of BBC2’s Mock The Week and Live At The Apollo hit the road again delivering more sharp comedy up and down the UK. Age 16+

Wed 9 Dec, 8pm Corn Exchange £16

Josh Widdicombe What Do I Do Now…

Star of Channel 4’s Royal Television Society award-winning The Last Leg and now his own BBC3 sitcom Josh, ‘that guy with the curly hair’ is back on the road with a new show and he’s found a lot of minor things to get annoyed about. If you’ve enjoyed him live or on TV then this is the show for you. If you didn't, then it probably isn't. Age 14+

'This Devonian observationalist has embedded himself among the comedy elite' The Guardian Tue 15 Dec, 8pm Corn Exchange £17.50

An Evening With Noel Fielding ‘phantasmagorical, utterly original, intoxicatingly silly comedy’ The Telegraph êêêê A heady mix of stand up, song, dance and live animation from the strange and wonderful cosmos of Noel Fielding’s imagination. You can also expect some of his best known TV characters, The Moon and Fantasy Man. With muscular support from the loose stylings of Mike Fielding and the physical lunacy of Tom Meeten, you'd be a fool to miss out. Fancy dress optional. Age 12+

Sun 13 Dec, 8pm Concert Hall £26

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Roll up, roll-up for the 14th annual Brighton Comedy Festival. Comedians from all over the place descend on our lovely seaside town, giving you a dizzying choice of funny people to choose to spend the evening with. Opening Night Gala

Jeremy Hardy: Live

The biggest and best night on the comedy calendar! We’re keeping this years line up under wraps for a little longer, but given last year’s included Michael McIntyre and Adam Hills, it’s fair to say you’re in for a treat. Age 15+

Jeremy Hardy begins his 4th decade as a stand-up this year. That’s a more dramatic way of saying he started 31 years ago and, without a lottery win, probably has at least another 31 years to go. Last year, Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation was broadcast on Radio 4. Age 14+

Fri 9 Oct, 8pm Concert Hall £26.50

James Acaster Represent

Nifty. Snazzy. 30 years old. Doing his best to improve his imposture. Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Nominee 2014, 2013 and

Sun 11 Oct, 8pm Corn Exchange £15 (£6 Unwaged / DLA)

2012. Age 15+

‘This is stand-up of the highest, most playful order’

Brighton Comedy Festival

The Guardian Sat 10 Oct, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £15 (£13 Concessions)

David O’Doherty: We Are All in the Gutter, But Some of Us Are Looking at David O'Doherty

David O’Doherty, the Lidl Enya, the broken Bublé, is delighted to present a new hour of talking and songs played on a stupid keyboard from 1986. As seen on Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Age 14+ Sat 10 Oct, 7.30pm & Sun 11 Oct, 5.30pm Corn Exchange £17.50 (£15 Concessions)

Frisky & Mannish: Just Too Much

Frisky & Mannish are BACK with a brand-new hour, with more drama than Madonna’s BRITs performance! Now all grown up (just like Miley and Bieber) their barely-conscious recoupling marks the beginning of a new pop-comedy-mashupinfotainment era. Age 15+ Sat 10 Oct, 9.30pm Corn Exchange £16.50

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Brighton Comedy Festival

Hardeep Singh Kohli Big Mouth Strikes Again

When you've a mouth this big, is it any wonder you get into trouble? The comedian, broadcaster, journalist and chef explains all in a brand new show. Age 15+

Dara O Briain Crowd Tickler

One of the most recognisable faces on British TV, as host of the hugely successful Mock The Week, The Apprentice You're Fired and Star Gazing Live amongst so many others. Catch one of the most charismatic, intelligent, fast-talking and downright funny live performers working today. Age 14+

‘Immensely funny’ Daily Express

Outside, Looking In

Sean Kelly Live You may know him as the high-speed-eversmiling auctioneer and presenter of Storage Hunters, but prepare to learn a lot more in this candid and hilarious debut show! Includes his legendary calling live in an auction for charity with items brought along by the audience. Age 16+

That bloke. You know. The Irish guy. No, not the bald one. The other one. You know him. The one Carol from work really likes. Wait, that might be Jason Byrne. Anyway. Funny chap. Has a new show. Age 14+

Sat 17 Oct, 7.30pm Corn Exchange £16.50 (£14 concessions)

‘Comedy’s holy grail.... Go see!’ The Sunday Times Fri 16 Oct, 7.30pm Corn Exchange £20.50

Drink Less. Drink Better. Slide onto the bar stool of discovery and enjoy several free deluxe drinks as the Thinking Drinkers embark on an intoxicating journey through the liquid lives of history's most extraordinary elbowbenders including Dorothy Parker, James Bond and Jesus Christ. Age 18+ Fri 16 & Sat 17 Oct, 9.30pm Studio Theatre £16.50

Fri 16 Oct, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £13 (£11 Concessions)

Wed 14 & Wed 21 Oct, 8pm Concert Hall £24.50

Ed Byrne

The Thinking Drinkers Guide to The Legends of Liquor

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Max & Ivan The End

Say hello – and goodbye – to the inhabitants of Sudley-onSea in Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award and Melbourne Barry Award nominees Max and Ivan’s brand new show. Age 14+

‘Max and Ivan are the real deal’ The Guardian Sat 17 Oct, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £13 (£11 Concessions)

Fred MacAulay Twenty Fifteen

Sat 17 & Sat 24 Oct, 8pm Concert Hall £18.50 (£16.50 Concessions & groups 10+)

Tommy Tiernan Out of the Whirlwind

Having won every award going and still as passionate as ever about the adventure of storytelling and comedy, Ireland’s number one comedian is also starting to take some very exciting risks. Age 16+

Sarah Kendall One Day in October

Multi award-winning comedian Sarah Kendall comes to Brighton with a hilarious new hour of storytelling. It’s a story about life. It’s a story about death. It’s a story about 20 foot tall fibreglass chickens.

It sounds like a wrong tennis score, but Twenty Fifteen is a hugely significant year for one of Scotland's best (and best loved) stand-up comedians. From BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz; Bridget Christie Minds The Gap and The Unbelievable Truth.

Brighton Comedy Festival

Best of the Fest The festival favourite with the biggest and best line ups returns! Line ups will be announced soon, so keep your eyes peeled for some cracking good times ahead. 15+

Age 14+

Wed 21 Oct, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £15 (£13 Concessions)

Sun 18 Oct, 8pm Corn Exchange £19.50

Sun 18 Oct, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £14.50 (£12.50 Concessions)

Tommy Tiernan Alive in Brighton

Alive in Brighton is a free form improvised show. No games, no audience suggestions, no picking on the front row, just one man, his mind and his mouth spontaneously combusting. Age 16+

‘Extraordinary’ Evening Herald Sat 17 Oct, 9.30pm Corn Exchange £17.50

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Nina Conti In Your Face

She’s won a British Comedy Award, stormed Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard’s Good News, Sunday Night at the Palladium, and made a BAFTA nominated film - all without moving her lips. Age 14+

‘Uproariously hilarious’ The Scotsman Thu 22 Oct, 7.30pm Corn Exchange £20

Brighton Comedy Festival

Brett Goldstein Burning Man

Drugs, fetishes, juggling - just another day in the desert. In 2014 Brett (award-winning comedian, star of Derek, Uncle, Undercover & SuperBob) went to Burning Man to find himself. He wasn’t there. But he did leave a message… Age 16+ êêêê

The Scotsman

Thu 22 Oct, 7.30pm Corn Exchange £13 (£11 Concessions)

Lee Nelson: Suited and Booted

You may have seen him host Live at The Apollo or caught him singing on The X Factor. Now come and experience the world through Lee’s eyes as he takes on the big issues: family, fatherhood, politics… and the true value of the Cadbury's Creme Egg. Age 16+ Thu 22 Oct, 9.30pm Corn Exchange £21.50

Alfie Moore The Naked Stun

Myra DuBois Self AdMyra

Rotherham’s least celebrated daughter makes her Brighton Comedy Festival debut, and shows you, her faithful adMyras, that she’s really no different from you at all. As she would say, ‘I love me too.’ As seen on BBC1’s The John Bishop Show. Age 16+

Former Police Sergeant turned stand-up comedian, and star of BBC Radio 4’s It's a Fair Cop, Alfie Moore tasers his way through hilarious and fascinating anecdotes from his eighteen years on the beat. 'Gloriously, life-enhancingly funny' The Scotsman. Age 14+ Fri 23 Oct, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £13 (£11 Concessions)

Thu 22 Oct, 9.30pm Studio Theatre £13 (£11 Concessions)

Milton Jones and the Temple of Daft Yes, him with the loud shirts and messed-up hair from Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo, and multiple series on BBC Radio 4. Only come if you like jokes, though. If not, you'll be cross.

'No one can touch Jones when he hits his stride' The Guardian Fri 23 Oct, 8pm Concert Hall £25.50

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Nish Kumar

Mouth of the South

Long Word, Long Word, Blah blah blah, I’m so clever

Beckett's back with a brand-new hour of funnies and he's taking on the big issues like Kit Kats and flatbread! Star of BBC1's Live at the Apollo, BBC2's Mock the Week & Channel 4's 8 out of 10 Cats.

Stand-up comedy from a clever boy. As heard on The Now Show (BBC Radio 4) and the host of Newsjack (BBC Radio 4extra).As seen on The Alternative Comedy Experience & Live at the Comedy Store (Comedy Central). Double Chortle Award nominee. Great Friend. Age 14+

Age 15+

'A revelation' êêêê Scotsman Fri 23 Oct, 9.30pm Corn Exchange £15 (£13 Concessions)

Brighton Comedy Festival

Rob Beckett

Sat 24 Oct, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £11

Joe Lycett That’s the Way A-ha, A-ha, Joe Lycett

The self-proclaimed 'absolute lad' is back with an all new stand-up show, following appearance on Live at The Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and a wine tour of the French Riviera. Age 15+

One Man Breaking Bad – The Unauthorised Parody

LA actor Miles Allen smacks the senses with his super-charged, hilariously accurate renditions of all the iconic characters, including Walter White, Jesse, Saul, Skyler, Hank, Walt Junior, Mike and Gus Fring. With over a million hits on YouTube, and sell-out runs at comedy festivals in Melbourne and Edinburgh, Allen’s incredible impersonations break all six seasons down into one, exhilarating, uproarious tour-de-force parody performance. Age 15+

Fri 23 Oct, 9.30pm Studio Theatre £13 (£11 Concessions)

Fri 6 Nov, 8pm Concert Hall £18.50

Festival of the Spoken Nerd Just for Laughs

The science comedy phenomenon returns. Join acclaimed standup mathematician Matt Parker, experiments maestro Steve ‘Danger’ Mould and geek songstress Helen

Arney for graph-a-minute fun on an unprecedented linear scale. Watch as they Excel themselves in a new show. Age 14+ Sat 24 Oct, 7.30pm Corn Exchange £16.50

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Children & Family

Little Angel Theatre

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt We're Going on a Bear Hunt is back by popular demand. A family go on an expedition of a lifetime - running down the grassy bank, wading through the cold river, squelching over the oozy mud, stumbling into the dark forest, then peering into a cave… what will they find? Little Angel Theatre brings Michael Rosen’s thrilling and funny adventure to life in this entrancing puppetry production directed by Peter Glanville and with music and lyrics by renowned singer-songwriter Barb Jungr.

Fri 25, Sat 26 & Sun 27 Sep, 10.30am, 12.30pm, 3pm Studio Theatre £7 (£5 concessions) £22 family ticket (2 adults, 2 children) Sun 27, 10.30am: BSL interpreted by Sue MacLaine Sat 26, 10.30pm: Relaxed performance

Ages 2–6 Duration: Approx 45 mins Based on the book by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, published by Walker Books Ltd.

Playmakes After the Saturday performance, our young audience has the opportunity to get crafty and make a keepsake to take home. Our Playmakes team are on hand to lead the creatively, leaving parents and guardians free to sit back, relax and enjoy some coffee and cake.

Sat 26 Sep, 1.30pm Studio Theatre Bar £5 per child, adults free

A £2 per order fee applies to all phone and online bookings – see p50

Duck, Death and the Tulip An award-winning performance for every small child and their grown-up friends. Adapted for the stage from the acclaimed book by German illustrator Wolf Erlbruch, it tells the story of a heart-warming friendship between a playful duck and a character called Death.

Children & Family

Little Dog Barking

Duck and Death meet, drink tea together, go swimming in the pond, climb a tree, and keep each other warm. Duck asks lots of questions. Duck learns that Death is a constant companion, a part of life. Through mime, magic and puppets, the production deals with the difficult subject of death in a deceptively simple way.

‘I had a smile on my face throughout, even when there was a lump in my throat as well’ Fringe Review Ages 2 – 8 and their families Duration: 45 minutes Presented by house

Wed 28 Oct, 2.30pm & Thu 29 Oct, 11.30am & 2.30pm Studio Theatre £7 (£5 Concessions) £22 Family ticket (2 adults + 2 children)

Frozen Light

The Forest A multi-sensory adventure through a mystical forest for audiences with PMLD. Trapped in lives filled with daydreams, Thea and Robin both crave an escape from their everyday routines. One day they are drawn into the dark and mysterious forest and find themselves on an unexpected journey of self-discovery filled with surprising encounters and experiences that change their lives forever. An intriguing multi-sensory tale which immerses audiences in a world full of new sights, sounds, smells and sensations; The Forest is an adventure for teenagers and adults with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD) and their companions.

Ages 13+ In association with The New Wolsey

Thu 3, Fri 4 & Sat 5 Dec, 11am & 1.30pm Corn Exchange £8 combined ticket for participant and carer £5 individual ticket for friends and family £150 schools (whole show, including education pack) Limited capacity

Don't miss Akram Khan Company’s Chotto Desh, for ages 7+ (see p7)

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Words/Film

Ocean Film Festival World Tour

Immerse yourself in the wonders of the ocean without getting your feet wet! Brought to you by the producers of the Banff Film Festival UK Tour, this extraordinary collection of short films document the beauty and power of the ocean, and celebrate the divers, surfers, swimmers and

oceanographers who live for the sea’s salt spray; who chase the crests of waves; and who marvel at the mysteries of the big blue. Mon 14 Sep, 7.30pm Corn Exchange £14 (£12 concessions)

Sussex Salon

Does the UK have a corruption problem? UK scandals have ranged from multi-billion pound arms deals such as the Al Yamamh case in 2007 to the 2008 parliamentary expenses episode. Has the UK sleep-walked in to a situation where corrupt practices are much more prevalent than many realise? If so, what can and should be done about it? Is the UK government up to the task of tackling corruption, or is it in many ways complicit in its development? Join the conversation at our regular panel debate. Panel to include Sir Eric Pickles (the government's anticorruption champion), Robert Barrington (Executive Director of Transparency International UK, Dr Liz David Barrett (Sussex Centre for Study of Corruption) and Professor Dan Hough (Chair, Sussex Centre for Study of Corruption.) Wed 4 Nov, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £7 (£5 concessions) Includes glass of wine BSL interpreted by Sue MacLaine and Mark Schofield

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Heritage and Open Days

Heritage Open Day

Iconic architecture and design of Brighton Dome The unmistakable design and architecture of Brighton Dome is the focus for our third annual Heritage Open Day, as we fling open our doors for a celebration of our rich history. With a host of free activities, including an architectural walking tour of the Royal Pavilion Estate with Brighton’s best-known history tour guide Dr Geoffrey Mead, and a demonstration of our magnificent theatre organ to evoke a bygone era, join us for a journey back in time to the beginnings of our iconic building. When the Prince Regent (later King George IV) commissioned architect William Porden to build his personal stables and riding house in 1803, it would become a project that would take five years to complete at a cost that almost bankrupted the Prince (the King eventually appealed to Parliament to clear his son’s debts). Known for his taste for flamboyant fashion, his one-of-a-kind creation drew inspiration from the great Jami Masjid in Delhi for the exterior, while a segmented glass ceiling of its interior owed a debt to the Corn Exchange in Paris. Sun 13 Sep, 11am – 5pm Café-bar, Concert Hall, Founders Room FREE

Brighton Dome Backstage Tour Walk in their Shoes

The Royal Pavilion Estate and the First World War From 1914 to 1919, the Royal Pavilion and Brighton Dome’s Concert Hall and Corn Exchange were used as military hospitals, first for soldiers from Indian regiments, then by British limbless men who were taught skills to help them get post-war work. You’ll explore the spaces that were once transformed for medical use, brought to life through archive photographs, letters and historical artefacts, before taking tea at the Royal Pavilion. Sat 24 Oct, Sun 27 Dec, Tue 29 Dec, 10.30am Meet at the Royal Pavilion £20 including tea and cake Booking line: 03000 290 902

This is your chance to take a peek behind the curtain, follow in the footsteps of legends like Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Nina Simone, David Bowie, Beyoncé and many more in this special backstage tour. You’ll catch a rare glimpse of the entrance to the infamous tunnel to the Royal Pavilion, and discover some of the more surprising roles our iconic venue has played over the years. Sat 19 Sep, Sat 24 Oct, Sun 1 Nov, Sat 28 Nov, Sun 27 Dec, Tue 29 Dec, 10:55am Meet in the Café-bar £6.50 (20% discount for members)

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Join In

Firecracker Masterclasses Calling young actors aged 14+, this series of three full –day masterclasses is your chance to explore different aspects of acting and rub shoulders with industry professionals Firecracker Youth Theatre is presented by Brighton Dome, The Nightingale Theatre and Associate Artists Hydrocracker

Michelle Butterly

Gill Wright

The Common Man Telling the truth in Shakespeare on TV and Stage A workshop exploring Shakespeare's use of the common man in his plays and how he uses them to reflect and comment on the society. By using Shakespeare's lesser-known characters, Michelle will show how Shakespeare speaks to all people, from all walks of life. Michelle Butterly trained at central school of speech and drama. She has worked extensively in theatre and television for over twenty three years.

Gill plays Jean Slater in Eastenders and has a wide experience of acting both for screen and stage. Following her popular workshop last Spring on TV acting, this looks in depth at how you build and play a character on both TV and stage. Bring a short scene for one or two people from either a TV drama or a theatre play and the workshop will explore ways to bring it fully to life.

Sun 25 Oct, 10am – 4.30pm

Founders Room

Thomas Kett

Screen Acting An exciting and creative day working on scenes from film scripts. A real opportunity to explore how actors and directors analyse and interpret scripts and bring them alive on the screen. Thomas Kett is an actor and director who has worked extensively on TV and spent two years at The Royal Shakespeare Company. Sun 13 Dec, 10am – 4.30pm Studio Theatre

Sun 15 Nov, 10am – 4.30pm

Studio Theatre

£20 per class, £45 for all three workshops booked at same time (20 places per group)

Soulful Singing Group singing teacher Mahasukha leads this uplifting harmony workshop with sacred song and heaps of infectious enthusiasm to get your spirits soaring ! No experience necessary, just the will to sing. No need to book - just drop in Ages 12 – adult

Saturdays 11am – 1pm (check website for dates)

A £2 per order fee applies to all phone and online bookings – see 50

Founders Room £5 from Café-Bar

Artist Opportunities

Come and make music with your little ones! In these workshops, we travel from the UK to Brazil, Tanzania, Jamaica and beyond, creating a live music experience which is equally exciting for babies, toddlers and adults.

Theatre Industry Day Or How to be a Pro-Active Playwright

Ages 0-5. Duration: 45 mins

Weds 14 Oct, 11 Nov & 9 Dec, 10.15am & 11.15am Founders Room £5 per child (accompanying adults free)

Theatrical Make-Up Workshop Halloween Special

Get ready for Halloween with this exclusive practical workshop led by professional make up artist Sylvi Du Sauzay. An expert in special effects and prosthetics, Sylvi will help you learn how to create wounds and scars, ghosts and ghouls, and transform the ordinary to the extraordinary. Please bring brushes if you have them and an old towel. Age 15+

Mon 26 Oct, 11am – 4pm Brighton Dome Dressing Rooms (Please enter via Dome Stage Door) £20

Stage Combat Whether providing swashbuckling action or gritty realism, the stage fight is a powerful storytelling tool. Professional fight director Richard Brighton will introduce you to the basics of armed stage combat, learning spectacular swordplay,

Join In

Little Worlds of Music

and using historically accurate single handed broadswords. Age 16+

Sat 14 Nov, 10.30am– 5pm Studio Theatre £20

Presented by New Writing South, this is a day of talks, introductions, debates and practical sessions for writers and other theatre makers to broaden their understanding of the industry and meet with the people they need to help develop their work. The theme is Playwright Power – self producing, setting up your own company, getting noticed. There’s a great lunch too. The day will be curated by Karis Hasall - theatre maker, playwright, actress, performance poet and dramaturg, previously Literary Associate at New Writing powerhouses Theatre 503 and The Bush. More info at newwritingsouth.com Sat 7 Nov, 10am-4pm Studio Theatre £50 (£35 concessions)

Brighton People’s Theatre An exciting new series of workshops exploring the potential of a People’s Theatre Company for the city. Theatre-maker Naomi Alexander and Brighton Dome are partnering with the Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project to run weekly workshops exploring the impact of austerity on people’s lives. Participants will also see shows at Brighton Dome and take part in post show discussions with artists. If you are interested in finding out more and/or taking part please visit brightonpeoplestheatre.org Seeded by greenhouse.

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Local Spotlight

Tormenta Flamenca Flamenco Blues

The strength and tradition of flamenco overlaps with the deep joy and melancholy of jazz; soulful blues vocals slide in between explosive flamenco dance. This twinning of art forms, spanning all continents, will dazzle audiences with outstanding vocals, dance and storytelling. Sat 12 Sep, 8pm Studio Theatre £17.50 (£15.50 concessions)

Brighton Art Fair A premium art sales event with 100 of the best contemporary artists from the UK and abroad, showing and selling their diverse work direct to the public. The fair always promotes a good balance in established and emerging artists, and insists that all work is exciting, fresh and exceptional. Fri 25 – Sun 27 Sep, 11am – 5pm Corn Exchange £6.50 on the door, under 14s free

The Big Big Tea Party Part of Brighton & Hove Black History Month

A multi cultural celebration of local arts and heritage. Exhibitions, workshops, films, food and craft stalls. Sun 1 Nov, 12pm FREE

Oska Bright Film Festival The international showcase of short films made by people with learning disabilities is a dynamic force for change and a very lively festival. Enjoy films and digital imagery, broadcast on radio, debate, create and share the buzz of the awards ceremony. Mon 9 Nov Corn Exchange Tickets available via carousel.org.uk

Blue Camel Club

MADE Brighton

Carousel’s brilliant club night for people with learning disabilities. September has a stellar lineup with Music from The Revs and Dancing Rock Queens, performance from Fan Dance Company and mayhem from the Funky Lama Club (tbc). Join us in November also for a spooky time – line-up tbc. Get down and get with it.

Celebrating ten years of being a friendly, top quality, quirky and busy design and craft fair. Over 100 exceptional contemporary designer makers, across all media, will show and sell their work direct to the public in a lovely relaxed environment. The ideal place to start Christmas shopping.

Mon 28 Sep & 30 Nov, 7pm – 10pm Corn Exchange £5 per person, carers £1

The Design and Craft Fair

Fri 20 – Sun 22 Nov, 11am – 5pm Corn Exchange £6.50 on the door, under 14s free

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Focus on...

Creating brilliant memories Umbrella Club is a membership club for children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their siblings and carers. Members get free and discounted tickets to Brighton Dome family shows, workshops and even meet the cast. Since we started the club in February 2012, over 220 poorly children and their families have seen shows at our venues or live-streamed into Chestnut Tree House, the children’s hospice in Sussex and kind champions of Umbrella Club. We are thankful to all the supporters of the Umbrella Club: BBC Children In Need, The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust and Sobell Foundation and our sponsors helping us make great arts events more accessible for all:

‘We love going to the theatre, but don't always go as access can be very difficult. The staff were all great, and looked after us incredibly well. Thank you!’ ‘It was so lovely to also receive the Jack and the Beanstalk sticker book as a present which my son loved completing after watching the play.’

Food and Drink Our Café-bar, provided by JRC cafes, is open daily from 10am – 5pm*. We serve delicious cakes and pastries, speciality coffees and homecooked hot and cold meals, with options for children. There’s plenty of room in our spacious foyer to meet larger groups of friends or have informal work meetings, taking advantage of the free Wifi. Members recieve 20% discount with valid membership card *on occasion the Café-bar may be closed for private events. To check opening hours call 01273 261550.

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Your Visit 50

Booking information

Group Bookings

• Baby change facilities

• Concessions where available are for students, over 60s, JSA/ IS, registered disabled/DLA or ESA/IB. Valid ID must be shown. • Mastercard, AMEX, Visa, Solo and Delta cards accepted. • Tickets may be reserved and paid for within four working days. • There is a £2 per order charge for phone and online bookings (not applicable to Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival members). Additional postage fees apply: 50p standard post; £1.50 recorded delivery. • For standing events tickets can only be posted out by recorded delivery • Doors generally open 45 mins before seated events (30 mins before standing.) There is no additional charge for collecting tickets at the venue • Latecomers may not be admitted until a suitable break. Some events may not contain breaks. Please check door times with the Ticket Office. • We believe customers shouldn’t pay more than our advertised price. To deter buying and selling tickets for personal gain, we may hold tickets for collection and require the credit/ debit card used for the original transaction. This generally applies to high profile rock & pop or comedy events. • You can now protect your tickets at the time of booking with booking refund protection administered by Booking Protect. The cost is minimal and you are provided with a full refund if you are unable to attend the event in a range of circumstances outside your control, see website for terms & conditions.

10% discount for group bookings of 10–19 people and 20% discount for 20 or more. Offer excludes some performances. Concessionary offers may not be combined.

To book seats and reserve hearing assistance units call Ticket Office on 01273 709709

Café-bar Our Café-bar, provided by JRC cafes, is open daily from 10am – 5pm*. We serve delicious cakes and pastries, speciality coffees and homecooked hot and cold meals, with options for children. There’s plenty of room in our spacious foyer to meet larger groups of friends or have informal work meetings, taking advantage of the free Wifi. *On occasion the Café–bar may close

for private events. To check opening hours call 01273 261550.

Access Brighton Dome is committed to making your visit easy and enjoyable. We provide: • Wheelchair-accessible foyers, ticket offices, bars & auditoria • Discounts and complimentary tickets for access assistants (subject to availability) • Accessible toilets • Lifts • Access dogs welcome • Large print brochures available on request • Induction loops (Corn Exchange & Studio Theatre) • Sennheiser infrared hearing assistance (Corn Exchange & Studio Theatre) • Sennheiser radio frequency hearing assistance (Concert Hall) • Wheelchair viewing platforms at standing concerts (Concert Hall) • Sign language interpreted performances • On-street disabled parking spaces nearby

Full details about venue access are available at brightondome.org or contact Visitor Services on 01273 261525 / 541 or access@brightondome.org For full terms and conditions and information about our ticketing and access policies please visit brightondome.org

Parking Take advantage of a special evening rate at the NCP Theatre Car Park on Church Street of just £4 for parking from 5pm – 3am. £5.50 followon car park tickets are also available after most matinee performances. Members can save 30% on standard parking at any time by collecting a parking ticket at the venue after a performance (this does not apply to parking pre-booked online). Small print Once paid for, tickets are non-refundable. Brighton Dome is committed to treating all customers and members of staff equally. We may ask customers who cause unreasonable disturbance during events to leave. Under 14s With the exception of events specifically aimed at younger people, under 14s coming to see a show are not allowed into the venues without a ticket-holding adult. Age limits for children’s shows are determined on an event by event basis. Hearing protection Loud noise can cause permanent hearing damage. Complimentary hearing protection is available from any member of staff. For full terms and conditions and information about our ticketing and access policies please visit brightondome.org Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Registered charity No 249748

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Enjoy priority booking, special offers and more from just ÂŁ30 a year. Join online, visit our Ticket Office or call Kelly on 01273 260827.

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Look out for the throughout the brochure to save: 10% on three events 15% on four events 20% on five or more events *Valid on Dome Saver events only, up to 4 tickets per event. Offer not available online or in conjunction with any other offers.

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The support we receive from our Patrons enables us to deliver a vibrant year-round artistic programme, nurture emerging artists, maintain our Grade I listed buildings and deliver Brighton Festival each May. Join us from ÂŁ84 a month. To find out more contact Sarah on 01273 260818 or sarah.shepherd@brightondome.org

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Hire our venues Whether you need spaces for a large conference or somewhere to hold your private party, we can cater for events of all sizes. With five unique and flexible event spaces, Brighton Dome is the perfect setting for any event including conferences, Christmas parties, product launches, receptions, weddings or themed dinners.

Imagine your event. We can create it. Our experienced catering partners can complement any function by creating inspiring menus combining innovative food and impeccable service. Contact our Events Team on 01273 261524 or events@brightondome.org

16 Oct

Hardeep Singh Kohli

p38

16 Oct

The Thinking Drinkers

p38

The Thinking Drinkers

p38

2 Sep

Tap Festival

online

17 Oct

4 Sep

Sufjan Stevens

p16

17 Oct

Sean Kelly

p38

5 Sep

Mini Maker Faire

17 Oct

Max & Ivan

p38

Tommy Tiernan - Alive in Brighton

p39

5 Sep

King Crimson

p16

17 Oct

10 Sep

Fake It 'Til You Make It

p21

17 Oct

Best of the Fest

p39

11 Sep

Fake It 'Til You Make It

p21

18 Oct

Tommy Tiernan - Out of the Whirlwind

p39

12 Sep

Tormenta Flamenca

p48

18 Oct

Sarah Kendall

p39

Hofesh Shechter Company - barbarians

12 Sep

Herbie Flowers' Jazz Breakfast

p15

20 Oct

13 Sep

Heritage Open Day

p45

21 Oct

Dara O Briain

p38

14 Sep

Ocean Film Festival 2015

p44

21 Oct

Fred MacAulay

p39

Brett Goldstein

p40

19 Sep

Brighton Dome Backstage Tour

p45

22 Oct

19 Sep

SPECTRUM

p14

22 Oct

Lee Nelson

p40

19 Sep

Bring Your Own Beamer

22 Oct

Nina Conti

p39

22 Oct

Myra DuBois

p40

Milton Jones

p40

19 Sep

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 with Akala

22 Sep

Avenue Q

p20

23 Oct

23 Sep

Avenue Q

p20

23 Oct

Alfie Moore

p40

24 Sep

Avenue Q

p20

23 Oct

Rob Beckett

p41

Joe Lycett

p41

25 Sep

Avenue Q

p20

23 Oct

25 Sep

We're Going on a Bear Hunt

p42

24 Oct

Brighton Dome Backstage Tour

p45

26 Sep

Avenue Q

p20

24 Oct

Royal Pavilion Estate & WW1 Tour

p45

p42

24 Oct

Best of The Fest

p39

Festival of the Spoken Nerd

p41

26 Sep

We're Going on a Bear Hunt

27 Sep

We're Going on a Bear Hunt

p42

24 Oct

28 Sep

Blue Camel Club

p48

24 Oct

Nish Kumar

p41

28 Sep

Squeeze with John Cooper Clarke

p16

25 Oct

Richard Hawley

p12

25 Oct

Elias String Quartet

p26

27 Oct

Asian Dub Foundation: THX1138

p11

27 Oct

Akram Khan Company

28 Oct

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

p13

28 Oct

Duck, Death and the Tulip

p43

29 Oct

Duck, Death and the Tulip

p43

30 Oct

SPECTRUM

p14

31 Oct

African Night Fever

p10

31 Oct

Dan & Phil

online

1 Nov

Brighton Dome Backstage Tour

p45

1 Nov

The Big Big Tea Party

p48

October 5 Oct

James Bay

p16

6 Oct

Shobana Jeyasingh Dance

7 Oct

Portrait

p22

7 Oct

Bryan Ferry

p16

9 Oct

Comedy Festival Opening Night Gala

p37

10 Oct

James Acasta

p37

10 Oct

Frisky & Mannish

p37

10 Oct

David O'Doherty

p37

11 Oct

Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra

p24

11 Oct

Jeremy Hardy

p37

11 Oct

David O'Doherty

p37

14 Oct

Dara O Briain

p38

3 Nov

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

16 Oct

Ed Byrne

p38

4 Nov

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

Calender

September

November

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Calendar

3 Nov

Dan Daw - Beast

6 Dec

Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra

p24

4 Nov

Sussex Salon

p44

6 Dec

Brighton Dome Tea Dance

p32

5 Nov

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote

p22

9 Dec

Andy Parsons

p36

5 Nov

One Man Breaking Bad

p41

11 Dec

Kate Rusby

p30

6 Nov

John Wilson Orchestra

p27

12 Dec

The Panto Game

p30

6 Nov

Normanton Street

p15

12 Dec

Snuggle-up Storytelling

p30

7 Nov

Theatre Industry Day

p47

12 Dec

Crafty Christmas

p30

8 Nov

Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra

p24

12 Dec

Brighton Festival Chorus

p27

8 Nov

Music of Benares

p10

13 Dec

Herbie Flower's Jazz Breakfast

p15

8 Nov

Herbie Flowers' Jazz Breakfast

p15

13 Dec

Crafty Christmas

p30

9 Nov

Organ Showcase

p27

13 Dec

Little Worlds of Music

p30

13 Nov

John Grant

p12

13 Dec

Noel Fielding

p36

14 Nov

London Philharmonic Orchestra

p25

15 Dec

Josh Widdicombe

p36

18 Nov

Disco Pi≠gs

p23

15 Dec

A Christmas Carol

p33

19 Nov

Alan Carr

p35

16 Dec

A Christmas Carol

p33

19 Nov

HERBERT

p15

17 Dec

A Christmas Carol

p33

20 Nov

Alan Carr

p35

18 Dec

A Christmas Carol

p33

20 Nov

SPECTRUM

p14

19 Dec

A Christmas Carol

p33

21 Nov

Alan Carr

p35

19 Dec

Flown

p30

21 Nov

Christmas Open Day

p32

20 Dec

Bennewitz Quartet

p26

21 Nov

SPECTRUM

p14

20 Dec

Flown

p28

22 Nov

Söndörgö

p10

20 Dec

A Christmas Carol

p33

24 Nov

Men in the Cities

p23

21 Dec

Flown

p28

27 Nov

Stewart Francis

p35

22 Dec

Midwinter Ceilidh

p32

28 Nov

earsthetic: The Works

p19

22 Dec

Flown

p28

29 Nov

The Aronowitz Ensemble

p26

23 Dec

Flown

p28

29 Nov

earsthetic: Elaine Mitchener

p17

26 Dec

Flown

p28

30 Nov

earsthetic: The Tiger Lillies

p18

27 Dec

Royal Pavilion Estate and WW1 Tour

p45

30 Nov

Blue Camel Club

p48

27 Dec

Flown

p28

27 Dec

The Treason Show

p32

27 Dec

Herbie Flower's Jazz Breakfast

p15

28 Dec

The Treason Show

p32

29 Dec

Brighton Dome Backstage Tour

p45

29 Dec

Royal Pavilion Estate and WW1 Tour

p45

29 Dec

The Treason Show

p32

30 Dec

The Treason Show

p32

31 Dec

Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra

p24

December 1 Dec

earsthetic: Bianca Casady and The C.i.A

p19

2 Dec

SPECTRUM

p14

3 Dec

The Forest

p43

3 Dec

Akala

4 Dec

The Forest

p43

4 Dec

Paul Foot - By the Yard

p34

5 Dec

Paul Foot - Still Life

p34

5 Dec

Kevin Bridges

p35

5 Dec

The Forest

p43

6 Dec

Paul Foot - Kenny Larch is Dead

p34

January 2 Jan

The Snow Queen

p31

3 Jan

The Snow Queen

p31

A £2 per order fee applies to all phone and online bookings – see p50

British sign language interpreted performances

Highly visual performances

Multisensory performance

If you require this service, please let us know when booking so we can reserve you an appropriate seat.

Shobana Jeyasingh Dance (p6) Tue 6 Oct, 7.45pm

The Forest (p43) Thu 3, Fri 4 & Sat 5 Dec, 11am & 1.30pm

barbarians (p5) Tue 20 Oct, 8pm

Fake It 'Til You Make It (p21) Fri 11 Sep, 8pm We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (p42) Sun 27 Sep, 10.30am

Akram Khan Company (p7) Tue 27 Oct, 2.30pm & 5pm

A Christmas Carol (p33) Sat 19 Dec, 4.30pm Flown (p28) Wed 23 Dec, 7pm

Touch tour

Carousel’s brilliant club night for people with learning disabilities.

Relaxed performance

For further access information see brightondome.org/access or to make an access enquiry please contact: access@brightondome.org or call our Ticket Office on: 01273 709709

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Sat 26 Sep, 10.30am (p42)

A Christmas Carol Sun 20 Dec

Club Night

The Snow Queen (p31) Sat 2 – Sun 3 Jan

Relaxed performances are designed to welcome people with learning disabilities. There is a relaxed attitude to noise, movement and some small changes made to the light and sound effects.

BSL interpretation by Sue MacLaine except Sussex Salon by Sue MacLaine and Mark Schofield

An adventure for teenagers and adults with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD) and their companions.

Blue Camel Club (p48) Mon 28 Sep, 7pm

Dan Daw (p6) Tue 3 Nov, 8pm

Sussex Salon (p44) Wed 4 Nov, 7.30pm

Access

Assisted Performances and Events

Thank you to the following sponsors who help make Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival more accessible for all.

Free but ticketed - call 01273 709709 or email access@brightondome.org to book

Don’t jump through hoops this Christmas

If you want to get your seasonal shopping sewn up this year, then we have the perfect presents for your loved ones: • Purchase a Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival Membership as a gift and support your local arts organisation as well as treating the recipient to a range of benefits like priority booking for Brighton Festival and other Brighton Dome events all year round. Visit brightondome.org/support_us or call 01273 260827 for details. • Tickets for a show are always well-received. Our post-Christmas events - like our festive ballet The Snow Queen - would be an ideal stocking-filler. • If your friend would like to choose for themselves, then there is always the option of a Brighton Dome gift voucher. Whatever they redeem it on, we know they’ll have an experience to remember.

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