SPRING FEB -APR15
Hove’s Independent, High Quality Live Theatre and Venue
Featuring:
Improvised Jane Austen
Austentatious poet & rapper
DIZRAELI
Fringe First Award Winner
Pioneer
including:
Welcome to SPRING 2015 Hello, Welcome to 2015 at The Old Market. Our fourth year of operation, this year is set to be bigger and better than ever. This Spring season includes some corking comedy, theatre, music and more. We’re thrilled to present the Fringe First Award-winning PIONEER, improv hilarity Gina Yashere, apr 2015 AUSTENTATIOUS, and Ross Sutherland’s acclaimed STANDBY FOR TAPE BACK-UP, to name but a few. Plus, SICK! Festival returns to Brighton, and to TOM with more events than ever. Running 02-25 March, it is dedicated to revealing and debating our most urgent physical, mental and social challenges.
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HOVE’S INDEPENDENT, HIGH QUALITY VENUE; THE BEST PLACE IN THE CITY TO SEE A SHOW... theoldmarket.com/About-Us
We like to think that The Old Market [or TOM for short] is the best place in Brighton & Hove to see a show. Our diverse programme includes live MUSIC, great THEATRE and innovative COMEDY, all of which you’ll enjoy in a welcoming and relaxed environment. The Old Market is owned and managed by two of the city’s most successful artists, the creators of the international smash-hit show STOMP. Find out more:
Our Main House [300 Seated, 500 Standing], TOM’s Bar and Waterloo Room [combined capacity 80] are available for hire. See full info at theoldmarket.com/Venue-Hire
show Categories: theatre music comedy events dance family
Image: So you think you can feel cover image: pioneer
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february
One Inch Badge presents:
Gaz Coombes + Support
Thu 05 Feb, Doors 7:30pm
Firmly established in the hearts of British music lovers, Gaz Coombes releases his second solo album, Matador, Jan 2015.
Tickets: £15 Adv. Ages: 16+ [U18 w/ adult]
Kilimanjaro & DF Concerts by arrangement with CAA present:
Charlie Simpson
Sat 07 Feb, Doors 7:00pm
Charlie performs without his band for the very first time, as part of a string of intimate shows.
Tickets: £15 Adv. David Forman and Ralph Erle present:
The Impossible Gentlemen Tue 10 Feb, 8:00pm
“World-class jazz… sensational,” Guardian
The internationally acclaimed Anglo-American jazz supergroup, The Impossible Gentlemen, features British piano maestro Gwilym Simcock, the inimitable UK guitarist Mike Walker and American legends, bassist Steve Rodby and Adam Nussbaum on drums.
Tickets: £16 [£12 Students]
What’s February On
SO Comedy presents:
Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel Fri 20 Feb, 8:00pm A comedy play spun in the inimitable style of Jane Austen, based entirely on audience suggestions. After a sell-out debut tour in 2014, this critically acclaimed show returns for its second nationwide tour.
Tickets: £14 [£12 Conc.] Adv. Groups 8+: £10
“One of the most enjoyable shows on the fringe,” Guardian
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White Mink and The Old Market present:
Fri 14 Feb, 8:00pm [+ APRIL TBC]
“One helluva turbocharged party,” Time Out
The sounds and styles of the 1920’s and 30’s turned on their head and smuggled into the 21st century. Named by Mixmag as the second best party in the UK and sold out every event to date. Full details online. Tickets: £15 Adv. Ages: 18+ Only
Show And Tell presents:
Simon Munnery sings Søren Kierkegaard Wed 11 Feb, 8:00pm
“An avant-garde comedy god,” Time Out Serial innovator Simon Munnery - “one of the funniest, most original comedians of the past twenty years” [Guardian] - endeavours to perform a selection of the existential philosopher’s writings, talk about them, and make them funny. Plus anything else in between.
Tickets: £12 Adv.
TOM & Sam Stone present:
February
Laughtermarket Thu 12 Feb, 8:00pm
“Top notch comedy night,” Latest 7
Headlining is the “confident and razor sharp,” [Observer] ZOE LYONS, TV and radio regular and all round local hero of comedy. There’ll be support from PHIL LUCAS, who’s ”very, very funny,” [Jeremy Vine] and he’s Huffington Post’s “new favourite thing… wonderfully funny.” Holding things together, Guest MC JOHN ROBERTSON is “manic and quick witted - ridiculously entertaining,” [Scotsman]. All this for... £8.00? Really? It’s a steal!
Tickets: £8 [£7 Conc.] Adv. Ages: 16+ Only
with
ZOE LYONS plus PHIL LUCAS,
TRINE MUNK, JOE FOSTER + MC JOHN ROBERTSON Line-Ups subject to last-minute changes.
FREE Exhibition: Cartographica
by Linda Burris Webster JAN-FEB, Viewable at all public events, or see Opening Hours p20
A series of photographs which use maps to explore a range of current social and political dilemmas including environmental destruction, inequality, and war.
See more information on our BLOG.
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REGULAR EVENTS
in TOM’s Bar MyMiniDisco presents:
MyMiniDisco
Valentines Special Sat 15 Feb, 2:00-4:30pm
A spectacular Valentine’s Ball for the little ones [0-8yrs] and the grown ups too…
The Drawing Circus Sociable drawing extravaganza; these friendly and informal themed life drawing sessions are open to all abilities. Tickets: £5.00
This special event features a glitter and glamour catwalk, plus all the usual entertainment, including the trademark super sized ghetto blaster DJ booth playing cool accessible music.
Tickets: £8 Adv. Families of 4 [2+2 / 3+1]: £25 Group Parties: £6pp, available upon request
BTN Etsy Talks Events organised by a friendly, supportive, location-based team of Etsy sellers from Brighton and East Sussex. Tickets: £FREE
Theme presents:
The Academy of Sun plus Very Special Guests
Thu 19 Feb, 8:00pm [Doors: 7:15pm]
Experience some of today’s most up-and-coming experimentalpop artists performing together under the same roof, with DJs, visual artists and other surprises.
Tickets: £8
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Miniclick
Photography Talks A long-running series of free photography and film-making events with some of the UK’s most talented practitioners. Tickets: £FREE
Listings Page or theoldmarket.com Dates: See
March MARCH
3A Entertainment presents:
Hunter & The Bear + Support
Ariel Pink
Tickets: £10 Adv. Ages: 14+ [U16 w/adult]
Tickets: £15 Adv. Ages: 14+ [U16 w/adult]
Be Nothing presents:
Sun 29 Mar, 8:00pm [Doors 7:15pm]
Wed 04 Mar, 8:00pm [Doors 7:15pm]
Swallowsfeet presents:
Swallowsfeet2015 Sat 28 Mar, 7:30pm A vibrant and eclectic night of dance, installation and physical theatre.
Returning to Brighton for the third year running, with a multitude of original works from exceptional local, national and international artists. Curated by The Swallowsfeet Collective.
Tickets: £9 [£7 Conc.] Adv.
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The Martlets Hospice presents:
Zumba Glow Fri 06 Mar, 7:30pm [3hr]
RED
SPONSO
Dance Challenge IN AID OF THE MARTLETS HOSPICE BURN THOSE CALORIES!
FRIDAY TH 6 MA RCH 20 5 7.30–11 1 .00 PM
A fun but highly challenging glow in the dark dance marathon lead by professional Zumba instructors, Sherryn and Lucie from Brighton Zumba, plus guests. A fundraising event for The Martlets Hospice.
Register: £15 from themartlets.org.uk or 01273 718 780 ONLY
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Pioneer
MARCH
curious directive, Norfolk and Norwich Festival and Watford Palace Theatre with The Old Market present:
Thu 26 Mar, 8:00pm + Fri 27 Mar, 8:00pm
“Thrilling… exhilarating… intricate and epic,” Scotsman “Restlessly intelligent theatre,” Telegraph
“curious directive have ignored all the rules… breathtakingly ambitious,” Time Out It’s 2029. The first human mission to Mars disappeared without a trace. A reclusive Indian billionaire has funded Ghara I, a new attempt to achieve this dream. In Siberia, two Russian brothers reconnect by driving a Lada Sputnik 1.3 in search of the birth of space travel. At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, Maartje holds onto a secret about her sister. On Mars, Imke and Oskar, a young Dutch couple, are mysteriously separated. Winners of a Scotsman Fringe First 2014, curious directive debut at the The Old Market with a multimedia sci-fi thriller – a poignant tale of the first human mission to Mars. Pioneer shuttles you from the Garden of Eden to mission control and onto the surface of the red planet.
Tickets: £12 [£10] Adv.
Tour supported by:
Made in collaboration with Astrobiologist Dr. Lewis Dartnell (UCL).
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SICK! Festival SICK! Festival is the first festival in the UK dedicated to revealing and debating our most urgent physical, mental and social challenges expanding in 2015 into venues across Brighton and Manchester
02-25 March, 2015 SICK! Festival and The Old Market present Pieter Ampe [Belgium] with:
So You Can Feel
Thu 05 Mar, 8:00pm [1hr05]
After a series of duets and a quartet, dancer and performer Pieter Ampe is going solo.
Whilst staying in New York, Ampe immersed himself in a world of transformations, an environment where standards are continuously shifting and blurring, where sexual and emotional energy go hand-in-hand with individual emancipation. Are we aware of how others perceive us? Which energy do we emanate through our bodies? Do we need to be liberated? Pieter Ampe will find out. This regained sensuality could be suggested by a subtle movement of the hip. Alternatively he might try to seduce you (literally or metaphorically) with the grandest of gestures. In any case, it is a solo performance to eagerly look forward to: the coming of age of a man and his body.
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Tickets: ÂŁ12 [ÂŁ10 Conc.] Ages: 16+ Recommended
SICK! Festival and The Old Market present Zachary Oberzan [Canada] with:
MARCH
Tell Me Love Is Real Mon 16 Mar, 8:00pm [1hr10]
“Crafty, compelling, and heartfelt enough to explode any sense of cheeky irony. Oberzan means every word,” Time Out, New York
In the winter of 2012, two famous American performance artists sat in anonymous hotel rooms on the West Coast, waiting to take the stage, and in a bizarre coincidence, over-dosed on the anxiety drug Xanax. One survived, one did not. The two individuals are Whitney Houston, who tragically died, and the author of this piece, who lived. Incarcerated in a psychiatric ward, the author began an arduous and experimental journey towards recovery. Right here, right now, the prayerful Oberzan calls upon you, the audience, for help.
Tickets: £12 [£10 Conc.] Ages: 16+ Recommended
SICK! Festival with South East Dance presents the UK Premiere of Jan Martens and Peter Seynaeve [Belgium]’s:
Victor
Tue 24 Mar, 8:00pm [1hr]
Victor is a duet of two bodies, a man and a child. One has already come a long way, the other wants to grow as soon as possible. A sensual game of muscle, but also a power game with unequal weapons. A little story about big and honest, strong and innocent, but above all about wanting to be close: An intimate portrait of a relationship. Theatre-maker and actor Peter Seynaeve and choreographer and dancer Jan Martens are creating a performance together for the first time.
Tickets: £12 [£10 Conc.] Ages: 14+ Recommended
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SICK! Festival and The Old Market present The Chop Theatre [Canada] with:
How To Disappear Completely Thu 12 Mar, 8:00pm [1hr]
“Gripping... theatre doesn’t get more raw than this,” Fringe Guru In September of 2000, renowned lighting designer Itai Erdal received a phone call telling him his mother was diagnosed with lung cancer and had nine months to live. Itai, a recent filmschool graduate promptly moved back to Israel to spend every moment he could with his dying mother. During that time he shot hours of film and hundreds of pictures, documenting her final days. In a starkly simple yet deeply profound original work, Erdal draws on his remarkable approach to stage lighting whilst reflecting on the events following his mother asking him to take her life.
Tickets: £12 [£10 Conc.]
SICK! Festival presents Lois Weaver [USA / UK] with:
What Tammy Needs To Know About Getting Old And Having Sex Fri 13 Mar, 8:00pm [1hr15]
Tammy WhyNot is in town and she’s on a mission to ask all the difficult questions, talk to those who really know and find out the truth about sex, and all its associations, at midlife and beyond. Part performance, part chat show, What Tammy Needs to Know About Getting Old and Having Sex was developed in collaboration with older people in Brighton, drawing on their (very) personal stories and experiences. Whatever the media might suggest, sex is certainly not just for the young and the photogenic.
Tickets: £12 [£10 Conc.] Ages: 14+ Recommended
SICK! Festival presents Dead Centre [Ireland] with:
MARCH
Lippy Fri 20 + Sat 21 Mar, 8:00pm [1hr10] “Pushes at the limits of theatre,” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
Fourteen years ago in a small Irish town, four women decided to die. Over 40 days they prepared themselves for the end, destroying every trace of their existence. A haunting investigation into why we tell stories in the face of tragedy, Lippy was widely acknowledged as the most extraordinary piece of theatre to emerge from Ireland in 2013.
Tickets: £12 [£10 Conc.] Ages: 14+ Recommended SICK! Festival presents Kabinet K with:
Rauw / Raw Sat 14 Mar, 8:00pm [1hr]
An emotional, sensitive and atmospheric performance about playing, dreaming, pretending: being a child even if it is not possible. A gang of children balancing on a thin line of joy and struggle in a performance that demonstrates their resilience, hope and idealism. An exercise in standing straight, in resistance to a constant, invisible threat. They develop their own medicine against the chaos of a world that is too big to comprehend, to understand; to control.
Tickets: £12 [£10 Conc.] Ages: 8+ Recommended
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APRIL Get Involved and The Old Market presents:
Dizraeli, Reeps One, Bellatrix & Rex Domino
Tue 14 Apr, 8:30pm [Doors 7:45pm]
4 unique young talents joining forces together for a incredible night of music and beatboxing DIZRAELI is both a rapper and poet, having won the BBC 4 Poetry Slam with his spoken word work, and collaborating with Brighton-based hip hop collective The Menagerie on the Tea Sea Records label. REEPS ONE is not just a beatboxer, he is a vocal force, an acoustic instrument, a human that speaks electronic music and can stand up to the highest energy DJs. World Female Beatbox Champion BELLATRIX is part of Dizraeli & The Small Gods, playing double bass as well as beatboxing with the live hip hop group. Young MC REX DOMINO has already collaborated with DJ Yoda on the Breakfast of Champions project, and his solo tracks are harbouring him some great attention.
Tickets: £12 Adv. Ages: 16+ Only Penguin Random House present:
A Dead Good Evening With
Jo Nesbo Tue 07 Apr, 8:00pm
Blood On Snow world-exclusive pre-publication event.
Jo Nesbo, King of Scandinavian crime, is the number one best-selling author of the Harry Hole crime fiction series set in Oslo. Jo will be discussing his career, including the new thriller Blood On Snow which will be available for exclusive pre-sale.
Tickets: £10 Ticket + first edition hardback, RRP £12.99: £20 Signing: Post-event
April
Show And Tell present:
Standby For Tape Back-Up by Ross Sutherland Sat 04 Apr, 8:00pm
“Simply note down the booking number because this is a mustsee… Extraordinary,” The Observer “Consuming, compelling, hypnotic,” The Stage “Two years ago, I found a videotape in my loft. On it: one and a half films, one quiz show and two sitcoms. Somehow it became the story of my life.” Ross Sutherland attempts a daring experiment in synchronicity. Using nothing but found-footage from one of his granddad’s old videotapes, Ross attempts to draw out his entire life story.
Tickets: £12 [£10] Adv.
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Les Petits Theatre Company present:
A non-stop action packed theatrical experience with live music, puppetry, physical performance and dastardly dinosaurs! Sat 18 Apr, 1:30pm & 4:00pm When Flinn discovers a pirate hiding in the school supply closet, it’s all aboard me hearties for a real live pirate adventure! Setting sail for The Old Market following a rollicking, award winning run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, London Wonderground and Southbank Centre!
Tickets: £10 Adv. Groups 6+: £8 Ages: 3+ Recommended
The Old Market and Star Quality present:
Wed 01 Apr, 8:00pm [1hr50]
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April
Gina Yashere: Laugh Riot “One of the best comics in the world,” The Guardian ‘Top 10 Best Female Comedians...’ The Observer A former lift engineer, Gina made her comedy debut at the Edinburgh Festival in 1996 and went on to sell out shows across the world. From her disappointment at being diagnosed with sleep apnoea despite losing over 5 stone in weight, to being coughed on, stared at and followed in China, to finding herself in a brothel in Singapore, Gina has plenty of stories to tell!
Tickets: £15 Adv. Ages: 15+ Recommended Robert Shaw for Inside Intelligence presents Olivia Poulet in:
Olivia Poulet
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by Mark Ravenhill Fri 24 Apr, 8:00pm
“This ferocious revival is a reminder of how thrilling Ravenhill’s work can be... an absolutely killer performance by Olivia Poulet.” Time Out Ravenhill vs Hollywood. Torrid scenes of passion; the dark spectre of international terrorism; big, big explosions. Julia is a hot young starlet looking for her next big role. Has Leah [Olivia Poulet - The Thick Of It, In The Loop, Outnumbered, Sherlock] got the perfect script to save her from Bmovie hell?
Tickets: £12 [£10] Adv.
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Your Visit Box Office & Ticketing: Online: theoldmarket.com Booking tickets online is easy. Our box office system is automated, and you will be emailed an ‘e-receipt’ as soon as your payment has been processed.
Phone: 01273 201 801 Lines are open from 10:00am-6:00pm weekdays.
In Person: See opening times, right Save money: pay cash to avoid the card fee.
On The Door: Subject to availability
To Collect Tickets
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Show us your confirmation email. Collect tickets either on the door before your show begins, or in advance, any time we’re open.
Monday-Friday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm.
Concession Rates Available for students in full time education, under 16s, over 65s & registered unemployed. Carers go free: call for information.
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How To Find Us:
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Seated Events: 45min before advertised start time. Standing Events: Door time as advertised in listings.
Contact Us: @ info@theoldmarket.com 01273 201 800 [office] 11a Upper Market St, Hove, BN3 1AS
The Old Market is located between Brighton and Hove town centres, near Brunswick Square. We are easily accessible by foot, car or public transport. See our website for detailed instructions and map:
theoldmarket.com/find-us
Directions: From Western road, turn South onto Upper Market Street; you’ll see our main entrance immediately in front of you.
Parking: Pay & Display on Kingsway (by Hove Lawns) requires payment only until 8pm, or NCP Regency Square is a 10 minute walk away.
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MORE INFORMATION: theoldmarket.com/your-visit
TOM’s Bar TOM’s Bar is an important part of The Old Market, and we don’t like to think of it as ‘a run-of-the-mill, pricey theatre bar’. As such, our prices equal or better those of other local bars, our service is always personal, and unlike most, we promise to stay open after your show. We’re proud to serve a great range of high quality refreshments. Welcoming staff serve a range of wines, draft beers, spirits, ciders and snacks. TOM’s Bar also provides an intimate setting for smaller events, and for show previews too exclusive for the Main House next door.
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Show Listings FEBRUARY 05 THU
7:30pm
GAZ COOMBES + SUPPORT
07 SAT
7:00pm
CHARLIE SIMPSON
10 TUE
8:00pm
THE IMPOSSIBLE GENTLEMEN
11 WED
8:00pm
SIMON MUNNERY SINGS SØREN KIERKEGAARD
MARCH 04 WED
8:00pm
ARIEL PINK
05 THU
8:00pm
SO YOU CAN FEEL
06 FRI
7:30pm
ZUMBA GLOW
12 THU
8:00pm
HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY
13 FRI
8:00pm
WHAT TAMMY NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT GETTING OLD AND HAVING SEX
14 SAT
8:00pm
RAUW / RAW
16 MON
8:00pm
TELL ME LOVE IS REAL
20 FRI
8:00pm
LIPPY
21 SAT
8:00pm
LIPPY
12 THU
8:00pm
LAUGHTERMARKET WITH ZOE LYONS
24 TUE
8:00pm
VICTOR
14 SAT
8:00pm
WHITE MINK: ELECTRO SWING SPEAKEASY
26 THU
8:00pm
PIONEER
15 SUN
2:00pm
MYMINIDISCO VALENTINES SPECIAL
27 FRI
8:00pm
PIONEER
17 TUE
7:00pm
THE DRAWING CIRCUS
28 SAT
7:30pm
SWALLOWSFEET2015
19 THU
8:00pm
THEME PRESENTS THE ACADEMY OF SUN AND VERY SPECIAL GUESTS
29 SUN
8:00pm
HUNTER & THE BEAR
20 FRI
8:00pm
AUSTENTATIOUS: AN IMPROVISED JANE AUSTEN NOVEL
24 TUE
7:00pm
MINICLICK PHOTOGRAPHY TALK
show Categories: theatre music comedy events dance family TOM’s
APRIL 01 WED
8:00pm
GINA YASHERE: LAUGH RIOT
04 SAT
8:00pm
STANDBY FOR TAPE BACK-UP
07 TUE
8:00pm
A DEAD GOOD EVENING WITH JO NESBO
14 TUE
8:30pm
DIZRAELI, REEPS ONE, BELLATRIX & REX DOMINO
18 SAT
1:30pm 4:00pm
CAPTAIN FLINN AND THE PIRATE DINOSAURS
24 FRI
8:00pm
PRODUCT BY MARK RAVENHILL
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