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Great line up of two SOURCE cover stars and more, plus you don’t need a ticket and it’s all free.
LISTINGS
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Event type
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Sunday
19th May
Above Audio
Enzo's Daytime Party
Belushi's
Chillout And Quiz Night
Borderline Studios
Open House
Open house exhibition with ceramics and paintings by a group of ten local artists – plus a live string band
Brunswick
Crimes Against Humanities Teachers
Brighton Fringe Festival
Surreal comedy theatre driven by the ghost of Kenneth Williams
Brunswick
Jazz At The Movies
Brighton Fringe Festival
Edana Minghella sings hits from the silver screen
Caroline Of Brunswick
Morning Glory With Dick & Debs
Brighton Fringe Festival
Retro daytime TV spoof
Caroline Of Brunswick
Mark Diamond's Breakup Haircuts
Brighton Fringe Festival
Stand-up show about the “delights and depravities of dating”
Caroline Of Brunswick
Screaming Julie
Brighton Fringe Festival
Heartbroken stand-up and storytelling show from Toby Brown
Caroline Of Brunswick
Clare Harrison's 15 Inches Of Fame
Brighton Fringe Festival
Innuendo-driven video clip show
Duke Of York's Cinema
Point Blank
Dukebox Theatre
The Great I Am
Brighton Fringe Festival
Two one-act plays about life, love, war and Satan
Dukebox Theatre
My Friend Lester
Brighton Fringe Festival
A play about Billy Holiday and Lester Young stitched together with songs from both
Dukebox Theatre
The Year I Was Gifted
The true story of a working class girl who lied her way into a prestigious performing arts school (cleverly incorporating the proper use of the word ‘gifted’ with the incorrect annoying use)
Dukebox Theatre
A Puppet Named Desire
Brighton Fringe Festival
Theatre and puppetry comedy sketch show
Fiddler's Elbow
Sham-Rock Open Mic
Globe Theatre
Nylons
Brighton Fringe Festival
Bittersweet play of love and loss among the falling bombs of wartime Britain
Grand Hotel
The Importance Of Being Earnest
Brighton Fringe Festival
Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of wit, identity confusion and blagging
Green Door Store
The Old Grey Whistle Test #1
Clips from the classic BBC series with sets from guest DJs
Komedia
Krater Comedy Club
Gordon Southern, Chris Martin, Harriet Kemsley, Rob Coleman, Stephen Grant
Stand-up comedy night
Komedia
The Lovely Brothers
Brighton Fringe Festival
Eccentric and anarchic comedy band play preposterous vaudeville power pop laced with satire, silliness and disturbing dance routines
Latest Music Bar
Stories With Tea
Brighton Fringe Festival
Lynn Ruth Miller discusses life, loss and laughter over a cup of tea and some biscuits
Latest Music Bar
Streisand - The Main Event
Brighton Fringe Festival
Lisa Faye celebrates the life and work of the Babster (downstairs)
Marlborough Theatre
Albert’s Boy
Brighton Fringe Festival
Historical play about Einstein and the atomic age
Marlborough Theatre
Forwards And Backwards
Brighton Fringe Festival
Love story told in physical theatre fragments
Nightingale Theatre
A Girl Called Owl
Brighton Fringe Festival
One-woman show about growing up in South Africa
Nightingale Theatre
Albert Einstein - Relativitively Speaking
Brighton Fringe Festival
Songs, silliness and science from Spalien Acecraft’s John Hinton
Old Market
Spun Glass Theatre - Scratch Sessions
New writers try out ten minute plays, poems or whatever
Old Market
Here All Night
Brighton Festival
Interweaving the text and music of Samuel Beckett with original compositions by Paul Clark
ONCA
Ice, Climate Change And Culture
A day of talks with Ruth Le Gear, Chris Wainwright and David Buckland
Quadrant
Eccentronic - Neurovision
Brighton Fringe Festival
Humorous musical duo poke fun at Eurovision culture
Spiegeltent
Herbie Flowers’ Jazz Breakfast Special
Brighton Festival
Celebrated bassist smears your toast with his jazz
Spiegeltent
Bullet Catch
Brighton Festival
Thought-provoking and theatrical magic show in which a man shoots himself in the head (supposedly running for three nights, but let’s see)
Theatre Royal
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast
Brighton Fringe Festival
Mini playlets and theatre nuggets
Three & Ten
Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History
Brighton Fringe Festival
A look at the lives of Marilyn Monroe, Mo Mowlam and Aileen Wuornos
Three & Ten
Diary Of A Welshcake
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comic tale of a Welshman who becomes an elephant
Three & Ten
Tea For Two
Brighton Fringe Festival
Fast-paced sketch show from a theatrical double act
Victoria Gardens
Lady Boys Of Bangkok
Warren
Scallywags
Brighton Fringe Festival
Nazi occupied Britain imagined with physical theatre, music and puppetry
Warren
Love Left Hanging
Brighton Fringe Festival
Theatre company takes on the story of the famous Red Barn Murder, giving the 19th century mystery a new twist
Monday
20th May
Ancient Mariner
Quiz Night
Caroline Of Brunswick
3 Days Off Jesus
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comedy from an Irishman born on Dec 22nd
Caroline Of Brunswick
The One-Eyed Men Cookin' Up Trouble!
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comedy sketch show
Coach House
Adventures In The Sperm Trade
Beyond The Fringe Festival
Documentary screening and discussion
Concorde2
Black Venus
Brighton Fringe Festival
The Concorde gets its first ever theatre show with a play based on an alleged dinner that took place in occupied Paris between Josephine Baker (jazz singer, black) and Hermann Goering (Nazi, hater of blacks). If only ‘Come Dine With Me’ had more ambition
Dome Studio
Unbound Meets The Catalyst Club
Brighton Festival
David Bramwell hosts a discussion forum focusing on new writing
Dukebox Theatre
The Year I Was Gifted
The true story of a working class girl who lied her way into a prestigious performing arts school (cleverly incorporating the proper use of the word ‘gifted’ with the incorrect annoying use)
Globe Theatre
Nylons
Brighton Fringe Festival
Bittersweet play of love and loss among the falling bombs of wartime Britain
Green Door Store
Dinghus Khan
Raucous eight-piece band with three drummers, three bass players and a ukulele
Komedia
Terry Garoghan - The Devil Keeps Tugging
Brighton Fringe Festival
New show from the man responsible for the affectionate musical piss-take, ‘Brighton The Musical’
Nightingale Theatre
A Girl Called Owl
Brighton Fringe Festival
One-woman show about growing up in South Africa
Old Police Cells Museum
You Left Me In The Dark
Brighton Fringe Festival
A play about the love lives of CND activists inspired by Anton Chekhov and Florence & The Machine
Signalman
Signalman Pub Quiz
St George's Church
Elias String Quartet - The Beethoven Project Part 3
Brighton Festival
Music by Beethoven
Sticky Mike's Frog Bar
Subservience, Hole In The Sky, Asperitas, Suicide Veil
Extreme metal noise terror
Victoria Gardens
Lady Boys Of Bangkok
Warren
Three Kinds Of Me
Brighton Fringe Festival
One-woman show about ending up at a psychiatric hospital after an incident involving a bottle of whiskey, a kitchen table and a bunch of bananas
Warren
Charity Chuckle
Brighton Fringe Festival
Laughter makes you feel good, especially when it’s for charity
Tuesday
21st May
Caroline Of Brunswick
3 Days Off Jesus
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comedy from an Irishman born on Dec 22nd
Caroline Of Brunswick
The One-Eyed Men Cookin' Up Trouble!
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comedy sketch show
Dome Studio
Cancel The Apocalypse
Brighton Festival
Author, Andrew Simms, discusses solutions to our economic and climate crisis
Gladstone
Quiz Night
Nightingale Theatre
Miss Givings
Brighton Fringe Festival
Musical one-woman play about a wannabe superstar
Nightingale Theatre
The Life And Adventures Of Billy The Kid
Brighton Fringe Festival
Told by two cowboys who knew him well
Old Police Cells Museum
You Left Me In The Dark
Brighton Fringe Festival
A play about the love lives of CND activists inspired by Anton Chekhov and Florence & The Machine
Theatre Royal
The Kite Runner
Brighton Festival
Stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel set in Afghanistan
Three & Ten
Another New World
Brighton Fringe Festival
A play about disaster in the Arctic echoing the tales of Shackleton and Franklin
Victoria Gardens
The Treason Show
Brighton Fringe Festival
Topical songs and sketches from the long-running local comedy show
Warren
The Girl With The Iron Claws
Brighton Fringe Festival
Storytelling theatre show for kids and their parents
Warren
Three Kinds Of Me
Brighton Fringe Festival
One-woman show about ending up at a psychiatric hospital after an incident involving a bottle of whiskey, a kitchen table and a bunch of bananas
Warren
Zombie Science - Worst Case Scenario
Brighton Fringe Festival
When you’re putting together your dream survival team you’d do well to include someone like Doctor Austin – what the ‘Theoretical Zombiologist’ lacks in shotgun skills he makes up for with his interactive multi-media tutorials
Wednesday
22nd May
Brunswick
David Migden & The Dirty Words, Rabbit Foot, Andy Twymman
Brighton Fringe Festival
Live blues
Caroline Of Brunswick
3 Days Off Jesus
Brighton Fringe Festival
Comedy from an Irishman born on Dec 22nd
Dome Studio
Winners And Losers
Brighton Festival
Chris Abraham directs a two-man theatre show about friendship, capitalism and a made-up game
Dukebox Theatre
The Great I Am
Brighton Fringe Festival
Two one-act plays about life, love, war and Satan
Latest Music Bar
The Worsted Cabaret
Brighton Fringe Festival
English tea room music and latin rhythms
Latest Music Bar
Granny's Gone Wild
Brighton Fringe Festival
New play written and performed by Lynn Ruth Miller (upstairs)
Nightingale Theatre
Failure (& Other Opportunities For Non-linear Success)
Brighton Fringe Festival
Dance, comedy and social commentary
Nightingale Theatre
The Life And Adventures Of Billy The Kid
Brighton Fringe Festival
Told by two cowboys who knew him well
Old Police Cells Museum
You Left Me In The Dark
Brighton Fringe Festival
A play about the love lives of CND activists inspired by Anton Chekhov and Florence & The Machine
Sallis Benney Theatre
Slaying The Sixth Giant
Brighton Fringe Festival
Christopher Frayling gives a lecture about arts and aspiration
