Stage: Rude puppets, long lost love sketches & football
Vibrant Hove is abuzz with the latest programme from The Old Market with new theatre pieces sitting alongside well loved stalwarts, keeping it a hot bed of fresh ideas
The Old Market’s Spring programme is brimming with offerings for every theatre fan, as well a plethora of performance concepts that defy genre definitions. Diverse and always engaging, we thought we’d pick out a few highlights for your diary.
Wot? No fish!!
Written and Performed by: Danny Braverman.
Directed by: Nick Philippou.
Premiering to critical acclaim at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, bread&circuses’ new one-man show takes audiences on a captivating journey spanning decades. In 1926 shoemaker Ab Solomons drew on the wage-packet he gave to his wife Celie. Throughout their marriage, right up until the early eighties, Ab had drawn a wage-packet cartoon every week for her. These cartoons, with blistering honesty, through all their ups and downs, chronicled Solomons’ family life. Danny Braverman’s solo show tells the funny and moving story of how he discovered the lost art of his Great-uncle. Wot? No Fish!! is an extraordinary story about love and art, history… and catering.
Thurs 20–Fri 21 February 2014
Avenue Q
Dubbed “The Musical of The Decade” by The Sunday Times newspaper, Avenue Q is a hybrid of South Park and The Muppet Show, sure to have you crying with laughter and roaring with joy! Contains adult humour and puppet nudity.
From Brighton Theatre Group: brightontg.com
Tues 11 – Sat 15 Feb 2014
It’s Dark Outside
A part of the Sick! festival, this highly acclaimed production is on for one night only. The team behind multi award-winning The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer are back with another heartfelt tale about death, redemption and dementia. An old man wanders into the wild. As the sun sets he finds himself in a surreal western, on the run from a mysterious tracker hell-bent on hunting him down.
Sat 29 Mar 2014
LEO
LEO is a solo physical theatre piece that challenges our sense of gravity and reality through the clever interplay of superlative acrobatic performance and high tech video projection. Universally appealing to adults and children alike, this is the funny, intriguing and moving journey of a seemingly ordinary man whose world becomes physically unhinged. From the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to New York, Moscow and Hong Kong, the multi-award winning show LEO is a one man, one-of-a-kind physical theatre piece that defies theatrical convention as brilliantly as it does the law of gravity. Jaws drop as LEO takes “off the wall” to a whole new level.
AWARDS: Best Of Edinburgh, Threeweeks Editors’, Scotsman
Fringe First, Adelaide Critic’s Circle, John Chattaway Innovation
Thurs 17 – Sat 26 April (except Tues 22) 2014
England Away
A new play by Paul Hodson. An upfront, comic play about passion, patriotism and ‘Englishness’.
2001, the night before England thrash Germany 5-1. Four England fans meet for the first time on a campsite in Munich. Drink is drunk, songs are sung, secrets are exposed. 1945, Alf and Ted march through Europe for home, fighting fascism while dreaming of a new England. Live on stage, stand up comic Eddy Brimson offers a funny, hard-hitting insight on English society, football and comedy today. From the author of Way Out West and Fever Pitch.
Tues 27 – Sat 31 May
The Old Market, 01273 201801, www.theoldmarket.com
