This week: Brighton Theatre directors Faynia Williams and Richard Crane

“Gogol was our first production when we moved back to Brighton in ’78. It won the Fringe First award at the Edinburgh Festival and transferred to the Royal Court Theatre, London, and also played in New York and Moscow. Now it’s coming back home in a completely new production with specially commissioned music and soundtrack from Nick Pynn, and design by Romany Mark Bruce.”

Faynia Williams, award-winning theatre and opera director and BBC producer, together with Richard Crane, former resident dramatist at the National Theatre and literary manager at the legendary Royal Court, are directors of radical theatre company, Brighton Theatre. Founded in the 1980s, the company performed three years ago for the Brighton Festival, winning Best Performance Award 2009 for The First Domino. Their Gaza play, I am a Warehouse, was performed at Newhaven Fort, followed by the Ballets Russes play Dancing With Demons. Now, their production of Gogol, a play full of comedy and tragedy, is set to be a highlight of Brighton Festival 2012. The show will be performed at the Latest Musicbar on 13–16 May. www.thelatest.co.uk/musicbar