Brighton Lights: What to do in the city – w/c 24th October
Music, Entertainment & comedy with Victoria Nangle
1 Get your hard rock on for an alternative Halloween with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – American rockers storming to success for nearly 20 years.
Brighton Dome Concert Hall, Tues 31 October, 7.30pm, £27
2 The award-winning jazz singer and BBC Radio 2 presenter Clare Teal comes to Shoreham for an intimate show of American and British jazz classics, as well as contemporary tunes, and her own original compositions.
Ropetackle Centre, Saturday 28 October, 8pm, £22
3 A late-announced treat sees acclaimed author of the greatly-loved Tales In The City series Armistead Maupin in conversation with Damien Barr. Marking the launch of Maupin’s much-anticipated memoir Logical Family, charting from the conservative South to liberal San Francisco, from his palm-reading Grannie to an awkward chat about girls with President Nixon.
Theatre Royal Brighton, Saturday 28 October, 8pm, from £16.90
4 Following its successful premier last year, HorrorFest is back with a season of shows and events to send a shiver down your spine and make you lock the doors twice. It launched last week but there’s still plenty to see, from the genius puppetry in The Sorrowful Tale Of Sleeping Sidney, to the role-playing fun of Adventurers Wanted: Plague: House On The Hill, and storytelling in Ava Beaux’s The Mysterious Tales Of Poe.
Sweet Dukebox, various dates, sweetvenues.com/brighton
5 There is nothing better than when scary meets funny – which is exactly what happens with Dracula: The Bloody Truth. Described as a gothic madcap mixture of The Play That Goes Wrong and Monty Python, this sees Van Helsing and his three amateur actors try to stage a life-changing theatrical production of Dracula. These things never go smoothly though, especially when it involves a troupe committed to physical comedy and storytelling.
The Old Market, Tues 24 – Sat 28 October, 7pm (Tues to Wed), 7.30pm (Thurs to Sat), 3pm (Sat), from £10
6 Nominated for Best Newcomer in this year’s Edinburgh Awards, Mae Martin’s debut UK tour show Dope is her origins story to comedy. She first set foot on stage in her native Canada aged 13, and since then has won awards in Canada, and had her own BBC Radio 4 series looking at the topic of sexuality as she pondered her own stories of attraction. Moving through tales of addiction, drugs, and growing up, with a very able comedic touch.
Komedia, Tuesday 24 October, 8pm, £12
