Brighton Festival 2014 Brochure

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At a glance

Welcome to Brighton Festival 2014 As you would expect from a Guest Director who works as both a musician and a choreographer and who delights in surprising his audiences, this year’s Festival programme is particularly genre-defying.

From the extraordinary and eye-popping feast of Opus No. 7 from Russian theatre director, Dmitry Krymov, the hypnotically minimal sound sculptures of Zimoun or the intricate and imaginative piano preparations by Hauschka, there are some glorious oddities here to be explored.

We look at the world through a different lens as artists from South Africa’s World Television take the ancient Japanese art of drawn storytelling and run it through a pop-culture filter in The Epicene Butcher to produce something resembling a live cartoon – funny, clever and slightly insane. Whilst Invisible Flock invite everyone to share and mark their happiest memories of Brighton, celebrating life-changing joy in Bring the Happy. At the centre of the Festival is choreographer William Forsythe’s hypnotic and minimalist Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time No. 2.

Guest Director Hofesh Shechter challenges us to respond to the world’s ugly injustices in his provocative new work, Sun, whilst Wim Vandekeybus interrogates the misuse of power and the abuses of social media in Talk to the Demon. In One, Mani Soleymanlou unravels the ever-changing nature of cultural identity: where we come from, what we choose to cherish, re-make or discard from the complex cultural baggage that we carry with us and Yinka Shonibare explores the impact of immigration on British culture through the prism of current debate in his new work The British Library.

So whether you’re a black sheep, one of the flock or a lone wolf, you’ll find your place in Brighton Festival. Join us this May and try something new.

Dance Hofesh Shechter’s energetic and quixotic take on the world infuses and influences the whole Festival this year, but nowhere more so than in our dance programme.

Programmed and presented thanks to our unique partnership with South East Dance, it ranges from internationally celebrated names to emerging artists: William Forsythe, Wim Vandekeybus, Les Slovaks and Hofesh Shechter himself are here, with supported and newly commissioned work from Probe, Lost Dog, Three Score Dance company and dancers from Hofesh Shechter Company.

See pages 6, 13, 18, 22, 24, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 36, 37, 55, 59, 67

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Theatre Every so often a defining event makes you think ‘only in a Festival’; this year that event is Dmitry Krymov’s Opus No. 7.

Dazzling in scale, imagination and ambition, this production makes its UK premiere at Brighton Festival. Our rich and varied theatre programme also welcomes back Glasgowbased Vanishing Point, with a newly commissioned work, Tomorrow; and Belgium-based Berlin with Bonanza and the UK premiere of Perhaps all the Dragons. Festival favourites Tim Crouch and Cheek by Jowl return alongside artists from Johannesberg, Montreal and across the UK; and there’s a showcase of new talent as part of caravan.

See pages 11, 14, 15, 16, 20, 23, 26, 27, 30, 31, 41, 43, 48, 49, 50

Circus Expect the unexpected as Pirates of the Carabina bring us their irreverent, bold and breathtaking production of Flown while Brussels-based circus troupe, Feria Musica, perform in the UK for the first time with their hypnotic, dreamlike and inventive Sinué.

See pages 27, 47, 51

Classical Music We’re in a celebratory mood this year as we mark Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s 80th birthday and the 30th anniversary of Gavin Henderson’s 10-year artistic directorship of Brighton Festival – a unique period in our Festival’s history and a remarkable contribution to this city’s cultural life.

Gavin has curated special events across the Festival, including a weekend celebrating the work of his close friend Sir Harrison and a feature of Sussex composer Frank Bridge in our ever-popular lunchtime concerts. We commemorate the late Sir John Tavener in two concerts, and we celebrate Richard Strauss’s 150th birthday with an atmospheric performance of his moving masterpiece Metamorphosen. And with Lucy Crowe singing Mozart, Angela Hewitt playing Bach, the Elias Quartet performing Beethoven and the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Bernstein, Ravel and Stravinsky closing weekend concert, there are plenty more reasons to celebrate!

See pages 14, 15, 17, 21, 22, 35, 38, 41, 44, 46, 52, 57 For Lunchtimes see pages 64 – 67

Family

For many, festivals are all about the eclecticism of contemporary music. Where else will you find a country music icon and an African instrumental legend mixing with an electro-rock provocateuse and a Turner Prize-winning artist? Emmylou Harris, one of the great figures of American song, comes to Brighton for the first time as does Cat Power with her self-produced new album Sun. The great kora-player Toumani Diabaté hands the griot tradition down the generations as he performs with his son Sidiki. Electro queen Peaches performs her extraordinary one-woman show, Peaches Christ Superstar, while Martin Creed performs his own music with full band. Just some of the gigs that make this year’s contemporary music full of stimulating surprises.

Munch on a waffle that has been specially made for you while you watch mealtime come to life before your eyes.

Hotfoot it through the streets in the wake of a troupe of Dutch dancers. Relax with a picnic in the company of Shakespeare’s most bantering, beguiling lovers. Or hear a piano as you’ve never heard it before, transformed with an amazing array of objects. Quirkiness, delight and excitement are the hallmarks of this year’s family programme embracing all tastes and ages.

See pages 18, 19, 25, 28, 33, 34, 39, 42, 45, 53 For Lunchtimes see pages 64, 65, 67

Books and Debate Encouraging fresh perspectives and dynamic debate, our Books & Debate programme brings you a roster of eminent speakers covering everything from English architecture to Parisian lifestyles, data to dementia, maths to migration. Simon Thurley, Edmund White, Irvine Welsh, A.C. Grayling and Lynn Barber are just some of the names we have lined up for insightful talks and discussion exploring the themes you’ll find elsewhere in the programme. The Festival’s final weekend features Dark & Stormy, a celebration of the crime genre, from cold war spies and domestic noir to dark depictions of Brighton in film and fiction, with James Naughtie, Dame Stella Rimington and SJ Watson amongst others.

See pages 16, 17, 19, 22, 32, 34, 36, 38, 39, 41, 50, 53, 55, 56, 58, 59

26 Letters 26 Letters is all about children’s books: writing them, reading them and drawing the pictures. We celebrate stories in an enchanting adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s I Believe in Unicorns and delve into the extraordinary imagination of Skellig author David Almond in an event for all ages.

Adults will enjoy an insider’s view at the Illustrators’ Evening and newcomers to Shakespeare will love Marcia Williams’ fun introduction to his plays. Teenage writers can get creative with Catherine Johnson and Matt Whyman while keen readers will be spellbound by Professor McGonagall’s quiz.

For 26 letters events see pages 60 – 63

At a glance

Contemporary Music

See pages 10, 12, 17, 28, 36, 40, 41, 50, 55, 63

Art and Film Minimalism, simplicity and repetition inform a range of installations across the Festival, from William Forsythe’s choreographed object Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time, No. 2 to Jacob Dahlgren’s use of massproduced objects. Meanwhile, as part of our expanded collaboration with HOUSE, Yinka Shonibare’s new work The British Library – a compelling reading of the impact of immigration on British culture and society.

On film, the Cinema of Childhood season looks at the depiction of children in cinema; the original Brighton Rock, a bona fide classic of British cinema, is part of our Dark & Stormy crime weekend.

See pages 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 17, 24, 28, 37, 43, 45, 52, 55, 56

Outdoor From a woodland walk that is transformed into a journey of discovery to Europe’s biggest children’s parade; from a real house spilling its secrets into the street to a show-stopping spectacle performed by scores of local young people; Brighton Festival’s Outdoor events take a kaleidoscopic explosion of colour, music and imagery beyond the confines of regular venues. The immense vision of One Million provides an explosive festival finale, whilst the breathtaking aerial effects of Safe House, the thoughtfulness of modern mystery The Legend of Hamba and the acrobatics of Frantic – all presented in collaboration with our commissioning partners Without Walls – exemplify the range of free events scattered throughout the city.

See pages 10, 12, 24, 40, 54

Meet the Artists For pre-show talks, post-show discussions and Morning Afters see p68

Free Look out for the many free events across the programme and across the city

Assisted Performances For details of assisted performances see p73

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Sat 3 – Sun 25 May

William Forsythe Nowhere and Everywhere At the Same Time No. 2 (Frankfurt/Dresden)

William Forsythe's choreographic object populates the Old Municipal Market space with hundreds of delicate pendulums, swinging in timed sequences. As you move around without touching the pendulums, your strides and side-steps will produce a lively choreography of manifold and intricate avoidance strategies.

Forsythe’s blend of choreography and artwork, in which you become the dancer, contrasts reactive spontaneity and pre-programmed precision. This is the latest reinvention of a piece that evolves in reaction to the space it occupies: a tribute to a great Brighton landmark destined to become a new Dance Space for the city.

William Forsythe is hailed as one of the world’s most innovative choreographers, credited with moving the focus of dance from the classical tradition to a dynamic, 21st century artform. In recent years he has been exploring the notion of movement in its widest context, with a series of acclaimed installations, artworks and films.

The Forsythe Company is supported by the city of Dresden and the state of Saxony as well as the city of Frankfurt am Main and the state of Hesse. The Forsythe Company is Company-in-Residence of both HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts in Dresden and the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt am Main. With special thanks to the ALTANA Kulturstiftung for supporting The Forsythe Company.

See also William Forsythe in conversation with Hofesh Shechter p22

Supported by the Aisbitt Family Sat 3 May – Sun 25 May Mon – Sun 11am – 7pm Thu 11am – 8pm The Old Municipal Market

Photio: Denis Bury

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(Bern)

Harnessing sound and space in works of minimalist power, the Swiss artist Zimoun explores the rhythm, flow and interaction between architectural spaces, commonplace objects and mechanical systems. In this major new work, specially created for the University of Brighton Gallery, Zimoun responds to the bright, sparce interior with his characteristic articulation of the tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life.

Music Box Orchestra Students from University of Brighton’s Music and Visual Art programme respond to Zimoun’s work with the use of interactive musical instruments that bring to life the social and cultural histories of the music box. This fun and informative installation uses a collection of miniature pin-and-cylinder, turn-handle music machines to enable

Zimoun combines the low-tech – plastic bags, cardboard boxes, old furniture – with mechanical components such as ventilators, speakers and microphones. His installations are all about making us re-evaluate the relationship between the visual, sonic and physical elements of a space.

Sat 3 – Sun 25 May Mon – Sun 10am – 5pm Thu 10am – 8pm University of Brighton Gallery

Sat 3 – Sun 25 May

Zimoun Sound in Motion

you to create your own sonic remix. The music box was a highly desirable domestic ornament in the 19th century, popular with nobility and the masses and thus a great equalizer in spreading, sharing and influencing musical tastes. This automatic ensemble uses the melodies of 18th-century revolution, the Victorian parlour and proletariat street music to collapse the social hierarchies of 19th and 20th century Europe.

Sat 3 – Sat 17 May See brightonfestival.org for opening times Brighton Dome Founders Room

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Sat 3 – Sun 25 May

Yinka Shonibare MBE The British Library Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival As the lead artist for this year’s HOUSE, Yinka Shonibare MBE’s new sculptural installation explores the impact of immigration on all aspects of British culture and considers notions of territory and place, cultural identity, displacement and refuge.

The shelves of the Old Reference Library are filled with books colourfully bound in Shonibare’s trademark wax cloth (itself a cross-cultural hybrid of Indonesian design and Dutch manufacture). On the spines are the names of people, both celebrated and unfamiliar, who, as immigrants, made unique contributions to our way of life; people like TS Eliot, Henry James, Hans Holbein, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zaha Hadid and many more.

Yinka Shonibare MBE’s work aims to make visible the cultural influences of colonisation and explore the rich complexity of post-colonial cultures; the ornate interior of the Old Reference Library, with its Raj-inspired architecture, is therefore the perfect setting for an installation that asks us to evaluate our attitudes to immigration and immigrants.

A HOUSE 2014 and Brighton Festival co-commission See opposite for more information about related HOUSE 2014 projects

Sat 3 – Sun 25 May, 10am – 5pm (Tues – Sun) The Old Reference Library Brighton Museum

Asylum in the City A local community of people share their experiences of displacement through photographs and personal stories. This project has been developed in partnership with Sussex Interpreting Services who work with refugees, providing language support for non-English speakers and assisting people in difficult situations.

Sat 3 – Sun 25 May (Thu – Sun) 12pm – 6pm The Regency Town House

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Photo: Hugo Glendinning

A Photoworks participatory project in partnership with HOUSE 2014 See opposite for more information about related HOUSE 2014 projects

Four unique new projects making a point of connection with the subject explored in Yinka Shonibare MBE’s The British Library. Notions of migration, cultural identity, displacement and their relevance to contemporary society are explored by four thought-provoking artists whose works include film, digital technology, photography and sculpture, and are sited at locations across the city.

Ester Svensson & Rosanna Martin No One Owns The Land

Tobias Revell The Monopoly of Legitimate Use

Commissioned by HOUSE 2014

Co–commissioned by HOUSE 2014 and Lighthouse

The Regency Town House Sat 3 – Sun 25 May (Thu – Sun), 12pm – 6pm

Lighthouse Sat 3 – Sun 25 May, 11am – 6pm

Leah Gordon Caste/Cast

Phillip Hall-Patch Salt Field

Commissioned by HOUSE 2014

Co–commissioned by HOUSE 2014 and The University of Brighton

The Regency Town House Sat 3 – Sun 25 May (Thu – Sun), 12pm – 6pm

The Waste House, University of Brighton Sat 3 – Sun 25 May see brightonfestival.org for opening times

The Wonderful World of Abstraction by Jacob Dahlgren. Photo by Per Anders Allsten, Moderna Museet

Jacob Dahlgren On Balance

Sat 3 – Sun 25 May

Photo: Ester Svensson & Rosanna Martin No One Owns The Land

HOUSE 2014 Commissions

(Stockholm)

Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren has created two interactive works that celebrate the aesthetic of the mass-produced object. Heaven is a Place on Earth and The Wonderful World of Abstraction use more than 700 sets of bathroom scales and thousands of metres of ribbon to highlight the pervasive sensuality of low-cost but highly designed objects. Visitors will be able to touch, move through and walk across the works, and this interactive potential will be explored further in a series of choreographed public performances by Charles Linehan

commissioned by Fabrica in collaboration with South East Dance. Dahlgren’s work raises questions about our impact upon the environment, for us all as domestic consumers and for Fabrica and the Festival as art commissioners. They will be debated as part of All Costs Considered on Tue 20 May, 8pm.

A Fabrica and Brighton Festival co-commission

Sat 3 May – Sun 25 May 12pm – 7pm Fabrica

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Sat 3 May

Same Sky

SoundCity

Start Brighton Festival the way you mean to go on: with an explosion of fun, colour, music and style. The parade – probably the largest of its kind in Europe – always gets things off to an exhilarating start, and this year the arts provide the inspiration for the 83 schools and 5,000 young people involved. Different sections of the spectacle will focus on dance, theatre, film, visual arts and books, and with musician-in-residence James Keane on board for the first time, music will play a major role. Anything that can be played on the move will feature, ensuring that this year’s children’s parade will have to be heard to be believed.

A glittering showcase of young and emerging talent presented in and around the Royal Pavilion Estate, Pitch Perfect features music for every taste, from folk duos in the Brighton Dome Café-bar to brass and rock on New Road, choirs and wind ensembles in Brighton Museum and Art Gallery and classical music in the Music Room at the Royal Pavilion.

This is a perfect festival afternoon from Brighton’s youngest and brightest musical talents.

Children’s Parade

Pitch Perfect

Supported by:

Sat 3 May, from 10.30am Procession: Kensington Street to Madeira Drive See brightonfestival.org for route

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Sat 3 May, 1pm - 4pm Various locations See brightonfestival.org for locations Free, except Royal Pavilion performance for which entrance fee applies

Photo: Victor Frankowski

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Opus No. 7 UK Premiere

Conceived and directed by Dmitry Krymov Set design by Vera Martynova and Maria Tregubova Dmitry Krymov is one of the most influential figures in Russian theatre. Rarely seen in the UK, his works are deeply moving, visually majestic theatrical experiences that conjure beguiling images on a grand scale – unmissable for anyone interested in bold, thought-provoking theatre.

This bewitching, genre-blending performance pitches you headlong into a world in which objects, sounds and people can change in the blink of an eye. Progressing from a lyrical and starkly beautiful requiem for the Jews of Eastern Europe to an hallucinogenic exploration of the tortured life and career of the Soviet-era composer Dmitri Shostakovich, Opus No. 7’s ensemble of performers use simple materials and extraordinary skill to explore an elusive and frightening past.

Featuring original music by Alexander Bakshi alongside Shostakovich’s harrowing Piano Trio No. 2 and his epic Seventh Symphony, Opus No. 7 is a theatrical explosion of invention that includes largerthan-life puppets, duelling pianos, living walls and blizzards of newsprint..

‘ A thrillingly inventive production that tingles with sensation.’ New York Times

Sat 3 May

Dmitry Krymov Lab (Moscow)

‘ You do not see work as original or stirring as Krymov’s every season’ Time Out New York

Performed in Russian with English surtitles Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes including interval Age 12+ Post-show discussion on Mon 5 May Co-produced by Theatre School of Dramatic Arts and TERRITORI Festival.

Co-produced with LIFT in partnership with Brighton Festival, Norfolk and Norwich Festival, the Barbican and Northern Stage and supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through the Arts Council England. Supported by the British Council. An Official UK-Russia Year of Culture 2014 Event.

Sat 3 & Sun 4 May, 5pm Mon 5 May, 3pm Tue 6 – Thu 8 May, 7pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £22.50, Under 26s £15 Festival Standby £10

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Sat 3 May

Cinema of Childhood The acclaimed director, presenter and critic Mark Cousins curates an international film season focusing on the depiction of children. A life-affirming, thought-provoking feast of cinema.

Presented by Filmhouse, Edinburgh and supported by the BFI awarded funds from the National Lottery. In association with Cinecity and Duke of York’s Picturehouse.

The White Balloon (1995, Iran, U) Jafar Panahi Panahi’s first feature film is a masterpiece about a little girl who won’t take no for an answer. Razieh wants a new goldfish to celebrate the Iranian New Year, and after nagging her mother she finally gets her way. But when her mother gives her the money, that’s only the start of her adventure. Utterly real and quietly hilarious, it is one of the most honest films ever made.

Duration: 85 minutes

10 Minutes Older (1978, Latvia, PG) Herz Frank Frank’s seminal short film has to be seen on the big screen. Storms of emotion sweep across a child’s face as he watches a show that we never see. Ten minutes last a small lifetime, and tell us everything about why children are so mesmerised by cinema.

Duration: 10 minutes

Sat 3 May, 1.30pm Duke of York’s Picturehouse £10 – £13.50, Child £6 Family £28 (2 adults, 2 children)

Eric Kaiel

(The Hague)

Murikamification UK Premiere Choreographed by Erik Kaiel A fast–moving experience for all the family. From the subways of Montreal to the city streets of Europe, four Dutch dancers evoke dream worlds which they layer onto ordinary urban space. Murikamification takes its inspiration from the magical, surreal stories of the Japanese author Haruki Murakami and invites audiences to step into a daydream unfolding before their eyes. Follow these talented performers as they dance throughout the streets of Brighton, appearing and disappearing as you race to keep up with their gravitydefying antics. See the city through different eyes – up steps, round corners, in tiny nooks and open spaces and even sometimes upside down.

Duration: 60 minutes

Sat 3 May, 1pm & 5pm Sun 4 May, 11am & 3pm Meet at Brighton Dome Café-bar Free ticketed event - advance booking only.

Limited availability.

Outdoor promenade piece.

Please make any access requirements known to the Ticket Office at the time of your booking

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Sat 3 – Sun 4 May

‘ Eye-poppingly packed with wit, energy and ambition’ **** The Telegraph

Hofesh Shechter’s

Sun

Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival Performed by Hofesh Shechter Company Perfection becomes warped and harmony gives way to a visceral depiction of antagonism and violence in Shechter’s disruptive new work.

From the courtly idyll that sets the scene to the clean, sparce vision of a ‘perfect’ world, Shechter’s choreography embraces frenetic abandon and his signature understated intricacy in a work that confronts the pastoral horror of colonialism with a hint of sharp humour. An expanded company of 14 dancers is accompanied by an eclectic soundtrack that includes original music by Shechter himself.

This highly anticipated work opens Brighton Festival 2014 in the theatrical and thought-provoking style that has made the Israeli-born, Brighton-based Shechter one of the most compelling choreographers to have emerged in recent years.

Duration: 70 minutess Age 12+ Produced by Hofesh Shechter Company with generous support from Bruno Wang and The Columbia Foundation fund of the London Community Foundation. Sun is co-commissioned by Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival, Sadler’s Wells London, Melbourne Festival, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Théâtre de la Ville - Paris, Festspielhaus St Pölten (including a working residency), Berliner Festspiele - Foreign Affairs, Roma Europa, with coproduction support from Mercat de les Flors and the Theatre Royal Plymouth.

supports Brighton Festival to present Sun

Sat 3 & Sun 4 May, 9pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10, £15, £17.50, £20 Under 26s £10, Festival Standby £10

Sun Dust

Brighton Festival Exclusive Photo: Gabriele Zucca

Hofesh Shechter gives a fascinating insight into his creative process and the crystallization of Sun in this afternoon event. Hosted by Josephine Burton of Dash Arts, the event includes performances by Hofesh Shechter Company of never before seen sections created for Sun that were lost to the cutting room

floor during the creation process: a unique chance to experience some extraordinary unseen choreography.

Duration: 45 - 60 minutes

Sun 4 May, 3pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10, £5 (if bought with Sun)

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Sat 3 May

Mani Soleymanlou (Montreal)

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UK Premiere Directed and performed by Mani Soleymanlou Co-directed by Alice Ronfard

They say I’m Iranian, but is that what I really am?

Nominated by Quebec’s Association of Theatre Critics as Best Original Script and winner of Best Male Performance, Mani Soleymanlou’s one-man show is a search for identity, a coming-of-age and a coming-toterms story in which he searches, finds, loses, forgets, rejects and ignores what he thought he always wanted to be. It’s also a comedy.

From his birthplace in Iran, via Paris to Montreal, where he now lives, Soleymanlou charts his own journey and ponders that of today’s Persian youth, who fight daily for their liberty, their freedom of speech and their lives. Along the way he attempts to answer a recurring question: how can you embrace what you are without rejecting where you came from? One is a solo performance but it is populated by numerous characters: family members, girlfriends, worshippers, airline passengers. Above all, the culture, colours and scents of Iran permeate this witty, wise and optimistic love letter to home and identity.

Age 11+

Sat 3 & Sun 4 May, 6pm Mon 5 May, 9pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £12.50, £10 Festival Standby

Photo: Jérémie Battaglia

Duration: 65 minutes

Elias String Quartet The Beethoven Project Part 1 String Quartet in B flat major Op.18 No. 6 String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Rasumovsky’ String Quartet in F major Op. 135

This opening concert begins with a quartet of contrasts: Op. 18 No. 6 progresses from exuberance to pathos, taking in sobriety and wild abandon along the way. The Op. 135 quartet is the composer’s last complete substantial work, smaller in scope and lighter in tone than his other late quartets. In between them, the Op. 59 No. 2 has a Russian feel in tribute to Beethoven’s patron Count Rasumovsky.

‘ Playing of wonderful exuberance and fire’ The Guardian

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Photo: Benjamin Ealovega

Last year the Elias Quartet’s residency was a major stepping stone in its ambitious project to perform Beethoven’s String Quartets and we are delighted that they are returning to Brighton Festival to complete the cycle. As one of the most intense and intuitive young ensembles to have emerged in recent years, the Elias Quartet refuses to follow convention: the Beethoven Project is all about demystifying these intricate compositions, stripping away centuries of performance tradition to reveal them anew.

‘ The Elias is the best young quartet I’ve come across in years’ Sunday Times Post-performance discussion with the quartet

Sat 3 May, 7.30pm All Saints Church £17.50, Festival Standby £10

what happens to the hope at the end of the evening Written and performed by Tim Crouch and Andy Smith Directed by Karl James Your friend is late. The meal is spoiled. A shadow has fallen. The story of this evening, one evening and every evening. The story of two men meeting in the middle of their lives, and at the outer edges of their friendship.

As they strive for common ground – as they fight and fail, as the wine is drunk and the world falls apart – the possibility of the theatre as a place for community and change comes alive.

This extraordinary new play by long-term friends and award-winning theatre-makers Andy Smith and Tim Crouch

Sat 3 – Sun 4 May

Photo: Katherine Leedale

Tim Crouch & Andy Smith

(An Oak Tree, ENGLAND, The Author), opened to critical acclaim at the Almeida Theatre, London, in July 2013.

It marks a welcome return to Brighton Festival for Crouch, whose I, Malvolio was a highlight of the 2010 programme.

Duration: 60 minutes

Age 15+

Post-show discussion on Sun 4 May Sign language interpreted performance Mon 5 May An Almeida Festival 2013 commission, supported by Live at LICA

Sat 3 & Sun 4 May, 9pm Mon 5 May, 6pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £15, Festival Standby £10

Angela Hewitt JS Bach The Art of Fugue One of the world’s great pianists and one of the pinnacles of classical music in one of the country’s finest music venues: this special recital is an unmissable treat in a glorious setting. Bach’s The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 is a breathtaking examination of the possibilities and permutations of counterpoint – the art of combining distinct melodies in one seamless whole. Immensely moving in its direct eloquence, complex in its genius and exhilarating in its joyful celebration of melody, this is music distilled to its purest form. The Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt has forged an international reputation as a leading interpreter of Bach’s music, and her numerous discs have become benchmark recordings.

Duration: 85 minutes, no interval

‘ I know of no musician whose Bach playing… is of greater subtlety, beauty of tone, persuasiveness of judgement or instrumental command...’ BBC Music Magazine Photo: Keith Saunders

Sun 4 May, 3pm (grounds open at 1pm for picnicking) Glyndebourne £20, £25, £30 £10 standing, Festival Standby £10

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Sun 4 May

Viv Albertine in conversation with Simon Price

Photo: Carolina Abida

One of punk’s true originals, Viv Albertine talks to award-winning journalist Simon Price about a life lived on the frontiers of experience. From forming the band The Flowers of Romance with Sid Vicious to iconic status as a member of the female punk group The Slits, Viv’s new memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music.

Boys, Boys, Boys, reveals what it was like to be a girl at the height of punk – the sex, the drugs, the guys, the tours – through the eyes of one of the most glamorous, uncompromising and iconic figures of the time.

Sun 4 May, 4pm The Old Market £10

Berlin

(Antwerp)

Bonanza

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Once Bonanza was booming: there were 6,000 inhabitants, 36 saloons, seven dance halls and innumerable prostitutes. Now there are just five houses and seven permanent residents who live on a hotbed of accusations, gossip, surveillance and fear.

‘ Bonanza is an intelligently made, sometimes hilarious and yet so poignant Paradise Lost’ Zero9, Belgium

In a unique cinematic portrait of a desolate Colorado mining town, Berlin creates a world in miniature using a scale model of the town alongside five film screens – one for each of the residents’ houses. As we watch interviews with the inhabitants, our prejudices are confounded and questions are raised about why people choose to live in such a remote community – and to what extent it is a community at all.

Co-produced by STUK, KVS and Vooruit. With support of Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, Flanders Image, Stad Antwerpen, Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan Productions Ltd and Drum Theatre Plymouth in association with Summerhall. BERLIN is associated artist to CENTQUATRE, Paris.

Duration: 70 minutes

Age 14+

Post-show discussion on Sun 4 May

Sun 4 May, 7.30pm Mon 5 & Tue 6 May, 6pm & 8pm Sallis Benney Theatre £12.50, Festival Standby £10

Photo: Jeffrey Delannoy

Sun 4 May, 8pm The Old Market £10

Little Fugitive (1953, US, U) Morris Engel & Ray Ashley After their mother leaves them alone in New York for the weekend, seven year-old Joey is tricked into thinking he’s killed his older brother. So he runs away to the funfair at Coney Island, to get lost in the

rides and the spectacle. Film-maker Morris Engel and his team see so much in him: a cowboy, the boy in Shane, the kid in Chaplin’s The Kid. It is the first true indie movie, capturing real life in the streets and credited by Truffaut with inspiring the French New Wave.

Duration: 80 minutes

Sun 4 – Mon 5 May

in conversation with John Niven

Twenty-one years after the publication of his seminal novel Trainspotting defined the drug scene for a generation, Irvine Welsh’s latest book, The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins, turns his raw and uncompromising style to two great obsessions of our time: how we look and where we live.

Hear him talk with novelist John Niven about the genesis of his dark and subversive tale, in which an aggressive, foulmouthed personal trainer and an obsessive, manipulative client play out one of the most bizarre, sado-masochistic folies à deux in contemporary fiction.

Photo: Jeffrey Delannoy

Irvine Welsh

Part of Cinema of Childhood

Mon 5 May, 6.30pm Duke of York’s Picturehouse £10 – £13.50, Child £6 Family £28 (2 adults, 2 children)

Baroque Inspiration Louis Sclavis Trio (Lyon) & Ensemble Amarillis (Angers) Héloïse Gaillard oboe, flute Violaine Cochard harpsichord Annabelle Luis Baroque cello Louis Sclavis clarinet Mathieu Metzger saxophone Jean-Philippe Feiss cello Including works by: Falconieri, Marais, Hotteterre, Telemann and Handel

Two instrumental trios from different musical worlds collide in a bold musical encounter that pitches virtuoso jazz against the beauty of Baroque. The leading French jazz clarinettist Louis Sclavis and the adventurous

‘ A happy marriage of jazz and Baroque’ Le Progrès Amarillis ensemble meet head-on in an unlikely but richly rewarding fusion of ancient and modern. From exquisite Baroque classics by Telemann, Handel and Purcell to the breathtaking jazz improvisations they inspire, this is a journey into uncharted musical waters driven by period poise and the syncopated sophistication of jazz.

Mon 5 May, 7.30pm St George’s Church £17.50, £12.50 (restricted view) Festival Standby £10

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Photo: Matthew Andrews

Tue 6 May

Probe

Running On Empty Running wild. Running out of time. Running on empty…

The story of a man, a woman and their encounters over time, travelling through dreams, fears and jagged memories. An absurd, humorous and sometimes devastating journey through a woman’s loss, her struggle for a future and the emptiness she must overcome to survive. How long will she keep running?

Dance, text and song combine in this intrepid new work from the Brighton-based dance theatre company Probe.

Running On Empty moves between the epic and the intimate, from the darkness of dreams to the intricacy of daily interactions. Probe artistic director Antonia Grove brings together an impressive team of creative collaborators including: Jo McInnes (director), Brad Birch (writer), Charlie Morrissey (choreographer) and Scott Smith (composer).

Duration: 55 minutes Post-show discussion on Tue 6 May

‘ Taut, funny and acidly unsentimental, this is the kind of work that new British dance does best’ The Observer (about May) Antonia Grove is a South East Dance Associate Artist. Running on Empty is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and is commissioned by Pavilion Dance South West. Further support from The Point Eastleigh, Nightingale Theatre, Soho Theatre and Greenwich Dance

Tue 6 & Wed 7 May, 7.30pm The Old Market £10

Martin Creed Band Mind Trap

The Turner Prize-winning artist and musician Martin Creed performs work from his second and newly released album Mind Trap.

Over the past two-and-a-half decades, Creed has cut an extraordinary path through the arts with his non-conformist approach and meditations on the invisible structures that shape our lives. As with Martin’s art work, his music is minimalist and hard-hitting, yet full of wit and surprise.

Accompanied by gospel singers Dee Alexander and Yvonne Gage, Martin brings a range of work, including a Neapolitan folk song and three instrumental pieces originally composed for the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta.

‘ Like something between Steve Reich and The Ramones’ The Guardian Tue 6 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £12.50 (standing), Festival Standby £10

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Wed 7 May

Photo: Ed Bishop

Ben Watt

Romany and Tom Ben Watt talks about his new book Romany and Tom, a moving memoir that chronicles his parents’ lives, their marriage and their decline into old age. Romany and Tom were divorcees who came together like colliding trains in 1957. Their story is a journey through post-war Britain, ambition and stardom, family roots and secrets, life in clubs and in care homes. Perhaps best known for his 20-year career in the altpop duo Everything But The Girl, Ben Watt mines his family history to consider where we come from and how we love and live with each other. Ben will be in conversation with Thomas H Green from The Arts Desk Wed 7 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Talvin Singh’s Bombay Talkies Classic Indian Cinema with Live Score Photo: Katharina Leutscher

Talvin Singh tabla, percussion Roopa Panesar sitar Flora Curzon violin Francesca Ter-Berg cello Jatanil Banejee vocals

One of the most influential figures in British Asian music, Talvin Singh, celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema with this blend of film and live music. The Mercury Prize-winner and master of the tabla has assembled a cross-cultural line-up of superb musicians to improvise new, contemporary scores for two iconic Indian arthouse classics, Raja Harishchandra (1913) and Devi (1960).

Exploring and extending key elements of the films’ original soundtrack, the musicians riff and reinvent the scores in a potent mix of classical Indian and Western sounds. The silent Raja Harishchandra, directed by the legendary Dadasaheb Phalke, was the first full-length Indian feature film, while Devi (Goddess) is a seminal work by Satyajit Ray, who has achieved iconic status in India and is acknowledged as one of the most significant film-makers of the 20th century.

In association with Asian Arts Agency

Wed 7 May, 8.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £14, £16, Festival Standby £10

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Thu 8 May

Cheek by Jowl

’Tis Pity She’s a Whore

by John Ford Thou hast told a tale whose every word, Threatens eternal slaughter to the soul Incest, religion and corrupt morality collide in the tale of a brother and sister, locked in a relationship that defies taboos and that sparks a passionate descent into hell. Even after nearly 400 years, few plays are as controversial as this dark and violent Jacobean tragedy, and few are as intense.

Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod’s internationally acclaimed production updates the action to a contemporary setting which, despite our progressive attitudes to sex and social boundaries, emphasises the play’s ability to shock audiences of any era.

‘ Scintillating production... exceptional actors... this superb show grasps its pity and provocation’ ***** Sunday Times ‘ Up-to-the-minute design, a blazing, daring vision – a masterful evening’ Le Figaro

Thrillingly paced as it hurtles to its climax, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore is classic theatre with a startlingly modern outlook – typical of the gripping theatrical style which characterises Cheek by Jowl’s work.

Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes, no interval Age 16+ This performance contains nudity, sexual content, and on-stage violence Stagetext captioned performance on Sat 10 May, 7.30pm

Thu 8 & Fri 9 May, 7.30pm Sat 10 May, 2.30pm and 7.30pm Theatre Royal Brighton £10, £15, £18.50, £22.50

Photo: Manuel Harlan

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Down by the Greenwood Side Brighton Festival Exclusive Harrison Birtwistle Composer Michael Nyman Libretto Susannah Waters Director Christopher Stark Conductor Nicola Blackwell Designer

Fri 9 May

Birtwistle at 80

Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Down by the Greenwood Side was commissioned for the 1969 Brighton Festival and first performed on the West Pier. Now a new production celebrates the milestone birthday of one of the UK’s great composers in the unexpected setting of a disused brewery depot in Lewes.

Birtwistle describes his chamber opera as ‘a dramatic pastoral’. The story of Mrs Green, whose supernatural encounter after murdering her children heralds a lifetime of sorrow, repentance and dread, is based on the macabre 17th-century ballad The Cruel Mother. The opera’s parallel story, a series of fights to the death between Saint George and the Slasher, draws on passages from a variety of mummer plays – the folk plays of the English countryside.

Susannah Waters’ re-imagining of this darkly evocative work is prefaced by an immersive journey through the depot, building towards the onslaught of the opera itself.

Duration: 60 minutes Post-show discussion on Sat 10 May after 5pm performance For more Birtwistle at 80 events see p25

Fri 9 May, 9.30pm Sat 10 May, 5pm & 9.30pm Sun 11 May, 3pm Harvey’s Depot, Lewes £20, Festival Standby £10

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with Lucy Crowe, Harry Bicket & The English Concert Photo: Richard Haughton

Fri 9 – Sat 10 May

Mozart Exsultate, Jubilate

Lucy Crowe soprano Harry Bicket conductor The English Concert Including arias from Mozart’s Mitridate, Lucio Silla and Die Entführung aus dem Serail; ‘Et incarnatus est’ from Mass in C minor; and Exsultate, jubilate

Few composers have written for the soprano voice with such verve and virtuosity as Mozart, and few of today’s young sopranos have interpreted his work with such acclaim as Lucy Crowe. In this star concert, she joins the leading period performance specialist Harry Bicket for a programme of Mozart arias that includes intricate showstoppers like ‘Martern aller Artern’ and Exsultate, jubilate alongside more serene pieces from works that are perhaps a little less familiar. It’s a chance to explore the full range of the composer’s genius in the company of one of the great emerging Mozartians.

‘ Lucy Crowe dazzles with her every appearance, a young singer blessed with lookat-me-and-listen charisma.’

Sunday Times

Fri 9 May, 7.30pm St George’s Church £17.50, £12.50 (restricted view) Festival Standby £10

William Forsythe

in conversation with Hofesh Shechter Photo: Dominik Mentzos

An inspiration to many, including our Guest Director, this is a special Festival encounter with one of the world’s foremost choreographers.

Sat 10 May see brightonfestival.org for details Free ticketed event – advance booking only

Three Score Dance Company

Plans

World Premiere

Supported by South East Dance in association with Brighton Dome with additional funding from Sport England.

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Photo: Zoe Manders

Amidst the bustle of Brighton Station, the city’s first contemporary dance company for men and women over 60 performs a specially commissioned work choreographed by James Finnemore, a former member of Hofesh Shechter Company. Although many members of Three Score Dance Company have no formal dance training, their wealth of experience brings a unique edge to their work.

Sat 10 & Sun 11 May Impromptu performances over the weekend Brighton Station

Bring the Happy Invisible Flock invites you to create a map of happiness in Brighton. This life-affirming project will attempt to create a portrait of people’s lives, taking happy memories from local residents and weaving them into a spectacular live event that celebrates the happiness of Brighton.

your own happy memories. A first kiss, a longed-for baby, a chance encounter: where did it happen and how happy did it make you feel? As the people of Brighton mark their moments of happiness, we can all explore what has made people happy – and where.

For ten days, a city-centre gallery will be transformed into a giant 3D map of Brighton on which you can plot

Sat 10 – Mon 19 May, 11am – 7pm Onca Gallery

Bring the Happy Live

between a wedding and a wake, this performance is an extravagant event specially created to celebrate happiness and where we find it.

With the outstanding six-piece band Hope & Social, the happy memories collected from Brighton and throughout the country will be shared in all their beautiful, tragic, ridiculous and occasionally mundane glory in Bring the Happy Live. Pitched somewhere

Sat 10 May

Invisible Flock

Duration: 90 minutes

Fri 23 - Sun 25 May, 7.30pm The Old Market £15, Festival Standby £10

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Photo: SJ Knight Photography

Sat 10 – Sun 11 May

Acrojou

Frantic World Premiere Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival Love, freedom, blood, sweat and rain-storms: our relentless devotion to busyness and our quest to find tranquillity within it are pulled apart in the breathtakingly choreographed story of one man’s thirst for escape. This fusion of circus, dance and visual design creates a physically dynamic world, in which vibrant movement and arresting imagery provide the language of storytelling. In Frantic, this world is encompassed within the confines of a large German Wheel – a bubble in which dance transforms into aerial acrobatics and fleeting moments of rest, as the performers attempt to stop their frantic preoccupation and find stillness.

Conceived, designed and directed by Jeni Barnard Choreographed and devised by Barney White and Myrto Petrochilou

Hugo and Josephine (1967, Sweden, U) Kjell Grede

Co-commissioned by Without Walls, Brighton Festival, Hat Fair, Mintfest and Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival. In Partnership With Unit 101 At Corn Exchange Newbury, Seachange Arts and The Point, Eastleigh

Sat 10 May, 1.15pm, 4.30pm, 5.30pm Brighton Seafront East of Petanque Court sinister, but is really a big teddy bear. The darkness of the world beyond childhood lingers at the edge of the frame, but never intrudes. Kjell Grede delivers a Swedish summer classic, blonde and gorgeous and heart-breakingly innocent. A pure pleasure.

The lonely daughter of a rural pastor makes friends with a wild boy who lives in the woods. The mysterious giant who tends the garden seems

Duration: 82 minutes

A Story of Children and Film

exploring what cinema tells us about childhood and what childhood tells us about cinema. Featuring classics such as E.T., The Red Balloon, Frankenstein and Kes alongside a host of less well-known titles, this is a passionate, poetic portrait of the adventure of childhood.

(2013, UK, PG) Mark Cousins With extracts from 53 great films from 25 countries, A Story of Children and Film is the world’s first movie about kids in global cinema. It’s a personal essay by Mark Cousins

Part of Cinema of Childhood

Sat 10 May, 1.30pm Duke of York’s Picturehouse £10 – £13.50, Child £6, Family £28 (2 adults, 2 children)

Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes

Part of Cinema of Childhood

Sun 11 May, 2pm Duke of York’s Picturehouse £10 – £13.50 Child £6, Family £28 (2 adults, 2 children)

Tiata Fahodzi

The Legend of Hamba World Premiere Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival In 1914 Hamba set off to war. He won and lost empires, became a king, a beggar, a poet and a thief. But 100 years later he is no closer to home.

The Legend of Hamba is a modern mystery play created

by Tiata Fahodzi, Britain’s leading African theatre company. It is named after the word meaning ‘walk!’ or ‘let’s go!’ in Ndebele, one of the three major languages of Zimbabwe, and its sense of urgency and perpetual forward motion sets the pace for this contemporary fable.

Tiata Fahodzi aims to reflect the experiences of Africans

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living in Britain, drawing on the richly diverse cultures of Africa to comment on our own society and times.

Post-show discussion after 2pm performance Co-commissioned by Without Walls, Brighton Festival, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, Hat Fair and Watford Palace Theatre

Sun 11 May, 2pm & 5pm Pavilion Gardens

Sun 11 May

Birtwistle at 80

Orpheus Britannicus

Andrew Watts counter tenor Melinda Maxwell oboe Helen Tunstall harp Paula Chateauneuf lute Harrison Birtwistle Purcell, Dowland

Orpheus Elegies Lute songs

Birtwistle’s Orpheus Elegies comprises 26 miniatures that respond to Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus, and tonight’s performers worked closely with the composer on their creation. Enigmatic and multi-layered, they mix vocal settings of the poems with instrumental songs without words.

Delicate yet emotionally charged, lute songs are among the true glories of English Renaissance music. Purcell and Dowland were masters of the genre, and a selection of their finest examples is an exquisite companion to Birtwistle’s translucent masterpiece.

Sun 11 May, 8pm Music Room Royal Pavilion £30 (includes a glass of wine or soft drink in the interval in the banqueting room)

Sir Harrison Birtwistle in conversation with Gavin Henderson

Join us for special outdoor performances of Gavin’s Antiphonies, which were written for Gavin Henderson by Sir Harrison Birtwistle and premiered at Dartington in 1985. Performed by members of Brighton Youth Orchestra.

Pavilion Gardens 6.45pm & 7.45pm

Sun 11 May, 7pm William IV Room, Royal Pavilion Free ticketed event (to bookers of Down by the Greenwood Side or Orpheus Britannicus)

If You Knew Her Zara McFarlane

of Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald. Zara describes her latest collection as ‘representing a journey through a woman’s life’; others have described it as the arrival of a songwriter and performer of true stature.

Rising star Zara McFarlane has been making a big impact on the UK jazz scene since the release of her debut album, Until Tomorrow, in 2011. Now the MOBO Award-nominated vocalist performs songs from her second album, If You Knew Her: a heady mix of modern jazz and stealthy swing with an undercurrent of nu-soul, delivered with a power and depth reminiscent

‘ …a release that deserves to hit the mainstream like a runaway truck.’ theartsdesk.com Sun 11 May, 8pm The Old Market £12.50, Festival Standby £10

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The best new theatre from across England caravan is a three-day biennial showcase presenting a curated programme of theatre to international and national

promoters and festival organisers. It is a partnership between Farnham Maltings and Brighton Festival. See caravanshowcase.org.uk for the full programme. The following performances are open to the public:

Fuel, Roundhouse and King’s Cultural Institute While You Wait While You Wait is a series of podcasts, each of which is a different meditation on the idea of waiting, created by artists Stefan Kaegi, Toby Jones and Malika Booker in collaboration with academics from King’s College London.

You can listen to the podcasts, each 10-15 minutes long, via bespoke listening stations designed by Barnaby Stone, which you can find scattered across Brighton.

Photo: Sheila Burnett

Sun 11 – Mon 12 May

caravan

Commissioners include Unity Theatre and Dublin Theatre Festival. Funded by Arts Council England and a Wellcome Trust Arts Award.

Sat 3 – Sun 25 May See brightonfestival.org for locations

Age 12+

Made In China Gym Party Three intrepid contestants compete in a series of games, from the hilariously stupid to the arbitrary and downright heartbreaking. Chris, Jess and Ira fearlessly do whatever it takes to win – to please you, the audience. They are also eager to share their stories, perspectives and awkward dances in between. Gym Party speaks to anyone who frets about the state of the world – then gets distracted by a dumb celebrity tweet. A daring and darkly comic exploration of our universal desire to win.

Duration: 60 minutes

Age 14+

‘Marvellously unusual’ **** The Times Sun 11 May, 8.30pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £10

Action Hero Slap Talk Over five hours, an autocue scrolls in a continual violent barrage; the passive aggression of lovers talking, the hard sell of a shopping channel, the anger of the fire– and–brimstone preacher, the subtle violence of middle class one-upmanship. The audience is free to enter and leave at any time during the performance.

Mon 12 May, 12pm – 5pm Brighton Unitarian Church

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Photo: Action Hero

Age 12+

A performer in the dark, the wrong music, a strange piece of equipment… Between backstage and onstage who is really in charge? Push Me, Pull You! is a beautiful, dramatic and compelling show about the friendship, trust and unique relationship between performer and backstage technician. Together they ask questions and break conventions to reveal what is normally hidden in the dark.

Apocalyptic Circus uses daring and skilful slack rope and dance-acrobatics, original music and manipulation of their stage to lead you on an unusual journey inside a seemingly impossible circus act.

Duration: 50 minutes

Suitable for all ages

Mon 12 May, 6pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £12.50, under 16s half price £10 Festival Standby

Still House Ours Was the Fen Country

Mon 12 – Tue 13 May

Photo: Bennoit Martrenchar

Apocalyptic Circus Push Me, Pull You!

Created by Dan Canham and the company Photo: Will Hanke

For two years Dan Canham captured conversations with people of East Anglian fens. Eel-catchers, horse-breeders and young farmers have all been interviewed. In this ethereal piece of documentary dance-theatre Dan and his team fuse movement and sound with the words and memories of their native collaborators to get to the heart of the fens – a beautiful, bleak and mysterious expanse of flat land.

Ours Was the Fen Country is a celebration of and eulogy to universal stories of rural communities that are fading from view; a poetic look at the inevitability of change from the voices of those who still know the old words.

‘ One of the most original talents around’ Independent ‘ Harsh, bleak and richly beautiful’ The Guardian Duration: 60 minutes

Age 12+

Produced by MAYK, a Bristol Old Vic Ferment, New Wolsey and DanceXchange commission. Produced by MAYK. Research and Development supported by Ferment, Arts Council England, Pulse Festival, BETA at Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Dartington Arts and Norfolk Dance. Rural touring supported by Dance4.

Mon 12 May, 9pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £12.50, £10 Festival Standby

Sleepdogs The Bullet and the Bass Trombone

Photo: Paul Blakemore

There’s an orchestra, trapped in a city during a military coup. Violence erupts, the orchestra becomes separated – lost – trying to find their way home. The composer is left to tell the story. An intricate, fractured narrative with a haunting soundtrack comes together like a mosaic: a whistling bird in the jungle, a gunfight at the airport, a murder in a forest of music stands… pieced together by a lone performer, trying to make sense of the chaos.

‘ Beautiful haunting score.. a mastery of building narrative through sound’ What’s On Stage ****

Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes Produced by MAYK. Commissioned by Bristol Ferment at Bristol Old Vic. Developed with Parabola Arts Centre. Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Tue 13 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

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Mon 12 – Tue 13 May

Children in the Wind (1937, Japan, U) Hiroshi Shimizu Sampei is a little rascal who leads his village gang with the Tarzan cry of his hero, Johnny Weissmuller. But when his father is falsely imprisoned for fraud, his

idyllic life falls apart. Sent to stay with his uncle, Sampei runs away any chance he gets – up a tree, down the river, to the circus. If only his father can clear his name, everything will be all right again. Hiroshi Shimizu’s luminous masterpiece is nearly 80 years old, but still shines brightly.

Duration: 88 minutes Part of the Cinema of Childhood

Mon 12 May, 6.30pm Duke of York’s Picturehouse £6.50 – £13.50, Child £5.50 Family £20 (2 adults, 2 children)

Blush A film by Wim Vandekeybus Alongside his work as a choreographer, Wim Vandekeybus is a bold film-maker noted for video adaptations of his stage works. This film, adapted from his 2004 performance, features music by David Eugene Edwards and Woven Hand and texts by the Flemish author Peter Verhelst. Swinging between Corsica’s sublime landscapes and Brussels’ slummiest depths, it explores the savage subconscious in dance sequences of attraction, confrontation and repulsion.

Duration: 52 minutes

Mon 12 May, 6.30pm Duke’s at Komedia £6

Hauschka

Piano-Automat Trio UK Premiere Three pianos, 264 keys – but only two hands: the German pianist and composer Hauschka has devised a new performance for grand piano and two player pianos especially for Brighton Festival. Inspired by innovators such as John Cage and Aphex Twin, Hauschka is noted for his compelling live shows that reimagine the expressive possibilities of the piano through an array of imaginative ‘preparations’ on its internal mechanisms. Applying a range of objects and materials to the strings – anything from paper to ping-pong balls, necklaces to bottle tops – transforms the piano’s sound; as they are added or removed, we are encouraged to re-evaluate the instrument’s sonic properties and our own perceptions of what piano music can be.

In this concert Hauschka will be backed by two selfplaying Disklavier pianos (a contemporary incarnation of the pianola) to form a disembodied trio that will bend to his will, performing pieces from his new album, Abandoned City, alongside improvised material. This is a rare opportunity to explore the imaginary landscapes and spontaneous lyricism of a unique composer, and share in his ongoing romance with the piano.

Duration: 50 – 60 minutes

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‘ [the] addition of bits of cork, leather and metal to the innards of his beloved joanna was an act of ingenuity. The resultant clacking, scraping and hammering amid his chilly piano and forlorn strings creates, as if by magic, a factory of percussion.’ NME Tue 13 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £14, £10 Festival Standby

Tue 13 May

Photo: Danny Willems

Ultima Vez (Brussels)

Talk to the Demon UK Premiere Directed and choregraphed by Wim Vandekeybus Witches, magicians, demons. You find them in every culture, but they always signify something different.

In a daring new work, the Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus ponders the innocence of children and the multi-faceted ways it is understood, presented and manipulated by society and the media in different cultures.

As he probes notions of innocence and its flip-side, evil, Vandekeybus’s research into the witch-children of the Congo is just one of the starting points for a dance dissection of demons and demonising, ideals and idealising.

Talk to the Demon features six adult performers and one child in a piece that tempers Vandekeybus’s hallmark themes of risk, conflict and strength with notions of vulnerability and stillness. Noted for visceral performances verging on violence, Ultima Vez pushes physical expression to its limits. It is a bold style of dance that courts danger and demands reaction, yet

amidst the risk and the energy of this audacious new work lie humour, compassion and an eloquent silence that cuts as keenly as words.

Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes approx

Age 12+

Post-show discussion on Tue 13 May with the company Morning After event with Wim Vandekeybus and Hofesh Shechter on Wed 14 May, 11am

‘ Vandekeybus’s dances combine startling and often extreme imagery with highly physical and dangerous-looking movement that is almost as exhausting for the audience to watch as it is for the dancers to perform’ Financial Times Tue 13 & Wed 14 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10, £15, £17.50, £20 Under 26s £10 Festival Standby £10

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Tue 13 May

Northern Stage

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller Directed by Rachel Chavkin For 60 years Joseph Heller’s explosive satire on the absurdities of bureaucracy has been cult reading, hailed as one of the definitive novels of the last century. Now it can be cult watching too, as Northern Stage presents the first UK touring production of Heller’s own dramatisation.

During the closing months of World War II, Captain John Yossarian is trapped in the illogical cycle of an inescapable war. As he and his fellow airmen struggle to maintain their sanity – and their lives – amidst the madness of military reasoning, Yossarian is stalked and thwarted by the merciless Catch-22.

Directed by Rachel Chavkin of acclaimed New York company The TEAM, this production brings together a superb ensemble to mine the fast-moving theatricality

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of Heller’s cynical vision. Intense and subversive, this is energetic and edgy theatre that will appeal to anyone who has ever questioned ‘the system’, or found themselves in a Catch-22.

Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes incluing interval

Age 14+

Post-show discussion on Thu 15 May Stagetext captioned performance on Thu 15 May, 7.30pm Sign language interpreted performance on Sat 17 May, 7.30pm

Tue 13 – Sat 17 May, 7.30pm Matinees Thu 15 & Sat 17 May, 2.30pm Theatre Royal Brighton £10, £15, £18.50, £22.50 Under 26s £15 Thu Matinee £10, £12.50, £15 Festival Standby £10

Long Live the Little Knife

Liz and Jim are small-time con artists on a mission to be the greatest art forgers in the world. There’s only one problem: they can’t paint. But when you need £250,000 to buy your way out of a turf war, you can’t let a little thing like that stand in your way… Long Live the Little Knife is a fast-paced and boisterous caper whose pared-down presentation heightens its true-story feel. As he picks his way through forgery, castration and blind drunkenness, writer and director David Leddy asks whether we can ever know if something – be it love, the story of two con artists or a castrated labradoodle in a classic Chanel bag – is real.

‘ Dazzling… wild… hugely enjoyable’ The Guardian ****

Wed 14 May

Fire Exit / David Leddy

Duration: 75 minutes Age 16+ Post-show discussion on Thu 15 May Funded by Creative Scotland. Developed with support from the Royal Shakespeare Company and the British Museum.

Wed 14 & Thu 15 May, 8.30pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, £15, Festival Standby £10

Photo: Pekka Mäkinen

Brian Lobel Mourning Glory Brian Lobel’s installation and performance trilogy about love, death and technology, inspired by the loss of his best friend and first love, probes the emotional resonances hidden in everyday technologies such as playlists, online profiles and email histories.

Part 1: Or else your friends will have to do it The first installation guides participants through the process of making a playlist for their own funeral in a gentle and playful reminder about what remains

Part 2: Purge Where does online friendship stop and real friendship begin? Does the distinction matter? In 2011, Brian Lobel played a brutal game of friendship maintenance: over five days, he gave strangers one minute to decide which of his 1,300 Facebook friends to keep or delete. The deleting

Part 3: Love Letters and Lehman Brothers Grant Folland was an author of the Lehman Brothers Examination Report, and he died while on a trip celebrating its completion. He was also the best friend and first love of Brian Lobel, who mines the text in this installation, looking for Grant’s presence in the report’s 2,000 pages.

behind when we’re gone. A reflection on mortality and responsibility, this self-led performance explores the rituals of mourning, memory and the music that goes with them.

Wed 14 – Sat 17 May, 10am – 8pm Sun 18 May, 10am – 6pm Brighton Dome Founders Room was real, the pace was maniacal, the results were final.

Fifty hours of performance, 800 emails from angry, amused and intrigued friends and over 2,500 comments from strangers online later, Purge the stage show was born.

Sun 18 May, 8.30pm Duration: 60 minutes Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10 Each day for five days, Brian will cut out pieces of the historic report to recreate the couple’s emailed love letters, exploring ideas of personal and international collapse and looking at how individual stories can lurk within the coldest of discourses.

Wed 14 – Sat 17 May, 2pm – 8pm Sun 18 May, 12pm – 5pm Brighton Dome Founders Room

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Photo: Tom Medwell

Wed 14 – Thu 15 May

In Good Company 2014

New work created by the dancers of Hofesh Shechter Company

intriguing mixed bill comprising a brand new short work by each dancer/choreographer.

Dancers become choreographers as members of Hofesh Shechter Company present their own works in the third edition of the Company’s acclaimed dance programme.

With carte blanche to explore their own ways of creating movement and dance, these six gifted artists provide a showcase for new ideas and new inspirations tailored to their own outstanding performing talent. It adds up to an

Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes including interval

Simon Thurley The Building of England

architectural history and unearths how it is inextricably linked to the cultural past – and present.

From awe-inspiring Norman castles to semi-detached suburbia, the chief executive of English Heritage explores how the architecture of this small island has influenced the world. How have the buildings of England evolved over 1000 years? What do they reveal about the beliefs and aspirations of the people who commissioned them, built them and lived in them? And how have structural techniques and aesthetic taste adapted and developed over the centuries? In this fascinating talk, Simon Thurley puts into context the significance of a country’s

Post-performance discussion with the dancers Supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and The Leche Trust

‘ An evening of experiment and enterprise’ The Guardian Wed 14 May, 7.30pm The Old Market £12.50, Festival Standby £10

Presented with the Regency Society of Brighton & Hove

Wed 14 May, 8pm St Michael’s Church £10

Hydrocracker Wild Justice An animated provocation about revenge ‘Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.’

Is Francis Bacon right? Where does justice end and revenge begin? And where does forgiveness come in?

Brighton Festival Associate Company Hydrocracker invites you to join in their quest to develop a Revenge Play for the 21st century. Featuring research material, performed scenarios and a panel including Dr Mark Devenny (Centre for Applied Politics, Philosophy and Ethics), Maria Cantacuzio (founder of The Forgiveness Project) and Jo Berry (founder of Building Bridges for Peace and whose father was a victim of the bombing of Brighton’s Grand Hotel), Hydrocracker will provoke, challenge and coax a group response to the question of revenge.

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Duration: 90 minutes In association with University of Brighton’s Understanding Conflict Research Group

Thu 15 May, 7.30pm Unitarian Church £8

Thu 15 May

Photo: Katherine Leedale

Lost Dog & Lucy Kirkwood

Like Rabbits

World Premiere Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival

One night in a city a man and a woman meet and have sex and fall deeply in love.

Each night the lovers slip away from their real lives into a world that exists only in their shared imagination. A world that belongs to them; a world in which they are not their normal selves, but King of the Rabbits and Queen of the Hares. But what begins as a game soon becomes a battleground, and the couple hurtle towards a tragedy of the saddest, most ordinary kind.

Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s short story Lappin and Lapinova, dance theatre company Lost Dog have collaborated with award-winning writer Lucy Kirkwood to create this intimate and quietly devastating new work for two performers.

‘ Profoundly moving and exquisitely crafted… the very best of dance and theatre.’ Total Theatre Review on It Needs Horses Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival and The Place, and supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Additionally supported by South East Dance and CCN de Caen / BasseNormandie, Direction Héla Fattoumi – Eric Lamoureux, under the programme “Accueil-Studio” / French Ministry of Culture and Communication through DanSCe Dialogues 2 funded by Interreg IVA and co-financed by ERDF. Originally commissioned by the Almeida Festival. Ben Duke is a South East Dance Associate Artist and a Work Place Artist.

Duration: 50 minutes

Age 14+

Thu 15 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £12.50, £15, Festival Standby £10

Will Gregory Moog Ensemble UK Premiere As one half of the electronic music sensation Goldfrapp, the keyboard-player and composer Will Gregory is one of the UK’s leading advocates of using synthesizers and electronic instruments to create new sounds and reinvent old ones. Now he has formed a unique ensemble around eight Moog synthesizers, the technology that elevates music into an exhilarating wave of complex sound. Operatic one moment and computer-game technical the next, Gregory spins the Moog vocabulary of squelches and plops into a hypnotic and relentless sonic sensation to create fresh, intoxicating soundscapes. This concert features Gregory’s live score to Rick Holbrook’s poignant film The Service of Tim Henman.

Thu 15 May, 9pm All Saints Church £14, Festival Standby £10

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Thu 15 – Fri 16 May

David McCandless

Information is Beautiful

The author and designer David McCandless shares his passion for the merging of design, information, text and story in an age of high-speed living and information overload. Talking about his popular website and his bestselling book Information is Beautiful, he

Gruff Rhys

American Interior Two men. Two quests. Two centuries apart.

Experience the search for a lost tribe.

In 1792 John Evans, a farmhand from Snowdonia, set out to find the Madogwys, the mythical Welsh-speaking Native Americans of the Great Plains. He wrestled reptiles in the Mississippi, hunted bison in Nebraska and discovered imaginary volcanoes in Missouri. Over 200 years later, his distant relative Gruff Rhys retraced the route in an ‘Investigative Concert Tour’– a series of solo gigs accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation and a three-foot avatar of Evans. The tour resulted in an album, featuring songs inspired by Evans’ epic adventure, and it is those songs that Rhys performs in this multi-sensory retelling of two men’s extraordinary odysseys.

Fri 16 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £16, £10 Festival Standby

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discusses the huge potential of visualised information to help us quickly understand, navigate and find meaning in a complex world. Whether talking about science, politics, finance or just the hidden patterns in Hollywood storylines, he reveals the invisible connections, unexpected stories and sometimes surprising revelations lurking in the sea of data that surrounds and swamps us.

Thu 15 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10

UK Premiere Brighton Festival Exclusive New London Consort Philip Pickett conductor Anna Dennis soprano Faye Newton soprano Penelope Appleyard soprano Timothy Travers Brown counter-tenor

Robert Sellier tenor Joseph Cornwell tenor Nicholas Hurndall Smith tenor Michael George baritone-bass Simon Grant baritone-bass

A musical voyage into the mysterious realms of The Tempest and an enthralling exploration of the sound-world of the Restoration theatre, this is a highly original celebration of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth.

Amphitrite by Humfrey and Weldon.

Featuring all the music written for the 17th and early 18th century revivals of the play, the New London Consort creates a dramatic cornucopia of enchanting symphonies, songs, choruses and dances, including daring instrumental music by Locke, Draghi’s evocative character dances, contrasting versions of Ariel’s songs, Purcell’s ‘Dear Pretty Youth’ and the exquisite Masques of Devils and of Neptune &

Fri 16 May

The Tempest in Musick

Revelling in the power of nature and the supernatural, 12 solo singers and a colourful late-Restoration theatre band evoke the exuberance of London’s playhouses around 1700 and enliven our continuing fascination with Shakespeare’s most magical masterpiece.

Fri 16 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall Proms Stalls £10 £17.50, £22.50, £27.50 Festival Standby £10

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Fri 16 – Sat 17 May

Jeremy Deller Desert Island Pics

The Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller is noted for strong, politically engaged works such as The Battle of Orgreave, a re-enactment of a confrontation that took place during the miners’ strike, and the bouncy castle replica of Stonehenge, Sacrilege, at the Olympic Park for London 2012. His art, which is often collaborative, incorporates a wide range of forms, including installations, videos, performances and music. Fresh from last year’s Venice Biennale, where he represented Britain, Deller joins the artist, writer and lecturer Stephen Bull to share and discuss the eight photographs that mean the most to him.

In association with Photoworks

Fri 16 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

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(Brussels)

Enhanced Dance to Disguised Music UK Premiere Choreographed by Thomas Hauert Performed by Mat Voorter For ages 5+

Photo: Filip Vanzieleghem

Nothing is normal here. Or rather: everything is extraordinary! Dance as you’ve never seen it before. A piano as you’ve never heard it before. A performance that defies physical constraints.

Danse étoffée sur musique déguisée (Enhanced Dance to Disguised Music), created by the Brussels-based Swiss choreographer Thomas Hauert, is his first piece for younger audiences. Mat Voorter’s performance is accompanied by John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano. A prepared piano is a piano whose sound is altered by all sorts of objects placed between its strings: screws, pieces of plastic or an eraser.

With vigorous choreography, elemental music and strange balloon figures descending from above, this is weird and witty dance that stretches the limits of movement

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and unleashes the imagination. It’s about metamorphosis and adaptation: about how the balloons, blankets and broomsticks that encase the dancer redefine physical reality, just as the objects with which the piano is ‘prepared’ create entirely new acoustic possibilities.

This is a rare opportunity to hear Cage’s important piece performed live by Daan Vandewalle, unmissable for music fans and discerning young dance audiences alike.

Duration: 45 minutes Post-show discussion on Sat 17 May

Sat 17 May, 3pm Sun 18 May, 11am & 4pm The Old Market Adults £9, Child £6, Family £25 (2 adults, 2 children)

Sat 17 Sat

Charlotte Spencer Projects

Walking Stories An audio walk for parks

You don’t come to watch Walking Stories; you live it, breathe it, build and dismantle it. A walk in the park becomes an interactive and completely immersive audio journey in this innovative outdoor experience that removes you from the clutter of life. Equipped with an mp3 player and a set of headphones, you’ll embark on a journey: original music, text and sound design will guide you through a series of spontaneous interactions with your surroundings and your companions. Moving between watching, listening and following instructions, your perceptions of the landscape are enhanced. This inclusive and inviting experience is suitable for all ages (7+) and all fitness levels.

‘ Epic and intimate… a truly unique and beautifully crafted experience.’

Audience Member

Duration: 60 minutes Please make any access requirements known to the Ticket Office at the time of your booking

Sat 17 & Sun 18 May 11am, 2pm & 4pm Stanmer Park £10, Limited Capacity

Crows

(1994, Poland) Dorota Kedzierzawska Wrona (pl. crow) is neglected by her feckless mother, laughed at by her classmates and furious with the world.

So she steals a cute little girl to become a surrogate mother. She soon discovers just how hard being a parent really is. Kedzierzawska’s remarkable film about a damaged girl trying to heal herself is tough yet tender, elevated by gorgeous cinematography and ultimately exhilarating. Polish with English subtitles Duration: 63 minutes

Palle Alone in the World (Palle alene i verden, 1949, Denmark) Astrid Henning-Jensen A boy wakes up to find that he’s alone in the world.

A deserted, silent Copenhagen becomes his giant playground. Adapting a famous novel, Astrid Henning-

Jensen, one of the greatest directors of children, makes an all-time classic of charm and wonder.

Danish with English subtitles Duration: 25 minutes Part of Cinema of Childhood

Sat 17 May, 1.30pm Duke of York’s Picturehouse £10 - £13.50, Child £6 Family £28 (2 adults, 2 children)

Alex Bellos

Alex Through the Looking Glass Join writer and broadcaster Alex Bellos on a journey of mathematical discovery as he draws on his new book, Alex Through the Looking Glass, to show how numbers have become our friends and changed our world. From triangles, rotations and power laws to fractals, cones and curves, mathematics informs our lives in ways we cannot – or refuse to – imagine. Alex narrates a series of eyeopening encounters with lively personalities from all over the world as he conveys the joy of mathematical thinking with his signature wit and limitless enthusiasm.

Sat 17 May, 4pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

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Sat 17 May

Elias String Quartet The Beethoven Project Part 2

Malin Broman viola String Quartet in F major Op. 18 No. 1 String Quintet in C Op. 29 String Quartet in A minor Op. 132

The Elias Quartet is joined by the Swedish violist Malin Broman for the second concert in this year’s Beethoven Project series, which continues the Quartet’s exploration of the complete string quartets by Beethoven.

The concert starts at the beginning of Beethoven’s quartet-writing career; the Op. 18 No. 1 was composed

in 1800, although a year later he substantially revised it because he admitted that he had ‘just learned how to write quartets properly’. This new confidence is evident in the Op. 29 String Quintet of 1801, which revealed Beethoven’s new brilliance and mastery of the form. The programme closes with the Op. 132 quartet, the second of Beethoven’s peerless late quartets, and the darkest.

Sat 17 May, 7.30pm All Saints Church £17.50, Festival Standby £10

The Immigration Debate A World on the Move: the long view of migration David Aaronovitch Trevor Phillips Professor Paul Statham Dr Madge Dresser Simon Fanshawe chair Migration is one of the most important issues affecting the world today. Yet conversations around the subject often go no further than whether the UK has too many or too few immigrants. Chaired by writer and broadcaster Simon Fanshawe, this event will offer a broader perspective, looking at what has driven migration historically as well as examining the forces that will drive it in the future.

The panel includes The Times columnist and author David

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Aaronovitch; the former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Trevor Phillips; Director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research Professor Paul Statham; and the historian and slavery expert Dr Madge Dresser.

Sat 17 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10

In conversation with Alexis Petridis As the founder of the influential band Saint Etienne, whose brand of collage pop draws on numerous musical styles, Bob Stanley has an insider’s view of the music industry – a view that makes his latest book, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah: A History of Modern Pop, such an authoritative and passionate account. In conversation with The Guardian music critic Alexis Petridis, he talks about the development, the genres and the artists that made pop between 1950 and 2000.

Sat 17 May

Bob Stanley

Sat 17 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

African Dance Party Ibibio Sound Machine, Batitda DJ set & Ye Ye Fever London’s calling, Nigeria’s speaking – in the voice of Eno Williams, who retells traditional Nigerian tales in a clash of African and electro elements. A fresh new force on the music scene, Ibibio Sound Machine, fronted by Williams, released its first album in February. Now that album bursts into life in this late-night club special. The folk stories that provide the fabric of the band’s lyrics, told to Williams in her mother’s Nigerian Ibibio language, are remixed in a rich musical tapestry that combines West African highlife, disco, postpunk and psychedelic electro soul.

Batitda’s inspired African urban street music combines samples from old 1970’s Angolan tracks with modern electronic dance music described by Songlines as ‘a game changing 21st century electronic African dance album’.

Ye Ye Fever has been bringing deadly African rhythms to dancefloors for over three years. Playing vinyl still flecked with dust from sunnier climes, expect afrobeat, soukous and everything in between. Lights down low, vibes up high.

Photo: Krzysztof A. Edelman (Ibibio)

Sat 17 May, 9pm - 2am Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £10 standing,

Photo: Manuel Lino (Batitda)

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Sat 17 May Metro–Boulot–Dodo

Safe House World Premiere

Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival Home: a place of safety, sanctuary and security, or a place of isolation and imprisonment? This spectacular outdoor performance begins with a race through familiar streets before arriving at a particular, mysterious house. A figure balanced precariously on the roof tells the house’s story and leads the audience on a surreal and poetic journey as rooms, memories and characters are revealed: from the young couple moving into their ideal home to the child who imagines her surroundings as an enchanted castle, a teenager desperate to escape and an old lady unable to leave.

Metro–Boulot–Dodo creates groundbreaking crossartform work that combines live performance, sitespecific installations, visual art and new media. In Safe House it uses large-scale projections, stunning aerial displays and dramatic visual effects to explore

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the emotional space that exists between a house and a home. It’s a comment on local ideas of home, an emotionally engaging narrative which follows one individual’s efforts to find their own home.

‘ Metro–Boulot–Dodo is one of the brightest of the new crop of theatre companies disregarding theatrical convention’ The Guardian Duration: 45 minutes Commissioned by Without Walls, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Stockton International Riverside Festival. Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival and Leicester City Council

Sat 17 May, 9pm Hove Park

The God Argument

In an age of iconoclasm, few voices are more articulate than that of A.C. Grayling. In his latest book, The God Argument, Grayling rises above the bad-tempered tone of much recent debate about religion to examine calmly and thoroughly all the arguments and considerations offered in support of religious belief, the reasons why people subscribe to religion, and the needs they seek to satisfy by doing so.

In an event that is bound to spark debate, Grayling takes a measured approach to questions of contemporary religion and the benefits of a humanist outlook.

Sun 18 May

AC Grayling

Sun 18 May, 2pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £10

Photo: Benjamin Harte

Brighton’s Youth Celebrate Sir John Tavener Brighton Youth Orchestra Brighton Festival Youth Choir

Tavener’s Ekstasis (written for Brighton Youth Orchestra) and Song for Athene; Elgar's Enigma Variations; and Bach's Suite No. 2 with Charlotte Barbour-Condini (recorder), finalist of BBC Young Musicians 2012.

Sun 18 May, 5pm St Bartholomew’s Church £10, £8, under 16s £5

Ida Barr’s Mash Up Written and performed by Christopher Green Musically pitched somewhere between Lady Gaga and Lord Haw-Haw, Ida Barr is the world’s only old-time music hall artiste turned Rap superstar. Following the success of her albums Artificial Hip Hop and Slipped Disco, she has been busy working with young people, elders, community choirs and musicians from across the city to create a mass intergenerational choral experience.

‘ Marie Lloyd meets Missy Elliott.

Awe-inspiring’

Music-hall singalong meets R&B pump and grind in this inspired musical fusion that will set toes tapping whether you’re a grandparent, a grandchild or somewhere in between. Join Ida and friends for the ultimate Music Hall/ Hip Hop/Rap crossover – better than a sausage on a stick.

Sun 18 May 2pm & 5pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £8

The Guardian

Produced by Home Live Art

Who pays the price?

Photo: Linda Nylind

The High Cost of Living with Violence Against Women and Girls Chair Polly Toynbee

This panel debate considers the impact of domestic violence and abuse in Brighton & Hove. This lively, informed discussion with an inspiring panel of speakers marks the 20th anniversary for RISE and Brighton & Hove's White Ribbon City status – a campaign against violence towards women.

Sun 18 May, 7.30pm Sallis Benney Theatre £8

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Sun 18 – Mon 19 May

Cat Power Plus Support Returning to solo performance for the first time in years, the American singer-songwriter Chan Marshall (AKA Cat Power) presents music from her hit album Sun. ‘It is don’t look back, pick up, and go confidently into your own future, to personal power and fulfilment,’ she says of Sun, which she wrote, recorded and produced herself.

This affirmation of confidence and independence embraces a wide palette of styles: the classic Cat Power haunting guitar and provocative vocals; the Latininfluenced nine-piano loop; the upbeat electronica. This is defiantly modern and global music that sums up the optimism and humour of today’s solo Cat Power after years of collaborations and performing with her Dirty Delta Blues Band.

Sun 18 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £18, £20, £22.50, Festival Standby £10 NME

Photo: Camille Garmendia

‘ It’s empowering. Life-affirming.’

‘ One of the most emotionally intense songwriters around … her riskiest, most vital album, not to mention one of her greatest’ Rolling Stone

Peaches Christ Superstar Peaches Mathias Halvorsen piano An unlikely scenario: the whole of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar performed by one woman accompanied by a single piano. Even more unlikely when that woman is Peaches, the electro-rock provocateuse who has made sexual frankness her calling-card.

Yet this is no irreverent mash-up, of either the score or the story it tells. Wholehearted in its reverence, it’s a performance that brings out Peaches’ extraordinary emotional and dramatic power as she sings each of the nine principal roles. Shedding her usual in-your-face antics and provocative props, Peaches reveals her formidable vocal talents in a show that will come as a revelation to anyone who saw her her film Peaches Does Herself and subsequent live gig at Brighton Dome last December.

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Mon 19 May, 8pm Theatre Royal Brighton £10, £14, £16, Festival Standby £10

Photo: Holger Talinsky

‘ The purity of the endeavour, the total absence of irony, means the show frequently becomes mind-boggling – but it’s by playing it straight that Peaches challenges her audience most’ The Guardian

Building on the work’s own brand of subtle subversiveness, Peaches’ tribute to a score she has loved since she was a teenager is a chance to see the star and the musical in an entirely new light.

Mon 19 May

Willow and Wind (1999, Iran, PG) Mohammad-Ali Talebi A school window is broken, and children can’t concentrate because the rain is getting in. The culprit isn’t allowed back into class until he mends it. He sets off to fetch a large pane of glass across the countryside. The wind blows; but will he crack? In the hands of writer Abbas Kiarostami and director Mohammad-Ali Talebi, this simplest of stories becomes an epic quest, poetic and breathtakingly beautiful. It has big-hearted humanism, but Hitchcockian tension too. An unmissable, edge-of-seat masterpiece.

Duration: 77 minutes Part of the Cinema of Childhood

Mon 19 May, 6.30pm Duke of York’s Picturehouse £6.50 – £13.50, Child £5.50 Family £20 (2 adults, 2 children)

World Television (Johannesburg)

The Epicene Butcher and Other Stories for Consenting Adults Directed by John Trengove, written by Gwydion Beynon

Did you ever wonder what cats dream about when they’re in heat? What happens when a butcher develops a taste for the most beautiful woman in the land? Find out in this weird but wonderful cross-cultural theatrical oddity, rooted in children’s street theatre but definitely not for children…

cartoon that blends the traditional with the contemporary, aided and abetted by her sulky accomplice, Chalk Boy. Clever, funny and, in a silent story about the Fukishima tragedy, extremely moving, the beauty of the illustrations and the sheer verve of the language pay joyous tribute to visual and verbal storytelling.

Kamishibai is an ancient Japanese form of street theatre; traditional storytellers cycled from village to village telling stories using hand-drawn cartoon boards. Here the art form is given an hilarious, profane and utterly original revival in a cult show that has been a huge hit from South Africa to Edinburgh. In this colourful reinvention the tales are firmly for adults and run the gamut from the silly to the sublime. From pornography to epic poetry. From cannibalism to nuclear catastrophe.

‘ A refreshing piece of naughty fun that’s as far removed from the heavyweight perceptions of South African theatre as you can get’

Using simple but beautifully drawn images, Jemma Kahn conjures a frame-by-frame comic strip, a sort of live Manga

The Herald Duration: 55 minutes Age 16+ This performance contains graphic images of sex and violence

Mon 19 & Tues 20 May, 8pm Wed 21 May, 7pm & 9.30pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £12.50, Festival Standby £10

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Mon 19 May

KlezMahler Aurora Orchestra She’Koyokh Nicholas Collon conductor

‘ It’s typical of the Aurora Orchestra to have a bright idea, and then carry it through with aplomb… a foot-tapping path through Yiddish, Bulgarian and Balkan material… the almost belligerent brilliance of the Aurora Orchestra’ The Times Mahler, arr. Iain Farrington Symphony No. 1 Aurora and She’Koyokh Klezmer and other folk repertory in arrangements Klezmer – klezma – klezmah – klezmahler.

What happens when the adventurous Aurora Orchestra teams up with Britain’s best Klezmer and Balkan band?

Aurora takes one of the mightiest of all symphonies and places it in an entirely new – and revelatory – context.

Mahler loved folk music and was profoundly influenced by his own Jewish heritage, and into his First Symphony he worked passages of klezmer music, the traditional music of Eastern European Jews. Aurora takes this as a starting point for an audacious musical adventure with

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the klezmer and folk band She’Koyokh.

Iain Farrington’s dazzling chamber orchestra arrangement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, placed alongside a selection of klezmer and folk music performed by members of Aurora and She’koyokh, reveals the musical influences and inspirations behind Mahler’s masterpiece, with new clarity. This will be an evening of insight and inspiration, eloquence and exuberance.

Pre-show talk with Nicholas Collon at 6.45pm

Mon 19 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10, £15, £18.50, £20, £22.50 Under 26s £15, Festival Standby £10

Tue 20 May

Photo: Simon Ralles

Toumani Diabaté and Sidiki Diabaté kora Plus Support ‘Born a griot, die a griot!’ says Toumani Diabaté. Griots are the musical repositories of Mali’s customs and culture, and Diabaté – born into a leading griot family – has elevated traditional Malian music into a major force in world music through his genius on the kora, the 21-stringed West African harp. Acclaimed as Africa’s finest instrumentalist and the winner of two Grammy Awards, Diabaté now teams up with his 22 year-old son Sidiki for a programme of kora duets based on their new album Toumani & Sidike (released on World Circuit Records in April 2014). Sidiki is the latest generation of his family to continue the griot tradition; in this stunning display of instrumental virtuosity, you can see the griot baton being handed down the generations, as it has for centuries.

Kathy Hinde Tipping Point Sound and water form the focus of this unique audio-visual installation, in which the composer and visual artist Kathy Hinde explores how sound behaves in conjunction with vessels of water. Using sensors, networked devices and vessels specially created in Bristol University’s scientific glass workshop, Tipping Point investigates ways by which water

‘ The ensuing exquisite, delicate instrumental featured rapid-fire solos from Toumani, with Sidiki at first providing gently rhythmic backing before effortlessly taking the lead himself’ The Guardian Tue 20 May, 8pm Theatre Royal Brighton £15, £18, £20, Festival Standby £10 can be moved from one vessel to another and how this can directly effect sound design. Hinde harnesses the natural resonance, vibration and acoustic properties of glass and water to create an installation which is a work of art, a scientific demonstration and a musical instrument all in one.

A Cryptic commission for Sonica, supported by the PRS for Music Foundation, Britten-Pears Foundation and The Hinrichsen Foundation.

Tue 20 May, 10am – 7pm Wed 21 & Thu 22 May, 10am – 8pm Fri 23 May, 10am – 6pm Live performance by the artist on Tue 20 May, 8.30pm Duration: 30 – 40 minutes

Free ticketed event Brighton Dome Founders Room

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Wed 21 May

Tavener Supernatural Songs Hilliard Ensemble, City of London Sinfonia & Brighton Festival Chorus Stephen Layton conductor Alexandra Woods violin Catherine Carby mezzo-soprano Tavener Gavin Bryars Arvo Pärt

Supernatural Songs The Voice of St Columba Fratres Litany

Sanctity and ritual are the hallmarks of this concert featuring contemporary music influenced by spirituality and contemplation. Regular audiences still talk about the performances of the late Sir John Tavener’s epic The Veil of the Temple at the 2006 Festival. We remember him with a much more intimate work: the Supernatural Songs is an ethereal tour de force for mezzo-soprano and orchestra inspired by the poems of W.B. Yeats.

Gavin Bryars’s The Voice of St Columba sets two poems by the sixth-century saint. Simple and direct, it is a work of lucid orchestration that emphasizes the singers and the text.

Inspired by the timeless beauty of Gregorian chant, Arvo Pärt’s Litany is a soaring and mesmerising choral setting of the 24 prayers of St John Chysostom. Fratres, one of Pärt’s most familiar pieces, is a set of variations that ranges from frantic intricacy to sublime serenity.

Wed 21 May, 7.30pm All Saint’s Church £22.50, £17.50 (restricted view) Festival Standby £10 Photo: Simone Cannetty-Clarke (John Tavener) Photo: Benjamin Harte (CLS) Photo: Mar===orggreve (Hilliard Ensemble)

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Wed 21 May

Feria Musica (Brussels)

Sinué UK Premiere

If night-time was simply for play, Leaving worry to the day, Rules would suddenly blow away…

an inventive palette of sounds, disturbed or urged on by the drones of the electro-acoustic hurdy-gurdy and punctuated with bursts of percussion.

As he grows up, Jules plays a game with four imaginary, intrepid and interdependent versions of himself. They all live in a tree rooted in a forest of ropes and shadows, but the tree cannot stay in place for long. And as each version of Jules gets pins and needles, an exciting and precarious rebellion ensues...

Finding simple pleasures in an unsteady world is the theme of this contemporary circus spectacular. As the various Jules try to find their own places, they discover and test their surroundings, guided by a wide-eyed, childlike excitement. Feria Musica is creating its own sensitive and eloquent acrobatic language, and in Sinué the group takes a scenario full of innocence and wonder as the starting point for a feast of expressive movement. The accompanying live music draws on

Duration: 60 minutes

Age 8+

Celebrating the work of two of Brighton's leading charities, there will be a collection after the performance on Wed 21 May for the Rotary Club of Brighton & Hove and Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival.

‘ Exploring the hypnotic blend of music and movement and the daring of acrobats, Feria Musica puts poetry at the heart of Sinué’ Paris Normandie Wed 21 & Thu 22 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10, £15, £18.50, £22.50 Under 26s £15 Under 16s Half Price Festival Standby £10

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Photo: INS

Wed 21 May

Vanishing Point

Tomorrow World Premiere Created by Vanishing Point Conceived and directed by Matthew Lenton Co-produced by Brighton Festival This new work from Vanishing Point explores what it is to grow old and be cared for, in a world where myth and spirituality have been subsumed by what we all know to be true – that we are born, we live and we die.

Using its distinctive visual imagination, Vanishing Point explores this subject through the dreamlike scenario of a young man who suddenly finds himself in an alarmingly unfamiliar place. A place where everyone seems to know him and where strange rules apply.

Where everyone seems to have his best interests at heart, but he is not at liberty to leave.

A major international co-production, Tomorrow is a striking meditation on growing old, dementia, needing care and needing to care.

As those who saw Interiors at Brighton Festival 2012 will know, Vanishing Point has a reputation for subverting reality and making the ordinary extraordinary. Its unflinching new production brings together an international, multi-age cast to ponder how we deal with old age now and in the future.

Duration: 90 minutes approx

Age 12+

Post-show discussion on Fri 23 May Sign Language Interpreted Performance on Sat 24 May A co-production between Vanishing Point, Brighton Festival, Tramway (Glasgow) and Cena Contemporanea (Brasilia), in association with Platform (Easterhouse) and National Theatre Studio (London)

Wed 21 May – Sat 24 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £12.50 (Wed 21 May preview) £15, £17.50 Festival Standby £10

‘ one of the most life-affirming, extraordinary pieces of theatre I’ve seen’ The Independent on Interiors

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Wed 21 May

Photo: Marc Domage

Berlin (Antwerp)

Perhaps all the Dragons

[...in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage] UK Premiere One table with thirty chairs in front of 30 individual screens. Thirty tellings of 30 tales – one-to-one encounters that blur at the edges and seep into neighbouring stories.

The spectator will get to watch five stories.

Perhaps the one about the famous pianist who realizes on stage that she studied the wrong concerto. Or the neurosurgeon who swaps the heads and bodies of two monkeys, which remain alive. Maybe a look at the 700,000 Japanese people who withdraw into their bedrooms for a year at a time.

Following its UK debut at the 2012 Festival with Land’s End, the celebrated Belgian theatre company of Bart Baele and Yves Degryse returns with a unique theatrical experience that encounters the people behind stories, both big and small, in the international media, inspired by the Rilke poem of the title. The stories are transformed into 30 filmed monologues orchestrated by dramaturgy that gives them coherence and interaction. Berlin’s imaginative project challenges the way we tell stories and the way we hear them.

Duration: 75 minutes

Age 14+

Post-show discussion on Sat 24 May after 4pm performance

‘ It's jubilant and truly extraordinary. Let's not give away too much. The quirkiness of it all should be experienced first-hand’ Le Figaro

Co–production with DeutschesSchauspielhaus Hamburg, KunstenfestivaldesArts, le CENTQUATRE, Dublin Theatre Festival, CentraleFies, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival Groningen, La Bâtie – Festival de Genève Project co-produced by NXTSTP, with the support of the European Union’s Culture Programme and ONDA – Office national de diffusion artistique. Berlin is associated artist to CENTQUATRE – Paris

Wed 21 May, 7.30pm & 9.30pm Thu 22 & Fri 23 May, 5.30pm, 7.30pm & 9.30pm Sat 24 May, 4pm, 7pm & 9pm The Spire £15, Festival Standby £10

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Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare Directed by Max Webster King Lear at Brighton Festival 2013. Photo: Victor Frankowski

Thu 22 May

Globe Theatre on Tour

Claudio loves Hero and Hero loves Claudio, and it seems that nothing will keep them apart. Benedick loves Beatrice and Beatrice loves Benedick, and it seems that nothing will bring them together. Until, that is, plots and scheming turn things upside down, with reputations and lives at stake…

Its irresistible blend of comedy, romance and drama makes Much Ado About Nothing one of Shakespeare’s most captivating plays, and in the bickering, bantering characters Beatrice and Benedick it presents one of the most beguiling of all romances. Performed on an Elizabethan-style stage in the tranquil open-air setting of the St Nicholas Rest Garden, Max Webster’s production

Twisted Angels Presented by Modern Poetry in Translation & And Other Stories In this celebration of Brazilian literature, a leading poet and two translators lead a lively discussion and launch two publications: Twisted Angels, Modern Poetry in Translation’s spring issue, devoted to the best in Brazilian poetry;

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continues the Shakespeare’s Globe’s much-loved presence at Brighton Festival. The Globe provides the joy, the pathos and the thrill; you can bring the picnic.

Duration: 2 hours 50 minutes approx including interval Morning After on Fri 23 May, 11am at Brighton Dome Founders Room A touch tour is available for visually impaired audiences on Fri 23 May, 4.40pm

Thu 22 & Fri 23 May, 6pm Sat 24 & Sun 25 May, 1pm & 6pm St Nicholas Rest Garden £15, Under 18s £10 Family ticket £45 (2 adults, 2 children) and the landmark Brazilian novel Nowhere People, to be published by And Other Stories in August.

Join the conversation with Angélica Freitas, whose recent poetry collection, Um útero é do tamanho de um punho, was nominated for the Portugal Telecom Prize; the writer and translator Daniel Hahn, also the National Programme Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation; and Hilary Kaplan, the translator of Angélica Freitas’s Rilke Shake.

Supported by The Dutch Literary Foundation

Thu 22 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Thu 22 May

Pirates of the Carabina

Flown

Get ready for a captivating night at the circus packed with thrills, extraordinary feats, laughs and live music.

A stunning troupe of acrobats, aerialists, daredevil stuntmen and musicians is putting on a jaw-dropping spectacle just for you.

But there’s a problem: no-one is prepared, and mishaps, disasters and disagreements threaten to wreck the show. A flying aerialist is still ironing her dress, a cranky diva gets tangled in the rigging – and is that one of the stuntmen dangling from the lighting bar?

Catastrophe is just one wrong move away!

Flown is confidently choreographed chaos. Amidst the mayhem, the performers fly, fling, spin and swing across the set in perfect time, all accompanied by an original score played live. It’s big, beautiful and bonkers – an experience to excite the whole family.

Duration: 70 minutes Age 8+ Presented by Crying Out Loud

Thu 22 & Fri 23 May, 7.30pm Sat 24 May, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Theatre Royal Brighton £10, £15, £17.50, £20 Under 26s £15 Under 16s Half Price Festival Standby £10

‘ Exquisite moments of beauty… brilliantly athletic’ The Guardian

Photo: Matilda Temperley

‘ …delivered with immense skill and generosity of spirit’ The Times ****

‘ Skin-tinglingly good’ Time Out ****

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Fri 23 May

Layer Cake Tea Party (2004, UK, 15) Part of Dark & Stormy You can have your layer cake and eat it at this screening of Matthew Vaughn’s 2004 cult classic, starring Daniel Craig, Kenneth Cranham and Michael Gambon.

Introduced by the author of the original novel and the screenplay, JJ Connolly, the film will be accompanied by tea and cake – a genteel contrast to Connolly’s tale of a cocaine dealer who finds that two million pounds-worth of Grade A drugs, a neo-Nazi sect and endless ‘layers’ of deals and double-deals mean that his last jobs before early retirement are anything but a piece of cake…

Fri 23 May, 6.30pm Duke’s at Komedia £10 - £13.50

Elias Quartet

The Beethoven Project Part 3 String Quartet in C minor Op.18 No. 4 String Quartet in E flat major Op. 74 ‘The Harp’ String Quartet in B flat major Op. 130 As the culmination of its Festival residency, the Elias Quartet’s closing concert spans the extremities of Beethoven’s career as a composer of string quartets.

In the early Op. 18 quartet, Beethoven reaches back to material from his younger years. Ten years later, 'The Harp' quartet, named for the jaunty pizzicato (or plucked string) passages in the first movement, is serene testament to his mastery of the form.

The Elias Quartet leaves us at the finale to Beethoven’s career: the Op. 130 quartet is his longest; performed with its original ‘Grosse Fuge’ ending, its depth and complexity provide profound climax of this year’s instalment of the Beethoven Project.

Peter James Part of Dark & Stormy One of the UK’s most popular crime and thriller novelists, Brighton’s own Peter James celebrates the tenth anniversary of his highly successful series featuring Detective Roy Grace. In conversation with novelist Peter Guttridge, Peter talks about his forthcoming Roy Grace novel, Want You Dead, his fascinating research process and his years of writing about Brighton. This is an intriguing opportunity to hear the inside story of creating best-selling crime fiction, and to see what’s next for this local literary hero.

Fri 23 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

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Fri 23 May, 7.30pm All Saints Church £17.50, Festival Standby £10

Fri 23 May

Tangled Feet

One Million Brighton Festival Exclusive for 2014 How do you get onto the career ladder when all the rungs are broken? What does it mean for a generation to face the start of their working lives in uncertain economic times? As the number of unemployed 18-25 year olds in the UK hovers at around one million, this energetic fusion of music, poetry, acrobatics and spectacle brings together a huge cast of young people to probe the aspiration and effort, the apathy and energy that are prompted by such high levels of youth unemployment.

Photo: Kamal Prashar

Powered by the optimism of youth, Tangled Feet’s immersive performance uses spectacular large-scale effects, high-voltage physical theatre and dazzling pyrotechnics to capture the power, fragility and ambition of the next generation in a time of change,

with a live band featuring music by Guy Connelly and Nick Gill and words by the poet Anthony Anaxagorou.

‘ Probably the most accessible and original physical theatre company working in the UK today’ The Stage

Duration: 40 minutes One Million was originally commissioned by Greenwich+Docklands International Festival. Funded by Arts Council England, Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, Foyle and Esmée Fairbarn Foundations

Fri 23 & Sat 24 May, 9.45pm Black Rock Car Park, Madeira Drive

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Fri 23 – Sat 24 May

Emmylou Harris Plus Support

She may be an icon of country music, but Emmylou Harris transcends genres in her status as one of the great figures of contemporary American song. Fresh from receiving her 13th Grammy Award (for Old Yellow Moon, which was named Best Americana Album in January), she mines 26 albums and four decades of singing and songwriting for this standout concert.

‘Most of my career, I’ve been a finder of songs, a gatherer of songs,’ says Harris. Yet in recent years she has gained admiration as much for her eloquently straightforward songwriting as for her famously expressive singing: heartfelt, visionary and vital, her songs touch on autobiography, reach for the universal and reflect the wisdom and maturity of an artist in her prime.

Emmylou Harris performs with her regular collaborators Daniel Lanois, who produced her Grammy Award-winning album Wrecking Ball, Steven Nistor and Jim Wilson.

The Brighton and Sussex Medical School Debate Dementia: Facing the next ten years David Cameron has described dementia as ‘the key health challenge of this generation’: affecting 800,000 people and costing £23 billion a year, in the next generation numbers will double and costs triple. As part of Brighton and Sussex Medical Schools’ (BSMS) tenth anniversary celebrations, this debate will examine dementia from multiple perspectives, concentrating on addressing the challenges we all face and featuring a forum for debate and questions. Chaired by Professor

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‘ A truly venturesome, genretranscending pathfinder’ Billboard

‘ Her silvery soprano, at once grainy and ethereal, still wraps itself around a lyric with an angel’s delicate warmth’ USA Today Fri 23 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £28, £30, £32.50 Festival Standby £10

Jon Cohen, the panel will include BSMS Professor Sube Banerjee (author of the National Dementia Strategy); BSMS’s Professor of Clinical Ethics, Bobbie Farsides; and Matthew Lenton, director of Vanishing Point’s Tomorrow (see p48).

Sat 24 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £7.50

In association with

Sat 24 May

Photo: Meyer Originals

Tanzfuchs PRODUKTION (Cologne)

Munch!

Delicious Dance for under 4s UK Premiere Directed and choreographed by Barbara Fuchs Most shows are for watching and listening. Not this one: it’s for sniffing, swallowing, nibbling, enjoying, digesting and, of course, munching. On the floor, the longest table cloth you’ve ever seen becomes a stage on which utensils and ingredients come to life right under your nose, animated by two dancers accompanied by a musician and a sound collage that sums up mealtimes in all their lip-smacking, tummy-rumbling, burping, slurping glory.

As the smells, sounds and tastes of cooking entice the senses, dancing plates, a wandering hiccup and chatty dishes make this a recipe for wonder and delight. Having enjoyed the preparation, the young audience will be able to sample some of the Belgian waffles made during the show. If only all mealtimes were this fun!

Duration: 45 minutes Co-produced by tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf, BARNES CROSSING – Freiraum für TanzPerformanceKunst. Supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, NRW Landesbüro freie Kultur, Landschaftsverband Rheinland

Tomka and his Friends (1977, Albania, PG) Xhanfise Keko When the Nazis occupy an Albanian village after the withdrawal of the Italian army, Tomka and his gang are furious – because the Germans set up camp on their football pitch. The local

Sat 24 May, 1pm & 3pm Sun 25 May, 11am & 1pm The Old Market £7.50 partisans recruit the boys to spy on the invaders and help to set an ambush. Who knew war could be this much fun?

Albania’s greatest female director spins a classic boys’ own adventure yarn, but in a style as raw and authentic as anything from the Italian neo-realists. Never before seen in the UK and freshly restored, this is a rare discovery.

Duration: 78 minutes Part of Cinema of Childhood

Sat 24 May, 1.30pm Duke of York’s Picturehouse £10 – £13.50 Child £6 Family £28 (2 adults, 2 children)

Natalie Haynes & Lindsey Davis Fate, Revenge and Furies Part of Dark & Stormy What is the draw of the ancient world for contemporary novelists and readers? Find out with the historical crime novelist Lindsey Davis, whose massively popular, darkly resonant books featuring the detectives Falco and Flavia Alba are set in Classical Rome, in conversation with the comedian and classicist Natalie Haynes, whose debut psychological novel, The Amber Fury, explores loss, obsession and the need to connect through the prism of the Greek Tragedies.

Sat 24 May, 3.30pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

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Sat 24 May

The New Writing South Annual Lecture

Lynn Barber

Britain’s most ferocious interviewer asks whether celebrity interviews serve any useful purpose and ponders the ethical problems they raise. ‘I’m a great believer in prurient curiosity,’ she says, ‘but I also believe that interviews can serve a wider purpose. They also raise tricky ethical dilemmas. What is a fair interview? Is it wrong to be judgemental? And what about the practical problems of ever-tighter time constraints, the increasing power of PRs, the growing insistence on copy approval?’

In this revealing and thought-provoking lecture, Lynn Barber makes a plea for us to read interviews with greater critical awareness.

Sat 24 May, 6pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Down Terrace (2009, UK, certificate 18) Part of Dark & Stormy Filmed over eight days entirely on location in Brighton, the directorial feature debut of Brighton-based Ben Wheatley follows crime boss Karl, whose quest to sniff out the rat who betrayed him escalates into a cycle of recrimination and murder. Co-written by Wheatley and Robin Hill, who stars with his father Robert Hill and Julia Deakin, this is a potent blend of cold-blooded thrills and wicked humour that takes the best elements of The Sopranos and gives them a very British twist. Subject to his schedule, Ben Wheatley will be introducing the screening.

‘ A dark and hilarious thwomping of the whole miserablist British gangster genre.’ Entertainment Weekly Sat 24 May, 6.30pm Duke’s at Komedia £10 – £13.50

Tony Parsons Part of Dark & Stormy Renowned as a chronicler of the emotional challenges faced by a generation of thirtysomethings in bestselling novels such as the trilogy Man and Boy, Man and Wife and Men From the Boys, Tony Parsons launches a new series with The Murder Bag. His first crime novel introduces a new figure into fiction’s roster of troubled detectives: DC Max Wolfe, insomniac, dog lover, boxer, orphan, single parent and every murderer’s worst nightmare. This is a new genre for one of the UK’s best-loved authors, and the story of its genesis is told by Parsons with his customary engaging wit.

Sat 24 May, 9pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

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Sat 24 May

Bernstein, Ravel, Stravinsky

Philharmonia Orchestra Brighton Festival Chorus Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano John Wilson conductor Bernstein

Ravel Stravinsky

Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront Chichester Psalms Piano Concerto in G Symphony of Psalms

‘ Bavouzet’s G major concerto is the best since Michelangeli’s 50 years ago: it has style, verve, poetry and balance’ Financial Times

From jazz-tinged sophistication to profound spirituality, the renowned Philharmonia Orchestra closes this year’s Festival in rousing form with a range of 20th-century masterpieces. John Wilson, one of the most engaging communicators in music today, makes his Festival debut with a programme that combines verve and veneration.

Photo: Paul Mitchel (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet), Sim Canetty-Clarke (John Wilson)

The Brighton Festival Chorus is splendidly showcased in two great works that provide a fascinating contrast in their approach to the Psalms. Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, a rousing setting of the original Hebrew text and one of the most challenging works in the choral repertory, returns to its Sussex roots alongside Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, a work of elemental grandeur composed ‘for the glory of God’.

The French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performs Ravel’s quicksilver Piano Concerto in G, a work of sparkling wit and inventiveness, while Bernstein’s

Metamorphosen Richard Strauss Philharmonia Orchestra Yearning and contemplative, Strauss’ Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings is subtitled In Memoriam and serves here as a fitting tribute to the composer on the 150th anniversary of his birth in June 1864. Composed during the closing months of World War II, as the

magnificent Symphonic Suite for On the Waterfront finds John Wilson on home territory conducting this classic film score.

Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes including interval

Sat 24 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10, £15, £20, £25, £30 Festival Standby £10

society Strauss loved was being consumed by conflict, the work is a lament for Germany’s destruction and an elegy for the devastating bombing of Munich. This post-concert performance takes place in the stark and evocative setting of the Old Municipal Market.

Duration: 25 minutes

The performance is unreserved and standing

Sat 24 May, 10.30pm The Old Municipal Market £10 (£5 if bought with Philharmonia Orchestra)

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Sun 25 May

Brighton Rock (1947, UK, PG) Part of Dark & Stormy The first great classic of British crime film enshrines Brighton as a brooding backdrop for Graham Greene’s tale of gang culture in the inter-war underworld. Richard Attenborough gives a remarkable performance as Pinkie, a psychopathic young gangster who marries a naïve waitress to stop her testifying against him as a murderer.

This screening is introduced by Barry Forshaw, one of

the UK’s leading experts on crime fiction and film, and the author of British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order.

Barry Forshaw will be signing his various books on British cinema after the screening.

Sun 25 May, 2pm Duke’s at Komedia £10 – £13.50, Child £6 Family £28 (2 adults, 2 children)

Spies: Fact & Fiction James Naughtie, Stella Rimington Liam Fox, Tom Rob Smith, Luke Harding Part of Dark & Stormy The world of espionage has provided rich material for novelists, but how accurate are the spies that have appeared on the page? Would any fictional spies succeed in the real world? These questions and more will be discussed by a panel that includes BBC Radio 4 presenter James Naughtie, whose debut crime novel The Madness of July has just been published; Dame Stella Rimington, former Director General of MI5; Liam Fox MP, novelist and former Secretary of State for Defence; the bestselling spy author Tom Rob Smith; and The Guardian foreign correspondent Luke Harding.

Sun 25 May, 4pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10

Edmund White

Inside a Pearl The American man of letters Edmund White is a master memoirist as well as a novelist of rare distinction, and in his latest book he recalls the sexiest and most exciting times in his life: the 15 years he spent living in Paris.

In conversation with the writer and broadcaster Simon Fanshawe, he recalls his love affair with the city and its intoxicating and intellectually stimulating atmosphere, presenting us with a glittering cast of characters that ranges from Yves St Laurent and Kristin Scott Thomas to Martin Amis and Susan Sontag.

Sun 25 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10

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Sun 25 May

Les Slovaks (Brussels)

Opening Night Five friends. Five dancers. Five relationships that can fragment and reform each opening night.

Opening Night is also our closing night, and a joyous way to bring this year’s Festival dance programme to an end. Les Slovaks is a dance collective made up of five Slovakian friends who, since regrouping in Brussels in 2006, have sought to find themselves again and redefine their relationship through moving and thinking collectively. Remembering what was then and taking pleasure from what is now, they use improvisation and spontaneity to create breathtaking choreography that combines charm, zest and humour.

As with all close friendships, with Les Slovaks little things mean a lot: gestures, glances and nuances are enough to unleash their physical creativity, allowing them to form and adapt their choreography in the moment. The result is a brand of movement rooted in shared experience and understanding. And with every performance created anew, each night is opening night.

Duration: 75 minutes

‘ The stories these marvellous movers tell are ever mutable. Nothing definite is said. And yet something very certain and specific to time and place is communicated’ New York Times Sun 25 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £15, Festival Standby £10

Murder on Sea Part of Dark & Stormy Keith Waterhouse said that Brighton is a town that always looks as if it is helping police with their enquiries. But why do crime writers continue to set their stories here? In this chat show-style evening, David Bramwell, asks four authors whose books have a Brighton setting: Colette McBeth, Erin Kelly, Danny Miller and S.J. Watson. There’ll also be live music from the Silver Swans, film clips, readings and more.

Sun 25 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre

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Creative Writing with Catherine Johnson Want to write characters and action that jump off the page? Stories to sweep a reader off their feet or chill them to the bone? Then join the prolific novelist and screenwriter Catherine Johnson, author of

Get set to write a story! with Matt Whyman When faced with writing a story, there’s nothing wrong with staring out of the window and thinking, argues Savages author and agony uncle Matt Whyman. But how do

Ages 12–15

Sun 4 May, 11am – 12.30pm Brighton Dome Founders Room £10

you turn your ideas and daydreams into a story? In this workshop, Matt will show you how to make sense of those thoughts so you can turn an idea into words full of heart and soul.

Ages 12–14

Sun 4 May, 1.30pm – 2.30pm Brighton Dome Founders Room £6

Alphabet Book-making Workshop

and pop-up sections to create an original one-off alphabet book that can be taken away at the end of the session.

Join Matt Fleming & Lee Shearman from art company Borbonesa to create a 26-page concertina bookwork.

Experiment with hand-stamps, collage

Age 7–11

David Almond Piranhas, Angels and Half-Created Worlds

short stories, picture books, plays and an opera libretto. His work is published in over thirty languages and he has won a string of major awards. In 2010 he gained The Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world’s most prestigious prize for children’s authors.

The best-selling author talks about his work, explores the nature of creativity and shows that the power of the imagination is accessible to us all.

David’s novels include Skellig, My Name is Mina and The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas. He also writes

Angie Sage Come and meet bestselling author Angie Sage as she talks about the Araminta Spook series. Araminta is a girl who lives in a haunted house, has ghosts and ghouls for friends, and gets up to all sorts of spooky adventures. In this fiendishly fun event, find out where

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Sawbones, for a morning of writing exercises and tips that will help improve and refine your fiction and make you more confident about making it all up.

Sun 4 May, 3.30pm – 5.30pm Brighton Dome Founders Room £10

For all ages

Sat 10 May, 12pm Sallis Benney Theatre £6

Araminta came from, where this feisty goth girl is going next and how you can create your own silly, scary stories.

Black clothes and stripy tights optional!

Age 7+

Sat 10 May, 2pm Sallis Benney Theatre £6

Meet the master of horror and dare to be scared with Darren Shan as he talks about his 12-book Zom-B series. Featuring a grisly zombie apocalypse packed with classic Shan action, a fiendishly twisting plot and hard-hitting storyline, each book

is short, fast-paced and bloody. This thrilling combination of breathtaking twists and thought–provoking moral questions will have every Shan fan on the edge of their seat!

Age 13+

Sat 10 May, 4pm Sallis Benney Theatre £6

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Darren Shan

Illustrators’ Evening Join three established illustrators – Chris Riddell, Mini Grey and Emily Gravett, all graduates of Brighton University – in conversation with their former tutor and Professor Emeritus of Brighton University John Lord.

Together, they discuss the art of illustration and show examples of their work.

An event for adults 16+

Sat 10 May, 7pm Sallis Benney Theatre £8

Marcia Williams From Shakespeare to WW1

scrapbook of World War I – she will help you discover what it was really like to live through the Great War.

Let Marcia bring Shakespeare’s plays to life with her fun and lively comic strip books. Then with the help of Archie from Archie’s War – a child’s

Age 7+

Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

about their brand new science fiction series, Scavenger, as well as their exciting new ventures into the world of the Edge.

Join the best-selling duo behind The Edge Chronicles, Fergus Crane and Muddle Earth to discover what has inspired their colourful characters and wondrous worlds, and hear them talk

The Professor McGonagall Tea Party Quiz with Peta Taylor Do you know your quaffle from your quidditch? Hagrid from Hedwig?

Join Peta Taylor for afternoon tea

Sun 11 May, 10.30am Sallis Benney Theatre £6

Age 10+

Sun 11 May, 12.30pm Sallis Benney Theatre £6

and questions on all your favourite books – including the Professor’s special Hogwarts round. A magical afternoon guaranteed!

Age 7+ Maximum 6 in a team

Sun 11 May, 4pm Sallis Benney Theatre £8

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Young City Reads celebrates

The Sleeping Army Francesca Simon Young City Reads – the ‘Big Read’ for children of Brighton & Hove – returns! This year young story–lovers are invited to read, share, discuss and celebrate The Sleeping Army by Francesca Simon (author of the hugely popular Horrid Henry series).

schools event to talk about her Lost Gods series. Join other young readers to hear more about Freya and the gang’s hilarious, exciting journeys through the world of the Norse myths.

Teachers can visit cityreads.co.uk/ young-city-reads to sign up their class.

Age 8–11

Conclude your Young City Reads adventure as Francesca Simon takes centre stage for a live, interactive

Thu 22 May, 1.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £3

'A wildly original, rollicking twist on Norse mythology' Jacqueline Wilson Produced by Collected Works CIC

Eva Katzler and Jess Mikhail Florentine and Pig Shiver me timbers! Florentine and Pig are setting sail on a pirate adventure, and they want you to come too! The Florentine and Pig books have been encouraging children everywhere to get creative. To celebrate their latest story the books’ authors Eva and Jess invite you to enjoy 45 minutes of fun,

Tom Percival In Herman’s Letter, the latest picture book by writer and illustrator Tom Percival, Herman the bear embarks on an epic journey to deliver a very special letter and ensure that his friendship with Henry the raccoon really is forever. Tom is going to talk about Herman’s adventure in

Nicola Davies What would you do if you had to take care of a baby manatee or teach a bear cub to return to the wild? Nicola Davies’s Heroes of the Wild series of animal stories, based on real conservation projects, shows just how hard it is. Come and hear this award-winning writer and former

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including pirate crafts and activities and a reading of Florentine and Pig and the Lost Pirate Treasure.

Age 4+

Sat 24 May, 10.30am Brighton Dome Founders Room £6

a creative event: prepare to get crafty and remember to bring your imagination!

Age 5+

Sat 24 May, 12.30pm Brighton Dome Founders Room £6

presenter of The Really Wild Show talk about her popular nature books and her latest story, The Promise.

Age 7+

Sat 24 May, 2.30pm Brighton Dome Founders Room £6

I Believe in Unicorns

by Michael Morpurgo Tomas hates reading, but his world is turned upside down the day he is dragged into his local library and meets the Unicorn Lady… This intimate, interactive tale, based on a story by Michael Morpurgo, shows how books can hold more than stories within their pages. Add your own bit of magic by bringing a children’s book to add to Tomas’ library, and

Holly Smale Geek Girl Holly Smale spent two years as a teenage catwalk model before finding her smart and sassy voice in teen fiction. Her acclaimed and hugely popular novel Geek Girl, about the model misfit Harriet Manners, was the UK’s number one

Peacock Poetry Prize 2014 Brighton & Hove and Sussex poets aged 14–18 and 18–25 are invited to respond to the theme of belonging. In his new dance work, Sun, Hofesh Shechter suggests that the world is perfect. What do you think? What keeps us grounded

Adopt an Author An exciting project which links school and college classes with well-known authors to promote literacy, encourage writing and make the most of ICT. Eight weeks of email exchanges and creative fun culminate in a Meet your Author party during the Festival. This year Bevendean Primary, Rudyard Kipling,

swap it for another afterwards.

A magical storytelling show.

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Wizard

Duration: 60 minutes Age 6–11 Sign language interpreted performance at 10.30am

Sun 25 May 10.30am & 1.30pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £7

debut novel of 2013, shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2013.

Come and hear Holly talk about her geek-but-chic heroine, as well as her own journey to becoming an author.

Age 10+

Sun 25 May, 4pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £6

and together? Where do we really belong? We’ll be offering a celebratory event and some fantastic prizes to the writers of the best entries. For an entry form, email pippa.smith@brightonfestival.org.

Deadline for submissions Mon 31 Mar 2014 In partnership with Brighton, Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College.

Somerhill Juniors and BHASVIC are adopting authors Alex Milway, Nicola Davies, Rob Lloyd-Jones and Mick Jackson. You will be able to read a fascinating selection of their emails on the official blog: adoptanauthor.wordpress.com If your school would like to take part next year please contact: sarah@collectedworks.co.uk Produced by Collected Works CIC

26 Letters is supported by Mrs A Lacy Tate Trust and The Lynn Foundation

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Lunchtimes

Simon Thacker’s Svara-Kanti Japjit Kaur vocals Simon Thacker guitar Jacqueline Shave violin Sarvar Sabri tabla

Fusing Indian and Western music to create a sound all of its own, SvaraKanti combines explosive Indian rhythmic systems with the boundless potential of classical and jazz music.

Louis Sclavis and Friends (Lyon) Louis Sclavis clarinet Matthieu Metzger saxophone Jean-Philipe Feiss cello

One of the leading names in French jazz has put together a trio especially to revisit works that he has written for ECM Records over the

It’s a style that has redefined the limits of intercultural collaboration.

Having enjoyed tremendous success last year with the album Rakshasa, the group brings its unique vision of world music to the Festival for the first time.

Sun 4 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

past 25 years. The group performs a new version of each piece, playing solo, duo or in trio, on a voyage of discovery and rediscovery for all fans of virtuosic musicianship.

Mon 5 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Amarillis Trio (Angers)

Jeux de dames à la cour (1710–1740) or Ladies who play at court Héloïse Gaillard recorders, baroque oboe Violaine Cochard harpsichord Annabelle Luis cello

A fresh and dynamic voice on the Baroque music scene, the French ensemble Amarillis performs a selection of trios from the first half of the 18th century that range from haunting melancholy to zesty sprightliness, including works by Rameau, Marais and Couperin.

Tue 6 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Aquarelle Guitar Quartet Mike Baker Vasilis Bessas James Jervis Rory Russell Albéniz, arr. David Rose La Vega Elliot Goldenthal, arr. Mike Baker music from Frida Luis Bacalov, arr. Rory Russell music from Il Postino Gustavo Santaolalla, arr. Vasilis Bessas De Usuahia a la Quiaca

from Motorcycle Diaries Ian Krouse Folias

A string quartet, but not as you’ve heard it before: the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet combines breathtaking artistry

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and an infectious joie de vivre as they explore the furthest reaches of the repertory, from Renaissance music to film scores. In this concert they keep it largely contemporary, with arrangements of film music alongside Ian Krouse’s hypnotic Folias and Albéniz’s haunting La Vega.

Wed 7 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Mozart Berg

Schubert

F major sonata k. 497 Wozzeck interludes arr. by Francoise-Green piano duo Duo in A minor D 947, 'Lebensstürme'

It was a shared passion for the 20th-century repertoire that brought together the pianist–composer Antoine Francoise and the pianist–conductor Robin Green in 2008; winners of the 2011 Nicati Competition (Switzerland) and the chamber music category of last year’s Royal

Overseas League Competition, they have given more than 30 world premieres. In this concert, however, they balance their Berg with works by two of the undisputed masters of chamber music.

Jubilee Quartet

Music Competition and Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition, the Quartet performs a programme that includes two contrasting works by the British composer Frank Bridge: the deeply textured but ultimately melancholy Three Idylls and the String Quartet No. 4, in which he defined a radically expressionistic style.

Tereza Privratska violin Alma Olite violin Stephanie Edmundson viola Lauren Steel cello Bridge

Schubert

String Quartet No. 4 Three Idylls for String Quartet Quartetsatz

The Jubilee Quartet was formed at the Royal Academy of Music in 2006. Following success in last year’s St Martin’s Chamber

In association with The Royal Overseas League

In association with The Tillett Trust

Wed 14 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Lunchtimes

Francoise Green Piano Duo

Thu 15 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Jonathan Biss piano Beethoven Janácek

Chopin Beethoven

Sonata No. 6 Op.10, No. 2 Selections from On an Overgrown Path Nocturne Op 62. No 1 Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major Op. 53, 'Waldstein'

This young pianist has already established an international reputation as a recitalist and concerto soloist, performing with the major orchestras and in the great concert

venues of Europe and America. He was the first American to become a BBC Young Generation Artist. For his Brighton Festival debut he performs a programme that includes some of the supreme masterworks of the piano repertory.

Fri 16 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Troyka Chris Montague guitars, loops Joshua Blackmore drums Kit Downes organ

With its visceral mash-up of rock, jazz and dance music, the Trokya trio is part of a new generation of musicians who refuse to be constrained by old boundaries.

Troyka’s music twists and mutates in an ongoing dialogue inspired by a shared love of Aphex Twin, the saxophonist Tim Berne and the legendary guitarist Wayne Krantz.

‘ A unique trio that rises to the top of the UK scene.’ BBC Music Review

Sat 17 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

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Anna Rajah soprano Joshua Mills tenor Daniel Shelvey baritone Padraic Rowan bass baritone

This special concert presents members of Glyndebourne’s Jerwood Young Artists scheme performing operatic excerpts from every corner of the repertory.

Glyndebourne works with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation to

support the development of young singers; events like this are a vital part of their development as the great voices of tomorrow.

Supported by Andrew & Margaret Polmear

Mon 19 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Photo: Robert Workman

Lunchtimes

Glyndebourne’s Jerwood Young Artists

Benjamin Appl baritone James Baillieu piano Beethoven Schumann Schubert

An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98 Dichterliebe Op. 48 songs

Tue 20 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Rosalind Ventris viola James Baillieu piano Clarke Bridge Britten Faure Tchaikovsky

Sonata Pensiero Allegro Appassionato 'Lachrymae' 'Après un rêve' 'None but the Lonely Heart'

A classical music highlight of last year’s Festival was the recital series featuring music by Poulenc and Hahn, curated and performed by James Baillieu. This superb South African pianist returns with the young viola

virtuoso Rosalind Ventris, hailed as one of the finest young instrumentalists of her generation. They perform a programme that reveals the richness of the under-explored viola repertory.

In Association with Kirckman Concert Society

Wed 21 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Fournier Piano Trio Sulki Yu violin Pei-Jee Ng cello Chiao-Ying Chang piano Haydn Bridge Ravel

Piano Trio in A major Hob XV 35 Phantasie for Piano Trio in C minor Trio in A major

The young but accomplished Fournier Trio is already blazing a trail through the chamber music world, making acclaimed debuts at the Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall, London, and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, in recent years. They present a programme of

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contrasts that moves from the elegant classicism of Haydn to the passionate intensity of Bridge’s Phantasie and the fiendish challenges and rich textures of Ravel’s Trio in A major.

In association with Kirckman Concert Society

Thu 22 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Photo: David Jerusalem

An intimate programme of lieder masterworks performed by a singer who inherited the genre from one of the finest interpreters of our age: the German baritone Benjamin Appl was the last private pupil of the

great Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He is accompanied by James Baillieu, who is fast establishing himself as a Festival favourite.

Beethoven Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major Op. 110 Liszt Three Petrarch Sonnets

'Dante Sonata' from

Années de pèlerinage: Deuxieme

Année – Italie

Described as ‘disarmingly precocious’ by The New York Times and ‘a master of restraint’ by the Mittelbayerischezeitung, Ashley Fripp is forging an international career and has performed at all the

major London venues. His numerous awards include the first prize in the 2012 Brant International Piano Competition and the Gold Medal from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

In association with Craxton Memorial Trust

Fri 23 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Lunchtimes

Ashley Fripp piano

GoGo Penguin Chris Illingworth piano Nick Blacka bass Rob Turner drums

Photo: Peter J Hearn

Their groove-heavy, highly lyrical acoustic-electronica sound has made GoGo Penguin the band to watch on the UK’s contemporary jazz scene. Drawing on a heady brew of influences – from Squarepusher to Brian Eno, Debussy to John Cage, EST to Massive Attack – the Mancunian trio’s latest album, v.2.0, features skittering breakbeats, telepathic interplay and a taste for anthemic melody.

‘ Anthemic riffs and skittering grooves... push the acoustic piano trio into the future’ Jazzwise

‘ It’s obvious why the Manchester clubs are jumping to this band’ The Guardian Sat 24 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Festival Extra

Breakin’ Convention International Festival with Hip Hop Dance Theatre Brighton Dome welcomes street dance in from the street as the venue is transformed into a hip-hop festival of jawdropping performances by companies from around the world and around the corner. Hosted and curated by UK hip hop pioneer Jonzi D, Breakin’ Convention is more than just a show: DJs, dancers, demonstrations and workshops take over Brighton Dome’s spaces in the ultimate celebration of hip hop culture.

Tue 27 & Wed 28 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £7.50, £10, £12.50, £15, £18.50 Under 26s £10 Schools £7.50

Photo: Belinda Lawley

Alongside performances from local crews, Breakin’ Convention includes ILL-Abilities, an international b-boy company that challenges misconceptions about people with disabilities; Ukweli Roach, a founding member of UK’s BirdGang Dance Company and star of the film StreetDance 3D; and Wanted Posse, one of France’s leading crews. The perfect excuse for all ages to experience hip hop culture, Breakin’ Convention brings some of the best poppers, lockers, b-boys and street dancers on the planet to your doorstep. Take part in freestyle sessions with DJs in the Cafébar and workshops from top international artists such as Bright Soul - Brighton’s finest b-boys.

A Sadler’s Wells Project in association with Dance Consortium Line-up correct at time of print.

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Meet the Artists

Meet the Artists Your chance to interact with our Festival artists and companies beyond the shows, through a range of facilitated pre-show talks, postshow discussions and Morning After conversations. These intimate and informal encounters are a unique opportunity to learn more about the process of creation and the artists’ inspirations and passions. It’s also a chance for you to discover more about the show you are about to see, or respond to the work you have just experienced.

Free Admission: All Pre-Show Talks and Morning After conversations are free but ticketed.

Post-show discussions are free to event ticketholders.

Pre-Show Talks

Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Gavin Henderson Sun 11 May, 7pm William IV Room, Royal Pavilion KlezMahler with Nicholas Collon Mon 19 May, 6.45pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall

Post-Show Discussions (directly following show) Elias Quartet Sat 3 May All Saints Church, Hove

Talk to the Demon Tue 13 May Brighton Dome Concert Hall In Good Company Wed 14 May The Old Market

what happens to the hope...

Sun 4 May Brighton Dome Studio Theatre

Catch-22 Thu 15 May, 7.30pm performance Theatre Royal Brighton

Bonanza Sun 4 May Sallis Benney Theatre

Long Live the Little Knife Thu 15 May Brighton Dome Studio Theatre

Opus No. 7 Mon 5 May Brighton Dome Concert Hall

Thomas Hauert and Hofesh Shechter Sat 17 May The Old Market

Running on Empty Tue 6 May The Old Market

Tomorrow Fri 23 May Brighton Dome Corn Exchange

William Forsythe and Hofesh Shechter Sat 10 May See website for details

Morning Afters

Down by the Greenwood Side Susannah Waters and Nicola Black Sat 10 May, 5pm performance Harvey’s Depot

Wim Vandekeybus and Hofesh Shechter Wed 14 May, 11am Brighton Dome Concert Hall (meet in west corridor)

The Legend of Hamba Sun 11 May See website for details

Globe Theatre on Tour Fri 23 May, 11am Brighton Dome Founders Room

If you are coming to a Festival show in the evening at Brighton Dome, why not add one of our fine dining packages by pre-booking a two or three course meal (available on selected shows only) guaranteeing you a reserved table at which you can enjoy a relaxing dinner before taking your seat for the show.

Alternatively, take the last minute rush out of your evening by pre-booking a less formal sharing platter for two and savour the pre-show buzz in the bar.

Brighton Festival Hub

Festival Food and Drink Brighton Dome Foyer Café-bar is one of the city’s hidden gems, known for being a welcoming, light and spacious daytime café offering quality food, speciality coffees and decadent cakes as well as local draft beers in this beautiful historic venue. During May it becomes the heart of the Festival itself; an ideal place to meet up with friends, relax and soak up the unique atmosphere of such a vibrant city.

Open from 10am every morning until post-show each night, Peyton and Byrne’s all-day and evening menu is bursting with seasonal fare using only the freshest ingredients sourced from carefully selected local artisan producers and specialist suppliers. Enjoy light lunches, tasty salads, delicious savoury tarts, home made sandwiches and the famous Peyton and Byrne pies or take advantage of our £10 Festival Offer, chosen from healthy but hearty daily specials. And don’t forget Peyton and Byrne's signature range of cakes for the perfect finish to a wholesome lunch or simply as a sumptuous afternoon treat!

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Our very own Brighton Dome Studio Theatre Bar will become the Festival Hub this May. A place to meet, both pre- and post-show, to share stories about the shows you’ve seen, hear of those you shouldn't miss and soak up the Festival vibe.

Two course pre-show meal

£16.50

Three course pre-show meal

£19.50

Meat & Fish or Vegetarian sharing platter for 2

£14.50

Enjoy indoor or al fresco refreshments from 11am daily until midnight* and 1am at weekends. We’ll be serving up a selection of festival bites and favourite tipples; craft ales, local wines and even a very special Festival Cocktail. The atmosphere doesn’t stop when the curtain comes down. Come and join us at the Hub to get more from your Festival experience.

£24.50

*Opening times: Sun – Thu, 11am – 12pm Fri and Sat 11am – 1am. Food until 10pm daily.

(Excluding 8-10 May Great Escape Festival)

Sharing platter with bottle of house wine

Sat 5 Apr – Sun 15 June (closed 28 April – 2 May 2014) Brighton Museum & Art Gallery brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk FREE

Edward Burra; and urban images

by Carel Weight and David Redfern Seascapes by LS Lowry and Jeffrey Camp; rural scenes by Peter Doig and are all included in this exhibition that

Artist Open Houses weekends Sat 3 – Sun 25 May aoh.org.uk Each weekend in May local artists throw open their doors to bring you everything from sculpture and painting to jewellery and textiles.

More than 1,200 artists and

makers exhibit in over 200 venues citywide, providing art lovers with an engaging and inspiring experience and the opportunity to buy work and chat directly with the creators.

Don’t miss the AOH Open Exhibition: Upstairs @The Regency Town House, showcasing some of the most exciting work from this May’s Open House artists.

Brighton Fringe

Almost bursting at the seams, Brighton Fringe is back and it’s still four weeks long! You can expect art and

Thu 8 – Sat 10 May escapegreat.com Brightonticketshop.com The Great Escape is a festival of new music that showcases emerging artists from all over the world, and

Charleston Festival Fri 16 – Mon 26 May charleston.org.uk Shuttle bus from Lewes Station Where books, ideas and creativity bloom.

Photo: Philippa Perry

Join us to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Charleston Festival: an extravaganza of literature, ideas, art, drama and debate. Topics range

Image: Stoneware vessels, Renee Kilburn - The Ceramic House. Photographer: Matthew Andrews

creativity spilling out on to the streets from every venue imaginable; from pubs and theatres to basements and toilets! To help you decide what to see, take a trip to Fringe City on New Road for a free showcase of events on every weekend of Brighton Fringe.

Sat 3 May – Sun 1 June brightonfringe.org

The Great Escape

encourages the visitor to reflect on their own personal responses to the art that they see.

Beyond Brighton Festival

From Downs to Sea: A Slice of Life

is aimed at both music fans and industry professionals. Over 400 up and coming bands play in 35 Brighton venues, accessible on one wristband. It’s the first place to discover your new favourite band and see them in an intimate setting before they go on to headline major festival stages.

from the classics to work in progress, from science to fashion.

Speakers include: Jung Chang, Ian McEwan; Carol Ann Duffy, Richard Dawkins, David Hare; Robert Harris; Alan Bennett, Nicholas Hytner, Tim Winton, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Lorrie Moore, Michael Morpurgo, Grayson Perry, Paul Muldoon, Helen Garner and Paul Mason.

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Diary

Week 1: Sat 3 May Children’s Parade 10.30am p10 Pitch Perfect 1pm – 4pm p10

Sun 4 May

Mon 5 May

Murikamification 11am & 3pm (CB) p12 Creative Writing 11am – 12.30pm (FR) p60

Murikamification 1pm & 5pm (CB) p12

Simon Thacker’s Svara-Kanti 1pm (ST) p64

The White Balloon & 10 Minutes Older 1.30pm (DOY) p12

Get set to write a story! 1.30pm (FR) p60

Opus No. 7 5pm (CE) p11

Sun Dust 3pm (CH) p13

One 6pm (ST) p14 The Beethoven Project Part 1

JS Bach The Art of Fugue 3pm (G) p15

7.30pm (AS) p14

what happens to the hope… 9pm (ST) p15 Hofesh Shechter’s Sun 9pm (CH) p13

Book-making Workshop 3.30 – 5.30pm (FR) p60

Louis Sclavis and Friends 1pm (ST) p64 Opus No. 7 3pm (CE) p11 Bonanza 6pm & 8pm (SBT) p16 what happens to the hope… 6pm (ST) p15 Little Fugitive 6.30pm (DOY) p17 Baroque Inspiration 7.30pm (SGC) p17 One 9pm (ST) p14

Viv Albertine 4pm (TOM) p16 Opus No. 7 5pm (CE) p11 One 6pm (ST) p14 Bonanza 7.30pm (SBT) p16 Irvine Welsh 8pm (TOM) p17 what happens to the hope… 9pm (ST) p15 Hofesh Shechter’s Sun 9pm (CH) p13

Week 2: Sat 10 May

Sun 11 May

Mon 12 May

Bring the Happy 11am – 7pm (O) p23

Marcia Williams 10.30am (SBT) p61

Bring the Happy 11am – 7pm (O) p23

David Almond 12.30pm (SBT) p60

Bring the Happy 11am – 7pm (O) p23

Slap Talk 12pm – 5pm (UC) p26

Frantic 1.15pm, 4.30pm & 5.30pm (BSF) p24 Hugo and Josephine 1.30pm (DOY) p24

Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell 12.30pm (SBT) p61 The Legend of Hamba 2pm & 5pm (PG) p24

Three Score Dance Company Plans (BS) p22

A Story of Children and Film 2pm (DOY) p24

Angie Sage 2pm (SBT) p60

Down by the Greenwood Side 3pm (HD) p21

’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 2.30pm & 7.30pm (TRB) p20

Professor McGonagall Tea Party Quiz 4pm (SBT) p6

Darren Shan 4pm (SBT) p61

Birtwistle in conversation 7pm (WIV) p25

Down by the Greenwood Side 5pm & 9.30pm (HD)

p21

Orpheus Britannicus 8pm (MR) p25

Illustrators Evening 7pm (SBT) p61 William Forsythe & Hofesh Shechter p22

Week 3: Sat 17 May

Sun 18 May

Mon 19 May

Bring the Happy 11am – 7pm (O) p23

Bring the Happy 11am – 7pm (O) p23

Walking Stories 11am, 2pm & 4pm (SP) p37

Walking Stories 11am, 2pm & 4pm (SP) p37

Troyka 1pm (ST) p65

Enhanced Dance…

ZOO

11am & 4pm (TOM) p36

Catch-22 2.30pm & 7.30pm (TRB) p30 Enhanced Dance… 3pm (TOM) p36 ZOO

Alex Bellos 4pm (ST) p37 The Beethoven Project Part 2 7.30pm (AS) p38 Bob Stanley 8pm (ST) p39 The Immigration Debate 8pm (CH) p38

Ours Was the Fen Country 9pm (ST) p27

Zara McFarlane 8pm (TOM) p25

Mourning Glory Part 1 10am – 6pm (FR) p31

Mourning Glory Part 3 2pm – 8pm (FR) p31

Children in the Wind 6.30pm (DOY) p28 Blush 6.30pm (DK) p28

Gym Party 8.30pm (CE) p26

Mourning Glory Part 1 10am – 8pm (FR) p31

Palle Alone in the World + Crows 1.30pm (DOY) p37

Push Me, Pull You! 6pm (CE) p27

Bring the Happy 11am – 7pm (O) p23 Jerwood Young Artists 1pm Glyndebourne’s

(ST) p66 Willow and Wind 6.30pm (DOY) p43 The Epicene Butcher… 8pm (ST) p43

Mourning Glory Part 3 12pm – 5pm (FR) p31

KlezMahler 8pm (CH) p44

AC Grayling 2pm (CE) p41

Peaches Christ Superstar 8pm (TRB) p42

Ida Barr’s Mash Up 2pm & 5pm (ST) p41 Brighton’s Youth Celebrate Tavener 5pm (SB) p41 Who Pays The Price? 7.30pm (SBT) p41 Cat Power 8pm (CH) p42 Mourning Glory Part 2 8.30pm (ST) p31

African Dance Party 9pm – 2am (CE) p39 Safe House 9pm (HP) p40

Sat 24 May Florentine & Pig 10.30am (FR) p62 Tom Percival 12.30pm (FR) p62 GoGo Penguin 1pm (ST) p67 Much Ado About Nothing

1pm, 6pm (SNR) p50 Dementia Debate 1pm (CE) p54 Munch! 1pm & 3pm (TOM) p55

Sun 25 May I Believe in Unicorns 10.30am & 1.30pm (ST) p63 Munch! 11am & 1pm (TOM) p55 Much Ado About Nothing 1pm, & 6pm (SNR) p50

Nowhere and Everywhere… 11am – 8pm (OMM) p6 Music Box Orchestra Sat 3 – Sat 17 May (FR) p7

Spies: Fact & Fiction 4pm (CH) p58

Flown 2.30pm, 7.30pm (TRB) p51

Edmund White Inside a Pearl 8pm (CH) p58

Nicola Davies 2.30pm (FR) p62

Murder on Sea 8pm (ST) p59

Natalie Haynes & Lindsey Davis 3.30pm (ST) p55

Les Slovaks Opening Night 8pm (CE) p59 Bring the Happy Live 7.30pm (TOM) p23

Tomorrow 7.30pm (CE) p48

The Monopoly of Legitimate Use 11am – 6pm (L) p9 One Owns the Land 12pm – 6pm No

Thu – Sun (RTH) p9 Leah Gordon Caste/Cast 12pm – 6pm

Thu – Sun (RTH) p9 Phillip Hall-Patch Salt Field (WH) p9 Jacob Dahlgren On Balance 12pm – 7pm (F) p9 While You Wait p26

Lynn Barber 6pm (ST) p56 Bring the Happy Live 7.30pm (TOM) p23

Yinka Shonibare The British Library

Tue – Sun, 10pm – 5pm (ORL) p8

Holly Smale Geek Girl 4pm (ST) p63 Bring the Happy Live 7.30pm (TOM) p23

Down Terrace 6.30pm (DK) p56

Zimoun 10am – 5pm (UBG) p7

Brighton Rock 2pm (DK) p58

Tomka and his Friends 1.30pm (DOY) p55

Perhaps all the Dragons… 4pm, 7pm & 9pm (S) p49

Throughout the Festival

Festival Extra

Asylum in the City Thu – Sun, 12 – 6pm (RTH) p8

Breakin’ Convention

Tue 27 & Wed 28 May (CH) 7.30pm p67

Philharmonia Orchestra 7.30pm (CH) p57 Tony Parsons 9pm (ST) p56 One Million 9.45pm (BR) p53 Metamorphosen 10.30pm (OMM) p57

Colour Key Week 1 (3–9 May)

Week 2 (10–16 May)

Week 3 (17–25 May)

This also corresponds to the colour coding throughout the brochure

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Throughout the Festival

Wed 7 May

Amarillis Trio 1pm (ST) p64 Bonanza 6pm & 8pm (SBT) p16 Opus No. 7 7pm (CE) p11 Running On Empty

7.30pm (TOM) p18 Martin Creed Band 8pm (ST) p18

Tue 13 May Bring the Happy 11am – 7pm (O) p23 Catch-22 7.30pm (TRB) p30 The Bullet and the Bass Trombone 8pm (ST) p27 Hauschka 8pm (CE) p28 Talk to the Demon 8pm (CH) p29

Thu 8 May

Fri 9 May

Opus No. 7 7pm (CE) p11

Aquarelle Guitar Quartet 1pm (ST) p64

’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 7.30pm (TRB) p20

’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 7.30pm (TRB) p20

Opus No. 7 7pm (CE) p11

Mozart Exsultate, Jubilate 7.30pm (SGC) p22

Running On Empty 7.30pm (TOM) p18

Down by the Greenwood Side

9.30pm (HD) p21

Ben Watt 8pm (ST) p19

Diary

Tue 6 May

Talvin Singh’s Bombay Talkies

8.30pm (CH) p19

Wed 14 May

Thu 15 May

Fri 16 May

Mourning Glory Part 1

10am – 8pm (FR) p31

Mourning Glory Part 1

10am – 8pm (FR) p31

Mourning Glory Part 1

10am – 8pm (FR) p31

Bring the Happy 11am – 7pm (O) p23

Bring the Happy 11am – 7pm (O) p23

Bring the Happy 11am – 7pm (O) p23

Francoise Green Piano Duo

1pm (ST) p65 Mourning Glory Part 3

2pm – 8pm (FR) p31 Catch-22 7.30pm (TRB) p30 In Good Company 2014 7.30pm (TOM) p32 The Building of England 8pm (SM) p32 Long Live the Little Knife 8.30pm (ST) p31

Jubilee Quartet 1pm (ST) p65

Jonathan Biss 1pm (ST) p65

Mourning Glory Part 3 2pm – 8pm (FR) p31

Mourning Glory Part 3 2pm – 8pm (FR) p31

Catch-22 2.30pm & 7.30pm (TRB) p30

The Tempest in Musick 7.30pm (CH) p35

Wild Justice 7.30pm (UC) p32

Like Rabbits 8pm (CE) p33

Catch-22 7.30pm (TRB) p30

Information is Beautiful

8pm (CH) p34

Rhys 8pm (CE) p34 Gruff

Desert Island Pics 8pm (ST) p36

Long Live the Little Knife 8.30pm (ST) p31 Moog Ensemble 9pm (AS) p33

Tue 20 May Tipping Point 10am – 7pm (FR) p45 Appl & James Baillieu Benjamin

1pm (ST) p66 The Epicene Butcher… 8pm (ST) p43 & Sidiki Diabaté Toumani

8pm (TRB) p45 Point Live Tipping

8.30pm (FR) p45

Wed 21 May

Thu 22 May

Fri 23 May

Tipping Point 10am – 8pm (FR) p45

Tipping Point 10am – 8pm (FR) p45 Ventris & James Baillieu Rosalind

1pm (ST) p66

Fournier Piano Trio 1pm (ST) p66 Young City Reads 1.30pm (CH) p62 all the Dragons…

Perhaps

5.30pm, 7.30pm & 9.30pm (S) p49

The Epicene Butcher …

7pm & 9.30pm (ST) p43 Tavener Supernatural Songs 7.30pm (AS) p46

Much Ado About Nothing 6pm (SNR) p50

Tipping Point 10am – 6pm (FR) p45

Ashley Fripp 1pm (ST) p67 Perhaps all the Dragons…

5.30pm, 7.30pm & 9.30pm (S) p49 Ado About Nothing 6pm Much

(SNR) p50 Cake Tea Party 6.30pm (DK) p52 Layer

Tomorrow 7.30pm (CE) p48

Tomorrow 7.30pm (CE) p48

Flown 7.30pm (TRB) p51

Flown 7.30pm (TRB) p51

Tomorrow 7.30pm (CE) p48

Sinué 7.30pm (CH) p47

Sinué 7.30pm (CH) p47

Twisted Angels 8pm (ST) p50

The Beethoven Project Part 3 7.30pm (AS) p52

Perhaps all the dragons…

7.30pm & 9.30pm (S) p49

the Happy Live 7.30pm (TOM) p23 Bring

Peter James 8pm (ST) p52 Emmylou Harris 8pm (CH) p54 One Million 9.45pm (BR) p53

Venue Key All Saints Church (AS)

Harvey’s Depot (HD)

St George’s Church (SGC)

Black Rock (BR)

Hove Park (HP)

St Michael and All Angels Church (SM)

Brighton Station (BS)

Lighthouse (L)

St Nicholas Rest Garden (SNR)

Brighton Seafront (BSF)

Royal Pavilion, Music Room (MR)

Stanmer Park (SP)

Brighton Dome Corn Exchange (CE)

Onca Gallery (O)

Brighton Dome Studio Theatre (ST)

Brighton Dome Concert Hall (CH)

Old Reference Gallery (ORL)

The Old Market (TOM)

Duke of York's (DOY)

The Old Municipal Market (OMM)

Theatre Royal Brighton (TRB)

Duke’s at Komedia (DK)

Regency Town House (RTH)

University of Brighton Gallery (UBG)

Fabrica (F)

The Spire, St Mark's Chapel (S)

Brighton Unitarian Church (UC)

Brighton Dome Founders Room (FR)

St Bartholomhew’s Church (SB)

William IV Room Royal Pavilion (WIV)

Glyndebourne Opera House (GOH)

Sallis Benney Theatre (SBT)

The Waste House (WH)

Events Key Art & Film

Books & Debate

Classical Music

Contemporary Music

Dance

Outdoor

Theatre

Children & Family

Lunchtimes

26 Letters

Meet the Artists

Circus

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10 mins ONCA Gallery

Jubilee Library

Duke’s at Komedia

15 mins Hove Park 1

3 mins St Nicholas Rest Garden 5 mins Brighton Station 18 mins St Michael’s Church

Map

1 min Lighthouse 11 mins Duke of York’s Picturehouse

35 mins Stanmer Park

The Old Municipal Market

Jubilee Square

Victoria Gardens

Unitarian Church

Church Street

Ticket Office

Theatre Royal Brighton

Fabrica

Corn Exchange

Sallis Benney Theatre

Founders Room & Café–bar The Old Reference Library

University of Brighton Gallery

Brighton Dome

Studio Theatre

Concert Hall

C LTU RA CU AL QUAR RTT E R

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Pavilion Gardens

Royal Pavilion

Music Room

15 mins St George’s Church 27 mins The Spire

THE LAN NEEES S

Visitor Information

Petanque Court Brighton Seafront Regency Town House The Old Market All Saints Church

War Memorial

Steine Gardens

The Lanes

13 mins Black Rock

12 12 14 30

mins mins mins mins

Friends Meeting House

Coach Station Fishing Museum

Sea Life Centre

Artists’ Quarter

Brighton Pier

About 5min walk This map is part of a wider scheme, including on-street signs, printed maps and a free WalkBrighton app. For more information go to Visitbrighton.com Copyright © 2010 Brighton & Hove City Council, using map design and source data supplied under licence. All right reserved. Designed by Applied Information Group

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Concert Hall Corn Exchange Founders Room Café-bar

Church Street, BN1 1UD

Fabrica 40 Duke Street Brighton BN1 1AG fabrica.org.uk

The Old Market Upper Market Street (off Western Road),

Hove BN3 1AS theoldmarket.com

Studio Theatre

New Road, BN1 1UG 01273 709709 brightondome.org

saintmichaelsbrighton.org

Glyndebourne Near Lewes East Sussex BN8 5UU glyndebourne.com

All Saints Church The Drive, Hove BN3 3QE

Black Rock Madeira Drive Brighton BN2 1FY

Brighton Station Queens Road, BN1 3XP

Brighton Unitarian Church New Rd, Brighton, BN1 1UF 01273 710452 brightonunitarian.org.uk

Duke’s at Komedia 44 Gardner Street Brighton BN1 1UN picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/ dukes_at_komedia

The Old Municipal Market Circus Street, Brighton BN2 9QF

St Nicholas Rest Garden Dyke Road, BN1 3LJ

Wheelchair access – foyer circle level only

Pavilion Gardens Brighton, BN1 1ED Harvey’s Depot Pinwell Road Lewes BN7 2JS

Hove Park Goldstone Crescent Brighton BN3

Lighthouse 1, Zone B 28 Kensington Street Brighton BN1 4AJ lighthouse.org.uk

Duke of York’s Picturehouse Preston Road Brighton BN1 4NA

St Michael and All Angels Church St Michael’s Place, Brighton, BN1 3FU 01273 822284

brighton.ac.uk/gallerytheatre

The Old Reference Library Brighton Museum Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton BN1 1EE

Regency Town House 13 Brunswick Square Hove BN3 1EH

St George’s Church St George’s Road Kemp Town Brighton BN2 1ED

Music Room, Royal Pavilion Pavilion Gardens, BN1 1EE royalpavilion.org.uk

Onca Gallery 14 St George’s Place, Brighton, BN1 4GB onca.org.uk

Sallis Benney Theatre 58–67 Grand Parade Brighton BN2 OJY

The Spire, St Mark’s Chapel Church Place / Eastern Road Brighton, BN2 5JN

St Bartholomew's Church Ann St, Brighton BN1 4GP

Stanmer Park Stony Mere Way, Brighton BN1 9QA

Festival Venues & Access

Brighton Dome

Please note Stanmer Woods may not be suitable for wheelchairs

Theatre Royal Brighton New Road, Brighton BN1 1SD ambassadortickets.com/brighton

University of Brighton Gallery & The Waste House 58–67 Grand Parade Brighton BN2 OJY

Brighton Seafront East of Petanque Court, Brighton BN1

Assisted Performances British sign language interpreted performances: what happens to the hope at the end of an evening Mon 5 May, 6pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre Catch-22 Sat 17 May, 7.30pm Theatre Royal Brighton

Cover concept: johnson banks johnsonbanks.co.uk Brochure design: Agata Rybicka Cover Illustration: Chris Kaush Copywriting: Oliver Tims

Tomorrow Sat 24 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange I Believe in Unicorns Sun 25 May, 10.30am Brighton Dome Studio Theatre BSL interpretation by Sue MacLaine for all shows except Catch-22 which is interpreted

by Caroline Ryan

Brighton Festival is produced and promoted by Brighton Dome and Festival Ltd. Registered Charity number 249748. Brochure correct at time of going to press. Brighton Festival reserves the right to alter the programme without prior notice if necessary. Full terms and conditions available at brightonfestival.org

performances:

Touch tour for visually impaired audiences:

‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore Sat 10 May, 7.30pm Theatre Royal Brighton

Much Ado About Nothing Fri 23 May, 4.40pm St Nicholas Rest Garden

Catch-22 Thu 15 May, 7.30pm Theatre Royal Brighton

For further access information see brightonfestival.org/access or to make access enquiry please contact access@brightonfestival.org or call our Ticket Office on 01273 709709

Brighton Festival Chief Executive Andrew Comben

Brighton Festival would like to thank all the artists, partners, venues and sponsors, and the entire team of Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival who make this Festival happen.

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12a Pavilion Buildings Castle Square Brighton BN1 1EE

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Membership

Be part of something special Make a Donation

Become a Member

Join the Patrons Circle

All gifts received, however small, are greatly appreciated. You can top up on ticket purchases, use our donation box in our Café-bar or text a gift.

For as little as £30 you can enjoy a host of year-round benefits.

Do you share a passion for the arts in Brighton?

Membership highlights this May:

To help us deliver the festival you can offer support with a gift. It’s easy, just text BDFL14 £2 to 70070

• Invitations to special members–only

You can join the Patrons Circle for an annual gift of £1,000.

Patrons enjoy a calendar of unique events, a bespoke service and acknowledgement, as well as all the benefits of membership.

Thank you

events and behind-the-scenes rehearsals • 20% discount at the Café-bar

each time you visit us • £10 Festival Standby tickets on

many events And beyond Brighton Festival, you can enjoy priority booking on a selection of Brighton Dome events and all Brighton Festival 2015 events.

Call Kelly on 01273 260827

Patron highlights this May: • Lunch with this year’s Guest

Director, Hofesh Shechter • Private rehearsals and invitations

to enjoy a glass of wine and see some of the highlights of this year’s programme • Exclusive Patron ticket line,

directing your call straight through to the box office You’ll also kick start your involvement in Brighton Festival 2015 with an advanced presentation of the programme by Chief Executive, Andrew Comben, an exclusive opening of the box office and invitations to the festival launch.

Call Ceri on 01273 260818

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Wed 26 Feb – Wed 5 Mar: Members Priority booking Thu 6 Mar: Public bookings commence Online brightonfestival.org By phone 01273 709709 In Person Brighton Dome, Ticket Office 29 New Road, Brighton BN1 1UG 10am – 6pm, Mon – Sat 10am – 7pm, Mon to Sun throughout the Festival If collecting tickets, please bring the same card used to purchase online or by phone.

There is a £2 per order charge for all phone and online bookings (not applicable to Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival memebers). Plus: 50p standard post £1.50 recorded delivery

Make the most of your Festival trip Come for a day or come and stay in everyone’s favourite city by the sea and make a Festival break of it. To make the most of your visit and to find out about offers on accommodation and restaurants during Brighton Festival visit www.visitbrighton.org Need a babysitter? Visit classoftheirown.com/athome

Get more from your Festival

Get Connected to Brighton Festival

Getting to the Festival

Festival Multibuy Offer Buy tickets for six different Brighton Festival events and we’ll give you the cheapest free.

There are now more ways than ever before to tap in to the Brighton Festival spirit both online and across the airwaves. News, interviews, reviews and exclusive offers can be found across our social media channels daily brightonfestival and brightfest or get in touch with us with your comments.

You can also check out brightonfestival.org/extras for podcasts featuring exclusive Brighton Festival content and live streams of events. Or for more Festival offers as well as previews and reviews of all Festival events see the Argus newspaper and argus.co.uk/brightonfestival or the regular coverage, critiques and comments in The Arts Desk theartsdesk.com.

By rail It’s less than one hour to Brighton from London Victoria by many fast trains. There are lots of coastal connections too.

Terms and conditions: one transaction, through the Ticket Office. Offer not available online.

Only tickets for six different events are valid (i.e. not six tickets for the same event). The number of free sixth tickets tallies with the equivalent number of paid tickets in your transaction (i.e. you get two free if two tickets are bought for each of the other five events). £10 Festival Standby Book the best available seats in person from one hour before the show on many events. Available to under 26s, over 60s, JSA/IS, registered disabled/DLA or IB and Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Members.

See more Festival for less There are 26 free events and 112 performances with tickets for £10 or less in this year’s Brighton Festival programme.

Booking Info / Get more

Make your booking

By bus Bus travel around Brighton & Hove is fast and frequent.

By air Brighton is 30 minutes from Gatwick by train or car.

By road Brighton is approx 60 miles from London via the A23/M23 and is well connected regionally by the A27.

NCP car park Church Street is just £5 from 5.30pm. There are special £5 car park tickets available at all Festival matinee performances at Brighton Dome and Theatre Royal Brighton.

Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Members save 30% at all times.

See the show and buy the book Independent book shop, The Book Nook will be on hand selling titles at most of our Books and Debates and 26 Letters events.

See brightonfestival.org for details of exclusive book signings at events.

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