Brighton Festival 2015 Brochure by Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival

2–24 MAY 2015 GUEST DIRECTOR:

ALI SMITH brightonfestival.org 01273 709709

3 – 25 MAY 2014 GUEST DIRECTOR: ALI SMITH brightonfestival.org 01273 709709

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Imagine the borders between the artforms. Imagine them opened, crossed, melted, made invisible, so that poetry meets music meets theatre meets dance meets thought meets sculptural meets rhythm meets fiction meets the natural world. Actually there's no need to imagine it – all we have to do is go and see something, hear something, just be present at any art event, because it's what happens in the arts all the time, quite naturally, just as naturally as that bird that catches the eye as it flies over our heads has crossed the wide open sky to get here, and always will at this time of year.

Guest Director Ali Smith

Imagine the world seen from the eye of a bird. Migrating birds are born naturally equipped with maps that even new-born birds know how to follow. Imagine maps of landscapes with no border, and birds with nothing but the urge to flock together, get there, be here now.

It's tremendously exciting to have been asked to help programme the 2015 Brighton Festival. I'm delighted and honoured – what a gift, to be asked to do this, imagine – the biggest multi-arts spectacular in England. I've always loved Brighton's sense of fun and friendliness, its vibrant open-mindedness, the way it opens to sky, the way the rest of Europe is so close it's almost visible. It's a city that's always known how to live on the edge, a place full of endless energy, argument, possibilities, light. No matter the wildness or mildness of the weather, no matter the zigzag of zeitgeist elsewhere north or south of it, Brighton is always itself, and always uniquely welcoming. I'm a fan of the crossing places between the artforms, the places where they meet, open to each other and fuse into the wider world, and of the places where our worlds, our words and our imaginations all meet up. The word festival comes from the place where the word for feast crosses into the word for joyful, happy, honouring, celebratory. Cross all those things with the word Brighton and the month of May, and look what happens. It's that time of year again. I can't wait.

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Take flight and enjoy the view!

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There are 23 free events and 105 performances for £10 or less to help you see more of this year's Brighton Festival programme.

Play your Part Head to p62 for ways to participate in this year’s Brighton Festival, and check online for how to be part of our finale outdoor event on p61

Art & Film

Food and Drink

Books & Debate

During May, Brighton Dome’s Café-bar on Church Street becomes the heart of Brighton Festival; an ideal place to meet friends, relax and soak up the atmosphere. JRC Café presents a menu of seasonal dishes and a signature range of delicious cakes all made with fresh ingredients, sourced from local producers and suppliers. Plus, don’t miss hearty £10 Festival daily specials.

Children & Family Circus Classical Music

10am til 9pm Daily

(closed during The Great Escape 14-16 May)

The Hub

Contemporary Music

Our very own Brighton Dome Studio Theatre Bar on New Road becomes the go-to place to meet, pre and post-show, to share stories, natter about what you’ve just seen and drink in the Festival vibe – the atmosphere doesn’t stop when the curtain comes down.

Comedy Dance

Sun – Thu, 6pm – 12am I Fri & Sat 6pm – 1am Food until 9pm daily

Outdoor

See the Show - 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.

Theatre

Meet the Artists

Lunchtimes 26 Letters Access events

And don’t miss p38 - 39 for an essential guide to the themes that appear in this year’s Brighton Festival.

Book best available seats in person from the venue just before the show on many events. Festival Standbys are only available to under 26s, over 60s, JSA/IS, registered disabled/DLA or IB, Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival Members and Brighton Festival artists.

For your chance to interact with our Brighton Festival artists and companies, look out for pre and post show details across the event pages. Admission is free to performance ticket-holders, unless otherwise stated. We're pleased to be welcoming Guardian Live as a partner, see brightonfestival.org for details. Guardian Live is a programme of discussions, debates and interviews bringing the power of open journalism from print and digital into live experiences.

A Brighton Festival Exclusive UK Premiere Throughout Brighton Festival, Circus Street Market will be transformed into a playground of investigation into weather, water and scale, developed by Australian creators Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey - award winning sound artists who work with the human experience of listening. For Gauge, they invited two scientists, Michael Roderick and Adrian Pearce alongside artists, Cameron Robbins, whose work uses the forces of the natural world, Graeme Leak, who has a lifetime of working with water in percussion and Rosemary Joy. Incorporating an on-site weather station, Gauge is a sonically orchestrated environment activated by both the weather and the people within it. An artistic response to critical issues around water, Gauge offers audiences a hands-on encounter with an array of contemporary and historical apparatus and the chance to witness the effect they have on their environment.

Sat 2 – Sun 24 May

Gauge (Melbourne)

At once an exhibition, an installation and a series of talks and performance ‘interruptions’, Gauge invigorates our age-old curiosity in this most vital of substances. Sat 2 - Sun 24 May Circus Street Market See brightonfestival.org for opening times

Erode Alongside the Australian artists, Brighton-based musicians Johanna Bramli & Ed Chivers create a new site-responsive work for the Gauge provocation; Erode is an exploration into time, sound and the certainty of finitude

Water Matters Gauge meets Biosphere The Brighton & Lewes Downs is now a UNESCO World Biosphere site, which means it is part of a global network of international areas that bring people and nature together to pursue better living for the future. Over the course of the weekend, you can take part in various family activities - such as a Minecraft virtual world to uncover precious water resources hidden beneath the ground - and find out why our water really matters. You are also invited to contribute you thoughts and ideas in a daily discussion at 2pm, between Gauge and the Biosphere team exploring the similarities and differences of the environment, nature and water issues in Australia and Brighton. Sat 16 & Sun 17 May

Kindly supported by:

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Sat 2 – Sun 24 May

Sarah Wood and Lucy Harris A Murmuration Murmuration (noun): 1. the act of murmuring, the utterance of a low continuous voicing of dissent 2. a flock What can we learn from a murmuration of birds? How do we feel when we observe the patterns of birds in flight? And what has observation come to mean in a country where we are subject to more surveillance than at any point in history? These are the starting points for A Murmuration, a collaborative art project that responds to the Brighton Festival 2015 theme of migration by asking what freedom of movement and thought really means. In collaboration with writers Helen Macdonald and Olivia Laing, A Murmuration combines film, text, images and cross-artform dialogue to rethink how we frame the natural world, how we understand patterns and just how free is the modern gaze. Sat 2 - Sun 24 May Wed - Fri, 12 noon - 7pm Sat & Sun, 11am - 6pm Onca Gallery

Marcus Coates

Dawn Chorus Co-produced by Brighton Festival Dawn Chorus, by British artist Marcus Coates, uses unique digital methods to explore the relationship between birdsong and the human voice, drawing out similarities between the behaviour of birds and humans. This immersive multi-screen film installation features 19 individual singers who uncannily recreate birdsong and bird movement. Together they form a chorus that accurately simulates the sounds and timings of a natural dawn chorus. With each singer depicted in an everyday location: an underground car park, an osteopathic clinic, a bedroom, a bathtub, Dawn Chorus is as much a portrait of British society as it is of the natural world. Loaned by the Arts Council Collection, South Bank Centre, A Fabrica and Brighton Festival co-production

Sat 2 – Sun 24 May, 12 noon – 7pm Fabrica

Portraits of Dissension Co-commission by Brighton Festival

City Collective

A new commission by renowned British contemporary artist Nathan Coley, this year's invited HOUSE artist.

A photograph taken of all the Grand Hotel staff standing on the balconies the day that it reopened after the 1984 bombing is a starting point for this project, which is in a sense a portrait, reminding us that terrorist attacks both in Brighton and around the globe affect change in communities as much as in politics. Local residents’ reflections on this and wider issues around growth and change, anxiety and unrest are represented in this digital community project.

Coley’s exhibition takes as its point of departure themes of architecture in a state of renewal and destruction, including materials referencing Brighton’s Royal Palace and images of a Brighton landmark building on the day it was bombed, together with ready-made documents from a morally uncertain world. Marking moments in history and the collective memory, Portraits of Dissension are not illustrations of the events themselves, but more an abstract which to explore wider implications, more universal ideas: a memorable and fixed point about which we can begin a discussion, relate back, reflect and consider what's next. This exhibition acts as a locater in which to explore ideas of unrest, the monumental and absence, edge and shift, portraiture and representation, space and occupation. Nathan Coley (b. 1967) was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art. In 2007 he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. He is interested in how we relate to public space and architecture and what we believe. He often uses architecture as a readymade, as a means to take from and replace in the world. His work is sensitive to its context and concerned with the process of historic interpretation and the aftermath of politically charged situations.

Sat 2 – Sun 24 May

Nathan Coley

Co-commisioned by HOUSE and Photoworks

HOUSE 2015 Commissions The theme of Edge & Shift is the starting point for a series of new artists commissions for HOUSE 2015 that make a point of connection with the subjects explored in Nathan Coley’s new sculptural work. These thought-provoking projects are made in a range of media and exhibited across different locations and include co-commissions with both Lighthouse and Photoworks. A lively public programme accompanies the exhibitions. Regency Town House Basement and other city venues – for further info and opening times see brightonfestival.org or pick up a HOUSE brochure

Sat 2 – Sun 24 May Wed – Sun, 12noon – 6pm The Regency Town House Co-commisioned with HOUSE

You Imagine What You Desire, 2014 | Illuminated text on scaffolding | 550 x 550 x 240 cm | Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh | Image credit: Keith Hunter

Sat 2 – Sun 24 May

Rachel Kneebone Remember that we sometimes demand definitions for the sake not of content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one: the definition is a kind of ornamental coping that supports nothing. ‘The smoothness, the tumescence, the milky flow of feminine nudity anticipates a sensation of liquid outpour, which itself opens onto death like a window onto a courtyard.’ ‘But a sort of rupture – in anguish – leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.’ ‘Emerging out of an inconceivable void into the play of beings.’ 2014, Porcelain, Dimensions variable

Oxfordshire-born Kneebone draws on a host of literary and artistic sources in her finely sculpted porcelain work, from Ovid’s Metamorphosis to the surreal, expressive figures of Rodin's The Gates of Hell. Her sculptures have been exhibited around the world, including solo exhibitions at New York’s Brooklyn Museum and White Cube, Bermondsey. Sat 2 – Sun 24 May Mon - Sun 10am to 5pm Thu 10am – 8pm University of Brighton Gallery

Courtesy of the artist and White Cube

We are delighted to celebrate legendary French filmmaker Agnès Varda throughout this year's Festival programme with a gallery installation, a short selection of her films, plus a very special personal appearance.

Agnès Varda: Screen Talk

Agnes Varda Installation

Agnès Varda was recently awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the European Film Academy for her outstanding body of work. An outspoken feminist throughout her career, Varda, now 86, has created some of the most interesting female protagonists in 20th-century cinema. In a rare visit to the UK, Agnès Varda presents an illustrated lecture exploring her screen career illustrated with extracts from her films.

Sat 2 – Sun 24 May Mon – Sun 10am - 5pm Thu 10am – 8pm University of Brighton Gallery

Sat 2 – Sun 24 May

Agnès Varda

This special Brighton Festival event complements a short selection of films - her rarely seen debut La Pointe Courte (p16), her five-part series for French television, From Here to There (p20) and her first full-length feature film Vagabond (p30). Sun 3 May, 4.30pm Duke of York’s Picturehouse £10

‘I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.’ Agnès Varda

Sat 2 – Sun 24 May

Roundabout at Regency Square Paines Plough is the national theatre of new plays. Its Roundabout auditorium is a beautiful pop-up, in-the-round theatre which pitches up in Regency Square for the duration of Brighton Festival 2015. A self-contained 168-seat circular auditorium that flat packs into a lorry, Roundabout has travelled around the UK bringing the nation’s best playwrights to people’s doorsteps. Our Teacher's A Troll, Lungs and The Initiate are performed 'in rep' by an exceptional cast and Every Brilliant Thing features Jonny Donahoe.

Our Teacher’s A Troll Sat 2 May - Sat 16 May

Lungs

Sat 2 May - Fri 22 May

The Initiate

Sun 3 May - Fri 22 May

Every Brilliant Thing

Tue 19 May - Sun 24 May See page 49

‘Something strange and delightful has landed... it's Paines Plough's portable Roundabout’ Evening Standard Book more than one Roundabout show and save 20% on additional show(s) (not available online)

Paines Plough and Half Moon Our Teacher’s A Troll by Dennis Kelly Two terrible twins rule their school with terror and tyranny until the arrival of a new headteacher with green scaly skin, gnarly fangs and a long spiky tail. Can the twins save the school from this childeating troll? Can they get Brussels sprouts in peanut butter taken off the menu? And most importantly, will naughtiness prevail? An outrageously entertaining comic caper from the writer of Matilda The Musical. Age 7+ Duration 50 minutes

Photo: Victor Frankowski

Sat 2 May, 5pm Sun 3 May, Sat 9 May, Sun 10 May & Sat 16 May, 2pm & 5pm Roundabout at Regency Square £8, Under 16s £6 & Family £24 (2 adults, 2 children)

‘Comic perfection’ The Times êêêê

Paines Plough Lungs by Duncan Macmillan ‘I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That’s the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I’d be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.’ A couple are deciding their future. Thirty-something, educated and thoughtful, they want to have a child for the right reasons. But in a time of overpopulation, erratic weather and political unrest, what exactly are the right reasons? Extremely witty, sabre-sharp writing, delivered with exceptional finesse, this production will make you laugh, gasp and cry.

‘The most beautiful, shattering play of the year’ Sunday Express êêêêê

Sat 2 – Sun 24 May

Roundabout at Regency Square

Age 14+ Duration 80 Minutes Post-show discussion Sun 17 May BSL interpreted performance Sun 17 May

Sat 2 May, 8pm; Mon 4 May, 5pm; Wed 6 May, 8pm Thu 7 & Fri 8 May, 9pm; Sun 10 May, 8pm Tue 12 - Fri 15 May, 9pm; Sat 16 May, 8pm Sun 17 May, 5pm; Thu 21 & Fri 22 May, 9pm Roundabout at Regency Square Mon - Thu £13, Fri - Sun £15 Under 26s £10, Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Paines Plough The Initiate by Alexandra Wood A British couple are seized by Somali pirates. In East London, a Somali taxi driver makes a decision to rescue them. Dismissing his wife’s fears, he flies out to negotiate their release. Speeding from the banks of the Thames to the now unfamiliar world of his homeland, he confronts the family he left behind and the bravado of defiant men he once called brothers in a thrilling tale of altruism, greed and the search for belonging. Duration 60 Minutes Post-show discussion Sun 3 May BSL interpreted performance Thu 21 May (Supported by Paines Plough)

Sun 3 & Mon 4 May, 8pm; Thu 7 & Fri 8 May, 7pm Sat 9 May, 8pm; Tue 12 – Fri 15 May, 7pm Sun 17 May, 8pm; Thu 21 & Fri 22 May, 7pm Roundabout at Regency Square Mon – Thu £13, Fri – Sun £15 Under 26s £10, Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

‘Intense, original...outstanding performances’ The Scotsman (Fringe First Award 2014) êêêê

Sat 2 May

Same Sky

Children’s Parade The Festival takes flight with the annual opening parade, which sees thousands of children from more than 80 schools and community organisations parading through the city in a cavalcade of sound and colour. This year’s theme, chosen by our Guest Director Ali Smith, is ‘Taking Flight’. Young people and their teachers will be preening their feathers, putting wings on their heels and taking to the streets arrayed as everything from birds to butterflies, gliders to griffins. So join the party to help the Festival get off to a flying start! Join the band! Brighton & Hove Music & Arts’ Brass Ensemble is forming a Balkan Band especially for the occasion. If you are a brass player aged 1014 (who plays to approximately grade 4 standard or above) who would like to take part, please contact holly.griffiths@brighton-hove.gov.uk

Sat 2 May, from 10.30am Procession from Kensington Street to Madeira Drive See brightonfestival.org for route

Supported by: Class Of Their Own

SoundCity Pitch Perfect Follow a trail around the city’s cultural quarter to hear the best of young musical talent from Brighton & Hove performing at several ‘perfect pitches’ around the Royal Pavilion Estate. This showcase for young musicians will include music for all tastes, featuring the Brighton & Hove Youth Big Band and Youth

Janine Harrington

The Performing Book This colourful dance installation places the audience in the position of “gamer” in a playful encounter between pedestrian movement and dance movements. Different possibilities emerge in real time as the audience notice their relationships to the dancers and explore how they can affect changes to the performance. Supported by South East Dance, Siobhan Davies Dance, Sadler’s Wells and the REFINE residency programme at Chisenhale Dance Space.

Sat 2 May, 12 noon - 6pm (4 performances through the afternoon) Black Rock

Zoe Williams

Get It Together Has the NHS had its day? Has an immigrant stolen your job? Have you ever wondered why you can’t afford a house, and who got us into this mess anyway? The Guardian columnist Zoe Williams believes that we must act collectively to make the future fairer and happier. Pacey, conversational and funny, Get It Together is Zoe’s rousing call for us all to play our part in creating a more equal society. In a galvanizing mix of fact, opinion and debate, she brings together all the arguments that occupy the current political landscape.

Sat 2 May, 5.30pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Concert Band on New Road; folk and pop in the Brighton Dome Café-bar; string quartets and wind ensembles in Brighton Museum and Art Gallery and the Royal Pavilion’s Music Room. Please note that the usual entrance fee to the Royal Pavilion will apply for those attending performances in the Royal Pavilion Music Room.

Sat 2 May, 12 – 4pm Royal Pavilion Estate

Beyond

After their heart-stopping performance in How Like an Angel (Brighton Festival 2013), the exhilarating Australian ensemble Circa makes a welcome return to Brighton Festival with its bold new vision of contemporary circus. Performers explore their animal instincts as they push their bodies to extremes, combining feats of breathtaking skill with Rubik’s Cubes, blindfolds, white rabbits and a dash of cheeky humour, all set to a soundtrack of ballads, show tunes and electronica. Small red-curtained stages within stages will transport you to a cabaret, a zoo or an asylum, as a deliciously surreal and surprisingly beautiful world emerges before your eyes.

‘A masterpiece that sparkles like the finest champagne’ Berlin Morgenpost

‘Audiences have come to expect the earth from Circa... Beyond gives them the moon as well’ The Stage

Sat 2 – Sun 3 May

Circa (Brisbane)

This dazzling show has been thrilling audiences the world over – so join the hugely skillful performers of Circa as they invite you to go Beyond for an evening of audacious showmanship.

Duration 70 minutes Suitable for all ages Post-show discussion Sat 2 May after 7.30pm performance Highly visual performance with minimal words See brightonfestival.org for video clip

Sat 2 May, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Sun 3 May, 2.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10, £15, £18.50, £22.50 Under 26s £15, Under 16s half price Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Circa acknowledges the assistance of the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

sat 2 3 –May Mon 4 May

the Public theater (New york)

the apple Family Plays

Written and Directed by Richard Nelson Brighton Festival Exclusive European Premiere

sat 2 May

6.30pm That Hopey Changey Thing duration 90 min 8.45pm Sweet and Sad duration 105 min

sun 3 May

6pm Sorry duration 100 min 8.30pm Regular Singing duration 110 min

Mon 4 May

The Apple Family Plays Marathon 12 noon That Hopey Changey Thing duration 90 min 2.15pm Sweet and Sad duration 105 minn 4pm - 6pm Dinner Break*

6pm Sorry duration 100 min 8.30pm Regular Singing duration 110 min

Tony Award winning Richard Nelson’s celebrated fourplay cycle has been described as ‘one of the great accomplishments in American theater to date this century’ (New York Times). Centred on the fictional, liberal Apple family of upstate New York, these interconnecting dramas explore politics, change and family dynamics in the 21st century with remarkable immediacy. First commissioned by The Public Theater, each play premiered on the night on which it was set. Featuring the original ensemble cast that has come to embody Nelson’s fascinating family, The Apple Family Plays can be enjoyed separately or in combination.

‘… no previous works of theater have been topical in the resonant and specific ways of the apple Family Plays… a rare and radiant mirror on the way we live’ New York Times

In That Hopey Changey Thing, the Apples reflect on the state of their family and discuss memory, manners and politics as polls close on the 2010 mid-term elections and a groundswell of conservative sentiment flips Congress on its head.

sweet & sad In Sweet and Sad, a family brunch on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 stirs up discussions of loss, remembrance and a decade of change.

sorry

The company of The Apple Family Plays is made up of some of New York’s finest stage actors; and as an ensemble performing this series, it has received great critical recognition and earned a multitude of awards, including both an Obie and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best ensemble acting. Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £22.50 See 2 for £40, 3 for £58.50, All 4 for £75 Under 26s £17.50 Under 26s – See 2 for £33, 3 for £48, All 4 for £60 Festival Standby £10

(see p4)

Age 12+

Sorry finds the Apples sorting through family anxieties and confusion on the day of electing the President in November 2012.

The Apple Family Plays can be enjoyed seperately. You can see all 4 plays either over two days or all day on Monday 4 May

regular singing

richard Nelson in conversation

Regular Singing, the deeply intimate fourth and final instalment, is set on the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination, an event that shocked the world.

Sunday 3 May, 4.30pm Brighton Dome Founders Room Free but ticketed

sat 32––sun sun Mon4 4May May

that Hopey changey thing

*Dine together at Côte Brasserie during the Dinner break. To reserve call 01273 687541 and quote 'appleplays'

Supported by:

Sat 2 – Mon 4 May

Luke Wright

Stay-at-Home Dandy Decadent boozehound Luke Wright would love to spend his life flouncing around looking fabulous, but back in rural Suffolk he’s got the school run to do. Navel-gazing is all very well, but other people can be magic…

Wright tells stories in visceral verse from neglected corners of Britain. Meet the cane-swinging, merlotglugging ‘Bastard of Bungay’; spend half-term with lonely science teacher Mr Hooper; and cry ‘NOT IN MY NAME’ with the irate villagers of Much Harpingon. By turns funny, poignant and political, this stay-at-home dandy celebrates ordinary people having extraordinary moments, then sticks a champagne-rinsed Rococo boot into the swines who run things.

‘His lexical acrobatics are astounding, often motormouthed and breathtakingly honest...’ The List

Sat 2 May, 8.30pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

The Welcome Mat The Spire is a new venue in East Brighton to experience great art and you are invited in for two special days of performance, music and activities. Come and explore this incredible old building - formerly St Marks Chapel – which is currently being redeveloped into a new resource for artists and the community. There will be something for all the family. Check brightonfestival.org for full details and updates.

Sun 3 May, 1pm – 7pm Mon 4 May, 1pm – 5pm The Spire

Agnès Varda La Pointe Courte

(1955, France, cert PG, 86 minutes) Dir: Agnès Varda. With Philippe Noiret, Silvia Monfort Widely regarded as the first film of the French New Wave, this is a graceful study of a couple’s changing relationship as they visit the small Mediterranean fishing village of La Pointe Courte to decide whether to stay together or break up. Edited by renowned director Alain Resnais, this is a beautiful and remarkable debut.

Sun 3 May, 1.30pm Duke's at Komedia £10

Kamila Shamsie The brilliant award-winning Pakistani/British author discusses her latest novel, A God in Every Stone – a story of friendship, injustice, love and betrayal played out on a global canvas, and in a Brighton miltary hospital taking in the battle for women’s suffrage in Britain and the prelude to the Armenian genocide. Kamila Shamsie’s novels include In the City by the Sea and Kartography (both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); and Burnt Shadows (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction). She was named one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists in 2013.

BSL interpreted event

Sun 3 May, 4pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

by Adriano Adewale

Featuring: Jenny Adejayan cello Marcelo Andrade, Giuliano Pereira saxophone, flute and guitar Andres Ticino percussion Adriano Adewale drainpipes and everything else!

Sun 3 May

Photo: Jeffrey Delannoy

Catapluf’s Musical Journey

Join Catapluf and his talented team on a journey through music from every corner of the globe in this celebration of rhythm and sound for all the family. Created by the Brazilian percussionist and composer Adriano Adewale, known for his amazing ability to create magical soundscapes from the ordinary and the everyday, this family show is packed full of music from every continent. Travel to places where everything makes music: saucepans, water, drums and the human body! Exploring the rhythms and sounds of the world, including samba, jazz and klezmer, this is a beginner’s jazz-club experience which will excite and charm adults and children alike.

Sun 3 May, 10.30am and 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10, Under 16s £6 Duration 50 minutes Age 5–7 Produced by Serious Originally commissioned by the EFG London Jazz Festival

Stephen Hough piano ‘The most perfect piano playing conceivable’ The Guardian Debussy Chopin Debussy

La plus que lente Estampes Ballades 1, 2, 3 & 4 Children’s Corner L’isle joyeuse

One of the pre-eminent pianists of our time, Stephen Hough performs an exquisite programme that juxtaposes vivid Impressionism, poetry and drama. Chopin’s immortal Ballades – immense in their emotional reach and musical intensity – provide a powerful centrepiece for this recital. Around them is a gallery of Debussy’s pianistic pictures: scenes in Japan, Spain and France in Estampes, a child’s world of toys, imagination and study in Children’s Corner and a mythical Rococo fantasy in L’isle Joyeuse. Grounds open at 1pm for picnicking

Sun 3 May, 3pm Glyndebourne £20, £25, £30 £10 Standing Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Sun – Mon 4 May Sat 33May

Without Walls Weekend Join us from 12 noon each day for a packed afternoon of all these new and exciting outdoors shows. Bring a picnic and the family.

Sun 3 May, 12 noon - 5pm Woodingdean Central Park

Mon 4 May, 12 noon - 5pm Saltdean Oval

Artizani

On a larger scale, an installation of six hives hides a unique interior world. Wander amongst the honey-perfumed colony and discover various ways of viewing and interacting with the unique worlds inside the hives. Each contains a surprising conceptual twist that challenges, charms and confounds expectations.

BEES! The Colony ‘...everything that is good and right in street theatre.’ Total Theatre Magazine on Artizani Buzzing with panache and imagination, this combination of walkabout performance and installation engages all the senses as it investigates the complex relationship humans have with bees. Two devotees of the esteemed bee process a deluxe hive with the greatest care and ceremony before calling you forward to hear, feel, smell, taste and – if you dare – put your eye up to the hive and See the Bee! There’s a hilarious sting in the tail to this promenade experience.

Supported by Without Walls and Arts Council England

Avanti Display

Reliquary A bejewelled casket makes its enigmatic way around Brighton. What on earth can be inside? Well, stand ready, people for we have discovered a new species and preserved its last egg, and it’s about to – no, that could never happen! Could it? Will you be among the lucky few to be invited to peep inside the casket? What will you hear through the specially attached headphones? Serious and seriously funny, Reliquary combines surrealism, spectacle and surprise.

‘precise physical based performance and solid artistic content’ Total Theatre Magazine

Supported by Without Walls and Arts Council England

Hold On Devised and performed by Stefano Di Renzo Outside eye by Tina Koch Music by Gabriele Pierro One person, one system; each governed by the other. Hold On explores the relationship between the performer and the system that is both his stage and his means of expression. Using a self-counterweighted slack rope as the starting point of an eloquent theatrical language, Stefano Di Renzo blends circus and physical theatre, creating a mesmeric solo show. He is an intrinsic part of the entire structure and holds it up, but if he wants to leave he will fall… Stefano Di Renzo is a charming performer. Assuredly physically accomplished but always emotionally engaging.

Commissioned by Without Walls Co-Comissioned by Circulate project. Supported by EspaceCatastrophe, Centre International de Création des Arts du Cirque (BE), Watermans Arts Centre and Lab:time

Join us from 12 noon each day for a packed afternoon of all these new and exciting outdoors shows. Bring a picnic and the family.

Sun 3 May, 12 noon - 5pm Woodingdean Central Park

Mon 4 May, 12 noon - 5pm Saltdean Oval

Stopgap Dance Company

Bill & Bobby

Danced and devised by Lucy Bennett and David Toole Lucy Bennett and David Toole channel the magic and the magnetism of the screen’s greatest dance duo in tribute to the star partnership of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. Bill & Bobby is inspired by the Art Deco sophistication of the 1930s, and particularly by the film classic Swing Time.. Stopgap Dance is at the forefront of producing works devised by disabled and non-disabled artists. Fred Astaire practically defined our perception of popular dance, and like him, the disabled dancer David Toole has changed the landscape of dance through works such as DV8’s The Cost of Living.

Gandini Juggling

8 Songs

Sun 3 – Mon 4 May

Without Walls Weekend

Bill & Bobby is an invigorating showcase for his expressive physicality and unique dance language. Commissioned by Without Walls and Winchester Hat Fair. Co-Commissioned by The National Theatre's Watch This Space Festival. Supported by University of Surrey

‘When it comes to juggling, the Gandinis pip everyone else.’ The Guardian

A huge hit at Brighton Festival 2012 with Smashed, Gandini Juggling makes a welcome return with a brand new show that promises to push the art of juggling to new heights, in true Gandini style. An outdoor performance that will appeal to the whole family, this tribute to the mythical landscape of popular music features a series of choreographed juggling vignettes set to eight classic rock ’n’ roll songs. From Bob Dylan’s stream of consciousness to the Velvet Underground’s troubling landscapes, and from David Bowie’s soulful escapades to the rocking Rolling Stones’ anthemic joie de vivre, the music sets the scene for the breathtaking feats of dexterity and theatricality that have placed Gandini Juggling at the vanguard of contemporary circus for two decades.

Cathy Waller Company

Louder than Words

Commissioned by Without Walls, Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival and Greenwich+Docklands International Festival

‘Cathy Waller has established herself as one of the most exciting choreographers to watch out for.’ Hakeem Onibudo, British Council.

Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival In this brand new, explosive and dynamic work, two dancers compete, test and outdo each other while being challenged by the multiple instruments and percussion played live alongside them. As the powerful, beat-heavy sound intensifies, all the performers are drawn into a competition between movement and music, striving to outshine each other in a vigorous and vibrant display. Winner of the London Dance Award in 2012, Cathy Waller creates intensely physical works that show contemporary dance with underlying influences from hip hop and capoeira. Hers is an exhilarating brand of performance, in which movement and live music push each other to the outer boundaries of excitement and intricacy.

Commissioned by Without Walls and Stockton International Riverside Festival Co-Commissioned by SO Festival, Skegness

Sun 3 – Mon 4 May

Jackie Kay

In conversation with Ali Smith Playwright, novelist, but above all poet, Jackie Kay MBE is one of our literary treasures. The winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award, and shortlisted for numerous other prizes, she was made an MBE in 2006. In this must-see event for all lovers of contemporary writing, she talks about her latest work and discusses her wide-ranging career. Sun 3 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Finger and Thumb

Small Fables A host of hand-shadow animals assembles for this enchanting collection of little fables. A rabbit is interrupted every time he tries to sing his song; a boy who cries wolf gets his comeuppance… Inspired by the tales of Aesop and La Fontaine, this magical shadow puppet performance will amaze and delight children and parents alike. Be prepared to giggle and gasp as puppet master Drew Colby creates spellbinding stories using shadows and light, mirror balls and jam jars, live music and song – and his own fingers and thumbs. Blending skill, charm and humour, Small Fables is the perfect show for younger audiences. Ages 3–8 Duration 45 minutes

Mon 4 May, 10am, 12pm, 2pm The Old Market £5

Agnès Varda: From Here to There (Agnès de ci de là Varda) (2011, France, cert 15, 225 minutes) Part travelogue, part art documentary, part visual essay, this five-part series originally made for French television chronicles the indefatigable film-maker’s travels around the world – Mexico, Portugal, Italy, Russia – meeting film luminaries such as Alexander Sokurov, Carlos Reygadas and Manoel de Oliveira and visual artists including Christian Boltanski, Annette Messager and Chris Marker. Infused with the director’s characteristic insight and inquisitiveness, it also traces Varda’s own history. And don’t miss La Pointe Courte on p16 and Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi) p30

Mon 4 May 3.30pm Episodes 1–3 (135 mins including interval) Mon 4 May 6.30pm Episodes 4–5 (90 mins) Duke's at Komedia £10 Double Bill – One ticket covers both screenings

Isabelle Faust JS Bach

Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001 Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002 Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003

‘Her sound has passion, grit and electricity but also a disarming warmth and sweetness that can unveil the music’s hidden strains of lyricism.’ New York Times

Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006 Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005 Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004

Mon 4 May

Bach Solo Violin

In a breathtaking feat of solo virtuosity, one of the world’s great instrumentalists scales the heights of the violin repertory in a performance of the complete Sonatas and Partitas by Bach. The six works, completed around 1720, are hailed as having set the standard for solo violin pieces to this day. Contrasting traditional sonata forms with suites of dances, they include a wonderful array of styles, and the final movement of Partita No. 2 has been described as ‘arguably the greatest piece of music ever conceived for solo strings’. Technically fiendish and emotionally profound, the Sonatas and Partitas test the limits of a performer’s powers, and in Isabelle Faust they have an interpreter whose insight and inspiration have made her one of the leading Bach exponents of out time. This is music-making at its most intense, virtuosity at its most dazzling. Isabelle will perform the Sonatas and Partitas in two parts of three works each. These are bookable separately or you can stay for the whole experience with a extended interval. Mon 4 May, Part 1 (5.30pm – 7pm) £10 Part 2 (8.30pm – 9.45pm) £10 All Saints Church Attend both parts £17.50

On Liberty with Ali Smith,

Rachel Holmes, Bidisha, Jackie Kay, Alison MacLeod, Billy Bragg and Neil Bartlett Hosted by Shami Chakrabarti

Liberty is the UK’s oldest human rights organisation. It is a cross-party, non-party campaign group at the heart of the movement for fundamental rights and freedoms in Britain. Founded in 1934, Liberty celebrated its 80th birthday last year – eight decades of holding the powerful to account, protecting civil liberties and promoting human rights for all. It campaigns on a wide range of issues in the courts, Parliament and the wider community. This evening is a celebration of that work and, in particular, the Human Rights Act. The Act means that we can defend our rights here in Britain, and that the State must treat everyone equally, with fairness, dignity and respect – the foundations of any democratic society.

We have brought together a collection of writers and performers to highlight the role our Human Rights Act plays in protecting us all – young and old, rich and poor, you and your neighbour. More names to be announced BSL interpreted event

Mon 4 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10

Tue 5 – Thu 7 May

Inua Ellams, Benji Reid & Fuel The Spalding Suite A new physical theatre show inspired by the UK's basketball sub-culture. ‘When we were young, we worshipped stars. Gleaming long-limbed gods framed in the act of impossible flight, For a time we tried to follow, to carve out our own piece of sky with a butter-smooth arc of an arm and a Spalding ball glued to the fingertips’ Fresh poetry combined with contemporary movement celebrates the elegance and beauty of basketball. Seen from a British perspective, The Spalding Suite gets to the heart and soul of the gravity-defying game and delves into the hopes and dreams of those who play it. Six dynamic performers mix live beat-boxing, hip-hop, music, moves and poetry, taking us from the fleeting high of the score and the robust camaraderie of the team, to the poignant lows of a body too worn to play the game. Tue 5 & Wed 6 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £15 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Duration 70 minutes Post show discussion Tue 5 May Suitable for all ages Commissioned by Southbank Centre and Contact. Funded by Arts Council England and a Wellcome Trust Arts Award.

Flying Eye GLOW World Premiere Directed by Sachi Kimura Co-commissioned by Brighton Festival This promenade performance for babies, toddlers and their carers explores some of the most joyful elements of life: love, imagination, space for dreaming and the power to change things. Step through the curtain and into a magical world inspired by Japanese Haiku poetry. Glowing globes, a dancer in the sky, live music and a host of experiences for the senses combine for a playful, imaginative show. Created in collaboration with the Sussex Baby Lab at the University of Sussex, Flying Eye’s new show responds sensitively to the physiological and emotional development of young audiences.

‘By the end of this beautifully moving show, you too will feel like you are walking on a cloud.’

The Stage (on Flying Eye’s previous show Cutting the Cord)

Age 3 months – 4 years Duration 40 minutes

Wed 6 & Thu 7 May 10.30am, 8 months – 4 years 1.30pm, 3 months – 12 months 3.30pm, 8 months – 4 years (Please note you will be asked to remove shoes before entering the space, and it is advisable to arrive 10-15 min prior to the show start time)

The Old Market £12 (£10 concessions) – 1 Adult & 1 Child £8 for additional accompanying adult

Tue 5 – Wed 6 May

Comédie de Picardie

The Lads in Their Hundreds UK Premiere Tchéky Karyo actor Edmund Hastings tenor Michael Foyle violin Edward Liddall piano Directed by Jean-Luc Revol

Words and music weave a tapestry of loss and remembrance in this eloquent and deeply moving tribute to the soldiers of the Great War. Based in Amiens, the capital of the Somme region, Comédie de Picardie draws on the written legacy of French and British war poets to mark the ongoing centenary of the war. Tchéky Karyo is one of France’s leading actors, the star of many films by the legendary director Luc Besson as well as Goldeneye and the recent cult BBC drama The Missing. As he performs 15 of France’s finest war poems, he embodies the pain and unspeakable suffering of war, interspersed with music from the period, including songs by Ivor Gurney, the composer-poet who served on the Western Front, and George Butterworth, a veteran of the Battle of the Somme. Plus Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending and Along the Field. A profound meditation on the trauma of war and the lads in their hundreds who never returned.

Duration 75 minutes with no interval Post-show discussion Supported by the European Cross-border Cooperation Programme INTERREG IV A France (Channel) – England, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.

Tue 5 May, 8pm Theatre Royal Brighton £10, £15, £18.50, Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Supported by:

£22.50

European Regional Development Fund The European Union, investing in your future

Fonds européen de développement régional L’Union européenne investit dans votre avenir

Carol Ann Duffy Appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in May 2009 - the first female in the role's 400 year history - Scottish poet Dame Carol Ann Duffy's combination of tenderness and toughness, humour and lyricism, unconventional attitudes and conventional forms, has earned her a very wide audience of readers and listeners. She has won many awards including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the E. M. Forster Prize in America. She will be supprted by LiTTLe MACHiNe, a South London band that gives new voice to poems both classic and obscure. Acoustic instruments, strong melodies and watertight harmonies create songs that draw on a thousand years of poetry from the Medieval to the Metaphysicals, the Romantics to the modern.

Tue 5 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10

Ruth Scurr with Erica Wagner John Aubrey: My Own Life John Aubrey redefined the art of biography. In his Brief Lives we meet Christopher Wren, Isaac Newton and Thomas Hobbes; see the stones of Stonehenge and the stained glass of long-forgotten churches. Yet he is all but forgotten. Now, in an act of scholarly imagination, the historian Ruth Scurr has resurrected Aubrey as a potent spirit for our own time, drawing on Aubrey’s own words to reveal the dry wit and irreverence of a literary trailblazer. In conversation with the author and critic Erica Wagner, she discusses her book and the life of one of the pioneers of modern writing.

Wed 6 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Thu 7 – Sat 9 May

Jeanette Winterson Boldness in the Face of a Blank Page New Writing South Annual Lecture This annual lecture is a vibrant platform for debate, passions and ideas, specially commissioned for Brighton Festival. This year we are delighted to welcome Jeanette Winterson OBE to talk about the practices and craft of writing. Jeanette is the author of 10 novels, including Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, The Passion and Written on the Body, as well as children's books, screenplays and journalism. Her writing has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E.M. Forster Award and the Prix d'argent at Cannes Film Festival.

‘An original and thrilling writer' The Independent

Thu 7 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £10

Burn the Curtain

‘…an exhilarating romp through nature that captures the essence of Angela Carter’s darkly alluring original...’

The Company of Wolves Based on stories by Angela Carter

A promenade theatre adventure for walkers and runners Adapted by Shiona Morton ‘One beast, and only one, howls in the woods at night.’ A young girl puts on her red cloak and heads into the forest, watched by unseen eyes. She begins to run, and so the hunt begins. Run or walk with us, and help to sniff out those who are hairy on the inside… Burn the Curtain (The Adventures of Don Quixote by Bicycle, Brighton Festival 2013) turns Angela Carter’s macabre imagination into a spine-tingling outdoor experience. The tale unfolds as you progress along the route, which will be between two and five miles long, depending on which path you take.

Exeunt Magazine êêêê

You can choose to be fleet of foot or eagle-eyed; to pick up the pace or tread carefully. But stray from the path for one instant, and the wolves will eat you. Choose to be a Runner or a Walker and remember that some of the action will take place in the dark, so please bring a torch or head torch. Please wear suitable footwear and dress appropriately for the weather. Please note this event is not wheelchair accessible. Duration 2 hours 30 minutes Age 8+

Thu 7 – Sat 9 May, 8.30pm Stanmer Park (meet outside Stanmer Church) £15 (Limited capacity) Supported by:

Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day Written and directed by Sharon Fogarty UK Premiere

language of Finnegans Wake, to cast clarity and insight into an otherwise tragic and mysterious life.

Obie award-winner and Tony nominee Maria Tucci stars as Lucia Joyce, the adored daughter of James Joyce, played by Tony nominee Paul Kandel, in a theatrical ode to her life – and afterlife – created by legendary New York theatre ensemble Mabou Mines.

The artistic team for this multi-layered production includes Emmy award-winning film composer Carter Burwell (The Twilight Saga, Fargo, Being John Malkovich, True Grit), projections by Obie awardwinner Julie Archer and set design by Jim Clayburgh, a founding member of the Wooster Group.

As a young woman in Paris, the world of Lucia Joyce was filled with writers, artists and intellectuals. She was a dancer, a painter and, her father believed, the true inheritor of his genius. But while still in her twenties, her behaviour grew erratic. Admitted to a mental hospital, Lucia spent the next 48 years in confinement until her death in 1982. With richly textured visuals and an evocative score, Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day traverses Lucia’s institutional life, her father’s celebrity, her struggle with mental illness, and the playful dream

Thu 7 – Sat 9 May

Mabou Mines (New York)

Age 12+ Duration 65 minutes Post show discussion Fri 8 May with Ali Smith and artists Supported by USArtists International

Thu 7 & Fri 8 May, 7.30pm Sat 9 May, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Theatre Royal Brighton £15, £18.50, £22.50 Under 26s £15 Members first night offer £12.50 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

‘This production will leave you breathless’ nytheatre.com ‘A fascinating and fantastic journey’ Boston Globe

Thu 7 – Sun 10 May

Touretteshero

Backstage in Biscuit Land ‘Delightful’ Stephen Fry 'Extraordinarily entertaining...could teach a lot of other theatre a lesson or two' The Guardian êêêê Jess Thom has Tourettes, a condition that makes her say 'biscuit' 16,000 times a day. Her unusual neurology gives her a unique perspective on life: one she's about to unleash on the world. Weaving comedy, puppetry, singing and incredible tics, Backstage in Biscuit Land explores spontaneity, creativity, disability and things you never knew would make you laugh. Geranium-bashing and penguin gangbangs may or may not feature - no two shows can ever be the same. Jess is neurologically incapable of staying on script, and that's when the fun begins.

Thu 7 & Fri 8 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £12.50, Festival Standby £10 (see p4) Age 16+ Duration 60 minutes Both performances are relaxed BSL interpreted performance Fri 8 May

Jess is one of the 10% of people with Tourettes Syndrome who has swearing tics, so this performance may include the involuntary use of words that some audiences may find offensive. Supported by Unlimited, Graeae and BAC.

Claudia Molitor Vast White Stillness Directed by Dan Ayling Co-Commissioned by Brighton Festival ‘…just this vast white stillness to which my stunned soul listens with breathless trepidation.’ Rainer Maria Rilke Reality, imagination and memory blur in this intriguing new work by composer Claudia Molitor and director Dan Ayling that takes place deep underground in the maze of tunnels beneath the Old Ship Hotel. Part installation, part performance, Vast White Stillness combines music, image and theatre to create an immersive journey through the nuances of memory - the fleeting glance, the not-quite-heard, the half-remembered - that colour a lifetime. Duration 45 minutes

‘an exquisitely beautiful, fragile work…captivating and deliciously bewildering in equal measure’ The Scotsman on Molitor and Ayling’s Remember Me Fri 8, Sat 9, Sun 10 May, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, 7pm, 8pm The Old Ship Cellars £8 (Limited capacity) Co-commissioned with Spitalfields Music Festival

Sat 9 May, 3pm Audio-described performance Please note this is a promenade performance in an underground setting. Please discuss any mobility/accessibility needs with the ticket office before booking.

Fri 8 May

GoGo Penguin Making a welcome return to Brighton Festival, GoGo Penguin’s groove-heavy, lyrical acoustic-electronica sound has made them the band to watch on the UK’s contemporary jazz scene. The trio’s latest album, the Mercury-nominated v.2.0, features skittering breakbeats, telepathic interplay and a taste for anthemic melody. An exhilarating live act, GoGo Penguin draws on a heady brew of influences – from Aphex Twin to Shostakovich, Massive Attack to Manchester’s grey rain-streaked urban streets – to create a brave new sound of their own. Fri 8 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £15 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Squarepusher

Plus support from Sherwood and Pinch

‘one of the most divisive figures in electronic music, plundering electric jazz and rave music for his own extremist ends, idolized and reviled in seemingly equal amounts.’ pitchfork Since his earliest sonic experiments in the 1990s, revered producer, bass virtuoso, composer and sound artist Squarepusher aka Tom Jenkinson has constantly strived to push the boundaries and limits of music, drawing on influences as broad as drum and bass, acid house, jazz and electroacoustic music. Last year, he collaborated with a team of Japanese robotocists for an EP performed entirely by robots.

Back with eagerly anticipated new material, Squarepusher brings his all-new live show to Brighton Festival. Jenkinson told BBC 6Music, ‘It’ll be very fast, very experimental, it’ll be an evening of extremity… the music I’m writing is born to be heard at a very high volume on stage, accompanied by a visually slamming presentation.’ Sherwood & Pinch is the on-going collaboration between Adrian Sherwood, the magisterial dub innovator and owner of the seminal, cutting edge label On-U Sound, and Pinch, the brains behind the Tectonic label and master of darkly filtered bass science. Since dropping their first singles, Bring Me Weed & Music Killer, Sherwood and Pinch have continued to devastate the dance floors at events around the world with their deeply psychedelic, bass-driven, futuristic dub wizardry. Fri 8 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £15, £18, £20 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Performed by Greg Sinclair

‘Delightful’ The Scotsman êêêê How much power could you entrust to a group of children? Would you let them tell you what to wear, or compose music for you to perform? Would you let them do anything they want? Grown-up sensibilities go out of the window as we join the award-winning artist and performer Greg Sinclair for a musical celebration of the whims and wonders of childish imagination. A hit at Edinburgh Festival, this is a charming, funny show that will enthrall the youngest audience member and challenge the musical perceptions of accompanying adults. Age 7+ and adults

Sat 9 & Sun 10 May. 11.30am & 1.30pm The Old Market £10, Under 16s £6

I Do, Do I Workshop Performer Greg Sinclair leads a series of fun tasks exploring experimental music and performance art, inspired by the free-thinking Fluxus movement. Please wear comfortable clothing and, if possible, bring a musical instrument or an object that you find interesting.

Sat 9 May, 3pm The Old Market £3 (I Do, Do I ticket holders only)

CieUbi (Rennes)

Geminus

The first discoveries in childhood are ones of instinctiveness, curiosity, awkwardness and wonder. What is this body of mine? And how does it move? Dance, object manipulation and rhythm are at the heart of Geminus, a playful performance tailor made for children aged 3–5 and their families. In this visually and musically stimulating show, mirrors, reflections, gestures and sounds combine to attractive, intriguing effect. Sat 9 May, 2.30pm & 4pm Sun 10 May, 11am & 2pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £8, Under 16s £5 Commissioned by South East Dance in association with Take Art and Spectacle Vivant en Bretagne as part of DanSCe Dialogues 2

Sat 9 – Sun 10 May

I Do, Do I

Sat 9 May

Anna Calvi

Plus support

‘A modern guitar hero of exceptional talent and imagination’ The Guardian In the four years since the release of her eponymous debut, singer, songwriter and guitarist Anna Calvi has earned two Mercury Music Prize nominations and a BRIT nomination has collaborated with David Byrne, Marianne Faithfull and Morrissey, has won the admiration of the likes of Nick Cave, Karl Lagerfeld and Brian Eno, the latter describing her as ‘the biggest thing since Patti Smith’. Her second album One Breath was a more reflective record than her first, an emotional journey through an expansive musical palette. ‘I wanted to explore the feeling of being out of control, and how this can be very scary and yet thrilling at the same time,’ Calvi says. ‘It’s always important to me that the music tells the story as much as the lyrics.’ Known for her dark, romantic approach to songwriting, visually compelling live performances and prodigious guitar playing, don’t miss a dramatic performance from one of UK music’s brightest stars.

Sat 9 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £18 Standing, Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Sophia Jansson, Philip Ardagh, Philip Pullman ...on Tove Jansson The Finnish writer and artist Tove Jansson (1914–2001) is one of the best-loved authors of the 20th century, creator of The Moomins and the classic The Summer Book. The panel for this event, which celebrates and discusses her work, includes her niece and guardian-in-chief of the Moomins, Sophia Jansson; the iconic author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman, a Jansson fanatic; and Philip Ardagh, who won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize for his Grubtown Tales. Age 14+ and grown-ups Part of 26 Letters

Sat 9 May, 7.30pm Sallis Benney Theatre £10

Election 2015 How was it for you?

Introduced by Ali Smith and chaired by Polly Toynbee - the Guardian’s political columnist and author of Cameron's Coup. Joined by leading politicians on a panel including the director of Liberty and author Shami Chakrabarti and the chief political columnist of The Independent Steve Richards they will dissect, digest and debate the General Election which will have taken place just two days earlier. Has the result been good for Britain? How has the political landscape changed? What can we expect from the government over the course of the next five years? This is your chance to come and join the conversation.

Sat 9 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £10

Sun 10 May

Agnès Varda: Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi) (1985, France, cert 15, 105 minutes) Dir. Agnès Varda. With Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane, Francis Balchere This heartbreaking film opens with the jarring death of Mona, a young homeless woman found frozen to death in the French countryside. From this startling beginning, Mona’s story is told through a series of accounts by those who barely knew her, but who touched her life during her final weeks. A brilliantly told tale, Vagabond features a stunning performance from Sandrine Bonnaire as the impassive lead.

Sun 10 May, 1.30pm Duke’s at Komedia £10 Introduced by film director Carol Morley, whose feature DREAMS OF A LIFE screens on Mon 11. Don’t miss La Pointe Courte p16 and From Here to There (Agnès de ci de là Varda) p20

Sunday in the Gallery with Ali Smith Our Guest Director Ali Smith would love to know what you’ve seen at Brighton Festival, and what you thought of it. Drawing together some of the intended and accidental connections from the past week, this is your chance to chat with her and a special guest, who will change each week.

Sundays at 3pm Sun 10, Sun 17, Sun 24 May Onca Gallery (Limited to 25 People) Free but ticketed

Supported by: myhotel

Professor Roderick Kedward & Caroline Moorhead Resistance Historian Roderick Kedward and writer Caroline Moorhead consider the complex experience of the French Resistance. Travelling to southern France in the late 1960s, Kedward recorded a series of interviews with ordinary men and women from the Resistance. These unique testimonies, the basis of his groundbreaking book Resistance in Vichy France, have now been deposited at the Keep in Brighton and are the starting point for a new Centre for Global Resistance Studies at Sussex University. Caroline Moorhead is the author of the acclaimed Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France which tells the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II.

The discussion will be chaired by Martin Evans, Professor of Modern History at Sussex University and author of Algeria: France’s Undeclared War (2012).

Sun 10 May, 5pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Elif Shafak with Jacqueline Rose Turkish novelist Elif Shafak blends Western and Eastern traditions of storytelling, bringing out myriad tales of women, minorities and subcultures, and breaking down categories, clichés and cultural ghettoes. Hugely influential and with a global audience, her novels include The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love and Honour, and she is a regular contributor to the New York Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, and Time magazine. This is an unmissable chance to hear one of today’s leading voices in international women’s writing, interviewed by author (Woman In Dark Times) and academic Jacqueline Rose.

Sun 10 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Sun 10 – Mon 11 May

DakhaBrakha (Ukraine) plus dj set Brighton Festival Exclusive Plumbing the depths of contemporary roots and rhythms, Ukrainian ‘ethnic chaos’ band DakhaBrakha creates a world of unexpected new music. Rooted in Ukrainian culture but fusing Indian, Arabic, African, Russian and Australian instrumentation, the quartet has created a truly trans-national sound. Expect moments reminiscent of Radiohead, Chicks on Speed and even Hip-hop. With a name that literally translates as ‘give/take’, DakhaBrakha was created in 2004 at Kiev’s Center of Contemporary Art by avant-garde theatre director Vladyslav Troitskyi. Theatre has left its mark on the band, with a strong visual aesthetic remaining an integral part of its thrilling live act. Since its formation, DakhaBrakha has performed at festivals in over 30 countries, bringing Ukrainian melodies to the hearts and consciousness of Ukraine’s younger generation and music-lovers worldwide.

‘[Womad’s] most unexpectedly successful, emotional performance came from a band featuring three women in furry stovepipe hats. DakhaBrakha matched edgy, eerie harmony vocals with concertina, cello and percussion work, in an exhilarating set’ The Guardian Sun 10 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £14 Standing Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Carol Morley Dreams of a Life (2011, UK, cert 12a, 90 minutes) Dir: Carol Morley. With Zawe Ashton, Jonathan Harden, Daren Elliot Holmes Nobody noticed when Joyce Carol Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003. Her body wasn’t discovered for three years, surrounded by Christmas presents she had been wrapping and with the TV still on. Newspaper reports offered few details of her life, not even a photograph. Carol Morley’s moving documentary drama interweaves interviews with imagined scenes from Joyce’s life in a powerful portrait not only of Joyce, but of urban living, how little we may ever know each other and how much we can love.

Mon 11 May, 6.30pm Duke’s at Komedia £10 Post-screening discussion with Carol Morley.

Tue 12 – Thu 21 May

Mozart and Stravinsky

Britten Sinfonia Barbara Hannigan soprano, conductor Mozart Stravinsky Stravinsky Haydn Stravinsky Mozart Mozart Stravinsky

‘Hannigan’s theatrical energy, her effortless heights and unearthly precision all become part of a seductive whole.’ Financial Times

Overture to La clemenza di Tito Souvenirs de mon enfance Pastorale Symphony No.49, ‘La Passione’ Act One, Scene Three from The Rake’s Progress Overture to Idomeneo Bella mia fiamma, addio K528 Pulcinella Suite

Festival favourite Britten Sinfonia returns with the sensational Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan in a programme that explores the classical inspiration of one of the 20th-century’s greatest composers. Stravinsky rediscovered the elegance and expressivity of classical forms in the 1920s; his works from this time on draw on the grace, economy and emotional restraint of classicism and nod towards the great composers of the 18th century. This fascinating concert points out the parallels between the form and finesse of Stravinsky, Mozart and Haydn in a feast of virtuosic orchestral and vocal performance. From his earliest essay in neo-classicism (Pulcinella) to his most ambitious exploration of the style (The Rake’s Progress), Stravinsky’s music is balanced by masterpieces by Mozart alongside Haydn’s dark-toned and theatrical Symphony No. 49. Noted for her extraordinary versatility and her intense stage presence, Barbara Hannigan is one of the world’s most revered interpreters of contemporary music, as well as an admired exponent of the Baroque and Classical repertory. Redefining the scope of classical performance, she finds a perfect partner in Britten Sinfonia.

Tue 12 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10, £15, £18.50, £22.50, £25 Under 26s £15, Festival Standby £10 (see p4) Touch tour 6.45pm (Booking required)

Sam Lee's Nightingale Walk Brighton Festival Exclusive Nightingales are possibly the most delirious and exotic sonic commanders of the avian world, casting a spell whenever you hear them sing. For six short weeks each spring, it’s the greatest concert you will ever hear. Following his sell-out concert in Brighton Festival 2013, join folk singer Sam Lee for a one-of-a-kind promenade performance taking place in ‘a melodius plot of beechen green’ out on the South Downs. In the dead silence of the night, accompanied by musicians, Sam sings traditional songs to the nightingales as they sing back from the thickets. Experience a spellbinding call-and-response collaboration between man and bird that you’ll never forget. Warm clothes, sensible footwear and your own transport will be needed for this special late night event. Meet and greet fellow wanderers around a warming campfire, allowing time for your eyes to adjust to darkness as we will walk without light. The nightingales generally return to the same location, but in case they decide to choose a new home for their short stay, we will advise ticket buyers 2 weeks in advance of the exact location/meeting point.

Wed 13, Thu 14, Fri 15, Tue 19, Wed 20 & Thu 21 May, 9pm til late Location to be announced £15 (Limited capacity)

Tue 12 – Wed 13 May

Vincent Dance Theatre

Underworld and Look At Me Now, Mummy Brighton Festival Associate Company Vincent Dance Theatre revives two seminal works as part of 21 Years / 21 Works, a live and online collection of performances and film that reveal the shifting aesthetics, personal experiences and political events that have shaped choreographer/director Charlotte Vincent’s work since her company’s inception in 1994. See these live works as distinct performances (Tues 12 May) or as a combined experience (Wed 13 May) where both works run simultaneously for nearly 5 hours and audiences can come and go as they please between these two durational works.

Underworld Underworld is an immersive, atmospheric, physically punishing ensemble performance that draws on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and explores the art of not looking back. In a series of visually striking, cinematographic images and dark, beautiful vignettes, eight athletic performers engage in disconcerting, relentless rituals, trapped in an airless, dusty land of the living dead. Underworld was originally created with Phoenix Dance Theatre in the dark arches beneath Leeds railway station as part of Yorkshire’s Artists Taking the Lead for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, curated by the Quay Brothers. For Brighton Festival 2015, Vincent Dance Theatre’s stunning ensemble restages Underworld, accompanied by Gavin Bryars’ layered, haunting soundtrack of rushing rivers, church bells and faint children’s voices.

‘Brave, intelligent entertainment’ The Times

Tue 12 May Underworld 5pm & 8.30pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange Unreserved seating £15, Festival Standby £10 (see p4) Duration 2 hours 15 min. This is an immersive event; audiences can come and go as they please

Originally funded by Arts Council England and commissioned by Leeds Canvas: Northern Ballet, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Opera North, Yorkshire Dance, Phoenix Dance, Leeds Museums & Galleries and Leeds Metropolitan Gallery & Studio Theatre.

Look At Me Now, Mummy 4pm & 7.30pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange Foyer Standing, limited capacity £5

Look At Me Now, Mummy

Duration 35 minutes

Look At Me Now, Mummy is a comi-tragic one-woman show originally created in 2008 with Vincent’s longest-term collaborator Aurora Lubos, eight months after she gave birth to her first child in Poland. Look At Me Now, Mummy is an intimate, funny and moving portrait of a mother’s desire to look the part, whilst not really knowing what part it is that she is supposed to be playing. It’s about trial and error and theatrical failure, with a baby always crying somewhere in the distance.

‘Vincent’s feminist subtext never overpowers Lubos's exquisitely pitched performance. Small but beautiful’ The Observer Originally co-commissioned by Danceworks UK, The Point Eastleigh, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham and The Tron Theatre, Glasgow and funded by Arts Council England

Wed 13 May Underworld and Look At Me Now, Mummy 6pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange and Corn Exchange Foyer Unreserved seating £20, Festival Standby £10 (see p4) Duration 4 hours 45 Minutes This is an immersive experience with both events running concurrently. Audiences can come and go as they please between each performance. Underworld unreserved seating, Look at Me Now, Mummy standing with limited capacity. VDT is a National Portfolio Organisation, funded by Arts Council England. Charlotte Vincent is Resident Artist at South East Dance. VDT is Associate Company at Brighton Dome. VDT and Yorkshire Dance are Artistic Partners.

Wed 13 – Sat 16 May

Globe Theatre on Tour

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Directed by Dominic Dromgoole and Tim Hoare

‘Summer is all the sweeter for a Shakespeare road trip.’ Daily Telegraph The new Brighton Open Air Theatre opens with Shakespeare’s immortal tale of star-crossed lovers. Performed by a troupe of travelling players in the Elizabethan tradition, this staging distills the story of love bridging the gulf between two feuding families to its very essence: predestined passion, lurking violence and reconciliation in the face of tragedy. The Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT) promises to become one of the city’s best-loved performance spaces, with its turf amphitheatre and exquisite landscaping. There is no better way to inaugurate it than with one of the world’s most acclaimed Shakepearean companies, whose al fresco performances have become an indispensible feature of the Festival. So pack a picnic and immerse yourself in the romance, excitement and heartbreak of the greatest love story ever told.

Wed 13 May, 6pm Thu 14 May, 1.30 (Schools matinee) & 6pm Fri 15 May, 6pm Sat 16 May, 1.30pm & 6pm BOAT – Brighton Open Air Theatre £17.50, Under 19s £10 Family (2 adults, 2 children) £50 Thu 1.30pm, £12.50, Under 19s £7.50 Festival Standby £10 Members first night offer £15, Under 19s £8, Family £40 Duration 2 hours 65 minutes approx including interval

Meet the Artists, Fri 15 May, 4pm Dyke Road, Park Cafe £3

Rachel Holmes on Eleanor Marx Rachel Holmes’s sensational biography of Eleanor Marx – daughter of Karl – has spearheaded a re-evaluation of a major but overlooked figure in British socialism and early feminism. Visionary, firebrand and a transformative force in 19th-century politics, Eleanor Marx (1855–98) was the first to translate Madame Bovary into English, the first woman to lead the dock workers’ and gas workers’ trades unions, and a tireless advocate of her father and his work. Rachel Holmes talks about this fascinating and multi-faceted figure, and the experience of retelling a story that has captured the imagination in a new era of political upheaval.

‘I doubt the reader will close this brilliant biography unmoved by this extraordinary woman’s life’ Daily Telegraph Wed 13 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Gillian Beer Are you animal or vegetable or mineral? Dr Gillian Beer, one of the world's great literary scholars and author of Darwin's Plot discusses the links between Darwin and Lewis Carroll. Classifying allows us to make comparisons and uncover relationships. From parlour games to epidemiology, people try to find stable patterns and to keep them steady. But in the 19th century evolutionary theory emphasized change and diversity and made people anxiously aware that no description could be permanent. In Carroll’s Alice books the creatures are as puzzled by Alice as she is by them. Repeatedly she is asked not just who she is but what she is...

‘Gillian Beer’s superb study [is] a work of criticism that takes its modest place among the other “cloudy triumphs” of English genius.’ Sunday Times on Darwin’s Plot Thu 14 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler English Premiere

Conceived and directed by Matthew Lenton Created by James Fortune, Sandy Grierson and Matthew Lenton You are the centre of your little world and I am of mine Now and again we meet for tea, we're two of a kind. This is our universe, cups of tea. We have a beautiful cosmos, you and me. – Ivor Cutler

Wed 13 – Sun 17 May

Vanishing Point & National Theatre of Scotland

Journey through the mind of one of music’s most improbable icons. A true maverick, Ivor Cutler was signed by all the major record labels, influenced The Beatles, was championed by John Peel and was the only artist to have been played on Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4. Weaving together his music, prose, poetry and biography, The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler tells the story of a remarkable life: from birth, through boyhood, to old age and death. Whether you’re already a fan or are exploring his music for the first time, this fantastical, feel-good show is created by the ever-inventive Vanishing Point (Tomorrow, Brighton Festival 2014, Interiors Brighton Festival 2012) and National Theatre of Scotland (The Strange Undoing of Prudentia Hart, Brighton Festival 2014)

‘A big grin of a show’ The Guardian êêêê

‘Funny, evocative and celebratory… blessed with excellent performances’ The Telegraph êêêê The Herald êêêê The Scotsman êêêê Age 12+ Duration 2 hours including interval Post-show discussion Sat 16 May after 7.30pm performance BSL interpreted performance Fri 15 May Audio described performance Sat 16 May, 2.30pm

Wed 13 – Sat 16 May, 7.30pm, Sat 16 & Sun 17 May, 2.30pm Theatre Royal Brighton £15, £18.50, £22.50 Under 26s £15, Festival Standby £10 (see p4) Members' first night offer £15

In association with Eden Court, Inverness Supported by Scottish Government, Creative Scotland & Glasgow City Council

Thu 14 May

Kate Tempest with very special guests George the Poet and Hollie McNish The irresistible rise of Kate Tempest has been truly remarkable. Starting at age 16, she is now a respected playwright, novelist, poet and recording artist: already under her belt are two albums, two collections of poetry, three critically acclaimed plays and the Ted Hughes Prize for her epic Brand New Ancients. Kate will be reading from her latest collection of poetry, Hold Your Own, and performing with her band music from her latest Mercury Prize-nominated album Everybody Down. Supporting Kate is one of the most agile up-andcoming lyricists, credited with bringing poetry to a new generation. With his social and political commentary, infectious rhythm and biting wit, Harlesden-born, Cambridge-educated George the Poet has been named as one of BBC Music’s Sound of 2015 as well as making the shortlist for the Critics’ Choice award at this year’s Brits.

Internationally acclaimed poet and spoken word artist Hollie McNish completes the line-up. Reciting words of love, politics, race, breasts and all that comes in between, Hollie was UK Slam poetry champion in 2009, representing the UK and finishing third behind Canada and the USA in the World Poetry Slam Finals in Paris. Get ready for a very special evening of music and spoken word that brings together three of UK’s most incisive and articulate urban wordsmiths. Thu 14 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £16 Standing Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Fri 15 – Sat 16 May

Vélo Théatre From the bottom of the well, the frog believes the sky is round Mr Brin D’Avoine spends his life collecting houses; some so big that they contain lakes and mountains and some so tiny that they are made of pins and disappear when the light changes… The legendary Velo Theatre (There’s a Rabbit in the Moon 2009) returns to Brighton with its magical mechanical world of wonder and enchantment. With walls of sand, flying cuckoos and revolving lampshades, this special show takes us back to our own first home, where chairs could be very, very tall and reality is only half understood. This highly visual production is for a small audience of children aged six-plus and all adults who share their sense of wonder. It ends with an opportunity for an onstage exploration. Designed for English speaking audiences, this show is in French and English Age 6+ Duration 1 hour 15 minutes

Fri 15 May, 5pm Sat 16 May, 11am & 3pm Ambassador Suite, Hilton Brighton Metropole £9, Under 16s £6 Family (2 Adults, 2 Children) £25

‘The house where we were born is more than a dwelling place; it’s a space built for daydreams.’ G. Bachelard

Benjamin Appl baritone James Baillieu piano Liszt Rubinstein Dvořák Schumann Anon. Ilse Weber

Adolf Strauss Schumann

Die drei Zigeuner S 0 Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam S309 Im Rhein, im schönen Strome S272 6 Lieder von Heine Op. 32 Biblical Songs Op. 99 (selection) Sechs Gedichte von N. Lenau, Op. 90 Terezín song Ade Kamerad Dobrý den Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt Wiegala Ich weiß bestimmt, ich werd dich wiedersehn Requiem from Sechs Gedichte von N. Lenau Op. 90

Since his sensational Festival debut last year, Benjamin Appl has been cementing his reputation as one of the most exciting talents of his generation. Now he returns, once again accompanied by James Baillieu, with a programme of music from or inspired by Eastern Europe. We travel with Gypsies through rugged Rhenish landscapes; hear psalms from the Czech Bible of Kralice; and – in true Romantic tradition – languish in the bittersweet emotion of poems by Lenau and Heine.

Fri 15 May, 7pm All Saints Church £15 Supported by Andrew & Margaret Polmear

Festival Themes

Festival Themes Art & Nature: Taking Flight

Laurie Anderson (p60) DakhaBrakha (p31) Backstage in Biscuit Land (p26)

Gauge (p5)

Jeanette Winterson (p24)

Sam Lee's Nightingale Walk (p32) Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson (p59)

Mabou Mines (p25)

Children’s Parade (p12) Freeze (p44) Art & Nature A Murmuration (p6) Lungs (p11) Bees! The Colony (p18)

A Murmuration

(p6)

Kate Tempest (p36)

Agnes Varda (p9)

Small Fables (p20) Animals (p41) Fleeting (p61) Julia Donaldson (p69) Art & Nature/ Crossing Places Dawn Chorus (p6)

Carleen Anderson (p53)

Helen Macdonald (p6) Lucy Harris (p6) Olivia Laing (p6) Gillian Beer (p34)

Imagine the world seen from the eye of a bird… Look again – this year’s Festival features an eye-opening array of artists and performers with the power to deliver the world we think we know to us re-seen, renewed, with a visionary twist in the tale. 38

Taking Liberty:

Where poetry meets music meets theatre meets dance...

Equality & Freedom

Crossing Places Cathy Waller (p19)

Claire Cunningham (p46)

Nina Conti (p20) Isabelle Faust (p21)

Alice Coote (p40)

The Spalding Suite (p22) Carol Ann Duffy (p23) Mabou Mines (p25)

The Measure of All Things (p57)

Claudia Molitor (p26)

Festival Themes

Crossing Places:

Backstage in Biscuit Land (p26) Gogo Penguin (p27) Squarepusher (p27) Anna Calvi (p29) Barbara Hannigan (p32) L’Oublié(e) (p47)

Charlotte Vincent (p33) To the Frog at the Bottom of the Well (p37) Being Both (p40) Joanna Hogg (p43) Julie Fowlis (p50) St Etienne (p51) Benjamin Clementine (p52) The Red Chair (p56) Facing Cancer (p58)

On Tove Jansson (p29)

The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler (p35) Taking Liberty Luke Wright (p16) Kamila Shamsie (p16) Jackie Kay (p20) Sylvan Emard – Fragments (p45)

Every Brilliant Thing (p48) Masha Gesson (p43) The Inequality Conundrum (p54)

451 (p42)

Crossing Places/ Taking Liberty A Murmuration (p6) Nathan Coley (p7) Zoe Williams (p12) Ruth Scurr (p23) Elif Shafak (p30) Jacqueline Rose (p30)

Rachel Kneebone (p8)

Carol Morley (p31) Rachel Holmes (p34) Clio Barnard (p43)

Shami Chakrabarti (p21)

Joanna Hogg (p43) Benjamin Clementine (p52) The Duke of Burgundy (p55) Jacqueline Wilson (p67)

The Apple Family Plays (p14)

Thu 14 May

Being Both With music by Handel Commissioned by Brighton Festival Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Susannah Waters director Harry Bicket conductor The English Concert

As one of the great vocal artists of her generation, Alice Coote is renowned for her Handelian repertory and the portrayal of roles originally written for castrati. Together with director Susannah Waters and especially for Brighton Festival, she now embarks on a brilliantly theatrical journey into the heart of Handel’s sublime vocal music, in order to challenge the experience and perception of gender. What is it to be a man or a woman? Are we all in some senses BOTH? How is the soul of the human being, faced with life's most profound challenges, affected by the question of gender? This unique venture brings together some of the world’s leading Baroque and Classical specialists,

led by Harry Bicket, whose reputation in this repertory is unrivalled. With arias from Handel’s operas, oratorios, and cantatas, together these artists explore the meaning of being both male and female within the context of these astounding expressions of the human heart.

‘Alice Coote... is intense and incandescent’ BBC Music Magazine ‘The English Concert, the acclaimed period instrument ensemble, with Harry Bicket conducting, presented an elegant, dramatically riveting concert performance’ New York Times Duration 75 minutes approx (no interval) Post-show discussion with Ali Smith, Alice Coote and Susannah Waters

Thu 14 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10, £15, £18.50, £22.50, £27.50 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Fri 15 – Sun 17 May

Animals New London Chamber Choir Matthew Hamilton conductor Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

Four Madrigals from the Natural World

Giles Swayne Clement Janequin

The Tiger

Meredith Monk

Panda Chant II

Judith Bingham

Unpredictable but Providential

Roberto Sierra

Cantos Populares

Banchieri

Madrigale a un dolce usignolo

Chant des oyseaux

Capricciata a tre voci Contraponto bestiale alle mente (from Il Festino nella sera del giovedí grasso)

An a cappella menagerie is let loose by one of the country’s leading contemporary ensembles in this joyously original programme of choral singing. From Janequin’s 15th-century bird calls to Giles Swayne’s multi-language setting of William Blake’s most famous poem; from howls and yelps to whistles and footstamping, and from elephants to mice, the New London Chamber Choir uses the gems of animal-inspired choral works to bring a zoo-ful of animals riotously to life. Judith Bingham’s Unpredictable but Providential celebrates the spring arrival of migratory birds, while Madrigals from the Natural World by the Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen take their inspiration from elephants, egrets and bat’s sonar. No less dramatic (and often no more polite), madrigals from an earlier generation demonstrate that composers and singers have long felt the need to release their inner beasts.

‘[NLCC] sent one away reeling at their skill, precision and stamina’ The Guardian

‘…this has to be the most accomplished choir in Britain’ The Independent Fri 15 May, 9pm All Saints Church £16 Festival standby £10 Duration: approximately 75 minutes with no interval

Gobbledegook Theatre

Ear Trumpet

A rich seam of music has been discovered flowing through a geological fault line deep beneath Brighton. Eons-worth of sound, ancient and modern, is harmonically bound together, trapped inside primeval rocks, and occasionally it bubbles up and erupts to the surface. To hear it properly, however, you’ll need to use a series of elaborate ear trumpets created from gramophone horns, converted euphoniums and brass instruments; listening devices which make the barely audible sound loud and clear as if by magic. Ear Trumpet is about listening. It’s about the sound under the ground, the noises that you would miss if you didn’t listen for them. Oozing with whimsy, this playful installation features original music recorded ‘in the field’ by the musician and composer Robert Lee.

Sat 16 & Sun 17 May, 12 - 2pm, 3 - 5pm Queen’s Park Touch tour Sun 17, 11.15am (No booking required)

Commissioned by Without Walls, Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival and Winchester Hat Fair.Originally commissioned by Activate for the Inside Out Dorset Festival and Arts Bournemouth, for the Arts by the Sea Festiival.

Sat 16 May

Periplum

451

Co-Commissioned by Brighton Festival Inspired by Ray Bradbury’s visionary novel Fahrenheit 451, this incendiary outdoor performance recounts the story of a society in which books are banned and firemen are employed to burn them. Bradbury’s classic text has proven prophetic, reflected in the rise of the ipad, surveillance, interactive media, the televised pursuit of fugitives, and the continuing radical power of the written word.

‘Arquiem (Brighton Festival 2008) is a piece crackling with dark energy and many stunning visual moments… Periplum prove that outdoor theatre is an appropriate medium for dark and thought-provoking work to chilling effect on the senses. Beautifully written and performed.’ Total Theatre

451 combines immersive sound and sensory theatre to depict a dystopic society where literature is outlawed and acts of violence are rewarded.

‘One of the best al fresco productions of the year’ The Independent on The Bell

As we witness a rise in monitoring and attacks on freedom of expression we might even believe that there could be a future where books may once again hold a secret knowledge… Sat 16 May, 9.45pm Preston Barracks, Lewes Road Co-commissioned with Without Walls, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival and Norfolk & Norwich Festival Built at 101 Outdoor Arts Creation Space. Supported by Green and Common Trust and Arts Council England

‘Periplum re-inject a sense of ritual and wonder into theatre-going.’ The Daily Telegraph

(Brighton Festival 2008)

Sun 17 May

Archipelago (2011, UK, cert 15, 115 minutes) Dir: Joanna Hogg. With: Christopher Baker, Tom Hiddleston, Kate Fahey One of the most important voices in British independent cinema, Joanna Hogg’s follow-up to her 2007 breakthrough Unrelated is a bittersweet portrait of a family in crisis. Edward is soon to depart on a volunteering trip to Africa, but before he sets off his mother and sister organise a family get-together on the remote and beautiful Scilly Isle of Tresco where tensions and anxieties buried deep within the family dynamic soon rise to the surface.

Sun 17 May 1.15pm Duke's at Komedia £10 Post-screening discussion with Joanna Hogg.

I Know Where I’m Going! (1945, UK, cert PG, 92 minutes) Dir: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. With Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey Selected by film-maker Joanna Hogg to complement the screening of her feature Achipelago, Powell and Pressburger's classic film is a wonderfully unconventional romance. Set in the Scottish Highlands, a young woman is left stranded on the Isle of Mull. Her encounter with this magical, mythic world and its exotic customs forces her to reconsider her materialistic priorities.

The screening will be introduced by Joanna Hogg.

Sun 17 May, 4pm Duke's at Komedia £10, Under 16s £6

Brighton & Hackney Youth Orchestras BBC Ten Pieces Brighton Youth Orchestra (Andrew Sherwood) and Hackney Youth Orchestra (Lawrence Tatnall) perform excerpts from all 10 of the BBC Ten Pieces with special guest Peter Francomb (ex-BYO now Principal French Horn, Royal Northern Sinfonia).

Sun 17 May, 5pm All Saints Church £10, Concessions £7, Under 16s £5

The Harriet Martineau Lecture

Masha Gessen Introduced by Ali Smith Presented with New Writing South

Celebrated Russian-American journalist, author and activist Masha Gessen is world-renowned for her outspoken opposition to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, and as Russia’s leading LGBT rights activist. At one stage she was, in her own words, ‘probably the only publicly out gay person in the whole of Russia’. Her latest book, Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot, is an investigation into the origins and motivations of the dissident art-punk group that made headlines around the world. An exploration of freedom of speech and investigative journalism.

Sun 17 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10 Commissioned by Writers’ Centre Norwich to celebrate the life and legacy of Harriet Martineau, a 19th century radical thinker, writer and the world’s first female journalist.

(2011, UK, cert 15, 94 minutes) Dir: Clio Barnard. With Manjinder Virk, Christine Bottomley and Natalie Gavin. Winner of a host of awards, Clio Barnard's extraordinary debut feature is a brilliant blend of narrative and documentary filmmaking. She beautifully retraces the fascinating true story of troubled 1980s playwright Andrea Dunbar (writer of The Arbor and Rita, Sue and Bob Too!) and her tumultuous relationship with her daughter using actors and lip-synched interviews and real life testimonies to form a distinctive, hugely compelling film.

Mon 18 May, 6.30pm Duke’s at Komedia £10 Post-screening discussion with Clio Barnard.

Nick Steur (Liège / Maastricht)

Mon 18 – Wed 20 May

The Arbor

Freeze!

Once in a while something raises the hairs on the back of your neck, something incredibly minimal, beautiful and breakable. With remarkable focus and absorbing theatricality, artist and performer Nick Steur will balance stones to create astonishing sculptures before your eyes. No glue or cement: it’s all about concentration. This mindboggling, one-of-a-kind performance won the Laureate Young Theatre Award at Belgium’s Theater at Sea Festival in 2012 and a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013. Bring your own stone (bigger than your fist) if you’d like to see it balanced.

‘Absolutely, compellingly beautiful in its perfect focus’ The Scotsman Duration 30 – 60 minutes, no interval Age 6+ Please note this performance will be a combination of seats and standing room

Mon 18 May, 7.30pm Tue 19 & Wed 20 May, 6.30pm & 9pm Friends Meeting House £10 Produced by Richard Jordan Productions and Theatre Aan Zee in association with Big in Belgium, Theatre Royal Plymouth and Summerhall

Supported by:

Edmund de Waal I Placed a Jar

Celebrated British ceramic artist Edmund de Waal is perhaps best known for his large-scale installations, which have been exhibited in museums around the world, including the V&A, Tate Britain and the National Museum of Wales. Edmund is also well known as an author: his family memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes has been translated into nearly 30 languages and has won many literary prizes. In a special event for Brighton Festival he will be talking about the intersection between words, pots and music.

Mon 18 May, 7.30pm Studio Theatre £10

Haydn Janáček Dvořák

String Quartet in G major, Op. 76 No. 1 String Quartet No. 2, ‘Intimate Letters’ String Quartet No. 13 in G Op.106

Winner of the 2012 Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artists Award, the Heath Quartet is recognized as one of the finest ensembles to have emerged in recent years. It performs a programme from the heart of the string quartet repertoire, including a late masterwork by Haydn, Janácek’s emotionally charged tour de force, which has

‘They are well-nigh impeccable... I have seldom heard such pure ensemble internation’ The Washington Post been called his ‘manifesto on love’; and Dvorák’ String Quartet No. 13, quite simply one of the most beautiful ever written. Mon 18 May, 8pm Music Room, Royal Pavilion £30 (Includes a glass of wine or soft drink

Mon 18 – Tue 19 May

Heath Quartet

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Sylvain Émard Danse (Montreal)

Fragments Volume I UK Premiere

‘Émard never disappoints, and his latest piece Fragments - Volume 1 is a masterpiece’ paulacitron.ca A vital presence on the North American and European dance scene and artistic collaborator for Lorin Maazel Opera's 1984 (Royal Opera House), Sylvain Émard cultivates a powerful and physical choreographic style, with a repertoire of more than 30 dance pieces. In this captivating collage of short pieces (solos and duets), Émard captures the distinctive worlds of four performers: seasoned actress Monique Miller and dancers Laurence Ramsay, Manuel Roque and Kimberley de Jong. Contrasting Miller’s authentic, minimalist gestures against the dancers’ raw energy and wild abandon, this montage of miniatures pushes, picks and pulls at the complexities and vulnerabilities of the individuals on show. His intense and surprising piece weaves an exhilarating patchwork of fragments, each inspired by the personalities, preoccupations and dreams of his muses, placing the dancer at the very heart of creation. Duration 60 mins Post-show discussion

Tue 19 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £15, £17.50 Festival Standby £10 (see p4) Co-produced by Canada Dance Festival in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut. Supported by Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and Conseil des arts de Montréal.

Tue 19 – Wed 20 May

Nina Conti ‘Uproariously hilarious’ The Scotsman

Join comedian, ventriloquist, filmmaker Nina Conti for a screening of her BAFTA-nominated ‘docu-mockumentary’ Her Master’s Voice, followed by a characteristically unpredictable live performance. Her Master’s Voice follows Nina’s pilgrimage with the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell to their final resting place, Vent Haven Museum in Kentucky. Along the way, we get to know her wooden travelling companions, as together they deconstruct her life and that of her lost love. Ken

Claire Cunningham Give me a reason to live This solo performance by one of the UK’s foremost artists is inspired by the medieval Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch and the role of beggars and cripples in his work. Through a series of tests, it explores religion, religious art and how we judge the body. Glasgow-based choreographer Claire Cunningham is an artist whose work is rooted in the use and misuse of her crutches, exploring her own physicality while rejecting traditional dance techniques and the attempt to move with the pretence of a body other than her own. Stark yet humane, Give me a reason to live is a live memorial to the estimated 70,000 disabled victims of the Nazi’s Aktion T4 program, and today’s disabled victims of the UK government’s ‘welfare reform’. Duration 40 minutes Post show discussion Tue 19 May with Ali Smith and Claire Cunningham

Tue 19 & Wed 20 May, 7.30pm The Old Market £15 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Campbell was the hugely respected maverick of British theatre, and Nina was his prodigy in ventriloquism. Poignant, original and often hilarious, Her Master’s Voice is a requiem to the strange, surprising world of the art form: never has watching someone talk to themselves been so interesting. The live stand-up performance that follows confirms why Nina Conti has risen to be one of the nation’s favourite comedy performers and winner of the 2013 British Comedy Award for Best Female. Duration 2 hours 30 minutes, including interval

Tue 19 May, 7.30pm Theatre Royal Brighton £16 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

The Forgotten / L’Oublié(e) UK Premiere Brighton Festival Exclusive

‘A touch of Lynch here, a scent of Kate Bush’s gothic romanticism there, Raphaëlle Boitel and her company have presented an epic event... an experience that will live on in your memory.’ Libération

Tue 19 – Wed 20 May

Raphaëlle Boitel / Compagnie L’Oublié(e) (Languedoc-Roussillon)

An epic work at the cutting edge of contemporary French circus, which fuses circus, theatre and dance in equal measures, The Forgotten is the directorial debut of Raphaëlle Boitel, one of the most remarkable performers on the European visual and physical theatre scene. The Forgotten plunges you into a dreamlike world of flight and fantasy to tell a tale of yearning and discovery. A woman searches for the man she loves. Wandering through the ruins of his memory, she encounters moments of ecstasy, secret dreams and haunting apparitions. With extraordinary physical prowess, the company of six performers flies, glides and dives against an impressive yet stark theatrical landscape. Cleverly fabricating illusions from everyday materials, they bring inanimate objects to life and conjure scenery from thin air to create a parallel world of startling beauty. Presented by Crying Out Loud and Si Par Harsard Age 8+ Duration 75 minutes Post-show discussion Tue 19 May Highly visual, wordless performance See brightonfestival.org for video clip

Tue 19 & Wed 20 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £10, £15, 17.50, £20 Under 26s £15 Members' First Night Offer £12.50 Festival Standby £10 (see p4) Supported by the French Institute and Réseau en scène Languedoc-Roussillon

Tue 19 – Sun 24 May

Roundabout at Regency Square

Part of Paines Plough's series of new plays in their beautiful pop-up theatre in-the-round. See pages 10 & 11 for more details and the rest of the series.

Paines Plough and Pentabus Theatre Company

Every Brilliant Thing

by Duncan Macmillan with Johnny Donahoe You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world, everything worth living for: 1. Ice cream 2. Kung fu movies 3. Me A new play about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love. Every Brilliant Thing returns to the UK hot from a 16-week run off-Broadway.

‘Heart-wrenching, hilarious...possibly one of the funniest plays you'll ever see’ The Guardian êêêê Duration 60 minutes Age 14+

Tue 19 May, 8pm; Wed 20 May, 7pm & 9pm Sat 23 & Sun 24 May, 5pm & 8pm Roundabout, Regency Square Tue & Wed £13 Sat & Sun £15 Under 26s £10 Book more than one Roundabout show and save 20% on additional show(s)

Dominic J Marshall Trio Dominic J Marshall piano Sam Vicary double bass Sam Gardner drums

Multi-award winning pianist, composer and beatmaker Dominic John Marshall is shaping up to be a formidable force on the international jazz scene. With three albums and a clutch of awards already under his belt, his trio evades categorisation, surging enigmatically through jazz, classical, hip hop, soul and folk to create a realm of expression that is uncompromisingly it's own.

‘There’s no mistaking Marshall’s ferocious talents… a well-versed pianist with an ear for everything’ The Jazz Breakfast Tue 19 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

With an impressive range and emotionally rich phrasing, Joey Arias is a vocalist of the highest calibre. A fixture of New York’s vibrant performance scene for more than 30 years, his scandalous wit, sleek style and extraordinary voice - evocative of Billy Holiday yet uniquely his own - was one of the highlights of Antony Hegarty’s Meltdown at Southbank Centre in 2012.

‘Eerie, entrancing, filthy and phenomenally talented, Arias is not to be missed’ Time Out

Wed 20 May

The Joey Arias Experience

For his Brighton Festival premiere, Arias takes you on a musical journey that spans his earliest influences; his days at Capitol Records and his tenure as lead singer of Strange Party (an influence on Talking Heads), traversing the genres of jazz, pop, rock and experimental. The Joey Arias Experience revives this rich backlog of musical history with Arias as a medium and a muse. Accompanied by the masterful arrangements of piano virtuoso Charly Zastrau, this is an unmissable performance by a true NYC icon. Age 16+

Wed 20 May, 8pm Theatre Royal Brighton £10, £12.50, £15, £18 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Wed 20 – Thu 21 May

Andy Miller Read Y’Self Fitter What makes a great book? Should we finish difficult books or ones we don’t like? Why do so many of us lie about the books we have – or haven’t – read? Andy Miller is the author of The Year of Reading Dangerously, in which he reads 50 of the greatest and most famous books in the world (and two by Dan Brown). With the aid of little more than a flipchart, Andy will guide you through his 10-step programme to cure you of your bad reading habits. Expect a little audience participation and a lot of fun.

‘Hilarious ... a self-help session on getting through difficult books’ The Times Wed 20 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Julie Fowlis ‘Fowlis could be the first Scottish Gaelic crossover star in the making.’ Daily Telegraph Brought up in the Outer Hebrides, Scottish folk singer and multi-instrumentalist Julia Fowlis has been a proud standardbearer for Gaelic culture over the course of a solo career that has spanned four acclaimed studio albums and has seen her win a clutch of awards, including Folk Singer of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

Her most recent album, Gach Sgeul (Every Story), is a mature offering of carefully selected Gaelic songs with lush, sensitive arrangements by musicians from Scotland, Ireland and further afield. From rapid-fire ‘mouth music’ to ballads and lullabies, Fowlis is an artist who has proven beyond doubt that traditional Gaelic music can make inroads into the mainstream without compromise. Thu 21 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £15 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

How We Used To Live Brighton Festival Exclusive In 2009, director Paul Kelly and Saint Etienne’s Pete Wiggs and Bob Stanley spent months going through the BFI archives, searching out rare footage of London to make a new documentary. The result is How We Used To Live, an elegant, evocative film narrated by Ian McShane that uses colour footage from the 1950s to the turn of the 1980s to show how London constantly changes and yet somehow stays the same: its night life and fashion shows, traffic jams and housing issues, and the permanent sense that something new is around the corner.

‘Perfection’ Mojo êêêêê ‘A cherishable, woozy-hazy trawl of London’ The Guardian êêêêê

Thu 21 May

Saint Etienne

After it premiered to widespread acclaim at the 2013 London Film Festival, Saint Etienne brings the rarely seen live performance of How We Used To Live to Brighton accompanied by an eight-piece band performing Pete Wiggs’ soundtrack. Thu 21 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £16, £18.50 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Thu 21 May

Benjamin Clementine plus support ‘Very little about Clementine is predictable, all of it is worth watching’ The Observer ‘An extraordinary new musical talent. Incredible’ Evening Standard When an unsigned 24-year-old Benjamin Clementine performed the title track from his debut EP Cornerstone on Later… with Jools Holland in late 2013, it became one of the most talked-about appearances by a new artist in recent years. Clementine’s on-stage charisma, extraordinary voice and unique piano balladry immediately drew comparisons with Nina Simone and Antony Hegarty, both strong influences on the young musician. Born and raised in London, it was in Paris – homeless and busking on the Metro to earn a living – that Clementine refined his craft and built a cult following. With his debut album At Least For Now released on March 30, experience a spine-tingling artist in this highly anticipated performance for Brighton Festival

A rare opportunity to see Benjamin Clementine accompanied by an extended line up. Thu 21 May, 8pm Theatre Royal Brighton £12, £14 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

The Diary of One Who Disappeared Robert Murray tenor Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano James Baillieu piano Brahms

49 deutsche Volkslieder (selection)

Britten

Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Op. 22

Dvořák

Cigánské melodie (Gypsy Songs) Op. 55

Janáček

The Diary of One Who Disappeared

Love and the allure of Gypsy life thread through the works in this recital, which includes song cycles inspired variously by folksong, love poetry and tales of nomadic life. Brahms regarded his 49 German folksong settings as his greatest accomplishment. Britten, on the other hand, looked to Italy for the cycle that marked his coming of age as a song composer. Dvorák‘s Gypsy Songs celebrate the freedom and romance of Gypsy life; the cycle includes the tender ‘Songs My Mother Taught Me’, one of the composer’s best-loved pieces. Also drawing on a romanticized view of Roma, Janácek’s enigmatic and emotionally complex The Diary of One Who Disappeared tells the tale of a village boy who deserts his home and family for the love of a sultry Gypsy girl.

Festival favourite Baillieu is joined by two rising stars of opera and song, tenor Robert Murray and mezzosoprano Anna Huntley, for this seductive recital. Thu 21 May, 8pm St George’s Church £17.50, (£12.50, Restricted View) Festrival Standby £10 (see p4) Pre-show talk with James Ballieu and Andrew Comben, 7pm

Carleen Anderson with the Julian Joseph Trio Brighton Festival Commission ‘For live performances, you absolutely have to see Carleen Anderson,’ Amy Winehouse once said, ‘I would sit around the venue all day, just to hear her sound-check.’ You can believe every word Amy said. When Anderson performs, her inimitable voice cuts to the bone. Born in Texas into an illustrious musical family (her mother is soul singer Vicki Anderson, her step-father Bobby Byrd and her godfather James Brown), Carleen began singing in church aged three. By the 1980s, she was touring the world with the James Brown All Stars, a gig that brought her to London where she would go on to front the Young Disciples and later the Brand New Heavies. The years that followed have

seen collaborations with everyone from Courtney Pine to Paul Weller, and a universally acclaimed residency at Ronnie Scott’s for this most accomplished soul and jazz vocalist. For this one-off performance, Carleen pays tribute to her all-time hero, the ‘Divine One’ Sarah Vaughan. Accompanied by one of the towering figures in contemporary jazz, pianist and bandleader Julian Joseph, together with special guests, this promises to be an unmissable evening of the finest vocal jazz.

Fri 22 May

A Tribute to Sarah Vaughan

‘Without doubt one of the all-time great female vocalists… Carleen must be seen to be believed’ Huffington Post Fri 22 May, 8pm Theatre Royal Brighton £12.50, £16.50, £20 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Fri 22 – Sat 23 May

Mariana Mazzucato, Frances O'Grady, Neel Mukherjee and Nick Cohen The Inequality Conundrum Chaired by Polly Toynbee Inequality is rising. By next year, Oxfam predicts that the richest 1% of the world’s population will own more than half the world’s wealth. But why? Will democratic support for modern capitalism be eroded by evidence that a small number of people are reaping an everincreasing share of the rewards? Exploring these issues in this provocative and lively debate, Guardian journalist Polly Toynbee chairs a panel that includes Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation at the University of Sussex’s Science Policy Research Unit; Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the TUC; Booker shortlisted novelist Neel Mukherjee and Observer columnist Nick Cohen.

Southpaw Dance Company Carousel Leading the way in stylish and energetic dance theatre, Southpaw Dance Company presents its newest work - a visually spectacular, viscerally enthralling tale of a fairground after dark. Carousel features a splendid, fully functioning merry-goround, which provides the centre-piece for an edgy story of the enigmatic characters who inhabit the fairground. As the fair shuts down for the night, its public face gives way to the exhilarating private celebrations and personal tragedies of an intensely close-knit group of people.

Fri 22 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £10

Music, dance and drama combine for a stunning piece of dance theatre, in which the performers use the carousel’s revolving platform to flip, roll, dive, and spin to an eclectic Balkan and Gypsy-influenced score.

‘Atmospheric, vigorous and breathtaking’ Daily Telegraph on Southpaw Dance Company Fri 22 & Sat 23 May, 9pm The Level Commissioned by Without Walls and Stockton internationa Riverside Festival Co-Commissioned by SO Festival, Skegness

Fri 22 May

the Duke of Burgundy with live soundtrack by cat’s eyes (2014, UK, cert 18, 104 minutes) UK Premiere One of the most anticipated films of the year, Peter Strickland’s daring masterpiece The Duke of Burgundy is a bold homage to 1970s erotica. Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen) and Chiara D’Anna play entomologists Cynthia and Evelyn, lovers caught up in a series of complex sadomasochistic games. The lush, dreamlike soundtrack for the film is provided by Cat’s Eyes - the collaborative project of The Horrors’ frontman Faris Badwan and Italian-Canadian singer and composer Rachel Zeffira. Blending orchestral instrumentation, psychedelic sounds and Zeffira’s soprano, The Times has already declared it ‘one of the albums of 2015’. In this UK Premiere for Brighton Festival, The Duke of Burgundy is screened accompanied by a live performance of its seductive score by Cat’s Eyes. Fri 22 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £16, £18.50 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

‘a gorgeous blend of ennio Morricone-style strings and operatic vocal flourishes, it’s one of those classics set to go on to be proclaimed as a masterpiece.’ The Times 55

Fri 22 – Sun 24 May

Clod Ensemble

The Red Chair Written and performed by Sarah Cameron Directed by Suzy Willson Music by Paul Clark This intimate show tells the surreal story of a man who could not stop eating, the wife doomed to cook his meals and their ‘inveesible’ daughter. Join Sarah Cameron on a journey through a world of extreme compulsion and eye watering complacency, where a father’s dereliction of duty reaches epic proportions. Told in a rich Scots dialect with physical verve, a musical score that rolls in like the mist over the hills and a wee dram of whisky to oil the way, The Red Chair lies somewhere between a Grimms’ Tale, an absurdist ghost story and a parent’s guide on how not to bring up children. Produced in association with Fuel Age 14+ Duration 1 hour 55 minutes including an interval Post-show discussion Fri 22 May

Fri 22 & Sat 23 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £15 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Third Party

The Sagas of Noggin the Nog Directed by John Wright

‘Whether you know the stories of Noggin or not, this show should be seen by all’ What’s On Stage In the lands of the North, where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long, the men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale… of Noggin the Nog! The classic stories by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, which became one of the most iconic television series of the 1970s, are playfully retold using puppets, original music, film – and a cast of silly Vikings. Accompanied by the brave and mighty Thor Nogson and the great green bird Graculus, come North with us on a journey of adventure and discovery to battle the fearsome Ice Dragon and thwart Noggin’s dastardly uncle, Nogbad the Bad.

Suitable for all ages Duration 65 minutes BSL interpreted performance Sun 24 May, 2pm

Sat 23 May, 5pm Sun 24 May, 11am, 2pm & 5pm Theatre Royal Brighton £5, £10, £15, Under 16s Half price (top 2 prices)

Sat 23 – Sun 24 May

Sam Green (New York)

The Measure of All Things ‘Absolutely delectable, not to mention unreproducible. Mixing clips, commentary, lecture and live music, Sam Green and the band weave together the stories of some of the strangest and most beautiful world records of all time.’ Sundance Festival The Measure of All Things is a new live cinema performance by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground) with acclaimed chamber group yMusic

Loosely inspired by the Guinness Book of Records, Green weaves together a series of poetic portraits of record-holding people, places and things: the tallest man, the oldest living thing, the woman with the longest fingernails... Drawing on old travelogues, the Benshi tradition and contemporary TED talks, The Measure of All Things is a poignant meditation on the mysteries of existence, our search for meaning, and the beauty and tragedy of human folly. Duration 60 minutes Post-show discussion Sun 24 May, 4pm performance

Sat 23 May, 7.30pm Sun 24 May, 4pm & 7.30pm The Old Market £15 Festival Standby £10 (see p4) Produced by ArKtype and C41 Media Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Sat 23 – Sun 24 May

Janácek and Shostakovich

The Hallé Brighton Festival Chorus Benjamin Grosvenor piano Gareth Small trumpet Mark Elder conductor Janáček Shostakovich Janáček

Suite from The Cunning Little Vixen Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings Op. 35 Glagolitic Mass

The Hallé, Manchester’s award-winning orchestra, joins ranks with the Brighton Festival Chorus for a concert that ranges from transcendant power to gentle lyricism. Now in its 157th season, the Hallé is one of the finest orchestras in the country. Its inspirational music director, Sir Mark Elder, is also President of the Brighton Festival Chorus; he brings the two ensembles together for Janáček’s vigorous, life-affirming Glagolitic Mass. The orchestral suite that Charles Mackerras crafted from Janáček’s most tender opera, The Cunning Little Vixen, is a work of humour and humanity, rich in melody. The Orchestra is joined by the brilliant, BRIT Awardwinning young pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and one of the UK’s leading trumpeters, Gareth Small, for Shostakovich’s sprightly Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings. Described by the composer himself as ‘heroic, spirited and joyful’ it draws freely on elements of popular, Classical and Romantic music.

‘Fearless and thrilling… a rare talent’ Gramophone on Benjamin Grosvenor

Sat 23 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £12.50, £18.50, £22.50, £27.50, £32.50 Under 26s £15 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

The Brighton and Sussex Medical School Debate

Facing Cancer

Cancer. The word elicits a strong emotional response. Rates are increasing, one in three of us will develop some form of the disease during our lifetime. This engaging debate examines the challenging subject of cancer from multiple perspectives: the medical, the ethical, the research-based and, most importantly, the human. The panel of experts includes Professor Malcolm Reed, oncologist and Dean of Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS); BSMS Professor of Ethics Bobbie Farsides; BSMS Professor of Psycho Oncology, Lesley Fallowfield; Professor Peter Johnson, Chief Clinician, Cancer Research UK and Marion Coutts, author of The Iceberg, a widely acclaimed account of her husband’s battle with cancer. The event will be chaired by Nicholas Timmins, senior fellow Institute for Government and the King's Fund and former public policy commentator at the Financial Times.

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

Sat 23 – Sun 24 May

Tricky

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Tricky makes complicated music because Adrian Thaws has had a complicated life, growing up in an extended family that was both black and white, urban and rural, containing strong women and volatile men. It’s typical of one of music’s most unpredictable characters that the first album to bear his birth name is one of his least introspective. ‘Calling it Adrian Thaws is saying you don’t really know me,’ says Tricky, explaining the title of his eleventh album. ‘So many times people have tried to put a finger on me and every album I go to a different place.’

The result is a commanding set of songs that finds the Bristol maverick at his most quietly menacing, ranging from straight up hip hop to house, rock and reggae,and featuring an international crew of collaborators. Fresh from a European tour, Tricky brings his dark, unnerving and ceaselessly inventive sound to Brighton Festival.

‘an artist who's still capable of surprising, disturbing and revelling in his own idiosyncracies’ The Guardian Sat 23 May, 9pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £18 Standing Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson

Introduced by Ali Smith

For as long as we humans can remember, we've been looking up. What is this fascination we have with birds? Exploring their influence on human existence throughout history and highlighting urgent conservation issuesis bird enthusiast Margaret Atwood, author of more than forty books, including The Handmaid’s Tale, The Blind Assassin (winner of the 2000 Booker Prize) and the MaddAddam trilogy. She is joined in conversation by her partner Graeme Gibson, author of The Bedside Book of Birds and Joint President (with Margaret) of BirdLife International’s Rare Bird Club. Sun 24 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Corn Exchange £10

sun 24 May Laurie anderson all the animals Brighton Festival Exclusive One of America’s most daring creative pioneers makes a welcome return to Brighton in a specially curated performance responding to this year’s Festival themes. Renowned for her innovative use of technology - from her 1981 breakthrough O Superman to her appointment as NASA’s first artist-in-residence - Anderson’s groundbreaking works as writer, director, visual artist and vocalist span the worlds of art, theatre and experimental music. All the Animals is a collection of animal stories drawn from throughout Anderson’s career. Dogs, horses, whales, birds, insects, cows, rabbits, tigers and snakes have careened through her work for decades, used to represent empathy, danger, joy or confusion, or as creatures drawn directly from real life. For All the Animals, Anderson brings together both the real and the fictional for an evening of new and old music by a truly singular artist. Sun 24 May, 8pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £20, £22.50 Festival Standby £10 (see p4)

‘Laurie anderson...has broken through and made some of the most interesting art of the late 20th century...earning as she goes a reputation as one of the world's premiere performance artists.’ Wired

Sun 24 May

And Now:

Fleeting Brighton Festival Exclusive Commissioned by Brighton Festival Ever witnessed a murmuration of starlings over the West Pier? Shape-shifting without borders or boundaries as thousands of chattering individuals move as one? Like the precarious pier that’s gradually being reclaimed by the sea, it’s a magnificent expression of the impermanence of our world. Fleeting is a punctuated installation on the beach created by And Now: artists who specialise in creating unexpected visual experiences inspired by the natural world. Their recent works have taken place at Wakehurst Place, Wilderness Festival, the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew and also in two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the Wye Valley River Festival and Inside Out, Dorset. Lead artist Mandy Dike, in collaboration with Ben Rigby and the whole creative team, uses fire to connect with people, drawing on its universal cultural presence, symbolic strength and power to focus and inspire.

As daylight fades, hundreds of individual points of fire create shapes and swathes of glowing light and shade. Move closer; is that the sound of erosion, of rusting perhaps? Or maybe this is what progression sounds like? Is it the sound of birds in flight, or of time passing? Is it the sound of the shifting, ever-changing population? Maybe you can hear memories of migration.

Evoking a sense of awe, wonder and calm contemplation, Fleeting is at once a tribute to the West Pier, the people of Brighton and Hove and the transforming power of nature – a fitting finale to Brighton Festival 2015. See brightonfestival.org for ways to get involved Sun 24 May, as daylight fades into the gloaming Brighton beach between the piers

With thanks to the West Pier Trust

Play Your Part

Guest Director’s Guests Are you a writer aged under 30? Would you like the opportunity to meet our guest director, Ali Smith? You could be one of the lucky six who join Ali for coffee on Sat 9 May You’ll be able to talk about your writing and simply chat with one of Britain’s best loved – and best-selling – authors. For your chance to meet Ali, simply write 500 words on her chosen subject, ‘Edge of the Seat’, and send your piece to us by Friday 10 April. Entries can be emailed as a Word document to writing@brightonfestival.org (with Guest Director’s Guests in the subject line) or posted to 12a Pavilion Buildings, Castle Square, Brighton BN1 1EE. Please include your name and contact details.

Peacock Poetry Prize The theme of this year’s Peacock Poetry Prize, chosen by our Guest Director, Ali Smith, is ‘Birds’. If you are aged between 7 and 18, why not create a poem inspired by birds and submit it for the chance to win some fantastic prizes and attend a special reception on 20 May? Spread your creative wings and see where they take you! There are three categories, for ages 7–10, 11–14 and 15–18. You can submit up to three poems with a maximum length of 40 lines per poem. Please email your entry (including your name and age) by Mon 20 Apr to writing@brightonfestival.org, with Peacock in the subject line.

Collidescope Brighton Festival in Focus: Calling artists and creators across the art forms Following a successful pilot programme in 2014, Brighton Festival’s artists’ development project continues in May 2015, enabling a group of mid-development artists and creators to intensively engage with the Brighton Festival. The initiative will enable a selection of artists to attend a wide range of shows and events in the Brighton Festival programme, network with fellow participants, and share conversations with Brighton Festival artists from across the genres of performance and visual art.

Adopt an Author In an exciting project to promote literacy and encourage writing, primary schools across Brighton & Hove are linking with well-known authors in eight weeks of creative fun and emailed inspiration. The project culminates in a ‘Meet Your Author’ party during the Festival. This year Carden, Queens Park, Mile Oak and Bevendean Schools have adopted the authors A. F. Harrold, Alex Milway, Marcia Williams and Rob Lloyd-Jones. Visit the official blog for a fascinating selection of their emails: adoptanauthor.wordpress.com If your school would like to take part in 2016, please email sarah@collectedworks.co.uk Produced by Collected Works CIC

‘Nurturing and nourishing. I actually wish every festival offered this opportunity to artists!’ Sheila Ghelani, performance and installation artist, Collidescope 2014 Artists and creators making work in all areas of the performing arts for at least 5 years are welcome to apply. For more information on how to apply visit brightonfestival.org.

Stephen Dodgson

Pastourelle

Falla

Pièces Espagnoles

Carlo Domeniconi

…un tempo che fu un pensiero in gioia

Ravel

Mother Goose Suite (extracts)

Giuliani

Variazoni Concertanti Op.130

Laura Snowden and Tom Ellis have been performing together since the age of 15 and are now at the forefront of a new generation of guitar virtuosi. Winners of the 2012 Ligita International Guitar Duo Competition, they are particularly noted for their contemporary repertoire. This beautifully varied programme features works from

across the entire guitar canon, from Giulani (1781–1829) to Domeniconi (born 1947).

Lunchtimes

Laura Snowden and Tom Ellis guitar duo

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

Louise Alder soprano James Baillieu piano Schumann Szymanowski Liszt

Zigeunerliedchen I and II Op. 79 Bunte Lieder Op. 22 3 Sonetti di Petrarca S270

Panufnik

Hommage à Chopin for soprano and piano

Brahms

Zigeunerlieder Op 103

The winner of last year’s John Christie Award at Glyndebourne, Louise Alder is forging an impressive international career, performing major roles as a member of Oper Frankfurt. She joins James Baillieu for a recital of Romantic songs. From the arresting simplicity of Schumann’s ‘little songs’ composed for children

to the burnished eloquence of Szymanowski’s setting of various German poems, this is a melodic journey through some of the gems of the Lieder repertory.

‘Alder is a radiant performer and a composer’s godsend’ Financial Times Wed 6 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Huw Wiggin saxophone James Sherlock piano Bach Demersseman Graham Fitkin Bennett Stockhausen Andy Scott

Sonata in G Minor BWV 1020 Fantaisie sur un thème original Glass Gate Excursions solo piano In Freundschaft Fujiko Three Letter Word

If there’s one word that sums up this popular duo it’s versatility. From the intricacies of Bach and the lushness of Demersseman to the starkness of Stockhausen and the immediacy of more contemporary pieces, Huw Wiggin (winner of the Gold Medal and First Prize at the Royal Over-Seas League Competition and named

Commonwealth Musician of the Year in 2014) and James Sherlock bring nuance and expression to music from across the centuries through their unusual partnering of instruments.

‘Liquid gold tones and enviable breath control’ The Times on Huw Wiggin Thurs 7 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10 In association with Royal Overseas League

Lunchtimes

Alexander Karpeyev piano Schumann

Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op. 14, ‘Concert sans orchestre’

Medtner

Skazka (Fairy Tales) Op. 26 No. 3 and Op. 14 No. 2

Busoni

Sonatina No. 6 BV 284, ‘Kammerfantasie über Bizets Carmen’

Stravinsky

Danse Infernale, Lullaby and Finale from The Firebird

One of the most glittering of the new generation of pianists, Alexander Karpeyev continues the great tradition of Russian musicianship with commanding technique and breathtaking finesse. Here, he explores the many textures and tonalities of Romantic piano works,

including Schumann’s passionate but little-known Sonata No 3 and miniature tone poems by Medtner, with whose work Karpeyev is particularly identified.

‘Pyrotechnical virtuosity... formidable technique’ The Argus Fri 8 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10 In association with Craxton Memorial Trust

Stephen Upshaw viola Veronika Trisko piano

Exoticism and Folk Music Bloch Suite for Viola and Piano Raymond Yiu Elegaic Fragments Bartók Romanian Folk Dances

Travel to far-off lands with the American violist Stephen Upshaw and his regular collaborator Veronika Trisko. Stephen’s quest for new musical horizons has taken him to the furthest reaches of the repertoire, including pieces written

Jianing Kong piano Scarlatti Chopin Ravel

Sonata in G major K454 Sonata in G major K455 Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor Op.35 Gaspard de la Nuit

The prize-winning Chinese pianist Jianing Kong performs some of the most technically challenging pieces in the piano repertoire. Scarlatti’s sonatas are noted for their demands on light-fingered virtuosity, while ‘Scarbo’, the third movement of Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, is so fiendish that

Teyber Trio Tim Crawford violin Timothy Ridout viola Tim Posner cello Mozart Schubert

Divertimento in E-flat K563 Trio in B-flat D471

Three gifted young instrumentalists come together to form a new trio that takes its name from the great 18thcentury violist Anton Teyber. Teyber performed alongside Mozart in the

specially for him, such as Raymond Yiu’s Elegiac Fragments, inspired by Middle Eastern music. Also rooted in the East is Bloch’s Suite for Viola and Piano and closer to home, Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances are irresistibly rhythmic. Mon 11 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10 it is widely considered perhaps the most difficult piano work ever written. In pleasing contrast, Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 is more measured, though no less profound, and includes the famous Funeral March.

Tues 12 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10 In association with Kirckman Concert Society

world premiere of the Divertimento in E-flat, in 1789. Noble and warmhearted, it was the first substantial work for string trio. Schubert’s Trio is just a fragment of a projected longer work, but its bijou perfection has made it a beloved cornerstone of the chamber music repertoire. Wed 13 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10

Lunchtimes

Cavaleri Quartet Turnage Contusion Tchaikovsky Quartet No. 1 in D major Op. 11

Since winning the 2012 Hamburg International Chamber Music Competition, the Cavaleri Quartet has cemented its position as an exciting young ensemble. This programme includes Mark-Anthony Turnage’s latest work for chamber orchestra, a searing piece inspired by a Sylvia Plath poem. Tchaikovsky’s First String Quartet, with its famous adagio, is one of the composer’s most exquisite inspirations.

Tues 19 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10 In association with Kirckman Concert Society

Camerata Cayrasco Concert for the Nations of Europe Camerata Cayrasco Sarah Sexton violin Heather Birt viola Eligio Luis Quinteiro Romantic guitar Giuliani Beethoven

Serenade in A major Op. 19 Andantino Sostenuto Op. 71, No. 3 Serenade in D major Op. 8

This year sees the bicentenery of the Congress of Vienna, the conference that settled peace in Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. The Spanish ensemble Camerata Cayrasco marks the anniversary by reconstructing a trio performance arranged by the

Atéa Wind Quintet Poulenc, arr. Emerson Nielsen Aaron Holloway-Nahum Briccialdi

Novelette Op. 47 No. Wind Quintet Op. 43 How to Avoid Huge Ships Wind Quintet Op. 124

The Atéa Wind Quintet was formed in 2009 and is enjoying a reputation as a fearless and virtuosic ensemble. It is a keen proponent of contemporary and unusual works – works like How to Avoid Huge Ships, premiered by the

PSK Trio Africa Railway Project is the new live concept from Portuguese master bassist Theo Pascal, vocalist Carmen Souza and Mozambican percussionist and drummer Elias Kacomanolis. For the last few years, they have been conquering stages around the world with the Carmen Souza Project. Now PSK Trio sets out to explore other African roots and rhythms - especially

celebrated composer and guitarist Mauro Giuliani (1781–1829), who was Master of Ceremonies and the official concert artist at the Congress. A beguiling combination of instruments performs two delightful works by Giuliani himself and Beethoven’s sprightly Serenade.

Wed 20 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10 Quintet last year, and the charming and melodic Quintet by the 19th-century flautist Giulio Briccialdi. Nielsen’s Wind Quintet, on the other hand, is a staple of the repertoire while Poulenc’s Novelette is an exquisite miniature gem. Thu 21 May, 1pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £10 In association with Kirckman Concert Society

those from Lusophone countries - in a more intimate set. You’re invited to join them on the Africa Railwayand embark on a new journey to an unknown destination.

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

26 Letters

Nick Sharratt’s Draw-along Nick Sharratt’s drawings are instantly recognisable to a whole generation of children: his pictures for the novels of Jacqueline Wilson have made his strong, clear style unmistakeable. The illustrator of more than 250 books for children, including the best-selling You Choose, Shark In The Dark and Pants, will be

The Imaginary with A. F. Harrold and Emily Gravett Come and meet the creators of The Imaginary, the funny and frightening tale written by A. F. Harrold and illustrated by Emily Gravett. Harrold is one of our most original and imaginative authors, and Gravett’s amazing pictures add a playful yet

Piers Torday Piers Torday invites you along to celebrate the publication of his new novel, The Wild Beyond. The third in a series that also includes The Last Wild and The Dark Wild (winner of last year’s Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize), the book charts the adventures of Kester Jaynes as he fights to bring the animals of his world back from the brink of disaster. Come and meet Piers, and find out more about the characters and creatures that have made his books so successful.

Age 4+

Sat 2 May, 2.30pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £6

haunting dimension to The Imaginary’s tale of imaginary friends. 'Rudger is Amanda’s best friend. He doesn’t exist, but nobody's perfect. Only Amanda can see him – until the sinister Mr Bunting arrives to sniff him out...' Age 8+

Sat 9 May, 10.30am Sallis Benney Theatre £6

‘Written in a vivid, urgent style, The Last Wild may be as crucial to the new generation as Tarka the Otter’ The Times Age 9 – 11yrs

Sat 9 May, 12.30pm Sallis Benney Theatre £6

The comic world of Alex Milway and Gary Northfield

which features an adventurous pig and his hamster sidekick, while Gary’s creations include Julius Zebra and Derek the Sheep. Expect live drawing, lots of comics and plenty of laughs in this lively family event.

Find out about cartooning and comic illustration from two of the best illustrators around! Characterful creatures are favourite subjects for both artists: Alex is well known for Pigsticks and Harold,

Age 6+

James Dawson

horror-fiction maestro R.L. Stine but with the humour of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, they top every teen’s reading list. Don’t miss James on his royal tour of the UK as Queen of Teen!

Recently voted the ‘Queen of Teen’ and shortlisted for the first UKYA Book Prize, James Dawson is the rising star of dark-hued teen fiction. His books, which include Hollow Pike, Cruel Summer, Say Her Name and Under My Skin, combine sharp wit and contemporary humour with creepy horror plots. Reminiscent of

sharing some of his favourite books, showing how he creates his characters and handing out his drawing tips. Bring a pencil, a pad and something to rest on and you can draw along with Nick.

Sat 9 May, 2.30pm Sallis Benney Theatre £6

Age 13+

Sat 9 May, 4.30pm Sallis Benney Theatre £6

In a fascinating showcase of the films, television, games and websites nominated for the BAFTA Children’s Awards, Cat Sandion (CBeebies) and Ben Shires (Officially Amazing!) host a lively mix of demonstrations, behind-the-scenes films and interviews with top talent, from animators to writers, directors to designers.

Nominees included How To Train Your Dragon 2, Shaun the Sheep, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Wolfblood so there’s something for everyone, plus prizes to be won! Age 7 – 12 Duration 90 minutes

Sat 9 May, 10.30am Duke of Yorks £4

BAFTA Kids: TV Presenting Masterclass

best interviewing techniques? How do you convey your own personality on screen? And how can you stop yourself laughing in front of the camera? A unique and practical insight into the world of television presenting.

With Cat Sandion and Ben Shires

Sat 9 May, 2pm Brighton Dome Founders Room £10

Cat Sandion and Ben Shires share their secrets in a fun workshop for children aged 7–12. How do you use an autocue? Is it harder broadcasting live? What are the

A Morning with

Jacqueline Wilson The best-selling author and former Children’s Laureate talks about her brand new book for younger readers, The Butterfly Club, and reveals how she created some of her best-loved characters, including the feisty Tracy Beaker, the muchloved Victorian foundling Hetty Feather and more recent creations such as Opal Plumstead.

Liz Pichon Tom Gates is the daft, doodling, disasterprone diarist whose fun-filled escapades have been the subject of seven best-selling books and won his creator, Liz Pichon, the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Now you can hear Liz read from the latest Tom Gates book, Yes! No (Maybe…) in an event that’s

Jim Smith The creator of the Barry Loser series invites you to join him for an hour of stories, burps and belly laughs. In a feast of off-the-wall silliness ideal for anyone who likes Mr Gum and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jim Smith will teach you how to draw Barry and his mates – and many other things!

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BAFTA Kids: Behind the Scenes

Jacqueline Wilson has sold more than 35 million books in the UK; The Butterfly Club is her 101st novel. There will be no book-signing at this event, but pre-signed books will be available to purchase. Age 7+

Sun 10 May, 11am Brighton Dome Concert Hall £6

packed with fun and games, as well as plenty of tips on how to doodle just like Tom. Age 8 – 12

Sun 10 May, 12.30pm Sallis Benney Theatre £6

Packed with silly humour, quirky plots and hilarious doodles, Jim’s books have made him the ‘keelest kids’ book speller checker in the whole wide world’! Age 7 – 11

Sun 10 May. 2.30pm Sallis Benney Theatre £6

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The Just William Tea Party Quiz with Tom Dussek Do you know your Botts from your Browns? Do you long to unleash your inner Outlaw? If the answer is yes, you’re a shoo-in for our brilliant children’s book quiz about all your favourite childrens

Young City Reads Circus of Thieves and the Raffle of Doom William Sutcliffe Brighton & Hove’s ‘Big Read’ for children returns! This year young storylovers are invited to read and discuss the arnarchic Circus of Thieves and the Raffle of Doom. Carnegie Medalshortlisted author William Sutcliffe and illustrator David Tazzyman take centre stage for a live, interactive schools event to talk about this thrilling book and tell us more about Shanks’ Impossible Circus. Teachers who would like to sign up their class for the Big Read should visit cityreads.co.uk/young-city-reads. You can book a maximum of 10 tickets in any one transaction online. For bigger orders please phone the ticket office on 01273 709709 or book tickets online in multiples of 10.

Troll and the Oliver with Adam Stower Let your imagination run wild creating crazy characters with the award-winning local author and illustrator Adam Stower. Adam’s latest book, Troll and the Oliver, tells the story of the Troll, who tries every day to eat the Oliver, and the Oliver, who everyday manages to outsmart or outrun the Troll.

Joyce and Polly Dunbar present Pat-a-Cake Baby The latest book by author Joyce Dunbar and her illustrator daughter, Polly, is a delicious celebration of baking. Pat-a-Cake Baby follows the midnight adventures of one very small baker. While everyone else is sleeping, Pata-Cake Baby calls on three fantastical friends to lend a hand making a very

book including a special round on Richmal Crompton's naughty school boy hero. Join Tom Dussek for some troublesome teasers and afternoon tea! Age 7+ Maximum six in a team

Sun 10 May, 4pm Sallis Benney Theatre £8

‘The more we read, and the earlier we start reading, the wider and more fruitful the big wide world becomes and the more thoughtful and versatile our understanding of it. Young City Reads is a gift to young minds….’ Ali Smith, Guest Director, Brighton Festival 2015

Age 8 – 11

Wed 20 May, 1.30pm Theatre Royal Brighton £3 Produced by Collected Works CIC

Adam brings the hilarious story to life through readings, live drawing and games, and gives you some top tips on drawing along the way.

Age 4+

Sat 23 May, 10.30am Brighton Dome Founders Room £6 special cake. Will it be ready in time for the Man in the Moon to try a slice? Joyce and Polly introduce their new story in a family event which will leave children stuffed to the brim with magic and fun.

Age 3+

Sat 23 May, 12pm Brighton Dome Founders Room £6

with Bridget Minamore Everyone has a poem or two inside them, and now it’s time to unleash yours with a creative two-hour workshop led by the poet and poetry-performer Bridget Minamore, who was shortlisted to be London’s first Young Poet Laureate in 2013. Bridget will show you how

Sensory Storytime with Guess How Much I Love You Is there anyone who hasn’t been enchanted by Sam McBratney’s Guess How Much I Love You? The endearing exchange between Big Nutbrown Hare and Little Nutbrown Hare as they think of ever-larger metaphors to express their love for each other has become one of the

Bookstory by Monstro Theatre In Brian’s library, the books are all in a muddle. Romance is rubbing shoulders with DIY and the dictionary is sharing a shelf with the whodunnits. To save their confused library (and its confused librarian) the books must work together – but how? Books can’t move. Or can they? But before they can discover their real powers, the books must first face

to create poetry out of any topic that interests you. In her case, that currently means hip hop, climate change, her 97 year-old grandmother, football, London, Ghana and teeth… Age 14 – 16 yrs

Sat 23 May, 2.30pm Brighton Dome Founders Room £10

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Poetry Workshop

true literary classics for younger children, and this year it celebrates its 20th anniversary. Join our special storyteller Vanessa Woolf for a delightful reading of the book, which includes a free goodybag for every child. Age 2 – 5

Sun 24 May, 10.30am, 12 noon, 1.30pm, 3pm Brighton Dome Founders Room £6 their deadliest enemies… Bookstory is a tiny puppet musical with some very big ideas. Suitable for anyone over the age of 7, it uses songs, puppetry and dynamic performance to tell the story of the story in the digital age. Family (7+)

Sun 24 May, 10.30am & 1.30pm Brighton Dome Studio Theatre £7

Julia Donaldson Join one of our best-loved authors and her guitar-wielding husband Malcolm for an amazing hour of storytelling and sing-along. Bring your best singing voices and prepare to join in the fun as we go on an adventure to the deep, dark woods, find out exactly what the Jackdaw saw and enjoy fantastic actionpacked performances of your favourite Julia Donaldson picture books. This very special event is sure to be a Squash and a Squeeze, so book your tickets early to make sure you have Room on the Broom! Age 6+

Sun 24 May, 11am Brighton Dome Concert Hall £6

Alongside Brighton Festival

Brighton Fringe Fri 1 – Sun 31 May brightonfringe.org

Brighton Fringe kicks off in May with a whirlwind of creative arts across the city. Experience something new, from cabaret to workshops and everything in between. Start your Brighton Fringe with a trip to Fringe City on New Road, every Saturday during May!

Artist Open Houses weekends Sat 2 – Sun 24 May aoh.org.uk Visit local artists in their homes and studios over four weekends in May. Artists Open Houses offer more than 1,200 artists, working in a wide range of media, exhibiting in 200 venues. With homemade tea and cake on offer as well, the Open Houses are a weekend treat and an unmissable part of the festival season.

The Great Escape Thu 14 – Sat 16 May greatescapefestival.com

The Great Escape, Europe’s leading festival for new music, returns this year to celebrate it’s 10th anniversary. The festival will once again introduce a cutting edge line up of up and coming artists from all over the world as well as some special guests to help celebrate the landmark birthday event.

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Wildlife Photographer of the Year Sat 2 May – Sun 6 Sept Brighton-Hove-Museums.org.uk

This world-renowned exhibition features 100 awe-inspiring images, from fascinating animal behaviour to breath-taking wild landscapes. Admission Charges Apply. Wildlife Photographer of the Year is co-owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Worldwide.

Charleston Festival

Where books, ideas and creativity bloom Fri 15 - Bank Holiday Mon 25 May charleston.org.uk Shuttle bus service from Lewes Station Charleston presents a dazzling array of speakers and up-to-the minute books and topics for discussion. We celebrate the anniversaries of Magna Carta, Waterloo and Alice in Wonderland; discuss freedom of expression and phone hacking; enjoy public art, modern drama, fashion and music; award the inaugural Keynes Prize.

Speakers include: Tom Stoppard; Helena Kennedy; Maggi Hambling; Peter Carey; David Lodge; Colm Toibin; Michael Frayn, Monty Don, David Nicholls and Neel Mukherjee.

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Thank you to our Patrons: The Aisbitt Family | Paul & Dee Bonett | Lady Bryson Caroline & Howard Carter | Andrew Comben Michael Farthing & Alison McLean | Barry & Gay Fearn Prof David Gann CBE & Ms Anne Asha | Arjo & Sejal Ghosh David Harrison | Jill Hill & Bob Warner CBE John Hird & Yoshio Akiyama | Lady Helena Hughes Dr Glynn Jones DL OBE | Karl Jones | Gary Miller Philip Morgan | D V Newbold CBE | Stewart Newton Judge Marian Norrie-Walker | Michael Pitts Andrew & Margaret Polmear | Ronald Power MBE | Clare Rogers Richard & Soraya Shaw | Robin & Anja St Clair Jones Polly Toynbee | Sir David & Lady Betty Watson Those who wish to remail anonymous Call Sarah on 01273 260818 or email sarah.shepherd@brightonfestival.org Find out more at brightonfestival.org/support_us

5 mins ONCA Gallery

Jubilee Library

Duke’s at Komedia

5 mins Brighton Station 22mins Brighton Open Air Theatre (B.O.A.T)

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1 min Lighthouse 11 mins Duke of York’s Picturehouse

12mins The Level

Jubilee Square

Circus Street Market

19mins Preston Barracks 23mins Woodingdean Central Park 35 mins Stanmer Park

Corn Exchange

Church Street Ticket Office

Fabrica

Victoria Gardens

University of Brighton Gallery

Brighton Dome

Studio Theatre

Concert Hall

C U LTU RA AL QUAR RTT E R

27 mins The Spire

Theatre Royal Brighton

Founders Room & Café–bar

Sallis Benney Theatre

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Pavilion Gardens

Royal Pavilion

Music Room

Visitor Information

7mins Hilton Brighton Metropole 10 mins Roundabout at Regency Square 12 mins Regency Town House 14 mins The Old Market 30 mins All Saints Church

War Memorial

Steine Gardens

The Lanes Friends Meeting House

13 mins Black Rock

Old Ship Hotel

Coach Station

Fishing Museum

Sea Life Centre

Artists’ Quarter

Brighton Pier

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15 mins St George’s Church 16mins Queen’s Park

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17mins Saltdean Oval

Friends Meeting House

Concert Hall Corn Exchange Corn Exchange Foyer Founders Room Café-bar

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

Church Street, BN1 1UD Studio Theatre

New Road, BN1 1UG Access info: 01273 261525 / 261541

Dyke Road Park Cafe Dyke Road Park, Dyke Road, Brighton, BN3 6EH

Black Rock Madeira Drive, Brighton, BN2 1EN

Brighton Open Air Theatre (B.O.A.T) Dyke Road Park, Dyke Road, Brighton, BN3 6EH

Circus Street Market Circus Street Brighton, BN2 9QF

Duke’s at Komedia 44 Gardner Street Brighton BN1 1UN

Onca Gallery 14 St George’s Place, Brighton, BN1 4GB

The Old Market Upper Market Street

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All Saints Church The Drive, Hove BN3 3QE

Music Room, Royal Pavilion Pavilion Gardens, BN1 1EE

Fabrica 40 Duke Street Brighton BN1 1AG

(off Western Road),

Hove BN3 1AS

The Old Ship Cellars The Old Ship Hotel 1-38 Kings Road Brighton, BN1 1NR

Friends Meeting House Ship Street Brighton, BN1 1AF

Preston Barracks Lewes Road Brighton, BN2 4GL

Glyndebourne Near Lewes East Sussex BN8 5UU Wheelchair access – foyer circle level only

Queens Park Brighton, BN2 0GE

Hilton Brighton Metropole Kings Road Brighton, BN1 2FU

The Level Lewes Road Brighton, BN2 9SA

St George’s Church St George’s Road Brighton, BN2 1ED

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

Venues

Brighton Dome

Sallis Benney Theatre 58–67 Grand Parade Brighton BN2 OJY

Saltdean Oval Saltdean Park Road Brighton, BN2 8SP

Stanmer Park Brighton, BN1 9QA Theatre Royal Brighton New Road Brighton, BN1 1SD

Roundabout at Regency Square Brighton, BN1 2GG

University of Brighton Gallery 58–67 Grand Parade Brighton, BN2 OJY

Regency Town House 13 Brunswick Square Hove BN3 1EH

Woodingdean Central Park Rudyard Road Woodingdean, BN2

Assisted Performances British sign language interpreted performances: On Liberty with Shami Chakrabarti Mon 4 May, 8pm p21 Backstage In Biscuit Land Fri 8 May, 8pm p26 Paines Plough – Lungs Sun 17 May, 5pm, p11 Paines Plough – The Initiate Thu 21 May, 7pm, p11 The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler Fri 15 May, 7.30pm p35 The Sagas of Noggin The Nog Sun 24 May, 2pm, p56

Kamila Shamsie Sun 3 May, 4pm p16

Audio Description:

BSL interpretation by Sue MacLaine

Relaxed performances:

Relaxed performances are designed to welcome people with learning disabilities. There is a relaxed attitude to noise and movement and some small changes made to the light and sound effects.

Backstage in Biscuit Land Thu 7 & Fri 8 May, p26 Touch tour for visually impaired audiences: Ear Trumpet Sun 16 May, 11.15am, p41 Britten Sinfonia Tue 12 May, 6.45pm, p32

Vast White Stillness Sat 9 May, 3pm p26 The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler Sat 16 May, 2.30pm p35

Brighton Festival would like to thank all the artists, partners, venues and sponsors, and the entire team of Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival. Brighton Festival is produced and promoted by Brighton Dome and Festival Ltd. Registered Charity number 249748. Brighton Festival Chief Executive Andrew Comben andrew.comben@brightonfestival.org

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 Programmers Beth Burgess, Mathew Clayton, Hilary Cooke, Sally Cowling, Laura Ducceschi, Orla Flanagan, Gill Kay, Tanya Peters and Pippa Smith

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

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Brochure design Will Mower willmower.com Copywriting Oliver Tims and Rasheed Rahman

Diary

Week 1: Sat 2 May

Sun 3 May

Mon 4 May

Children's Parade 10.30am p12

Catapluf’s Musical Journey 10.30am & 1pm p17 (ST)

Small Fables 10am, 12noon & 2pm p20 (TOM)

Pitch Perfect 12noon - 4pm p12 Various

8 Songs 12noon - 5pm p19 (WCP)

8 Songs 12noon - 5pm p19 (SO)

The Performing Book 12noon - 6pm p12 (BR)

BEES! The Colony 12noon - 5pm p18 (WCP)

BEES! The Colony 12noon - 5pm p18 (SO)

Nick Sharratt's Draw Along 2.30pm p66 (ST)

Bill & Bobby 12noon - 5pm p19 (WCP)

Bill & Bobby 12noon - 5pm p19 (SO)

Hold On 12noon - 5pm p18 (WCP)

Hold On 12noon - 5pm p18 (SO)

Our Teacher's A Troll 5pm p10 (R)

Louder Than Words 12noon - 5pm p19 (WCP)

Louder Than Words 12noon - 5pm p19 (SO)

Zoe Williams 5.30pm p12 (ST)

Reliquary 12noon - 5pm p18 (WCP)

Beyond 2.30pm & 7.30pm p13 (CH)

The Apple Family Plays - That Hopey Changey Thing 6.30pm p14 (CE) Lungs 8pm p11 (R) Stay-at-home Dandy 8.30pm p16 (ST) The Apple Family Plays - Sweet and Sad 8.45pm p14 (CE)

The Welcome Mat 1pm - 7pm p16 (S) La Pointe Courte 1.30pm p16 (DK) Our Teacher's A Troll 2pm & 5pm p10 (R) Beyond 2.30pm p13 (CH) Stephen Hough 3pm p17 (G) Kamila Shamsie 4pm p16 (ST) Richard Nelson in Conversation 4.30pm p15 (FR)

Week 2: Sat 9 May BAFTA Kids: Behind the Scenes 10.30am p67 (DK) The Imaginary 10:30am p66 (SB)

Isabelle Faust 5.30pm & 8.30pm p21 (AS)

Jackie Kay 8pm p20 (ST)

On Liberty 8pm p21 (CH)

The Initiate 8pm p11 (R)

The Apple Family Plays - Regular Singing 8.30pm p14 (CE)

Sun 10 May

Mon 11 May

Geminus 11am & 2pm p28 (ST) Jacqueline Wilson 11am p67 (CH) I Do, Do I 11.30am & 1.30pm p28 (TOM)

Our Teacher's A Troll 2pm & 5pm p10 (R)

Jim Smith 2.30pm p67 (SB)

Vast White Stillness 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, 7pm, 8pm p26 (OS) James Dawson 4.30pm p66 (SB) Election 2015 - How was it for you? 7.30pm p29 (CE) On Tove Jansson 7.30pm p29 (SB)

Exoticism and Folk Music 1pm p64 (ST) Dreams of a Life 6.30pm p31 (DK)

Vagabond 1.30pm p30 (DK)

BAFTA Kids: TV Presenting Masterclass 2pm p67 (FR)

Alex Milway and Gary Northfield 2.30pm p66 (SB)

Lungs 5pm p11 (R) The Apple Family Plays - Sorry 6pm p14 (CE)

Liz Pichon 12.30 p67 (SB)

I Do, Do I Workshop 3pm p28 (TOM)

Agnes Varda: From Here to There 3.30pm & 6.30pm p20 (DK)

The Apple Family Plays - Sorry 6pm p14 (CE)

I Do, Do I 11.30am &1.30pm p28 (TOM)

Lucia's Chapters of Coming Forth by Day 2.30pm & 7.30pm p25 (TRB)

The Welcome Mat 1pm - 5pm p16 (S) The Apple Family Plays - Sweet and Sad 2.15pm p14 (CE)

Agnes Varda Screen Talk 4.30pm p9 (DOY)

Piers Torday 12.30pm p66 (SB) Geminus 2.30pm & 4pm p28 (ST)

Reliquary 12noon - 5pm p18 (SO) The Apple Family Plays - That Hopey Changey Thing 12noon p14 (CE)

Sunday in the Gallery with Ali Smith 3pm p30 (O) Vast White Stillness 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, 7pm, 8pm p26 (OS) Just William children's book quiz 4pm p68 (SB) Resistance 5pm p30 (ST) Elif Shafak and Jacqueline Rose 8pm p30 (ST) DakhaBrakha 8pm p31 (CE) Lungs 8pm p11 (R)

Anna Calvi 8pm p29 (CH) The Initiate 8pm p48 (R) The Company of Wolves 8.30pm p24 (SP)

Week 3: Sat 16 May From the bottom of the well, the frog believes the sky is round 11am & 3pm p37 (H) Ear Trumpet 12 - 2pm & 3 - 5pm p41 (QP) Romeo and Juliet 1.30pm & 6pm p34 (BOAT) Water Matters 2pm p5 (CSM) Our Teacher's A Troll 2pm & 5pm p10 (R) The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler 2.30pm & 7.30pm p35 (TRB) Lungs 8pm p11 (R) 451 9.45pm p42 (PB)

Sat 23 May Troll and the Oliver with Adam Stower 10.30am p68 (FR) Pat-a-Cake Baby 12noon p68 (FR) PSK Trio 1pm p65 (ST) Poetry Workshop with Bridget Minamore 2.30pm p69 (FR) The Sagas of Noggin the Nog 5pm p56 (TRB) Every Brilliant Thing 5pm & 8pm p48 (R) The Hallé 7.30pm p58 (CH) The Measure of All Things 7.30pm p57 (TOM) The Red Chair 7.30pm p56 (ST) Tricky 9pm p59 (CE) Carousel 9pm p54 (TL)

Sun 17 May

Mon 18 May

Ear Trumpet 12 - 2pm & 3 - 5pm p41 (QP)

The Arbor 6.30pm p44 (DK)

Archipelago 1.15pm p43 (DK)

Freeze! 7.30pm p44 (FMH)

Water Matters 2pm p5 (CSM)

Edmund de Waal 7.30pm p44 (ST)

The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler 2.30pm p35 (TRB)

Heath Quartet 8pm p45 (MR)

Sunday in the Gallery with Ali Smith 3pm p30 (O) I Know Where I'm Going 4pm p43 (DK) Lungs 5pm p11 (R) Brighton and Hackney Youth Orchestras 5pm p43 (AS) Masha Gessen 8pm p43 (ST) The Initiate 8pm p11 (R)

Sun 24 May Bookstory 10.30am & 1.30pm p69 (ST) Guess How Much I Love You 10.30am, 12pm, 1.30pm & 3pm p69 (FR) Julia Donaldson 11am p69 (CH) The Sagas of Noggin the Nog 11am, 2pm & 5pm p56 (TRB) Facing Cancer 1pm p58 (CE) Sunday in the Gallery with Ali Smith 3pm p30 (O) (TOM)

The Measure of All Things 4pm & 7.30pm p57

Every Brilliant Thing 5pm & 8pm p48 (R) Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson 8pm p59 (CE) Laurie Anderson 8pm p60 (CH) Fleeting p61 (BB)

Throughout Brighton Festival Rachel Kneebone 10am - 5pm p8 (UBG) Agnes Varda Installation Mon - Sun 10am - 5pm; Thu 10am - 8pm (UBG) Dawn Chorus 12noon - 7pm p6 (F) Gauge p5 (CSM) A Murmuration Wed - Fri 12noon - 7pm; Sat & Sun 11am - 6pm, p6 (O) Portraits of Dissention Wed - Sun 12noon - 6pm p7 (RTH)

Colour Key Week 1 (2–8 May)

Week 2 (9–15 May)

Week 3 (16–24 May)

Throughout Brighton Festival

This also corresponds to the colour coding throughout the brochure

Wed 6 May

Thu 7 May

Laura Snowden and Tom Ellis 1pm p63 (ST)

Glow 10.30am, 1.30pm & 3.30pm p22 (TOM)

Carol Ann Duffy 8pm p23 (CH)

James Baillieu with Louise Adler 1pm p63 (ST)

Huw Wiggin and James Sherlock 1pm p63 (ST)

The Lads in Their Hundreds 8pm p23 (TRB) The Spalding Suite 8pm p22 (CE)

Ruth Scurr 8pm p23 (ST) The Spalding Suite 8pm p22 (CE) Lungs 8pm p11 (R)

The Initiate 7pm p11 (R) Lucia's Chapters of Coming Forth by Day 7.30pm p25 (TRB) New Writing South Lecture: Jeanette Winterson 7.30pm p24 (CE) Backstage in Biscuit Land 8pm p26 (ST) The Company of Wolves 8.30pm p24 (SP) Lungs 9pm p11 (R)

Tue 12 May

Wed 13 May

Jianing Kong 1pm p64 (ST)

Teyber Trio 1pm p64 (ST)

Look at Me Now, Mummy 4pm & 7.30 p33 (CEF)

Romeo and Juliet 6pm p34 (BOAT)

Underworld 5pm & 8.30pm p33 (CE)

Underworld and Look at Me Now, Mummy 6pm p33 (CE)

The Initiate 7pm p11 (R)

Britten Sinfonia 7.30pm p32 (CH) Lungs 9pm p11 (R)

The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler 7.30pm p35 (TRB)

Thu 14 May Romeo and Juliet 1.30pm & 6pm p34 (BOAT) The Initiate 7pm p11 (R) The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler 7.30pm p35 (TRB) Kate Tempest/George The Poet/ Hollie McNish 7.30pm p36 (CE) Being Both 8pm p40 (CH)

Fri 8 May Alexander Karpayev 1pm p64 (ST) Vast White Stillness 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, 7pm, 8pm p26 (OS) The Initiate 7pm p11 (R) Lucia's Chapters of Coming Forth by Day 7.30pm p25 (TRB)

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Tue 5 May

Backstage in Biscuit Land 8pm p26 (ST) GoGo Penguin 8pm p27 (CE) Squarepusher 8pm p27 (CH) The Company of Wolves 8.30pm p24 (SP) Lungs 9pm p11 (R)

Fri 15 May Meet the Artists (Globe Theatre) 4pm (DRPC) From the bottom of the well, the frog believes the sky is round 5pm p37 (H Romeo and Juliet 6pm p34 (BOAT)) James Baillieu with Benjamin Appl 7pm p63 (AS) The Initiate 7pm p11 (R) The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler 7.30pm p35 (TRB)

Rachel Holmes 8pm p34 (ST)

Gillian Beer 8pm p34 (ST)

Sam Lee's Nightingale Walk 9pm p32

Animals 9pm p41 (AS)

Lungs 9pm p11 (R)

Sam Lee's Nightingale Walk 9pm p32 Lungs 9pm p11 (R)

Tue 19 May

Wed 20 May

Thu 21 May

Cavaleri String Quartet 1pm p65 (ST)

Camerata Cayrasco 1pm p65 (ST)

Atéa Wind Quintet 1pm p65 (ST)

Freeze! 6.30pm & 9pm p44 (FMH)

Young City Reads 1.30pm p68 (TRB)

The Initiate 7pm p11 (R)

Nina Conti 7.30pm p46 (TRB)

Freeze! 6.30pm & 9pm p44 (FMH)

Give me a reason to live 7.30pm p46 (TOM)

Every Brilliant Thing 7pm & 9pm p48 (R)

L’Oublié(e)/The Forgotten 7.30pm p47 (CH)

Fragments 8pm p45 (CE) Dominic J Marshall Trio 8pm p48 (ST) Every Brilliant Thing 8pm p48 (R) Sam Lee's Nightingale Walk 9pm p32

Give me a reason to live 7.30pm p46 (TOM) Read Y'Self Fitter 8pm p50 (ST) The Joey Arias Experience 8pm p49 (TRB)

The Diary of One Who Disappeared 8pm p52 (SGC) Benjamin Clementine 8pm p52 (TRB) St Etienne - How We Used To Live 8pm p51 (CH) Julie Fowlis 8pm p50 (CE) Sam Lee's Nightingale Walk 9pmp32

Fri 22 May The Initiate 7pm p11 (R) The Red Chair 7.30pm p56 (ST) The Inequality Conundrum 8pm p54 (CE) A Tribute to Sarah Vaughan - Carleen Anderson 8pm p53 (TRB) The Duke of Burgundy - Cat's Eyes 8pm p55 (CH) Lungs 9pm p11 (R) Carousel 9pm p54 (TL)

Lungs 9pm p11 (R)

Sam Lee's Nightingale Walk 9pm p32

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