‘An elegant production that delivers on its promise to stay with you long after you leave'
Part chamber concert, part performance, Endings is a meditation on cycles and the ending of things. Using a richly textured soundscape of turntables, reel-to-reel tape players, recorded interviews and live performers, Endings explores our experiences of death, dying and afterlife.
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Endings UK Premiere
Voices of the living emerge ghost-like from records; performers converse with the taped voices of past conversations; and song floats across the familiar crackle of vinyl.
Tue 9 – Sat 13 May
Tamara Saulwick
Featuring the songs of acclaimed singer/songwriter Paddy Mann (Grand Salvo) and sound design by Peter Knight, Endings was first performed at The Sydney Festival in 2015 and won an award for Design and Realisation. Age 14+ Duration 1 hour Assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Tue 9 – Sat 13 May, 7.30pm Sat 13 May Matinee, 2pm The Old Market £17.50, Festival Standby £10 (see p75) Under 26s & Members' first night offer: £12.50
Ali Smith
Brighton Festival International Programme supported by
Ali Smith's latest novel, Autumn, is set in the wake of the Brexit vote. Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. From the imagination of the peerless Smith (Brighton Festival Guest Director 2015), this is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, on what harvest means. This first in a seasonal quartet casts an eye over our own time. Tue 9 May, 8.15pm Brighton & Hove High School £10
Kelly Reichardt Season Old Joy (2006, USA, Cert. 15) With: Daniel London, Will Oldham, Tanya Smith. Two old friends, Kurt and Mark, reunite for a weekend camping trip in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. The trip signifies different things to them – for Mark a respite from imminent fatherhood, for Kurt a part of a long series of adventures. As the landscape changes, the friends begin to examine their lives and their friendship.
Duration 73 minutes
Wed 10 May 6.30pm Duke of York’s Picturehouse £11, £10 retired, students
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