The Basement Feb - Jun 2010 Programme

The Basement also manages Jubilee Square, just a short walk from the venue.

The square can be hired out and is a perfect setting for outdoor performance, street theatre, music, community events and outdoor screenings.

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The Basement is ideal for devising, producing and showcasing experimental theatre, Live Art, performance and music. Its underground location also makes it ideal for focussed seminars, workshops and meetings, with a difference. With exposed brickwork and iron beams, The Basement is a blank canvas with an edgy industrial feel. The Basement is now fully accessible with three flexible areas plus an open plan reception and café area.

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Set in the heart of Brighton’s North Laine, The Basement has several atmospheric spaces under one roof. We have a fully licensed bar serving speciality regional beers, wine and cider.

Spirits are sourced due to their independence, origin and ethics.

All drinks are sympathetically priced! With a total capacity of over 200, the venue provides a unique setting in which to experience performance and can also be hired out for events.

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24 Kensington Street Brighton BN1 4AJ Telephone: 01273 699 733

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PROGRAMME FEBRUARY – JUNE 2010

welcome

FEBRUARY

Yes, welcome to a new decade, our new programme and our defiant response to those who say that civilisation has been swallowed up by global recession and reality TV. At The Basement we are constantly amazed at how willing people are to seek out new experiences and explore new forms of performance. We aim to feed this hunger with a rich mix of performance, experimental theatre and music.

This Spring we have Valentine’s Day song dedications, a wry, primary-coloured homage to the 1980s, a true giant of contemporary theatre writing in the form of Brighton’s own Tim Crouch and a rather drab middle-aged Welsh woman singing songs about the apocalypse hitting Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium. Old friends White Rabbit are welcome returners and new friends The Space will present an eclectic range of high-profile guests.

And for the first time, we are pleased to announce a programme of work running throughout May co-produced with the Brighton Festival. We are bringing some major national and international artists to the city as well as presenting the work of some of our own home-grown artists.

We have also used this unique opportunity to experiment with how we present, and you experience performance.

So with reckless optimism that the future is full of intrigue, excitement and healthy confusion, come down to The Basement and start the decade off with a bang.

We look forward to seeing you.

ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? LOVE! Date: Wed 17th February Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £6 (£4 concessions) Love is in the air, is all around, is a drug… so join us for evening of original storytelling in the White Rabbit’s candlelit warren. Part fifties tearoom, part deranged children’s party, we will woo you with irresistible new stories straight from the heart, featuring local writers, embracing this month’s theme: LOVE.

LOVE LETTERS STRAIGHT FROM YOUR HEART Uninvited Guests

We invite you to enjoy FREE cakes, sweets, treats, and to enter our Valentine’s poem competition to win a White Rabbit Love Kit. Grab a “Teapot Cocktail” from the bar, and help us to give Love a bad name…

If you are a writer and have a short story to share with our audience, please e-mail Bernadette Russell: areyousittingcomfortably@live.com

SCRATCH! Date: Thurs 25th February Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: FREE! Continuing our support of early career artists and the promotion of new work, The Basement is pleased to present Scratch! This is an opportunity for early career artists to present works in progress and for audiences to contribute their thoughts and critical insight to the creation process. Each Scratch! event will present 3 - 4 short excerpts from brand new performances followed by a post show discussion with the artists. If you are interested in presenting work at Scratch! please e-mail Greg Mickelborough: greg@thebasement.uk.com

MARCH presents:

Date: Sun 14th February (Valentine’s Day!) Doors: 4.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions) Limited capacity: Advance booking essential.

JOHN HOWARD DAVIES & SALLY HERBERT IN CONVERSATION

Let’s raise our glasses to long lost loves and current lovers, to mums, to dads and to absent friends. Uninvited Guests stage an event that is somewhere between a wedding reception, a wake and a radio dedication show. We speak of our own and other’s loves - deep, passionate, ambivalent and unrequited - and dedicate songs to them.

Date: Thurs 4th March Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £6 (£5 concessions) available through

The Space website: www.thespace.me.uk

If you want to join us on this happy occasion, send a dedication to someone you love to marketing@thebasement.uk.com. Tell us what they mean to you and why you’ve chosen this piece of music.

Your letters of love may become part of the show, romantic gestures or signs of friendship, shared publicly between us. Be our witnesses and we’ll be yours.

Helen Medland Artistic Director

White Rabbit presents:

A BAC Scratch and an Arnolfini We Live Here commission.

Also commissioned by Leeds Met Studio.

With live music from Paul Diello

Join us for a unique opportunity to meet a legendary television comedy producer and one of the UK’s leading music producers. John Howard Davies is best known as a director and producer of seminal British sitcoms including Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, The Goodies and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Sally Herbert has worked with the cream of British music, providing arrangements for Florence and the Machine, Radiohead, Robbie Williams, Travis, Kylie, Manic Street Preachers and Muse. She has performed live with artists such as Paul McCartney, Doves, Elbow and Massive Attack.

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Andrew Mania

SUPPER CLUB Date: Sat 6th March Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £6 (£4 concessions) Tasty tapas menu available In 2010 Supper Club returns with a rich concoction of the experimental, the eccentric and the intoxicating. A host of artists from across the UK and beyond will present bite-sized chunks of performance, video art, music, interventions, installation and interactions. Grab a drink and a tasty bite to eat at the bar then sit back and take it in.

‘…the combination of something to nibble with a keenly priced bar and some of Brighton’s more interesting culture vultures makes for quite a temptation’ The Brighton Source, December 2008

Date: Thurs 11th March Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions) In 1983, Tom illegally taped the first ‘Now That’s What I Call Music’ LP (side one) onto a C60 cassette. 25 years later he found it in a drawer and a new show was born.

Join Britain’s funniest dance duo as they deconstruct this first ever Now album and jump headlong into the dark pool of days gone by and come out covered in a filthy 80’s gunk. Wrestling with classic hits from Bonnie Tyler and Duran Duran, amongst others, will Tom and Pete be able to save the audience from drowning in nostalgia?

Melting Vinyl presents:

ROZI PLAIN, FRANCOIS & THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS AND UNCLE JELLYFISH An intimate night of Fence Record’s finest Date: Tues 9th March Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £7.50 adv. / £8.50 on the door:

Available from Rounder 01273 325440

Resident 01273 606312

Ticketweb www.ticketweb.co.uk Rozi Plain, has been working on the ferries that bob in and out of the city of Bristol, along the Avon, whilst creating her own beautifully intimate music that captures life slowly floating by. Her stunning debut album, ‘Inside. Over Here‘ was released on Fence Records Autumn 2008.

We also welcome back to Brighton multi-talented artist/ musician and latest signing to Fence Records, Francois & The Atlas Mountains. Lo-fi electronics meets dreamlike songs, with lyrics fluctuating between English and French, the Gallic troubadour infuses this with an undertone of African influences. The night is completed by the incredible bizarro-folk troupe from France, Uncle Jellyfish.

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New Art Club

For more information on New Art Club visit www. newartclub.org / www.myspace.com/newartclub ‘Think Morecambe and Wise at Sadler’s Wells’ Bruce Dessau, Chortle

White Rabbit presents: Chris Nash

Curated and hosted by The Basement’s Supported Artists, Supper Club is fast building a reputation as a night not to be missed. They plot a Saturday night for you and your friends, but you won’t know what’s on the menu until its served.

THIS IS NOW

ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? SECRETS! Date: Wed 17th March Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £6 (£4 concessions) Grab your cloak and dagger for a furtive yet sumptuous evening of original storytelling in the White Rabbit’s candlelit warren. Part fifties tearoom, part deranged children’s party, we reveal clandestine new stories written in invisible ink, featuring local writers for this month’s theme: SECRETS. We invite you to enjoy FREE cakes, sweets, treats, and to use our confessions box to air the skeletons in your closets! Grab a “Teapot Cocktail” from the bar, cross your heart, hope to die, and follow the bunny ... down, down, down.

If you are a writer and have a short story to share with our audience, please e-mail Bernadette Russell: areyousittingcomfortably@live.com

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Double Bill:

THICK DESCRIPTION: Emma Bennett 10 WAYS TO DIE ON STAGE: Edward Rapley Date: Tues 29th March Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions) The Basement presents two of the UK’s most exciting new performance writers:

THICK DESCRIPTION Emma Bennett

SCRATCH! Date: Thurs 25th March Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: FREE! Continuing our support of early career artists and the promotion of new work, The Basement is pleased to present Scratch! This is an opportunity for early career artists to present works in progress and for audiences to contribute their thoughts and critical insight to the creation process. Each Scratch! event will present 3 – 4 short excerpts from brand new performances followed by a post show discussion with the artists.

We are keen to hear from artists, performers and theatremakers who are in the process of making new work.

If you are interested in presenting works-in-progress at Scratch! please send a summary of the work you wish to show, details of previous performances, a CV, and a DVD or links to online media of the work you wish to show or other previous works to Greg Mickelborough: greg@thebasement.uk.com

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In this performance of surreal digressions and looping logic, Emma Bennett creates suggestive mental images before twisting them into new shapes, building strange worlds, then casually wiping them out. Birds of paradise strut across men’s shirts, stags stalk the greetings card display, a tin of pineapple chunks becomes disconcertingly aroused.

Somehow, from somewhere, something is saying “thank you”.

10 WAYS TO DIE ON STAGE Edward Rapley ‘Don’t worry...

Things will get worse!’

Welcome to the world of Edward Rapley, a landscape of balloons and paddling pools, childhood memories and adult loss, in a show that plays with stand-up, story telling, dance, live art and clowning. 10 Ways to Die on Stage brings one man’s life, full of hopes and failures, into bewildering detail.

APRIL presents:

STEVE HARLEY & ASHLEY PHAROAH with a short set from Steve Harley Date: Thurs 1st April Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £6 (£5 concessions) available through

The Space website: www.thespace.me.uk This month, The Space presents two more guests of the highest calibre. In conversation with Lisa Holloway will be the legendary Steve Harley and Ashley Pharoah, co-writer of the highly successful television drama series’ Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes.

This highly acclaimed singer/songwriter Steve Harley is best known for his music with Cockney Rebel. He was a key influence of on British bands such as Blur and Suede.

The 1975 album, The Best Years of Our Lives, spawned the classic Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me).

The single reached number one and sold over a million copies. Ashley Pharoah has written for East Enders, Casualty and Silent Witness.

SUPPER CLUB Date: Sat 3rd April Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £6 (£4 concessions) Tasty tapas menu available In 2010 Supper Club returns with a rich concoction of the experimental, the eccentric and the intoxicating. A host of artists from across the UK and beyond will present bite-sized chunks of performance, video art, music, interventions, installation and interactions. Grab a drink and a tasty bite to eat at the bar then sit back and take it in.

Curated and hosted by The Basement’s Supported Artists, Supper Club is fast building a reputation as a night not to be missed. They plot a Saturday night for you and your friends, but you won’t know what’s on the menu until its served. ‘…the combination of something to nibble with a keenly priced bar and some of Brighton’s more interesting culture vultures makes for quite a temptation’ The Brighton Source, December 2008

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THE TRAVELLING BAND

White Rabbit presents:

ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? MAGIC!

Date: Wed 21st April Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions)

Date: Wed 14th April Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £6 (£4 concessions) Close your eyes, make a wish, and come on down to the White Rabbit’s candlelit warren. Transformed into part fifties tearoom, part deranged children’s party, we’ve waved our wands and presto!; we’ve conjured up another evening of original stories, featuring local writers and this month’s theme: MAGIC. We invite you to enjoy FREE cakes, sweets, treats, and to be enchanted by our Special Guest Magician. Grab a “Teapot Cocktail” from the bar, and follow the bunny ... down, down, down.

‘A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.’ - Susanna Clarke If you are a writer and have a short story to share with our audience, please e-mail Bernadette Russell: areyousittingcomfortably@live.com

MY ARM Written and performed by Tim Crouch; film by Chris Dorley-Brown Date: Fri 16th & Sat 17th April Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions) “At the age of 10, for want of anything more meaningful to do, I put my arm above my head and kept it there. Now, thirty years on, I’m so full of meaning it’s killing me.”

Told through performance, film and the animation of everyday objects, my arm is the story of an empty gesture.

It’s the confession of a man who has lived for thirty years by the courage of his lack of conviction. In that process he’s become a celebrated medical specimen and an icon of the New York art scene. It’s about modern art, bloodymindedness and how the things we do when we’re ten stick with us for life.

Having toured internationally since it premiered at the Traverse Theatre in 2003, these are its first public performances in Brighton. A rare treat.

Manchester six piece, The Travelling Band take influence from folk, county, psyche and rock before filtering it through their own sunshine-POP sensibility. On their debut album, Under The Pavement rarely has a British band of recent times sounded this fresh and timeless, here is a band who excel at sounding happy, sad, frustrated, and vulnerable, often at the same time, and their best songs, whether they’re fast or slow, feel like they’re bursting with energy and wisdom. The Travelling Band’s live show is a feel-good tour-de-force.

‘Deserving winners of Glastonbury’s new talent contest and arguably one of Manchester’s best new bands.’

Christina McDermott, BBC Manchester

SCRATCH! Date: Thurs 22nd April Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: FREE! Continuing our support of early career artists and the promotion of new work, The Basement is pleased to present Scratch! This is an opportunity for early career artists to present works in progress and for audiences to contribute their thoughts and critical insight to the creation process. Each Scratch! event will present 3 – 4 short excerpts from brand new performances followed by a post show discussion with the artists.

We are keen to hear from artists, performers and theatremakers who are in the process of making new work. If you are interested in presenting works-in-progress at Scratch! please send a summary of the work you wish to show, details of previous performances, a CV, and a DVD of your work to Greg Mickelborough: greg@thebasement.uk.com

‘Colossally powerful’ The Scotsman

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MAY

THE BASEMENT AND BRIGHTON FESTIVAL PRESENT

KIM NOBLE MUST DIE

THE BASEMENT AND BRIGHTON FESTIVAL PRESENT

Kim Noble

SEEING THINGS (A 1-ON-1 EXPERIENCE) Date:

Tickets:

Date: Friday 7th & Sat 8th May Doors: 9.00pm Tickets: £10

Sat 1st - Wed 5th May Timed appointments every 15 minutes from 12 noon - 8 pm Please arrive 15 minutes prior to appointment; late-comers will not be admitted. £18 Only 15 tickets available per day

Exploiting The Basement’s haunting, subterranean atmosphere, this showcase will present 4 performances to be experienced by one audience member at a time. The audience member will experience a series of intense, beautiful and claustrophobic encounters worlds that are both vivid and hallucinatory.

Please note, this performance features material of an explicit nature. Over 18s only.

Life is tough. Kim Noble will help you get through it whilst laying bare his plans for departing this world.

WORLD OF WRONG The Two Wrongies The Basement: Supported Artists

Date: Fri 7th & Sat 8th May Doors: 7.30 pm Tickets: £8

WHEN WE MEET AGAIN

QUEER COURTESAN

ROTATING IN A

FOOT-WASHING

Clara Garcia-Fraile

Qasim Riza Shaheen

ROOM OF IMAGES

FOR THE SOLE

& Sam Pearson

This intimate yet voyeuristic one-on-one performance plays out the relationship between dance and seduction. Viewing the performance through a two way mirror the audience member is lured and seduced through expression and gesture.

Lundahl & Seitl

Adrian Howells

The audience member passes though a series of spaces, guided by a disembodied voice. Along the journey a series of enigmatic tableaux vivants appear suggesting a narrative which is never explicitly revealed or resolved and where the visitors’ role as a viewer can never fully or conclusively be apprehended.

At the end of your journey Adrian invites you to take a rare opportunity out of your busy life and to take the weight off both your feet and mind by indulging yourself in a performance which involves a therapeutic massage and a soul-nourishing conversational exchange.

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“When I first met you, you could see me but I couldn’t see you…” the invisible woman recounts. When We Meet Again is an immersive wearable film and live performance featuring you, your invisible friend, some forgotten dance hits and a semi-naked very hairy man.

Supported by Brighton & Hove Arts Commission and ACE, SE

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Please note, this performance features material of an explicit nature. Over 18s only.

Forced to assess his meagre legacy as his contemporaries become more and more successful, what Kim bequeaths to the world has become of utmost importance to him. In a series of benevolent acts, audience members are written into Kim’s Last Will and Testament, provided with guides to surviving terrorist plots on the underground and, perhaps most touching of all, containers of Kim’s sperm will be available to female audience members in a bid to populate the world with genius once he is dead.

This is the upfront, personal and schizophrenically chaotic world of The Two Wrongies. Onstage its showtime, glitz and glamour, dance and comedy. Offstage it’s all talk: fast, furious, honest, and at times, very rude. The Two Wrongies invite you to glimpse into their world… a world that reveals an underbelly of murk beneath the glistening spotlight. Celebrating and re-interpreting the classic double act in an unrestrained and honest female sort of way, The Two Wrongies subvert the locker room mentality in a brave exposé of the female psyche. Their onstage relationship, playful rivalry and absurdist humour is not for the faint-hearted!

Co-directed by Kim Noble & Stuart Silver, Dance direction

by Charlotte Vincent ‘…not the ideal way to put the punters at ease’ The Scotsman Supported by ACE, SE

‘Shocking, beautiful and profound. It will blow your mind’ ****** Time Out

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THE BASEMENT AND BRIGHTON FESTIVAL PRESENT

BRIGHTON FESTIVAL PARTNERS

CUTTING THE CORD

This year, The Basement is delighted to be hosting events by two partner organisations:

Flying Eye

caravan CARAVAN Dates: Sun 9th - Tues 11th May Caravan 2010 is an informal three day event taking place in Brighton Festival. It will introduce a selected group of the south east’s brightest performance companies to festival organisers and programmers from around the world, with the ambition of developing new partnerships, collaborations and ways of working. Caravan is delivered by Farnham Maltings and Brighton Festival with the ambition of increasing the national and international profile of the South East’s artists. See www.caravanshowcase.org.uk for further details.

THE GREAT ESCAPE Dates:

Thurs 13th - Sat 15th May

The Great Escape has established itself as the leading event in Europe for showcasing new talent from around the world, aimed at ‘export ready’ bands and Industry Professionals.

TGE takes place in Brighton over three days and nights every May with a total attendance of over 15,000 people including 5,000 industry professionals. A variety of insightful industry talks, panel debates, targeted networking sessions and key note interviews are run alongside performances from 350+ new local and international artists, themed parties and club nights in over 34 different venues.

See www.escapegreat.com for further details.

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THE BASEMENT AND BRIGHTON FESTIVAL PRESENT

THE MOMENT I SAW YOU I KNEW I COULD LOVE YOU

The Basement: Supported Artists

Dates:

Duration: Tickets:

Curious

Mon 17th May, 8.00pm Tues 18th & Wed 19th May, 6.00pm & 8.00pm 45 mins £8 Limited Capacity. Booking essential.

When you are miles away from the place of your birth, can you ever feel at home? Confused, fatalistic, loyal, Japanese. This solo show for a small audience tells the story of Sachi, a young woman, and her comedic, yet sincere search to find a ‘home’. Performed up close, personal, and partly promenade, Flying Eye’s magical theatricality invites people of all backgrounds to celebrate their own journey in finding home.

‘This magical 45-minute piece made us feel like the lucky few to catch a glimpse of a mini masterpiece...’ OneTaste

Dates: Fri 21st - Sun 23rd May Doors: 5.00pm, 6.10pm, 7.20pm, 8.30pm Tickets: £10 Duration: 45 mins

HOW DO YOU LIKE MY LANDSCAPE Manah Depauw & Bernard van Eeghem Dates: Mon 17th May 9.00pm

Tues 18th & Wed 19th May,

7.00pm & 9.00pm Duration: 45 mins Tickets: £10

Limited Capacity. Booking essential.

‘This is how I dream it. This is how it feels. And I am not a sailor. I cannot steer a craft. I cannot tie a reef knot. I cannot swim. But still, this is how it ends. I am out here with the lost mariners, the castaways, the shipwrecked and the sea-swallowed.’

A new Curious performance made in collaboration with film-maker Andrew Kötting, composer Graeme Miller and performers Claudia Barton and Joseph Young. It is about gut feelings; fight, flight and freeze reactions; impulse, love and undefended moments. Set in the belly of a whale.

“And God felt great and powerful and He thought some animation should be very cute and He ordered little animals, first a brown antlered deer, then two spitters or little deer, one must be dotted, they were so beautiful” Genesis In How do you like my landscape Manah Depauw and Bernard van Eeghem use sharp imagination, a miniature landscape and fake plastic animals to redefine the place of the human body within the history of the earth and society. The four-episode spectacle takes place around a landscape where apparent tranquillity only serves to camouflage the terrible beasts of desires that we prefer to remain hidden. The audience follows a world that transforms and develops over four ages...

How do you like my landscape is produced by Margarita Productions, Brussels

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MY NAME IS SUE

Date: Thurs 27th May Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: FREE!

Dafydd James & Ben Lewis

Continuing our support of early career artists and the promotion of new work, The Basement is pleased to present Scratch! This is an opportunity for early career artists to present works in progress and for audiences to contribute their thoughts and critical insight to the creation process. Each Scratch! event will present 3 - 4 short excerpts from brand new performances followed by a post show discussion with the artists. If you are interested in presenting work at Scratch! please e-mail Greg Mickelborough: greg@thebasement.uk.com.

JUNE presents:

SHAZIA MIRZA & KARL HYDE Date: Thurs 3rd June Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £6 (£5 concessions) available through

The Space website: www.thespace.me.uk The Space is delighted to welcome award winning, taboo breaking comedian Shazia Mirza and songwriter for dance music pioneers Underworld, Karl Hyde. Shazia is UK’s only female Muslim stand up, blazing a trail in a job that many in her culture would frown upon. Drawing on this unique perspective, she won the award of Young Achiever of the Year at the Government’s initiative for the Asian community. Karl Hyde led Underworld to become one of the most groundbreaking and popular electronic acts of the 90s. With their intriguing synthesis of old and new, Underworld stormed the charts with classic dance anthem Born Slippy.

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Sadie Cook

SCRATCH!

Date: Thurs 10th June Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions) Winner of the Total Theatre Award 2009 for Theatre & Music.

The cult hit of last year’s Edinburgh Festival, My Name Is Sue tells the story of the piano-wielding prophet from Wales who has so far kept her thoughts to herself. But now she has cleared her throat and is ready to sing.

SUPPER CLUB Date: Sat 5th June Doors: 7.30pm Tickets: £6 (£4 concessions) Tasty tapas menu available In 2010 Supper Club returns with a rich concoction of the experimental, the eccentric and the intoxicating. A host of artists from across the UK and beyond will present bite-sized chunks of performance, video art, music, interventions, installation and interactions. Grab a drink and a tasty bite to eat at the bar then sit back and take it in.

Curated and hosted by The Basement’s Supported Artists, Supper Club is fast building a reputation as a night not to be missed. They plot a Saturday night for you and your friends, but you won’t know what’s on the menu until it’s served. ‘…the combination of something to nibble with a keenly priced bar and some of Brighton’s more interesting culture vultures makes for quite a temptation’ The Brighton Source, December 2008

She cordially invites you into her lounge to sing you through her life from finishing school to doomsday.

With virtuosic piano skill, a soaring falsetto and her faithful backing band, Sue brings to life tales of economic bus travel, tragic schoolgirl longing, a Cardiff-based armageddon and the work of Julia Roberts.

‘Funny, tragic, insane and endearing all at the same time’ Laura Solon, The Metro ‘Certainly one of the most unusual, remarkable and memorable hours on the fringe’ The Stage

White Rabbit presents:

ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? PYJAMA PARTY! Date: Sat 19th June Doors: 9.30pm to 2.00am Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions) Dress code: Glamorous PJs /nightwear Bring: Something to snuggle down with: sleeping bags etc Slip on your slippers, bring blankets and bed rolls ready to camp out at the White Rabbit’s storytelling sleepover inspired by the summer solstice. Midnight feast available from our kitchen, and fairytale films to send you off to sleep… you‘re welcome to toddle off home, or stay the night and have breakfast with us…

‘There were ten in the bed and the little one said, roll over, roll over…’

Anon If you are a writer and have a short story to share with our audience, please e-mail Bernadette Russell: areyousittingcomfortably@live.com

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