Tag Archives: Brighton Festival 2015

The Sagas of Noggin the Nog

The Sagas of Noggin the Nog

June 8th, 2015 by

This adaptation, directed by John Wright, of the popular children’s stories created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin is performed in a jovial pantomime style, with plenty of silly puns and sight gags amongst the storytelling.  The four performers each function as narrators and also play several parts using puppets and quick costume changes.  Nogbad the Bad is […]

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Circa: What Will Have Been

What Will Have Been (and beyond)

May 31st, 2015 by

A reflection on What Will Have Been, the latest work by Circa to be developed in collaboration with Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and a meeting with the company’s director Yaron Lifschitz The Adnams Spiegeltent, in the last week of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival: word is out, and the tent is full. Circa are perennial […]

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Sam Green: The Measure of All Things

Sam Green: The Measure of All Things

May 27th, 2015 by

Cinema:  a shared banquet in a palace, or a snack consumed absent-mindedly on your iPhone? Sam Green is on a mission to find a new way for cinema to be presented, making it a live theatrical experience that, like any other form of theatre, is unique to this time and this shared space. What we […]

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Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson: All the Animals

May 27th, 2015 by

What are the last things you see and say before you die and become dust? Do all oceans have walls? And why did the lark bury her father inside her own head? All the Animals, a specially commissioned show for Brighton Festival, sees Laurie Anderson piecing together excerpts from earlier shows to make something that […]

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Raphaelle Boitel: L'Oubliee. Photo Vincent Beaume

Raphaëlle Boitel: L’Oublié(e)

May 27th, 2015 by

L’Oublié(e) is a stunningly beautiful piece – a mostly monochrome series of moving pictures that blends contemporary circus, dance and word-free visual theatre, all accompanied by a highly inventive lighting design, and an eclectic soundspace that merges ambient electronica with echoing snatches of old-world waltzes, tangos and torch-songs. The 1930s classic Dream a Little Dream […]

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