Tuesday 24 May 2011

BRIGHTON FESTIVAL - HIGHLIGHTS


LITERATURE

Adrian Chiles reads extracts from his erotic best-seller The Sea Captain’s Daughter and Dermot Murnaghan (from BBC2’s Eggheads) reads from his sonnet sequence, ‘A Ragged Handkerchief’. Free cake.
27 May, 1pm, Old Market Arts Centre, £25/20

FILM
WIMAGES: short films by local
female directors on the subject of being a woman in Brighton today. Jesus. Free cake.

28 May, 7pm, Brighton Media Centre, £10/8

MUSIC
The Ken Ringworm Trio make a welcome return to the Festival with their very English brand of New Orleans Jazz. Expect such standards as ‘Bluer Than Blue’, ‘Gonna Kill That Woman’, and Ken’s own composition, ‘Deck Chair Rag’. Free cake.
29 May, 8pm, Hanbury Ballroom, £12/10

WORKSHOPS
PLAYING RENE IN ‘ALLO ‘ALLO: day-long workshop for actors to rise to the unique artistic challenge of playing Rene in Allo Allo. Conducted by Jeffrey Holland, who played the part in the 2009 stage adaptation. Free cake. 
30 May, 11am, St Nicholas’ Church, Dyke Road, £10/8

TOURS
JOINING THE CIRCUS: tour of locations used in the failed 2000 Eddie Izzard Brighton-based thriller Circus. Beginning outside The Rock Shop it takes in such memorable sites as the bit under the West Pier and the bit under Brighton Pier. Free cake.30 May, 1pm, £8/5

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