Voicebox: Brighton Fringe
Brighton Fringe takes place every May and is a great place to spend the May bank holidays and the summer half-term break. This vast celebration of all things creative has grown out of, and is inspired by, home-grown talent. More than 50% of participants are based in Brighton and Hove. The festival is committed to helping the arts flourish and are completely open-access, which means anyone can put on a Brighton Fringe event. No selection criteria are imposed on participants. This enables both new and established performers to try out new work and take risks. They also help artists develop professionally through a range of workshops, mentoring and bursary programmes. A wide array of critically acclaimed shows and performers also appear at Brighton Fringe each year, drawn by the huge number of appreciative audience members who attend every year.
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26 April 2018
Want my Job? from Jess Weiss, Press Officer for Brighton Fringe
Brighton Fringe Festival is just around the corner, so we catch up with their Press Officer, Jess Weiss, to find out how you can get a job like hers.
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25 May 2017
Mano a Mano
A very small theatre. A very large battered cardboard box. A tiny feather periscope observes the audience.
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14 May 2017
Chris Dingli's Bad Dad
Chris Dingli shares an hour of telling us the worst sins he's committed in his short life as a father.
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13 May 2017
Shaggers - 6 May line-up
A variety comedy show whose theme is the above and where the ever-revolving set of comedians let loose with their sexual stories.
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12 May 2017
The Intimate Strangers: Mister Bond
Two proudly peculiar men with no filter bring to the Fringe a sketch comedy that relied heavily on sheer audacity and less on structure.
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12 May 2017
Comedy Sans Frontières - 6 May line-up
An admirable cause for comedy – 70% of donations from this free show go to Médecins Sans Frontières with a new line up every weekend.
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12 May 2017
Dave Chawner: C’est La Vegan, work in progress
My choice last year for the Pick of the Fringe, Dave Chawner returns with a new show very much a sequel to last year's show, Circumcision.
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12 May 2017
The Writers' Bloc
A play with huge jeopardy that suffered from little rehearsal time and a short running time.
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10 May 2017
Aaaand it’s back! Twig The Pixie’s Family Funsplosion!
I have always admired children's performers for their enormous physicality. Twig the Pixie is less physical than, say, Into The Water but has the storytelling and stand up talent to carry a ferociously loud audience.
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7 May 2017
Luke Nowell: Being Hueman Being
Newcomer Luke Nowell's absurdist routine took a worrying amount of time to get started. But when he did, the show exploded into life.
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7 May 2017
PASSPAWT
Helena, played by Elise Heaven, chronicles her time with her demon feline, Linda, in an altogether mild show.
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6 June 2016
Athena Kugblenu: Reality Check
A socially and politically savvy work-in-progress comedy set, which offers a hilarious take on life in Britain today.
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5 June 2016
Homophobe
A perfectly crafted and emotionally charged show about one man's experience of homophobia that presents a profound reflection on the development of our society's attitudes towards gay people.
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3 June 2016
The Communist Threat
A wonderfully gripping spy thriller which explores the themes of love, loyalty, class and politics.
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3 June 2016
Melancholy
A creative and experimental blend of puppetry, physical theatre and animation that tells the story of a grief-stricken man, his relationship with his neglected child, and his attempt to rebuild his lost wife.
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2 June 2016
Going Viral
Daniel Bye goes through the trials and tribulations of hypochondria, disease and epidemic; leaving the audience suddenly very aware of their own coughs and splutters.
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2 June 2016
A Graceful Dying
An extremely powerful performance, which expertly handles the subject of death and dying.