Macbeth Directed by Beth Wood A powerful and haunting adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. When Macbeth kills Duncan and all that is best in himself, the world turns upside down. Beautiful poetry hits against heightened horror in this ensemble-focused retelling, drawing us into a world of festering ambition and hunger for power that seems frighteningly like […]
An Introduction to Playwriting : Staged Readings Two new playwrights, Daniel Allen and Jason Lever, present new writing developed on ACT’s Introduction to Playwriting course. This is a rehearsed reading with professional actors bringing these new scripts to the stage for the first time. An eclectic evening including two direct address monologues featuring a disenchanted […]
Written and performed by Janet Behan Directed by Jessica Higgs Funny and shocking by turns, “Why Shouldn’t I Go?” tells the stories of three very different Irishwomen with one thing in common – religion and the impact it has had on their lives. ReviewsGate **** … “a sixty minute theatrical delight “ The UpComing ***** […]
ACT Graduate Showcase 2021 The best and the brightest of Brighton’s new acting talent Our 2021 graduates have already acquired substantial stage and film experience and are an extremely diverse and highly castable group in terms of age, type and ethnicity. The academy positively encourages students who have had considerable life experience, having already pursued […]
Pronoun by Evan Placey A love story about transition, testosterone, and James Dean. Josh and Isabella are childhood sweethearts. They were meant to spend their gap year together, they were meant to be together forever. But Isabella has now become a boy. Pronoun was commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival and […]
Appetite Everywhere by Hot Lemon For women, says the philosopher Susan Bordo, hunger is themost insistent raving and pre-eminent source of their anger and frustration. The anger and frustration I experienced in my life was persistent and clever. It was a literal hunger for food, for sex, for pleasure, power and respect. Now I want […]
Like You by Footdown Productions Six people, five stories, one truck. Follow the lives inspired by real people as they experience the world of modern slavery. Like You is a live, abstract, physical theatre performance about the timely subject of Human Trafficking. This show put on by Footdown Productions, focuses on the journey of six young […]
Duty By A Little Twisted When a Nigerian family moves to London, it’s a far cry from the life they’d hoped for. ‘Duty’ explores how detachment, discontent, gender and racial constructs play out for a young black woman, both in society and intimate relationships. Plus, the bittersweet hope of finding life’s purpose in the midst […]
Rock Bottom By Fresh Life Theatre Shakespeare’s best loved clown, Bottom, is reimagined in Fresh Life Theatre’s new one-man show. Bottom has spent his life pushing the people closest to him away, so it makes sense for him to perform a socially-distanced show. Combining the masterful wit and language of the Bard with fast-paced, sensitive […]
Prison Dialogues By Mark C. Hewitt Prison Dialogues consists of interweaving male and female dialogues set in the everyday of prison. Two men, three women and a text full of banter that leans playfully towards the futile. Prison Dialogues is written by Mark C. Hewitt, whose last Brighton Fringe play, The Revenge Fantasy Club, was […]