Joe & Ken 60’s gay playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth are ruminating over their paltry existence. The public don’t care for them. Homosexuality is illegal. Together they embark upon plan to make it as writers. As Joe’s success rockets, Kenneth’s career diminishes, sinking him into depression and self loathing. All Kenneth wants now […]
An Evening of American Theatre: Paul Robeson & Suzi of the Dress Suzi of the Dress By Albert Welling Featuring Nicole Hall and Christoph Cording A Pre-Freudian attitude in a post-Freudian world Counsellor Suzie does not expect her next client to be the Prince of Denmark, but Hamlet needs serious advice. His life is a […]
An Evening of American Theatre: Paul Robeson & Suzi of the Dress Suzi of the Dress By Albert Welling Featuring Nicole Hall and Christoph Cording A Pre-Freudian attitude in a post-Freudian world Counsellor Suzie does not expect her next client to be the Prince of Denmark, but Hamlet needs serious advice. His life is a […]
ACT Diploma in Acting Showcase 2023 The best and the brightest of Brighton’s new acting talent Our 2023 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 […]
Maydays Performance Showcases Join the students from our Intro to Improv & Intro to Longform Performance Courses for their improv showcases, they’re ready to strut their stuff for friends and family!
The Accrington Pals by Peter WhelanDirected by Mark Carroll ‘The Accrington Pals’ follows the story of the innocent and enthusiastic men who voluntarily enlisted at the beginning of the First World War, in response to General Kitchener’s calls for a New Army. Peter Whelan’s beautiful and heartfelt play contrasts the Pals’ lives on the Western […]
Can’t Pay Won’t Pay by Dario Fo Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!’ is a classic political farce by Nobel Prize-winning playwright Dario Fo. This fast-paced comedy, set in a working class suburb of Milan in Italy in the 70s, centres on economic crisis and rising prices, creating parallels with the current cost of living crisis in […]
Damien by Aldyth Morris The story of Father Damien de Veuster, the leper priest of Molokai and patron saint of outcasts. In this passionate, one man show, actor Daniel Finlay channels the powerful stories of the challenges that Damien experienced while serving the community of exiled lepers on a remote Hawaiian island in the 1870’s […]
The Ruffian on the Stair The Ruffian on the Stair is the first play Joe Orton ever wrote. Rarely performed, this production set in a sordid bedsit has been described as ‘dripping with menace’ and ‘compelling’. Mike and Joyce are a poor London couple living in a bedsit. Mike is an ex-boxer living on the […]