programme for
january to april 2010
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Sat 16th - Sat 23rd January
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The Ugly One
by Marius von Mayenburg (translated by Maja Zade)
directed by Mike Stubbs
Your Face Your Fortune
by Tamar Daly and Sara Popowa
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An evening of drama and visual performance, featuring the play The Ugly One and continuing with Your Face, Your Fortune, created in response to the play.
 The Ugly One is a sharp and bizarre comedy on beauty, identity and getting ahead (or a face) in life. Lette thought he was normal. But to everyone else, including his loving wife, he is 'unspeakably' ugly. When the extent of his ugliness is revealed he turns to a plastic surgeon for help. But after the bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing as too beautiful. This play owes glancing debts to the Marx Brothers and Kenny Everett and laughs at our obsession with external beauty.
 Your Face, Your Fortune extends the themes of The Ugly One into a live happening. It toys with the possibility of changing one's fortune by changing one's face and invites the audience to participate in a 'photographic facial surgery'.
Be prepared for it to get a little sticky...
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Fri 29th January
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The Frogmore Poets
an evening of Poetry at the NVT
 Founded at the Frogmore tea-rooms in Folkestone in 1983, the Press has published hundreds of writers in its, now bi-annual, magazine The Frogmore Papers and their annual Poetry Prize attracts entries from all over the world.
Featuring:
- Jeremy Page "A collection to be kept on the shelf and returned to when all the lights seem too bright"
- Catherine Smith "A uniquely comic-serious exploration of contemporary mores and physical desires"
- John McCullough "Formal and controlled, colloquial and intimate, sensuous and saucy"
- Ellen de Vries "Poems like jewels that sit comfortably in the hand and hurt just a little"
All tickets £6.50
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Fri 5th February
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From The Heart
 NVT celebrates Valentines (a bit early) with an evening of live short story readings.
Submit a piece of fiction of 1500 words or less on the theme of love (twisted, tainted, erotic... anything goes). Eight stories will be selected and read on the night by an NVT actor. Or if you prefer, come and read it yourself!
Please send your story in the body of an email or as an attachment to brightonnewshound@hotmail.co.uk and include your name and contact details. Deadline for submissions is 18th December 2009. You will be notified in early January if your story is chosen.
Tickets £5.00 (£3.00 members)
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Sat 20th - Sat 27th February |
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Dancing at Lughnasa
by Brian Friel
directed by Gerry McCrudden
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 It is 1936 and harvest time in Donegal. Just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, along with brother Jack, a missionary priest recently repatriated from Africa, and young Michael, seven year old child of the youngest sister. They are barely making ends meet, and after a series of events and revelations, the life the women have known since childhood is about to be torn apart.
Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa won awards on Broadway and in the West End. A modern classic. Joy, sadness, loss - and dancing!
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Fri 5th March
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New Venture Titter Comedy Night
 This Spring, NVT brings you a night of hand-picked local comedy talent; featuring Vicky Nangle, Anthony Ayton, Aidan Goatley and Ben Pritchard, plus an extra special guest. Our own Andrew Allen comperes.
Tickets £5.00 (£3.00 members)
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Sat 27th March - Sat 3rd April |
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Breaking the Code
by Hugh Whitemore
directed by Suzie Dole
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 The fascinating but tragic story of Alan Turing: mathematician, 'Father' of computer science and a gay man in an intolerant era.
Compassionate and often amusing, the play explores the life of a man who broke two different codes: the Enigma Codes during WWII and the gentlemanly code of sexual discretion. By making little attempt to disguise his sexual predilections at a time when homosexuality is illegal, Turing is ultimately destroyed by the State he once saved.
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