Season 1999/2000
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22nd - 29th January 2000
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Assassins
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
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shooting gallery at a carnival . The assassins enter and are encouraged
to solve their personal problems by picking up a gun. A Balladeer
sings us through American history and drifts through assassinations
as a professional witness to American catastrophe...
Based on both fact and imagination this musical examines nine
people who have all taken a shot at an American President.
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26th February - 4th March 2000
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King Lear
William Shakespeare
 "Is
this the promised end? Or image of that horror?"
An eighty year old head of state disowns his youngest daughter and
unleashes a storm which pulverises two families and rends the peace
of an entire nation asunder. This epic examination of the ties which
bind the end of one world and the stunned recognition of the need
to build a new one.
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8th - 15th April 2000
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A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
Ibsen's play was so shocking to its contemporary audiences that
he was forced to change the ending. A profundly disturbing play
about the fabric of lies and self -deception we weave round ourselves
to maintain the comfortable cocoon of our daily lives.
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2000 brighton festival @ nvt
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Sat 6th - Fri 12th May 2000
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Love and Understanding
Joe Penhall
A tragi-comic masterpiece about the panics and paranoias
of contemporary life, written by perhaps the best of the current
crop of young British writers.
Tickets: £6.00 (non-members), £5.00 (members/concessions)
Performances: 7.45pm
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Mon 15th to Sat 20th May
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At the Inland Sea
Edward Bond
A young boy revising for his history GCSE conjures up victims
of the recent Nazi past. They demand he saves them from annihilation.
Bond's new play.
Tickets: £5.00 (non-members), £4.00 (members/concessions)
Performances: 7.45pm
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Mon 22nd to Sat 27th May
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Just Whores
Anita Hickmore
This "important piece of new drama ... lifts the lid
on the Brighton sex industry" (Argus). NVT's sell-out
show is unsuitable for children -- and the narrow-minded.
Tickets: £6.00 (non-members), £5.00 (members/concessions)
Performances: 7.45pm
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17th - 24th June 2000
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w@rn
Helen Nelder
 Warn
against or worn down? w@rn mounts a challenging investigation into
the kind of homes where your 'loved ones' are the people who put
you in hospital - or worse. Using a variety of techniques - clowning,
masks, mulitmedia and poetry - w@rn searches out the dynamic that
travesties the safe haven of the traditional family and turns it
into a place of fear and trembling.
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15th - 22nd July 2000
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Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
The story of Willy Loman, a sixty year old salesman who has run
out of time, luck and energy. He's cracking up. No-one wants to
buy anything anymore. Nobody knows him. His favourite son can't
bear to look at him. So what went wrong?. "It's about the human
struggle not to be wiped out" said Miller recently. Without
doubt 'Salesman' is one of the greatest plays ever written and is
every bit as timely now in the Blairite Britain of "outcomes"
and "downsizing" as it was in 1948 America.
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12th - 19th August 2000
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Cloud Nine
Caryl Churchill
Set both in the damnable heat of Victorian Africa where the sweltering
members of the raj grapple heroically with their native uprisings
and present day post-colonial London.'Cloud 9' is an almost indecently
hilarious play. Churchill makes brilliant use of cross and multiple
casting to draw unignorable parallels between imperial and sexual
oppression.
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Director's note
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