programme for the
season 2000-2001
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Wed
18th - Sat 21st Oct 2000
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HotShorts2
NVT HOTBED PRODUCTION
HotBed and the acting classes join forces to create an evening
of ten short plays. HotShorts2 celebrates all that is new
and talented with a vibrant and varied evening.
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Sat 4th - Sat 18th Nov 2000
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Risk
TOBY COLLINS
A new musical thriller from the
team who brought you Assassins last season. What if
you were invited to the end of the West Pier, at night, to receive
one million pounds? And what if you went, only to find out that
there was a catch? And what if the catch was to tell the truth?
And what if the truth could kill?
Six characters (or is it seven?), one night, six suspects, one
million. Risk is a new musical thriller by Toby Collins (Time
and Again, The Boys in the Bar), and is presented in
collaboration with The Accidental Theatre Company. With more twists
in its tale than a python and even more venom than a viper, Risk
promises to be the most thrilling ride in Brighton this season.
Patrons are advised that this musical is not suitable for children
or those with a heart condition. Do not come alone!
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Sat 9th - Sat 16th Dec 2000
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The Talented Mr Ripley
PHYLLIS NAGY
  "Luck
follows coincidence and vice versa." And Tom Ripley is one
very lucky boy indeed. Not to mention cultured. And charming. One
could even say debonair. Oh, and a psychopath. Sent to Italy to
retrieve the errant son of a successful industrialist, Patricia
Highsmith's classic anti-hero Mr Ripley decides it's time to show
the world just how talented he really is. Phyllis Nagy is currently
under commission to the RSC, Nottingham Playhouse and the Royal
Court (where she was recently writer-in-residence).
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Sat 20th - Sat 27th Jan 2001
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Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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 "Power
tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Throughout history, men — all of them no doubt honourable
men — have lied, cheated and murdered in the pursuit
of power. If women had been in identical positions, would
they have acted differently? After (s)he has helped assassinate
Caesar, Cassius exclaims: "How many ages hence shall
this, our lofty scene, be acted over in states unborn and
accents yet unknown?" and this cross-cast, post-feminist
production of Shakespeare's great political tragedy is an
attempt to explore what happens to the play when spoken in
accents which would indeed have been unknown on the the original
Globe's completely men-only stage.
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Sat 17th - Sat 24th Feb 2001
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Betrayal
HAROLD PINTER
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 Time,
they say, is a great healer. But does this only mean that
we edit our memories in order to fashion a more comfortable
version of them? In Betrayal, the story of the consequences
of marital infidelity, the characters are not only betrayed
by each other but also by time itself.
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production
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Sat 24th - Sat 31st Mar 2001
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Sexual Perversity In Chicago
DAVID MAMET
 Those
of you likely to be offended by sexually explicit language, will
be! This is a powerful play that at one level is rich with quick-fire
Jewish-American humour - some scenes last no more than fifteen seconds.
At another, it is a work full of pathos and the impotent rage of
the lonely, 'quick-fixing' on physical gratification - imagined
or otherwise - whilst clinging to a view of the opposite sex that
is bitter with disdain. Come and see it. You will not find a funnier
tragedy.
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Wed 4th - Sat 7th Apr 2001
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HotShorts3
NVT HOTBED PRODUCTION
See also HotShorts2. HotBed returns
with (the imaginatively titled) HotShorts3, a varied and vibrant
selection of short plays. But this time, there's a difference: each
of the pieces will have been devised through workshop and rehearsal
rather than scripted. Subjects range from 'air-rage' to Barbie dolls,
performed by a cast of thousands (well, quite a few). Joining the
performers will be composers, choreographers and designers. So it
should look, sound and smell great. Expect the unexpected...
2001 brighton festival @ nvt
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Sat 5th - Sat 12th May
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NVT Youth presents:
Kes
ADAPTED BY BARRY HINES FROM
A KESTREL FOR A KNAVE by Lawrence Till
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 Billy
Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say.
He is part of the limbo generation of school leavers
— too old for lessons and too young to know anything
about the world outside. He hates and he is hated. His
family and friends are mean and tough and they're sure
he's going to end up in big trouble. As for Billy, he's
sure of only one thing in life: he'll never work down
the mines. But he discovers in himself an affinity for
animals through his relationship with Kes, a kestrel
hawk — his only companion. Both have been trained
from the nest, and both have the will to destroy before
they are destroyed.
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Mon 14th - Sat 19th May
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Dealer's Choice
PATRICK MARBER
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For those compulsive gamblers amongst us — Marber's
darkly hilarious play is a must. Set after hours at a London
restaurant, Dealer's Choice examines a bunch of men
and their addiction to that other beautiful game — poker.
With more than a nod to his mentor David Mamet, thirty-something
playwright Patrick Marber (who wrote much of Alan Partridge's
material as well as the National Theatre hit Closer)
draws a sharply astute portrait of male relationships. It's
about winning and losing. It's about masculine pride, loyalty,
competitiveness, trust and friendship. It's about the demons
that drive men to shuffle their lives away at the touch of
a card.
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Mon 21st - Sat 26th May
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The Woman Who Washed Her
Knickers
JENNY PULLING
and A Tale of Two Todgers
BRIAN BEHAN
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After the success of Just Whores, NVT has reserved a Festival
slot for a brand new play created by a HotBed writer, in a
double-bill with Brian Behan's hilarious tale of anatomical
excess.
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Sat 23rd - Sat 30th Jun 2001
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Curtains
STEPHEN BILL
It is Ida's eighty-sixth birthday, a milestone she would rather
not have reached. Her family has gathered to celebrate with a birthday
tea. After the tea is cleared the family disperses, leaving Katherine,
Ida's daughter, remembering a pact she made with Ida not to let
her suffer into old age. She helps her mother out of her misery
and into the next world. Returning to find a mercy killer in the
house the family's reaction reveals hypocrisy and prejudice at their
hilarious worst.
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Sat 21st - Sat 28th Jul 2001
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La Gloria
MARK WILSON
 Venice,
in the mid-eighteenth century. We find ourselves at a meeting of
the Board of Governors of the Ospidale della Pieta — the city's
orphanage. Once again the music teacher has gone too far. His flashy
individualism and lack of respect for authority cannot be tolerated
— they want him out. But there is a problem. Because the teacher
in question happens to be none other than Antonio Vivaldi, and his
compositions have won renown for the Ospidale throughout Europe.
Mark Wilson's epic-scale theatrical tour de force is a triumphant
assertion of the enduring power of art and beauty.
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