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Welcome... To The Marlborough Theatre’s autumn season! Expect the unexpected, as the very best contemporary performance from across the UK heads to the South coast. In Autumn 2014 we hosted our first ever fully curated season, and we’re delighted to be back, bringing Brighton & Hove some of the most exciting theatre, experimental performance and live art. This programme of work has been generously supported by Arts Council England, Brighton & Hove City Council and The University of Chichester. We are thrilled to have their continued support. We’d also love to thank our endlessly supportive steering group: Brian Lobel, Lesley Wood, Louise Blackwell and Michael Eppy. This season we are really excited to be working with Dialogue Theatre Club - a post-show discussion for people who hate post-show
discussions. It works more like a book group: the people who made the show aren’t present, so you can talk freely about what you thought of it and hear how other people responded, without needing to think of the ‘right’ questions to get the artists explaining their work. Plus we provide drinks and nibbles: what’s not to like? We are thrilled to welcome you to this very special season.
The Marlborough Theatre team
Executive Producer: David Sheppeard Programme Manager: Abby Butcher Theatre Manager: Tarik Elmoutawakil Programme Assistant: Roxanne Carney Technical Manager: Simon Booth
Ticket info
Our concession price is available to those over 60 years and/or registered disabled, students, those on income support and/or unemployed. This season we are pleased to also open our concession price to those under 26. Tickets are available from: www.BrownPaperTickets.co.uk or 0800 411 8881. You can also buy tickets from The Marlborough Pub, in cash, with no booking fee. Booking in advance is strongly advised. All ticket holders are entitled to Happy Hour drink prices in the Marlborough Bar on show nights!
www.marlboroughtheatre .org.uk @marlboroughbtn Marlborough Pub & Theatre
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Sister
Photo: Julia Bauer
Amy & Rosana Cade
Wednesday 14 October 7.30 pm ÂŁ10/ÂŁ8 70 mins Recommended 16+
Developed in association with The Arches, supported by National Theatre Studio, Battersea Arts Centre and The Yard. Supported using public funding by the National Lotter y through Arts Council England.
Amy and Rosana are sisters. They are both feminists. In Sister they present a bold and unflinching examination of themselves: their family bonds, shared experiences, and the differing paths their lives have taken, revealing everything in this powerful, joyous and moving performance, exploring female sexual identity, feminism and choice.
Sister weaves together their autobiographical stories of growing up, individual contrasting sexual experiences, pole dancing, lap dancing and childhood family videos in an intimate strip club setting, which they inhabit, subvert and eventually deconstruct. Nominated for a Total Theatre Award 2014 Followed by Dialogue Theatre Club 3
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Wednesday 21 October & Thursday 22 October 7.30 pm £10/£8 70 mins Recommended 16+
Vesper Time was developed with the support of the National Theatre Studio and commissioned by Chelsea Theatre and Colchester Arts Centre. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and produced by Artsadmin.
Vesper Time
Vesper Time tackles themes of paternal absence, poignant memories and mourning through a heartwarming combination of soul searching, humour and absurd home truths.
“ The show moved me to tears, laughter and some serious reflection” Dean Atta
Touching upon undercurrents and contrasts of death and forgiveness, Stacy references Moby Dick whilst utilising MTV pop songs as hymn books, delivering her signature take on some favourite Hollywood blockbusters. With more than a nod to her stand-up comedy roots, Vesper Time offers up a subversive sermon, delivered with characteristic quirkiness and a ‘vesper’ a secular evening prayer.
“ It was refreshing to experience something so humorously absurd containing such powerful substance. Stacy Makishi managed to open my heart with complex laughter” Total Theatre
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Stacy Makishi
“ Genuinely moving” A Younger Theatre
Followed by Dialogue Theatre Club on 21 october
workshop
Thursday 22 October 2 pm
£10 120 mins Recommended 16+
To coincide with her performances of Vesper Time, Stacy Makishi, director, mentor and teacher of international renown, leads a workshop open to all artists willing to try out new ideas and walk out into the unknown.
Join her and find out how to move faster than you think, write quicker than edit, and create faster than critique! A two-hour workshop for anyone who’s interested in learning about devising and performance. 5
Image: Phoebe Collings-James & Katarzyna Perlak
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Project O
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wednesday 4 November 7.30 pm £10/£8 50 mins Recommended 16+
O has been kindly supported by Arts Council England, Chisenhale Dance Space, The Yard Theatre and workspacebrussels. 6
O is a 50-minute romp through the politics of identity, kinda like what happened when Yellowman met Angela Carter for a cup of tea in the jungle. Refusing to be held down, O presents bodies that don’t know where or how to place themselves as they negotiate histories, fantasies and assumptions. A dance duet about being black, mixed and female that addresses awkward and uncomfortable everyday experiences. This is a dance that reconsiders the dilemmas, assumptions and sexualisation that bodies can be subjected to in an unflinching account of minority experiences - a physical unfolding of a realisation of difference.
London-based collaboration Project O is the performative fruits of conversations between Alexandrina Hemsley and Jamila Johnson-Small. They are currently developing a new 4-hour durational dance piece called Voodoo, which makes its debut at Chelsea Theatre and Cambridge Junction this November. “ Fucking badass. The treatment of the female body, the treatment of the black female body, the sexual objectification of women. O pulls at those threads until we feel, collectively, a bit dirty” Meghan Vaughan “ P roject O confront us with the ugly face of racial and sexual stereotyping and commodification. This is what an intersectional arsekicking feels like: painful, defiant and right.” The Stage
FREE M ARLBOROUgH PUB
Figs in Wigs are coming to the Marlborough Pub with hi-brow, a carefully cultivated soiree of excellence for those with little or no taste buds. dress to impress yourself and come join Figs in Wigs for the best night of their lives. This jolly jamboree will get you side stepping better than a kid at a wedding.
expect a questionable mix of excessive mass dancing, trashy performance and big party songs that will make you dance/sing/cringe. Monobrows and bumbags strongly encouraged. Participation required but not essential.
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KILN
friday 13 November 7.30 pm £10/£8 60 mins
Written by Nick Walker and Olivia Winteringham. A Bristol Old Vic Ferment commission. This tour is presented by House 8
A Journey Round My Skull is a beautiful and beguiling love story that really gets inside your head. Told by a neurosurgeon who casts the audience as her silent patient, this show gently and playfully transports you to the streets of Continental Europe, to a scrap over profiteroles, into neurosurgery and onto the tracks of a ghost train.
Inspired by the auditory hallucinations experienced by Hungarian satirist Frigyes Karinthy as described in his extraordinary 1938 medical memoir.
Featuring headphone technology and extraordinary sound design, A Journey Round My Skull operates on the ears as well as the heart to dissect our most intimate relationships.
“ d eliberate and controlled, smart and witty” Time Out
“ It’s the careful interweaving of the patient’s auditory hallucinations that most impresses” The Guardian.
“ The tale is a compelling one of obsession, intimacy and dysfunction” Total Theatre
£10/£8 60 mins
Commissioned by and developed at Battersea Arts Centre.
Seth Kriebel
Choose your own path through an imagined world... or perhaps your neighbour will choose for you. Without leaving your seat, you - or most of you, anyway - can go wherever you want. If not, don’t worry. Life is full of second chances.
Explore a new interactive performance from the creator of The Unbuilt Room. “ A clever take on both traditional storytelling and contemporary interactive game-playing…a simple but spellbinding piece of theatre.” Total Theatre www.wethisway.com
We This Way
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Thursday 19 November 7.30 pm
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Thursday 26 noveMber 7.30 pm
£10/£8 50 mins Recommended 16+
Lucy Hutson wades through the ethical mire; encountering personal battles with consumerism, correct dating etiquette and an attempt to find Jesus. The familiar devils of guilt, apathy and self-indulgence rear their ugly heads in this humorous and starkly honest depiction of modern day ethics. britney Spears… is performed and devised by Lucy Hutson, a
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performance artist and agitator whose work questions human nature and interrupts social order. Lucy uses found text and unloved artifacts to engage with aspects of society that confuse or anger her. “ i was bowled over by lucy hutson’s Britney spears custody Battle… a provoking and very funny piece that considers what we believe in and just how hard it is to lead an ethical life.” lyn gardner, the guardian
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jaMie leWis hadley friday 27 noveMber mEET AT 8 pm FREE 35 mins Off-site Barbershop location (fully accessible) MeeTing POinT: Marlborough Theatre supported by The Wellcome Trust, Arts Council england, Theatre Bristol, Live Art development Agency, ArtsAdmin, Contact, exeter Phoenix, Live Collision, science gallery, Arnolfini, Chapter Arts Centre and Pacciti Company.
blood on The sTreeTs blood on the Streets is a public performance lecture situated within the window of a barbershop.
The lecture explores the history of bloodletting as a medical practice, tracing its roots in ancient medicine, the rise of the barbersurgeon and the current understanding of blood within modern medicine. There’s a new sweeney Todd in town, only this ones not out to kill!
This is a FRee performance. Please be aware this performance lecture involves 1 packet of blood being extracted from Jamie’s arm. @jlewishadley @shambarber bloodonthestreets #newsweeneytodd #bloodbrighton www.newsweeneyTodd.com
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Number 1, The Plaza GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN
thursday 3 december 7.30 pm £10/£8 75 mins Wagner Hall Regency Road Brighton BN1 2RT Recommended 16+
Co-produced by PACT Zollverein (Essen), Colchester Arts Centre and Cambridge Junction. Supported by Arts Council England, wpZimmer (Antwerp), Almeida Theatre (London), The Performance Centre (Falmouth), The Point (Eastleigh), Cambridge Junction, Tom Thumb Theatre (Margate), New Wolsey (Ipswich), Roehampton University (London). GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN is an Associate Company at both Colchester Arts Centre and Roehampton University.
Number 1, The Plaza is a souvenir album from a joyride through extravaganza, cabaret, reality, live art, theatre and filth.
“ Number 1, The Plaza... strips away all the illusions of theatre with a vengeful fury. Then it wipes the audience’s face in it.” Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN want to open up and let you in. Right in. So you can really get a feeling for what it’s like on the inside. This is an ‘evening with’ – conversation, songs, shit like that. Someone’s left a passive aggressive note on the kitchen table; it’s about entitlement, property and privacy. Welcome to the show home, everyone.
www.getinthebackofthevan.com There will be a cash only bar at this event.
Conceived and devised by the company. Performed by Lucy McCormick and Jennifer Pick. Directed by Hester Chillingworth. 13
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saturday 5 december 8 pm £15/£10 The Spire St. Mark ’s Chapel Eastern Road Brighton BN2 5JN
Award winning artist and Peter Kay lookalike Scottee has rounded up some of the UK’s most mediocre talent for a night almost worth the ticket price. Camp (as Christmas) is a special festive edition of his now infamous, sell out variety knees up! A mixed bill of camp clichés, limp wrists and naff catch phrases smashed together with some cheap tinsel, fizzy wine and lots of good old fashioned light entertainment. “ Cabaret hero Scottee has carved out a serious name for himself - he is in danger of becoming a full-on star… viva Camp!” Time Out
“ The line-up is basically ‘the best acts we’ve seen’- so if you’ve been a bit lazy on the cultural uptake, this is your chance to see a load of the most significant talent in one, hardcore shot. A bit like a cabaret Berocca” Run Riot Suitable for mums, the gays and snowball drinkers. #campery Scottee is an artist from Kentish Town, North London. He is currently an associate artist at the iconic Roundhouse. “ . ..he doesn’t much resemble any sort of act that Simon Cowell would put forward to the next round” The Guardian
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We pride ourselves on offering a friendly welcome to visiting companies. Our technically equipped space is extremely flexible and is perfect for hosting a range of events from performances to parties.
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Hire Us
CONTACT US: info@marlboroughthe atre.org.uk CAPACIT Y
The theatre has a seated capacity of 60 people and a standing capacity of 80 people.
THE SERVICE WE PROVIDE
PRICING
£150 per night. Artists/Companies always keep 100% of box office income.
-A dvertise your event on The Marlborough Theatre website.
If you would like to present an event over multiple nights (e.g. week long run) we can offer reduced rates to hire.
-A dd performances to a wide range of local listings publications.
REHEARSAL SPACE & PARTIES
-P rovide a front of house/ box office service during your event. - Selling tickets online and over the bar in advance.
The Marlborough Theatre is available for rehearsals at negotiable hourly/daily rates. The Marlborough Theatre is also available for private parties.
HIRING THE BAR
The Marlborough Pub is available to hire for parties and events. We have two spaces; The Theatre Bar – 30 capacity and The Disciples Bar – 90 capacity. Catering is available on request. We have also have a range of DJs and entertainment we can recommend
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SCHEDULE Wednesday 14 October 7.30 pm
Rosana & Amy Cade
sister page 3
Weds 21-Thurs 22 October Stacy Makishi 7.30 pm Vesper Time page 4 Wednesday 4 November 7.30 pm
Project O
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Friday 6 November Figs In Wigs 9 pm Hi-Brow page 7 Friday 13 November 7.30 pm
KILN
A Journey Round My Skull page 8
Thursday 19 November Seth Kriebel 7.30 pm We This Way page 9 Thursday 26 November 7.30 pm
Lucy Hutson
Friday 27 November 8 pm
Jamie Lewis Hadley
Britney Spears Custody Battle vs Zeus... page 10 Blood on the Streets page 11
Thursday 3 December GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN 7.30 pm Number 1, The Pl a za page 12 Saturday 5 December 8 pm
Scottee
Camp (as Christmas) page 14
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