Brighton Fringe 2012

The dates for Brighton Fringe are confirmed as Saturday 5th until Sunday 27th May 2012.

The event is the third largest fringe event in the world is an annual showcase for theatre, music, dance, performance and books, from both local and international artists.

Line-up

The range of music encapsulates about every genre one can think of with highlights including Cubana Bop playing music from West Side Story, Impact Opera's paired-down production of, Carmen and Voodoo Funk, Kalkuta Millionaires.

This year's highlights include Dip Your Toe – Brighton Fringe's response to the Cultural Olympiad's 'The Boat Project'. New venues abound, including The Warren in Churchill Square with free fringe performances.

The Hurly Burly will take up residence in the front gardens of St Peter’s Church where a host of child-friendly shows will take place during the day, switching to more adult-orientated work in the evenings. Hendrick's returns to Jubilee Gardens where their Library of Delightfully Peculiar Writings will present an eclectic and exciting literary programme.

The cabaret programme includes Bourgeois and Maurice, Lynn Ruth Miller and Des O'Connor. The comedy line-up includes Mark Steel, Jimeoin, Gina Yashere, Nick Helm, Isy Suttie, Brian Gittins, Pappy's and Late Night Gimp Fight.

The dance stage acts include Eau Eau 7 at The Prince Regent Pool in which the synchro swimmers of Brighton celebrate fifty years of James Bond and!Rhum and Clay Theatre Company bring absurdist humour and innovative physical theatre to The Old Courtroom. Brighton Fringe 2012 also boasts the biggest kids' festival ever with a puppets, comedy and storytelling.

The literature programme includes Tony Benn, a Charles Dickens Cabaret to celebrate his bicentennial and the distinguished US academic George Ritzer. Theatre includes Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Harold Pinter, Arnold Wesker and Stephen Sondheim as well as Napoleon: A Defence in which clowns fight the Napoleonic Wars, the allegory White Rabbit, Red Rabbit by Iranian Soleimanpour which is performed by a different actor every night and Feral Theatre's Tryptich which mixes puppetry, physical theatre and aerial skills to tell tales of freedoms lost, love extirpated and transformations amongst the trees.

In addition to venue-led work, there are a host of site-specific activities including a production of Noel Coward's, Private Lives at The Grand Hotel, The Racecourse Project in which New Writing South, Natural Shocks, Hydrocracker and ten writers respond to Brighton Racecourse, taking audiences on a promenade journey through turnstile, tipster and tote and Tube Light Theatre Company's Single Cell, a dark tale which takes place in the Old Police Cell Museum.

The Hanging Gardens of Brighton

Alabama 3, The Go! Team and Ska Cubano are headlining the Fringe finale party, a three-day decadent utopian affair of high quality live music and cabaret. Taking place on the Old Steine Gardens from Friday 25 to Sunday 27 May, The Hanging Gardens of Brighton boasts a deliciously exotic line-up of 50 plus acts encompassing Dance, Electro-Swing, Gypsy Jazz, Hip Hop, Latin beats, Folk, Ska, Reggae, Rock, Balkan rave, Dubstep, and a stunning mix of cabaret and circus. Special guests include Jamie Catto, the Dub Pistols, Son of Dave, The Destroyers, White Mink, Molotov Jukebox, Ramschackle Circus, and Carnivalesque.

Tickets for the 1,500 capacity even are priced at £25 (Friday or Sunday) and £30 (Saturday), with concessions for teenagers (aged between 13 and 17 years accompanied by an adult) and weekend passes also available. To buy tickets, click here.

Multiple events

The Brighton Festival Fringe is made up of more than 675 individual events in 191 venues, features more than three thousand performances, and hundreds of free events for around 180,000 attendees. For the line-up details, click here.

Tickets

Ticket prices vary depending upon event. To buy tickets, click here.

Accommodation

This event does not have camping but there are a number of hotels, hostels and guest houses in the area.

More information will be here when available.

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