Eventful Brighton

Andy chatted with Beccy Smith and Darren East of Touched Theatre about their
production, Headcase. It’s the first time anyone’s given a name to my furry
microphone wind cover - from now on, it shall be kown as Gordon (more likely
Brown, not the gofer).

From the headcase website:
Combining tabletop puppetry and object theatre with powerful dance and visual
theatre, Headcase shares the real experiences of a made up, mixed up teenager
as she struggles to come to terms with what’s going on inside her own head.

Steven Brett, Artistic Director of the
Nightingale talks about Dip Your Toe, a large scale arts event, produced by
the Nightingale with Brighton Fringe and The Marlborough Theatre, that took take place
in the streets of Brighton to celebrate the Maiden Voyage of Lone Twin’s,
The Boat Project.

This spectacular
event saw the creation of six bespoke Victorian style bathing machines,
which acted as intimate new Brighton Fringe venues, in prime locations
across the city in May 2012. We filmed one of the bathing machines being built
on a foggy morning on Brighton beach.

I first noticed an encampment on the Old Stein yesterday.
Today I spoke to Carlos Genova, a resident of the camp, about what it’s all about. It goes under several names including Spanish Revolution and Global Revolution - but I like the Twitter tag - #AcampadaBrighton (apparently this is going on in many countries across the world so you can just substitute Brighton with many other cities). In essence - it’s all about peace, giving and environmental responsibility.

I wish them the very best of luck.

I speak to Adrian Bunting - playwrite and author of Kembles’s Riot which played
at the Old Court House as part of the 2011 Fringe.

On December 20, 1808, the original Covent Garden Theatre was destroyed by a fire. The cost of
constructing and furnishing the new building, however, was so high that the
management was forced to raise the prices. On the opening night, riots broke
out during a performance of Macbeth and continued throughout the play…

Andy White talks to The Barefoot Players, the cast of The Importance of being Earnest showing at the Iambic Theatre in May. The performance is a sexy modern update of Oscar Wilde’s classic social satire for Brighton Fringe Festival 2011 <– lifted straight from The Barefoot Player’s Facebook page, hope you don’t mind guys.

The cast, in order of appearance:

Sarah King plays the formidable Lady Bracknell
Sam Black plays Jack or is it Ernest Worthing? He's also a muscian/musical director and has composed a score
James Davies the director
Eleanor Conlon, she plays Gwendolen and doesn't laugh at her own jokes but laughs at dentist jokes from Sam and Andy (I think I have that right)
Andy Mansell - Algernon Moncrieff who apparently plays piano badly and in real life can design websites
Steven Bollschweiler - Algernon Moncrieff's butler
Katie Sommers - Cecily Cardue - Jack's niece - she's a bit mad, not in real life though
Edward Johnson - Dr. Chasuble - the village vicar - he's doing the set in real life

The Importance of being Earnest, 7-9 May 2011 Brighton Festival Fringe

Imagine working out continuously for 50 minutes while talking very loud, oh, and in front od an audience. Andrew Kazamia will be doing just this in The Nonsense, a play directed by his son, Dino Kamazia. This will be performed no less than 6 times at the Komedia throughout May.

In this lively interview, Andrew and Dino gave some terrific insights into the story behind the play, and you can enjoy me struggling to pronounce Andrew’s surname too.

Photo: Tilley Harris

Meet a guy who regularly performs a three point turn - with an atom! Learn how
to measure the charge separation in a neutron - and change the course of String
Theory. Hear about a technology that could fly you from Tokyo to New York in
under two hours.

All this happened at the University of Sussex in their Ingenious event where
the exciting world of science and research was opened for all to see.

The Udderbelly is a big, blue, up-side-down cow that tours the country attending
various festivals including our very own Brighton Fringe Festival.

I had the pleasure of sitting in the Udderbelly bar (actually a tent) and
chatting with two comedy sketch teams who were playing there,
Greedy
(Louie Bayliss, Felicity Wren,
Rachel Egan, Alan Freestone and
James Wren)
and The Pros from Dover
(Neil Cole,
Phil Whelans
and Richard
Glover).

Learn all about bowel gas problems, accidents that only rich people can have
and what it’s like to be kissed on the head by Jodie Kidd, what Rick Mayall is
really like and how to succeed in cow tipping.

The Streets of Brighton took place on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th May.
Enjoy an outdoor period drama, giant prawns doing a striptease, lively outdoor
music from a group of frogmen, blokes in pubs, an incredible gong shower, a
hydraulic caravan and some splendid, pulsating tree lights.

Artists featured/mentioned/could be heard in background:-

Swervy World - were the Deep Sea Jivers
Tantrum Theatre - were The Prawns
Spiral Flight - performed Caravan of Desires
Ramshacklicious - (pictured) performed The Road to Nowhere
Paka the Uncredible - performed Flogging a dead horse
Orkestra Del Sol - performed Fanfare
Hoodwink - performed Pleasure Garden
Aswarm - Gather (The lights in the trees)