Brighton Festival 2012

Savvy homeless making cash from Brighton Fringe programmes

10:40am Friday 25th May 2012

Savvy rough-sleepers have been selling the free Brighton Fringe programme after organisers ran out of them in only the second week.

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Brighton and Hove cultural groups join together

8:10pm Thursday 17th May 2012

Brighton cultural groups are increasingly teaming up to help make May one of the biggest months for the arts in the UK.

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Brighton thief posed as Great Escape insider

4:30pm Wednesday 16th May 2012

Customers at a city karaoke bar were pick-pocketed by a man who claimed to be trying to set up an impromptu Great Escape Festival DJ set.

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Doctor Faustus: The Imaginarium, The Happy Cell, Hove, until May 27, call 01273 917272

12:22pm Friday 25th May 2012

Brighton’s Tanglehead Productions won an Audience Choice Award for their debut at last year’s Fringe, a site-specific version of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest at this alternative health centre.

Sceptre Is 25, Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, May 23

5:26pm Thursday 24th May 2012

Four authors who have recently had books published by Sceptre read from their novels, before an open discussion with the host, Dr Katy Shaw, senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Brighton.

A Literary Feast, Hendrick’s Library Of Delightfully Peculiar Writings, Brighton, May 23

5:29pm Thursday 24th May 2012

The forensic-style white all-in-one handed to me as I entered the faux-Victorian tent-come-library was an odd but strangely apt way to start a night of decadence. Before me lay a chamber heavy with a fog, into which I was ushered to discover it was in fact food architects Bombas And Parr’s cloud cocktail chamber – a heady steam bath of gin concoction.

Putting It Together – Sondheim Revue, Komedia Studio, Brighton, until May 24, call 01273 917272

5:28pm Thursday 24th May 2012

The Festival Fringe serves up a second helping of the work of Stephen Sondheim. This compilation is a songfest with a storyline, albeit a thin one. Set within a framework of a cocktail party, given by a wealthy businessman and his society wife, it examines their relationship along with that of one of his young employees and his girlfriend.