Brighton Festival and Fringe 2012 previews

The School Of Life

3:40pm Sunday 27th May 2012

A few good things emerged from the ashes of the financial crash of 2008. One of them was The School Of Life. The brainchild of Sophie Howarth, formerly a curator at Tate Modern, and Alain de Botton.

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The Hanging Gardens Of Brighton

4:00pm Friday 25th May 2012

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Max and Ivan Are... Con Artists

3:54pm Friday 25th May 2012

In his own words, Max Olesker left the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with “a gammy foot and an Edinburgh Comedy Award” after truly going the extra mile last August.

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Circus Klezmer

3:38pm Friday 25th May 2012

With his distinctive images of pre-war Jewish communities, from brides to fiddlers, Marc Chagall was an obvious influence on director Adrian Schvarstein’s Circus Klezmer.

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Cabaret Queens

3:01pm Friday 25th May 2012

Since their conception at the end of the 2000s, neo-cabaret duo Bourgeois And Maurice have needed little more than a piano and some fabulous costumes to stage a show.

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Can We Talk About This?

10:00am Thursday 24th May 2012

It's somewhat disconcerting for an interviewer to be told that their subject is taping their conversation, because he and many of the people featured in his work have received death threats owing to what they have said, or been accused of saying.

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Joyced!

9:20am Thursday 24th May 2012

There is a moment when everyone who picks up James Joyce’s masterwork Ulysses realises it is going to be a much harder read than they first thought.

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A Dirty Martini With Evelyn Waugh

8:40am Thursday 24th May 2012

image(1914149,type="thumb") Back in the days before interactive computer missions that took up more than 24 hours of game play, there were the Choose Your Own Adventure books.

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The Last Tuesday Society

4:40pm Tuesday 22nd May 2012

When it comes to choosing his biographical subjects, cultural historian Ian Kelly seems to have two things on his mind: sex and food.

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Wasted

4:10pm Monday 21st May 2012

Young writers are told to tackle what they know. Kate Tempest has done exactly that for her debut play, Wasted.

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