The Brighton Fringe cabaret programme this year features award-winning Bourgeois and Maurice, the legendary Lynn Ruth Miller and Radio 1’s King of Cabaret 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.
This year’s Fringe also boasts the biggest kids’ festival ever with a puppets, comedy and storytelling.
The literature programme includes In Conversation with Tony Benn, a Charles Dickens cabaret to celebrate his bicentennial and the distinguished US academic George Ritzer.
Musical highlights include Cubana Bop playing music from West Side Story, Impact Opera’s pared-down production of Carmen, Voodoo Funk and Kalkuta Millionaires.
Theatre includes Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Harold Pinter, Arnold Wesker and Stephen Sondheim as well as cutting-edge new work such as Napoleon: A Defence in which clowns fight the Napoleonic Wars.
There will also be a production of Noel Coward’s Private Lives at The Grand hotel and Tube Light Theatre Company’s Single Cell, a dark tale which takes place in the Old Police Cell Museum.
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