The Encounter

Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, Wednesday, May 11 – Saturday, May 14, 7.30pm, Saturday, May 14 & Sunday, May 15, 2.30pm, £20

Simon McBurney uses binaural technology to build an intimate world of sound, tracing National Geographic photographer, Loren McIntyre’s journey into the depths of the Amazon rainforest.

Comeback Special

Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Sunday, May 15, 5.30pm, £12.50

Jam sessions, patter with a Southern drawl, big dance numbers, and a bit of sweat: this is a re-enactment of Elvis Presley's 1968 Comeback Special. Sort of.

Blackouts - Twilight of the Idols

Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, New Road, Monday, May 16, 2pm, £12.50

‘Drag fabulist’ Dickie Beau shape-shifts through a soundscape of lost souls, as he channels the ghosts of his childhood idols and the haunting impressions they’ve left behind.

Can I Start Again Please

Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, Monday, May 16, 8pm, £12.50

This mesmerising mix of verbal and visual theatre dissects childhood trauma, and the power and failings of language to tell and hide truths.

A Voyage Around My Bedroom Jubilee Square, Monday, May 16, 12pm – 6pm and Royal Pavilion Garden, West Lawn, Tuesday, May 17, 12pm – 6pm, Free Make tiny journeys with the outlook of a great explorer, helping to shape the narrative and set the compass in Eric MacLennan’s new performance installation.

This Is How We Die

Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, New Road, Tuesday, May 17, 5pm, £12.50

A motor-mouthed collage of spoken word and storytelling, a spiralling odyssey of pitch-black humour and nightmarish prose and a prime slice of surrealist trash.

Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me)

Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Church Street, Tuesday, May 17, 8pm, £12.50

Re-telling of the story of the beginning of everything inspired by Milton's Paradise Lost, through words, music and the easily misunderstood medium of dance.

Penny Arcade

Theatre Royal Brighton, New Road, Sunday, May 29, 8pm, £10 - £18

Outrageous and inspirational, New York’s undisputed queen of the underground turns contemporary stand-up on its head in her double award winning Edinburgh show.