So You Can Feel The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, Thursday, March 5, 8pm, £12/£10 THE UK premiere of a new solo work by Belgian dancer and performer Pieter Ampe, Pictured far right, investigating sexual and emotional energy and individual emancipation.

The Special Need/It’s Alright I’m Awesome (TBC, 120 mins) Duke’s At Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton, Saturday, March 7, 1.30pm, £5 THIS movie double bill, programmed by Film Hub South East and learning disabled film festival Oska Bright, tells the stories of an autistic Italian’s search for love, and wrestling maniac Luc’s battles in the ring.

How To Disappear Completely The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, Thursday, March 12, 8pm, £12/£10 WHEN his mother was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in September 2000, lighting designer Itai Erdal returned to his Israeli home to record her last days.

What Tammy Needs To Know About Getting Old And Having Sex The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, Friday, March 13, 8pm, £12/£10 FORMER country music singer turned performance artist Tammy Whynot shares her frank investigations into love and sex with some of Brighton’s more senior inhabitants.

The Unspeakable Crime: Rape (15, 120mins) Duke’s At Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton, Saturday, March 14, 1.30pm, £5 SARA Hardy and Blue Ryan’s documentary follows two rape cases from forensic medical examination to the aftermath of the court cases.

Tell Me Love Is Real The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, Monday, March 16, 8pm, £12/£10 ZACHARY Oberzan overdosed on anxiety drug Xanax the same night as Whitney Houston. While the singer died, Oberzan ended up incarcerated in a psychiatric ward beginning the long road to recovery.

Lippy The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, Friday, March 20, to Saturday, March 21, 8pm, £12/£10 IRISH company Dead Centre’s multi-award-winning work investigates four women in a small Irish town who decided to die and spent their last 40 days erasing their existence from the Earth.

The Bridge (15, 120mins) Duke’s At Komedia, Gardner Street, Brighton, Saturday, March 21, 1.30pm, £5 ERIC Steel and his crew spent 2004 focused on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, the world’s most popular suicide location. Their cameras captured 24 suicides and many more failed attempts, as well as more than 100 hours of interviews with families, friends and witnesses.

Can I Start Again Please The Basement, Kensington Street, Brighton, Sunday, March 22, to Monday, March 23, 8pm, £12/£10 A NEW commissioned work by Sue MacLaine performing alongside Nadia Nadarajah in a traumatic tale of childhood violence mixing both signed and spoken language.

WoE Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, New Road, Thursday, March 19, 8pm, £12/£10 UK PREMIERE of Edit Kaldor’s work with three teenagers reliving the experience of abuse, mixing documentary and fictional elements with digital media.

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