EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS

Leon Underwood: Figure And Rhythm

Pallant House Gallery, North Pallant, Chichester. From 10am to 5pm. Entry from £8.50. Call 01243 774557.

The Argus:

PAINTINGS, etchings, wood engravings and sculptures feature in the first major museum retrospective for 40 years of British artist Leon Underwood.

Underwood, who died in 1975, has been described as the precursor of modern sculpture in Britain. This exhibition, with one painting pictured inset, explores his non-Western art influences and his creation of the Brook Green School Of Drawing whose pupils included Henry Moore and Eileen Agar.

 

John McKean: The Impossibility Of Truly Seeing What Is In Front Of The Eyes

House Of Friendship, High Street, Lewes. From 9.30am to 1pm. Entry free. Call 01273 476469.

The Argus:

BRIGHTON-BASED photographer John McKean captures images which make you look twice, in an exhibition based around optical illusions rather than post-production trickery.

 

Dean Zeus Colman: Pills 

Prescription Art Gallery, Beaconsfield Parade, Brighton. Open: Check website. It's FREE. www.prescriptionart.com 

The Argus: FORMER street artist Zeus has drawn on his memories of growing up during the 1980s explosion of club culture for his new exhibition of hand-sculpted over-sized ecstasy pills made from plaster and printed with their own authentic branding.

“I was fascinated by how despite being illegal, branded culture was so integral to this scene – with logos of every type identifying the different pills available,” he says.

“In the same way that people have favourite sweets growing up, people looked for their preferred brand of tablets for their night out.”

 

Three Dimensions 

Ink_d, North Road, Brighton. Open: 10am to 6pm. It's FREE. Call: 01273 645299 

BRIGHTON’s Ink_d art gallery is celebrating all things 3D ranging from ceramics to sculpture in a new group show, featuring contributions from Matt Smith, Dan Baldwin, Paul Scott, Gilles Buxton, Maria Rivans, Petro, Andy Doig and Graham Carter.

 

STAGE

Benefactors 

New Venture Theatre, Bedford Place, Brighton. Starts: 7.45pm. Tickets from £8/£7. Call: 01273 746118 

MICHAEL FRAYN’S satire follows an idealistic architect and his anthropologist wife as they try to look after the world by replacing slum housing with new homes – only for their good intentions to be foiled by their neighbours.

 

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Devonshire Park Theatre, Compton Street, Eastbourne. Starts: 7.45pm. Tickets from £15.50. Call: 01323 412000

The Argus:

HAVING already destroyed a murder mystery, Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society turns its attention onto the classic children’s pantomime with a trip to Neverland.  Also at Theatre Royal Brighton Monday, April 20, to Saturday, April 25.  

 

The Weir 

Lewes Little Theatre, Lancaster Street, Lewes. From 7:45pm. Tickets: £10/£8. Call: 01273 474826.

Play about locals who swap ghostly stories to impress a visiting stranger.

 

Rambert

Theatre Royal Brighton, New Road. Performances 1.30pm & 7.30pm. Tickets from £11.90. Call: 08448 717650.

The Argus:

THE touring dance company brings Christopher Bruce’s take on the swinging 60s Rooster back to Theatre Royal Brighton.
The programme also includes the science-inspired The Strange Charm Of Mother Nature and Alexander Whitley’s meta-dance piece Frames. 

 

Therapy

The Marlborough Theatre, Princes Street, Brighton. Starts 8pm. Tickets: £10. Call: 01273 273870.

TARA HARLEY has written and directed this new bawdy comedy set in a residential school of self-discovery, where four characters find themselves thrown in a world of new age holistic treatments.

 

Penelope RETOLD

Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, New Road. Starts: 7.30pm. Tickets: £12/£10. Call: 01273 709709.

OLIVIER-NOMINATED writer and performer Caroline Horton stars in this one-woman show as the titular wife rapidly becoming bored waiting for her war hero husband to return from the Trojan war.

 

Room On The Broom

Devonshire Park Theatre, Compton Street, Eastbourne. Performances: 10.30am & 1.30pm. Tickets: £12. Call: 01323 412000.

The Argus:

A LIVE action version of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s much-loved picture book about a witch, her cat, a windy night and a hungry dragon.

 

Anything Goes

Congress Theatre, Carlisle Road, Eastbourne. Performance: 2.30pm & 7.30pm. Tickets from £26. Call: 01323 412000.

The Argus: Anything Goes is set in the golden age of travel, during a trans-Atlantic cruise. It follows the trials and tribulations of young Wall Street broker Billy Crocker who falls in love at first sight with a mysterious heiress. 

 

GIGS

Rottingdean Spring Music Festival

Various venues until Sunday, March 29, see rottingdeanarts.org for full programme

HERBIE Flowers, Claire Martin, English Studio Opera and baroque ensemble Red Priest are among the special guests at this year’s musical celebration across Rottingdean.


Dead Good Music presents: Good Times Speak Easy 

Otherplace at The Basement, Kensington Street, Brighton. From 8pm. Entry: £6/£5. Call: 07800 983 290.

Welcome to the weird and the wonderful, the toe-tapping and the knee-slapping. Cast your woes asunder as you plunder on down to the most swingin’ show in town. Good Times music brings you the best evening of gypsy jazz, reggae, swing and hip hop this side of the chip shop. 

 

Marilyn Monroe & Amy Winehouse Tribute With Laura Nixon 

Bali Brasserie, Kingsway Court First Avenue (seafront end), Hove. From 8:30pm. Entry: FREE. Call: 01273 323810.

 

The Jazz Lounge 

Bohemia Grand Cafe And Late Lounge, Meeting House Lane, Brighton. From 5pm. Entry Free. Call: 01273 777770.

Local live jazz with table service for drinks, food optional. 

 

Breeze In Blues Band 

Burgers & Cocktails, North Road, Brighton. From: 7pm. Entry: Free. Call: 01273 688885.

Blues funk band playing mainly cover songs, from Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Crais, Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton etc.