Happy Together, Starts in Jubilee Square, Thur May 15 – Sat May 17

4:55pm Friday 11th April 2008

Fusing choral singing, dance and physical theatre, Happy Together uses Brighton's reputation as the hen and stag capital of the UK to explore the divide between the sexes.

Two parties, one male and one female, set off from different points in the city and move through the streets independently singing love songs - everything from It's Raining Men to an Indian ghazal, a form of romantic poetry.

Sometimes the groups come close to each other, but they do not meet. As they move, they grow, picking up more and more performers, actors, singers and dancers. Situations develop - games, dares, arguments, incidents, accidents, surprises, encounters - before both parties finally stop in a nightclub, together yet still apart.

The show is a collaboration between Brighton-based composer Orlando Gough's choir The Shout and Protein Dance.

Described as "a choir of Babel" and "a vocal Stomp", The Shout was formed in 1998 and has built a reputation as one of the UK's most inventive and imaginative theatrical choirs. It comprises 16 professional singers from backgrounds that include blues, jazz, opera and Indian classical and performs without scores or a conductor. Protein Dance produces dance theatre work that examines human relationships and everyday life.

• Starts: 7.30pm. Tickets: £18. Suitable for ages 14 and up.

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