The show must go on at Theatre Royal Brighton

Actor Richard Briers, who starred in TV's The Good Life and regularly appears in television shows and movies, said: "I'll always remember the thrill of seeing my name on the bill outside the Theatre Royal Brighton.

"It was the number one touring date and always used by the legendary management H.M. Tennant, run by Binkie Beaumont.

"My first play was Gilt and Gingerbread starring John Clements and Kay Hammond, who lived in the Royal Crescent which was also home to Sir Laurence Olivier."

Actor Joss Ackland, who has racked up more than 100 appearances on film and TV alone said: "I remember when I was starring in Turn To Page Two by Michael Clayton Hutton.

"It was the 1940s and we had been rehearsing in London and we were opening at the Theatre Royal Brighton, the top theatre outside London.

"When we arrived at the packed station there were placards everywhere saying 'Keep away from Theatres and Cinemas'.

"There had been an outbreak of smallpox and everyone else was trying to leave Brighton but as they say, 'the show must go on' - and it did."

Retired West End stage manager David Gort, 68, of Kemp Town, Brighton, has been a regular at the TRB for more than 40 years and to this day hardly misses a show.

He said: "It has changed a lot.

"It has become a theatre for Brighton rather than Brighton's theatre.

"Brighton itself used to be a more theatrical place - with people like Olivier and Rattigan living down here and going to shows. The theatre was a centre for the community then.

"It then went through a bit of a bad period but seems to be on the up again now. Better shows are coming down and they have done a good job with doing it up.

"As a theatre I love it - you don't get many places looking like that."

George Colgate, 29, an HR manager from Haywards Heath, said her most memorable trip to the theatre was for the Rocky Horror Show.

She said: "It was loads of fun, everyone really got into the spirit of things.

"I did regret wearing a wig once I was up in the gods dancing around though. It was so hot!"

Her husband Andy Colgate, 32, who works in administration at the University of Sussex, said his favourite show was the Ruby Wax stand-up.

He said: "It was a one-woman show and was so funny.

"I remember it ending as she was stripping off and the curtains coming down just too soon - or just in time, depending on which way you look at it.

"There's a good choice of comedy at the Theatre Royal Brighton I think. It is not just about drama."

Shineen Galloway, retired company director from Heathfield, said: "It might be quite a drive but this is the best theatre in the area and it is worth it. There's nothing like it in Heathfield.

"I do the drive so often the car knows its own way."

Jasper Vincent, 26, has worked in the Theatre bar for nearly three years.

He said: "One of the funniest moments working here was when the ceiling came down during a show.

"It was a war play starring Edward Fox and they had imitation bombs on the stage and a whole chunk of the roof fell in when one went off.

"I am not sure if anyone was hit, I think they all just carried on as if nothing had happened."

John Muir, architect for the Ambassador Theatre Group, said: "This concerns Peter Gough, who was a housemaster at Brighton College.

"An outgoing, eccentric and much-loved character in Brighton, he passed away at the age of 92 last June.

"The story goes that way, way back Peter Gough took a party of students from Brighton College to see a performance of Shakespeare, sitting in the gallery.

"When the curtain went up for the second act, Peter addressed the actors, saying: 'would you mind speaking up?' There is no record of whether he received a response."

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