The Warren: Main House: Russell Place, East Brighton, BN1 2RG
Pop up Venue & Bar
One of Brighton’s most anticipated Pop-up venues (Winner, Best Venue 2012) plonks itself down in the throbbing staggering heart of Brighton with some of the best theatre, cabaret, comedy & music. The Warren is a pop-up complex of three venues with a gorgeous garden and outdoor bar tucked away in Russell Place, just off West Street, Brighton.
Although very difficult to find first time round, it’s well worth the trawl across a drunken windswept West Street, up the side street behind the church off Russell Place, behind the Brighton Centre, then all the way to the top to this sweet hidden-away refuge from the mauling drunken flesh pots of West Street. Once inside the Warren, there’s a warm cosy bar in a yurt, a surprising garden in the middle and two venues to catch shows.
They run the ‘Fringe Club’ late night and we saw The New York Dollies who were wonderful, chic and naughty, flirty and fun and brought the temperature of the night up into a swinging party mode. Their warm and melodic reinterpretations of punk classics were touch perfect, heavy on the irony and stuffed full of style. Their costumes and slightly witty banter adding to the glossy performance that shone from the stage. A cheeky, chic and charming harmonising trio of filthy taffeta sheen.
Otherplace also runs the long-established theatre Upstairs at Three and Ten in Steine Street, Kemp Town, winner of Best Comedy Venue in the South East.
We did an afternoon children’s show and then a late night show, both were good, the venue is comfy, warm and well presented. The lighting and sound are very good and the whole place has a comfortable and interesting carefully shambolic feel to it. The bar is open late, it slowly fills up with lots of festival in the knows and performers from other shows and the buzz kicks off late. The staff are all cute, keen and helpful too.
They have local craft beer and Sussex ales and good honest food too; the prices are cheaper than around the corner in Babylon by Sea and the clientele a lot les raucous and vulgar too.
The Warren is a great addition to the Fringe scene and one I will be a regular at this month.
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The Warren
Main House
Russell Place,
Brighton,
BN1 2RG
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