Two full-cast reading are planned for a new LGBT+ stage play, The Leading Man by Eugene Doyen at the Purple Playhouse Theatre in Hove. Tony Thomas is England’s biggest film star, a matinee idol, a romantic leading man: he is adored by his female fans everywhere.
In this gender fluid solo performance co-writer Sam Beckett Jr plays not only Andrew the gay black guy about to marry his white middle class boyfriend, but she also morphs with ease into Vanessa, Andrew’s mother on her way to the wedding with her unseen husband.
The new play Fast by Kate Barton is a dark drama based on a true story. Set at the turn of the 20th Century in the Pacific Northwest, the play examines ‘Doctor’ Linda Hazzard. Complex, mesmeric and driven, Hazzard advocated a fasting cure that gripped the press and divided the nation. Her ideas were not new, yet Hazzard was subjected to intense scrutiny.
This intimate homage to the stage musical from Brighton-based Elevation Productions starts with mini toeches shining on the tap dancing feet of Edwin Ray, and on his saxophone-playing life-long friend Emma Jane Morton – in their tribute to A Chorus Line.
Homegrown Buckle Collective hits Hove Grown festival with an experimental and playful new drama. At times moving, at times hilarious: At the Junction Cafe is a battle of the generations that explores relationships, memory and human communication in a highly innovative way.
Resound, a Brighton & Hove based male sing group will team up with comedians Aidan Goatley and David Jordan for an evening of music and comedy in Close to You, an intimate performance at the Purple Playhouse Theatre.
Eugene Ionesco’s classic absurdist play was first performed in Paris in 1950 and since then has gone on to become one of the most performed plays in France. This is perhaps not surprising given that, situationally, the play is set in the suburbs of London and takes great delight in poking fun at the strange lives and antics of its English, lower middle class protagonists.
