THIS WEEK IN BRIGHTON AND HOVE...
Friday 27th
Woodland Tribe: Build Your Own Adventure
@WarrenTheatre
Help create a unique adventure playground! Over the course of Brighton Fringe, children and adults of all ages can use hammers, nails, saws, rope and a huge quantity of wood to co-create the play space of their dreams.
10am, £10
The Warren
St. Peter’s Church North, BN1 4GU
Street Diner at the Brighthelm Garden
@StreetDiner
Brighton’s favorite street food is served every Friday in Brighthelms's garden. Expect a mouth-watering cook up from traders serving some of the world's most popular dishes.
11am - 3pm, free
Brighthelm Garden
Queens Road, BN1 1YD
Gentlemen's Day at Brighton Racecourse
@BrightonRace
Sponsored once again by Genting Casino, this afternoon race event on Friday 27th May throws down the gauntlet to the stylish gents of Brighton & Hove that could win them a Citizen Eco-Drive World Chrono Radio Controlled watch from James Ross Jewellers worth £449.
12pm, £11+
Brighton Racecourse
Freshfield Rd, BN2 9XZ
Saturday 28th
Sussex Ale Festival 2016
@The County Ground
The annual Sussex Ale Festival, returns to Hove, supporters can enjoy more than 50 ales, from a wide selection of local breweries across four days, whilst watching County Championship action between Sussex & Derbyshire.
09:30am, £16 - free entry from 4pm
Sussex County Cricket Club
The 1st Central County Ground, BN3 3AN
The Sentence Snatchers: A terribly twisted yarn
@Rialto_Brighton
What happens to unfinished sentences? Join the deliciously devious Sentence Snatchers as we trip, tangle and tongue-twist our way through the fantastical town of Loose End, where the SynTax is so expensive no one dare speak... until now! Jam-packed with live music, puppets and puns.
11am, £7.50
Rialto Theatre
Dyke Road, BN1 3FE
Adam Ant
@BrightonCentre
Adam Ant is to embark on a 14 date UK tour in May 2016 performing the iconic album "Kings of the Wild Frontier" live and in sequence for the very first time, with many of the album tracks never having been performed live.
6:30pm, £32.50
Brighton Centre
Kings Road, BN1 2GR
Minefield
@brightdome
Merging film, re-enactment and documentary theatre, Minefieldblurs the lines between truth and fiction to give a fascinating insight into how and what people remember, and how war continues to cast a long shadow over the lives of its protagonists.
8pm, £15
Brighton Dome
Church Street, BN1 1UE
Pitschi, the kitten with dreams
@KomediaBrighton
Little Swiss kitten Pitschi lives with her brothers and sisters, Grandma Lisette and Bello the dog on a farm high up in the Swiss Alps. Come and enjoy this touching tale full of good humour, adventure, live music and song.
2pm, £6.50+
Komedia Brighton
44-47 Gardner Street, BN1 1UN
Sunday 29th
The Merchant of New York
@Rialto_Brighton
Shakespeare meets the Mafia in this clever, iambic mashup, with a definite twist! When the characters go off-script, and the writer stops playing God, where is the mercy?
7:30pm, £10
Rialto Theatre
Dyke Road, BN1 3FE
Funk The Format Festival
@FunkTheFormat
Following two spectacular sell-out festivals, Funk The Family is back with a bigger, better line-up and second adults-only day; Funk The Format. All-Day Music Festival in Hove Park on bank holiday weekend with an outdoor stage brimming with headline acts.
12pm - 9pm, £30+
Hove Park
BN3 6LS
Extremities
@Rialto_Brighton
Marjorie is home alone when Raul enters through her unlocked door and attempts to attack and rape her. The tables turn when Marjorie is able to subdue Raul and keep him tied up in her fireplace. A bone-chilling, psychological thriller, exploring the moral question of when justice is served.
9:30pm, £10
Rialto Theatre
Dyke Road, BN1 3FE
Monday 30th
The Tailor of Gloucester
@TOMvenue
Award winning theatre company returns with its own hilarious and heart-warming adaptation of the Beatrix Potter tale about a poor tailor who falls foul of his cat when he rescues the mice.
4pm, £8
The Old Market
Upper Market Street, BN3 1AS
Pinocchio
@88LondonRoad
Join award-winning Brighton storytellers Bard & Troubadour on a truly magical journey for all ages, as Pinocchio faces scoundrels, set-backs and sea monsters on his quest to become a real boy.
2pm, £9
Emporium Brighton
88 London Road, BN1 4JF
Tuesday 31st
DRINK-UP Party
@The County Ground
The 6th annual Sussex Ale Festival will be hosting a "Drink-up Party" in aid of Action Medical Research for Children. Entrance to the Drink-up Party will provide you with discounted drinks & musical entertainment (all money raised from tickets will go to AMR).
4pm-10pm, £5 in advance - limited number available on the day at £6
Sussex County Cricket Club
The 1st Central County Ground, BN3 3AN
James Campbell's comedy 4 kids
@TOMvenue
For children over 6, their parents and anyone who likes comedy without the rude words, a show which might or might not discuss lollipop ladies, quantum chromatic disruption machines and tartan badgers.
2pm, £8
The Old Market
Upper Market Street, BN3 1AS
Paul Carroll: Forty Shades of Strawberry Blond
@CarrollHodgson
Straight from London’s comedy duo ‘Carroll and Hodgson!’ Paul brings his absurd and often downright nasty characters to life in this one hour spurt of bad language, bad dancing and sometimes bad hair.
8:30pm
The Warren: Theatre Box
St Peter’s Church North, BN1 4GU
Wednesday 1st
Flying the Nest
@HandMadeTheatre
An interactive show introducing young explorers to the wonderful world of Birding. Filled with a fantastic mix of music, drama, facts and fun, Flying The Nest is a humorous show that brings to life native bird characters in a new and engaging way; a visual feast of puppets, props and costumes.
11am/4pm
Brighton Open Air Theatre
8 St Catherine's Terrace, BN3 2RQ
Peppa Pig's Surprise
@TheatreRoyalBTN
Enjoy fun, games and of course, surprises in this charming, colourful new show with new songs and new life size puppets, Peppa Pig’s Surprise promises to be the perfect theatre show for all pre-schoolers.
1pm, £17.15 - £23.15
Theatre Royal Brighton
New Rd, BN1 1SD
Thursday 2nd
The Treason Show: Festival Special
@Rialto_Brighton
Led by Brighton Fringe Award winner Mark Brailsford (The Lad Himself, Hanover the Musical), this always-topical, slick, fast and funny satirical show with a Brighton twist has been a fixture on the Brighton scene for 15 years.
8:30pm, £8.50 - £13.50
Rialto Theatre
Dyke Road, BN1 3FE
Just Right
@TOMvenue
Featuring one mean girl, three excellent bears and lashings of porridge! Expect mesmerising visuals, brilliant songs, lots of laughs and our cheeky style of audience participation.
11:45am, £7
The Old Market
Upper Market Street, BN3 1AS
