In 2009 the company returned to its roots in the Brighton Festival to win Best Theatre Performance for Jonathan Cash’s explosive THE FIRST DOMINO, about the Soho pub bombing.
The following year, I AM A WAREHOUSE, sited in historic Newhaven Fort, placed the audience in the thick of the Gaza conflict, with film, song, polemic, installation and a live video-link to the UN in Jerusalem.
This, without question, is what Brighton Theatre is all about.
The company is currently working on a Trilogy of Insect Plays HIGH DRAMAS IN TINY PLACES: (1) MOZZZ! a week in the life of an undercover mosquito, about the Second Most Dangerous Creature on Earth, premiered at the Brighton Festival 2017, playing at the Edinburgh Festival 2018 and the Venice Biennale 2019, and (2) EXIT THE QUEEN: she’s the bee’s knees, comedy with song about bees on the brink, to open May 2021 Brighton Festival and (3) about LOCUSTS, details to be decided…