COMING SOON

NEW CRANE/WILLIAMS PREMIERE PRODUCTION 2025

A FIRST READING OF MARTHA GUNN WILL TAKE PLACE

AT 7 PM ON FRIDAY 13th DECEMBER 2024

at the LANTERN THEATRE, 77 St James’s St, Brighton BN2 1PA.

Seating is limited. Please email brightontheatre@gmail.com to secure booking.

The reading is free but there will be a fund-raising bucket at the door.

It’s 1815. The Queen of the Dippers is 88. Through her sixty year ‘reign’, thousands of ladies have come to her Machine to be dipped in the salubrious waves of the English Channel. In Martha’s time, Brighton has grown from a little fishing village into the country’s premier health-and-holiday resort, population soaring in one lifetime from 2,000 to 40,000. While Martha was dipping, the world has been rocked by a century of Revolution, Enlightenment and World War, Now alone in her Machine, in the moment of death, as the sea rises and history turns, key figures from the past and future come to call. 

Brighton Theatre was founded by Faynia Williams and Richard Crane, to present challenging new work in exciting theatre spaces. Their productions have won multiple awards and acclaim from Edinburgh to Adelaide, in the West End, Off Broadway, Moscow, Tblisi and the National Theatre of Romania. Recent productions include The First Domino and The Insect Trilogy at Brighton’s Latest Music Bar and I Am A Warehouse at Newhaven Fort. Martha Gunn, to be premiered Brighton Festival 25, will mark the start of celebrations for Martha’s 300th birthday.  

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COMING LATER

DATES, PLACE, TIMES TO BE ANNOUNCED

People don’t like getting down and dirty with their cultural icons. So if you’d rather I didn’t talk about it. Hm…well I will anyway.

Tchaikovsky returns. He doesn’t like to do Q&As but tonight is special. There’s a side to him that has been hushed up for political reasons, and is now being allowed to tarnish his work. Tonight, with pathos, passion and wit, the true myth will be told.  

Following last year’s triumphant ANNA & MARINA, and the ‘spectacular, vector-borne delight’ INSECT TRILOGY, multi-award-winning Brighton Theatre bring you the music, the maestro and the man that is Tchaikovsky. From Swan Lake to the Pathetique, the 1812 to the Sugar Plum Fairy, the troubled genius will set out, one last time, to thrill, disturb and entertain.