insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 15 - May 2016 | Page 26

ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT

BRIGHTON FRINGE SHOWS
THAT CELEBRATE SUSSEX
Brighton Fringe, England’s largest arts festival, returns to all sorts of locations across the city on
May 6 and runs until June 5, putting on an incredible array of performances from cabaret to
comedy, theatre and dance. Committed to helping the arts flourish, the festival stages over 900
events throughout the month and is completely open-access, which means anyone can put on
a Brighton Fringe event. That said, it has grown out of and is inspired by home-grown talent;
more than 50 percent of participants are based in Brighton and Hove, so we’ve selected our top
Fringe picks from the shows that celebrate Sussex. All details at www.brightonfringe.org
THEATRE
The Brighton Killers // May 7, 13,
14, 20, 21 at 4pm // Old Police
Cells Museum, Brighton Town
Hall, Bartholomew Square BN1
1JA // £11 (£10)

VISUAL ARTS
Faces of Brighton // May
1-June 5 // Brighton
Station, Queens Road,
Brighton BN1 3XP // Free
DJ Norman Cook, a drag artist,
and a daily sea swimmer are
just some of the characters who
appear in photography exhibition,
Faces of Brighton. The free
exhibition at Brighton Station
is the fruit of one man’s labour,
Brighton-based commercial
photographer, Danny Fitzpatrick.

The Brighton Killers is the brand new second part of a macabre
coupling (the first being award-winning play, In Conversation with an
Acid Bath Murderer), and promises to give a chilling insight into the
mind of a murderer as four of Brighton's most notorious killers, including
the Acid Bath Murderer, John Haigh, tell you their true-life stories.
“Although the play sounds dark, there’s a lot of humour,” says writer
and actor, Nigel Fairs. “And really, the whole thing plays out like a
seduction. What actually connects Haigh and all the others - apart
from Brighton and the Old Police Cells - is their absolute belief that
they were doing ‘the right thing’, and that's what we're exploring
with both plays. The atmosphere of the cells and the fact that the
murderers will be ta