culture shock brochure

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pink Fringe produces quirky and queer performances throughout the year, and with culture shock we present our most ambitious season yet.

culture shock is about celebrating diverse perspectives on experiences that we all share. We have selected some of the most distinctive artists working in the uK to lead you through their tangled tales of family, politics, sex and love, to explore what it’s like to walk on the other side of the street.

catch ‘Tranny superstar’ Jonny Woo, with his repertoire of alternative drag and cabaret, inspired by New York’s thriving culture of provocative performers. or the ‘Hermaphroditic spinsters’ claude and Maude from Glasgow’s Fish and Game, as they offer up an evening of unusual edu-tainment indulging their various Strange Hungers.

Brian lobel’s BALL is an unmissable addition to the canon of ‘cancer stories’ that playfully asserts his will to survive, and playwright and performer Jo clifford will present the wildly imaginative piece, Jesus Queen of Heaven. plus lyrical performance poetry from Nick Field, with The Cosmos, The Cosmetics, and the touching and humourous Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley from nationally acclaimed theatre maker chris Goode.

To round off the season, we’ve teamed up with ovalhouse to give artists the chance to conjure up imaginings of a queer future, as they ask ‘what would happen in a Mauve New World?’

so come, step into the heaving metropolis that is culture shock, and experience the ride of your life!

Take a joyride Through a Queer CiTy…

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How to book

ContaCt Us

More information about all the shows in the culture shock season can be found on www.pinkfringe.org.uk. Tickets for all culture shock events can be booked at

www.brownpapertickets.co.ukor by phoning their 24/7 Ticket Hotline: 0800 411 8881. There are no booking fees for any tickets and our venues are dead tiny.

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cuture shock is taking place at two great Brighton venues:

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The Nightingale Theatre

www.marlboroughtheatre.org.uk4 princes street, Brighton, BN2 1rd

www.nightingaletheatre.co.ukAbove the Grand central Bar, 29-30 surrey street, BN1 3pA

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london’s ‘Tranny superstar’ (Time out) and undisputed king of parties presents a show of highlights and favourite pieces from his widely acclaimed repertoire.

Having recently celebrated ten years in the business of alternative cabaret, Woo brings elements from his most recent show ‘This Is Jonny Woo’ straight from The soho Theatre.

Buckle-up for a rollercoaster ride into the mind of one of london’s favourite club stars. stories, raps, caricature and high fashion, what more could you want?

“ A cross between Kenny Everett and Marlene Dietrich” Sunday Times Style

“ Woo Hoo – The icing on the cake” Vogue

jonny WooThis is johnny Woo

£8.50 / £6.50

fri 9Th & saT 10Th of MarChat The Marlborough TheaTre

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shirley is a boy with a girl’s name. Growing up in suburbia he feels like the weirdest kid in school and his heart belongs to a classmate who barely knows he exists.

Wound Man is an unconventional superhero, sprung from the pages of a medieval medical textbook, who has just moved into a house on shirley’s street - and he happens to have a vacancy for a teenage sidekick...

experience the adventures of two unlikely friends in this funny, touching tale from chris Goode.

“ A simple, unaffected piece of storytelling… you can’t help but fall in love with it.” The Guardian ****

“ Goode’s heartbreakingly romantic vision sends you home with a warm and rosy glow and the pleasure of a tender tale perfectly told” Scotland on Sunday

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The advenTures of Wound Man and shirley

fri 16Th & saT 17Th of MarCh

at The nighTingale

£8.50 / £6.50

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Nick Field’s powerful, resonant and intimate story tells of the struggle to find a place to belong as the 20th century offers a colourful swan song of underground culture, from the monochrome of Goth clubs to the day-glo of New Age raves.

Woven with tales of an eccentric rural youth, lush poetic meditations on the

nature of decorated and altered skin and delicious humour, this odyssey of discovery is spoken word theatre at its most thrilling.

“ An intimate tour-de-force of the spoken word. Nick is a passionate, and flexible performer, with a tale to tell and admirable vulnerability.” Gscene

niCk field

£8.50 / £6.50fri 23rd & saT 24Th of MarCh

at The Marlborough TheaTre

The CosMos,

The CosMeTiCs

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unexpected, quirky and provocative, BAll & other Funny stories About cancer is a unique performance that goes beyond stories of cancer treatments to explore sexuality, gender and politics. challenging the stories of cancer survivors and martyrs that have come before, Brian lobel’s internationally acclaimed trilogy of performances are for the first time presented

in one evening. BAll… infuses the ‘cancer story’ with an urgency and humour which is sometimes inappropriate, often salacious and always, above all else, honest and open.

“ endearingly brave” The Economist

“ a raw, powerful piece…deeply touching” The Guardian

brian lobel

£8.50 / £6.50

Thurs 29Th of MarCh

at The Marlborough

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ball & oTher funny sTories abouT CanCer

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obscene inverts! sexless termites! Hermaphroditic spinsters! Just some of the things we’ve been called while touring the world with our timeless lavender cabaret (read as: grubby lesbo freak show).

Now you lucky Brighton queers can bask in the squalid sapphistry of your filthy hosts, claude and Maud, as we root around history’s icons and dykons. let us

edu-tain you with shocking tales of cross-dressing, boarding school crushes, Boston Marriages and ‘romantic friendships’. part queer powerpoint lecture, part titty-show, come indulge your strange Hungers.

“ Glasgow’s live-art supergroup” Skinny

“ as mad as snakes and at least as fascinating” Scotsman

fish and gaMe

fri 30Th & saT 31sT of MarCh

at The Marlborough TheaTre

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£7.00 / £5.00

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jo Clifford

jesus Queen of heaven£8.50 / £6.50

saT 14Th & sun 15Th of aprilat The nighTingale

‘Jesus is a transsexual woman. And it is now she walks the earth.’This is a play with music that presents her sayings, her miracles, and her testimony. And she does not condemn the gays or the queers or the transwomen or the transmen, and no, not the straight women nor the straight men either.

Because she is the daughter of God, most certainly, and almost as certainly the son also. And God’s child condemns

nobody. This is a play driven by the idea that we are not just material beings, we are spiritual also. As well as sexual.

originally commissioned by Glasgay Festival in 2009.

Audience comments:“ a beautiful, sensitive, honest and mind opening piece of theatre.”

“ We loved it. We thought it had real spiritual quality.”

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Visions of a queer and not so distant future…

As part of the culture shock season pink Fringe will be giving artists the time and space to develop a series of brand new performances with the help of oval House and the Nightingale. Inspired by great futuristic works like Brave New World, The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984 and children of Men, pink Fringe invites performance makers to dream up their own visions of a queer future.

Join us in london in June and in Brighton in July for an evening of for an evening of surprising imaginings, and see what it might be like to live in this Mauve New World.

Mauve neW World

Work in progress shoWing in london@ The oval house – june 21-23rd, 8pM, £5

CheCk WWW.ovalhouse.CoM for booking deTails

Work in progress shoWing in brighTon@ The nighTingale – july 20-21sT, 8pM, £5

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book online aT WWW.broWnpaperTiCkeTs.Co.uk or Call The 24/7 TiCkeT hoTline 0800 411 8881

This is Jonny Woo Fri 9th & sat 10th March, 8pmJonny Woo The Marlborough

Woundman and shirley Fri 16th & sat 17th March, 8pmchris Goode The Nightingale

The cosmos, The cosmetics Fri 23rd & sat 24th March, 8pmNick Field The Marlborough

Ball and other Funny Thurs 29th March, 8pm stories About cancerBrian lobel The Marlborough

strange Hungers Fri 30th & sat 31st March, 8pmFish and Game The Marlborough

Jesus Queen of Heaven sat 14th & sun 15th April, 8pmJo clifford The Nightingale

Mauve New World Thurs 21st – sat 23rd June, 8pm The oval House london

Fri 20th & sat 21st July, 8pm The Nightingale

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