After a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, award-winning Brighton artist and philanthropist Victoria Melody brings her latest show Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak home – opening next week at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange on 4th October before heading out on a national tour.
The show’s story is rooted in Brighton. It began in Whitehawk, where Melody’s exploration of the 17th Century Diggers – landless radicals reclaiming common ground in the face of hunger and poverty – found a modern parallel. In her own neighbourhood, she discovered today’s “Diggers”. Brighton residents tackling food poverty, protecting green spaces and showing resilience where systems fail.
With the tour kicking off next weekend, we’d love if you could share the news and run a preview – do also let us know if you’d like to arrange a chat with Victoria about how Brighton inspired this show, and how it became a living reflection of local community strength?
With warmth, humour and radical spirit, this production shines a spotlight on the power of ordinary people to achieve extraordinary change when they come together. Local voices are embedded in the production, from sound recordings made by local young people to knitted vegetables created by community craft groups.
It is theatre made not just for communities, but with them, starting right here in Brighton!
