The Dutch Season is almost here! From Friday 27 to Sunday 29 May, Brighton Fringe will be welcoming an exclusive programme of award-winning and thought-provoking shows and workshops straight from The Netherlands. This is your chance to explore contemporary theatre from The Netherlands in Brighton, be sure to grab your tickets for this limited run of events.
Winners of Best of Fringe Amsterdam, mime duo DeRonde/Deroo bring After The Echo, a visually stunning physical theatre performance that explores the struggle and the beauty of melancholy. The duo will also be hosting a Physical Theatre Workshop exploring the concepts of contemporary mime, both events take place at The Old Market, Hove.
Up-and-coming Dutch performance artist Sofie Kramer explores the thin line between violence and the erotic in her new solo performance, A Pole Tragedy at The Old Market, Hove. Armed with a dancing pole and the famous Greek tragedy Iphigenia in Aulis, she searches for female autonomy and physical self-determination in a male-dominated society. In addition, you can join Sofie in her workshop Release The Heat: Sensual Body Awareness, where she will take you on a journey to connect to your sensual side and sink deeper into your body.
Through a journey of dance, text and puppetry comes Finding Grace, a brand-new dance-theatre performance, created by award-winning, international theatre-maker Ester Natzijl. Experience a tragi-comic tale about an existential self-styled guru at The Old Market, Hove.
Experience intimate storytelling performance, Biopower, which unveils the most beautiful moments and darker struggles of a relationship. While two storytellers act out the ideal couple, their relationship on stage is strongly tested. Sophie is a lawyer with never-ending insomnia and Francesco is a Tinder addict who lost his erection, find out more during their performance at The Old Market, Hove.
From K&A, AM I A ROBOT?* is a documentary show on the edge: an inappropriate circus demonstration to question our capability and capacity for empathy and explore our repetitive failure to recognise the rights of what is perceived as otherness. Inspired by a true story, you are invited to encounter SOPHIA, the social humanoid robot, at The Old Market, in this funny, uncomfortable, and provoking piece of theatre.
With the objective to cross the inner ear sound barrier, to expose the noise and the music that is hidden inside our machine, K&A bring MINUS 9 to Sweet @ The Welly. From the outside, all seems to be silent, from the inside the first blast of the universe is making a big band. MINUS 9 is a tailor-made performance that is created for each single audience member and is not to be missed.
Experience theatre direct from Amsterdam Fringe in this limited run of events, exclusive to Brighton Fringe’s Dutch Season, before they return to The Netherlands.
The Dutch Season is supported by The Embassy of The Netherlands, Fonds Podiumkunsten Performing Arts Fund NL and Amsterdam Fringe.
