Viva Lewes Issue #140 May 2018
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YOUNG PHOTO<br />
OF THE MONTH<br />
Congratulations to Milly Baker-Brown, aged<br />
14, who made the most of a bit of free time<br />
after the Beast of the East had turned our town<br />
wintry white again in mid-March. ‘I took this<br />
picture while enjoying the snow up on the Downs<br />
behind my house on a couple of days off school<br />
- everything was so beautiful - especially the<br />
gorgeous lambs trying to keep warm! ;)’<br />
Molly also sent a couple of colour pictures<br />
of the hills, but we couldn’t resist these little<br />
fellahs, which win her this month’s £10 voucher<br />
generously offered, as ever, by Bags of Books on South Street in Cliffe. Under 16? Send your pictures<br />
to photos@vivamagazines.com, with a message about where, when and why you took them, and you could<br />
see it in this space. The winner gets a £10 book token from Bags of Books in Cliffe.<br />
A BOY, A PIANO… AND A BEACH<br />
“A boy finds himself on a beach, he stumbles<br />
upon something extraordinary, and this takes him<br />
into a completely different universe, where he<br />
has all sorts of adventures…” Nicky Blackwell is<br />
one of the artistic directors of the Slot Machine<br />
Theatre Company, a <strong>Lewes</strong>-based group, whose<br />
new show The Boy, The Piano and The Beach debuts<br />
at the Brighton Festival this month. “We make<br />
multi-disciplinary work for all ages and abilities,”<br />
she says of Slot Machine, “so instead of just putting<br />
on a theatre show with actors and a script,<br />
we’ll have dance, puppetry, acting, projection and<br />
fine art all in one piece.”<br />
“The boy meets creatures from other universes,<br />
he gets involved in a chase and eventually he<br />
escapes back into the real world. It’s a story that<br />
we’re inventing in collaboration with a group of<br />
dancers, a concert pianist and an artist.”<br />
The show is one of only<br />
a handful in the Festival<br />
offering a ‘relaxed’ performance,<br />
which means<br />
“you’ll be able to go in<br />
and out if you need to,<br />
and that people don’t<br />
mind children making<br />
a bit of noise. They can<br />
move around a little bit<br />
more, and no one minds.” There will also be<br />
(free) bespoke touch tours for children who are<br />
autistic or those with impaired sight, allowing<br />
them to come inside the venue before the show,<br />
meet one of the performers and touch some of<br />
the props. These must be booked in advance. RC<br />
Brighthelm Centre, 5th–7th, brightonfestival.org/<br />
slotmachinetheatre.com<br />
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