Viva Brighton Issue #81 November 2019

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Offenbach’s favourite, sung in English La Belle Hélène Live opera fully staged: French fizz and foolery set to deliciously immortal music: outrageous fun NSO Chorus, St Paul’s Sinfonia, c.Toby Purser, d. Jeff Clark, with Hannah Pedley & Anthony Flaum Town Congress Chequer Old Bloomsbury Hall Theatre Mead Market Theatre Lewes Eastbourne East Grinstead Hove London Nov 13 Nov 17 4pm Nov 28 Dec 1 4pm Dec 5 www.newsussexopera.org A collaboration with Opera della Luna. NSO charity no. 1185087
THEATRE ......................... Orlando A Woolfian romp Actor Rebecca Vaughan of Dyad Productions talks to <strong>Viva</strong> about the company’s touring one-person adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s ‘unstageable’ novel Orlando. Orlando is a bit crazy as a story. An immortal poet who’s male and then female? You definitely have to get an audience to go with you. A few years ago we created another adaptation of Virginia Woolf, Dalloway, and in some ways this show is the other side of that coin because Dalloway all takes place in one day and this takes place… over 400 years [laughs]. But actually, although it’s a beast, once we got a handle on Woolf’s language and what we wanted to do with the piece it all started to fall into place. While a lot of people focus on the character’s gender transition – which Woolf does without any explanation – there’s a lot more to it than whether Orlando is male or female. It’s a device that allows Woolf to talk gloriously about the lot of women, especially in the 19th century, but the novel is also about Orlando becoming older and wiser. While the gender is shifting back and forth, they are just learning more and more about what it means to be human. One of the reasons we wanted to do it, apart from the fact we’re huge fans of Virginia Woolf, is that the novel feels so modern. It’s not just about gender fluidity and duality, but also about trying to find a place in the world whilst remaining true to yourself. These days, with social media and the public-private elements we have to manage with our personas, it felt like a show that would speak to an audience. It’s also a glorious romp, which isn’t a phrase people tend to associate with Woolf. It’s very funny. As a company, we are very interested in history told from a female perspective, mainly because it’s an under-represented viewpoint. We like the idea of clasping hands across the divide of time and finding new relevance in these classic novels. When we did Jane Eyre we didn’t want to just give people the adaptation they thought they would get, we wanted to offer something new – and it’s the same with Orlando. We didn’t want it to feel stuck in aspic. Woolf was forward-thinking in the way she wrote it, so without inventing too much, we wanted to bring it up to date to make it about the audience’s experience today. The show is more like the novel than even a film adaptation because you’re not sitting passively watching it, you’re actively engaged as you would be reading a novel. We’re using the book’s incredible, poetic language to really ignite the audience’s imagination so that when it’s over you feel you’ve experienced it rather than watched it. Nione Meakin Orlando, The Ropetackle, Shoreham, Nov 17 ....57....
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OPENING... 29 | 11 | 2019 BRIGHTON
Page 6 and 7: LEWES TOWN HALL FISHER STREET LEWES
Page 8 and 9: CONTENTS ..........................
Page 10 and 11: THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTIST .......
Page 12 and 13: BITS AND BOBS PLUS X COMPETITION Ea
Page 14 and 15: Plus X Work-health balance Join the
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Page 20 and 21: Focusing on you Counselling, Psycho
Page 22 and 23: CLARITY IN A COMPLEX WORLD Time to
Page 24 and 25: BITS AND BOOKS ....................
Page 26 and 27: THE PLACE TO MAKE Waves. History. Y
Page 28 and 29: BRINGING THE HOUSE DOWN A CONCERT A
Page 30 and 31: INTERVIEW .........................
Page 32 and 33: Sea differently BRIGHTON PHOTOGRAPH
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Page 40 and 41: John Davis MA BACP(reg) Integrative
Page 42 and 43: THE BRIGHTON Waldorf School CHRISTM
Page 44 and 45: BRINGING HARLEY STREET TO BRIGHTON
Page 46 and 47: MARINA Tue 5 Nov THE AUSTRALIAN PIN
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Page 50 and 51: NOVEMBER HIGHLIGHTS 01273 678 822 a
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Page 54 and 55: PRISM CALENDAR GIRLS THE MUSICAL TH
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Page 64 and 65: Surf and Turf Artists Christmas Ope
Page 66 and 67: CHRISTMAS Artists Open Houses Brigh
Page 68 and 69: Towner Art Gallery David Nash 200 S
Page 70 and 71: Images courtesy of Plunge Creations
Page 72 and 73: 28 September 2019 to 12 January 202
Page 74 and 75: THE WAY WE WORK Stephen Evans, Brig
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Page 79 and 80: FOOD .............................
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