Wisdom of A Brighton Whore (Pt 1 - The Silent Stream)
Sat 27 Jul 2024 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM BST
Fitzroy House, 10 High St, Lewes, BN7 2AD
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Something Underground presents...
Wisdom of a Brighton Whore (Pt 1-The Silent Stream) @ 6.30p
You can buy great deal tickets for BOTH award-winning shows. See Below.
George is a king in waiting. Kept to the wings and given no role by his pious, over-controlling father, he turns to a life of hedonism whereupon building borrowing, cavorting, grabbing pussies, paying off women, gambling, drink and laudanum …all become close to his heart.
Once on the throne…. nothing changes.
Written and Performed by Jonathan Brown
Winner: Best New Play, 2012 New Writing South,
Winner: Best Male Performer, Brighton Fringe 2013 (“The Silent Stream”)
Shortlisted Best New Play, New Writing South 2013. (“The Silent Stream”)
Best Male Performer (nom) Brighton Fringe 2007
Bruntwood Prize longlist (How To Start a Knife Gang)
Winner, The International Fringe Encore Series Award 2022 (Betsy: Wisdom of a Brighton Whore)
As he moves to his next project, his Brighton Pavilion, he is forced to change the course of a hidden river that runs through the centre of the town. Unbeknownst to him, the ancient river has its allies in the underworld, and George finds himself caught up in adventures, that his father considers unholy, in a bid to find out what wisdom his own unbidden children have to tell him.
Echos down through the ages of the Boris, the Prince Andrew, the Trump of his time?
“…a must-see ….. his performance is very accomplished, bringing to life the showman for a 21st century audience. This is a royally good show, created by someone who clearly loves the city of the current and the past in equal parts.” The Brighton Argus. May 2013.
“I really enjoyed it tonight. You are a great performer and able to play to the strengths of the script, *making* the twists and turns of character really clear…… clever and funny. Well done! A tour de force of a performance!” Sara Clifford, Playwright
“… the captivating vitality of Brown’s multifaceted performance transport us…..presented confidently and honestly. Vast emotional range is reached A fantastic insight into the Fringe’s host city; Brown shines in his convincing depiction of a man who helped birth Brighton and the scandal that makes this city what it is.” Broadway Baby. May 2013
More info: https://www.somethingunderground.co.uk/the-silent-stream/
AND........
Betsy: Wisdom of A Brighton Whore @ 8.30pm
NB: You can buy great deal tickets for BOTH award-winning shows. See Below.
Winner, The International Fringe Encore Series Award 2022
Shortlisted, Brighton Fringe International Touring Award in Association with The Pebble Trust 2022,
Shortlisted,UnBarred Best Local Artist Award, Brighton Fringe 2022
Nominated, Best Female Performer Brighton Fringe 2013
A tale of sex, seduction and survival in the underworld of 1800's
Brighton. "I'll lift me skirts and show you what I've been hiding from
you for thousands of years...".
Performed in 2024 by Imogen Strachan
Written & directed by Jonathan Brown
A thrilling award-winning one-woman show from the multi-award-winning theatre company, Something Underground,
– returning after highly acclaimed, sell-out runs in 2019, 2022 and Off-Broadway NYC performances in 2024.
(....with, then, the brilliant Isabella McCarthy Sommerville in the titular role)
"Writer Jonathan Brown knows how to drive a plot" (Lyn Gardner, The Guardian)
"Spellbinding" (Fringe Review)
"A secret gem of the Fringe, not to be missed!" ★★★★★ (Remote Goat)
"This exquisite performance is colourful, unrelenting and at times brutal" ★★★★★(Latest)
"Try to catch her if you can" ★★★★★ (Fringe Review)
Written & Directed by Jonathan Brown
Best New Play, New Writing South 2012
Best New Play (shortlist), New Writing South 2013
A Tale of Sex, Seduction and Survival.
Journey into the murky, sordid and dangerous depths of Brighton’s Underworld, an evocation of memories and past lives.
Betsy, a sauce box, a church bell and a woman on the edge, with mouths to feed, nobs to fleece, and blobby boys to repel.
“Please”, he says, “just half-an-hour of your time.”
I says, “Ain’t you listening? You on The Blob? I ain’t in the business for bloody boiler hands and stokers. I don’t do dingers and I don’t do blobby boys.
Look at ya, You look like you’ve got the French Pox on ya. Now get lost. I got nobility waiting on me, with cleans sheets and clean dicks, so I don’t need to go bug hunting. Now sling it!’
Outstanding Show –
“Writer/director
Jonathan Brown’s protean imagination and craft…it’s wonderful to see
one of the most darkly-visioned of all return….”
Fringereview 2019. Full Review
5 Stars! “This incredible piece of writing by Jonathan Brown...... this is utterly compelling theatre of the highest order and deserving of a much wider audience. This is the kind of work that should remind us all of the real need for live theatre. Why do I only have five stars to award?” Latest 7, Brighton 2019. Full Review
“Magnificent!!!!” Terry Garoghan, Brighton May 2019.
It’s 1820 (ish) and Betsy is a Brightonian, “at work”. Having parted company from the St Mary’s Home for Penitent Women, she’s been given a “situation” by the knobs of the town, keeping an eye on the house of builder and land developer Thomas Kemp, lest he should return with the money he owes his creditors. Whilst she’s there, she’s required to give comfort to members of the brotherhood, and it isn’t long before she meets Guardian of the Town and Chair of the Committee for the Provision of the poor, George Bintshaft.
Flowers arrive. Then wine, then dresses. A
carriage to take Betsy to a private supper. More wine, soft words, and
then a hot wine-laden breath, urgent whisperings, fumblings at the same
dress…
FULL INFO>>>>> https://www.somethingunderground.co.uk/betsy-wisdom-of-a-brighton-whore/
Location
Fitzroy House, 10 High St, Lewes, BN7 2AD