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Experience an interactive performance adventure in the streets of Brighton, with a series of unique theatre pieces performed in and around six Victorian-style bathing machines across the city.
Throughout May, when Brighton is blooming with art, six bespoke Victorian-style bathing machines will appear at some of the city’s iconic landmarks.
Each bathing machine will be the inspiration and the venue for a series of brand new performances by South East artists, creating unforgettable experiences with the city and its visitors.
See these fascinating replicas brought to life as beautifully customised, mobile mini-theatres, housing astonishing performances every weekend in May.
View all Dip Your Toe events below, or see the Dip Your Toe video on our Video page.
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A Small Museum of Displaced Sea The Karavan Ensemble Dip Your Toe at Madiera Drive Between coast and sea, past and present, award-winning Karavan Ensemble carries the sea across Brighton in a reconstructed bathing machine immersed in dance, physical theatre, live music and gathered memories. Working with older people from the South East our migrating performance carries the sea within. A travelling museum of a displaced sea is a site-responsive performance. 26, 27 May 4pm FREE |
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GreenandPleasant Land fanSHEN Dip Your Toe at New Road Find the castle. Solve the riddle. Beat the dragon. Use the force. Change the world? GreenandPleasantLand fuses physical theatre, live music and folk traditions in an epic adventure for audiences aged 10 upwards. Join us on a quest powered by bicycle-generators through lands of curious customs and peoples of peculiar habits, to find a happier, greener future. 19, 20 May, 2.30pm, 4pm FREE |
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Kissing the Gunner's Daughter Kissing the Gunner's Daughter transforms the interior of the bathing machine into an otherworldly delight, where bathers, sailors, sea monsters and mermaids are exquisitely animated by artist Isobel Smith. Using manipulated light and puppetry along with a specially composed ‘poetic drama’ and soundscape from collaborators Dorothy Max Prior and Daniel Marcus, audiences will witness the machine's contents come to life. |
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Puppet Paramour Boogaloo Stu Dip Your Toe at New Road Dip Your Toe at The Hurly Burly Dip Your Toe at Madiera Drive Boogaloo Stu gets up close and personal as you step into a surreal world from a bygone era, in a one-to-one session of sock-puppetry, crystal ball gazing, and creating your ideal partner. What is their name? What do they look like? How did you meet? Open up and reveal your hopes and dreams for happiness whilst your puppet is created. 5 May (New Road) 6, 7, 12, 13 May (The Hurly Burly) 27 May (Madiera Drive) £4.00 |
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Swimming in the Persian Gulf BandBazi Dip Your Toe at New Road Dip Your Toe at Brighton Station Dip Your Toe at Madiera Drive Take a swim on the exotic side; borrow a human book, learn about the freedom of swimming. BandBazi bring you the woman’s view from East, West and somewhere in between. Swim into the nonsensical, radical and conservative views on freedom and choice. A multi-media installation letting audiences peek behind the veil. Have your preconceptions blown out of the water. 5 May (New Road) 6, 7, 12, 13, 19, 20 May (Brighton Station) 26, 27 May (Madiera Drive) FREE |
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The Department of Unreliable Memoirs Stillpoint Theatre Dip Your Toe at New Road Make an appointment with two helpful hostesses to retrieve a half-forgotten moment from a past you may have had. Revisit the time you saved your city from a freak flood, invented scientology, or ruined that child’s party! The D.U.M offers a playful encounter for a single audience member. All you have to do is turn up and play along... 12, 13 May £4.00 |
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The Terrible Shaman Inconvenient Spoof Dip Your Toe at Madiera Drive The Terrible Shaman have arrived from far off lands and everything to them is astounding. With painted sticks and ceremonial robes they wield their magic wares to summon the spirits within all things, bringing comfort and joy to whomever has the heart to receive it. Bewitching and uplifting, these three exotic priests invite you into their fold, dare you enter? 26, 27 May FREE |
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Vivascope Seth Kriebel & Zoe Bouras Dip Your Toe at West Pier Dip Your Toe at Madiera Drive Kriebel & Bouras have created an unusual machine for seeing. Small audiences enter a darkened room to experience a unique combination of a camera obscura and live performance. A narrator inside the machine turns the gaze of the camera obscura on performers outside. Using no electricity, Vivascope creates images that appear magical even to the 21st century eye. 12, 13, 19, 20 May (West Pier) 26, 27 May (Madiera Drive) £4.00 |
