PREVIEW – EVANGELINE at The Lantern Theatre
Brighton & Hove News previews Evangeline, a new musical show coming to The Lantern Theatre based in Kemptown over this first week of Brighton Fringe.
This is a tale of showbiz survivor Evangeline. This new musical traces her rocky life and career, from her discovery in a cardboard box to her West End rise and fall, via high-kicks, low-life, bruises and booze. Despite these grim turns and twists of circumstances, there’s humour and fun aplenty via performer Guy Brigg, a cast of one.
In this latest creation from award-winning company Three Chairs and a Hat, Guy Brigg plays Ms Teeth ‘n’ Tits herself, along with all the other eccentric characters in Evangeline’s rollercoaster story. Guy plays every eccentric character in Evangeline’s tumultuous story, as well as portraying the divine Ms E herself from childhood to ‘late youth’.
The production Evangeline comes to Brighton after a debut production in Oxford, and then will be heading to The Glitch in Waterloo, London. Evangeline is a development of a secondary character from an earlier show ‘Melody’ which played in several venues around the south before London and Edinburgh Fringe stagings were called off due to the pandemic.
Writer and music producer Nia Williams founded her Oxford-based theatre company, Three Chairs and a Hat, to stage her musicals and has won several awards, including the Scenesaver Birthday Honours Best Musical for ‘Verity’. She shares that “I knew from his work in Melody that Guy would be brilliant at playing lots of very different characters and creating a convincing world with a very spare set and a lot of talent”.
Actor Guy Brigg has an MBE for his work in theatre education and theatre arts, is resident creative director of the award-wining Musical Youth Company Oxford and has performed in, choregraphed and directed many shows.
Details
EVANGELINE at The Lantern Theatre
Dates: 4-8 May. 7pm (4-7th May) / 5pm (8th May)
Venue: The Lantern Theatre, 77 St James Street, Brighton BN2 1PA
Tickets: £12 (£10 concessions) 241 on tickets when purchased through Brighton Fringe
Accessible: Access information here
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