Lantern Theatre Brighton is set to illuminate the stage with a series of exclusive closed shows and an exciting production exploring community resilience. From the intimate ACT Foundation and Diploma shows to the gripping narrative of 'Wolves Are Coming For You', audiences can anticipate a unique blend of drama and creativity. Delve into these theatrical experiences as we explore how Lantern Theatre Brighton brings together students, staff, and the local community to celebrate the vibrant art of performance.

The Magic of Theater: An Insider's Look into Lantern Theatre Brighton's Exclusive Events

Set over one extraordinary day in an ordinary village, Wolves Are Coming For You explores just how much wild we're comfortable with, as a small community is forced to pull together against an invisible but potentially deadly threat.

Wolves Are Coming For You

Lantern Theatre Brighton

Closed show for ACT Students and staff only.

ACT Diploma YR1 Closed Show

ACT Foundation Closed Show

Our Two Week Intensive Acting Workshop runs each month and is designed to introduce students to the basic principles and activities involved in an Actor Training. It is suitable for absolute beginners as well as those students wishing to build upon previous performance experience.

ACT Workshop Starts

A stunning early piece of theatre with a touch of the surreal from Academy, Tony and Pulitzer Award winner JP Shanley.

Savage in Limbo by JP Shanley

At these challenging times of war and fear, how do we choose to respond? A small group of people from different cultures, nationalities and gender identities, find their way through life in London and join a weekly community theatre class. Their lives intersect, their stories get vocalised, their secrets revealed, creating a microcosmos, allowing them to ignore the reality of atrocities in their city.

Circle Mirror Transformation

The year is 2016. Movie lovers Sophie & Megan invite to your their seminar on the history of horror cinema, according to them. After a vintage shopping trip with the most popular girl in college: Abigail Swanson, it becomes apparent that Megan has acquired a haunted necklace, and as the seminar progresses, a threatening supernatural force begins to rear its head. As Sophie & Megan’s own horror story begins to unravel, they wonder who will be The Final Girl?

A History of Horror

Watch as your everyday dysfunctional family is turned upside-down.

Clownfishing

Beryl & Clive, Sing or Die (Their Musical) is a comedy about relationships, believing in yourself & the determination it takes to follow your creative dreams, especially when you might not fit in with modern conventions!

Beryl & Clive, Sing or Die (Their Musical)

Our 2023 graduates have already acquired substantial stage and film experience and are an extremely diverse and highly castable group in terms of age, type and ethnicity.

ACT Graduate Showcase 2024

A teenage girl has something growing inside her. She doesn't know what it is, but she knows it's not a baby. It expands. It has claws. Eventually it takes over the entirety of her body.

The IT

'Road' explores the lives of a small, close-knit community living in the eponymous  'road'  in a working class, Lancashire town during the era of the 1980's Thatcher government - a time of high unemployment, civil unrest and deprivation.

Road

“Because whatever has happened to humanity, whatever is currently happening, it is happening to us all. No matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world.” (Alice Walker) //

Geneva Convention

Hamlet’s legendary fellow of infinite jest is back to dig up the bones of his misspent life in this irreverent resurrection of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy.

Hamstrung

You're 15 years old, struggling through school and coming to terms with the early stages of adolescence. Things are tricky when you're a teenager. You get dealt yet another devastating blow. But this time, it's worse. Your mum's passed away suddenly, and you’ve now got to move in with your, until that point, absent father.

The Olive Boy

Chuck 'n' Jeck are a sketch comedy duo made up of Charlie Lacy and Jess Render. Everyone is saying they are a triple threat - hot, funny and have tiny waists.



Chuck 'n' Jeck

How far can you push a sex metaphor, a romantic friendship, and questionable interior décor choices? When Ash and Zee move into their tiny Edinburgh apartment, they begin to navigate the emotional rollercoaster of their early twenties. What they don’t expect is confronting the age-old question of, "do I want to date you or do I just want to be you?"

Kitchen Underwear

In a world full of ugliness, desperation and people touching you with dirty hands, OCD became Tina's coping mechanism. Not your typical OCD of every day. Instead, it's the OCD that tangles inside your stomach and shows-up inside your head non-invited. She tries to hide her symptoms, for example touching things 3 times, but it's in her DNA and to her discomfort the world starts noticing it. But relax. It's a comedy. Fine, a tragicomedy.

1,2,3. sh*t. that's my OCD.

Join us for a journey like no other in 'The South Of Somewhere Else,' a captivating show that fuses the vibrant coastal cultures of the UK and Spain. As the stage divides into two, one side representing the UK's iconic Baltic, breezy, beaches and the other, the sun-drenched shores of Spain, our story unfolds.

The South Of Somewhere Else

Civil war has split country, friend and family. The story of “Magpie” follows two brothers, Michael and Patrick Murphy, within the confines of Kilmainham Gaol. One an IRA gunman fresh from the trenches of WWI, the other a Freestate prison guard. Both haunted by the past.

Magpie

From 1915 to 1940, Michael Dillon struggled against a world that insisted he was a girl. The only way he could live a full life was to invent gender affirming care for trans men. Body aligned, he began work on his soul. Heart-break, world travel, and life as a Buddhist monk followed.

The Strange Case of Dr Dillon

Locusts is a poignant, moving, and humorous piece of new-writing that explores the impact of gay conversion therapy, and the challenges of coming out later in life.

LOCUSTS by Ian Tucker-Bell & Garth McLean

RANK A debut play from Goldie Majtas, Gemma and Jane couldn’t be closer, the type of friendship that could survive through anything, I mean anything. This absurd piece of dark comedy will take you on an unexpected journey through the lives of two twenty-somethings trying to sort their sh*t out. All starting at a taxi rank. Think Waiting for Godot meets Fleabag. Be prepared for explicit subject matters and dark themes in this fun, fresh piece of writing. Directed by Julia Mandler and staring Paige Cowell and Goldie Majtas.

RANK.

Join Billy & Elliot, two queer, emotionally constipated 30-somethings on their journey to becoming their authentic selves. Expect singing, dancing, therapy, 5-am bed talks and a whole lot of mooo-ing. Laugh and "cry" with them as they discover that platonic love conquers all.

2 Queers in Tears?

Meet Helen, before Troy, in this feminist retelling of the Ancient Greek epic. Witness her divine beginnings (yes, she did hatch from an egg!), her youth as a Spartan warrior, her fateful decision to leave her husband, and finally the decade of brutal war and destruction that follows.

That Witch Helen

What’s worse than bumping into a terrible one-night stand? Meeting in the abortion clinic is probably up there.

Karaoke at the S.U

The cast of The Workplace have performed with Cambridge Improv Factory, The Comediasians, The Shambles, The Cambridge Impronauts, The Southend 48 Hour Improvathon and are excited to bring their new show to life at the Brighton Fringe!

The Workplace

A girl called Lemon is looking for her lover, Cactus.

The Waiting Room

Once again the world has flooded but this time there is no Noah’s Arch. Nathan and his neighbour’s cat Clarice, who Nathan hates with passion, are seeking shelter in an abandoned barn.

The Rain

The Lantern Theatre

From the writer and production team behind the 2022 Voice Mag BEST NEWCOMER AWARD at Brighton Fringe comes a haunting UK PREMIERE – a broken fairy tale for broken people.

The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey

Catherine, who is from Hong Kong originally and now residing in the UK, is currently suffering from homesickness. Looking back in time, she wonders if she has made all the right choices in the pursuit of human rights and freedom. She invites the audience to revisit the choices and take a glimpse at her alternate universes together.

In an alternate universe, I don't want to live in the UK

A tiny margin of error causes a future time traveller to end up in the present day and, as they await recovery, we learn about what brought them here – as well as the events that led our species to a future without war, death, suffering or free will.

Plastic & Chicken Bones

We present the world premiere of an important new play exploring the extraordinary ideas of Luigi Pirandello. Unlike anything you have seen before, alive with unusual stories, fascinating characters, and unexpected twists and turns, this very original play will give you a lot to talk about.

Six Characters in search of Pirandello

In the East End of London the fires of rebellion and change have burned for centuries. In 1888 the Matchgirls strike leads the way in industrial action and the formation of the Trades Union movement, then in 1968 the women of Fords in Dagenham strike, leading to the introduction of equal pay legislation.

Chopped Liver & Unions

Enjoy live and digital previews of 15 of the shows that will be performing at the Lantern this Fringe, and then join us for a complimentary drink in the bar to celebrate the beginning of Fringe season!

Fringe Preview Night

Theatres have just reopened after seventeen years of Puritan suppression. There is a surge in dramatic writing and  English actresses appear on stage - the first time female actors have been allowed to perform in public.

Playhouse Creatures

Anecdotes from life in the theatre, written and performed by Su Douglas.

Fake It Till You Make It

She lives in 17th century Sicily, a land infused by the fragrance of oranges, a land-coloured red by the blood rain and a land where the blowing of the scirocco marks imperturbably the most significant moments of her life. But Sicily is also a land where abusive husbands, madman fathers and brothers have their days numbered. In fact Giulia Tofana is also a skilled apothecary who perfects a miraculous tonic called “Acqua di Tofana”. It is a powerful beauty elixir that keeps women young and alive, but unfortunately it has also a minor side effect.

The Burning of a Sicilian Whore

New work from the students of our An Introduction to Playwriting course.

Staged Readings from ACT Playwriting Course

Ash moved away from Cornwall 5 years ago from their small village named Trewith, but now they're back to mourn the life of their friend Tom during a wake in a pub that's all to familiar. And the bartender; an old distant flame, Bry, burned out from shame.

Lantern Theatre Brighton

12 - 14 Dec, 2024

Wolves Are Coming For You

Dec 9, 2024

ACT Diploma YR1 Closed Show

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