Audio Active are a Brighton based music charity set up in 2000. They face a constant battle to secure funding yet still manage to provide an excellent service for young DJs and MCs in the seaside town and the surrounding areas. Bonfire Night is the brain-child Audio Active co-hort Dizraeli who is at the root of this latest venture which is due top premiere at Brighton’s Pavilion Theatre next Wednesday.
Hot off the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe theatre circuit with “The Rebel Cell”, Dizraeli’s youth production - to be premiered on Wednesday 4th March 2009 at Pavilion Theatre, Brighton - is white hot. The night will fuse together poetry, hip hop and theatre under one roof.
This is youth theatre arguably at it’s best. It sees a group of aspiring rappers (Sam Maryon, Mrisi Makondo-Wills, Jamal Ali, Jordan Stephens), individually, led astray by the sinister spirit, or apparition, of Guy Fawkes, the famous 16th century religious/political revolutionary. The play, delivered entirely in rap, demonstrates the ugly sides of the characters’ personalities, and within the surprisingly short duration (20 minutes), brings their actions to a dramatic climax. The evening will finish with music performances from some of the cast.
Audiences beware. This play is not:
• a social commentary
• a stereotypical take on youth work or urban issues
• the common story of an aspiring urban artist in his journey to ‘making it’
It is:
• theatre
• definitely entertainment
And it might even be:
• consciousness-raising
• and fun
Doors: 18:30 - 20:00
Location: Pavilion Theatre
Town/City: Brighton, United Kingdom
For more information on how to book tickets, please visit the Brighton Pavilion website or call them direct on 01273 709709.
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