Press Release: Awe-inspiring NoFit State Circus show SABOTAGE is a Brighton Festival Extra this summer

[Jan McNulty]

 

PRESS RELEASE

Awe-inspiring NoFit State Circus show SABOTAGE is a Brighton Festival Extra this summer

TRAILER HERE

NoFit State and director Firenza Guidi make a long-awaited return to Brighton this August as a special Brighton Festival Extra. This follows the company’s recent collaboration with Welsh National Opera on Benjamin Britten’s opera Death in Venice in which Guidi directed the critically acclaimed circus elements.

SABOTAGE will play from Thursday 8 August - Sunday 1 September 2024, with press night on 8 August, in the Big Top at the all-new Black Rock Event site on Madeira Drive, before heading to the Biennale Internationale des Arts du Cirque in Marseille, the largest contemporary circus festival in the world, and Winterfest in Salzburg.

Directed by Firenza Guidi, SABOTAGE is an energising and uplifting large scale circus spectacular brought to you by the same award-winning creative team that developed the acclaimed show, LEXICON which sold out its run at Brighton Festival in May 2018. NoFit State has gained a reputation for creating ground-breaking shows over its nearly 40 year history, like BIANCO, Tabú and Immortal, that not only delight and entertain audiences but also challenge and question contemporary issues.

With SABOTAGE audiences can expect the same exceptional large scale circus spectacular with breath-taking skills, stunning imagery and NoFit State’s signature feel. Audiences can also enjoy the power of live music with an incredible live band at the heart of the show.

SABOTAGE brings a darker, grittier, and more subversive edge to NoFit State’s trademark large-scale contemporary circus spectacular. SABOTAGE challenges the status quo. Saboteurs stand out. They stand up. They challenge the establishment. They are heard.

Our personal journeys bring us to this place. Our struggles, and privileges, have shaped that journey. And yet we find ourselves in the common meeting ground of the circus tent, with the common language of circus. SABOTAGE explores our separation, and our belonging.

"The saboteurs are a community of outsiders with little respect for the figureheads of authority. They poke fun at the 'heads of states’ and show them up as clowns." Tom Rack, Artistic Director, NoFit State.

Supported by the Arts Council of Wales, Arts Council England and the Garfield Weston Foundation. In association with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival

 

NOTES TO EDITORS

SABOTAGE

Full tour dates can be found here: www.nofitstate.org/sabotage

BRIGHTON DETAILS

Performances Thu 8 Aug - Sun 1 Sept 2024

Press night 8 August at 7.30pm

Tickets £18.50 - £22.50 Family Ticket £74

Performance Address:

Circus Big Top at Black Rock, Madeira Drive, Brighton and Hove, BN2 1EN

Ticket Office: Brighton Dome, Church St, Brighton BN1 1UE

Tel: 01273 709709

nofitstate.org/sabotage

SABOTAGE has nothing in it that makes it unsuitable for children, but it is not made for them specifically.

Created by NoFit State Circus.

Directed by Firenza Guidi.

Watch the Sabotage Trailer

About NoFit State

We celebrate the contradictions within ourselves and our work

Creating beautifulcarnage And organisedanarchy We embrace the human condition in all its dirtiness.

Created in 1986 by five friends, NoFit State is a community bound by a common passion and a collective journey. We work, travel, and love together, we put our lives in each other’s hands daily and it is this trust, this bond and this togetherness that gives our work its unique heart, soul and spirit.

We make stories without narrative – creating work that is poignant and poetic. We use largescale imagery, circus, live music, movement and innovative design. We invent worlds where the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, the possible and the impossible, become blurred, where the frontiers between artists and audiences are broken, where nothing is hidden and everything revealed.

We create work on all scales and deliver community and participatory projects alongside our professional performances. We hope to inspire our audience to step out of themselves for a moment, have their dreams fed, their spirits nourished and for them to leave uplifted and perhaps stirred to challenge themselves and their world.

NoFit State Circus @NoFitState / Facebook / Instagram / www.nofitstate.org

About Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival 

Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival is an arts charity that manages a year-round programme of events across three venues - the Concert Hall, Corn Exchange and Studio Theatre; the annual Brighton Festival in May; and music education hub Create Music, which reaches 19,000 children across Brighton & Hove and East Sussex.  

 

Located on the Royal Pavilion Estate, Brighton Dome’s venues have a rich history spanning over 200 years, providing an extraordinary space in which to bring the arts alive. A major capital refurbishment project to restore and protect the Grade I and Grade II listed Corn Exchange and Studio Theatre has recently completed, making it a landmark centre for the arts and equipping it for a sustainable future. 

 

Our purpose is to enable extraordinary experiences where people can come together to enjoy, imagine, create and change. We commission and support local, national and international artists and companies, facilitating the development and delivery of bold new work of the highest quality. Brighton is a place of permission, activism, experimentation, and possibility and we aim to reflect these qualities back to our audiences in all that we do. 

 

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