Sweet Venues Announce New Venue Additions For 2018

As Sweet Venues approach their third year at Brighton Fringe, they have announced two new venue partnerships - the Werks in Middle Street (formerly the Brighton Media Centre), and the Duke of Wellington pub on Upper Gloucester Road near Brighton Station. These will join their existing venues at Sweet Dukebox and Sweet St Andrews, bringing their offering up to five spaces for 2018, ranging from 25-100 seats.

Sweet Venues is a prominent player in the pop-up Fringe venue business, creating fully-equipped theatre spaces in hotel conference suites in Edinburgh since 2010, and in Brighton since 2016. They have also recently curated a season of events for Dundee Rep, as well as their year-round offering at Sweet Dukebox at The Southern Belle pub in Hove.

Sweet Werks will have two spaces offering an array of theatre, comedy, cabaret, family events and more as part of Brighton Fringe, including the return of Spark Factory - an initiative by local company Spun Glass Theatre whereby seven emerging companies receive mentoring for their first Fringe production and an opportunity to perform with fewer upfront costs. Lucky Dog Theatre will also be returning with a Laurel & Hardy cabaret show, following the success of their award-winning show Hats Off to Laurel & Hardy, and Sweet Venues' own late night comedy and cabaret line-up show, The Sweet Release, will also take place at the new central Brighton venue.

This year, they are happy to be collaborating with Sameena Zehra; performer, writer and director, who is curating their 2018 Fringe season at Sweet @ The Wellie (the Duke of Wellington pub), with her particular brand of eclectic programming. This intimate, cosy venue will be hosting a disparate variety of performances; comedy from the BBC New Comedy Award winners 2016 & 2017, Yuriko Katani & Heidi Regan, to New Zealand Fringe Award winners Roy Hutchins and Mike Mckeon with poetry and song, along with local and international stalwarts of the Fringe circuit, in an intersectional and exciting line up for Brighton Fringe 2018.

Sweet @ The Wellie will also be joining Sweet Dukebox in offering events year-round under the Sweet Venues banner, and Artistic Director JD Henshaw is thrilled to be expanding into a second year-round space, "We are delighted to be bringing work into the heart of Brighton for the 2018 Fringe. As with all exciting new things, we cannot wait to see the work that will be gracing these fantastic new spaces this year. As always, we have programmed the best and brightest of productions, from around the world and the UK, and we're all desperate to reveal our programme already! Add to that the joy of bringing work all year round to a second permanent Brighton site, and it certainly does look like 2018 is going to be an amazing year!"

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