Sara Popowa

An evening of drama and visual performance,

featuring the play ‘The Ugly One’, directed by Mike Stubbs

and continuing with

‘Your Face, Your Fortune’,

created by Tamar Daly and Sara Popowa in response to the play.

New Venture Theatre, Bedford Place, Brighton

bar opens 6 pm, show starts 7:45 pm

16, 17 (matinee 2:30), 19, 20, 21, 22 January

Premiere Saturday 16th

Tickets £8 or £9 final Fri/Sat. All tickets £6 on Tuesday.

Reserve online at www.newventure.org.uk or phone 01273 746118.

‘The Ugly One’ is a sharp and bizarre comedy on beauty, identity and getting ahead (or a face) in life. Lette thought he was normal. But to everyone else, including his loving wife, he is ‘unspeakably ugly’. When the extent of his ugliness is revealed he turns to a plastic surgeon for help. But after the bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing as too beautiful. This play owes glancing debts to the Marx Brothers and Kenny Everett and laughs at our obsession with external beauty.

‘Your Face, Your Fortune’ extends the themes of ‘The Ugly One’ into a live happening. It toys with the possibility of changing one's fortune by changing one's face and invites the audience to participate in a 'photographic facial surgery'.

Be prepared for it to get a little sticky….