Suddenly Last Summer

Thu, 28 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm UTC+01:00

Dyke Road Park, Dyke Road, Brighton and Hove, UK | Brighton

Brighton Open Air Theatre
Publisher/HostBrighton Open Air Theatre
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Savagely poetic and provocative, Tennessee Williams’ rarely revived Suddenly Last Summer is a nightmarish contemporary masterpiece.
This is Sebastian’s garden, a place where the line between truth and lies, sanity and insanity are blurred. Welcome to the eerie Garden District of New Orleans, filled with carnivorous fly traps, subversive secrets, and broken hearts. Sebastian, the only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable, has died while on vacation with his rebellious cousin Catharine. What the girl saw that day last summer was so horrifying that she is presumed insane and committed to an asylum in an attempt to protect the Venable name.
As time passes, however, Catharine’s ravings about Sebastian’s proclivities, and his end, become so transgressive that his mother calls on an aspirational young doctor who is desperate to fund pioneering new medical practices. The catch – he must find a way to silence Catherine for good.
Following last year’s five star, critically acclaimed production of Homestead, the Outstanding Theatre Award-winning Conor Baum Company (Brighton Fringe 2025) return to BOAT, and the American South, to present Williams’ thrilling examination of legacy, sanity, and sexuality – a potent, autobiographical, Southern gothic melodrama that will cut straight through the heart, intoxicate the senses and haunt the mind.
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Dyke Road Park, Dyke Road, Brighton and Hove, UK, 45 Dyke Road Drive, Brighton, BN1 6, United Kingdom

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