Part of the 15 years of Marlborough Exhibition at Brighton Jubilee Library February 2025. The exhibition text reads:
15 Years of Marlborough Productions: A Journey of Queer Creativity and Community
Since 2008, Marlborough Productions has been at the heart of Brighton’s art scene, championing intersectional LGBTQIA+ culture and fostering a vibrant community of artists and audiences. From our beginnings at The Marlborough Pub & Theatre to our current role as a national and internationally recognised company, this exhibition celebrates our history. It features just a small selection
of the extraordinary people, performances and places that have contributed to our story – we only had ten panels to fill and we needed about a hundred!
Images:
1. Ray Young performing in Brownton Abbey, Brighton Dome (2018)
We brought our Afro-futurist space church to Brighton Festival, led by a heavenly constellation of Queer Artists of Colour.
2. Tina Hyena at Brownton Abbey at ANTI Festival (2024)
Tina Hyena beams on stage as the crowd goes wild at ANTI Festival in Kuopio, Finland as part of Brownton Abbey the afrofuturistic space church themed performance party celebrating and elevating queer disabled artists of colour.
3. Lydia L’Scabies at A Queer Night at the Museum (2020)
Drag artist Lydia L’Scabies captivates the room at A Queer Night at the Museum, a Queer Heritage South event at Brighton Museum.
4. David Hoyle at 10 Years of Queer (2018)
David Hoyle performs at 10 Years of Queer, a celebration for the 10th anniversary of Marlborough Productions in the Marlborough Theatre, thrown for our supportive Marly Mates.
5. Ebony Rose Dark at Cripping the Arts, Toronto (2019)
An image of Ebony Rose Dark taken at Cripping the Arts in Toronto, Canada as part of Brownton Abbey, the afrofuturistic space church themed performance party celebrating and elevating queer disabled artists of colour.
6. Harry Clayton-Wright at The Marly (2019)
An image of Harry Clayton-Wright taken at The Marlborough Pub and Theatre.
7. Oozing Gloop performing in Glooptopia (2020)
Oozing Gloop performing their show Glooptopia, as part of Marlborough Productions’ New Queers on the Block programme at the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts at University of Sussex.
8. KUCHENGA (2019)
Kuchenga Shenjé reading at David Hoyle’s A Pride at the End of the World.
9. Nadia Nadarajah as Diana in Galatea (2023)
A tale of young trans love, shipwrecked migrants, clashing goddesses and fretting parents, presented on Shoreham Recreation Ground part of Brighton Festival.
10. Pearl Makayi at Radical Rhizomes Vogue Class (2023)
Pearl M. strikes a pose at a vogue class run at South East Dance as part of Radical Rhizomes, and taught by Bambi.
11. Big Freedia at Brownton Abbey, Brighton Dome (2018)
Big Freedia, legendary bounce artist and collaborator with Beyoncé and her dancers on stage at Brighton Dome as part of Brownton Abbey, the afrofuturistic space church themed performance party celebrating and elevating queer disabled artists of colour.
12. Boogaloo Stu & Lorraine Bowen in Much Ado About Crimbo (2018)
A silly and slightly Shakespearean game of 1970s musical bingo performed by Boogaloo Stu (Dynamite Boogaloo) and Lorraine Bowen (The Crumble Lady, Britain's Got Talent)
13. Club Silencio (2024)
Club Silencio at A Queer Night at the Museum, a Queer Heritage South event at Hove Museum delivered in collaboration with videclub celebrating the early film collection held there.
14. Eleanor Perry (2016)
A silhouette of Eleanor Perry dancing in front of Brighton Pavilion, captured at the Brighton Pride street party.
15. (cont.) Emma Frankland in Rituals for Change (2016)
A series of performed rituals, responding to Emma’s gender transition and to universal feelings about change - especially in relation to our bodies.
16. A Rainbow Crowd (2018)
The colourful crowd at the Brighton Pride Street Party.
17. Lucy McCormick Crowd Surfs at 10 Years of Queer (2018)
Lucy McCormick is elevated by the crowd (including David Hoyle) at 10 Years of Queer, a celebration for the 10th anniversary of Marlborough Productions, thrown for our supportive Marly Mates.
18. Community Archiving (2024)
Community interact with Kate Shield's artistic map of Brighton at the ‘Re-Booting our archive: Our tales of Lesbian Brighton & Hove’ organised by Kate Wildbood (Community Champion and DJ) and Queer Heritage South.
19. Colin Lieven’s Embroidered Denim Jacket and Skirt in Queer the Pier (2020)
Our LGBTQIA+ community curated exhibition at Brighton Museum and Gallery that focuses on reclaiming local history
20. Joy Nduku (2020)
Wandia Nduku and Subira Joy in a collaborative piece as part of the first New Queers on the Block programme.
21. David and Tarik at The Marly – Brighton Pride (2017)
David and Tarik (Co Creative Directors) lean out of the window at The Marlborough Pub and Theatre during Brighton Pride.
