Two people in costumes with painted faces stand indoors; one wears a white tulle skirt with a cream jacket, hat, and holds two American flags, while the other wears a shirt, suspenders and hat.
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Dark Noon

Glynis Henderson Productions and The Pleasance present a fix+foxy production
5 performances between Thu 21 - Sun 24 May 2026, various times
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A brutal reimagining of the history of America

In this mind-blowing theatrical experience, fix+foxy flip the script on the Wild West, envisioning US history as absurd, horrifying and deeply profound. Using slapstick humour, satire and breath-taking stagecraft, a pioneer town springs up in real time as an extraordinary cast of South African actors rebuild the frontier through an outsider's lens.

Dark Noon transforms Brighton Dome Corn Exchange for a limited time fresh from five-star runs at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Factory International Manchester, St Ann's Warehouse New York and Sydney Festival. Audiences are pulled into a raw, immersive ride through history that confronts power, race and displacement.

‘Extraordinary outsider vision of American history’ The Guardian

‘Exhilarating and outrageously entertaining... The stagecraft is spectacular and the slapstick is delightfully silly’ Time Out, New York

 

Produced by fix+foxy, Glynis Henderson Productions, The Pleasance and Republique

 

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Actors dressed as cowboys perform a dramatic scene in a stage set resembling a bank, with fake money scattered on the floor and dynamic lighting highlighting the action.
A man with a painted white face stands in front of a scene where two men are conversing dressed as cowboys and there is a camera directly in his face
People dressed as cowboys run around in darkness with a light illuminating their figures from behind
A man lays on a wooden hammock in the centre of a wooden set
A boom mic is held above to people dressed as cowboys as they're sat down and facing away from the camera beside a wooden railway track
A man wearing a plaid shirt, tan jacket and blonde wig stands in front of a projection screen and stares upwards
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Actors dressed as cowboys perform a dramatic scene in a stage set resembling a bank, with fake money scattered on the floor and dynamic lighting highlighting the action.
A man with a painted white face stands in front of a scene where two men are conversing dressed as cowboys and there is a camera directly in his face
People dressed as cowboys run around in darkness with a light illuminating their figures from behind
A man lays on a wooden hammock in the centre of a wooden set
A boom mic is held above to people dressed as cowboys as they're sat down and facing away from the camera beside a wooden railway track
A man wearing a plaid shirt, tan jacket and blonde wig stands in front of a projection screen and stares upwards

Produced by fix+foxy, Glynis Henderson Productions, The Pleasance and Republique

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**Stage timings are subject to change

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