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 mind-blowing theatrical experience – a brutal reimagining of the history of America

Dark Noon by fix+foxy flips the script on the Wild West, envisioning US history as absurd, horrifying and deeply profound. A pioneer town springs up in real time as an extraordinary cast of South African actors rebuild the frontier through an outsider’s lens. With slapstick humour, satire and breath-taking stagecraft, the show comes fresh from five-star runs at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Factory International Manchester, St. Ann’s Warehouse New York and Sydney Festival.  

Dark Noon transforms Brighton Dome Corn Exchange for a limited run, pulling audiences into a raw, immersive ride through history that confronts power, race and displacement.

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
Images and trailer by Søren Meisner

 

‘Extraordinary outsider vision of American history’
The Guardian
'Truly Staggering'
British Theatre Guide
'Jaw-droppingly audacious, breathtakingly fearless'
The Arts Desk

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'One of the most innovative, provocative, powerful pieces of theatre I have ever seen. This immersive, myth-busting masterpiece had an almighty impact on me which will continue to unfold for a very long time.'
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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

**Stage timings are subject to change

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