The Brighton Festival is in full flow with award-winning writer Ali Smith as Guest Director, and we’ve already been enjoying a wide-range of quality performances, impressive visual art installations and thought-provoking debates across the city. With two weeks to go, we’ve picked our top shows you simply cannot miss! THEATRE Roundabout The UK’s national theatre of new plays, Paines Plough bring their award-winning pop-up theatre Roundabout to Regency Square for the duration of Brighton Festival. Featuring a cast in rep, four different shows – Lungs, The Initiative, Every Brilliant Thing and the deliciously wicked children’s show Our Teacher’s A Troll – will be performed in rotation throughout May. 2 – 24 May, Regency Square, tickets from £8 CLASSICAL The Hallé Manchester’s award-winning orchestra heads to the south coast conducted by its music director Sir Mark Elder. Performing the likes of Janáček’s suite from The Cunning Little Vixen and Shostakovich’s sprightly Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings Op. 35, the orchestra is joined by BRIT Award-winning pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and the city’s very own Brighton Festival Chorus. 23 May, Brighton Dome Concert Hall, tickets from £10 MUSIC Tricky He’s an artist who constantly avoids labels and refuses classification. Now musician Tricky [...]