Candid, poignant and intimate, this new play by award winning playwright Ali Taylor offers a timely reflection on the social and personal impact of spiralling housing costs, gentrification and the challenges of the forced relocation away from London.
Acclaimed Theatre Company Cardboard Citizens presents this powerful and emotive Forum Theatre show, exploring resonances in today’s society with the story told in the ground-breaking Ken Loach...
A story that will make you stop and think about where you, and we, are in the world.
Award-winning theatre-maker Andy Smith (co-director of An Oak Tree with Tim Crouch) presents this newly commissioned piece of theatre, telling a tale of a man from this city, and all that has happened here, there, and everywhere in this last 80 years.
Developed as part of Fuel’s New Theatre in your Neighbourhood project. Commissioned by They Eat Culture. Supported...
Meet Elsie, she lives in the countryside, it’s her 90th birthday and you’re invited to celebrate. Bring your friends, bring your family or just bring yourself, there will be cake!
Elsie has lived here all her life. She has seen elections, weddings, wars, people coming, people going. This village is where her daughter grew up, it’s where her husband died and it’s where she’s going to stay. Here I Belong takes you through decades of history seen through the eyes of one village resident in this funny and moving new play. A sensitive, charming and honest portrayal about changing...
“Bienvenue. Kalosórisma. Welcome. We are so happy to see you all here. Some of you we know rather well, some of you we don’t. But it doesn’t matter, you all look… stunning.”
Two performers – one Greek, one French – dance and shout, cry and sing, agree and disagree, about life in the Eurohouse. A darkly comic look at the EU’s founding ideals and what got lost along the way. Suitable for 14+.
Made in transit between Greece and the UK, Eurohouse is developed with the help and support of Bios Athens, Bristol Ferment, MAYK, CPT & Arts Council England.
‘I woke up early with the birds to hand up sturdy planks of words to my speech-slave, my tongue, to build echoing halls of praise, light-filled….’
A Viking poet from Iceland sails around the North Sea, fighting, escaping, and delivering unforgivable insults in thunderous verse. Egil is the greatest of the Viking poets, and his adventures and poetry are recorded in one of the greatest Icelandic sagas. Peter Oswald performs his version written in English rhyming verse; it’s in three parts, of twenty minutes each. He performed the first part at Shakespeare’s Globe and York Minster –...
Beth Vyse is back with an extraordinary look at her battle with Breast Cancer.
‘But then, as comedians go, Beth Vyse doesn’t have much time for the expected.’ THE GUARDIAN
A bodacious and ballsy look at her battle with breast cancer. Hear the tale of her Stoke-on-Trent family; The Waltons on Alcohol, her time with Nelson Mandela, acting and thieving at the Royal Shakespeare Company, settling down with Michael Jackson and finding cancer. Not to mention her producing two football teams from her womb. And all before the age of 30!
The bus sign says, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
But what if you’re not enjoying your life? What if you know, in private, that it’s a blessed nightmare? Then it’s time to connect with God, even if He has an irritating habit of keeping one on hold.
In a rural Devon town, a handful of Beta people meet in a draughty nave for the Alpha course: “food, a talk and an opportunity to chat”. They come to be shepherded by Rev Turnpenny and his enthusiastic assistant, Shirley. Except, they’re not...
A face-achingly funny night of alternative comedy where anything can happen and quite often does
The South West’s best and most absurd alternative comedy event, Nincompoop showcases the very best new ideas in comedy, clowning, fooling, slapstick, mime, audience participation, mischief and tomfoolery.
Previous Nincompoops have included a man pouring a can of spaghetti hoops over his head, a biscuit eating competition (a dog in the audience won), and incredible circus and acrobatics from a man with a broken leg!
Prepare to let your nincompoop loose as we get ready for...
A face-achingly funny night of alternative comedy where anything can happen and quite often does
The South West’s best and most absurd alternative comedy event, Nincompoop showcases the very best new ideas in comedy, clowning, fooling, slapstick, mime, audience participation, mischief and tomfoolery.
Previous Nincompoops have included a man pouring a can of spaghetti hoops over his head, a biscuit eating competition (a dog in the audience won), and incredible circus and acrobatics from a man with a broken leg!
Prepare to let your nincompoop loose as we get ready for...
A face-achingly funny night of alternative comedy where anything can happen and quite often does
The South West’s best and most absurd alternative comedy event, Nincompoop showcases the very best new ideas in comedy, clowning, fooling, slapstick, mime, audience participation, mischief and tomfoolery.
Previous Nincompoops have included a man pouring a can of spaghetti hoops over his head, a biscuit eating competition (a dog in the audience won), and incredible circus and acrobatics from a man with a broken leg!
Prepare to let your nincompoop loose as we get ready for...
