Troubled Waters
Boldly leaping salmon, feverish skinny dips, witches’ knickers and highly strung sacred wells… These enchanting, funny and surprising tales present characters who question what is set in stone and find their own flow.
Boldly leaping salmon, feverish skinny dips, witches’ knickers and highly strung sacred wells… These enchanting, funny and surprising tales present characters who question what is set in stone and find their own flow.
Where do we find ourselves as we hit midlife? What lessons brought us here? Who are we underneath the lanyards, yoga mat, chin hairs, and wine...?
University Centre Weston’s second year BA (Hons) Musical Theatre students proudly present After the Glitter Fades.
Ben Haggarty reads between the lines of Greek Mythology to restores them to their terrifying and truly awesome glory. This is world-class storytelling - dark, magical, and provocative.
Front Room is thrilled to welcome back The Object Project with their brilliant show, Pixiematosis. Do not miss it this time around!
A riotous comedy about life after catastrophe and hope in the face of absurdity. Prepare to laugh (a lot), cry (a little), and pee (your pants).
Maybe you’ve lost your marbles… Or maybe you’ve found the most transformative piece of theatre that you’ll see this year. Probably both. Nominated for a London Pub Theatres award in its debut run, ‘funeral teeth’ promises a night of chaos.
'Wearing The Trousers: the true story of Vesta Tilley’ plots the life of one of the most successful cross-dressing music hall stars that most of the world has never heard of. Spanning Vesta’s life from childhood to her mid-seventies, the play brings her story to life in a series of flashbacks, using original music and songs from Vesta Tilley’s playbook.
After a decade of no exercise (besides child-rearing and reaching for cake) 41 year old poet P Burton-Morgan finds themselves newly single and hungry to return to pre-childbirth levels of fitness. Cue Rocky montage, but with a middle-aged red-faced mum reciting sonnets on the South West Coast path. So far so solitary until they join their local running club and find themselves drawn into a world of flirting, friendship, fierce competition and the unexpected discovery that they're ferociously fast. With their trademark mix of witty wordplay and open-hearted tenderness this solo show is a silly, sexy, sweaty romp - don't forget to stretch first.
All Of Them, Dead is a play about being young, gay and working-class in the middle of nowhere. It’s about the things that go unsaid, it’s about two boys holding hands, it’s about clinging together as the world changes around you. And it’s about meat falling from the sky (no, really).
Wright navigates his audience through a warm and honest hour of poems and stand-up with the wit, pathos, and silliness that has made him one of the most popular live poets in England.
With 25 years of writing and performing under his bejewelled belt - you’re in safe hands. Still Ticking is packed with laughs, pathos and original songs. Nigel is the one who got away and he lives to spin a bloody good yarn.
Back for Halloween after its sold out performance in January, don't miss, Ghost Stories of Weston-super-Mare, for a local seasonal scare!. As told by local Actor, Theatre-Maker and folklore enthusiast Joe Brooks.