What’s on

Thu 9 Jul • 7:30pm • Full £10 Concs £8 • Professional Theatre

The fearless Improv Wolves create completely new comedy characters, scenes and stories on the spot from audience suggestions.

Every show is different!

We might see a film noir detective pastiche, hear surprising confessions from some of the most famous names in history or have the dubious honour of being present for the debut of a brand-new improvised song.

Improv Wolves have appeared at venues around the UK including Bath Fringe Festival, Birmingham Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Leicester Comedy Festival, Beardy Folk Festival and Guildford Fringe Festival

Fri 10 Jul • 7.30pm • Full £15 Concs £13 • Professional Theatre

“Quick, Watson, hide, if you love me! And don’t budge, whatever happens – do you hear me? Don’t speak! Don’t move! Just listen. Listen with all your ears…”

Two thrilling tales featuring the greatest double act in literary history. In The Adventure of the Dying Detective Dr Watson does what he can to help Sherlock Holmes as he confronts his own mortality. In The Adventure of the Creeping Man the two men get a glimpse at a dark side of medical science and save a respectable household from certain ruin.

In both adventures Watson shows off those qualities of pluck, sincerity and humility that make him a paragon of friendship.

“Hide, Watson!” has been adapted and will be performed by Robert Lloyd Parry (The M R James Project; The Time Machine; The Archive of Dread), ‘one of the country’s most idiosyncratic and underrated performers…’  Times Literary Supplement

Wed 15 – Sat 18 Jul • 7.30pm • Full £16 Concs £14 • Professional Theatre

Directed by Bryony Morgan
Written by Gabrielle Finnegan 

They’ve found the house.
They’ve signed the papers.
They’ve carried the boxes over the threshold.
Now they have to learn how to live in it.

Ebb & Flow is an intimate, lyrical new play about what happens after the happy ending. When two people move into their first home together after years of love and laughter, they expect solid ground. Instead, they find shifting tides.

The play traces the undercurrents of a relationship navigating miscommunication, unmet expectations and the quiet ache of wanting to feel truly seen. Told through a striking blend of dialogue, poetry and movement, Ebb & Flow drifts between the spoken and the unspoken. Some relationships weather the storm. Others learn to swim.

Wed 30 Sep • 7.30pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Professional Theatre

An hour of genre-spanning entertainment based on real queer history! Queer Eyes on Queer Lives tells three original stories that dive into the rich and often neglected history of queer people.

The Last Ride of Julie d’Aubigny – a slapstick comedy that explores the life of trouser-wearing duelist and pioneering opera 16th century singer Julie d’Aubigny and how she balances her busy love life as her relationships come to an explosive conclusion.

Gladiators – a science-fiction romance featuring two characters, Balacrus and Francis, who are whisked from their respective time periods of an unknown purpose. As they come to learn what connects them, they are pushed ever closer by their mysterious abductors.

Who Killed Karl Heinrich Ulrichs – an absurdist murder mystery comedy that follows three doctors who investigate the history of a recent murder victim, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. All is not as it seems, as the corpse has more to say than the doctors let on.

Watson’s House Productions is an upcoming production company that works with fresh talent to produce original stage material in the South-West. This production is a tour after debuting at the 2026 Cheltenham Fringe.

Wed 28 & Thu 29 Oct • 7:30pm • Admission £15 • Professional Theatre

Presented by Live Wire Theatre

Loosely based on Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale – an Aesop Fable style story about anthropomorphic chickens – Dougie Blaxland’s Chauntecleer & Pertlotte – subtitled.

‘A Beasty Babel Fable’  tells the quaint but utterly absurd story of how a jilted hen exacts eye-watering revenge on a faithless cockerel.

Delivered in language combining elements of Chaucer with the ‘nonsensical gobbledy-gook’ pioneered by comedy greats Stanley Unwin and Kenneth Williams, Chauntecleer & Pertlotte has been described as ‘comedic and literary gold’.

With just two actors playing all 24 of the diverse human and animal characters that populate Blaxland’s outlandish ‘farmy-warmy’ world Chauntecleer and Pertlotte is a ribbald romp of a play performed at ‘breakneck speed’.

Winner of Best New Play at the Brighton Festival, Chauntecleer & Pertelotte has also been nominated for the Scotsman Fringe First Award and the Popcorn New Writing Award at the Edinburgh Festival.

Sat 31 Oct • 7.30pm • Full £15 Concs £13 • Professional Theatre

Presented by Lumenis Theatre

Maurice and Hermia a migrant married couple make their home in the UK. Maurice is very proud of working as a care worker in an elderly care-home. Hermia, instead, struggles with motherhood and caring for their two-year-old alone but has found a friend in Darya, a woman in her late 70s, a resident of the care home also a migrant.

When during a period of global crisis Maurice is forced to choose between his family and having to live in the care home where he works, he tries to keep his marriage and the relationship with his two-year old son afloat.  Four years later, with further restrictions looming for migrant care workers, Maurice and Hermia take stock of their life choices.

A passionate play about a family, and their choices during a global crisis inspired by real life testimonies voices the human stories behind migration when the world is against them.

Wed 11 – Sat 14 Nov • 7.30pm • Full £15 Concs £12 • Professional Theatre

“You asked me for a ghost story. Here is one.”

1816. The year without a summer.

The sun has vanished, the rain will not stop, and five young writers are trapped inside Villa Diodati: Mary Godwin, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori. To pass the storm-dark nights, Byron proposes a ghost story competition, and Mary begins to write the story that will become Frankenstein.

As the storm outside rages, Mary’s imagination brings Victor Frankenstein and his abandoned Creature to life, blurring the line between the Villa and Mary’s created world…

As WhimsiCo’s second foray into gothic literature, Mary’s Frankenstein is an imaginative new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, interweaving the legendary summer of 1816 with the full story of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature he cannot bear to love. An exciting and inciteful new take on the classic novel, about grief, ambition, artistic creation, and the terrible responsibility of bringing something to life.

Thu 19 Nov • 8pm • Full £10 Concs £8 • Professional Theatre

By Elisa Calvert

‘Well, there’s a big difference between you and me in that I’m dead and you’re not.’

After a chance meeting on a random rooftop one day, Ashley and Joel discuss life, death, and choice in this 50-minute, one-act play described as “darkly funny” and “earnestly human”.

Starring Elisabeth Calvert and Tobias Elsom-Cook.

Thu 3 & Fri 4 Dec • 7.30pm • Admission £18 • Professional Theatre

‘Put it down, you fool! Do you want to look through a dead man’s eyes?’

Two chilling and thrilling tales from M R James, the master of the English ghost story.

In A View from a Hill a pair of old binoculars reveal the grisly history of an idyllic stretch of English landscape. In The Treasure of Abbot Thomas a treasure-seeker comes face to face with unspeakable horror at the bottom of ancient well.