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Daliso Chaponda: Feed This Black Man Again

Fri 17 May • 8pm • Full £16 • Comedy

Daliso did his first show Feed This Black Man 20 years ago. The jokes were mediocre, there was a rap about poverty in the middle (which was as offensive as you might imagine) and the big finale involved a sandwich on stage.

20 years later, Daliso has done the Royal Variety Performance, written and performed four series of Citizen of Nowhere on BBC Radio 4, been a Britain’s Got Talent finalist, toured nationwide and abroad… all sorts of things the 22-year-old Chaponda would never have imagined possible.

So, Feed This Black Man Again is a do-over, as the now widely-loved comic revisits the themes of that ancient debut show with the considerably enhanced comic talents that two decades’ experience brings you. Along the way he’ll examine the huge differences between the way you think life will be at twenty, and the reality.

Probably no sandwich at the end this time.

‘Gets laughs out of topics other comedians shun’ The Guardian

‘Brilliantly bold, thoroughly engaging and provocative’ Wee Review

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Shelf: The Kid's Show

Sat 18 May • 3pm • Full £12 Concs £10 • Comedy

Join best friends Rachel and Ruby for a kids’ comedy show that’s fun for all the family!

Full of sketches, songs, pranks and silliness. Rachel and Ruby use physical comedy and silly characters to bring sketch comedy to children of all ages – a fun way to explore emotions, friendship and shyness.

Winner: Best Kids’ Show, 2023 Leicester Comedy Festival.
Over one million views on BBC Three.

★★★★ Guardian
★★★★ Scotsman
★★★★ Skinny
★★★★ Funny Women
★★★★ BeyondTheJoke.co.uk

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Shelf: Teenage Men

Sat 18 May • 8pm • Admission £14 • Comedy

In their last show, Hair, Shelf joked about being mistaken for teenage boys. Now, it’s time to grow up. It’s time to stop being teenage boys and start being teenage men.

This new show from the ‘easy to fall in love with’ (Scotsman) double-act features anecdotes, songs, jokes about performing for kids, the Instagram algorithm, confronting your toxicity, and more.

As seen on BBC3 and ITVX. Founders of the LOL Word.

★★★★“Nuanced and fresh” Guardian
★★★★ Skinny
★★★★ Funny Women
★★★★ Beyond The Joke
★★★★ Scotsman

I Love You Because

Wed 22 – Sat 25 May • 7:30pm • Full £14 • Community Theatre

Inspired by modern American sitcoms including Friends, Frasier and Scrubs, I Love You Because transplants Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice into the beating heart of early-2000s New York.

Austin Bennet’s life is turned upside down when he finds his girlfriend in bed with another man. Forced back out into the treacherous dating scene, Austin meets Marcy, whose spontaneity is matched only by her ability to drive him insane.

A musical-comedy that explores the rules and nuances of dating, because sometimes love is learning how to love someone, not in spite of their differences, but because of them.

Merriman Productions return following the sell-out success of Six: Teen Edition and Little Shop of Horrors.

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Edinburgh Previews: Pierre Novellie & Nic Sampson

Wed 29 May • 7.30pm • Full £12 • Comedy

Pierre Novellie
Pierre Novellie is a stand-up comedian, writer, radio host and podcaster. He is co-host of The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio, and recent TV appearances include World’s Most Dangerous Roads (Dave), The Mash Report (BBC2), and Stand Up Central (Comedy Central). On the radio, Pierre has performed on The Now Show (Radio 4), hosts the BBC Sounds podcast series Obsessed With… SAS: Rogue Heroes and co-hosts the hit Budpod podcast alongside Phil Wang.

One of the UK’s most acclaimed live acts, Pierre‘s latest show Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? saw a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and was his third show to have been placed in the top 20 best-reviewed comedy shows across the entire festival. Following an extended run at Soho Theatre, Pierre will be taking the show on his debut nationwide tour in the Autumn. He first special, Quiet Ones, was distributed by US comedy label 800 Pound Gorilla Records and has amassed over 250,000 views online.

“Dawn of a major talent” Guardian

★★★★ “A big presence… He will go far.” The Times

Nic Sampson

Nic Sampson is a comedian, actor, improviser and writer originally from New Zealand.

As an actor, Nic portrayed popular character D.C. Sam Breen in New Zealand detective drama The Brokenwood Mysteries, which airs in 17 countries including the UK, where it is one of UKTV’s most successful programs. He has also appeared in the BBC3/HBO Max series Starstruck and featured in films including Netflix’s The Breaker Upperers and Baby, Done, which was executive produced by Taika Waititi. He previously played the Yellow Ranger in Disney’s Power Rangers: Mystic Force.

Nic is one of the co-writers of BBC3/HBO Max’s Starstruck and is a writer on the Internationally Emmy Award-winning short series Inside. Previously, Nic was a core writer and performer on the New Zealand sketch series Funny Girls for TV3.

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John Bramwell & The Full Harmonic Trio

Sat 01 Jun • 8pm • Full £25 • Music

RMT Music by arrangements with Outsider Artists present

John Bramwell has been on a never-ending rolling adventure since his workings away from the cherished, Mercury Prize nominated Mancunian band, I Am Kloot. February 23rd 2024 will mark the release of the much anticipated sophomore album The Light Fantastic, to be released via Townsend Music.

“The UK’s finest export” New York Times
“Bramwell’s new songs are spellbinding” The Guardian

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Dot, the Faun and the Elfin Child

Wed 05 Jun • 7.30pm • Full £15 Concs £12 • Professional Theatre

Written by Sally Whyte

Presented by DotDotDot Theatre

It’s the summer of the pandemic and Dot’s teenage daughter is being difficult. Her mother does her best as a home educator whilst contemplating the lives of all the Dorothys who have gone before her. Her precocious daughter of course has her own issues as she moves from child to adult. Enter their garden, one mischievous Faun hotfoot from France providing some welcome relief for them both with his own brand of fun. But what will happen when his tune changes and some deeper truths are uncovered? Playful, comedic, physical, intelligent, poignant, theatrical. A new play well worth the watch.

Do join us for discussion after the show

14+ – Includes brief sexual violence

Let’s Unpack That

Fri 07 Jun • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £10 • Professional Theatre

Black Dog Productions Presents…

Ever looked back on the dumb things you thought as a teenager and cringed? Of course you have. And now’s your chance to laugh at someone else’s misfortunes.

The year is 2007. Floppy fringes are all the rage, sexy vampires are everywhere, and 11-year-old Tiff is furiously scribbling in her diary. About music, about boys, and about all the things that confuse and frustrate her.

Fast-forward to 2024. Armed with that same diary, grown-up Tiff is still confused and frustrated, but now she understands the world (and herself) a little better. Join her for this hilarious and harrowing glimpse into the mind of a teenage goth. Expect noughties nostalgia, poorly aged jokes and a whole lot of teen angst.

★★★★★ ‘joyous and amusing, self analysing and provocative’ – Confessions of a 5 Foot 2 Actress on The Curse of the Sapphire Blade

★★★★★ ‘a theatrical gem’ – Theatre Bath on Howl

Please note that there is a theatre restoration levy of £1.50 per ticket. This levy applies to all transactions, whether made in person at our Box Office, by post or by phone, for all payment types.

Catherine Bohart: Again, With Feelings

Sat 8 Jun • 8pm • Full £16 Concs £14 • Comedy

Catherine Bohart’s back and older than ever. And adulthood frankly isn’t living up to her expectations. Join this “effortless” (Chortle) “star in the making” (Skinny) for a hilariously twisted second coming of age saga as she reckons with death obsessed parents, living in a house share with OCD, and queer reproduction in her thirties.

As seen and heard on Live at the Apollo, The Mash Report, Immaculate (Amazon Prime Special) and Mock the Week.

“She keeps the laughs coming” Times
“A show that’s worth holding onto” Guardian
“Pretty much the perfect comedy package” Beyond The Joke

The Archive of Dread - Revisited

Wed 12 Jun • 7.30pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Professional Theatre

The Archive of Dread: Revisited

Documented tales of possession, monsters and the living dead.

In late 2019 Robert Lloyd Parry inherited the contents of a flat belonging to a dead man that he’d never met. The property was full of boxes, which were themselves stuffed with chilling documents: letters, diaries, newspaper cuttings, notebooks, postcards… Filed in disarray, they all told impossible tales of terror.

After the stunning revelation of two of those documents in Bath last year, Lloyd Parry now begs leave to share with you some more items from The Archive of Dread…

“Lloyd Parry [is] one of the country’s most idiosyncratic and underrated performers…”

Times Literary Supplement

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