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BATH FRINGE
FRI 25th MAY - SUN 10th JUNE 2018
www.bathfringe.co.uk
See full booking information on page 2 1
TICKETS
& BOOKING TRAVEL
All Fringe events will also have tickets for sale on the door, except if indicated
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otherwise in this programme, or if sold out (we will indicate Sold Out in
the online programme and its Stop Press section). Also on www.
bathfringe.co.uk we provide direct links to online ticketing
Getting around the Festival
Bath is a small city and easy to get round on foot, but it’s
pages when we know them.
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also well served by city buses into the evening.
In this printed programme, we have indicated which Larkhall (Rondo Theatre) is on buses 6A&7, and not at all far from bus 13.
box office will be dealing with which event, or any The University of Bath is on buses U1&U2
BATH!
special arrangements, on each individual listing. Kingswood Theatre is on bus 31 and the rare 79 & 620
Bath Box Office The Royal Oak is on buses 5,17, 20(A/C), 42, U5, U6
http://bathboxoffice.org.uk/ Fairfield House is on buses 19 & 37
Telephone booking and information: 01225
The Moorfields Inn is nearest to the route of bus no. 8
463362
Email: boxoffice@bathfestivals.org.uk Getting back late
In person: Bath Visitor Information Centre, Buses to Saltford, Keynsham & Bristol run hourly every night till 1am except for Sunday when they stop at 23.10.
Abbey Chambers, Abbey Street, Bath BA1 1LY Trains run back to Bristol after midnight every night, and after 1am Monday-Friday.
Komedia Trains run to Chippenham, Swindon, Reading & London until 22.45 every night - except Sunday when it’s 22.22.
www.komedia.co.uk/bath/
The last train to Frome via Bradford, Trowbridge & Westbury, etc. is at 23.38 Monday to Friday, and 23.27
Telephone booking and information: 08452
on Saturday. Annoyingly it doesn’t make it as far as Frome on a Sunday (23.28), when the last train into
938480
Somerset is 21.06.
In person: 22-23 Westgate Street, Bath BA1 1EP
Chapel Arts Check for railway engineering work before consigning yourself to the last train.
www.chapelarts.org/ Bath Tourist Information
Telephone information: 01225 461700 For information about where to stay and what to do during the day in Bath (apart from going
info@chapelarts.org to FAB fringe art shows and supporting our advertisers and sponsors, of course) your
Bath Comedy Festival one-stop for all the information you could need is Bath Tourist Information. And for
www.bathcomedy.com extra convenience, Bath Box Office is in the same building! Bridgwater House, 2
The Rondo Terrace Walk, Bath, BA1 1LN t: 01225 477101 / 0906 711 2000 (50p / min)
http://rondotheatre.co.uk/ticketbooking/ e: tourism@bathtourism.co.uk They have an informative
0333 666 3366 website at www.visitbath.co.uk
The Edge, University of Bath
www.edgearts.org/whats-on/
01225 386777 edge-info@bath.ac.uk
BOOKING FEES: Most online booking sites and facilities charge fees on top of the ticket price
(it’s how they pay themselves) – to be fair, a lot of the physical offices do nowadays too.
THANKS
Bath Fringe is managed by a co-operative committee: Technical & production & marketing crew – Liz & new owners. Marick. Stevie. Gnome.
Arran, David, John, Netty, Sarah, Scarlett, Steve Spinner; the Bedlam crew & volunteers. More tricknology - Michael Youngman, Ms. Sarah
and Wendy. Special thanks to Andy Mullett for All at The Bell [People’s Republic of Walcot]; Jan at Mallabart.
accountancy help and Amy Finlayson for marketing. Chapel, Widcombe Social Club. Luke & Theatre Bath; All the supportive people in the city & council –
It wouldn’t be possible to put this all together without Ann & Natalie at The Mission. B&NES Licensing, Environmental Health, Traffic,
the help of many other volunteers, supporters and David and Matthew at Fake Escape. special thanks to Karen at Property Services; Sam
sponsors. We’d like to thank them all, and while we’re Lisa at ICE Space, Mark Blowout Fuller and Youth Connect; Bath Tourism Plus.
at it apologise to all of those we’ve inevitably missed Local learning establishments especially Tim Vyner Ruth Kapadia and Nick Green at Arts Council England,
out by mistake. and 3rd year BSU Graphics students for our poster ISAN.
All things web – Geoff Soper, Chris Pink, Nick Steel artwork.
(Xerophon) Local media – Bath Chronicle, Bath Life & The Bath This programme by:
All things FAB – Arran and the Fringe Arts Bath Team; Magazine; Theatre Bath; Waitrose for displaying
44AD Madeleine Pilkington – primo artwork
brochures.
Streats committee – Ralph, Ric, Jan, Dave, Liz, the Steve Spicer – laying it out & squeezing it all in
Malcolm & Colin at Old Theatre Royal, Andrew at the
Kilters, Izzy, Geoff and Sarah. Liz, Holly, Gwen, Mark, Brazz, Nick again for Bath Comedy, Nod Knowles. The Wendy Matthews – inputting and correcting
Andy & NTC for doing the business. year-round promoters like Ruben RMT, Sally, The Oak. Steve Henwood – obfustication and rapid scribbles.
All the volunteers and staff who keep events going. Kelston Records, William, Craig. Komedia and the
PRINCIPAL SPONSORS AND FUNDERS
Andrew Fletcher Sponsors
Arts Council England Green Park Brasserie Wessex Water
St John’s Hospital Trust Sitec Xerophon
The Roper Family Charitable Trust The Bell Inn
2 For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
BATH FRINGE
FRI 25th MAY - SUN 10th JUNE 2018
CONTENTS
BOOKING&TRAVEL INFO: OPPOSITE
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS 4-5
INDEX BY ARTFORM 7
MAP & VENUE INFO 8-9
THEATRE BATH BUS 20
BEDLAM 21
EVENTS DIARY 10-32
FRINGE ARTS BATH AT THE BACK
Bath Fringe Ltd. is a not-for-profit Co-Operative Company Limited by Guarantee, registered in England & Wales no.2716515
Registered Office: Fringe Office, 103 Walcot Street, Bath BA1 5BW, Great Britain, EU.
01225 480079 • admin@bathfringe.co.uk • twitter.com/bathfringe • www.facebook.com/bathfringe
HIGHLIGHTS Première Quality
Fringe is a grassroots thing. What gets represented in these pages and in our 17
days is there because somebody here is really enthusiastic about it - they’re not
filling a quota or repaying a favour for a friend in the business. The festival, its
organisers and volunteers, are here to help artists and performers do what they
want to do, because it’s clearly worth doing and watching, and this means that
what we do changes over time, that the make-up of one year’s festival is not the
same as a year ago or a decade ago. And that’s good, it keeps us all interested.
It looks like, this year, what people want to do and want to show you this year is THEATRE.
This is good. It’s the artform from which Fringes sprang back in the ‘50s, and when we took
over this one back in 1992 it’s what a good deal of our best and best received output was.
And this year it’s what many of the most enthusiastic, energetic and engaged people in Bath
are working on. Take your pick from the following pages.
The Mission Theatre
Bath’s central venue for small-scale and emerging theatre has a solid 2 weeks of dazzlingly
varied offerings, with the accent firmly moved on from last year’s student output. Companies
from all round the country attracted by the idea of coming to Bath and playing to YOU!
[Our pictures show Palomar Theatre’s Darlings, beautiful images telling a tale of deep
vunerability, and Mechanimal’s Somerset Levels rooted multimedia exploration of bird
migration]. Whatever your Mission will be, it won’t be predictable!
Theatre Bath Bus
It’s the second year the bus has been with us, but the first that they’re doing their own
thing - actually a preparation for the package they’re taking to the mother of all Fringes in
Edinburgh later this summer. Over a weekend in Brunel Square (beside the Railway Station,
unsurprisingly) they’ll be running show after show of emerging performers and creative
imaginations. Come along at any time from 10 in the morning to 9 at night and
you’ll be regaled with the dreams and hopes of talent from Bath and beyond,
all of them building to the creative peak that will catapault at least some of
them into the big(ger) time very soon. And now is definitely the time to
catch them.
It’s all very new - so hard to pick sure-fire favourites - but we’re very
attracted by A Word in your Ear’s China tales (2.6) and Croon Productions
enchantingly detailed Monster!
See all Theatre Bus shows grouped together on page 20. Take a step into the
unknown future, you won’t regret it!
4 For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
We also have a strong strand of independent theatre performers using the spaces at
easygoing arty pub St. James Wine Vaults, and some larger shows at Bath’s home of Fringe
Theatre, The Rondo. Pictured, are Unspoken (with lightbulbs) (28.5), Venus & Adonis (30.5),
Trolley Girls (9.6)]
The Other Place(s)
Walcot Chapel - aka. Walcot Village Hall - is a Fringe venue for the fortnight, with
the usual high quality artwork (it’s one of the most sought-after FAB show slots)
complemented by a number of live events: arts workshops, discussions, and a couple
of very special performances; one from Su Hart’s Harmonium voice project - an ever-
evolving Fringe favourite - and the other a concert from Rock of Eye (a new project
with Alex Vann from Radio 3 favourites Spiro and Three Cane Whale) that comes
as the conclusion of Taking a Tune for a Walk, an experience of music on the move
featuring many favourite performers.
Green Park Station has long been the venue for highlight Fringe shows and this
year we’re holding an Openings Night party there on Friday May 25 and a Bedlam
Fair performance on Sunday June 3 - see listings diary pages. This Fringe coincides
with them introducing an additional regular performance strand in early evenings
every weekend around the pizza oven booth in the station interior, and the
programme for this fortnight includes a number of Fringe recommendations - ssee
advert page 10
Bath Fringe would especially like to
congratulate Komedia Bath on
becoming a community owned venue
(the present writer was one of 300-odd
who bought shares) putting a seal on
its 9 years in the city, raising over £350k,
and becoming the first venue of its kind to
“go community” - we agree that’s the way
forward for businsses of this kind. While
we’re here, of course, may we draw your
attention to a couple of examples of tasty
programming there (Femi & The InRhythms
from Lagos, Nigeria on Friday 8th June) and
of course look forward to many more
Fringe shows to come!
And then of course there are
the mystery venues. Bath’s own
masters of that situation are Fake
Escape, and this year they’re
adapting their immersive theatre style
to recontextualised re-tellings of some classic
Bath-connected fiction in Retold. We can confidently
expect the experience to be a memorable one-off,
worth telling the tale for.
See full booking information on page 2 5
10 years on from
King Bladud’s
Pigs…
Owl and Pussycat by
Bath artist Jane Callan.
Sponsored by SouthGate Bath.
Minerva’s Owls of Bath 2018 Some owls still looking for sponsors
25 June – 10 September For more information email
sponsors@minervasowls.org
A major public art sculpture trail for Bath featuring a
@owlsofbath
giant flock of decorated Owl sculptures displayed on the
streets of Bath and surrounding towns for nearly three Owl HQ – 01225 340697
months this summer.
Pick up your Owl trail maps and
• A colourful, fun and free event for all ages download the free Owls of Bath App
See www.minervasowls.org
• Celebrating Bath’s Roman history and artistic creativity
• From the organisers of King Bladud’s Pigs 2008 and
Lions of Bath 2010
• Raising funds for the RUH Cancer Centre, The Roman
Baths Archway Project, Bath Young Carers and the
UK Little Owl Project.
INDEX BY ARTFORM
CABARET & CLOWN Dimension 50 Close Enough at the Fringe Eva Abraham Somer Valley Family Arts Day Twenty Something
Cool Britannia Friday 8 Saturday 26 Monday 4 Saturday 2 Saturday 2
The Old Theatre Royal St James Wine Vaults The Bell Bedlam Fair Theatre Bath Bus
Friday 25
Chapel Arts Centre EXHIBITIONS The Big Massive Orchestra Think of a Sequel June 2-3 The Quantum Physics of
Somer Valley Family Arts Day Saturday 26 Wednesday 6 Les Zoings My Heart
Openings Night The Barley Mow The Old Theatre Royal Saturday 9 Saturday 2
Saturday 2 Friday 25 Rondo Theatre
Isembard's Wheel Da Fuchaman Walcot Street
Musical Mayhem Everywhere
Saturday 2 Sunday 27 Wednesday 6 Club Cairo
Totem Factotem: The Bell TALK
Theatre Bath Bus The Bell Saturday 2
Thursday 7 The Bath Pub Tour Kingswood Theatre
Pop up Wildlife Party The Museum of Bath at Work The Silken Same Jane Austen and the Piano
Monday 28 May 25-26, June 8 Couch - the musical
Saturday 2 June 7&8 Crystal Palace pub – Outside
Green Park Station FILM The Bell Sunday 3
Richard Riley's 'I Can't The Cubicle Theatre Bath Bus
Untamed Burlesque ARCC Brejeiro: the Brazilian Tell You'
musical May 31 – June 3 Sticky Ends
Saturday 2 Saturday 26 Thursday 7
Chapel Arts Centre The Nest Tuesday 29 The Old Theatre Royal Pop up Wildlife Party Sunday 3
Chapel Arts Centre Saturday 2 Theatre Bath Bus
Friendly Ever After Autolycus! Bill Smarme: Exposed Green Park Station
2–3 June Saturday 2 Benjamin William Pike Thursday 7 Murdery Mystery on the SS
The Mission Theatre Theatre Bath Bus Tuesday 29 Theatre Bath Bus Totem Factotem Great Britain
The Bell Thursday 7 Sunday 3
Bedlam Cabaret TseTse Fly Middle-East The Scott Walker Songbook The Museum of Bath at Work The Mission Theatre
Sunday 3 Saturday 2 Celtic & Spanish Guitar Music Thursday 7
Walcot Chapel from the Heart Widcombe Social Club Bath Arts Workshop and On A String
Green Park Station Counterculture in the 1970s
Wednesday 30 Sunday 3
Bella Cielo Bath Arts Workshop and The Old Theatre Royal Skiffle Singalong Sunday 10 Theatre Bath Bus
Friday 8 Counterculture in the 1970s Thursday 7 The Museum of Bath at Work
Sunday 10 Juan Martin Flamenco The Moorfields Inn Behind Closed Doors
The Bell - Love Lounge (Back Dance Trio
bar) The Museum of Bath at Work THEATRE Sunday 3
Wednesday 30 Taking a Tune for a Walk Theatre Bath Bus
INSTALLATION & IMMERSIVE Chapel Arts Centre Friday 8 Tantalising Tasters
COMEDY Friday 25 Darlings
The Cubicle The Lords of Thyme Femi & The Inrhythms The Mission Theatre June 3-5
The Rise and Fall of King
Donald the 1/5th May 31 – June 3 Wednesday 30 Friday 8 The Mission Theatre
The Bell Komedia A Dog's Brexit
Sunday 27 Bedlam Sunday May 26-27 Smile, You're On Camera
The Mission Theatre Sunday 3 James Hollingsworth's Pink Dimension 50 The Mission Theatre June 4-6
Big Dumb Cats Sawclose & Kingsmead Square Floyd Night Friday 8 St James Wine Vaults
Thursday 31 The Old Theatre Royal The Child Who Said No
May 30 & June 1-2 Murdery Mystery on the SS Saturday 26 Zugunruhe
St James Wine Vaults - Upstairs Great Britain Widcombe Social Club Jill Jackson The Mission Theatre June 5-6
The Cubicle Sunday 3 Phoenix River Band + Higgs Friday 8 The Mission Theatre
The Mission Theatre Bison Chapel Arts Centre The Rise and Fall of King
May 31 – June 3 Donald the 1/5th Excellence & The Rest Of Us
Fake Escape - Retold Thursday 31 Rock of Eye
Sally-Anne Hayward The Old Theatre Royal Sunday 27 June 6-7
Thursday 31 June 7-9 Friday 8 The Mission Theatre The Mission Theatre
The Old Theatre Royal - Library Taking a Tune for a Walk Reg Meuross Walcot Chapel
Thursday 31 UnSpoken #Gunsh0w
The Stationmaster Friday 8 Chapel Arts Centre Les Zoings May 28&31 June 6-7
Saturday 2 KIDS' EVENTS
Saturday 9 The Mission Theatre Rondo Theatre
Theatre Bath Bus Rural Music Network Walcot Street
Live Live June 1&9 Bummer and Lazarus Scotland!
Friendly Ever After Edward Bettella & Jonathan May 29-31 June 7-8
Saturday 26 Harmonium Stabler
June 2-3 Walcot Chapel The Mission Theatre The Mission Theatre
The Mission Theatre Friday 1 Saturday 9
A Dog's Brexit Walcot Chapel St. Michael's Church Brejeiro: the Brazilian Fake Escape - Retold
Autolycus! May 26-27 musical June 7-9
Ritchie-Parrish-Ritchie The Unravelling Wilburys Tuesday 29
Saturday 2 The Mission Theatre Friday 1 Missionary
Theatre Bath Bus Saturday 9 Chapel Arts Centre June 7&9
Route Rondo Theatre The Old Theatre Royal
Twenty Something Venus and Adonis The Mission Theatre
Friday 1 Funkinsteins Smallfry + Remy
Saturday 2 The Mission Theatre Wednesday 30 The History Boys
Theatre Bath Bus Friday 1 Saturday 9 Rondo Theatre
The Old Theatre Royal The Barley Mow June 8-9
The Stationmaster The Cubicle The Mission Theatre
The Idle Playthings Comedy Saturday 2 Track Dogs
Show Boudica Boogaloo / Strange May 31 - June 3 Fear and Misery of the Third
Theatre Bath Bus Friday 1 Planet / Mustard Brass Band
Saturday 2 Chapel Arts Centre The Final Journey of Edward Reich
The Barley Mow Friendly Ever After Sunday 10 Wilson June 8-9
June 2-3 The Stationmaster The Bell June 1&4 The Museum of Bath at Work
The Big Oh! The Mission Theatre
Sunday 3 Saturday 2 Hat & Feather Forever! The Mission Theatre
Theatre Bath Bus Yerma
Theatre Bath Bus Sticky Ends Sunday 10 Route June 8-9
Sunday 3 Musical Mayhem The Old Theatre Royal Friday 1 The Mission Theatre
Scotland! Theatre Bath Bus
June 7-8 Saturday 2 SPOKEN WORD
The Mission Theatre Oh! What a Lovely War
The Mission Theatre Baby Loves Disco Theatre Bath Bus
The Last Poets The Stationmaster June 9-10
Sunday 3 Pop up Wildlife Party Saturday 2 The Edge
Bill Smarme : Exposed Komedia Friday 25
Thursday 7 Saturday 2 Fairfield House Theatre Bath Bus Trolley Girls
Theatre Bath Bus Green Park Station
LIVE ART, MULTIMEDIA, DIGITAL Live Live Musical Mayhem Saturday 9
Wasuremono Saturday 2 Rondo Theatre
Missionary Live Live Saturday 26
June 7, 9 Saturday 2 Walcot Chapel Theatre Bath Bus
Saturday 26 The Old Theatre Royal WALK
The Mission Theatre Walcot Chapel Bedlam Fair
Club Cairo The Interlinear of Cabeza de The Bath Pub Tour
Bella Cielo Vaca & Malinche June 2-3
The Child Who Said No Saturday 2 May 25-26, June 8
Friday 8 Saturday 26 May 26 & June 3 Fred and Ginger Crystal Palace pub – Outside
The Bell - Love Lounge (Back Kingswood Theatre Saturday 2
The Mission Theatre The Child Who Said No
bar) Dusty Stray + Stuart Cullen Theatre Bath Bus Taking a Tune for a Walk
The Cubicle Saturday 26
Trolley Girls Sunday 3 The Mission Theatre Friendly Ever After Friday 8
May 31 – June 3 The Bell
Saturday 9 Route May 2-3 WORKSHOPS & PARTICIPATION
Rondo Theatre TseTse Fly Middle-East Couch - the musical The Mission Theatre
Saturday 2 Friday 1 Live Live
Sunday 3 The Mission Theatre MONSTER!
DANCE Walcot Chapel Theatre Bath Bus Saturday 26
Autolycus! Saturday 2 Walcot Chapel
Brejeiro: the Brazilian MUSIC Tim Clayton & The Higher Theatre Bath Bus
musical Lovers Saturday 2 Live Conversation
Tuesday 29 Openings Night Theatre Bath Bus Little Potatoes Sunday 3
Friday 25 Sunday 3 Saturday 2
Chapel Arts Centre Theatre Bath Bus Twenty Something Walcot Chapel
Green Park Station Theatre Bath Bus
Juan Martin Flamenco Cecilia le Poer Power with Saturday 2 The Big Oh!
Dance Trio Cool Britannia Amadou Diagne Theatre Bath Bus Autolycus! Sunday 3
Wednesday 30 Friday 25 Sunday 3 Saturday 2 Theatre Bath Bus
Chapel Arts Centre Chapel Arts Centre The Old Theatre Royal STREET & OUTDOORS Theatre Bath Bus
Bath Arts Workshop and
Club Cairo ARCC Ali George with Tom Allen The Bath Pub Tour The Lightning Tree Counterculture in the 1970s
Saturday 2 Saturday 26 Monday 4 May 25-26, June 8 Saturday 2 Sunday 10
Kingswood Theatre The Nest The Old Theatre Royal Crystal Palace pub - Outside The Mission Theatre The Museum of Bath at Work
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BEFORE
Thursday 24 May
20:30 (doors open 20:00)
Latino Groove / Alejandra Restrepo Cantora
See Wednesday 23
The Royal Oak
FREE
Wednesday 23 May
20:30 (doors open 20:00)
Latino Groove / Alejandra Restrepo
Cantora
Local band Latino Groove and Colombian singer-songwriter
sensation, Alejandra Restrepo, team up for a night of
9pm
uplifting musical entertainment at the famous St James
Wine Vaults. A unique fusion of Latin American rhythms Murder Murder
and other traditions - their high-energy performance s Six-piece string band with suitcase percussion playing a unique blend of bluegrass and
guaranteed to fill the dance floor! outlaw country with a sublime storytelling sense: every song is a Murder ballad or at least a
St James Wine Vaults - Downstairs NorthAmerican Noir worthy of a great movie. Very much a cut above the usual ranch stash.
Booking: Tickets sold on door The Bell
£7 ON THE DOOR FREE
sA
Fri 25 May, 6 - 8pm | Isobel Holly
FriLive
25 MayMusic four
from 10pm nights
| Fringe OpeningaParty,
weeksee listings diary
Sat 26 May, 6 - 7.30pm | Maaike Siegerist & Jonni Slater
Weds 30 May, 6 - 10pm | Uni. of Bath Music Society
q B Artisan
Thurs 31 May, 6wood-fired pizza
- 7.30pm | Rebecca Shelley
Fri 1 June, 6 - 7.30pm | TBA, see website
sC
Sat 2 June, 6 - 7.30pm | Djaami
SunCocktails,
3 June, from 8pmwine, draught
Bedlam beer
Cabaret, see listings diary
Thurs 7 June, 6 - 7.30pm | The Lambeth Swing
Fri 8 June, 6 - 7.30pm | Kinsman Trio
GD Sat 9 June, 6 - 7.30pm | Kevin Figes Quartet
Great, locally sourced food
Live music will follow inside Green Park Brasserie from
8 until 10.30 - and also runs on Wednesdays from 7.30
gE Coffee,
Live cake,
Music four afternoon
nights a week plustea
Special Events
Quality Dining, Wood-Fired Pizza, Coffee, Cake, Afternoon
Tea, Cocktails, Wine, Draught Beers
WHY MAKE
A CHOICE,
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- why make a
FRINGE choice when you can have it all?
EVENTS
Green Park Brasserie & Bath Pizza Co WHEN YOU CAN
01225 33 85 65 & 01225 58 88 86
G all of the above ?
www.greenparkbrasserie.com • www.greenparkbrasserie.com/bookings/
www.bathpizzaco.com
HAVE IT ALL?
Green ParkStation
Bath BA1 1JB
01225 33 85 65
info@greenparkbrasserie.com
10 For more information: www.bathfringe.co.ukFRIDAY, 25 MAY. IN
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Openings Night MU
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Our Openings Night features a little party in every
FAB Art venue, and a bigger one in Green Park
Station at 10pm with The Gin Bowlers playing their
own angle on that much-abused lady, Swing (they
played the Zen Hussies birthday party so they're the
tops).
Plus: the milkfloat of music, various excursions
from performance artistes, and a great selection of
this year's best Circomedia specialist performance
students, on the streets and coming at you.
The Street of Bath & Green Park Station
FREE
19:30
An Audience with
The Last Poets
Live at the House of Haile Selassie I
The legendary New York civil rights activists and
groundbreaking performers The Last Poets are coming to
Bath for one night only to share an intimate evening of
welcome, conversation, performance and hospitality. This
once in a lifetime opportunity will take place in Fairfield
House, the Victorian villa left to the City of Bath by HIM Haile
Selassie I.
Fairfield House
FFI contact info@houseofhismajesty.com
TBC
19:00
Tantalising Tasters at The Mission
The Mission kicks off an exciting fortnight of Fringe frenzy
with a theatrical treat - a chance to glimpse ten-minute
tasters of many of the Mission’s Fringe shows. And then
meet the actors, network and relax in the The Mission’s
Fringe Hub Bar with a glass of Fringe Fest Fizz!
The Mission Theatre
FREE
19:00 (doors open 18:50) 20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Back By Popular Demand 20th Century Foxes Presents
The Bath Pub Tour Cool Britannia
An Insider’s Guide to Bath’s Best Boozers A Ride Through The Swinging 60s
A charming local’s guide to the best secret drinking holes in Relive the heady 1960s as this unforgettable live band
town. A 90-minute witty walkabout through Bath’s Drinking whirls you through the decade of the British Explosion,
History with round after round of fascinating facts delivered from early ‘60s kitsch to rooftop rock, and everything in
in a tongue-in-cheek Pub Quiz format. Come ready with a between. Sixties Britain created a style and sound all its
winning Team Name. Prizes to be won! own - and made the world sit up and take notice.
Crystal Palace pub - Outside, in Abbey Green Chapel Arts Centre
Booking: Tickets sold on door; Please pay cash at start. Thanks. Booking: Chapel Arts; Tickets sold on door
£10 / £8 CONCS £13.50 ADV / £15 DOOR
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Artists will be making work on site. People of all ages
and talents are invited to join in informal workshops run
by artists making work with found materials, Avon clay
and song. Plus performance, child-friendly storytelling
and musical insects on a grand scale. From 11am - 5pm.
Walcot Chapel
FREE
12:30 (doors open 12:00)
Thereby Hangs A Tale presents
The Interlinear of Cabeza de Vaca and Malinche
Malinche by Haniel Long
Two epic stories from the 16th Century Spanish colonisation of the Americas told with live
original music.
“The power of maintaining life in others lives within each of us, and from each of us does it
recede when unused”
The Mission Theatre (upstairs bar)
Booking: Tickets sold on door; www.ticketsource.co.uk
£6 / £5 CONCS
19:00 (doors open 18:50)
Back By Popular Demand
The Bath Pub Tour
An Insider’s Guide to Bath’s Best Boozers
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Crystal Palace pub - Outside, in Abbey Green
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JIGGEDY MAAIKE SIEGERIST DANNY MCMAHON 15:00 (doors open 14:45)
BASHEMA THE BUG CLUB ISABELLA ALFORD The Little Things Theatre presents:
BILLY IN THE LOWGROUND ELEANOR A Dog’s Brexit
LSPY THE KAIZENS LOKA ROCK PIPES By Josie Hunt
THE UNCLES ACADIA ROOTS WILL LAWSON
THREE RIVERS FLOWERPOT RHYS DAVIES An exciting new family show for children age 7+. A Dog’s
THORNBURY SWING BAND JJGATSBY Brexit is a Dr Seuss meets Animal Farm-esque portrayal of
SOUTHBANK CROWS BLaKRaBB1T FOLKLAW Britain’s exit from the EU, filled with dogs, rhyme, songs and
AS FEAR FADES DA FUCHAMAN & THE FIRE BLAZE BAND explanations that aim to speak directly to children.
FUNKINSTEINS CHLOE WARREN CHARLIE AND JAKE The Mission Theatre
KEYNSHAM ORCHESTRA STEVIE & THE MASQUERADES Booking: Tickets sold on door; www.ticketsource.co.uk
WWW.KEYNSHAMMUSICFESTIVAL.CO.UK #KMF2018 £8 / £6 CONCS. / £5 UNDER 16S / GROUP DEALS £21/£25
(FAMILY OF 4/FAMILY OF 5)
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ARCC : 50 years of 2001: A Space Odyssey
19:30 (doors open 18:30) Local band ARCC, in one of their rare live appearances,
High and Dry Present improvise a soundtrack to the iconic film 2001: A Space
The Child Who Said No Odyssey, Kubrick’s seminal work that has defined sci-fi
movies since it’s release in 1968. With a live band and VJ
A spoken word meta-drama based on real lives and real mental health recovery. mixing multiple projections, expect a spectacular show.
The play is a journey of life, grief, hope, change and the human condition. Beyond a story, we The Nest
walk alongside the shadows into a dream reality of feeling, learning and evolving. £6 ON THE DOOR (£5 ADVANCE)
The Child Who Said No is a High and Dry production, written and performed by Alice Smith
and Bethany Blue.
Featuring Abi, The Rainbow Child and Swingerella, The Fool.
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Tickets sold on door; www.brownpapertickets.com
£8 / £5 CONCS
20:00 (doors open 19:45)
Close Enough at the Fringe
20:30 (doors open 19:30)
Close Enough picked up a Buxton Fringe nomination
Foxy Music proudly presents in 2017 for their slick and stylish singing. Join the
The Big Massive Orchestra feisty foursome - Woody, Tom, Tom (!), and Johnny - as
Passionate, experimental three-piece fusing post-rock, traditional folk and classical into they perform their unique mix of classic barbershop
a unique, ambient electronic sound. These superb young musicians have been selling out alongside choice close harmony arrangements, spanning
venues in Bristol and captivating audiences with their atmospheric sound and front man everything from East European folk to Big Band
Louis’s sublime delivery of edgy and unique songs. Definitely a catch them while you can! swingtime, and guaranteed to put a smile on your face!
The Barley Mow St James Wine Vaults - Downstairs
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door Booking: Tickets sold on door; skiddle.com
£3 ADV / £4 DOOR £7
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13:00 (doors open 12:00)
Isembard’s Wheel
13:00 (doors open 12:45) & 14:30 (doors open 14:15) Great new Brit-folk ensemble with quite another angle on the current resurgence of interest
The Little Things Theatre presents: in all things home grown. Isembard is one of those with a very clear vision, the mission to go
A Dog’s Brexit with it, and something new to bring to the table: a fearless attitude to the tradition and to
By Josie Hunt their own creative place in it.
See Saturday 26 The Bell
FREE
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Tickets sold on door; www.ticketsource.co.uk
£8 / £6 CONCS / £5 UNDER 16S / GROUP DEALS £21/£25
(FAMILY OF 4/FAMILY OF 5)
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
The Rattle’n’Roll Players present
The Rise and Fall of King Donald the
1/5th
by Gabriel Chanan
A rich, aggressive merchant aims to seize Egoland from
dying King Omba. He makes a risky pact with three witches
– but they have their own subversive ideas. Who can save
the world from his destructive impulses? Humour, pathos
and Shakespearean echoes jostle in this hilarious take on
contemporary politics
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Tickets sold on door www.brownpapertickets.com
£12 / £10 CONCS
14 For more information: www.bathfringe.co.ukMONDAY, 28 MAY.
18:00 (doors open 17:15) & 20:00 (doors open 19:15)
Softsod Productions Presents
UnSpoken
By David Martin 21:00
As funeral bells chime, a mysterious woman whispers a terrible secret to a grieving wife. Some years The Silken Same
later, now in therapy, the woman pieces together the jigsaw of her life, the damning relationship Galway duo Mossy Nolan and Colm McGowan, artfully combine
with her father, her struggle with trust and love and the disturbing truth behind that secret whisper. the bygone and the new, drawing on Irish and Balkan influences;
Directed by Jacqs Graham, featuring Lucy Elzik and David Martin. Suitable Age 16+ only. songs that on the face of it will seem instantly familiar, but that
The Mission Theatre supplant the traditional with fresh melodic and conceptual ideas.
Booking: Tickets sold on door; www.brownpapertickets.com (& Rondo theatre for the show there) The Bell
£8 FREE
TUESDAY 29 MAY.
19:30 (doors open 19:20)
Big Egg Theatre
Bummer and Lazarus
An absurd comedy that blends slapstick, nonsense and existentialism. This is the tale of
two inseparable friends, renowned killers, and the most welcome faces in California. They
are trapped, and if they don’t escape soon they will surely die. But first, Lazarus has some
questions. Also, they are both dogs.
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £9 / £7 CONCS
21:00
20:00 (doors open 19:30) Benjamin William Pike
Brejeiro: the Brazilian musical An outstanding fingerstyle guitarist, with a voice that slots in
Years before Samba emerged, Brazilian Choro music and Maxixe dances rocked the world. beside the hallowed names of the ‘70s Folk & Beyond crowd,
Join Brejeiro and friends to experience this infectious music and its social history from its Ben is an artist of a kind you might have feared they didn’t
beginnings in the 1860’s to today. Come and dance, sing, play and smile with us and catch make any more. Depths of study and troughhs in life have
the Choro bug too. brought him here, an experience we are all the richer for.
Chapel Arts Centre The Bell
Booking: Bath Box Office; Chapel Arts; Tickets sold on door £10 ADV / £12 DOOR FREE
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Bummer and Lazarus
See Tuesday 29
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£9 / £7 CONCS
19:00 (doors open 18:45)
Daniel John Smith in
Big Dumb Cats
Two word texts, a nameless cat, blood where it shouldn’t be and a fashion show to die for.
We’re shaped both by our experiences and how we get through them. Come share in some
stories that have made Daniel John Smith the human he now appears to be.
St James Wine Vaults - Upstairs (gallery room)
Booking: Tickets sold on door; www.brownpapertickets.com £5 / £7 CONCS
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Act V Theatre Company presents
Venus and Adonis
By William Shakespeare
19:30 (doors open 18:30) The goddess Venus is obsessed with the mortal Adonis. How
Celtic & Spanish Guitar Music from the Heart will their passionate encounter end? Shakespeare’s dazzling
verbal virtuosity, explores love with the wit and pathos later
with Geoff Robb found in his best-loved comedies. A classic poem adapted
A guitarist and composer whose music blends his classical training with his love of Spanish into a play for four actors and violinist, with Act V’s stripped-
and Celtic music. Geoff has performed his well crafted and deeply moving compositions at back style.
festivals and concerts all over the UK and Europe. An outstanding guitarist..his innovative Rondo Theatre
technique was of the highest standard.— The Argus Booking: Tickets sold on door; The Rondo
The Old Theatre Royal £10 / £8 CONCS
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £5 / £7 CONCS
20:00 (doors open 19:30) 21:00
‘Arte Flamenco Puro’ The Lords of Thyme
Juan Martín Flamenco Dance Trio A new frontier in the unfolding worlds of psych/folk, the LOT
with Antonio Aparecida & Amparo Navarro blend the intensity, elusiveness and boundary-skipping skills
The awe inspiring guitarist and composer Juan Martín brings his fantastic flamenco trio of a Pentangle with the blissed out stonerdom of the West
direct from Spain featuring the tremendous footwork and artistry of prize winning dancer Coast koolaid jug bands. Unafraid of Trad, unafraid to write -
Amparo Navarro. The Times said of Juan Martin: ‘A giant of the flamenco guitar tradition’. there is so much to like!
Chapel Arts Centre The Bell
Booking: Chapel Arts; Tickets sold on door £18 ADV / £20 DOOR FREE
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Phoenix River Band + Higgs Bison
A potent mix of original songs with driving beats and
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influences with hints of R&B and Blues and a touch of Pink
Floyd and Fleetwood Mac for good measure.
Higgs Bison sing beautiful songs of love, loss, money and
menace.
The Old Theatre Royal
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£5
12:00 - 10pm (doors open 12:00)
Kilter Theatre & University of Bath present
The Cubicle
A theatrical space to ponder & play with cutting-edge
research on body image.
Activities of every shape & size! Guest speakers celebrating
the amazing body you already have! Workshops for singing,
stretching, dancing, laughing... but not changing a thing!
Developed in collaboration with University of Bath Psychology
Researchers, The Cubicle will have you head over heels with
your hiccups & hairy armpits.
FaB 1 94 Walcot St. 20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Booking: Tickets sold on door Check www.kiltertheatre.org for fromthewhitehouse presents:
details & confirmation of events.
PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Reg Meuross
with special guest, harpist Anna Tanvir
A captivating musical evening with multi-award winning Somerset singer-songwriter Reg
19:30 (doors open 19:20) Meuross and his special guest the harpist Anna Tanvir. Anna will perform a solo opening set, and
Big Egg Theatre will join Reg for part of his headline set. The combination of these two musicians is magical.
Bummer and Lazarus Chapel Arts Centre
See Tuesday 29 Booking: Chapel Arts; Tickets sold on door
The Mission Theatre £12 ADV / £14 DOOR
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£9 / £7 CONCS 20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Comedienne-ess
Sally-Anne Hayward
A familiar face as one of the regular hosts of Krater Comedy
at Komedia, Sally-Anne is taking time off from supporting
Sarah Millican to bring her us her own show. 59 minutes
of jokes from a female/woman unafraid of embracing her
bitchier side.
‘Warm and very funny’ Sarah Millican.
The Old Theatre Royal - Library
20:00 (doors open 19:30) Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
Nick Steel presents £5
James Hollingsworth’s Pink Floyd Night 20:00 (doors open 19:15)
A special event centred on the music of Pink Floyd,
performed by acclaimed multi-instrumentalist singer/
Softsod Productions Presents
guitarist James Hollingsworth. “Fascinating one man band UnSpoken
James Hollingsworth conjures some wonderful soundscapes By David Martin
with guitar effects and loops to create colour and build the See Monday 28
suspense.” - Somerset Guardian Rondo Theatre
Widcombe Social Club Booking: Tickets sold on door; The Rondo
Booking: Bath Comedy Festival; Tickets sold on door £10 / £8 CONCS.
£10 / £8 CONCS
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12:00-10.00pm
Kilter Theatre & University of Bath present
The Cubicle
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FaB 1 94 Walcot St.
Booking: Tickets sold on door
Check www.kiltertheatre.org for details & confirmation of
events.
PAY WHAT YOU CAN
20:00
Ritchie-Parrish-Ritchie: UnTangled Again
Originally the UK rhythm section of the Canadian powerhouse Tanglefoot, RPR have now
teamed up with percussionist/singer/songwriter Beaker Granger. Their music, storytelling,
17:00 humour and high-spirited stage presence bubble over with that same combination of
Spaniel in the Works Theatre Company aggressive enthusiasm & personality that made Tanglefoot famous.
The Final Journey of Edward Wilson Rondo Theatre
by John Bassett Booking: Tickets sold on door; The Rondo
Powerful play charting the life of Edward Wilson, explorer £14 / £12 CONCS
and naturalist on Scott’s fateful journeys to the Antarctic.
Wilson encounters a mysterious figure as he faces the end at
The Bell Inn
the South Pole.
The play explores Wilson’s life as an artist, scientist and as a
caring and brave man of discovery.
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door Award winning pub and
£10 / £8 CONCS live music venue in Bath
19:00 (doors open 18:45)
Daniel John Smith in
Big Dumb Cats
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St James Wine Vaults - Upstairs (gallery room)
Booking: Tickets sold on door; www.brownpapertickets.com
£5 / £7 CONCS
We have live music 3-4 times
a week, ranging from jazz
to blues to folk to other
things, open mic nights on
Thursday and DJ nights
at the weekend.
19:00 (doors open 19:00) Plus bar billiards, pool,
Rural Music Network
Young Acts and Bands from across the region
Fussball, board games,
Rural Music Network works to support young people from across
the region to rehearse, record and perform. We are delighted to be
free WiFi and a
back in Bath with a great line up of singer-songwriters, psychedelic
rock, metal, acoustic, and lyrical. These guys are super talented. If
launderette!
you want to get involved contact jamesbrookes@sryp.org.uk
Komedia www.thebellinnbath.co.uk
Booking: Tickets sold on door; To reserve tickets call: 01278 722100 103 Walcot St, Bath BA1 5BW
£5 ADULTS / £3 CONCS
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Live at Walcot Chapel
Harmonium
Su Hart, the dynamic choir leader and singer-songwriter,
joins the composer Sian Croose to lead an adventurous
20:00 (doors open 19:00) evening of layered women’s voices, using interlocking
rhythms and harmonies. Their influences are as diverse as
An Evening with Jelli Records Meredith Monk and Baka women’s rainforest singing.
Funkinsteins Walcot Chapel
with Special Guest Bashema Booking: Tickets sold on door; www.brownpapertickets.com
This trio has crafted a truly original master sound, with amazing vocals and breathtaking £5
guitar from Sal Wyatt and phat slap bass from Alex Gabb, and the mighty Jon Carter on
drums, all together they give a truly dynamic performance. Bashema is a jazz influenced
soulful songstress with an edgy twist.
The Old Theatre Royal
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£5
20:00 (doors open 07:45)
Route
20:00 (doors open 19:30) by Marie Myrie
Mondegreen Records presents ROUTE originated from verbatim and poetry, it plays with
Track Dogs the journey of self-acceptance and the meaning of home.
Track Dogs make “sun-shiny songs thriving on dark themes behind irresistible Having parents that migrated as a product of the Windrush
rhythms”. The Madrid-based ex-pats release their 4th album ‘Kansas City Out in 1948 from Jamaica, she finds herself embarking in
Groove’ in 2018, the perfect showcase for their unique brand of acoustic music. A a mirrored experience of isolation during her time at a
multi-instrumentalist line-up of cajón, bass, guitar, ukulele and trumpet; four-part predominantly white middle-class university.
harmonies steal the show. Directed by Ewa Dina & Produced by Flo Akano
Chapel Arts Centre The Mission Theatre
Booking: Chapel Arts; Tickets sold on door Booking: Tickets sold on door; www.brownpapertickets.com
£12 ADV / £14 DOOR £8
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A NEW FAMILY MUSICAL
Written and performed by
GABRIEL VICK
Saturday 2 JuneSaturday 2nd June 10am Potatoes is a powerful, bittersweet comedy-drama 13:15 (doors open 13:10)
TheatreBusBath, Brunel Square
10:00 (doors open 09:45)
(Outside Bath Spa Railway Station),
Bath, BA1 1SU
which explores the realities and repercussions of state On A String
Tickets: £8/£6
controlled fertility for two women in China. A new government scheme is being trialled to replace
Howard-Vick Productions presents
www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/475160
Featuring Michelle Wen Lee and Sarah Curwen, Jobseeker’s Allowance and help struggling Millennials;
The Stationmaster directed by Bryn Holding. earn money by reciting your memories. Mel, a
A new family musical by Gabriel Vick £10 / £8 CONCS successful business woman, finds her world turned
Wesley is a 10 year old boy who loves trains and upside down and desperate for money, takes part. But
18:30 (doors open 18:25) & 19:00 (doors open 18:55)
spends too much time at Swindon station for his is there more at stake than sharing a few experiences?
Derekk Ross in...
parents liking. But on this day of the launch of the Mel’s world is turned upside down when her beloved
new intercity express train, Wesley finds himself in Autolycus! (on the bus!) lifestyle is taken from her. Desperate for money, she
charge of the entire station! A unique hybrid of comic live performance and participates in this scheme, but is there more at stake
£8 / £6 CONCS dramatic film screening than just sharing a few experiences?
Shakespeare’s lovable comic rogue from ‘The Winter’s £10 / £8 CONCS
11:30 (doors open 11:00)
Tale’. Live on the Theatre Bath Bus, Autolycus teases
OOOH ARRR Productions presents 16:30 (doors open 16:00)
the audience with street patter, introducing short
Musical Mayhem Etherman Music Group
film ‘Susurrar es nada/Whispering is Nothing’ -also
All of your favourite musicals in one place. based on the play. Derekk Ross plays Autolycus (and Tim Clayton & The Higher Lovers
Let our two dazzling divas take you directly to the jealous Leontes in the film, with Samuel de la Torre Finally Made It To The Fringes
West End. It is here where they will serenade you as Camillo). Two 20-minute performances at 6.30pm Tim is a gifted songwriter and performer, playing a
with a feel-good hour of toe-tapping tunes and the and 7pm. mix of original acoustic and echo/looped material,
ballads that are sure to hit home. They will take you £6 / £4 CONCS offering tons of atmosphere in songs documenting
through the A-Z of Musical theatre to ensure you do the triumph of love and hope over adversity.
20:00 (doors open 19:55)
have the time of your life. Dance and sing along to all £6 / £4 CONCS
Positive Poetry Presents
of your favourite show tunes for 60 minutes of pure 18:30 (doors open 18:25)
entertainment! Twenty Something Behind Closed Doors
Created & performed by Janey McLeod
£10 / £8 Behind Closed Doors is the tale of four women with
A colourful, comical & emotive explosion of spoken their own hidden lives. It explores what goes on in
13:30 (doors open 13:25) word poetry. Painting a picture of why daring to hope
Gritty Theatre presents one's own home and how the world outside goes on
can powerfully ignite every aspect of life. regardless. How well do you know your neighbour?
Fred and Ginger £8 Your co-worker? Could you do more? An emotional
by Michael Southan and powerful performance that asks the questions we
Taffeta, testosterone and no-talent! Who did not Sunday 3 June don't always want answered.
love the annual school musical? Fred and Ginger is 10:00 (doors open 09:50) £7
a gorgeous little piece that reminds us of our own Couch - the musical 20:00
halcyon days at secondary school. (miniature youth version) Old Bag Theatre Company supports
£10 “A brilliantly imaginative evocation of a whole new The Big Oh!
15:00 (doors open 14:55) universe” The Telegraph. ex ed on the back of the bus
Croon productions Teenager, C.P., enters the world of the lost and School’s out. Professional sex ed. escapes the
MONSTER! forgotten. Devices, gadgets, and creatures take on classroom and gets on the bus for a lesson you’ll
Classic cinematic monsters have escaped their new meaning as a musical adventure unfolds. not forget. Can ‘blue balls’ kill you? How much
retirement home. Look Out! A little girl, some seagulls, £8 stuff actually comes out? How DO you have sex in
a bat, a fish... 2 hotel managers! Terrifying! Can 4 11:30 (doors open 11:25) a wheelchair? What IS non-binary?? Bring your
bright eyed teenagers save the World? MONSTER Brave Bold Drama presents smartphone to get involved.
Explores the horror film genre with puppet theatre. £8 / £6 CONCS
Made for grownups (Suitable for over 10 yrs.)
Sticky Ends
written & performed by Gill Simmons All the above events have tickets on sale at www.
£8 / £6 CONCS ticketsource.co.uk and any remaining on the door (see
Comic cautionary tales for the modern age, Sticky
16:30 Ends is a collection of original stories & songs about Fringe or Theatre Bath website for availability)
A Word In Your Ear presents what might happen if you do really really bad EXTRA JOURNEYS TO THE TERMINUS
Little Potatoes stuff, like Eat Too Much Ice-cream or Play Too Much Bill Smarme: Exposed
By Clare Reddaway Minecraft. Full of fun, silliness and chances to join in. Thursday 7 June 19:30 (doors open 19:15) & 21:00
Matchmaking mums at the Shanghai marriage market Suitable for age 5+. (doors open 20:45)
hatch a plan to get their Little Emperors hitched. Little £6 See listings pages
20 For more information: www.bathfringe.co.ukBEDLAM'S BIG DAYS OUT
Sunday 3rd June
The new Saw Close and Kingsmead Square are all-but finished, so it’s
time to try the new buildings out as a backdrop for some top quality
Street Theatre. The aforementioned Bash Street Theatre will be back
for more silent film style hijinks and high drama, joined on Sunday
by an overdue return from the unique Whalley Range Allstars in Ye
Gods!, a fable of immortals and town planning, with all the Whalleys’
great set-building skills in evidence. Not to be outdone, Bath based
Ramshacklicious have a new show, and their wildest yet: The Band
At The End Of The World features a small army of brass players, a
considerable amount of anarchy-as-entertainment, and more than
its fair share of noise, smoke and chaos. Goodie!
Sunday also features this year’s extremely strong selection of artists
who have shared a little time with our New Work Works mentoring
& workshopping scheme, putting the last bit of polish into the
summer’s new shows: it seems to us that the more this scheme has
become known, the better has been the quality and promise of
applications to it. But the proof of the performance is in the process:
come taste what we’ve all been cooking up this year, this very
afternoon.
Bath’s big day out on the streets is spreading! We can Bedlam Sunday features a dozen new shows - repeated so you’ll
return to SawClose now the building work has (fingers all get a chance to see - plus all those already mentioned for today,
crossed) finished; but some of the shows won’t fit around live music, a busking stage, and doubtless more we don’t even
the new street furniture, so we’re spilling further into the know about yet: either just come along and find out (it’ll be great
centre of town for some of those on the Sunday. But first, anyway), or pick up the special Bedlam flyer and peruse the
our big adventure for Bedlam Fair this year is an afternoon updated pages on our website nearer the time.
in Radstock - indeed yes!
Bedlam Cabaret
And on Sunday evening we’re bringing it all indoors for
Saturday 2nd June a wide-ranging up-front show under cover in Green
Bedlam in Radstock! Park Station, featuring the super-suave Hot Potato
Syncopators, Funky Monkey pole-swingers, Sylvia Hunt,
Fringe Favourites DotComedy have created a one-off localised
Solastagia, and more. See website for full lineup.
version of The Chain - a show devised specifically for this kind
of event - for Radstock, in collaboration with local people, Bedlam events in Bath & Radstock are supported by
professional performers, experienced non-professionals, Arts Council England, with extra thanks to Saw Close &
students, and anyone else we could enthuse about it (quite Kingsmead businesses, Komedia, Green Park Brasserie.
a lot of them, we believe). This and other Bedlam acts will be
part of Somer Valley Arts Family Day, a fair-style community
event on which local people have been working (alongside
the Natural Theatre Company) for weeks. For several years,
a number of participants in our Outside! NOW!! participatory
performance project have been from the Somer Valley area,
so we thought we’d try bringing the rest of the show (and the
audience) to them for a change. We’ll also be importing some
of our New Work Works performers to sharpen their street skills
as part of the event, and a new show by outdoor silent-film-
style champions Bash Street Theatre, with considerable appeal
for all the family.
Some of the New Work Works street shows will still be working
in Bath, around the Theatre Bath Bus in Brunel Square by the
railway station.
See full booking information on page 2 21SATURDAY 2 JUNE.
Bedlam Saturday from 13.00
Bath's big outdoor outdoor performance weekend, part 1, features Bath Street Theatre, DotComedy and many many more - including our New Work Works
performers and the main performance of this year's Outside! NOW!! project. For more info see page 21, www.bathfringe.co.uk, and the listing on this page for Somer
Valley Arts Family Day.
Various venues FREE
10am to 9pm
THE THEATRE BATH BUS
Brunel Square (Bath Spa railway station)
for full programme see pp. 20-21
12:00
Somer Valley Arts Family Day
An exciting addition to the local calendar. There will be arts 18:30 (doors open 18:00)
activities of all kinds to get involved in with live music, stalls, Festival of Nature presents
food and an exciting arts trail. This year there will be an Pop up Wildlife Party
emphasis on interactive street performance, with Bath Fringe's Festival of Nature - After dark! This takeover of Green Park Station will find performers,
Bedlam Fair bringing lots of acts to Somer Valley for the day. artists and new technologies joining forces with conservation organisations to create an
If you fancy getting involved in street theatre yourself, there’s evening of wildlife surprises!
also a chance to perform alongside our professional team of Green Park Station
actors! Keep an eye out in the press and on social media for FREE
details; you can find us on Twitter as @NaturalTheatre, or on
Facebook and Instagram as Natural Theatre Company.
We’re looking forward to seeing you for a fabulously
entertaining and fun packed day in the Somer Valley!
Radstock
see p. 20-21
FREE
12:00-10pm)
Kilter Theatre & University of Bath present
The Cubicle
See Thursday 31
19:00 (doors open 18:45) & 20:30 (doors open 20:15)
FaB 1 94 Walcot St.
Booking: Tickets sold on door Check www.kiltertheatre.org for Something Theatre presents
details & confirmation of events. The Lightning Tree
PAY WHAT YOU CAN A New One Man Show Performed by Darren Little
1960’s America. A man sits in a mental institution awaiting his fate. How did he end up in
such a place and will his twisted memory and dreams become reality? Storytelling, theatrics
and fear rising horror collides then twists and turns until we are all left unsure of the truth
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Bath Box Officer
£8
14:00 & 16:00
NOSThree presents
Friendly Ever After
with Maria de Jesus Rocha and Bianca Bertalot
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help and understand one’s friend. See Wednesday 30
The Mission Theatre St James Wine Vaults - Upstairs (gallery room)
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CHILDREN £5 / ADULTS £10 £5 / £7 CONCS
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