If That’s All There Is

Date: Thu 14 Oct
Time: 7.30pm
Ticket Prices: Full £10 / Conc £6 / Schools & Colleges £5
Suitable 15+

A couple are teetering on the brink of marriage. As the happiest day of their lives approaches, the panic begins to rise. And everyone’s watching.

Through the eyes of a jaded therapist and an awkward teenage girl we witness a case study of longing, envy, disappointment and violent urges, examining our obsession with seeking fulfilment at any cost.

For anyone who’s ever wanted to stand on a windswept plain, howling for lost love.

Inspired by the Peggy Lee song, Is That All There Is? this is the latest show from Inspector Sands, winners of the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize 2009. Their award-winning hit debut Hysteria has toured extensively around the UK and internationally.

“The excellent Inspector Sands. A wickedly funny and well-honed piece in which situation comedy veers from everyday banality to surreal imaginings” The Herald

Commissioned by the Lyric Hammersmith. Co-developed at South Street, Reading and the Nightingale Theatre, Brighton. Supported by Alleyn’s School and Arts Council England

www.inspectorsands.com

IMAGE: Helen Maybanks

Tuning Out With Radio Z

Date: 18 Nov
Time: 7.30pm
Ticket Prices: Full £10 | Conc £6 | Schools & Colleges £5
Suitable 15+

Late in the studios of Radio Z, two presenters are attempting to navigate the perils of the night, intent on bringing their listeners safely to dawn. The fictional presenters are relying on their listeners for help; the real actors are relying on you, their audience, to guide them through the show.

This performance is powerful, hypnotic and addictive, as audiences are immersed in a visually beautiful, fictional world, watching actors negotiating the challenges of improvisation.

Bring a phone or a laptop; send texts, ideas, images and make requests. Devise the show live with the Stan’s Cafe and experience the kick of finding your material seamlessly woven into the emerging drama and helping to shape events.

Tuning Out With Radio Z is a unique and extraordinary theatrical experience that is improvised each night both for you and by you. It will never be repeated and needs your presence and input. Come for the start and stay as long as you wish or right through to the end, whenever and whatever that may be!

www.stanscafe.co.uk

IMAGE: Graeme Braidwood

Will Adamsdale and a Fuel Production

Date: Thu 2 & Fri 3 Dec
Time: 7.30pm
Ticket Prices: Full £10 | Conc £6 | Schools & Colleges £5
Suitable 15+

“Hi I’m Jackson and five years ago I got excited…”

A life-coaching legend tells you how he made it happen . . . and stay happened!

Chris John Jackson, author of ‘Maximum Jackson! 2 weeks with the man’ hits the road with Jackson’s Way, an ‘astonishing take on love, life & finance’ which will –

– Solve 3/4 of you and/or your family’s problems which aren’t necessarily financial
– ‘Jackson’ negative thoughts to make something warmer
– Just come, please

Part theatre, part comedy, Jackson’s Way is a modern day parody of American motivational speakers and a satire on the world of self help and corporate jargon. Join Chris John Jackson for perhaps the most surreal and funny hour you are likely to spend in a theatre.

Winner Of The Perrier Award For Comedy 2004

‘This show is more than comedy. It plays with your intellect as well as your sense of humour….Jackson’s Way is simply the best, funniest, cleverest miracle of make believe.” The Scotsman

“A veritable wizard, a virtuoso of the transcendently absurd…. remarkable for both its sheer inventiveness and its perfect pitch” The New York Times

www.willadamsdale.com

CREDIT: Doug Bonallack

Search Party: Growing Old with You

Thu 9 Sept
7.30pm
Informal sharing
Free admission
Suitable 14+

Growing Old With You is a life long performance project which attempts to document lived experience in real time. Starting in 2010 and for every 5 (or so) years for the rest of their lives Search Party will create a performance exploring ideas of age, duality and accumulation. Over the course of a lifetime we hope to create a series of works in which we, the work and the audience all grow old together. Search Party are interested in the emotive act of exposing the intimate aspects of their own aging process and its irrevocable link with the audiences’. Growing Old With You is a stark, intimate and playful performance which invites you to confront the inevitability of your own aging process, asking questions about the limitations of this temporal existence.

www.searchpartyperformance.org.uk

Search Party are members of Residence, an artist led organisation that creates making-space for artists to create performance, live art and theatre in Bristol.

Development funded by Arts Council England and supported by BAC, South Hill Park and the ShowRoom, University of Chichester.

www.residence.org.uk

IMAGE : Ed Porteous