• Archived Events/ Autumn 2021

    Made in China

    Made In China, Super Duper Close Up, 2021

    Super Duper Close Up

    Thu 18 Nov 7.30pm | Full £12 | Conc £8 | Age 16+

    We’re all starring in the movie of our life. Selfie after selfie, post after post. It’s exhausting. So take a break. Bask in the glow of the big screen as someone else has a go. See the heroine all dewy-eyed as the camera zooms in. And in. And in. 

    Get set for a live-filmed ride through the anxieties of an unsettlingly ordinary woman’s existence. An epic journey to everywhere and nowhere, through a labyrinth of click-bait and pop cliché, via an infinite stream of frozen pouts and desperate smiles. 

    Made In China, Super Duper Close Up, photo by John Hunter 2021
    Made In China, Super Duper Close Up, photo by John Hunter 2021

    Razor sharp innovators Made In China return following the ‘brilliantly subversive Double Double Act’ 

    ★★★★ Time Out

    Tonight I’m Gonna Be The New Me was murderously entertaining

    ★★★★  The Guardian

    ★★★★ The Stage
    ★★★★★ Spyinthestalls
    ★★★★★ Reviewshub

    madeinchinatheatre.com

    Image credit: madeinchinatheatre.com
  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2021

    The Sleeping Trees

    Sleeping Trees Western, Mark Dawson Photography 2021

    Western

    Thu 16 Sep 7.30pm | Full £12 | Conc £8 | Age 15+ 

    The Sleeping Trees continue their decimation of the big screen and bring you another sordid tale, this time from the sandy depths of the Wild West. 

    The show follows unlikely hero Harry Sudds as a simple trip to the town bank quickly descends into the worst day of his life. Before he knows it he’s confronted by native Indians, talking wasps and one of the most majestic tumbleweeds ever seen in the west. With another rip roaring live score, The Sleeping Trees bring their fast, physical and farcical comic style to one of the most well loved film genres of all time. 

    Sleeping Trees Western, Mark Dawson Photography 2021
    Sleeping Trees Western, Mark Dawson Photography 2021

    Not a cue was missed in a show where they come roughly every five seconds

    The List ★★★★ 

    With a script that steers left field of convention and indulges every whim, Sleeping Trees have created a lawless comedic style of their own

    Broadway Baby ★★★★★ 

    thesleepingtrees.co.uk

    Image credit: thesleepingtrees.co.uk 

  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2018

    Christopher Brett Bailey

    Christopher Brett Bailey_SuicideNotes_image-credit-Jemima-Yong

    Suicide Notes …
    the spoken word of Christopher Brett Bailey

    Thu 18 Oct 7.30pm | Full £10 | Conc £6 | Age 16+

    A different-every-night, shouting & reading show… stories, poems and black humour. Bailey’s words deliver a linguistic kaleidoscope of caustic cartoons, crackpot prophesies and demented erotica. Verbal diarrhoea, dirty jokes, venomous poetry, and tall tales that corkscrew deep into nightmares. Tonight he is a voice box and a microphone and nothing more: a potty mouthed poet, a reverend with a forked tongue, a standup comedian from hell, delivering a symphony of verbal adrenaline and twisted humour, a dense, poetic blend of the hallucinogenic and the hardboiled, a live action short story collection for the depraved, the depressed and the death obsessed.

    “A beautiful maniac onstage with a mircrophone”

    Snap Reviews

    “If gonzo journalism ever needed a news anchor, this would be the guy”

    Exeunt

    “A loaded Kerouac…his wit glitters like broken glass”

    Sydney Morning Herald

    “A juggernaut, a plosive onslaught…a mesmeric presence”

    The Stage

    www.christopherbrettbailey.com

    Image credit: Jemima Yong
  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2017

    Christopher Brett Bailey

    Christopher Brett Bailey credit nathan hoste

    Kissing The Shotgun Goodnight

    THU 21 SEP 2017 | 7.30pm | Full £10 Conc £6 |AGE 16 plus

    Clouds of haze and crumbling walls of transcendent noise, KISSING THE SHOTGUN GOODNIGHT is a neo-noir fever dream and 120 decibel suicide note. A juggernaut of music-theatre. Three musicians, piano corpses and the sci-fi poetry of a disembodied voice. A nocturnal meditation crooned into the swollen abyss. Soothing drones and crushing metal, swamps of feedback and pools of reverb, clattering rhythms and throbbing bass. A return to the womb for those who wish they could crawl back inside mother to hide.

    Supported by Arts Council England. Originally commissioned by Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Cambridge Junction, Ovalhouse, Theatre in the Mill, and Theatr Iolo. With thanks to Hackney Showroom.

    WhatsOnStage ★ ★ ★ ★
    ‘a hallucinatory journey of dark intensity…a total, immersive sensory experience…a burning-up roar’

    The Stage ★ ★ ★
    ‘a thumping industrial noise-scape, a sensory onslaught…’

    www.christopherbrettbailey.com

    Image Credit – Nathan Hoste