The ShowRoom

  • Archived Events/ Spring 2023

    Shôn Dale-Jones

    Still Floating by Shon Dale-jones. c.Jaimie Gramston

    Still Floating 

    Thursday 2nd March, 7.30pm

    Full £12 | Conc £8 | Age 14+

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    When someone suggests that Shôn should remount his 2006 Total Theatre award-winning hit show FLOATING (Barbican, Sydney Opera House) about the Isle of Anglesey floating away from mainland Britain, he is sure it isn’t what the world needs right now. 

    2006 is not 2022. As Shôn explains why he shouldn’t present the show we find out that sometimes going backwards helps us move forwards.

    Told by two-time Fringe First winner, this is a funny, uplifting and moving story, making the real and unreal fit together in one surprising whole. 

    “Reduces audiences to tears and rapture”

    The Guardian
    sdjproductions.co.uk
    Image credit: Jaimie
  • Archived Events/ Spring 2023

    Action Hero

    The Talent by Action Hero, Deborah Pearson © Ana Viotti 2022

    The Talent

    Thursday 9th March, 7.30pm

    Full £12 | Conc £8 | Age 16+ | Theatre

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    A woman in a sound booth is talking. She is talking to herself. She is talking to you. She is talking to everyone. She is gifted, professional, mercurial; it seems as if she can summon almost any kind of voice and create any kind of world. 

    She is selling you something
    She is telling you a story 
    She sounds like a cereal ad 
    She sounds like a cartoon 
    She sounds like a meditation tape 
    She sounds like a shapeshifter 
    She sounds like the ocean 

    You would listen to her say anything. Her voice is all around. Her voice is all there is. Her voice is all that’s left. She conjures her own ghost in real time. 
    The Talent is a new show by Action Hero and Deborah Pearson about the legacy of the human voice in a non-human future. 

    “Some of the most thrilling work currently being produced in the uk”

    The Guardian
    actionhero.org.uk
    Image credit: Ana Viotti
  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2022

    Seth Kriebel

    Seth Kriebel and Death of King Arthur

    The Death of King Arthur

    THU 29th Sept. | Full £12 | Conc. £8 | AGE 14+

    The Death of King Arthur is a new version of a very old story, an interactive twist on the enduringly popular tales of Arthur and his knights.

    Choose which parts of the story you want to hear: The bit about the sword in the stone? Lancelot & Guinevere? How Arthur dies?

    Or the other version of how Arthur dies? …or the other other version?

    Sit back and enjoy or actively take part in the decisions that guide the story. Each show is unique, depending on the audience’s choices… bringing a lost Britain back to life and asking what the old tales can tell us in these complicated times.

    Examining British identity, our relationship with Europe and ‘fake news’, The Death of King Arthur explodes the legend we all think we know and asks:
    What story do you want to believe?

    www.sethkriebel.com.

    Delivers both laughter and poetry. ★★★★

    The Stage, on Seth Kriebel’s Beowulf
    Photo: Emma Bailey & Illustration: Sarah Ferrari.
  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2022

    Holly Spillar

    Holly Spillar and Hole

    HOLE!

    THU 6th Oct. | Full £8 | Conc. £5 | 16+

    HOLE is the name of the character Holly Spillar created to help her tell her vaginismus story.

    HOLE is larger than life, surreal, afraid and desperately trying to navigate a world where penetrative sex seems weirdly important.

    Follow her down this comedy rabbit hole of dyspraxic mishaps, men who love Joe Rogan and NHS gifted dildos, all accompanied by the sweet sweet music of a little red loop pedal.

    Holly’s show is darkly comic, informative and unexpectedly emotional.

    She started creating HOLE when she was finally diagnosed with vaginismus after over a year of being told by doctors she was being over dramatic. This is the show Holly would have wanted to watch back then, it teaches people with vaginas that holes have nothing to do with being whole and while that might sound obvious, it’s a whole lot more complicated than that.

    hollyjoysemails.wixsite.com/hollyspillar.
    Photo: Holly Spillar
  • Archived Events/ Autumn 2022

    James Rowland

    James Rowland, Learning to Fly 2022

    Learning to Fly

    THU 20th Oct. | Full £12 | Conc. £8 | Age 14+

    A new show from James Rowland featuring his captivating mix of theatre, comedy and music.

    LEARNING TO FLY sees James tell the story of a remarkable friendship he made when he was a lonely, unhappy teenager with the scary old lady who lived in the spooky house on his street.

    It’s about connection, no matter what the obstacles; about love’s eternal struggle with time; about music and its ability to heal.

    It’s also about her last wish: to get high once before she dies.

    Uplifting, big hearted and hilarious, this show is James’ first since his acclaimed Songs of Friendship trilogy.

    **** ‘A master storyteller’

    Whatsonstage

     ***** ‘Joyous… flooded with love’

    Stage

     **** ‘Thrilling… one mighty, passionate epic’

    Scotsman

    **** ‘Captivating… a generous, deepening hymn to friendship’

    Sunday Times
    Made with the generous support of Arts Council England, Arts at the Old Fire Station (Oxford), The Spring (Havant), The Attenborough (Leicester) and Tobacco Factory Theatres (Bristol).
    Photo: James Rowland