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Fri 9th September at 8:00pm |
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Since 1999 their dazzling fiddle & guitar solos and joy of live performance brought fans from Canada, the USA and England to their feet at Tanglefoot shows (CFMA “Best Vocal Group” 2007). Today as My Sweet Patootie, Terry Young and Sandra Swannell embrace a forgotten brand of showmanship that’s “two parts exemplary musicianship and one part vaudeville comedy.” (Binghampton Pressconnects) Their clever, off-center original songs have “elements of western swing and old-timey music that updates the flapper feel and gives it a real twenty first century pizazz... a delightful sound with a hundred years in it's soul." (FATEA Magazine) |
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| Tickets: £12.00, Concessions £10.00 | Music |
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Sat 10th September at 8:00pm |
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Returning to 2011 with their first show About a Bench, ‘Owdyado Theatre, put the humble park bench centre stage to explore the intricate human dramas that take place upon this normally inconspicuous object. |
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Thu 15th September to Fri 16th September at 8:00pm |
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One man, one woman and the post. In this age of emails, texts and social networking, actual letter-writing is in real danger of extinction.
New-writing theatre company, Butterfly Psyche, is proud to present a revival of this American classic and bittersweet comedy that intimately examines the unique and delicate art of letter-writing.
A.R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize nominated-play recreates the joy and excitement felt when writing and receiving letters and reminds us that through letters, our loves, memories and ‘who we really are’ can be carefully preserved and cherished forever. |
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| Tickets: £12.00, Concessions £10.00 | Professional |
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Sat 17th September at 8:00pm |
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Starring renowned entertainer Peter Gill ‘The Golden Age of Musical Satire’ takes the funniest songs of the last hundred years and throws them together in a 90 minute, one man and his piano show. Songs such as Allan Sherman’s ‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’, Flanders and Swann’s ‘The Gas Man Cometh’, Victoria Wood’s ‘Barry and Freda’, Bernard Cribbins’ ‘Right Said Fred’, Noel Coward’s ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen’, Monty Python’s ‘Always Look On The Bright Side of Life’ and Tom Lehrer’s ‘Poisoning Pigeons in the Park’. This show will appeal to anyone old enough to have developed a sense of humour - whether they are hearing the songs for the first time or the hundred and first time. |
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Thu 22nd September to Fri 23rd September at 8:00pm |
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"Dear Alice - the truth is rarely pure and never simple" Alice’s Adventures in the New World is a musichall inspired comedy with songs and live music that explores myths
about women, sexuality and gender relations in the Victorian era. Following a sell out run in London, all-female theatre company, Fluff Productions, bring this entertaining, hilarious and thought provoking piece of new writing on tour to the south west. It is 1882. You are a seventeen year-old girl and you have just discovered your deceased mother is still alive and living in America. You set off to find her and meet: a) an artist with an opium addiction b) a depressed Socialist preaching free love c) a hypochondriac debutante d) a cattle rustler - whose four husbands have all mysteriously disappeared e) Oscar Wilde f) your mother or g) all of the above. Wherever you go, you seem to be the only one in the room not wearing a corset and things become ‘curiouser and curiouser’ along the way.
Directed by Jessica Beck
“Beck’s staging, in which the cast, dressed in bloomers and corsets, role-swap with alacrity and clever use of minimal props, is terrific fun” The Times ***
"A show that is definitely not to be missed if you like comedy, fun and sheer brilliance!" Remote goat ****
“Rollicking good fun” British Theatre Guide |
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| Tickets: £12.00, Concessions £10.00 | Professional |
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Sat 24th September at 8:00pm |
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“Britain’s greatest entertainer” (★★★★★Time Out) presents an evening of moderately amusing stand-up comedy in order to gain some meaningful television exposure. Aczel comes tired and under-prepared from three consecutive years of sell-out runs on London’s West End and Edinburgh Fringe.
"Aczel turns unprofessionalism into an artform. Scintillatingly shambolic" - ★★★★ The Times
"One of the most original acts in years. An hour in his company is a hilarious joy" – The Guardian
“One of the strangest, and indeed, finest hours of comedy I’ve ever seen” – The New Yorker
"The funniest thing I've ever seen" – Jimmy Carr |
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| Ian McGlynn | ||||
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Wed 28th September to Sat 1st October, Sat 1st October at 8:00pm |
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Meet Katie: she’s young, she’s funny, she’s full of energy. Katie loves to drink. It makes her funnier. Livelier. And it makes her forget about everything except the here and now. It’s brilliant.
You stop caring when you drink. You forget about opinions. About people's opinions. You don't care if they laugh at you or what anyone thinks and when you drink is the only time you don't have to stress about what people think. So it makes you feel free and alive.
Katie’s the life & soul of the party. Except the party’s over.
Life & Soul is the funny and moving new play from Rondo artistic director Ian McGlynn, author of An Act of Twisting (“Full of razor-sharp wit, passionately delivered... Unmissable” 5 Stars, Venue) and Shelter (“...Punctuated with moments of laughter or hope, which make its impact all the more powerful” 4 Stars, Venue). |
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| Tickets: £12.00, Concessions £10.00 | Professional |
The Rondo Theatre is supported by Bath and North East Somerset Council.
