Bath Fringe Festival 2016 - Bath Spa Live

A DOG’S LIFE | Sat 28 May 4pm & Sun 29 May 6pm | £5/£3 Written by Pam Valentine.

Four dogs lie in cages in an animal shelter. A woman visits the shelter to choose a dog, a choice that could mean life and death for the oldest, Ben.

ABOUT A GOTH | Sat 28 May 6pm & Mon 30 May 8pm | £7/£5 Nick is 17, a goth and very gay. His misadventures include working with old people, being in love with his straight mate, and hating his family for refusing to reject him due to his sexuality.

Less a comedy about coming out, more one of coming to terms with one’s self!

CABARET | Sat 28 May 8pm | £5/£3 Enjoy a veritable feast of entertainment as students of Bath Spa past and present share their irrefutable and irrepressible talents for your delight and delectation. Probably the best show in the world...

WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY | Sun 29 May 2pm & Mon 30 May 6pm | £8/£6 Josh is good at dancing, but not at people. On the other hand he did once read ‘A Brief History of Time’ by Stephen Hawking so he reckons he’ll probably be alright. Is the hokey cokey really what it’s all about? Really? Josh doesn’t know, but he’s damn well going to find out.

A new show about social anxiety, about coping mechanisms – about big ideas and how they impact on small things. About taking chances. And about dancing. Mixing storytelling, live music and physical comedy: Running Dog Theatre create a show part physics lecture, part dance lesson and school disco.

THEATRELAB | Sun 29 4pm & Sun 12 June 6pm | £5/£3 TheatreLab rehearsed reading is an event which platforms new theatre talent. theatreLab is a producer led collective committed to the creation of new theatre. www.theatrelab.org.uk

CINCO COISAS | Sun 29 May 8pm & Mon 30 May 2pm | £8/£6 Cinco Coisas is a family show from Brazil based artist, Bianca Bertalot. Structured around the five basic needs of a child – Place, Nurturance, Support, Protection and Limitation. Through dance, play, clowning and improvisation it proposes to lead the audience on a purely human experience.

A playful, poignant and inspiring show where two opposing viewpoints, but also complementary, are presented by a single actress, who covers the polarities through the staging of two clowns and narrator.

The show aims to highlight the human vulnerability of the spectator existent since childhood, but doing so in a playful and entertaining way, as is characteristic of the clown.

TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM WWW.BATHSPALIVE.COM PRONOUN | Mon 30 May 4pm & Tue 31 May 6pm | £5/£3 A love story that knew no bounds is now challenged by circumstances beyond Josh’s control.

Isabella took a long look in the mirror, and a long look at her life. She was unhappy, but now she finally understands why. She is meant to be a boy. A heart-warming story of transition, acceptance, love and testosterone.

BOXED UP | Tue 31 May 4pm & Wed 1 June 8pm | £5/£3 A group of individuals each suffering with a deep issue that they can’t seem to talk to anyone about. Each character is on their lunch break, as they open up about their issues we gradually witness their lives fall apart. ‘Boxed up’ shows the importance of opening up in this visually beautiful, collaborative new play. Written, produced, directed and acted by the players from REGENERATE! Theatre Company.

THE DEAD BOAT ON WHEELS | 31 May 8pm, 6 June 6pm & 8 June 8pm | £7/£5/£3 Are you scared to die? The Dead Boat on Wheels is a gritty surreal performance that takes you across the river Styx in a hospital bed. Based on the research of an arts facilitator who worked with terminally ill patients, the performance faces questions surrounding death head on, and opens up the conversation about death and bereavement in a medicalised world.

The Dead Boat on Wheels is performed by The Rue Theatre in partnership with theatrelab, Bath Spa University & The Theatre Academy Maastricht (The Netherlands).

Post-show Q&A on Wed 8th June.

STILL | Wed 1 June 4pm & Thu 2 June 6pm | £5/£3 The tides of life can sometimes pull you under... Waves overhead, shimmering stillness below, swimming in aquatic wonders. The constant stutter of the ocean reflects and distorts every moment... every movement. This is a physical theatre piece that explores body/mind and the struggle of keeping your head above the water.

IS IT TABU? | Wed 1 June 6pm & Thu 2 June 8pm | £6 Like ‘Waiting for Godot’ on speed, this hilarious and moving new show revealing the dramas that transpire when an old TV actress from Hi-De-Hi and a young classical actor get together and stage their own play. Confronting issues of age, gender and prejudice, in a cross between Chorus Line and Kinky Boots. ‘Is it Tabu?’ is a show that metamorphosizes according to the day of performance, the actors try, but can’t seem stick to the script, flying by the seat of their pants.

Both brutally honest and thought-provoking; a show that will both delight, challenge and inspire all generations to look at the world through different eyes.

“...a comedy singing ukelele duo, usually enough to ruin absolutely any occasion, proved strangely likeable...’ – The Guardian

DARE TO CARE | Fri 3 June 8pm & Sat 4 June 2pm | £8/£6/£4 A double-bill of new writing by two local writers Clare Reddaway and Sarah Curwen.

The Dawn of the Silent Spring. 1950s USA: nature was under threat from man-made chemicals but soft-spoken Rachel Carson stood up to the powerful agro-chemical industry with her book: The Silent Spring.

The Angel of Peckham. 2015 UK: Who exactly is the charismatic and colourful ex-chief executive of Kids Company, Camila Batmanghelidjh? Is she the ‘Angel of Peckham’? Or someone rather less savoury?

TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM WWW.BATHSPALIVE.COM INWARD RIPPLES | Sat 4 June 4pm & Sun 5 June 6pm | £5/£3 It’s funny; you’re ready to let someone go, and they sail right back to you. Water under the bridge? You wish. First a memory, then a thought... then want.

Meet Boy. Boy wants Girl.

DEAR ME | Sat 4 June 6pm & Tue 7 June 8pm | £5/£3 If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would you say? With thousands of places and faces woven into a colourful patchwork in your mind, what do you choose to share and what stays hidden in the bottom of a dusty cardboard box. Dear Me invites you back to a place in your memory, why don’t you open the door and see what’s waiting inside?

NOBODY SUSPECTS A MURDER | Sat 4 June 8pm & Tue 7 June 6pm | £5/£3 A musical murder mystery set in 1935. A pompous upper class family are grief stricken after receiving news of Granny’s death. That is until an even more pompous Inspector starts to uncover the truth. Whodunnit? Everyone is a suspect - even the band!

WHEN WILL IT BE ME? | Sun 5 June 4pm | £5/£3 Freddie Sinclair is having a mid life crisis at 27. With the pressure of settling down and finding a ‘real job’ becoming a terrifying reality he decides to up-sticks and go to Ecuador to fulfil his travelling dreams, enjoy a life of no commitment and fill his days with frivolity and all round good times. Our story follows the people he has left behind: his mum, his best friend and his older sibling, in their jealousies over his ‘success’. Live radio drama.

MORE BANKSY THAN BONNETS | Sun 5 June 8pm | £5 (2 for £8) Talking Tales - Bristol’s finest story telling night comes to the Bath Fringe. Stokes Croft Writers bring a selection of tales from Bristol’s best writing talents to Burdall’s Yard. Expect entertaining and edgy stories from the creative heart of Bristol and beyond. More a cultural exchange than an inter-city invasion, but we might bring our superheroes and zombies. We might bring our Beryl and we will certainly bring our badges. Who knows…we might even bring Banksy.

HOWL | Mon 6 June 8pm & Sun 12 June 4pm | £5/£3 A troubled writer struggles pushing through roadblocks in both his personal and professional life. As he gets frustrated he creates a reflection of himself, one that is impulsive, confident and successful in his endeavours. When he falls in love with a girl at his work, the reflection begins to act erratically and the man realises he is losing control of himself.

ROOMMATES WITH MY DEMONS | Tue 7 June 4pm & Wed 8 June 4pm | Free All of us want to seem normal. We all want to be perceived as on the path that we have set ourselves. But what happens when your inner demons are trying to break through? Can you keep your conflicts within, or do they end up consuming you?

HIPPOCRITE | Wed 8 June 6pm & Thurs 9 June 8pm | £7/£5/£3 Spontaneous Theatre Company presents its devised production Hippocrite, a folly about a twoheaded hippopotamus and the discoveries it makes. This singing, dancing, lugubrious animal delivers many moments of mirth through interaction and playing with the audience. Hippocrite takes us through the contrary world of existence with bouts of reality and silliness - and plenty of laughs. The production revels with the audience in the twin pleasures of synchronicity and contradictions. Hippo is a two-headed hippopotamus that converses and argues with itself.

Suitable for children of all ages this show takes us on a rollercoaster ride through a hippopotamus world that is just like our own.

SILENT WINGS | Thurs 9 June 6pm & Fri 10 June 8pm | £10/£7 Inspired by I Have Not Seen A Butterfly Around Here - a published collection of children’s artwork and poetry created inside Czechoslovakian concentration camp Theresienstadt, established by the SS during WW2 - this exciting piece of new writing follows four of those children, as they grow up, and navigate the life cycle behind the camp’s walls.

Written by local actress Daisy Jorgensen and Directed by Scott Rogers.

FEAR OF GOD | Fri 10 June 4pm & Sat 11 June 6pm | £5/£3 Copenhagen 1518, people are starving, homeless and sick with disease. Marin and Annette have run out of food, they don’t know when they will eat again. Both believe in very different solutions to their plight and they are forced to take desperate measures in order to survive.

Meanwhile outside, their neighbours start to dance...

MONOLOGUE KNOCKOUT FINAL | Sat 12 June 2pm | £5/£3 The grand finale of Bath Spa University’s annual monologue competition. Acting students go head-to-head in monologue performances and you, the audience, vote for your favourites.

Who will win? Come along and find out!

KRAPP’S LAST TAPE | Sat 11 June 4pm & Sun 12 June 8pm | £5/£3

By Samuel Beckett. Performed by James Elston.

Krapp sits alone in his isolated den. He eats bananas, drinks, and generally mopes around.

He decides to listen back to his old recordings made when he was a younger gentleman.

Through his listening he learns much about love, loss, death, relationships, and ultimately, life.

FIND US Burdall’s Yard, 7a, Anglo Terrace, Bath BA1 5NH We are located near the King William pub on the London Road.

Buses 6, 7, 13, 231, 271, 272 stop at Snow Hill (3 minutes walk from Burdall’s Yard). See www.firstgroup.com The nearest free parking is in the streets off Snow Hill.

Free parking is also available after 8pm in the Cattle Market car park on Walcot Street (6 minutes walk from Burdall’s Yard).

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