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Welcome to
Theatre Shop

THEATRE SHOP OPENING WEEKEND PAUL BLAKEM

WHO WE ARE

Theatre Orchard and Living Spit met in 2012. Their eyes locked across a crowded room and they decided to get together and turn an empty shop into a theatre.

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They named their bundle of joy “Theatre Shop”. It’s 6 years old this year and is now run by The Theatre Shop CIC, a brand new not-for-profit company.

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don Quixote (is A Very Big Book)
Opposable Thumb Theatre & Nordland Visual Theatre

In his new one-man show, Dik Downey (Green Ginger, Pickled Image, Opposable Thumb) weaves together the crazed delusions of Don Quixote with his own struggle against reality. With a rogue’s gallery of puppets and desperate clowning, Dik’s Quixote embarks on surreal, comic misadventures, accompanied by his wisecracking sidekick, Sancho Panza, and his decrepit horse, Rocinante.

While Dik fights to make his retelling of this huge novel joyous to a contemporary audience, we see something else – Dik’s refusal to yield to the passing of time. As Quixote chases his impossible dreams of glory, Dik faces his own dwindling relevance and his mortality.

This international co-production from the company that made Coulrophobia, a “truly fabulous showcase of clowning and puppetry skills” (Total Theatre), blends laugh-out-loud moments with mad reflections on the joys and indignities of growing old and fighting against the inevitable.

23 October 2025
7.30pm     £15

What's On 

We're squirrelling away putting the finishing touches to a fabulous season for Autumn/Winter 2021. We'll be announcing it and putting tickets on sale by the middle of September. In the meantime, here's a picture of a squirrel...

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FIND US AT

Unit 5 Queens Square Clevedon BS21 6HX

Theatre Shop is in the pedestrianised square behind B&M Bargains, tucked between Superdrug and Boots.

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We recommend parking in B&M Bargains car park (unrestricted after 5pm )   

and walking across Queens Square where you'll find Theatre Shop.

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