BIN RAT!!!
The Last Baguette
A rat-astic and realistic look into refuse and recycling. Rummage through the rubble with Bin Rat and her friends from Squeaky Clean Street Cleaners to discover where all the junk goes!
Scrape scraps off the streets and find out what literally happens to litter in this fun, feral, family show.
Bin Rat is an outdoor interactive theatre & puppetry show that explores our relationship with our waste and where it goes, and asks the question: is tidiness really the answer? With Last Baguette’s zany style & absurd humour & lots of disco dancing, this show asks you to think before you throw - where is away?
The Last Baguette makes entertaining, accessible and eccentric work for family audiences and uses live music, physical comedy, puppetry, visual storytelling & silliness to talk about important issues of our times.
27th July 2025
11am & 2pm
FREE SHOW IN
QUEENS SQUARE!
Age recommendation: All Ages
Too Many Greek Myths
Living Spit
When two members of Clevedon-based comedy theatre company, Living Spit, are overhead bragging about how good they are, Zeus, enraged by their hubris, decides to teach them a lesson. His punishment? A Herculean challenge: to squeeze twenty of the greatest Ancient Greek myths into one chaotic, side-splitting show!
Join Living Spit as they tackle everything from Hades to Heracles, Midas to Medusa, with their trademark blend of harebrained humour, questionable wigs and a total disregard for historical accuracy. Can they conquer the labyrinth of legends before time runs out? Or will the gods have the last laugh?
Prepare for a mythological marathon - Living Spit style!
Warning: May contain togas, ridiculous puns and possibly an overworked Trojan Horse.
29 Sept - 11th Oct 2025
2.30pm (Saturdays only)
7.30pm £15
Age recommendation 8+
The time seekers
The Wardrobe Ensemble
Have you ever dreamt of seeing a real dinosaur? Meeting a Roman or an Ancient Egyptian? Sharing tea time with a robot from the future?
Join Alph, Betty and Gammo for a thrilling journey through time where you take the steering wheel!
Following on from the stellar success of The Star Seekers, comes a brand new mission: The Time Seekers is an inspiring, warm and audience driven children’s theatre show that journeys through history, exploring the people and places of our past and future with songs, humour and lots of audience interaction. We need Time Seekers to help us complete our latest mission and help answer one of the greatest questions of all time – what is a Diplodocus’s favourite bedtime story?!
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A time-travelling adventure for ages 3-8
12th Oct 2025
2pm £8
"An absolute joy!"
Bristol Arts Monster *****
“A swirling, crackling, disco-dancing, joyful time machine. This show is delightful, and genuinely educational... The Wardrobe Ensemble deserve full credit for creating such a vivid playscape. Thoroughly recommended.”
Bristol 24/7
Troubled Waters
Corrine Harragin, Joy Becker & Simon Roth
Leaping salmon, fevered skinny dips, witches’ knickers & sacred wells: A new piece of contemporary oral storytelling & live music exploring endangered freshwater worlds through river legend, folklore and myth.
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Joy is a Manchester-made musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter whose style draws from both Classical and Contemporary scenes. Simon Roth is a multi-instrumentalist musician, performer and producer, known primarily as a drummer in the Contemporary and Klezmer music scenes. Corinne is a Bristol-based Storyteller, Performance Maker and Trainer whose style draws out the physicality, humour and shared experience of storytelling, recentring marginalised voices in myth and folklore with her own brand of oral performance.
15th Oct 2025
7.30pm £15
Macbeth:the musical
Bristol Shakespeare Festival
“Is this a real knife? Is this just fantasy?"
Fresh from glowing reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe, enjoy Shakespeare's spooky tragedy like never before - as six actors deploy wittily rewritten pop classics, uproariously silly comedy and multiple highly questionable props to recount the saga of Scotland's most murdery king. Expect queens and witches, Queen and B*Witched, ABBA, stabbers, and much more besides!
With gloriously repurposed numbers from Broadway, the charts, and the golden oldies, Macbeth: The Musical is a hilarious ride, suitable for buffs and beginners, wee ones and wizened ones, and Scots and Sassenachs alike!
No bagpipes were harmed in the making of this musical.
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17th Oct 2025
7.30pm £15
Age recommendation 8+
★★★★“laugh-out-loud” Broadway World
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★★★★ “psychotically upbeat”
The Wee Review
neil haigh's comedy Masterclass
Ruined by Stewart Wright
Neil Haigh’s Comedy Masterclass Ruined By Stewart Wright is the brain child of…
Yes, you guessed it, Neil Haigh and Stewart Wright. As colleagues and collaborators over the last ten years, playing and toying with an array of projects, they are now excited to be harnessing their chemistry, theatrical skills and comedy talents in this brand new show. It hits the spot for a memorable night out with its hybrid of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' style impro, comic character acting, and off the cuff story telling.
The crackling combination of Neil Haigh’s experience with ground breaking improvised theatre company Cartoon De Salvo, and Stewart’s thirty years as a British comic character actor, are not to be missed.
22nd Oct 2025
7.30pm £15
Who Bloody Dunnit!!
The Blank Slate Ensemble
Come watch a double homicide in action!
The Blank Slate Ensemble presents pun packed naughty noir killer comedy, all delivered with their signature joyful silliness. Witness two twisted tales tipping over with crime, curmudgeonry and Agatha Christie crashing out of her grave to cancel us. Whether you're a die hard detective novel fan, or just want a good laugh, there's something for everyone in this double kill - double bill!
Ace Detective Luke Warm and not so ace Officer Gethin Hotter attempt to solve complex crimes across the globe (but mostly in the Greater Swindon Area). As the plots unravel faster than our minds, discover the wicked truth behind these sinister stories, and learn why people are calling this show “really sick” and “actually quite upsetting”.
25th Oct 2025
7.30pm £15
Playtime
The Last Baguette
Come along for a fun, relaxed participatory theatre session with The Last Baguette theatre company. There’ll be silliness, play-acting, games and music... Expect to play, move, watch and laugh.
Gee-Whiskers - A Cooking Catastrophe! Join Ratty and her friends for a fun and gentle introduction to theatre with play-along storytelling, original music, puppetry, theatre games, movement, and lots of imaginative play. Ratty has a lot of ideas but sometimes things don’t go according to plan....can you help her by playing along and working together?
Sessions last 1 hour, and are created for ages 2-6 and their grown-ups. Younger and older siblings welcome!
28th Oct 2025
10am/11.30am £8 (Group discounts available)
A knight of terror
Bonnet Dog
What do you know of the west of England?’
‘But surely that's a myth!’
‘I assure you, Mr Winchester, it is very real.’
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Embark on this hilarious Victorian ghost story of a witless young man and a cast of eerie locals.
Journalist Thomas Carstairs is absolutely hopeless. He's foppish, foolish and above all totally unqualified to be a writer. Looking for inspiration, Thomas travels to a remote seaside town and immediately has an unceremonious welcome from the locals who see him for the pathetic, talentless toff he undoubtedly is. What starts as an innocent writing retreat leads to the discovery of a wizened and mysterious skull of terrifying origins. One that has the power to bring Thomas’ wildest fortunes into being and to awaken a very formidable foe…an armoured one.
Created by Bonnet Dog, ‘A Knight of Terror’ is a Victorian Gothic Ghost Story that mixes the uncanny tales of M. R. James with the silliness of classic British humour. Join us this Halloween as we recite this ripping yarn that promises laughs as well as chilling spooks.
1st Nov 2025
7.30pm £15
impromptu Shakespeare
Hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose. The Bard is back! With story and verse improvised in the moment, enjoy a riotous new Shakespeare play every time – performed by Impromptu Shakespeare’s whip smart cast.
Packed with priceless wit, lyrical smarts, romance, and a dash of double-crossing, this leading ensemble do the Bard proud with a brand new one-act hit every time, inspired by audience suggestions.
Impromptu Shakespeare have been a smash hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, Bristol Shakespeare Festival, appeared on BBC Shakespeare Live, and won Best Comedy Event, Buxton Fringe 2021
22nd Nov 2025
7.30pm £15
“Shakespeare from the hip. Ingenious and very funny” Will Gompertz, BBC Arts Editor
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★★★★★ “Simply sublime... side-splittingly hilarious improvised comedy almost worthy of the bard himself” BroadwayBaby
Santa & sven
Stewart Wright with Ben Kirby
Now in a staggering 6th year, British comic actor Stewart Wright returns once more to bring the Father of Christmas to life. Experienced at entertaining all ages with his own brand of improvisation and audience interaction, it’s where theatre meets ‘An audience with’ Father Christmas. He’s reunited once again with the actor and circus artist Ben Kirby as Sven the Reindeer Handler. Guaranteed to bring a sense of fun, laughter and anticipation to all. There’ll be music, sleigh bells, new surprises and bucket loads of Christmas spirit.
They can only bring the gift of laughter, joy and bedtime ruining excitement. They will however do their best to deliver your children’s wishes on Christmas Eve....with your assistance
30th Nov 2025
2.30pm & 4pm £10
‘A funny and touching sprinkle of Christmas magic, which you’d be hard pressed not to be enchanted by, whatever your age.’
Bristol’s Best Christmas Shows, Bristol 24/7