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
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(or how I wrote a hit sitcom with ChatGPT but we’re not talking now)
Fuel and Will Adamsdale
Perrier Comedy and Fringe First winner Will Adamsdale presents a new autobiographical show about escape, creativity and technology.
Once upon a time, a washed up London writer and technophobe went off-grid in a confused lockdown relocation… only to find that the grass ain’t always greener. 
The blank page stretched out like the endless fields. His only hope? His greatest enemy – technology!
A story of bots, writer’s block and getting away from it all.
13th Nov 2025
7.30pm £15
“So skilled an actor, so nuanced a writer that it’s hard to tell where the line between standup and character comedy lies”
The Scotsman
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
living spit's
Beauty and the Beast
As North-Somerset based, Two-Person Comedy Theatre Companies go, Living Spit are widely known as being one of the most physically attractive to ever grace the British stage. However, in this tale as old as time, one of them will be forced to portray a hideous, foul-tempered beast. But which one will it be?
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From the creators of the Offie award-nominated Six Wives of Henry VIII, the 2024 show of the year (StageTalk) There’s Something About Typhoid Mary and the “beguiling rib-tickler” (The Times) Living Spit’s Frankenstein The Musical comes a re-worked, monstrously-musical, Disney-defying version of this classic French tale about what it means to be truly beautiful in the 18th century.
8th - 13th Dec 2025
19th, 20th, 27th, 28th Dec 2025
2nd & 3rd Jan 2026
7.30pm £15
“Living Spit’s deadpan, well-seasoned repartee pays dividends in this playfully updated version of the 18th century French fable.” The Telegraph
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“A well-loved tale, told with warm-hearted silliness and wit, gently reminding us that beauty is more than meets the eye.” Intermission
“Rollicking good fun – deserves a standing ovation every night.” Bristol 24/7
A winter's tail
The Last Baguette
Theatre Shop regulars The Last Baguette return with their much loved Christmas show.
The snow is falling and the solstice is approaching. Ratty is getting ready. She wants everything to be really rat-tastic! But will her friends make it through the snow to the winter woodland revels? Can you help them on their journey? There’ll be excitement, adventure, games, music, silliness and lots of snow!
A Winter’s Tail is a fun, relaxed play-along theatre adventure. Expect to play, move, watch and laugh. The show lasts 1 hour and is for ages 2-6 and their grown-ups. Younger and older siblings welcome!
2nd Jan 2026
10am, 11.30am & 2pm £8
Coming up in 2026...
Later life letter
Luke Wright
Later Life Letter tells the story of Luke Wright’s adoption – the life he leads, and the one he might have done.
Wright navigates his audience through a warm and honest hour of poems and stand-up with the wit, pathos, and silliness that has made him one of the most popular live poets in England.
Expect raucous laughter, tear-stained cheeks, and a little smattering of drum n bass.
24th April 2026
7.30pm £15
“A streetwise panache and a sardonic comic verve to rival Stewart Lee.”
★★★★★ Telegraph
“His poems shoot arrows through the heart, or leave you dazzled by their virtuosity” ★★★★★ List