There's something about typhoid mary
Living Spit
Last year's hit show is back for a second helping!
Irish immigrant. Cook. Amiable host. Killer?
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1906. New York City. Talented cook Mary Mallon takes a job preparing delicious meals for yet another high society family, and yet again they begin to fall ill and die. Coincidence? Mary thinks so. And now she’s put all that nonsense behind her. She’s cooking three courses for a very special guest tonight. YOU!
That is unless Health Inspector and sanitation expert George Soper can stop her before it’stoo late...
Prepare for a toe-tapping, germ-spreading extravaganza where the laughter is as infectious as Mary’s meals. Featuring live cooking on stage from Stu Mcloughlin as the much-maligned Mary Mallon and Lucy Tuck as the germaphobic George Soper, There’s Something about Typhoid Mary is a contagiously entertaining journey through the dark and sinister world of the killer cook, Typhoid Mary, told with Living Spit’s trademark wit, song and silliness. With live original music, deliciously tempting food which you can really eat (if you dare),gory deaths a-plenty, puerile puppetry and sackfuls of cross-dressing crassness, this promises to be a feverishly funny feast of fun for some of the family. Just don’t mention the T-word
2nd & 3rd April 2025
7.30pm £15
“Scabrous, irreverent and filthy: it’s irresistible.”
★ ★ ★ ★ What’s On Stage
Age recommendation 16+
The Family Magic Show
Presented by The Great Baldini
The legendary magician the Great Baldini tells the story of his, and Baldwin the magical dog’s, life from their first tricks to the height of their careers – attempting Houdini’s greatest escape. The show is packed with magic, sweets, puppetry, sweets, water, sweets, eggs, sweets, and escapology. It’s hilariously silly…with sweets.
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The Great Baldini is an award-winning member of the Magic Circle, and 22/23 Bristol Stage Magic Champion.
6th April 2025
11am & 2.30pm £8
“Incredible”
Front Row, BBC Radio 4
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“Charming, engaging, and charismatic. A pleasure.” FringeReview
Age recommendation 3+
Playtime
The Last Baguette
Play-along theatre adventures for 2-6 year olds and their grownups
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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.
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!
7th April 2025 "Paws for Thought" meet Ratty’s family
26th May 2025 "A Woodland Wonder" join Ratty as she learns about
the environment and plant your very own seeds!
10 am & 11.30am £8 (group discounts available)
Age recommendation 2-6
Cabin Fever
Fresh !nk
Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 Fresh !nk Theatre Company presents a hilarious theatrical journey set 30,000ft above the Atlantic!
Join us on an unforgettable flight from London to LAX where a flight full of passengers are brought to life. This two-hander delivers turbulence, in-flight shenanigans and an uproarious experience as the characters' stories unfold.
16th April 2025
7.30pm £15
Age recommendation 8+
"An alarmingly accurate, laugh out loud creation that’s as much an anthropological study as it is a piece of comedy theatre...imaginatively staged and consummately delivered...a “must see” show"
FringeReview August 2024​
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★ ★ ★ ★ "An absolute gem"
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joy!
Luke Wright
Following the smash hit success of his Silver Jubilee show (“the best thing he’s done and that’s saying something.” ★★★★★ Telegraph) Luke Wright returns with a new set poems that get to grips with the idea of JOY. Is it possible, as a 42 year old to feel pure unbridled happiness, and what does it look like?
The French novelist Henry de Montherlant said that “happiness writes white” but Wright’s not exactly starting with a blank page. With a mix of the of the comic and the wistful, JOY takes in consumerism, boozing, cancer scares, abseiling vicars, and the joy of language itself. We might have to go down to come up, but we’ll get there in the end. Come let a little joy into your life with a raconteur and wordsmith at the top of his game.
24th April 2025
7.30pm £15
“A winning combination of honesty, humour, ire and wonder. He is at the peak of his powers.”
★★★★★ The Stage
“Breathtaking … with a sharpness and wisdom that lifts the soul, and soothes the battered heart.”
★★★★ The Scotsman
Age recommendation 14+
Dracula
David Mynne
David Mynne (Canterbury Tales, A Christmas Carol, The Odyssey) returns to Theatre Shop for our 10th anniversary season with the show he performed on our opening weekend in 2015.
Following the success of David’s first show, Great Expectations, Dracula was born. Now, ten years on, it’s time for the Count to rise once more...Beware. He is unearthed. He is coming. Keep your windows locked and gather the garlic! The team that brought you The Odyssey, Canterbury Tales and A Christmas Carol have got their teeth into Bram Stoker’s classic tale of the vampire. Devised and written in their inimitable, irreverent style to bring you a better and bloodier one-man performance of Dracula: the Vampyr! Bats and more bats; Garlic and gore; Lunatics and lady vampires! They're all here in this brand-new adaptation of Stoker's famous gothic horror.
30th April 2025
7.30pm £15
Age recommendation 12+
"As brilliant as it is batty, this production is a triumph for all concerned...Not to be missed, you'll be sorry if you do."
Western Morning News
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A Pocket Opera
CarmenCo
Presented with support from Clevedon Community Bookshop
We join Carmen in her boudoir, as she tells her own story in words and music. Dare you consult the cards with her? What does she think of the men in her story? Did she foresee her gruesome ending?​
CarmenCo’s A Pocket Opera is a concert of Spanish and Spanish-inspired music presented as a play, with costumes, props and a storyline following the story of Bizet’s opera Carmen but told from her point of view. Wonderful musicianship, spellbinding storytelling, entertaining and very funny!​
CarmenCo trio, comprising Emily Andrews on flute/mezzo, and David Massey and Francisco Correa on guitars, are all prizewinning Royal Academy of Music graduates and in-demand soloists in their own right.​​
10th May 2025
7.30pm £15
"An unusual, highly entertaining evening." Ayrshire Post
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“The feedback ... has been huge, universally everybody loved it "
Artsreach, Dorset​​
Age recommendation 12+
The complete works of jane austen, abridged
Schoolhouse Productions
​One newbie and two self-professed Janeites, through almost all means imaginable, tackle the entire canon of Jane Austen’s works – in just 80 minutes.
Come along for a fun, funny, and fast-paced romp through the masterpieces of Jane Austen with The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged. Three nimble actors take on all of Austen’s beloved heroines, friends, and love interests—and her incisive social satire—in just 80 minutes. It is a truth universally acknowledged that an audience in possession of high spirits must be in want of a ticket to this big-hearted comedy that will delight Janeites and newcomers alike.
18th May 2025
7.30pm £15
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“Hilarious” Stagetalk Magazine ★ ★ ★ ★
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“played to perfection... a delightfully funny romp through the Austen canon” Bristol 247​​
Age recommendation 14+
The mushroom show
Scratchworks Theatre
Augustine Fogwoode is on a quest to make sure everyone knows about the brilliance of fungi: all of their amazing abilities and scientific superpowers. But it’s just her and her puppet friend Goldie. She might just need a few more fun-guys to make it happen…
Join the party and discover how fungi grow, connect and help the natural world, including us humans. Packed full of interactive games, playful music and lots of laughs for all the family, The Mushroom Show is one person’s mission to build a community… and maybe it’ll become your mission too?
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​Critically acclaimed Scratchworks Theatre fuses their signature style of physical comedy, audience interaction and family theatre with the world of fungi.
28th May 2025
2pm £8
Age recommendation 5+
Toss Bag
Becky Walsh
By unpacking the ‘Toss Bag’ Becky Walsh dives into human psychology, neuroscience and power dynamics to reveal what triggers people to behave from the worst of themselves, in a humorous and insightful exploration of dealing with difficult individuals in life.
You may know one, you may work with one and you may even be one. This show is a stress reliever for those annoyances called other people, also known as douchebag!
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​We're really pleased to welcome Becky back to Theatre Shop after her 2024 sell-out performance of 'Burnout'
31st May 2025
7.30pm £15
Age recommendation 12+