Outside, a storm is raging. Inside, a darkened room preserves the fragments of a past underneath dust sheets. Sea-shells, voices, yellowing postcards: the flotsam and jetsam of a childhood spent beach-combing on the coast of Brittany. Stories emerge: of treasure found in tidal ponds, and women metamorphosing into serpents. But beneath the floorboards, the creaking groans of whales warn of unsettled futures.
In a sparkling one-woman performance that blends poetry with theatre, Anglo-Breton poet Claire Trévien navigates a shifting maritime landscape. Memory and myth from the Celtic...
Prepare to be enlightened. On the opening night of the first ever, Relight My Fire festival, join performance poet Matt Harvey as he premieres his new energy-inspired collection, ‘The Element In the Room’.
Currently poet-in-residence with Regen SW, (a centre for expertise in sustainable energy), Matt has gleaned some stimulating new material inspired by our love affair with energy.
Where do we go from here? If anyone can make light of the situation, it’s this man. Putting solar under the spotlight and giving wind-turbines a twist, Matt introduces a packed programme with...
A chilled-out showcase of germinating ideas, presented by Framework, the artistic development arm of the Bike Shed Theatre.
This Sunday Theatre Rush will be sharing the early stages of their next piece 'yet to be titled' and Ella Evans will be here with the beginnings of ELMIS, a stand up show musing on feminist learnings.
This opportunity is open for all Artists to use so if you'd like to show any work at it's early stages just e-mail chloe@bikehsedtheatre.co.uk in fact e-mail her if you want to know how we can support you making and showing work you are creating.
WINNER – FRINGE FIRST AWARD 2013 WINNER – MTN AWARD FOR INNOVATION 2013 ‘Fine Chisel’s Dumbstruck at Zoo Venues is terrific, layered work from young company who deserve a big audience.’ – Lyn Gardner
Fiona is losing her voice. Mal is losing his faith. Ted is losing his marbles.
Somewhere in the North Pacific, a lonely whale sings.
Armed with a stage full of instruments and a box of chalk, FINE CHISEL’s award-winning actor-musicians celebrate forgotten dances, mis-translations and unknown voices.
'Let Fine Chisel plunge you underwater and whisk you back in...
Outside, the land is burning. But in the bar, music is playing, drink is flowing and there are stories to be told. The Boar’s Head in London’s Cheapside was Shakespeare’s favourite pub. Fine Chisel bring it to life and fill it with an array of colourful characters. Some of them you’d expect to find there, propping up the bar. Others we’ve relocated from across the Complete Works. Grab yourself a glass and come join them…
Foot-stomping live music, party-popper warfare and folk-fuelled storytelling.
’Fine Chisel… have sieved through the entire works of...
WINNER – Three Weeks Editors’ Award, Edinburgh 2012. Having a baby is complicated. It's even tougher when you need another man's sperm.
Richard is infertile. Kate, a fierce-witted teenager he meets on a park bench, is an unlikely therapist. The gentle strumming of a busker underscores two people’s intimate, important stories.
Written and directed by Tom Spencer, Firing Blanks is a fresh, funny and moving play about donor conception (and ducks) with an original live score.
‘Firing Blanks is an exquisitely crafted piece of theatre’ - Three Weeks...
English Touring Opera visits The Bike Shed Theatre for the first time to bring to life the remarkable words of one of America’s greatest poets, Emily Dickinson. Famous for his unique blend of jazz harmonies and folk tunes, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Copland (Of Mice and Men, Appalachian Spring) interpets Dickinson’s words in his song cycle Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson.
Composed in 1950 before Dickinson became a household name, these songs for voice and piano echo Dickinson’s concise yet lyric language and include some of her most famous poems, such as “Heart, We Will...
Working with neurologist Jack de Havas, TheatreState have begun to create a multiple choice show where the audience are the decision makers. Inspired by fortune tellers, corporate psychology, Greek legends and Argos catalogues. Join us as we explore fate, choice and wonder in a consumerist society.
Book online at: http://www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/scratch-multiple-choice/
Join Albert, the genius behind the übercoolest moustache in science, for a lecture like none you’ve ever attended. The eccentric theoretical physicist is accompanied by his two wives and mum on the piano, and by guest rapper MC Squared, as he quantum leaps us through two world wars, two theories of relativity, and the deployment of two very big bombs. Warning: features the wurst sausage joke ever. Peer reviewed by the University of Sussex. “Something close to brilliance” * The Times; “The clearest – and certainly the funniest – explanation of the Theory of...
Inspired by courageous protesters who risk everything for what they believe in, three women decided to take action. These women resolve to stop their ineffectual moaning and complaining and to find playful ways to stand up for what they believe in. Playful Acts of Rebellion questions what makes something worth the fight, what effect can an individual have? and how does trying to change the world end up changing us?
Charting the performers journeys, from unusual concepts to moments of desperation, despair and human triumph, Playful Acts of...
