IF you are a fan of the wonderful Natalie Haynes and her standing up for the classic radio shows, the names Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Artemis, Apollo et al are probably familiar. This autumn, the West Country’s favourite comedy theatre company takes up the challenge … but have Living Spit bitten off more than they can…
WELSH storyteller Shon-Dale Jones is back on tour with a new show, Stories From An Invisible Town, starting at Weston-super-Mare, with dates in Salisbury, Bristol, Plymouth and Bath. On Tuesday 23rd September Shôn Dale-Jones is first and foremost a storyteller. He’s honest, inventive, and deeply human … curious, restless, wide-eyed, offbeat and resonant. His work…
IT’s hardly your average response: “The consultant had told me he was confident I had throat cancer that had spread into the lymph glands. Joyfully, I held his hand, and looked up to the heavens like a South American footballer after scoring a goal. It was one of the happiest moments of my life.” But…
COURT rooms are the stuff of drama – comedy, not so much. Improv comedy comes to Stockland village hall, near Honiton, on Friday 1st August at 7.30pm with This Is Your Trial!, a show in which the audience is fully involved! When you come to this court, your role is that of juror. You’ll decide…
THE Gavin Robertson company returns to Dorset in March with three performances of a double bill of Dickens’ short haunted stories, with a comic twist! The Ghost of a Smile will be at Sandford Orcas village hall on Friday 7th, Powerstock Hut on Saturday 8th and Shillingstone’s Portman Hall on Sunday 9th, all at 7.30pm….
BATH’S Ustinov Studio opens its 2025 season with three performances of CAT the Play, performed by Richard Kieswick as a man who dreams of fame in one of Lord Lloyd Webber’s most popular musicals, based on the work of T S Eliot. Described as a comedy drama with a dark twist, CAT the Play was…
MARK Twain’s famous quote about comedy provides the title for Ed Byrne’s current tour, which is coming to Weymouth Pavilion on Sunday 19th January. One of the UK’s favourite television comedians, Ed Byrne has extended his nationwide Tragedy Plus Time tour, winner of British Comedy Guide’s Best Comedy Show 2023 – and his most personal show…
LIVING Spit’s autumn recipe is on its way to a theatre near you. Mary Mallon is an Irish immigrant, an amiable host … and a killer? A talented cook in New York City in 1906 takes a job preparing delicious meals for yet another high society family, and yet again they begin to fall ill…
THE hilariously funny, cuddly, wry and inspired Howard Coggins, best known in the south west as co-founder of Living Spit and nationally for his Lottery adverts, has died at the age of 52. He was diagnosed with cancer late in 2022. Frustrated with playing bit parts in other people’s shows, Howard and Stu McLoughlin started…