BATH FRINGE FESTIVAL 2017
Friday 26th May – Sunday 11th June
www.bathfringe.co.uk
See full booking information
on page 2
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Tickets & Booking
PRINCIPAL SPONSORS AND FUNDERS
Andrew Fletcher
Arts Council England
St John’s Foundation
The Roper Family Charitable Trust
All Fringe events will also have tickets for sale on the door, except if indicated
otherwise in this programme, or if sold out (we will indicate Sold Out in the
online programme and its Stop Press section).
Also on www.bathfringe.co.uk we provide direct links to online ticketing
pages when we know them.
SPONSORS
Burdall’s Yard
Deeley Freed
Gascoyne Place
Green Park Brasserie
Sitec
Source Antiques
spaice.com
The Bell Inn
The Guild CoWorking Hub
Wessex Water
Xerophon
In this printed programme, we have indicated which box office will be dealing
with which event, or any special arrangements, on each individual listing.
Bath Box Office
http://bathboxoffice.org.uk/
Telephone booking and information:
01225 463362
Email: [email protected]
In person: Bath Visitor Information
Centre, Abbey Chambers, Abbey Street,
Bath BA1 1LY
Bath Spa Live (for Burdall’s Yard)
THANKS
Bath Fringe is managed by a co-operative committee:
Arran, Briony, David, John, Kerry, Sarah, Scarlett,
Steve and Wendy. Special thanks to Andy Mullett for
accountancy help.
It wouldn’t be possible to put this all together without
the help of many other volunteers, supporters and
sponsors. We’d like to thank them all, and while we’re at
it apologise to anyone we’ve missed out by mistake.
All things web – Geoff Soper, Chris Pink, Nick Steel
(Xerophon)
All things FAB – Arran and the Fringe Arts Bath Team –
the city’s own visual arts festival. Richard White. 44AD
Streats committee – Ralph, Ric, Jan, Dave, Liz, the
Kilters, Izzy, Geoff and Sarah. Liz, Holly, Mark, Andy &
NTC for doing the business. Marty for continued support
and good wine.
All the volunteers and staff who keep events going.
Technical & production & marketing crew – Stevie, Liz
and Spinner.
All at The Bell [People’s Republic of Walcot]; Jan at
Chapel, Widcombe Social Club. Luke & Theatre Bath; all
at The Mission and at Burdall’s Yard.
David and Matthew at Fake Escape; Tom at The Guild.
Local learning establishments especially Tim Vyner and
3rd year BSU Graphics students for our poster artwork.
Local media – Bath Chronicle, Bath Life & The Bath
Magazine; Theatre Bath; Listomaniabath.com
Marick, Malcolm & Colin at Old Theatre Royal, Andrew
at the Brazz, Nick again for Bath Comedy, Nod Knowles.
The year-round promoters like Ruben RMT and Sally.
Kelston Records. Komedia.
Ric, Mr Donwood & Michael; Ms. Sarah Mallabart, Steve
Poole, all for help/work on Fringe creation projects.
All the supportive people in the city & council – B&NES
Licensing and Environmental Health, Traffic, special
thanks to Karen at Property Services; Sam Fuller and
Youth Connect; Bath Tourism Plus. No.1 Royal Crescent.
Ruth Kapadia and Nick Green at Arts Council England.
This programme by
Oli Hudson – ace artwork
Steve Spicer – squeezing it all in
Wendy Matthews – inputting and correcting
Steve Henwood – verbosity & all the mistakes
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www.bathspalive.com/fringe/Online/
default.asp
Email: [email protected]
Komedia
www.komedia.co.uk/bath/
Telephone booking and information:
08452 938480
In person: 22-23 Westgate Street, Bath
BA1 1EP
Chapel Arts
www.chapelarts.org/
Telephone information: 01225 461700
EMail: [email protected]
Bath Comedy Festival
www.bathcomedy.com
The Rondo
http://rondotheatre.co.uk/
ticketbooking/
0333 666 3366
The Edge, University of Bath
www.edgearts.org/whats-on/
01225 386777 [email protected]
Travel Info
Getting around the Festival
Bath is a small city and easy to get round on foot, but it’s also well served by city
buses into the evening.
Larkhall (Rondo Theatre) is on buses 6A&7, and not at all far from bus 13.
The University of Bath is on buses U1&U2
Kingswood Theatre is on bus 31 and the rare 79 & 620
The Royal Oak is on buses 5,17, 20(A/C), 42, U5, U6
Kelston Roundhill is a short walk from buses 19 & 37
Getting back late
Buses to Saltford, Keynsham & Bristol run hourly every night till 1am except for
Sunday when they stop at 23.10.
Trains run back to Bristol after midnight every night, and after 1am Monday-Friday.
Trains run to Chippenham, Swindon, Reading & London until gone 10.30pm every
night.
The last train to Frome via Bradford, Trowbridge & Westbury, etc. is at 23.38 Monday
to Friday, and 23.27 on Saturday. Annoyingly it doesn’t make it as far as Frome on a
Sunday (23.28), when the last train into Somerset is 21.06.
Check for railway engineering work before consigning yourself to the last train.
Bath Tourist Information
For information about where to stay and what to do during the day in Bath (apart
from going to FAB fringe art shows and supporting our advertisers and sponsors,
of course) your one-stop for all the information you could need is Bath
Tourist Information. And for extra convenience, Bath
Box Office is in the same building!
p: Abbey Chambers, Abbey Churchyard, Bath BA1 1LY
t: 01225 477101 / 0906 711 2000 (50p / min)
e: [email protected]
They have an informative website at www.visitbath.co.uk
For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
Bath Fringe Festival 2017
Friday 26 May to Sunday 11 June
www.bathfringe.co.uk
Contents
Booking & Travel Info: page opposite
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Festival Highlights 7
Bedlam 8-9
Map & Venue Info 32
10Events Diary 33
Index By Artform At the back
FAB Fringe Arts Bath Bath Fringe Ltd. is a not-for-profit Co-Operative Company Limited by Guarantee, registered in England & Wales no.2716515
Registered Office: Fringe Office, 103 Walcot Street, Bath BA1 5BW, Great Britain, EU.
01225 480079 • [email protected] • twitter.com/bathfringe • www.facebook.com/bathfringe
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E X P A N D I N G
E V E N T
H O R I Z O N S
Apocalypse
Theatre Explosion
Novato Dance
Getting venues and organisations together
courtesy of our Fringe Theatre Group has brought
on a massive expansion in staged drama this year,
concentrated at The Mission, Burdall’s Yard, and
still more elsewhere – eg. The Rondo. Visiting
professional Fringe-style companies cross paths with
local and student work, and we’re hoping for some
cross-fertilisation of ideas as well as some great
shows. Skip through these pages or use the
Index by Artform (page 33) and you’ll see
some of our suggestions: and it would take a
hardy individual to get to all of them.
Fringe Theatre venues with busy
programmes of events,
like the aforementioned
Burdall’s and Mission, have
bars and other facilities to
hang out between shows
and beyond. The Café at
The Mission is particularly
recommended...
A Bright Room
Student Theatre Festival
A crucial element in the explosion of theatre shows
this year has been the involvement of Bath Spa Live,
Burdall’s Yard and the Bath Spa University Drama &
Performing Arts Department. Many student shows
are featured at Burdall’s and The Mission, in fact
so many that we thought, for clarity, we’d list them
separately. Every day in this programme you’ll find a
short list of student shows for which full details are to
be found elsewhere, particularly on the Bath Spa Live
website. Check them out, there were certainly some
crackers last year.
Certain other student shows (eg. those from the
other Bath University) which have long featured in
the Fringe programme are still here in our pages,
and we’d recommend giving them a look too.
Amuse Broche
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Looking After Number One
For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
Theatre without The Theatre
Those of us whose boat will more likely float for a
musical offering will still find plenty to get excited
by in the pages which follow. Extensive music
Big 2 0 th
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programmes in The Old Theatre Royal,
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Hedonist
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The Bell, new venues The Barley Mow
party people and
and more recent additions The Nest
fellow travellers take heed:
and Widcombe Social Club, plus
The Bell will be celebrating the
plenty of other one-offs will see
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20
anniversary of one of the Fringe’s
shows from Britain’s best jazz
best ever parties Walcot Nation Day
guitarist Martin Taylor (June
over the last weekend of the festival. We
1), Bardic & wyrdfolk legend
won’t be closing the street again, sorry,
Robin Williamson (June 8),
but we can certainly fill the air with
SouthAfrican acappella wonders
celebration… See our website
Africa Entsha (June 5), jazz/
or theirs for details nearer
hiphop fusionists Vels Trio (June
the day.
9), the tongue-in-cheek classics of The
Unravelling Wilburys (June 9), the when is
a performance not a performance? conundrum of
‘Think of a Song’ (May 31) - and a whole lot more.
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Add to this the bedlam fair shows, and many
performances and live events in Fringe Arts
Bath (see their programme at the other end of
Go for a Song
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Nearly as mysterious, this year’s Outside! NOW!!
show Looking after No.1 - a one-off creation
made for Bath and for the Fringe by local people in
collaboration with Natural Theatre Company and
Dutch street theatre director Yvonne van den Akker
- has a venue for its concluding section (see listing
for Bank Holiday Monday, May 29 th) but it will be
starting before then at different points around the
city and making its way towards the Royal Crescent
for 2pm. Go out and track them down - or there may
be more clues closer to the time.
Deirdre
da
Of course, being a Fringe, and this being the 21st
Century, not all performances take place on stages
or in accustomed performance spaces. Those
of you who like to push the experience one step
further will be glad to hear that not only are Fringe
regulars Fake Escape [20:20 Vision] back with The
Apocalypse (no theme too ultimate for that crew,
that’s for sure) on June 8-10, but this year we add
Invulnerable Nothings presenting A Bright Room
Called Day in environmental/immersive style
from June 7-11. Both of these shows will reveal the
location of the performance to you before the event
or with your ticket booking. There is also a ‘location’
performance – Just In Case, (June 9&10) - as part of
the Bath Spa student work.
this publication) and you could be seeing shows
throughout the fortnight without going near a
stage (let alone going through one).
Laugh Spa
Comedy shows are also expanding this year too:
three shows via Bath Comedy Festival - including
Scott Capurro who was a sell-out at their own
festival in the spring (June 8), a whole new strand
of edgy material at The Old Theatre Royal, plus
regulars like Komedia’s guaranteed top-line acts
at Krater Comedy Club all the way sideways to
The Walcot Comedy Collective and a crop of
enterprising one-offs. There’s even a new Bathconnected immersive comedy company Amuse
Bouche with a birthday party with a difference
(party food included) (June 3)
freedom of Speechmolland
See full booking information on page 2
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Fed up with staying indoors for your art? (especially
on a lovely sunny day like today?) - well we’ve got just
the ticket for you, several times over.
Romantic Botanic
Miraculous Theatre’s Romantic Botanic is an
exploration of plant biology of the most intimate
kind, along the way telling some new tales about
familiar parts of our city. It features some of our
favourite outdoor performers and the expedition
leaves five times over two days (see listings for June
2&3). Please book in advance if you possibly can:
numbers are limited (we may sell out) and we want to
give everyone the maximum chance of being part of
a small group.
Richard White is a locally-based artist and
researcher who has had events in Bath Fringe before.
This year he is presenting different parts of Sweet
Waters, a study on foot of the legacy and structure of
the Slave Business in Bath & Bristol. See listings for
the last weekend of the festival and days afterwards.
Richard’s work is also connected to the programme
(which you also hold in your hands here) of our sister
festival FAB Fringe Arts Bath, who are including a
number of pieces that use walking as an integral part
of the work or experience. More of that in the pages
at the back.
We’ve also revisited a previous project of ours, The
Misery of Crowds, written by Stanley Donwood
& performed by Ric Jerrom, and turned it into
an interactive mobile experience. Download our
app, click a few boxes and you’re on your way for
a rollercoaster ride (rollercoaster not provided)
through the underbelly of our fair city. Because of the
way of these things we haven’t yet got clearance from
Romantic Botanic
the mighty tech corporations that we’re not filling
your mobile with malicious programming (well, not
exactly), so to find it we’re going to have to send you
to the Latest News section of the Bath Fringe website
(www.bathfringe.co.uk) where there will be a link just
as soon as they’ve given us one.
Long time Fringe favourites Kilter Theatre didn’t
make a new immersive environmental show this
year, they went down the pub instead. Luckily for
you, you’re all invited, and you will be entertained
and perhaps educated along the way. Have a look out
for The Pub Tour (not so hard, at 8 outings it’s the
most repeated show in the whole festival). Mine’s a
Bellringer.
And of course there’s bedlam fair, Outside! NOW!!
and outdoor performances in the FAB Fringe Arts
Bath programme. Keep reading and you’ll find them!
We’ve not got a Kids Festival this year - maybe another time - but there are as always a number of
good value events, and even free ones, aimed at a family audience.
Squeezy Green (May 29)
Alf the Highwayman (June 4)
Wind in the Willows (8-10 June, The Egg, Student production)
Nowadays - Family Tipi (June 10)
Youth Events
All the Journeys I Never Took (June 3)
The Last Word Poetry Slam (June 3)
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For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
Dragon: Shannon Bennett ©2017
Bedlam Fair, for example (June 3&4) - especially in the afternoons - is designed to be mostly
child-friendly (not everything, mind you…), and the following is a short list of some events
aimed specifically at a younger/family audience:
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Natural Theatre, Bongo Bolero, and new-to-Bath
shows from The Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band
(celebrating 70 years of Indian Independence) and
HURyCAN from Spain. And add again student work
from Circomedia & Street to the Point, and other
random late additions, and you’ve got an afternoon
that veers from crazy to profound and back again
and is a major rendezvous for outdoor arts across the
SouthWest.
Avanti
The streets are paved with talent
Every year we make an especial song & dance about
bedlam fair and our annual selection of street,
outdoor and location theatre, because it’s one of our
favourite bits. This year the same but more so: we got
a larger than usual grant from Arts Council England
Lottery Funding and, because of the sort of people we
are, we’re spending it all on you - well, to be more
precise, we’ve spent it on more and better free shows
we can all enjoy.
Number 1 event is as usual Bedlam Sunday in
Kingsmead Square and Saw Close all afternoon of June
3rd. Our New Work Works programme is supporting
6-8 new shows from emerging artists who will be
debuting the season’s new work with us, all to make
sure it’s at its very best when you see it. Add to this new
professional work from the renowned Avanti Display,
Saturday 2nd will see some of the same companies especially the new ones - trying out their game bang in
the centre of the city (Abbey, Guildhall, Orange Grove
- see detailed Bedlam flyer nearer the date). Saturday
also sees the return of the Street Performers Party event
in Green Park Station in the evening, with the Rajasthan
Heritage Brass Band, HURyCAN and other live shows,
and then drink chat and world music DJ on into the
night at the Brasserie.
Hurycan
RHBB
Our other major outdoor arts project is Outside! NOW!!
a participatory piece made by local performers, young
people, performance students and professional actors,
under the overall direction of Natural Theatre’s Mark
Bishop and with special guest input from Dutch street
theatre director Yvonne van den Akker. Inspired by
the 250th Birthday of The Royal Crescent, we thought
we’d look below stairs and feature the servants and
tradespeople who made everything work, then as now,
and who are a more interesting subject (and probably
more interesting to talk to too).
The show takes place on the afternoon of Bank Holiday
Monday, May 29th, and though it’s focussed on the
Royal Crescent at 2pm, it will begin at different points
throughout the city, so you’ll have to go out and find
them, guess cleverly, or get the more detailed bedlam
fair leaflet nearer the time.
For other bedlam-related shows like Romantic Botanic,
Amuse Bouche, Kilter Theatre, the FAB performance
programme and more, see pages 4-6 and the
FAB guide at the other end of this
document you’re holding.
There will be updates on the
website and a dedicated
Bedlam leaflet available
around town before the
event.
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Fringe 2017 Locations
Access
Ale House
None
Barley Mow, 32 Bathwick Street, Bath, BA2 6NZ
Asst
Bath Brew House
Full
Beckford’s Tower gardens. Lansdown Hill, Bath,
Call
The Bell, Walcot Street BA1 5BW
Call
Burdall’s Yard
Full
Chapel Arts Centre
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None
Crystal Palace Pub, Abbey Green
Full
Edge, University of Bath BA2 7AY
Full
Green Park Station
Full
Kingswood Theatre BA1 5RG
Asst
Kingsmead Sqaure
Full
Komedia
Full
Mission Theatre
Full
Museum of Bath at Work
Asst
Old Barn, Kelston Roundhill, See website.
Call
Old Theatre Royal
Full
The Rondo, St. Saviours Road, BA1 6RT
Call
Royal Oak, Lower Bristol Road, BA2 3BW
Call
No 1 The Royal Crescent
Asst
Sawclose
Full
St James Wine Vaults
None
St Swithins Church garden, The Paragon
Asst
St. Michael’s Church
Full
Widcombe Social Club
Full
FaB 2017 Lactions
Kelston Roundhill
RUH Combe Park
Access
FaB 1, 15 New Bond St, Bath BA1 1BA
Asst
FaB 2, 94 Walcot Street, Bath BA1 5BG
Asst
FaB 3, 6 New Bond Street Place, BA1 1BH
Asst
FaB 4 @29A Westgate street bath
Asst
FaB at Milsom Place, Milsom Street BA1 1BZ
Full
FaB at Walcot Chapel, Walcot Gate BA1 5UG
Asst
FaB at Cleveland Pools, Hampton Row, BA2 6QS
FaB at Art at the Heart of the RUH, Combe Park,
Avon BA1 3NG
FAB at Bath Artists Studios, Comfortable Place,
Upper Bristol Road BA1 3AJ
FaB at 44AD Artspace, 4 Abbey Street, BA1 1NN
FaB in the Garden Cafe, Holburne Museum, Great
Pulteney St, BA2 4DB
FaB at 48 Great Pulteney Street, BA2 4DP
Asst
Royal Oak
Full
Full
Asst
Full
Asst
FaB at Lane House Arts, 5 Nelson Place, BA1 5DA
Full
FaB at ICE Space, 1 North Parade Road, BA2 4EU
Action on Hearing Loss Bath Workshop, Units 1 and
2, Wells Road, BA2 3AP
Art in The Arches
Asst
Emma Rose Art Works, 78 Walcot St, BA1 5BD
Asst
Friends Meeting House, York St, BA1 1NG
Full
One Two Five Gallery, 4 Abbey Green, BA1 1NW
Asst
Full
Asst
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Beckfords Tower Gardens
Kingswood Theatre
Rondo
Cleveland Pools
The Edge University of Bath
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Sunday 21 May: 13:00
Saturday
21 May
2017
Barbarella’s Bang Bang
Strikingly theatrical take on that old Gipsy Cabaret
style, still coming up with new spins of the wheel since
the 19th Century. A clear vision of what they want to
say and the musical ability to make it work. Will appeal
to Euro intellectuals, goths and plain ol’ weirdos.
Wednesday
24 May
2017
The Bell
FREE
Barbarella’s Big Bang
Wednesday 24 May: 21:00
Gas Giants
Bonfire Radicals
Thursday
25 May
2017
Bonfire Radicals
One of the myriad ways that British Folk Forms are
spinning themselves in the modern world, the six
B.Rads pack in influences from World, Rock and Early
Music to form something that veers dangerously from
the calm, considered or clever into jumping around
raucously. They’re really not much like anything else
out there, though fans of The Moulettes and the folkier
end of Prog will share aspirations.
The Bell
FREE
Thursday 25 May: 19:30 (doors open 18:30)
Kelston Records presents:
Gas Giants
plus support
The mighty Gas Giants re-emerge from interstellar
cloud for special intimate event in the unique
surroundings of the barn. The stars are closer out
there. Will (Goldfrapp) Gregory meets superlative
drummer Tony Orrell and cosmic tinkerer Ross
Hughes in a surrealist soundtrack world of their own.
Unique and unmissable.
The Old Barn, Kelston Roundhill
Brown Paper Tickets £14
92 PERFORMANCES | 4 VENUES | 16 DAYS
WWW.BATHSPALIVE.COM
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For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Krowd Keepers Magic Theatre
Krowd Keepers is a weekly magic theatre in Bath
presenting some of the top magicians in the world.
No Rabbits, Cheese or Top Hats; instead quality
magic which engages, astonishes and entertains
diverse audiences with great participation. Comedy
and magic mixed together at its best.
The Ale House
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £10
19:00 (doors open 18:45)
Friday
26 May
2017
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Papillon
Kilter Theatre presents
The Pub Tour
Violin and guitar duo
A Walking Tour of Bath’s Historical Pubs
Meet at Rebecca’s Fountain by Bath Abbey for a
charming local’s guide to the best secret drinking
holes in town. A 90-minute witty walkabout through
Bath’s Drinking History with round after round of
fascinating facts delivered in a tongue-in-cheek Pub
Quiz format. Come ready with a winning Team Name.
Prizes to be won!
Outside the Crystal Palace pub
Booking: Tickets sold on door
£9 / £6 Concs
Papillon is the new project by Anna Phoebe and
Nicolas Rizzi. It combines raw Eastern inspired
violin and guitar melodies set within cinematic
soundscapes. Anna Phoebe has performed
throughout the world as a featured soloist for various
artists and is now carving a career with her own
projects.
Chapel Arts Centre
Booking: Chapel Arts; Tickets sold on door
£12.50 Advance: £10.00 adv; £12.50 on door
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Softsod Productions presents
Fragile Man
Written and directed by Jood Martin
On an isolated hilltop two men must confront
their darkest secrets and deepest fears in a chance
encounter destined to change their lives forever.
An unsettling and insightful drama exploring fate,
faith, envy, self-preservation and the mental and
emotional struggle we face to know our true selves.
Rondo Theatre
Booking: Tickets sold on door
Through the Rondo ticket office.
£10 per adult (£8 concession)
20:00 FAB & Bath Fringe
Openings Night Party
Dance yourself
Arty
Dancers by Stephen Spicer © 1982, coloured 2017
It’s where you
head after the
art openings
close:
we’re still
celebrating! Late
licence and guest
DJs/performers to be
advised nearer the
time.
The Bell - Love
Lounge (Back bar)
FREE
Fragile Man
See full booking information on page 2
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19:00 (doors open 18:45)
Saturday
27 May
2017
Kilter Theatre presents
The Pub Tour
A Walking Tour of Bath’s Historical Pubs
See Friday 26
Outside the Crystal Palace pub
Booking: Tickets sold on door £9 / £6 Concs
20:00
Amadou Diagne
Solo Kora Concert
Amadou’s great contribution to a number of bands (including
his own) tends to obscure the fact that he’s also a fine solo
artist with a number of strings to his bow (or Kora). A solo
Kora concert could go in a number of directions, traditional
from his griot heritage, or contemporary with pedals and
loops - or conceivably both! Only one way to find out!!
See also Djembe workshop in the afternoon
The Bell - Love Lounge (Back bar)
Booking: Tickets sold on door and from www.
amadoudiagne.com/tickets £6 (£5 concs.)
20:00 (doors open 18:30)
Krater Comedy Club
Amadou
15:00
Amadou Diagne
Djembe Workshop
Beginner/Intermediate level Djembe workshop. Connect to
some new rhythms that - however simple or complicated - end
up as an exciting whole experience within the group. Bring
your own drum or pre-book one for loan (£3 extra) if available.
The Bell - Love Lounge (Back bar)
Tickets in advance only from www.amadoudiagne.com/
tickets £10 (plus £3 drum hire if needed)
Nick Doody, Danny O’Brian, Damian Clark
MC Andy Robinson
Watch three top stand-ups and enjoy the comedy stylings
of one of the best comperes in the business, plus eat
delicious food served by our Soil Association Gold Standard
Award winning restaurant.
Komedia
Booking: Komedia; Tickets sold on door £19
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Krowd Keepers Magic Theatre
See Friday 26
The Ale House
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £10
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For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
Saturday
27 May
2017
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Wassail Theatre Company presents
Rex The King
20:00
NOS Three Presents
Blooming Out
with Bianca Bertalot and Maria de Jesus Aguiar
Blooming Out is a funny and clever non-verbal language clown
show - interpreted by two Brazilian women - that embraces the
disparate and fascinating themes of the feminine universe,
such as fragility, physical transformation, period, virginity loss,
maternity, social taboos and love; all this covered in a light,
comic and poetic way.
Rondo Theatre
Booking: Tickets sold on door, Rondo Theatre £10/£8
20:00
Gritty Theatre
Chapel Street
By Luke Barnes
As bottles are drained and the sun sets, the two hit the
town, neither aware that soon their lives will irreconcilably
collide. An acerbic yet compassionate and comic portrait of
good times gone bad for a betrayed generation in broken
Britain.
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard £10 / £8 Concs/ £5 BSUStudent
by Will Gore
A blind man walks into a pub and tells anyone who’ll
listen that he was once the king of darts.
Rex The King is the story of a Somerset darts champion who
ruled the world, but lost it all – it’s a theatrical tale that’s
witty, uplifting and ludicrously tragic. Expect blood and
sweat, tears and beers.
St James Wine Vaults - Upstairs (gallery room)
Booking: Tickets sold on door £5.00
21:00 (doors open 20:00)
Foxy Music presents
Burbank
Luke Gittins and Ashley Smith
Described as ‘the new Lennon & McCartney’ and signed
without hesitation; with captivating original songs and
harmonies, some fabulous guitar playing and a confident
delivery (influenced by John Mayer & Ed Sheeran amongst
others) see this talented new duo warm up for festival
headliners & a tour of America while you can!
The Barley Mow
Booking: Bath Box Office Tickets £3adv / £4 on door
23:00 (doors open 23:00)
Motorcity
Bath’s busiest and best club night never fails to deliver a
refreshing but classic mix of all the best Motown, Soul,
Funk and Rock ‘n’ Roll Anthems to keep your feet stomping
into the early hours!
Komedia
Booking: Tickets sold on door £6
Bath Spa Live Fringe
For tickets see bathspalive.com
SATURDAY 27 MAY
No Innocent Laughter by James Green
Mission Theatre 13:30
Heels and Ties
Mission Theatre 15:30
The Ripper
Burdall’s Yard 16:00
Final Test Mission Theatre 17:30
Crush
Burdall’s Yard 18:00
Heartbeat
Mission Theatre 19:30
See full booking information on page 2
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things forever, as he is living a life he never signed up for. But
how far will he go?
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard £10 / £8 Concs/ £5 BSUStudent
Sunday
28 May
2017
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Bath Comedy presents
Kris and the Blues Machines
13:00
Kris & the Blues Machines
Bones
More usually seen with Canadian carney crew Blackberry
Wood, musical omnivores to the max, this project sees
frontman Kris making the style more straightforward but
certainly not playing safe or straight. And he’s always been
a great frontman too. Electro Blues this way!
The Bell
FREE
Gritty Theatre
Bones
By Jane Upton
19-year-old Mark cares for his drug-addict mum and her
baby. He knows he has to make a choice that could change
14:00
Monday
29 May
2017
Looking after No. 1
Celebrating the workers that built and served the Royal
Crescent.
It’s time to remember those without whom there
would be no powder, clean sheets, lice free wigs, full
bellies, warming coal or empty bed pans. The Natural
Theatre Company and performers from around the SW
have been working with Dutch company Directie & Co
to produce an immersive treat that will titillate and
transfix. Spot them pop up throughout the city as they
make their way to the Grand Finale.
Bones
For tickets see
bathspalive.com
MONDAY 29TH MAY
Heartbeat
Mission Theatre 13.30
Paying the Piper
Burdall’s Yard 16.00
Heels and Ties
Mission Theatre 17.30
Footprints on the
Moon
Mission Theatre 19.30
MadMan
Burdall’s Yard 20.00
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For tickets see bathspalive.com
SUNDAY 28 MAY
Mission Theatre 13:30
/ 15:30
Girls Like That
Burdall’s Yard 14:00
Crush
Burdall’s Yard 16.00
Final Test Mission Theatre 17.00
Those Legs
Mission Theatre 19.30
The Ripper
Burdall’s Yard 20.00
Chapel Street
By Luke Barnes
See Saturday 27
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard £10 / £8 Concs/ £5 BSUStudent
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Molland vs Sullivan
Freedom of Speech
Social barriers will dissipate as Rick Molland and Sully
O’Sullivan go head-to-head in an epic stand-up comedy
battle about freedom of speech. ‘Hard-hitting, no-holdsbarred comedy.’ Edinburgh Evening News.
The Old Theatre Royal
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£8 / £7 Concs
21:00
14:00
Gritty Theatre
Bath Spa Live
Fringe
Bath Spa Live Fringe
18:00 Gritty Theatre
Outside! NOW!! - Bath Fringe & Natural Theatre present:
Outside No. 1 Royal Crescent
Supported by Arts Council England; St John’s Hospital
Trust
FREE
Looking after number one
Cult favorite singer/songwriter, who has opened nationally
for comedy iconoclast Doug Stanhope and is known as one of
Johnny Depp’s favourite artists. Gruff-voiced Mishka takes time
out of touring dive bars in the USA to play dive bars in the UK...
The Bell - Love Lounge (Back bar)
Booking: Bath Box Office; Bath Comedy Festival; Tickets
sold on door £7
You’ve Got Dragons
18:00
Mishka Shubaly
Mishka Shubaly
By Jane Upton
See Sunday 28
Booking: Burdalls Yard
£10 / £8 Concs/ £5 BSUStudent
15:30 (doors open 15:15)
GoodDog BadDog Theatre Company presents
Squeezy Green’s Compendium of
Games
Mark Lewandowski Trio
The Fats Waller Project
Mark Lewandowski - Liam Noble - Paul Clarvis
Exploring the catalogue of one of the early innovators of
jazz - the great Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller - delving into his music
and bringing their own personal spin on his repertoire in
the intimate trio setting. Three musicians known for their
intricate dialogues and strong humour, paying tribute to
another musician who had these attributes. Mixing the
traditional with the modern, this trio brings a little of 1930s
Harlem into the 21st Century.
The Bell
FREE
a theatrical game show
For the first time in Bath, Squeezy Green and Finney
Haddock are bringing a host of idiotic games to test you.
Everyone plays as they split the audience to battle through
a series of challenges for silliness’ sake. By theatre makers
Gwendolyn Scott and Megan Brooks
Most suitable for 3+
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Burdalls Yard; Tickets sold on door
£8 / £6 / £4 BSU
For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
Fats Waller (No not really)
20:00
The Reckoners present
i should save this
Rapscallion
18:00
Rapscallion Theatre Company presents
The Red Court
By Clare Reddaway
The Red Court tells the story of a real-life 21st century
Chinese Macbeth.
In 2011, China’s Premier-in-waiting is popular,
charismatic, ambitious. His rise to power seems
unstoppable. Behind him stands a ruthless wife, a
British fixer and a fortuneteller who’s predicted his
triumph. What could possibly go wrong?
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard; Tickets sold on door
Full £10/ Conc £8 / BSU Student £5
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Simon Allen, Sam & Beth Eason, Tom Corneill and Lee
Cole present
an AIM found text play
During her tormented high school years, Katy saved over
ninety AIM instant message conversations. Twelve years
later she excavated them from her old desktop. What
emerges is a confrontation with the parts of herself she
has filed away for no one else to see. After a sold out NYC
run, devising team The Reckoners present this UK premier,
directed/devised by Sash Bischoff, performed/devised by
Katy Pinke + Lily Akerman, and produced by C.C. Kellogg
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard tickets via web-link
£10 / £8 Concs/ £5 BSUStudent
Tuesday
30 May
2017
21:00
Tuesday Choice
Declan Miller
We’ve been awaiting great things from Declan since he won
the Bath Folk Festival’s 2015 New Shoots competition against
much more obvious & conventional singers & players: a mark of
his strong individuality and appeal. Part faerie foundling, part
21st Century agitator activist, the traditions are well served by
his hand. Though tonight the focus is on his songs, he will be
accompanied by bandmates from new Trad Folk combo Gorias.
The Bell
FREE
‘90s Acoustic Mixtape LIVE
Choose Britpop. Choose anthems. Choose reminding
yourself of staying out past midnight on school nights.
Choose songs you fell in love to. Choose incredible
acoustic twists on the best dance and grunge music.
Choose remembering muddy festival moments.
Choose guilty pleasure pop songs. Choose music to
make you feel alive.
The Old Theatre Royal
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£8 / £7 Concs
Declan Miller
Bath Spa Live
Fringe
For tickets see
bathspalive.com
TUESDAY 30 MAY
Seeds
Burdall’s Yard 14.00
Those Legs
Mission Theatre 15.30
What I Do For You
Burdall’s Yard 20.00
Footprints on the
Moon
Mission Theatre 17.30
No Innocent
Laughter by James
Green
Mission Theatre 19.30
See full booking information on page 2
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14:00
20:30 (doors open 19:30)
The Reckoners present
i should save this
Wednesday
31 May
2017
an AIM found text play
See Tuesday 30
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard
£10 / £8 Concs/ £5 BSUStudent
Stephanie Laing
Mad About A Boy
19:30 (doors open 19:00)
Museum of Bath at Work presents
Survivors: First and Last
Introduced by Museum Director Stuart Burroughs
Fifty years after the last episode of the post-apocalyptic
BBC drama series Survivors was shown in 1977, the very
first and very last episodes of this iconic series are being
shown at the Museum of Bath at Work. Two hour long
episodes will be introduced by Museum Director Stuart
Burroughs.
The Museum of Bath at Work
FREE
Stephanie Laing
Goofy and peculiar, Stephanie Laing’s comedy is
partway between the needy oddness of Maria Bamford
and the upbeat affability of Josie Long. Her material
is a mix of silliness, filth and unusual observations,
underpinned by a disarming honesty which makes her
seem charmingly vulnerable.
The Old Theatre Royal - Library
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £5
21:00
Tonto Malembe
Baldo Verdü
20:00
Rapscallion Theatre Company presents
The Red Court
Brian Madigan
By Clare Reddaway
See Tuesday 30
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard; Tickets sold on door
Full £10/ Conc £8/ BSU Student £5
Venezuelan psych-funk exiled to London for the
predictable political/lifestyle issues as well as matters
of the artistic economy, enigmatic frontman Baldo
Verdú and his boys really do hit a time-slipped groove
you won’t have encountered before, with rock’n’roll
and street sass/suss. Big things are expected - and
some sought-after festival dates in place - but still just
breaking. Get in now!
The Bell
FREE
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Brian Madigan
Think of a Song
plus support Paul Bradleyt
Singer-songwriter Brian Madigan is famed for his
lengthy, spoken intros. So what if he were to remove
the songs altogether – only thinking them ‘out loud’
with the audience invited to imagine them? Would
that be deeply uncomfortable, transcendental, or a
brief moment of sanity amid the cacophony of everyday
madness?
The Old Theatre Royal
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £8 /
£7 Concs
Bath Spa Live Fringe
For tickets see bathspalive.com
WEDNESDAY 31 MAY
MadMan
Burdall’s Yard 18.00
Super Hamlet
16
For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
19:30 (doors open 19:20)
Super Hamlet 64: Parody DLC
by Edward Day
An ocarina, a ukulele and a thirst for revenge. Lecoq trained
Edward Day battles four decades of videogame nostalgia,
in an explosion of Shakespeare, projection mapping and
16-bit ridiculousness. But can Ophelia defeat the zombie
hordes and save Hamlet once and for all?
Rondo Theatre
Booking: Tickets sold on door . Rondo Theatre £10
Remedies
18:00
Middle-Weight Theatre Company presents
Thursday
1 June
2017
20.00 (doors open 19.30)
Remedies - A Ballad of Broken
Britain
WSC and Nod Knowles Productions present:
Written by Matt Roberts Directed by Tom Stabb
Within the four walls of a local pharmacy, two opinionated,
strong willed and polarised members of staff witness the
ailments and sicknesses of the public, they may be able to
administer the medicine, but can they find the remedy for
the ills of Britain?
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard; Tickets sold on door
£10 / £8 Concs/ £5 BSU Student
19:00 (doors open 18:45)
Martin Taylor with Alison Burns
Celebrating 100 years of Ella Fitzgerald
Multi-award winning guitarist Martin Taylor internationally renowned for his work with everyone
from Stephane Grappelli to Jamie Cullum - and
Scottish-Canadian jazz singer Alison Burns highlight the
Grammy-award winning collaboration between Ella and
jazz guitarist Joe Pass.
Widcombe Social Club
Booking: Brown Paper Tickets £17.50
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Kilter Theatre presents
The Pub Tour
James Rippingale
Bath debut.
A Walking Tour of Bath’s Historical Pubs
See Friday 26
Outside the Crystal Palace pub
Booking: Tickets sold on door £9 / £6 Concs
19:30 (doors open 18:45)
Novato Dance Company
Encore
In their 10th Anniversary show, Novato Dance Company
combine energy, innovation and originality. Bringing
styles from varied cultures, from ballet to Latin, jazz to
contemporary, Novato Dance promise a night of diversity
that guarantees to bring a smile to your face and tears to
your eyes.
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £8 / £6
Concs
Preceded by Guitar Workshop (book workshop
separately)
Join award winning classical guitarist James Rippingale
as he makes his Bath debut with a programme of musical
delights and guitar favourites featuring pieces by J. S. Bach
along with his own unique compositions, and ending with
a musical journey through the heart of Spain.
The Old Theatre Royal
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£6 / £5 Concs excluding workshop. email
jamesrippingaleguitarist@gmail to book for workshop.
Martin Taylor, Alison Burns
James Rippingdale
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
“It was Fifty Years Ago Today…”
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club
Band 50th Anniversary Concert
19:30 (doors open 19:00)
Bath Spa Musical Theatre Society presents
Fame: The Musical
Bath Spa Musical Theatre Society continues into its fourth
year with a fresh production of ‘Fame’! Following the
interlinking stories of a group of students at the High
School of Performing Arts, this uplifting musical explores
the highs and lows of tirelessly reaching for fame.
Kingswood Theatre
Booking: Tickets sold on door or via www.facebook.
com/BathSpaMusicalTheatreSociety
To reserve tickets EMail BathSpaMusicalTheatre@gmail.
com £8 / £6 Concs
Bath Spa Live Fringe
For tickets see bathspalive.com
THURSDAY 1 JUNE
Paying the Piper
Burdall’s Yard 14.00
Red Rain By Malcolm Martin
Burdall’s Yard 16.00
Girls Like That
Burdall’s Yard 20.00
featuring All You Need Is The Beatles
All You Need Is The Beatles celebrate 50 years of The
Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band LP with a
special celebration concert. The album will be performed
in its entirety and the show will also feature many of The
Beatles’ greatest hits.
Work in Progress
“A splendid time is guaranteed for all!”
Chapel Arts Centre
Booking: Bath Box Office; Chapel Arts; Ents 24; Tickets
sold on door Advance: £17.50 Door Price: £20.00
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Tom Glover & Richard James
Work in Progress
Novato Dance
Double header first outing of debut solo shows for these
Devon Comedians. Tom is a new father struggling to bringup a child whilst not being willing to put the Lego down.
Richard tells how his dreams of being an explorer conflict
with his main passion of staying indoors.
The Old Theatre Royal - Library
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £5
See full booking information on page 2
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Friday
2 June
2017
14:30 (doors open 14:00)
Bath Spa Musical Theatre Society presents
Fame: The Musical
See Thursday 1
Kingswood Theatre
16:00
Middle-Weight Theatre Company presents
Remedies - A Ballad of Broken
Britain
Written by Matt Roberts Directed by Tom Stabb
See Thursday 1
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard; Tickets sold on door
£10 / £8 Concs/ £5 BSU Student
Remedies
Romantic Botanic
17:00 and 19.30
The Miraculous Theatre Company
Romantic Botanic
Botanic
A love story revealing how plants, like humans, are
romantically driven.
We discover how plants communicate with each other and
how they succeed in seducing us.
Bath Spa Live
Fringe
For tickets see
bathspalive.com
FRIDAY 2 JUNE
Talking Tales - Even
More Banksy than
Bonnets
Burdall’s Yard 20:00
18
“It’s not the gardener who chooses the plant but the plant
who chooses the gardener.”
Mixing poetry and science Romantic Botanic is an
interactive, profound and hilarious look into the plant
realm and it’s relationship with us. Blending ancient plant
lore, modern botanical science, local environment and
history, we plunge you into the sensual world of Romantic
Botanic.
Miraculous Theatre Co. are individuals with long
experience in location & interactive theatre and the
construction of curious devices...
Meet in Holbourne Museum garden
Tickets from Brown Paper Tickets £3
For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
19:00 (doors open 18:45)
20:00 (doors open 18:30)
The Noise Next Door - Uproar!
Kilter Theatre presents
The Pub Tour
The Noise Next Door are causing a commotion with
their fourth nationwide tour – an anarchic evening of
side-splitting jokes, jaw-dropping characters, and mindblowing songs. Join the quickest wits in comedy as they
transform audience suggestions into a fantastic, fresh new
entertainment experience every single night.
Komedia
Booking: Komedia; Tickets sold on door
Limited Meal Deal tickets available
£14
A Walking Tour of Bath’s Historical Pubs
See Friday 26
Outside the Crystal Palace pub
Booking: Tickets sold on door £9 / £6 Concs
19:30 (doors open 18:45)
Novato Dance Company
Encore
See Thursday 1
Friday
2 June
2017
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £8 / £6
Concs
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Tony Basnett
Always Lands On His Feet
Tony Basnett is a young and exciting act, with bundles
of energy and enthusiasm. He is a playful and cheeky
performer with a childish outlook on anything and
everything. He’s reached the final of numerous
competitions including Comedy Central Student of the year
and Beat the Frog World Series.
The Old Theatre Royal - Library
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £5
Novato Dance
Noise next door
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Romantic Botanic
2016 BGT Finalist
Jasmine
Jasmine moved some
judges to tears with her
audition on ‘Britain’s Got
Talent’ last year, winning
Ant & Dec’s Golden-Buzzer
nomination before going
on to finish fourth in the
Final. Come and experience
live the 15-year-old girl
that David Walliams said
“looked like an Angel and
sounded like one too.”
The Old Theatre Royal
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£10 / £8 concs
Tony Basnett
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Mike Scott and David C Johnson’s
World Premiere
Still Doing It
How did talented singer/songwriter Mike Scott, ex pupil of
PenPole Point Secondary Modern, and David C Johnson,
witty, prize-winning performance poet, ex cadet of the
Nautical College Pangbourne, find themselves writing a
show and sharing a stage? Their entertaining and original
“Still doing it” attempts to answer this question.
Rondo Theatre
Booking: Tickets sold on door
Rondo Theatre Box Office
£10 (£9 concs)
Jasmine
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Krowd Keepers Magic Theatre
See Friday 26
The Ale House
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£10
23:00 (doors open 23:00)
Fame
With all your guilty pleasures under one roof, Fame is
Bath’s biggest night for you to unleash your inner dancer
to the soundtrack of nostalgic numbers from the past and
modern groovers that you wouldn’t normally dare sing out
of the shower!
Komedia
Booking: Komedia; Tickets sold on door
£5
Mike Stott and David C Johnson
See full booking information on page 2
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11:00, 13:30 and 16:00
Saturday
3 June
2017
The Miraculous Theatre Company
Romantic Botanic
Botanic
See Friday 2
Meet in Holbourne Museum Garden
Tickets from Brown Paper Tickets £3
12:00 (doors open 12:00)
Rebecca Tantony’s new one woman show
All The Journeys I Never Took
directed by Raquel Meseguer, designed by Synnove
Fredericks and produced by Lucy English
Poet Rebecca Tantony and director Raquel Meseguer (Lost
Dog), bring you All The Journeys I Never Took, an immersive
spoken word show from a stellar all female team.
Burdall’s Yard. Throughout the day - for timings see
www.bathspalive.com
Booking: Burdalls Yard £8
16:00 (doors open 15:30)
Bath Spa Musical Theatre Society presents
Fame: The Musical
See Thursday 1
Kingswood Theatre
18:00 (doors open 17:50)
Frenetic Fox Theatre presents
Appily Ever After
by Paul Lawless
Serenading you with original song, spoken word and just
the right amount of desperation, join Paul as he questions
your relationship with dating apps - exploring techaddiction, disillusionment and how far are we prepared to
go to be fulfilled.
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard; Tickets sold on door
£10 / £8 Concs/ £5 BSU Student
19:00
Students from Bath and Cardiff reluctantly collaborate in
A Fringe Debut
Cardiss Comedy Brewhouse
Amuse Bouche
All the
Journeys
I Never
Took
14:30 (doors open 14:00), and
19:00 (doors open 18:30)
Thereby Hangs A Tale presents
Ovid’s Heroines
Joe Probert
Paul Lawless
By James Darnton
Three of mythology’s most complex and compelling
women come to life in this brand new re-imagining of
Ovid’s poetry, especially commissioned for the 2000th
anniversary of his death.
Directed by Milo Morris
All ticket proceeds go to Southside Family Project Bath
St. Michael’s Church
Booking: Bath Box Office £7 / £5 concs
Cardiff and Bath students team up to make you laugh at the
Bath Fringe 2017. A mix of stand-up and sketches from the
best student comedians in the South-West (because who
needs Bristol or Exeter?).
The Bath Brewhouse
Booking: Tickets sold on door or via Cardiff University
Student Union website. £4
19:00 (doors open 18:45)
Kilter Theatre presents
The Pub Tour
A Walking Tour of Bath’s Historical Pubs
See Friday 26
Outside the Crystal Palace pub
Booking: Tickets sold on door
£9 / £6 Concs
19.30
The Last Word Poetry Slam
The Bell Inn Back Bar
We’re giving two teams of incredible poets a topic to
attack or defend and fight their corner, poetry style! Only
one team can win, but who has the last word? You do,
our wonderful audience! Bath Fringe young person Poet
Laureate Polly Denny invites poets of all ages to this event.
Ticket prices: £6.00/£4.00
Bath Spa Live
Fringe
For tickets see
bathspalive.com
SATURDAY 3 JUNE
Seeds
Burdall’s Yard 14.00
Memories We Lost
in the Fire
Burdall’s Yard 16.00
Ellipsism - The Last
Days of Napoleon
Burdall’s Yard 20.00
20
For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
19:30 (doors open 18:45)
21:00 (doors open 20:00)
Novato Dance Company
Foxy Music presents
Encore
The Swings
See Thursday 1
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£8 / £6 Concs
plus support Flies Fly Away
Bath’s most exciting & new band creating a real stir,
packing out Moles, The Bell & other venues. The Swings
play psychedelic, soulful, alternative rock originals with
highly unique & heavy latin-influenced guitar riffs; gutsy
lead singer Millie reminds us a bit of Janis Joplin is “a star
in the making” (Tim Orchard, Purr Records).
FFA: guitar-clad unique singer songwriter playing weird,
noisy folk originals with a heavy collision from modern
electronic & post-rock
The Barley Mow
Booking: Bath Box Office £3 / £4 on door
19:30 (doors open 19:00)
Bath Spa Musical Theatre Society presents
Fame: The Musical
See Thursday 1
Kingswood Theatre
20:00 (doors open 18:30)
Krater Comedy Club
Saturday
3 June
2017
23:00 (doors open 23:00)
Dan Nightingale, Alistair Barrie, Mike Gunn
MC Sally Ann Hayward
Watch three top stand-ups and enjoy the comedy stylings
of one of the best comperes in the business, plus eat
delicious food served by our Soil Association Gold Standard
Award winning restaurant.
Komedia.Booking: Komedia; Tickets sold on door £19
Motorcity
Novato Dance
See Saturday 27
Komedia
Booking: Tickets sold on door £6
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Joe Probert
plus support
19-year-old Bristolian Joe Probert is one of the UK’s most
promising singer/songwriters - single-mindedly motivated
to deliver fresh music that people love. Self-taught, whilst
other kids were on X-Boxes, Joe was busking on the streets
of Bristol & Bath, before setting-up his own DIY recording
studio in the garden shed.
The Old Theatre Royal
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£6 / £5 Concs.
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
The Swings
13:00
Bedlam Fair - The Saturday
Krowd Keepers Magic Theatre
See Friday 26
The Ale House
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £10
20:00
Croon productions present
Spaghetti
IS a Western.
Puppet Theatre Spaghetti Western. A jail break! Two
gunslingers ride into town, as a Wild West frontier town made
from pianos materialises before your eyes! Tumbleweed, the
saloon is humming, a bank job, the bell chimes, the coffin
maker is busy, the noose sways in the wind.
Rondo Theatre
Booking: Tickets sold on door, Rondo Theatre Box Office.
£10 / £8 concs
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Amuse Bouche present
Valerie’s Birthday Party
Romantic Botanic
with the Boxcats
Valerie has reached a significant age, so her Aunties have
secretly planned a fabulous party … and you are all invited!
Comedy troupe Amuse Bouche and Boxcats blues band
present a birthday party to remember: expect a retro buffet
supper, family rows and inappropriate presents. What could
possibly go wrong?
Widcombe Social Club
Booking: Bath Comedy Festival; Tickets sold on door,
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/amusebouche
£15 includes supper
Bath Fringe’s Street Performance weekend kicks off with
the Saturday crowds and a selection of experienced and
emerging street performance artists tacking the city centre.
This year’s event has received a Lottery grant from Arts
Council England to ensure that we successfully support new
artists and guarantee the quality of our headline acts. There
will be more details of who is playing where and when on
the Fringe website and a flyer circulated nearer the time - as
this went to press we’re finalising the lineup but we expect
to include:
Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band (India) - Avanti Display Hur y Can (Spain) - Natural Theatre
Central Bath. Supported by Arts Council England
FREE
Avanti
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Performance Party
Bedlam - The Night Out
The Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band,
Avanti Display, Hur y Can and more...
After a busy day on the streets of Bath what we all
need is a bit of a party to recharge the batteries
for tomorrow. Highlight shows from some of this
afternoon’s key performers, a work-in-progress from
the legendary Avanti, Indian Brass madness from the
very watchable (and still more danceable) Rajasthan
Heritage crew, then on into the night with Indian-intoWorldbeat DJ inside the Brasserie.
Green Park Station
Sponsored by Green Park Brasserie
FREE
See full booking information on page 2
RHBB
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14:00
Sunday
4 June
2017
CSF Wrestling Showdown
Following a huge debut event held at Komedia in November
2016, CSF Wrestling returns once again as the Federation
celebrates its 18th Anniversary. The very top stars of the sport
will collide in five bouts of bone crunching, body slamming,
action packed family entertainment. Joining us at this very
special event is former WWE Intercontinental and Tag Team
Champion: Cody Rhodes!
Komedia
Booking: Komedia; Tickets sold on door
£15 General Admission Seated.
14:30 (doors open 14:00)
Brave Bold Drama present
Alf the Highwayman
11:30 (doors open 11:15)
devised by Gill Simmons & Paul Lawless
The Mission Theatre
Book tickets via Brown Paper Tickets. £7 / £5
Brave Bold Drama present
Alf the Highwayman
Six plus One
devised by Gill Simmons & Paul Lawless
Highwayman Alf snatches and grabs without a care. It’s time for
him to learn there are better ways to play. Come adventuring
with him as he gallops through woodland, seashore and circus!
Full of songs, chances to join in and no frights.
The Mission Theatre
Book tickets via Brown Paper Tickets. £7 / £5 Concs
13:00
15:00
Annette Gregory
Ella - Celebrating 100 Years
Jazz Vocalist Annette Gregory celebrates the music of the
iconic jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, 100th Year.
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard; Tickets sold on door £12
Terry & Gerry
Gerry Colvin made a lot of friends in Bath and The Bell
some years ago with Colvin Quarmby, but now he’s back
with a revival of his much loved ‘80s skiffle combo who
recorded 3 Peel sessions and scored Indie Chart hits with
straight-to-the-point tales like ‘Clothes Shop’ and ‘Last
Bullet in the Gun’. Great writing and no-fuss delivery.
The Bell
FREE
Terry and Gerry
Have you discovered
the Two Tunnels Greenway
yet?
www.twotunnels.org.uk
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19:45 (doors open 19:00)
Misha Carder, Bard of Bath, invites you to
‘Spirit of Place’
Themed concert with Wessex Musicians & Wordsmiths
Venue: The Wharf Room, Widcombe Social Club. Come to
either or both sessions
4-6pm Poetry, Music, Digital Exhibition, and Pop-Up
Gallery.
6.30 - 7.30pm Optional Shared Supper at 6.30.
7.45 - 10pm Stories and Music from local performers,
featuring Brighid’s Flame: an hour of Irish music, myths,
stories, with harp.
Widcombe Social Club
Booking: Bath Box Office
Tickets on the door from 6pm on 4th June.
£5.The 4-6pm session is FREE.
Sponsor Spaice. Com
CSF Wrestling Rhodes
18:00 (doors open 17:50)
Frenetic Fox Theatre presents
Appily Ever After
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
by Paul Lawless
See Saturday 3
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard; Tickets sold on door £10 / £8
Concs/ £5 BSU Student
19:00
Students from Bath and Cardiff reluctantly collaborate in
A Fringe Debut
See Saturday 3
The Bath Brewhouse
Booking: Tickets sold on door
Tickets may also be bought via the Cardiff University
Student Union website. £4
19:00 (doors open 18:45)
Husband of the Bride
by Luke Graves
A Stand Up Comedy Show about Life, Love and Marriage.
Come and watch the “Very funny” and “Immensely
likeable” Luke Graves with his “Laid-back & friendly show”
and if you don’t like it Luke offers a full... ‘Money Back
Guarantee’!
The Mission Theatre
brownpapertickets.com £7 / £5 Concs
19:30 (doors open 18:30)
Liam Pickford
Your Love Is A Knackered Bus
Stop I Can No Longer Be Arsed To
Vandalise
If Stewart Lee and Jack Dee ever had a child together
then they would call Liam son. A unique brand of stand
up, mixing cleverly-honed material with unpredictable
audience interaction. All this, mixed with a hint of ‘whimsy’
and clever observations whilst delivered in a wonderfully
unenthusiastic and grumpy style.
The Old Theatre Royal - Library
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £5
Sunday
4 June
2017
Bath Spa Live
Fringe
For tickets see
bathspalive.com
SUNDAY 4 JUNE
Red Rain By
Malcolm Martin
Burdall’s Yard 20.00
13:00
Bedlam Sunday
It’s the street theatre event of the year with dozens of performers from the emerging
new ideas through to renowned companies at the top of their game, spilling around
the streets in and around Kingsmead Square & Saw Close (roadways closed for the
afternoon, no parking). See Page 7, the Bedlam leaflet (available in the city nearer the
time), or our website on the day of the event for further details.
Companies include: HURyCAN (Spain), Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band (India), Bongo
Bolero (Bath), Natural Theatre Company, Avanti Display, Circomedia – and many more.
The event is free but please put money ‘in the hat’ if the performer is using one.
Sawclose & Kingsmead Square. Supported by Arts Council England
FREE
Simon Currie’s 6plus1
Musical Comedy with Virtuosic Musicians
6plus1 is a band of 7 musicians playing New Orleans
Jazz, mixing in Funk, Rock and Ska with two Saxophonists
doubling woodwind, two trumpets, trombone, tuba and
drums. Some of the music is presented with a comic edge,
next to virtuosic playing.
The Old Theatre Royal
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£9 / £7.50 Concs
Hurycan
See full booking information on page 2
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Monday
5 June
2017
15:00 & 19:30
18:00
Theatre with Teeth Presents
I Am Nincompoop Presents
Woolf
created by Holly Williams
Imagined after the death of her husband, 28 years after
her own, Leonard Woolf returns home to reconcile with
his wife and tell one last important story. Told through
physicality, playful creativity, and nostalgic storytelling,
‘Wolf’ is based on the incredible true story of one of the
world’s most celebrated writers and women, Virginia
Woolf.
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Tickets sold on door or Email rthomas201@
outlook.com £5 / £3 Concs
16:00 (doors open 15:30)
Black Dog Productions presents
Africa Entsha
Lucy Harrington
Films About Ghosts
Suicide doesn’t make sense. Clara was happy! She
wouldn’t have committed suicide...
When Clara dies, it breaks Elsie’s world. Bent on proving that
the police are wrong in their conclusion that Clara committed
suicide, Elsie decides to work the case herself.
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard; Tickets sold on door
Full price: £8 Concessions: £6 BSU students: £4
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Phoenix River Band
plus Support from Prairie Dog
Phoenix River Band’s music is original with an undoubted
salute to country influences plus hints of R&B and Blues - a
potent mix of original songs with driving beats and soulful
melodies. Prairie Dog are a Southwest-based country roots
duo playing mostly original songs with a bluegrass-tinged
style and vocal harmonies..
The Old Theatre Royal
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £10 / £8
concs
21:00
Formerly Soweto Entsha (played Fringe a few years ago),
these guys are a phenomenon: acappella singers bringing
a wide range of Afro-American vocal styles together to show
continuity in the traditions and the value of sheer style and
skill. Traditional to Doo-Wop to Soul to RnB. Close-up they’ll
be dynamite!
The Bell FREE
For tickets see bathspalive.com
MONDAY 5 JUNE
What I Do For You
Burdall’s Yard 20.00
Pheonix River Band
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Starring Lucy Harrington
A hilarious, outlandish, character romp, guaranteed to take
you on the ride of your life. Hailing from Texas-Tennessee,
more magnanimous than Gandhi, sexier than chocolate,
hotter than the sun, Deirdre is on a mission to show the world
how awesome it is, one person at a time, starting with you.
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard
Tickets sold on door £8 / £6 Concs / £4 BSU
Africa Entsha
Bath Spa Live Fringe
sA
Wake Up & Deirdrealize
Live Music four nights a week
B Artisan wood-fired pizza
sC
Cocktails, wine, draught beer
G D Great, locally sourced food
gE
Coffee, cake, afternoon tea
=
FRINGE EVENTS
F
G all
of the above ?
WHY MAKE
A CHOICE,
WHEN YOU CAN
HAVE IT ALL?
Green ParkStation
Bath BA1 1JB
01225 33 85 65
[email protected]
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16:00 (doors open 15:00)
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Fish Pie! present
Tuesday
6 June
2017
Two Parallel Columns
Fresh from their sell-out, Cambridge run of their sketch
show “Laugh, Why Don’t You?” (4.5*, Varsity), punchy,
young comedy troupe Fish Pie! have teamed up with the
best of Bath’s student comedians to bring you Two Parallel
Columns - two days of sketchy silliness at Bath’s iconic Old
Theatre Royal.
The Old Theatre Royal
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£8/ £5 Concs
19:30
Threedumb Theatre
i thought i might be jet li (but it
turns out that i’m not)
a new play by Stuart Crowther
‘You’re not a woman... who you speaking for?’
Three men with made-up names wait for the world to make
sense. Lads. Lads. Lads? Something big’s gonna happen - if
they can cut the bull and keep Michelle Obama alive.
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Bath Box Office £8 / £6 concs
A film about Ghosts
Bath Spa Live
Fringe
For tickets see
bathspalive.com
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Black Dog Productions presents
TUESDAY 6 JUNE
Films About Ghosts
The Perfect Woman?
See Monday 5
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard; Tickets sold on door
Full price: £8 Concessions: £6 BSU students: £4
Burdall’s Yard 16.00
Stiff
Burdall’s Yard 18.00
The Bell Inn
Award winning pub and
live music venue in Bath
We have live music three times
a week ranging from jazz to
blues to folk to other things,
open mic nights on Thursday,
plus vinyl DJ nights at the
weekend, bar billiards, pool,
fussball, board games, free
WiFi and...a launderette!
26th
JUNE
2ND
JULY
Sam
Bread Over Bombs F Verdisa formerly
Evans Band
Slapface and the Hoagies
Phoenix River Band F Vienna Ditto
Bordello F Gavin Osborn F Emma Hutchinson
Rock Pipes F Stevie and the Masquerades F Folklaw
Pixi Encore F Kinsman F Kevin and the Destroyers F The Euphoria
Cosmic Ninja F Luna Blue F Black Rabbit F Bashema F FlowerPot
Joe Carreyett F Stone Cold Fiction F The Blush F Chameleonz
Best Mistakes F Hogs Bison F Isabella Oldford
JJ Gatzby F Super D F Charlie and Jake F Rebecca Shelley
Keynsham Brass Band F The Good Afternoon Choir F Keynsham Orchestra F Bath Dance
Thornbury Swing Band F Simply Opera F Somerset Morris F Fernandole F Keyford Dance
aKa Dance Theatre Company F Full Love Dance Stage F Strictly Come Keynsham
Liberty Rocks Productions F Opera and more F Grounded Stage
Keynsham Folk Festival - Sat 1 July (in THE Park) F and many more!
www.thebellinnbath.co.uk
103 Walcot St, Bath BA1 5BW
keynshammusicfestival.co.uk
See full booking information on page 2
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16:00 (doors open 15:00)
Wednesday
7 June
2017
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Fish Pie! present
Two Parallel Columns
See Tuesday 6
The Old Theatre Royal
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£8/ £5 Concs
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Restless Theatre Company presents
Network Tales After Dark
Ever wondered who you are sitting next to on the train?
Do overheard conversations make you ponder? As night
falls, climb aboard for a madcap journey of passion, loss,
and mystery as Anna and Stuart get to grips with the less
romantic practicalities of love on the tracks.
Rondo Theatre Box Office £10 / £8 concs + £1 booking fee
19:30
Threedumb Theatre presents
i thought i might be jet li (but it turns
out that i’m not)
a new play by Stuart Crowther
See Tuesday 6
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Bath Box Office £8 / £6 concs
20:00
Invulnerable Nothings
A Bright Room Called Day
Dave Lemkin
Bath Spa Live
Fringe
For tickets see
bathspalive.com
WEDNESDAY 7 JUNE
Memories We Lost
in the Fire
Burdall’s Yard 16.00
Freak by Anna
Jordan
Burdall’s Yard 18.00
by Tony Kushner
Invulnerable Nothings presents Kushner’s spectacular
political parable in a site specific apartment staging for
intimate audiences.
Email [email protected] for tickets:
location revealed upon booking confirmation!
www.invulnerablenothings.com
£15 / £10 Concs
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Bath Comedy presents
Bill Smarme & The Bizness with
Dave Lemkin
The Village Hall
The Vicar of Lower Swell introduces some bizarre and
frankly quite nutty locals performing in The Village Hall,
They will include former cabinet minister the Rt. Hon. Dickie
Daventry, who will regale us with tales from the corridors
of power and be plugging his memoirs, and special guests
Bill Smarme & The Bizness who will be travelling all the way
from Twerton to perform their unique comedic take on a
farrago of musical genres.
Widcombe Social Club
Booking: Bath Box Office; Bath Comedy Festival; Tickets
sold on door £14
20:00
I Am Nincompoop Presents
Wake Up & Deirdrealize
Starring Lucy Harrington
See Monday 5
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard; Tickets sold on door
£8 / £6 Concs / £4 BSU
20:30 (doors open 19:30)
Lucy Thompson
Shake It Off
Lucy’s set is a laughter-packed routine mixing clever
observations and stories, covering everything from everyday life
to her journey as a gay female. Although still a relatively new
face on the circuit Lucy has already made a lot of noise picking-up
Best Breakthrough Act at The 2016 Midlands Comedy Awards.
The Old Theatre Royal - Library
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £5
Lucy Harrington
Lucy Thompson
21:00
Jackson
Jet Li
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Bill Smarme
A product of the restlessly recombinant Bristol funk/jazz/soul
scene, Jackson sprays colours from all over the musical spectrum
onto the canvas, featuring faces that the truly alert will have seen
before: Jack Baldus, Asian Hawk, Rich O’Brien, Joe Price and
other hotshots. A very contemporary sound that is not afraid of its
own intelligence, nor of shaking that thing or rocking it out. And
already better than their acclaimed debut EP.
The Bell
FREE
For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
18:00 (doors open 17:30)
19:30
Sylvia Hunt Presents
Threedumb Theatre presents
Tease and Preen
supported by Bath Spa Live
Backcombed, behived, then set firmly in place, 1960s
hairdressing apprentice Connie discovers a different side
to hair and even life at a swinging party on the other side
of town… With more sass than Brigitte Bardot’s barnet
and a good layering of eccentric comedy, puppetry & a toy
poodle, Sylvia Hunt Presents one très chic ensemble!
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard £8 / £6 Concs / £4 BSU
19:00 (doors open 18:45)
i thought i might be jet li (but it
turns out that i’m not)
a new play by Stuart Crowther
See Tuesday 6
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Bath Box Office £8 / £6 concs
Thursday
8 June
2017
20:00
Invulnerable Nothings
A Bright Room Called Day
by Tony Kushner
See Wednesday 7
Location revealed upon booking confirmation! www.
invulnerablenothings.com
£15 / £10 Concs
Kilter Theatre presents
The Pub Tour
A Walking Tour of Bath’s Historical Pubs
See Friday 26
20:00 (doors open 19:55)
Outside the Crystal Palace pub
Booking: Tickets sold on door
£9 / £6 Concs
inamoment theatre
King Lear (alone)
19:00 (doors open 18:00)
Open Up Music present
The South-West Open Youth
Orchestra
including the Premiere of a new piece by Liam TaylorWest written especially for them
TSWOYO is the UK’s first disabled-led regional youth
orchestra, featuring disabled and non-disabled young
musicians playing conventional and electronic instruments
incorporating accessible EyeGaze technology. On the eve
of their BBC Music Day performance, come and experience
these uniquely modern young musicians in the intimate
surroundings of the Old Theatre Royal.
The Old Theatre Royal
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£6 / £5 Concs
With Bob Young
King Lear is left alone to once more think about that
fateful day and everything that happened since then,
whilst at the same time fighting the effects of dementia.
This fascinating opportunity takes us along Lear’s ensuing
spiritual journey, showing the original play’s themes and
insights from a completely different angle.
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard; Tickets sold on door
£10 / £8 Concs/ £5 BSU Student
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Rik van den Bosch and Rainy
A night where folk and blues meets cuban, reggae and
latin grooves. One-man-band and story teller, Rik van
den Bosch, is armed with his slide, harmonica and his
incredible vocal range. Rainy takes you on a journey with
his laid back grooves, sun soaked open roads and a healthy
dose of wonder. Watch, listen and enjoy.
Chapel Arts Centre
Booking: Bath Box Office; Chapel Arts; Tickets sold on
door. £8 Adv; £10 on door
Apocalypse
Bath Spa Live
Fringe
For tickets see
bathspalive.com
THURSDAY 8 JUNE
Wind in The Willows
- Adapted by Alan
Bennett
The Egg - 19.00
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
moonson.co presents
Robin & Bina Williamson
Songs, Stories and Music
Robin and Bina Williamson perform an exotic mix
of English, Celtic, and Old Timey roots. Their unique
interweave of songs stories and music feature the East/
West harmonies of their voices with harp, bowed psaltery
and diverse other instruments.
“An enchanting evening’s entertainment” - Edi Stark, Celtic
Connections
“Pure beauty through simplicity” - Robert Plant
Rondo Theatre. Rondo Theatre Box Office
£14 + £1 booking fee
SouthWest Open Youth Orchestra
19:30 (doors open 19:10)
Fake Escape present:
Apocalypse
What If You Knew Exactly When Your Life Would End? To
The Very Second... How Would You Want To Go Out?
For ‘20:20 Vision’s 5th year at Bath Fringe the
acclaimed immersive experience turns its attention to
our planet’s final hours. 4 new plays by 4 writers under
30, with stories spanning relationships and continents
played out in real time, as the audience hurtles
towards the end of the world.
Secret Location in Bath
Booking: www.ticketsignite.com
£10 / £8 concs
Robin & Bina Williamson
Scott Capurro
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Bath Comedy presents
Scott Capurro’s Gay Turnaround
Award winning US comedian, actor and writer Scott
Capurro, known for his work on several UK TV programmes,
including The Wright Stuff, 8 Out of 10 Cats and The Truth
About Gay Animals, comes to Bath Fringe. Strap yourselves
in, Bath iconoclasts!
Widcombe Social Club
Booking: Bath Box Office; Bath Comedy Festival; Tickets
sold on door £12/£10concs
See full booking information on page 2
King Lear
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19:00 (doors open 18:45)
Bath University Student Theatre Presents
Friday
9 June
2017
Phantom
By Lucas Fisher-Horas
Gabriel Blake is a man haunted by grief. Through an act
of heroism he is introduced to Olivia, a girl who is equally
lost in life, trapped within a toxic and abusive relationship.
The two find deep solace in one another, yet the closer they
grow, the greater the stakes should tragedy strike.
The Mission Theatre
Tickets from Edge Arts University of Bath £8/ £5 Concs
14:30 (doors open 14:15)
Bath University Student Theatre Presents
Tartuffe
Nowadays
by Molière
This hilarious translation of Molière’s Tartuffe, by BBC
Radio 4’s Roger McGough brings new life to the classic
French farce. Set within the 17th century aristocracy the
play tells the tale of Tartuffe, a fraud posing as a priest,
who feigns piety to swindle the upper classes out of
their wealth. ​
The Mission Theatre
Tickets from Edge Arts, University of Bath £8/ £5 Concs
16:00 (doors open 15:30)
Sylvia Hunt Presents
Tease and Preen
Tony Jameson
See Thursday 8
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard £8 / £6 Concs / £4 BSU
18:00 (doors open 17:55)
Just in Case
2 Comfortable Place
19:00 & 21:00
Wind in The Willows
- Adapted by Alan
Bennett
The Egg - 19.00
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19:30 (doors open 19:10)
With Bob Young
See Thursday 8
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard; Tickets sold on door
£10 / £8 Concs/ £5 BSU Student
What if you knew exactly when your life would end?
See Thursday 8
Booking: www.ticketsignite.com £10 / £8 concs
Tinned Pizza Theatre in
FRIDAY 9 JUNE
A Walking Tour of Bath’s Historical Pubs
See Friday 26
Outside the Crystal Palace pub
Booking: Tickets sold on door £9 / £6 Concs
Fake Escape present:
19:00
For tickets see
bathspalive.com
The Pub Tour
inamoment theatre
King Lear (alone)
Bath Spa Live
Fringe
19:00 (doors open 18:45)
Kilter Theatre presents
New Writing, Stand-Up, And Spoken Word
A student theatre company - comprised of recent
graduates and some still studying - present new writing
inspired by their day to day lives. Poetry, stand-up
comedy, and monologues that will have you laughing,
crying, and questioning all at the same time!
The Bell - Love Lounge (Back bar)
Booking: Tickets sold on door £4 / £2 Concs
Apocalypse
19:30 (doors open 19:00)
Music at the Edge
Nowadays 1 Kadialy Kouyate, Kora
Adventures in sound, storytelling and good times
Nowadays’ is a celebration of summer with its roots in
music. Join us for cosy drinks and performance in our tipi.
The Edge, University of Bath
Booking: Tickets sold on door
Tickets from Edge Arts box office and www.edgearts.org
£12:50 / £10:50 Concs/ £8:50 UoB Students
19:30 (doors open 19:00)
Bath University Student Musicals Society Presents:
The Ballad of Me and My Friends
A New Musical with the Songs and Lyrics of Frank Turner
A new jukebox musical written for this year’s fringe
follows the life and times of musicians, artists and
other failed 21st century bohemians trying to make it
in contemporary London. Taking inspiration from Frank
Turner’s lyrics and live shows, the performance weaves
together gig and theatre in Bath University’s new arts
complex, The Edge.
The Edge, University of Bath
Tickets can be bought online or at The Edge box office.
www.edgearts.org/ £5 (Students and Concessions) £8
Standard Ticket
For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
19:30 (doors open 18:30)
The Unravelling Wilburys
Following their sell-out world debut at last year’s Fringe@
theOTR, this band of good ol’ boys from Nashville
Tennessee who had a whole bunch of songs (allegedly)
stolen by some supergroup called “The Travelling
Wilburys” have been hitting the highway and are back
with an even bigger show this year.
The Old Theatre Royal
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£10 / £8 concs
Friday
9 June
2017
Vels Trio
20:00
RMT present
Vels Trio
plus Tiger Trail and Bird Noire
Channelling ingrained deep grooves, progressive soundscapes
and contemporary hip-hop, with the extraterrestrial electrified
leanings of prog and jazz-funk anchored to a deep backbeat,
heavy groove and hyperactive live sets. A hip-hop-infused
reinterpretation of jazz for contemporary audiences.
The band sold out The Jazz Cafe with a live rendition of
Madlib’s Shades of Blue.
The Nest
Booking: Tickets sold on door Advance booking on
Skiddle
£5 (£3 NUS), ££ in advance
Anita Hummel
20:00
St Wally’s Eve
As a prelude to the Walcot Nation Day celebrations, The
Bell will be buzzing to an upgrade on the usual alreadygroovesome vinyl DJ malarkey, and, we are assured, some
popup events to match. More details on their website and
ours nearer the time.
The Bell
FREE
20:00
Invulnerable Nothings
A Bright Room Called Day
by Tony Kushner
See Wednesday 7
Location revealed upon booking confirmation!
www.invulnerablenothings.com
£15 / £10 Concs
20:30 (doors open 19:30)
Tony Jameson
Football Manager Ruined My Life
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Krowd Keepers Magic Theatre
See Friday 26
The Ale House
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £10
20:00 (doors open 19:45)
Bath University Student Theatre Presents
Tony Jameson has become one of the UK’s hottest comedic
talents with his laid back, chatty, observational style. For
the past 18 months, Tony has been touring the UK with
this sell-out show, including a week-long residency at
both Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy in
London.
The Old Theatre Royal - Library
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£8 /£7 Concs
Tease and Preen
21:00
Other Places
By Harold Pinter
Join Bath University Student Theatre as they perform three
of Harold Pinter’s best One Act plays shown together in one
night, including “A Kind of Alaska”, “Victoria Station” and
“One For The Road”.
The Museum of Bath at Work
Edge Arts Bath University £8/ £5 Concs
20.00
Jesuits
New-ish Bristol psych quartet including ex-members of the
rather-good-sadly Towns, surfing a tidal wave of feedback
& noise but with punk/grunge energy and attitude to keep
them out of any trouble they didn’t choose to be in. Ones to
watch (and indeed listen to).
The Royal Oak
FREE
23:00 (doors open 23:00)
Himmeltheatre Presents:
Antigone
Jesuits
Sophocles’ tragedy tells the struggle between the law of
Men and the Law of Nature. A woman stands against the
will of a tyrant: her vision being the only thing that can
make the power collapse and open new prospects. The
city of Tebe will heal only with sacrifice.
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Bath Spa Live £10 / £8 / £5 BSU
Fame
With all your guilty pleasures under one roof, Fame is
Bath’s biggest night for you to unleash your inner dancer
to the soundtrack of nostalgic numbers from the past and
modern groovers that you wouldn’t normally dare sing out
of the shower!
Komedia
Booking: Komedia; Tickets sold on door £5
See full booking information on page 2
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11:00 (doors open 10:40)
Back In Time Productions Presents
A Suitcase of Memories
Saturday
10 June
2017
When a husband is caring for his very unwell wife, the
memorable moments they’ve shared bring them closer than
ever as they reflect on their adventurous journey together.
The Mission Theatre
Booking: Tickets sold on door £6 / £4 students
11:15 (doors open 11:00)
walknowlive:
Bath’s Last Legal Slaveowners
Sweet Waters: walking, sensing legacies of slaveownership.
Richard White hosts a creative performative walk wayfaring
through the obscured histories and reluctant heritage
of Bath, reflecting on flow, cycle and memory; alert for
sounds, voices, tears, sweat and blood suspended in
the waters. Generating a social media trail, networking
contemporary resonance. Join on foot or online.
Supported By Arts Council England
Meet in central Bath - Location on registration.
see www.walknowtracks.co.uk for details.
Numbers are limited to ensure an interesting and
enjoyable participatory walk.
FREE
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Bath University Student Theatre Presents
Phantom
By Lucas Fisher-Horas
See Friday 9
The Mission Theatre
Tickts from Edge Arts University of Bath £8/ £5 Concs
16:00
Tobacco Tea Theatre Company
The Accidental Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes
When Holmes unknowingly murders his own client, the
game is on to catch the criminal! But are Watson’s rent and
Moriarty’s thirst for detective fiction manipulating events?
Expect hilarity, satire, metafiction and plot twists galore!
Burdall’s Yard. Booking: Burdalls Yard; Tickets sold on
door. £10 Full/£8 Conc/£5 BSU Student
19:00 (doors open 18:45)
Bath University Student Theatre Presents
Tartuffe
by Molière
See Friday 9​
The Mission Theatre
Tickets from Edge Arts, University of Bath £8/ £5 Concs
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For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
19:00 (doors open 18:45)
20:00 (doors open 18:30)
Krater Comedy Club
Kilter Theatre presents
The Pub Tour
Watch three top stand-ups and enjoy the comedy
stylings of one of the best comperes in the business,
plus eat delicious food served by our Soil Association
Gold Standard Award winning restaurant.
Scott Capurro, Stuart Mitchell, Prince Abdi
MC Mark Olver
Komedia
Booking: Komedia; Tickets sold on door £19 (see
komedia.co.uk for other ticketing options)
A Walking Tour of Bath’s Historical Pubs
See Friday 26
Outside the Crystal Palace pub
Booking: Tickets sold on door £9 / £6 Concs
19:30 (doors open 19:10)
Fake Escape present:
Apocalypse
Saturday
10 June
2017
20.00
What if you knew exactly when your life would end?
See Thursday 8
Booking: www.ticketsignite.com
£10 / £8 concs
Himmeltheatre Presents:
Antigone
See Fri 9 June for further info
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Bath Spa Live £10 / £8 / £5 BSU
19:30 (doors open 19:00)
Music at The Edge
Nowadays 2
20:00 (doors open 19:45)
Music and sunset performance
‘Nowadays’ is a celebration of summer with its roots in
music. Join us for cosy drinks in our tipi, bring family and
picnic.
The Edge, University of Bath
Booking: www.edgearts.org Tickets sold on door
£12:50 / £10:50 Concs/ £8:50 UoB Students
19:30 (doors open 19:00)
Bath University Student Musicals Society Presents:
The Ballad of Me and My Friends
A New Musical with the Songs and Lyrics of Frank Turner
See Friday 9
The Edge, University of Bath
Tickets can be bought online or at The Edge box office.
www.edgearts.org/
£5 (Students and Concessions) £8 Standard Ticket
Bath University Student Theatre Presents
Other Places
By Harold Pinter
See Friday 9
The Museum of Bath at Work
Tickets from Edge Arts Bath University £8/ £5 Concs
Nowadays
21:00 (doors open 20:00)
Foxy Music presents
A Tribute to Pink Floyd
by James Hollingsworth
James creates amazing soundscapes using skilful guitar
effects and loop technology to recreate the legendary
rock of Pink Floyd and totally blow your mind! A “truly
phenomenal experience” (Barry ‘The Fish’ Melton, Country
Joe and The Fish), an absolute must for all fans of Pink
Floyd and psychedelic, folk, blues, trance or metal guitar.
The Barley Mow.
Booking: Bath Box Office £5 / £6 door
23:00 (doors open 23:00)
Motorcity
See Saturday 27
Komedia
Booking: Tickets sold on door £6
20:00
Invulnerable Nothings
A Bright Room Called Day
by Tony Kushner
See Wednesday 7
Location revealed upon booking confirmation! www.
invulnerablenothings.com
£15 / £10 Concs
Apocalypse
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Indie set to Blow-up
Bath Spa Live Fringe
Guy Fawkes
A backlash to A-sides, a response to four-minute songs
by manicured manikins, a single finger to the Ed’s of this
world, the beginning of the good new days. But most of
all Indie that seamlessly blends nuance and beauty with
energy and rhythm. Set to blow up.
The Old Theatre Royal. Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets
sold on door. £8 (concessions £7)
SATURDAY 10 JUNE
Wind in The Willows - Adapted by Alan
Bennett
The Egg - 14.00 & 19.00
Guy Fawkes
Finally Human
Burdall’s Yard 14.00
20:00 (doors open 19:30)
Krowd Keepers Magic Theatre
For tickets see bathspalive.com
Just in Case
See Friday 26
The Ale House
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door £10
2 Comfortable Place 16.00 & 18.00
Freak by Anna Jordan
Burdall’s Yard 20.00
See full booking information on page 2
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11:00 (doors open 10:00)
walknowlive:
Sunday
11 June
2017
Sweat and Sugar: walking the points of the Triangular Trade
Sweet Waters: walking, sensing legacies of slave-ownership.
See Wednesday 21st
Beckford’s Tower gardens
Numbers are limited for an enjoyable participatory
walk.For registration, see www.walknowtracks.co.uk
FREE
12:00
Tobacco Tea Theatre Company
The Accidental Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes
See Saturday 10
Burdall’s Yard
Booking: Burdalls Yard; Tickets sold on door
£10 Full/£8 Conc/£5 BSU Student
13:00 (doors open 12:00)
Walcot Nation Celebration!
It was 20 years ago today...
Mac Seka (Bell Sunday Lunchtime)
Walcot Nation Day festival - run by Bath Fringe, The Bell,
and key local traders - was 20 years ago on the Sunday at the
end of that year’s Fringe. We reckon that’s a major excuse
for a party. Already confirmed: an afternoon of top local live
music, events in the yard, archive film showings of past local
misdemeanours, pop-up art, and the unpredictable. See our
website and The Bell’s for details nearer the time.
The Bell
FREE
14:15 (doors open 14:00)
Walcot Village Fair
Children’s outdoor theatre event
2.15pm: The Adorable Snowman by Gulliver Keunzler..
When a Yeti is discovered, the locals call it abominable but
as events unfold they realise it is in fact adorable!
3.15pm The Lorax by Dr Seuss.
Adapted for performance and performed by Mike Wallton
and friends.
4.15pm Children’s cabaret
Do you have a special skill or joke to tell?
St Swithins Church - In the garden
FREE
20:00
Invulnerable Nothings
A Bright Room Called Day
Andy Wilky
Bath Spa Live
Fringe
For tickets see
bathspalive.com
SUNDAY 11 JUNE
The Perfect Woman?
Burdall’s Yard 14.00
Ellipsism - The Last
Days of Napoleon
Burdall’s Yard 16.00
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by Tony Kushner
See Wednesday 7
Location revealed upon booking confirmation! www.
invulnerablenothings.com
£15 / £10 Concs
20:00 (doors open 19:00)
Andy Wilky
Just Me
Anyone who has seen ‘Phoenix Nights’, ‘That Peter Kay
Thing’, ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’, ‘Cold Feet’ and the Ken Loach
film ‘Looking For Eric’ will instantly recognise Andy Wilky.
This ‘Just me’ Tour features anecdotes from his home
life laced with surreal tangents, including the welcome
appearance of a talking dog.
The Old Theatre Royal
Booking: Bath Box Office; Tickets sold on door
£8 / £7 Concs
20:00
Comedy & Music
Walcot Street Comedy Collective
featuring Calico Jack
The Fringe of the Fringe gets excited round the back of
the pub tonight: a phalanx of performances from the truly
alternative edge of the city, featuring:
Onanism - Matt Cranium - The Whistleblowers - Arnold
Kuenzler-Byrt --- plus a little bit more.
The night culminates with a show from yer actual Pirates of
the Kennet & Avon, Calico Jack
The Bell - Love Lounge (Back bar)
Booking: Tickets sold on door
please make a donation (£3 suggested, price of a pint)
Monday 12 June - Saltford Brass Mill
Tuesday 13 June - Keynsham railway station
Saturday 17 June - Canal side Locksbrook Inn
Monday 19 June - Central Bath
Tuesday 20 June - Keynsham railway station
10:15 (meet from 10:00)
walknowlive
Sweet Waters: a cycle of walks along the River Avon sensing
legacies of slavery and slaveownership
Different starting points
Richard White hosts a series of creative performative walks
wayfaring through obscured histories and reluctant heritage
from Bath and along the river, reflecting on flow, cycle and
memory; alert for sounds, voices, tears, sweat and blood
suspended in the waters. Generating a social media trail,
networking contemporary resonances. Join on foot or online.
Each walk is a section of the route along the river, please register
separately for each one.
Numbers are limited.
For registration, see www.walknowtracks.co.uk
www.bnhc.org.uk/festival-of-nature-type/festivalevents/
FREE
Wednesday 21 June 05:00 (meet from 04:30)
walknowlive
Sweet Waters: a cycle of walks along the River Avon sensing
legacies of slavery and slaveownership
Different starting points
Richard White hosts a series of creative performative walks
wayfaring through obscured histories and reluctant heritage
from Bath and along the river, reflecting on flow, cycle and
memory; alert for sounds, voices, tears, sweat and blood
suspended in the waters. Generating a social media trail,
networking contemporary resonances. Join on foot or online.
Supported By Arts Council England
Avonmouth Bridge
Each walk is a section of the route along the river, please
register separately for each one.
There is be an eventbrite link for each walk on the
Festival of Nature site: www.bnhc.org.uk/festival-ofnature-type/festival-events/
FREE
10th-16th July :
There is life after the Fringe! Join the Bath Big Cheese
Trail. You and 100 cheeses! Organised by Bath Comedy
in association with VisitBath and Bath-Alkmaar Twinning
Association’s 70th Anniversary Celebrations and supported
by Heritage Lottery.
Details soon! www.bathcomedy.com
For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
Bonfire Radicals
Wednesday 24
The Bell
Gas Giants
Thursday 25
The Old Barn, Kelston
Roundhill
Openings Night Party
Friday 26
The Bell (Back bar)
Papillon
Friday 26
Chapel Arts Centre
Amadou Diagne
Saturday 27
The Bell (Back bar)
Burbank
Saturday 27
The Barley Mow
Motorcity
Comedy
May 27, June 3,10
Blooming Out
Komedia
Saturday 27
Kris & the Blues
Dance
Rondo Theatre
Machines
Fame: The Musical
Krater Comedy Club
Sunday 28
June 1-3
May 27, June 2,9
The Bell
Kingswood Theatre
Komedia
Mishka Shubaly
Encore
Mishka Shubaly
Sunday 28
June 1-3
Sunday 28
The Bell (Back bar)
The Mission Theatre
The Bell (Back bar)
The Fats Waller Project
Bedlam - The Night Out
Looking after No.
Monday 29
Saturday 3
Monday 29
The Bell
Green Park Station
No. 1 Royal Crescent ‘90s Acoustic Mixtape
Outside
Film
LIVE
Freedom of Speech
Survivors: First and Last Tuesday 30
Monday 29
The Old Theatre Royal
Wednesday 31
The Old Theatre Royal
The Museum of Bath at
Declan Miller
Mad About A Boy
Work
Tuesday 30
Wednesday 31
The Bell
The Old Theatre Royal Installation &
Tonto Malembe
Library
Immersive
Wednesday 31
Work in Progress
Looking after No.1
The Bell
Thursday 1
Monday 29
Fame: The Musical
The Old Theatre Royal No. 1 Royal Crescent June 1-3
Library
Outside
Kingswood Theatre
Always Lands On His Feet Romantic Botanic
Sgt. Pepper’s 50th
Friday 2
June 2-3
Anniversary Concert
The Old Theatre Royal The Holburne Museum
Thursday 1
Library
Valerie’s Birthday Party
Chapel Arts Centre
The Noise Next Door
Saturday 3
Guitar on a Summer
Friday 2
Widcombe Social Club
Evening
Komedia
A Bright Room Called
Thursday 1
Appily Ever After
Day
The Old Theatre Royal
June 3-4
June 7-11
Martin Taylor & Alison
Burdall’s Yard
Apocalypse
Burns: Ella at 100
A Fringe Debut
June 8-10
Thursday 1
June 3-4
Widcombe Social Club
Kids’ Events
The Bath Brewhouse
Still Doing It
Valerie’s Birthday Party Squeezy Green’s
Friday 2
Compendium
Saturday 3
Rondo Theatre
Monday 29
Widcombe Social Club
The Mission Theatre
Jasmine
Husband of the Bride
Friday 2
Alf the Highwayman
Sunday 4
The Old Theatre Royal
Sunday 4
The Mission Theatre
Fame
Your Love Is A Knackered The Mission Theatre
June 2,9
Nowadays - Family Tipi
Bus Stop...
Komedia
Saturday 10
Sunday 4
The Edge, University of
The Old Theatre Royal Joe Probert
Bath
Library
Saturday 3
The Old Theatre Royal
Wake Up & Deirdrealize
Live Art, Multimedia
June 5,7
Bedlam - The Night Out
& Digital
Burdall’s Yard
Saturday 3
All The Journeys I Never
Green Park Station
Two Parallel Columns
Took
June 6-7
The Swings + Flies Fly
Saturday 3
The Old Theatre Royal
Away
Burdall’s Yard
Saturday 3
Bill Smarme / Dave
Super Hamlet 64: Parody
The Barley Mow
Lemkin
DLC
Wednesday 7
Terry & Gerry
Thursday 1
Widcombe Social Club
Sunday 4
Rondo Theatre
The Bell
Shake It Off
Wednesday 7
Music
Ella - Celebrating 100
The Old Theatre Royal Years
Barbarella’s Bang Bang
Library
Sunday 4
Sunday 21
Burdall’s Yard
The Bell
Cabaret & Circus
Krowd Keepers Magic
Theatre
May 26-7, June 2-3, 9-10
The Ale House - Upstairs
Still Doing It
Friday 2
Rondo Theatre
Bedlam - The Night Out
Saturday 3
Green Park Station
Bill Smarme / Dave
Lemkin
Wednesday 7
Widcombe Social Club
Walcot Village Fair
Sunday 11
St Swithins Church - In the
garden
Tease and Preen
June 8-9
Burdall’s Yard
Scott Capurro’s Gay
Turnaround
Thursday 8
Widcombe Social Club
Tinned Pizza Theatre
Friday 9
The Bell (Back bar)
Football Manager
Ruined My Life
Friday 9
The Old Theatre Royal Library
Walcot Street Comedy
Collective
Sunday 11
The Bell (Back bar)
Just Me
Sunday 11
The Old Theatre Royal
Simon Currie’s 6plus1
Sunday 4
The Old Theatre Royal
Spirit of Place
Sunday 4
Widcombe Social Club
Phoenix River Band
Monday 5
The Old Theatre Royal
Africa Entsha
Monday 5
The Bell
Bill Smarme / Dave
Lemkin
Wednesday 7
Widcombe Social Club
Jackson
Wednesday 7
The Bell
South-West Open Youth
Orchestra
Thursday 8
The Old Theatre Royal
Robin & Bina Williamson
Thursday 8
Rondo Theatre
Rik van den Bosch /
Rainy
Thursday 8
Chapel Arts Centre
The Unravelling
Wilburys
Friday 9
The Old Theatre Royal
The Ballad of Me and My
Friends
June 9-10
The Edge, University of
Bath
Nowadays - Tipi at the
Edge (Kadialy Kouyate)
Friday 9
The Edge, University of
Bath
Vels Trio
Friday 9
The Nest
St Wally’s Eve
Friday 9
The Bell
Jesuits
Friday 9
The Royal Oak
Walcot Independence
Partyparty
Saturday 10
The Bell
Guy Fawkes
Saturday 10
The Old Theatre Royal
Nowadays - Family Tipi
Saturday 10
The Edge, University of
Bath
James Hollingsworth Pink Floyd
Saturday 10
The Barley Mow
Walcot Nation
Celebration!
Sunday 11
The Bell
Walcot Street Comedy
Collective
Sunday 11
The Bell (Back bar)
The Underscore Orkestra
Monday 12
The Bell
Kangaroo Moon
Wednesday 14
The Bell
See full booking information on page 2
Spoken Word
Think of a Song
Wednesday 31
The Old Theatre Royal
Still Doing It
Friday 2
Rondo Theatre
All The Journeys I Never
Took
Saturday 3
Burdall’s Yard
Ovid’s Heroines
Saturday 3
St. Michael’s Church
The Last Word Poetry
Slam
Saturday 3
The Bell (Back bar)
Spirit of Place
Sunday 4
Widcombe Social Club
Tinned Pizza Theatre
Friday 9
The Bell (Back bar)
Street & Outdoors
Looking after No.1
Monday 29
No. 1 Royal Crescent Outside
Romantic Botanic
June 2-3
The Holburne Museum
Bedlam Fair
June 3-4
Central Bath
Talks & Walks
The Pub Tour
May 26-27, June 2-4,8-10
Crystal Palace pub Outside
Bathís Last Legal
Slaveowners
Saturday 10
Sweat and Sugar
Sunday 11
Beckford’s Tower
Sweet Waters
June 12,13,17,19,20,21
Various starting points
Theatre
Fragile Man
Friday 26
Rondo Theatre
Rex The King
Saturday 27
St James Wine Vaults Upstairs
Blooming Out
Saturday 27
Rondo Theatre
Chapel Street
June 27,29
Burdall’s Yard
Bones
June 28-29
Burdall’s Yard
Squeezy Green’s
Compendium
Monday 29
The Mission Theatre
The Red Court
June 30-31
Burdall’s Yard
i should save this
June 30-31
Burdall’s Yard
Remedies
June 1-2
Burdall’s Yard
Fame: The Musical
June 1-3
Kingswood Theatre
Super Hamlet 64: Parody
DLC
June 1
Rondo Theatre
Ovid’s Heroines
Saturday 3
St. Michael’s Church
Appily Ever After
June 3-4
Burdall’s Yard
Spaghetti
Saturday 3
Rondo Theatre
Alf the Highwayman
Sunday 4
The Mission Theatre
Woolf
Monday 5
The Mission Theatre
Films About Ghosts
June 5-6
Burdall’s Yard
Wake Up & Deirdrealize
June 5,7
Burdall’s Yard
i thought i might be
jet li...
June 6-8
The Mission Theatre
Network Tales After Dark
Wednesday 7
Rondo Theatre
A Bright Room Called
Day
June 7-11
Tease and Preen
June 8-9
Burdall’s Yard
Apocalypse
June 8-10
King Lear (alone)
June 8-9
Burdall’s Yard
Tartuffe
June 9-10
The Mission Theatre
Phantom
June 9-10
The Mission Theatre
The Ballad of Me and My
Friends
June 9-10
The Edge, University of
Bath
Other Places
June 9-10
The Museum of Bath at
Work
A Suitcase of Memories
Saturday 10
The Mission Theatre
The Accidental
Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes
June 10-11
Burdall’s Yard
Nowadays Family Tipi
Saturday 10
The Edge, University of
Bath
Workshops
Djembe Workshop
Saturday 27
The Bell (Back bar)
Guitar on a Summer
Evening
Thursday 1
The Old Theatre Royal
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FAB at Bath
Artists Studios,
Comfortable Place,
Upper Bristol Road
BA1 3AJ
Open 12noon to 4pm daily
Fresh Arts@ BAS
For more information: www.bathfringe.co.uk
New artwork created for the walls of
Swallows Therapy Rooms, Paulton
Hospital by participants on the
creative wellbeing programme.
Inspired by workshops in the
Holburne Museum, No 1 Royal
Crescent and the American Museum
supported by AWP, Creativity Works
and Virgin Care.
FaB at ICE Space,
North Parade Road,
BA2 4EU
Open 12noon to 4pm daily
Gender Fluid
Curated by The Wooding and
Myrddin
An exhibition of drawing, painting,
sound and sculpture exploring the
ambiguity of gender.’
fringeartsbath.co.uk/genderfluid
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FaB at Lane House
Arts, 5 Nelson
Place, BA1 5DA
Open 12noon to 4pm daily
The Space Between
Curated by Nicolette McGuire &
Mike Snudden
Mike and Nicolette come from opposite
places within art. His work dominates
space in presence and fabric, invoking
a delicate response. Hers is delicate and
ephemeral in material and physicality,
inviting intimacy and invoking a strong
response.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/spacebetween
28/29/30/31 May and 1/2
June,10am-4pm
An Hour A Day
Free workshops for Creative Arts,
Health & Wellbeing. Booking
recommended
creativityworks.org.uk
FaB at Art at the Heart of the RUH, Combe
Park, Avon BA1 3NG
Open 24/7
Find another Bath
Curated by Anna Kot, Richard
Williams and Sophie Erin Cooper
Fresh Arts@ RUH
creativityworks.org.uk
fringeartsbath.co.uk/find-another-bath
New artwork created for the walls of
Swallows Therapy Rooms, Paulton
Hospital by participants on the
creative wellbeing programme.
Inspired by workshops in the
Holburne Museum, No 1 Royal
Crescent and the American Museum
supported by AWP, Creativity Works
and Virgin Care. In the RUH’s South
corridor.
A collection of works from the book
Find another Bath in the Central
Gallery at the RUH. Artists, writers
and performers’ responses to forgotten
aspect s of Bath’s history; highlighting
and celebrating its Industrial past and
the workers who lived, laboured and
died here.
Transfer 2
Following on from the great
success of interactive collaborative
installation TRANSFER at FaB16,
we we will be showing TRANSFER
2 in the basement gallery.
onetwofivegallery.co.uk
One Two Five Gallery, 4 Abbey
Green, BA1 1NW
Open 11am to 5pm, Wed to Sun
Sexcentenuary
Curated by Helena Waters
A collective of self identifying
older women, committed to the
collaborative performance of gender
feminism and ageing. *We refuse to
be unseen*. A series of unannounced
public actions in public places
throughout the festival, moving from
location to location for about 60 mins
at a time.
Please visit www.fringeartsbath.
co.uk/sexcentenuary for up to date
info
FaB in the Garden
Cafe, Holburne
Museum
Open 10am to 5pm Mon-Sat,
11am to 5pm on Sundays
See and be Seen - an
installation
Curated by The Gardener’s Lodge
Art Group
An extraordinary paper installation
by The Gardener’s Lodge Art Group,
exploring ‘the eyes’ of the Museum,
displayed in the Holburne Garden
Café. Come, see and be seen – are
you a fan?! Visit FaB 2 to see See and
be Seen’s sister exhibition Reveal OR
Conceal
holburne.org/learning/communityengagement
Action on Hearing Loss
Educational Day Services
Visit our diverse show: paintings,
drawings, ceramics, woodwork,
sculpture and more; made by
talented people who are deaf, hard of
hearing or deaf-blind, plus additional
needs. Meet the Artists whilst they
are busy creating and buy fabulous
and affordable work.
facebook.com/
ActionOnHearingLossEDS
Bath Workshop, Units  and ,
Wells Road, BA AP
Open am to pm
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See map page 8 for venue information
FaB 3, 6 New Bond Street Place, BA1 1BH
Open 10am to 6pm daily, 27 May to 10 June,10am to 3pm on 11 June
FaB 4, 29a
Westgate Street,
BA1 1EP
Open 10am-6pm 27 May to 10
June, 10am-3pm on 11 June
Home and the Poetics of
Space
Foundlings
Curated by De Ice
12 Artists were each given a box
containing an inspiration to nurture
and work with. This was passed on to
another who was invited to respond to,
change, even destroy, the artwork.
The exhibition shows the documented
journey, artwork, and boxes.
www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/foundlings
to a set idea of a place but is rather
determined by personal experience.
www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/nationality
Projected Histories
Curated by Patrick Creedon
Curated by Judith Beeby & Dark
Matter Group
Dark Matter is a group of Bath Spa
Mfa graduates working in a variety
of media to interpret the concept of
‘Home’.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/poetics
Projected Histories is an exhibition that
questions the necessary mediation of the
digital artwork through the physical. The
exhibition has an online counterpart,
allowing the form of the exhibition to
mirror the antagonistic relation between
the digital and the physical.
www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/
projectedhistories
Expressions of Research
Other People Have a
Nationality
Curated by Sveta Antonova
An exhibition about the concept of
home. Everybody has at least one
‘home’, it is an abstract word relating
Over the past year, five selected
Artists have worked with Researchers
at University of Bath to influence
each other’s work, here we invite
you to discover their work:
drawings, sculpture, installation and
performance.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/science
FaB at Milsom Place, Milsom Street BA1 1BZ
Open 10am to 6pm daily, 27 May to 10 June, 10am to 3pm on 11 June
DIEGETIC LIFE: GHOSTS OF THE PUTATIVE
Curated by Jonathon Harris
Our digitally-connected lives are increasingly on display for
others to consume as ‘diegetic’ narratives. This exhibition
presents diverse, contemplative art works that interrupt these
narratives and prompt us to consider what relationship, if
any, they have to ideas of truth and reality.
www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/diegetic
FaB at Art in the
Arches,
St James’s Railway Viaduct, BA2
(over the river from Bath Bus
Station)
Variable opening times
Check out the pop-up activity and
displays at Bath’s newest arts space
in-the-making, in the railway arches
at bottom of Wells Road. Part of ‘Art
in the Arches’ - a project to create a
new arts quarter for the city in the
abandoned railway arches along the
viaduct.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/arches
From Artist’s to Child’s Hand
Curated by Rita Lazaro
Every picture book is in fact a “mini art gallery”
and this exhibition shows the process of creating an
illustration from rough sketches to original artwork and
finished book. There will be workshops, storytelling
and book signings too.
www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/artistchild
On the tip of my tongue
Curated by Alice Ling & Bryony
Tilsley
Where are the words that you need? They
sit on the tip of your tongue, too difficult
to say. In a variety of private spaces explore
the conversations we struggle to have and
the things that we never say. Small-scale
Artists’ installations and performances
set in people’s homes, please register your
interest for info fringeartsbath.co.uk/
tongue.
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FaB 2, 94 Walcot Street, Bath BA1 5BG
Open 10am-6pm 27 May to 10 June, 10am-3pm on 11 June
Bad Princess
Curated by Midlands Art Collective
‘ABOuT’ (Artists Behaving
OUtrageously Together)
Four Bad Princesses are entangled
together for FaB. Clare Whelan, Jain
McKay, Helen Grundy and Emma
Trimble work together to confront
the viewer with an unhappy ending,
very non-fairytale like. Once Upon A
Time… Life Happened… The End!
fringeartsbath.co.uk/princess
Drawn from Orkney
Artist: Karen Wallis
Southside Family Project
Curated by Liz Froud
Over the course of a year Southside
Family Project have met with groups
of young people all over BaNES; in
colleges, youth centres and specialised
project s to look at and understand
what is meant by healthy and
unhealthy relationships.
southsideyp.wixsite.com/timeoutyp/
your-page
An installation and film of drawings
combined with sound, about Karen’s 2016
Artist’s Residency at the Ness of Brodgar
excavations in Orkney. Plus prints of
drawings and watercolours for sale to raise
funds for Karen’s 2017 residency.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/karen-wallis
between
Curated by Vicky Vatcher
Eleven performance Artists have put
forward work that deals with moments
of tension and change. Work that shows
a concern with limited time (possibly
metaphysical, emotional, numerical,
change and the body etc.) and a
consciousness of the temporal nature of
performance.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/between
Refuge: in search of safety
Curated by Mike and Dona Bradley
We all need to feel safe. Faced with
war, abuse, homelessness, loneliness,
stress or uncertainty, human beings
are united by the need to seek refuge.
In this exhibition, Artists explore what
seeking, fi nding, giving or losing a
place of safety really means.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/refuge
Reveal OR Conceal - an
installation
Curated by The Gardener’s Lodge
Art Group
Inspired by the Holburne Museum’s
eclect ic and fascinating collect ion of
Georgian fans, The Gardener’s Lodge
Art Group have created a hanging
installation of beautiful fans, each
lit by their own LED light.
The Obsessive Compulsive
Practice
Curated by Anya Beaumont & Clare
Winnan
Obsessive collect ing and hoarding,
the painstaking, repetitive use of
materials or processes, many artists
have some sort of obsessive behaviour.
‘The Obsessive Compulsive Pract ice’
incorporates fi lm, sculpture,
drawing and painting in its quest to
understand the significance of this
methodology.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/obsessive
Illuminating!
Make your way to the Holburne
Museum to see Reveal OR Conceal’s
sister exhibition See and be Seen.
holburne.org/learning/communityengagement
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FaB at 44AD Artspace, 4 Abbey Street, BA1 1NN
Open 10am-6pm 27 May to 10 June, 10am-3pm on 11 June
Upstairs at 44AD: The Bath
Open Art Prize
Curated by Anna Kot, Richard
Williams, Robert Luzar and Rowan
Lear.
Guest judges Robert Luzar and Rowan
Lear have selected pieces for exhibition
from this year’s many submissions, and
will together be selecting 1st and 2nd
place winners of the £250 and £75 cash
prizes generously donated by Andrews
Estate and Society Cafe. The 44AD
exhibition prize winner will be given a
solo show in 44AD artspace.
7pm on 9 June
The Bath Open Art Prize awards night
Guest judges Robert Luzar and Rowan Lear will give prizes to the winners, and
the People’s Choice winner will be announced.
www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/bathopen
44AD
You, our visitors are invited to vote
for the People’s Choice, who will be
awarded £50 vouchers kindly donated
by Minerva Arts Supplies.
9 June from 7pm The Bath Open Art
Prize awards night and the People’s
Choice winner will be announced.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/bathopen
Downstairs at 44AD Artspace
FaB17’s experimental performance
space with regular performances and
films throughout the festival, please
visit www.fringeartsbath.co.uk for up to
date info.
.-.pm, .-.pm, ..pm on /// June
a family-friendly workshop based on the
idea of ‘(Every/No)Body’.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/body | twitter.com/
CARU_PR_Team
27/28 May and 3/4 June 2pm-4pm
Workshops with Alissar McCreary
Audio Tales
27/28 May and 3/4 June 4pm-5pm
Performances by various CARU Artists
 June pm-pm
Written and curated by Harri
Thompson
OtozGozo presents a new fully
immersive audio participation
workshop that combines sensory
deprivation with binaural 3D
technology to create dark and gritty
short stories, taking you into the life
and mind of the main character this
insight to life will touch and immerse
you through sound.
£ on the door, booking
recommended: www.tickettailor.com/
all-tickets//a
Three Room Cinema Club
Conflict | Everybodies | Open
 May to  June
As (Every/No) Body
Curated by CARU | Contemporary
Arts ReSearch Unit
‘What does it mean to be a body? Could
one be everybody? Is it really possible to
be a nobody?’ CARU brings together live
art, dance, sound/sonic performances, and
Focusing on a visual arts approach to
moving image, with a playlist of films for
each theme in three separate rooms. The
viewer will move between spaces for the
full experience, and we’ll open discussion
about the pieces around our pop-up bar.
£5 on the door, booking
recommended:fringeartsbath.co.uk/
three-room-cinema-club
Summer Show
Curated by Emma Rose
Voted BEST ARTIST in Bath Independent’s
Awards 2016, Emma Rose showcases her
summer collection of original artwork
(acrylics and Indian inks), limited edition
giclée prints and greeting cards.
emmaroseartworks.com
Emma Rose Art Works,  Walcot St,
BA BD
Open am to pm, Mon to Sat
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FaB 1, 15 New Bond St, Bath BA1 1BA
Open 10am-6pm 27 May to 10 June, 10am-3pm on 11 June
FaB Photomarathon
Curated by Bartek Vavzynovic &
Edyta Murawska
1 city, 1 day, 10 hours, 20 themes,
20 photos… See the results of our
psychogeographical ramble through the
streets of Bath, discover our city from a
new angle, through someone else’s eyes.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/photomarathon
Dreaming in Full
Curated by Radhika Prabhu
Dreaming in full - a convergence of artistic
experiences that transcend the expected
borders between visual arts and theater,
and embrace alternative approaches in
both perception and expression through
performances, installations, sculptures, and
video works.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/dreaming
FaB at Cleveland
Pools, Hampton
Row, BA2 6QS
Open 10am-6pm on 27/28/29
May, 4/5 and 9/10 June. 10am3pm on 11 June
Primordial Soup
Curated by Laura Denning
This exhibition brings together eleven
Artists whose work considers how
humans and other species relate to water,
often from an ecological and geopolitical
perspective. All the work is presented
digitally, with one-off performances
stirring up the programme.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/primordial
Lost Library
Curated by Catherine Wynne-Paton
Flux
Curated by Sightlines Projects
Personifying the statistics of library use
through the visual cues of a financial
institution with a public performance
involving the manual update of display
boards. Led by the Artist-Curator; open
for both impromptu involvement and by
prior arrangement.
Based at FaB , with performances out
& about at various times, Please visit
www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/lostlibrary
An interdisciplinary exhibition of
works by Artists who, through a
variety of approaches, consider our
relationship with an ever-changing
world. Socio-political and technological
change, shifting perspectives, and the
transformative nature of materials are
some of the themes explored.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/flux
FaB at 48 Great
Pulteney Street,
BA2 4DP
Open 11am to 4pm daily
Alternative Realities
Curated by Kit Glaisyer
Painting, sculpture, installation
and video art inspired by memory,
popular media, classical art, history
and imagination evoking utopian or
mystical visions with an immediate
and authentic presence. Artists
include: Kit Glaisyer, Ellie Preston,
Jon Adam, Paul Newman, Kate
Genevieve and Dan Bendel.
Sum - The Contemporary
Sublime
Curated by Ollie Adams
SPACE
The Genesis Trust Life Skills Art Group
produced some charming and high
quality prints during a recent Lino
Printing project. They are delighted to
be exhibiting their original prints at
FaB 2017.
[email protected]
‘Sum’ explores ideas about the
Contemporary Sublime through
themes of performance, meditation,
the Ego, escapism, technology and
our engagement with the natural
environment. It features sculpture,
installation, 3D printed object s, sound
recording, video and photography by
six emerging Artists.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/sum
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W E L C O M E
Welcome to Fringe Arts Bath
2017 Festival of Visual Arts!
Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2017 features Artists from Bath’s ever-growing
creative community alongside International Artists in an annual 17 day
festival of pop-up exhibitions, events, installations and performance in
empty shops, open spaces and on the city’s streets.
Come along to the Opening Night Arty Party Friday 26 May, all FaB venues will
be open from 6pm until late, offering an exciting variety of curated exhibitions
along with a great selection of refreshing beverages in our pop-up bars.
FaB17 is host to over 28 curated shows: some curious, others whimsical or ironic,
often challenging and always inspiring. FaB17 will transform and breathe new life
into unexpected spaces and promises to offer you a range of delights and surprises.
pm until late,  May
FaB 2017 Opening Night
Arty Party
Come party with us in all FaB venues
to celebrate the start of our 17 day visual
arts extravaganza. You’ll encounter
bewildering sights and performance,
enchanting characters, an Artist or two,
rising to a crescendo in the Back Bar at
the Bell Inn from 9pm with music to
tickle your ears & sweep
you off your feet.
Venue: all of them!
Pick up a free FaB magazine available from all FaB venues & good cafés or visit
www.fringeartsbath.co.uk for up to date info on what’s happening during the
Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2017.
FaB 2017 online
www.facebook.com/fringeartsbath
www.twitter.com/fringeartsbath @fringeartsbath #FaB17
www.instagram.com/fringeartsbath @fringeartsbath #FaB17
www.flickr.com/fringeartsbath
Events
We’re adding more films, talks and live events
to the program regularly, please see the FaB
festival newspaper and www.fringeartsbath.
co.uk for updates.
FaB at Walcot Chapel, Walcot Gate BA1 5UG
Open 10am to 6pm daily, 27 May to 10 June,10am to 3pm on 11 June
Embodied Cartographies
Curated by Fay Stevens
“Walking... is how the body measures
itself against the earth.” Rebecca Solnit,
Wanderlust: A History of Walking.
An interdisciplinary series of events,
performances and exhibition focusing
on walking as praxis, mark-making,
language, performance, choreography,
philosophy, cartography.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/cartographies
Shopping, restaurants
and cafés
Embodied Cartographie
Events
noon on  May. Opening
Performance - Kenji Lim at Walcot
Chapel
 May. Performance - Robert Luzar
in Kingsmead Sq & Walcot Chapel.
 May. Symposium &
Performances curated by Fay Stevens
& Robert Luzar in collaboration
with Bath Spa University at Newton
Park BA BN
pm to pm on  June. Book
Launch and Readings of ‘Walking,
Stumbling, Landing, Falling’ by
Alyson Hallett and Phil Smith Sponsored by Triarchy Press.
 June. Closing
Performance
- Kenji Lim at
Walcot Chapel
Sponsored by
/ Media
ART & Craft Sale
at The Friends Meeting
House, York St,
10 June 9.30am-5pm
Discover a variety of local craft
vendors and original art with
refreshments, cakes, face-painting &
music in a friendly atmosphere. Free
entry.
facebook.com/
events/
FaB Art Market at Kingsmead
Square, BA1 2AB
4 June 1pm-4pm
Our annual pop-up Art Market
is a great place to get yourself a
masterpiece at street-market price.
From Oil Painting to Watercolour,
Sculpture to Screen-Printed T-Shirts,
the FaB Art Market is a treasure
trove of original and collect able
wonders, mixing both established
local Artists and new upcoming art
masters of the future.
fringeartsbath.co.uk/artmarket
Located between
Milsom Street &
Broad Street
Bath BA1 1BZ
milsomplace.co.uk
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