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SCENE TO BE HEARD

7 February

A dynamic evening of song, scenes, and original works by recent LAMDA alumni.

This February, join us for Scene to be Heard, an electrifying evening celebrating the next generation of artistic talent. Featuring recent graduates from the prestigious London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA), this dynamic showcase blends song, scenes, and original written work to create an unforgettable celebration of all things art.

From heartfelt monologues to toe-tapping musical numbers, Scene to be Heard promises to take you on a journey through a spectrum of emotions, styles, and stories. Whether you’re a fan of gripping drama, witty comedy, or soaring melodies, this is your chance to experience the raw talent of LAMDA alumni’s rising stars before they take the industry by storm.

WONDERIN’ Y

11 - 15 February

A one man show full of hope, determination and, ultimately ferocious and beating revival. 

In the summer of 1973, Slade drummer Don Powell was involved in a devastating car accident which instantly killed his girlfriend and left him with a brain injury that resulted in severe and lasting memory loss.

Wonderin’ Y tells the story of how a 26-year-old man at the height of the band’s fame fought courageously to get back behind his drum kit and rebuild his life. Imagine being on stage in front of thousands of expectant fans and you can’t remember how to play your number one hit ‘Cum on feel the noize’ !

Wonderin’ Y was premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer of 2024 – it played to packed houses and received excellent reviews.

Journalist Richard Cox who worked extensively with Slade in the 1970s wrote the following after the first night :

 “It’s a forensically detailed immersion into the psychology of how a drummer returned to the world stage. The show is deeply emotional, gently humorous, moved along by snippets of music that takes us right back to the early 1970s, and enacted with a controlled vigour that holds the audience in the palm of Pearce’s, drumstick-wielding a hand”

M.Y.O.O WINTER SCRATCH NIGHT

24 - 25 February

A Scratch Night for fantastic new short plays.

MYOO presents its first ever new writing scratch night!

Right in the icy depths of February, MYOO’s WINTER SCRATCH NIGHT is the perfect chance to warm the cockles of your heart with exciting new short plays created by early career writers, directors and actors. Each night has four compelling new short pieces that will make you forget that you haven’t seen sunlight since September.

Premiering at the Canal Café Theatre, MYOO is a brand new producing company created under the premise that if the universe isn’t handing you one, you can always MAKE YOUR OWN OPPORTUNITY.

CLOSE ENOUGH

19 March

An award-winning quartet perform a sparkling cocktail of tunes.

Close Enough Barbershop Quartet is ‘a class act’. The dapper gents won Best Small Vocal Ensemble (’22, ’23 & ‘24) in Buxton for their ‘witty repartee’ and ‘vocal acrobatics’. The four gents now head to the Big Smoke to perform their sparkling cocktail of tunes, with everything from Dvořák to Jerry Herman, Louis Prima, and the Sherman Brothers.

Woody Allen (tenor), Thomas Eyre (lead), Tom Rogers (baritone) and Johnny Shipley (bass) have spent the past decade singing their brand of light-hearted and lyrical songs across the green and pleasant parts of the UK, with performances at Alex James’ Big Feastival, and the Burford, Bath, Brighton and Buxton Festivals. They also toured the distilleries of the Hebridean island of Islay, but they’re a bit hazy about that.

Now they return to the Big Smoke to seek their fortune, with a special residency at the Canal Café Theatre. It’s a fun show for all!

MURDER, OF COARSE!

24 March - 4 April

A fast-paced Agatha Christie knockoff full of silly accents & extravagant hats.

Ready for a raucous evening of silliness and extravagant* hats? You need Murder, of Coarse!

Join our intrepid actors as they bale against the most ambious and under-achieving Agatha Christie rip-off since Kenneth Brannagh’s Poirot. Can you keep up as six experienced and ambious actors switch and swap between 15
characters and thirty accents to solve the crime of the century?

Writer Nick Thomas trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Murder of Course is his debut play. He has a track record in writing gags and creating hilarious moments, having previously written sketch shows and worked with the team behind The Show that Goes Wrong.

Barstood Theatre Company previously performed a work-in-progress preview of the show at London’s Questors Theatre in January 2024. It was met with rapturous applause with audiences likening Murder of Course to the Edinburgh Award winning Police Cops and (something else here).