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2 Bath Road
London
W4 1LW
A minute’s walk from Turnham Green tube station (district line). Just leave the station and turn right. The Theatre has its own entrance in the Tabard pub’s beer garden.
The 94 Bus from the West End, Notting Hill and Shepherd’s Bush stops outside our front door. Other buses stopping nearby are the 27, 267, 237, 391, E3 and H91.
There is free parking on The Avenue after 6.30pm.
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By Giles Cole
22 Sept - 10 Oct
When seventeen-year-old Abi tracks down the man she believes to be her father, she sets in motion a chain of events that will change two families forever.
Doug is a successful journalist with a wife, children and a carefully ordered life. Beth, Abi's mother, has spent seventeen years protecting her daughter from a truth she hoped would never come to light. But Abi wants answers, and once she steps into Doug's world, long-buried secrets can no longer remain hidden.
Sharp, funny and emotionally charged, Girl Out of the Blue is a compelling new play about family, identity, motherhood and the consequences of the choices we make.
Written by Giles Cole, whose previous work includes The Art of Concealment, The Heart of Things and seven plays for BBC Radio 4, this powerful new drama follows the success of his previous Tabard production, After All These Years.
Production
Johnny Ball: Laughs, Maths and Stories that Must Be Told 18 October
Written and performed by Johnny Ball
Best known for creating and presenting more than 20 television series, including Think of a Number and Think Again, Johnny has spent a lifetime making maths and science exciting, accessible and fun for generations of viewers.
Now he brings that same infectious enthusiasm to children, grandchildren and grown-ups alike, uncovering the surprising, fascinating and often overlooked stories behind the history of mathematics.
Johnny will also share memorable stories from his autobiographies, looking back on a remarkable career in television filled with laughter and adventure.
Johnny’s Ball's book, his history of mathematics Wonders Beyond Numbers, as well as his two auto-biographies will be available to purchase after the performance, and he will be happy to sign copies and chat with audience members.
A lively and entertaining show for all ages, offering plenty of opportunities to laugh, learn and see mathematics in a completely new way.
Spoken word
The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town 1 November
Written by Spike Milligan and Ronnie Barker Adapted by John Hewer
Something is rotten in Old London Town...
A mysterious raspberry blower is terrorising Victorian society, leaving a trail of shocked aristocrats in his wake. As the repetitive din-dins echo through London's foggy streets, Inspector Corner of the Yard and his faithful sidekick Sergeant Bowles set out to unmask the culprit before another upper-class victim falls foul of the Phantom.
Celebrating fifty years since its original television broadcast, this newly adapted stage production brings to life one of The Two Ronnies' most beloved creations. Packed with Spike Milligan and Ronnie Barker's trademark wordplay, outrageous puns, surreal silliness and gloriously bad behaviour, The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town is a riotous comedy adventure unlike anything else on stage.
The case is afoot. The raspberries are primed. The Phantom awaits...
Cabaret
Call Me Merman Starring Rosemary Ashe 8 November
Rosemary Ashe, Olivier Award nominated star of London’s West End, pays tribute to Ethel Merman, the legendary first lady of the musical comedy stage. Belting out her songs with merry abandon, she helped electrify the Broadway musical.
Call Me Merman visits all of the Broadway star’s biggest shows from the Gershwins’ Girl Crazy in 1931, which made her a star overnight, through to Styne and Sondheim’s Gypsy in the 1960s.
Rosie possesses a powerful delivery, recognised from so many of her own West End appearances including Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables and Mary Poppins and creates a striking and often moving interpretation of Merman’s back catalogue. This is a fun filled irreverent evening of music and laughter with excerpts from Anything Goes, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Madam and many more.
Rosemary is delighted to return to the Tabard Theatre with Call Me Merman after first presenting it back in 2012. She is accompanied by her Musical Director, Paul Knight.
Freud's Last Session 11 - 28 Novem ber
By Mark St. Germain, suggested by The Question of God by Dr. Armand M. Nicholi, Jr.
As Britain stands on the brink of war, Sigmund Freud receives an unexpected visitor: a young Oxford academic named C.S. Lewis.
Over the course of a single afternoon, two of the twentieth century's greatest minds engage in a gripping battle of ideas. As air-raid sirens sound across London, Freud and Lewis debate love, faith, sex, suffering, the existence of God and the meaning of life itself.
Written by Mark St. Germain and inspired by The Question of God by Dr Armand M. Nicholi Jr., this internationally acclaimed drama combines intellectual fireworks with humour, humanity and profound emotional insight.
Starring Finlay McLean (Taggart, Regeneration) as Sigmund Freud and John Kay Steel (Case Histories, Law & Order) as C.S. Lewis, Freud's Last Session is a fascinating encounter between two extraordinary thinkers confronting life's greatest questions.
Directed by David Ian Neville, the production plays a limited three-week run at the Tabard Theatre.
