Tideswell Theatre: Habit Forming!

TCP are really looking forward to the coming season of theatre in the village, following Tideswell Community Players’ fake-nun comedy in June. We’ve more from TCP this autumn and lots of visiting shows, taking you right through to spring next year. So have your diaries handy, note down these dates and get into the habit of coming to these great live shows right on your doorstep!

Tideswell Players

None the Wiser, the irreverent and hilarious comedy about shoplifters posing as fake nuns living in a disused convent, was a great success, selling out on each of its three nights, sending the audience away at the end still laughing and very happy.

We’re looking forward to TCP’s next full-scale production, but in the meantime are planning a special event on Saturday 31st October to mark Halloween. They will be performing The Tideswell Tales, a series of original spooky stories inspired by local legends and the landscape in and around the village. Join us near the churchyard… if you dare!

Visiting Shows

Before Halloween, Pentabus Theatre Company returns with Birdcatcher on Saturday 24th October. Pentabus (with New Perspectives) brought Make Good here a couple of years ago about the Post Office scandal. It brought in an audience that completely filled the venue at Fountain Square. Birdcatcher, their new show, is a darkly comic drama by award-winning playwright Laura Waldren. A teenage girl navigates life inside a highly controlling religious cult. As equally thought-provoking as Make Good, so don’t miss it!

On Thursday 12th November Marcella’s Minute to Midnight is a one-woman play about a decluttering of a lifetime which leads to a host of vivid memories. Will the previously discarded objects lead to realisation of some forgotten dreams and new ambitions?

Into 2027… Folk Fusion brings a lively mix of folk, blues and country, storytelling and even singalongs (13th February). Dance from Spiltmilk’s Playlist, a high-energy celebration of bestselling songs, misheard lyrics, dodgy cover versions and absurd dance routines (16th April). The Home sees life through the eyes of Uma, in a 1950s rural convalescent home, isolated and bullied – comedy and drama in this compelling performance (4th May).

More information: See posters, Tideswell Theatre on Facebook, or our emailed newsletter. All tickets available on www.ticketsource.com/tideswelltheatre. Bookings on Open your own mail app or 0797 3963525. Marcella…, Folk Fusion and Playlist brought to the village through Live and Local.