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LATEST EVENTS:
BATH OPERATIC & DRAMATIC SOCIETY
presents THE MIKADO
Dates: 5th - 9th March 2013
Venue: Theatre Royal
Time: 7.30pm
Price: £12.00 - £29.50
Having been rehearsed in Widcombe (at St Matthews), the latest BODS production shows at Bath's Theatre Royal from 5th to 9th March, with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday.
Box Office: 01225 448844.
Further information: www.theatreroyal.org.uk
BATH COMEDY FESTIVAL 2013
Bath Comedy Festival springs to life over Easter this year in many venues across town, but here in Widcombe there will be no less than ten shows at the Ring O Bells, many of which will be going on to do a whole run during Edinburgh Fringe as well as national tours. See them here first, in the intimate environment of the Ring's upstairs venue!
Details of all the Ring O Bells shows are below. For full festival information visit www.bathcomedy.com
Manos Kanellos - Greekonomics
 Date: Saturday 30th March, 2013
Venue: Ring O Bells
Doors: 4.45pm for 5pm show
Duration: 1hr
Price: £6 / £5 concs (see below *)
A hilarious and personal look at the Greek crisis by UK-based, Greek stand-up comedian Manos Kanellos.
"His anecdotes are full of smart, subtle humour and witty punchlines" - The Skinny
"He is very good" - The Scotsman
"See Manos, laugh and learn something along the way" - Three Weeks
A Nick Steel presentation
Booking: Brown Paper Tickets
Tel: 0800 411 8881
Online booking: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/319927
The Real MacGuffins
 Date: Saturday 30th March, 2013
Venue: Ring O Bells
Doors: 6.15pm for 6.30pm show
Duration: 1hr
Price: £8 / £7 concs (see below *)
The Real MacGuffinss are preparing a brand spanking new show for their 2013 Edinburgh run. See it here first!
"Three very funny men" "Insanely witty writing" ***** Three Weeks
"Brilliantly well crafted" **** Chortle
"In a show as ably scripted and tightly put together as this one, the laughs come thick and fast" - The List
A Nick Steel presentation
Booking: Brown Paper Tickets
Tel: 0800 411 8881
Online booking: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/319241
Scottish Falsetto Socks In Space
 Date: Saturday 30th March, 2013
Venue: Ring O Bells
Doors: 7.45pm for 8pm show
Duration: 1hr
Price: £8 / £7 concs (see below *)
"The Abbott & Costello of the sock world" (Time Out), stars of stage, screen & YouTube bring you a new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence with a Sci Fi theme.
"Superbly written, crafted and performed show" ****½ The Punch (Australia) 2012
"Had every single audience member... laughing until they cried." ***** Edinburgh Evening News Aug 2012
A Nick Steel presentation
Booking: Brown Paper Tickets
Tel: 0800 411 8881
Online booking: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/317112
The Mysterious World of Clovis van Darkhelm
 Date: Saturday 30th March, 2013
Venue: Ring O Bells
Doors: 9.15pm for 9.30pm show
Duration: 1hr
Price: £8 / £7 concs (see below *)
Channeller of Spirits, amateur anthropologist, revealer of mysteries and collector of magical esoterica...the man who has taken wearing black and annoying indigenous tribes to new levels has embarked on his 2013 lecture tour!
Ancient curses, Egyptian Gods and actual historical evidence of vampires! Experience his mysterious world!
"I thought my world was mysterious but this f***er knocks me into a cocked hat!" - Arthur C. Clarke
"Who keeps telling this t***er where we live?" - Wetenki Tribe. 'Somewhere in Siberia.'
"Distilled Hancock gold..." - Edinburgh Fest Magazine
Warning! This lecture contains the Mongolian death worm!!!!!
Presented in association with 'The Comedians Theatre Company'
Written and performed by Mike Hayley. A veteran of the alternative stand-up circuit throughout the nineties, Mike has worked with the likes of Steve Coogan, Doon Mackichan and Alan Francis (with whom he wrote the hit play 'Jeffrey Dahmer is Unwell'). He is a much loved, regular member of the Comedians Theatre Company, appearing in 'Breaker Morant' and 'Cul-de-Sac' by Matthew Osborne. TV credits include appearances in 'Spaced' and 'People Like Us' and voice work includes 'Scary Robot' in 'Little Robots' and 'Colonel White/ Voice of the Mysterons' in Gerry Anderson's 'New Captain Scarlet.'
Directed by Maggie Inchley.
A Nick Steel presentation
Booking: Brown Paper Tickets
Tel: 0800 411 8881
Online booking: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/317018
Wil Hodgson - Kidnapped by Catwoman
 Date: Monday 1st April, 2013
Venue: Ring O Bells
Doors: 5.45pm for 6pm show
Duration: 1hr
Price: £8 / £7 concs (see below *)
From Catwoman to Samantha Fox Strip Poker via Frenchie's Slumber Party and Hattie Jacques Bed Bath: the crushes, fantasies and desires of a geeky 80s/90s childhood are explored in this expanded and revised confessional show by Chippenham's cult storyteller.
As heard on Radio 4 and seen on Russell Howard's Good News.
"He is an inspired storyteller and his words are full of fire and beauty... He's a sort of urban warrior on behalf of all those who don't fit in" - The Scotsman
"This is punk rock this is how it should be" - Mark Thomas
"Genius" - Russell Howard
A Nick Steel presentation
Booking: Brown Paper Tickets
Tel: 0800 411 8881
Online booking: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/316587
Neil McFarlane's First Period
 Date: Monday 1st April, 2013
Venue: Ring O Bells
Doors: 7.15pm for 7.30pm show
Duration: 1hr
Price: £8 / £7 concs (see below *)
No chewing up straight at the back. I hope you brought enough bell for everyone. It's your own gum you're wasting.
These and other teaching clichés will be entirely absent from Neil's new show, despite its loose educational theme. Join him on this purposeless meander through Biology, English, Geography, History and Brian Blessed, as he endeavours to share the joke with the whole class. Oh bollocks...
"A clear ability to craft a gag" - Chortle
"Fantastic punch lines" - Manchester City Life
"Creamed potato" - The Scotsman
A Nick Steel presentation
Booking: Brown Paper Tickets
Tel: 0800 411 8881
Online booking: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/319225
Alan Francis Expands
 Date: Monday 1st April, 2013
Venue: Ring O Bells
Doors: 8.45pm for 9pm show
Duration: 1hr
Price: £8 / £7 concs (see below *)
After twenty years on the circuit eating pies from petrol stations, there is no doubt Alan Francis has expanded. Now middle aged, with a Buddha belly but a full head of hair and no hair products in sight, the Award winning Scottish comedian rails against the disappointments of the modern world. Religion, tracksuits and politics nothing is left out!
As Alan expands, his masterful stage craft captures each caricature perfectly. Characters that we recognise both in ourselves and in those strange folk we see daily waiting at bus stops or in parliament making promises they can't keep. This is an incredibly uplifting show, full of good sense and very, very funny.
On television, Alan has been seen in Alistair McGowan's Big Impression (BBC), The 11 O'Clock Show (C4) and BBC2's hit cult comedy Psychoville. Alan has also had his own radio series Inside Alan Francis on Radio 4.
"Thought provoking, eloquent, entertaining...intelligent political stuff. Well worth your time" - The Scotsman 2012
"The descriptions are so evocative?you can picture them all" **** Chortle, 2012
"Hiliarious" - The List 2012
"Delivery is pitch perfect and the timing is spot on" ****The List
A Nick Steel presentation
Booking: Brown Paper Tickets
Tel: 0800 411 8881
Online booking: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/317122
Matt Richardson - Hometown Hero
 Date: Monday 1st April, 2013
Venue: Ring O Bells
Doors: 10.15pm for 10.30pm show
Duration: 1hr
Price: £6 / £5 concs (see below *)
Join multi award-winning Matt Richardson as he comes to Bath with his new show 'Hometown Hero' ahead of taking it to the Edinburgh Festival and then on a three-month-long national tour.
This high energy & confessional hour covers our obsession with being liked, family & nosebleeds.
As seen on Channel 4, E4 & MTV and heard on BBC Radio 2. Matt won the Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year in 2011 and now he's back, all grown up with his own show.
"He's brash, slick and full of mildly laddish but self-deprecating stories, all delivered with an irresistible twinkle. Richardson may be full of self-confidence but he's got broad appeal to back up the cockiness." - The Guardian
Winner - Best New Show - Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival 2012
A Nick Steel presentation
Booking: Brown Paper Tickets
Tel: 0800 411 8881
Online booking: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/316567
Scottish Falsetto Socks In Space
Date: Friday 5th April, 2013
Venue: Ring O Bells
Doors: 6.15pm for 6.30pm show
Duration: 1hr
Price: £8 / £7 concs (see below *)
"The Abbott & Costello of the sock world" (Time Out), stars of stage, screen & YouTube bring you a new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence with a Sci Fi theme.
"Superbly written, crafted and performed show" ****½ The Punch (Australia) 2012
"Had every single audience member... laughing until they cried." ***** Edinburgh Evening News Aug 2012
A Nick Steel presentation
Booking: Brown Paper Tickets
Tel: 0800 411 8881
Online booking: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/317115
The Sitcom Trials
 Date: Friday 5th April, 2013
Venue: Ring O Bells
Doors: 7.30pm for 8pm show
Duration: 2hrs
Price: £4 / £3 concs (see below *)
The Sitcom Trials is the comedy show where brand new sitcoms compete and the audience chooses the winner.
Five short sitcoms will be performed with scripts in hand, each one leading up to a cliffhanger that will leave the audience wanting to see more. In between each sitcom will be "Pitch Fest", where we ask the audience for their ideas for brand new sitcoms, and the best idea will win a prize.
Created, produced and presented by Kev F Sutherland, The Sitcom Trials began on stage in London and Bristol in 1999, and has enjoyed successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe, national and international touring shows, and an 8 part TV series on ITV1. In 2008 the Sitcom Trials won the Fringe Report Award for Best Encourager of New Talent.
Performers who have appeared in The Sitcom Trials over the years include Miranda Hart, Neil Mullarkey, Richard Vranch, and the Comedy Store Players, Tony Robinson (Baldrick), Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees Cariad Lloyd, Waen Shepherd, and Laura Solon, James Holmes, Justin Lee Collins, , Steve McNeil & Sam Pamphilon, Sara Pascoe, Russell Howard, Mark Olver, Aaron Barschak, Emily Lloyd, Danny Robins, Dan Tetsell, The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, Lucy Porter, Nick Ewans, Louisa Gummer, Anne-Marie Draycott, Dan March, Rich Johnston, Wanda Opalinska, Gerard Foster, Charity Trimm, Dominic Frisby, McNeil and Pamphilon.
Have we found the new Miranda? The new Mighty Boosh? The new Mrs Browns Boys? Only you can decide!
The Sitcom Trials - the future of comedy is in your hands.
Booking: Brown Paper Tickets
Tel: 0800 411 8881
Online booking: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/323403
Links: http://www.sitcomtrials.co.uk/
Matt Green - Alive
 Date: Friday 5th April, 2013
Venue: Ring O Bells
Doors: 10.15pm for 10.30pm show
Duration: 1hr
Price: £8 / £7 concs (see below *)
Despite the world's best efforts, Matt remains alive and well and read to talk about it.
Tales of planes, explosions, evacuations, and some very bad driving. Plus at least one visit to the hospital.
"An hour of classic stand up expertly delivered." **** Broadway Baby
"Fast, fluent and very funny stand-up" **** Venue
"A perfectly paced hour" **** The List
Fringe Review's No.1 stand-up recommendation (2012)
A Nick Steel presentation
Booking: Brown Paper Tickets
Tel: 0800 411 8881
Online booking: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/319236
* Concessions: NUS or unwaged only, ID required on door
For further information on the rest of the festival visit the Bath Comedy Festival web site.
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Archived events
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 Widcombe Rising 2005
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