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SUMMARY:Pseudonym
DESCRIPTION:“Bridget is my pseudonym\nMy thinly-veiled attempt to make sense\nTo add structure\,\nDramatic structure\,\nA beginning\, middle\, and end-\nTo a thing that has none” \nA semi-autobiographical poetic one-woman show by award-winning playwright Deanna Strasse. \n“Bridget” looks back on her life\, contemplating the messy tapestry of experiences that have led her here. She confronts her struggles with body dysmorphia\, creative complacency\, parasocial relationships\, and the brazen decision to move to the UK following a mental breakdown. A raw and intimate look at self-discovery\, identity\, and the art of becoming. \n“Ms. Strasse is a wordsmith. She grabs the language and does not let it go.” — Krane Reviews \n“I didn’t expect to cry. The switch between the fun and the painful was masterful.” — Lakeside Theatre audience member \n“It’s funny\, heartfelt\, warm and fuzzy\, cheeky\, and oh so beautiful.” — Lakeside Theatre audience member \n“Deanna really drew me in…I couldn’t take my eyes off her.” — Brighton Fringe audience member \n*Please note there is no lift to access the top floor of Three Wise Monkeys. There are five flights of hand-railed stairs to reach the top floor with rest opportunities between each flight. Also\, their licensing does not allow anyone under the age of 18 years of age to be in the venue past 9pm. Please consider this when booking.
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/pseudonym-4/
LOCATION:Three Wise Monkeys\, 60 High Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1DN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:The Unforgivable Crime of Love
DESCRIPTION:This is the true story of Reed Peggram. In 1939 the brilliant young Black scholar from Boston\, travels to Paris so that he could live a life beyond America’s racial boundaries. There\, he falls deeply in love with Arne Hauptmann\, a Danish scholar. As Nazi Germany advances across Europe\, Reed refuses to abandon the man he loves. Their interracial queer relationship draws the attention of fascist authorities\, eventually leading to their imprisonment in an Italian concentration camp. \nSeparated\, starving\, and hunted\, the two men risk everything to escape and survive behind enemy lines. Their remarkable journey becomes a story of love and resistance\, and survival against a racist and homophobic world! \n*Please note there is no lift to access the top floor of Three Wise Monkeys. There are five flights of hand-railed stairs to reach the top floor with rest opportunities between each flight. Also\, their licensing does not allow anyone under the age of 18 years of age to be in the venue past 9pm. Please consider this when booking.
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/the-unforgivable-crime-of-love-2/
LOCATION:Three Wise Monkeys\, 60 High Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1DN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Colchester Fringe Festival - Josephine
DESCRIPTION:Tickets £12\n23rd October: Doors 6.45pm\, show 7pm \n24th October: Doors 5.15pm\, show 5.30pm\n25th October: Doors 7.15pm\, show 7.30pm\n30th October: Doors 6.45pm\, show 7pm\n31st October: Doors 6.45pm\, show 7pm\n1st November: Doors 4.15pm\, show 4.30pm\nThis show is for a seated audience\n\nAge Suitability: 16+\nContent Warnings: Audience Participation\, Nudity\, Strong Language / Swearing\n\nBefore Ella\, Tina\, Billie\, or Beyoncé – there was JOSEPHINE \n\nJosephine is an international award-winning off-Broadway one-woman biographical musical that combines cabaret\, theatre and dance to tell the story of the iconic Josephine Baker\, the first African-American international superstar and one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th Century. \n\nTymisha Harris stars in this dazzling retelling of Josephine Baker’s life as singer\, movie star\, WWII spy\, civil rights activist\, and cultural icon. \n\n“Tymisha Harris is a tour de force!”\n★★★★★ – Broadway Baby \n“She should be starring in a movie version directed by Baz Luhrmann.” – RuPaul Charles \n“Tymisha Harris… sings and tells Josephine Baker’s life story to perfection”\n★★★★★ -Adelaide Advertiser \n“a triumphant homage to a life worth remembering”\n★★★★★ -CBC
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/colchester-fringe-festival-josephine/
LOCATION:Colchester Arts Centre\, Church Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Wait\, What is This?
DESCRIPTION:Wait\, What is This? is a fast-paced comedy written entirely in rhyme. Created and performed by Lydia Keating and John Harper\, the show began life as a five-minute rhyming sketch performed at cabaret nights in London\, Paris and Tallinn. Audiences kept asking for more — so naturally\, the pair wrote an entire 50 minutes of chaos. \nBlending clown\, physical theatre and rapid-fire rhyme\, the show begins innocently enough with a playful demonstration of rhyming words before spiralling into an increasingly absurd world of marital role-play\, counselling sessions\, medication adverts\, mistaken assumptions and ever-shifting realities. Just when audiences think they understand what is happening\, the story joyfully pulls the rug from under them and heads somewhere entirely unexpected. \nAt once playful\, ridiculous and strangely clever\, Wait\, What is This? delights in language\, theatrical invention and comic surprise. \nIn rhyme\, the show might best describe itself like this: \nCome\, have a gander at our comic two-hander!\nBrimming with raunchy\, riotous rhyme\,\nA plot so chaotic\, you’ll lose all sense of time.\nTangled twists meet metered bliss\,\nYou’ll leave gasping: “Wait… What Is This?” \nLydia Keating and John Harper met in 2022 while training at the International Theatre School of Jacques Lecoq in Paris and have collaborated ever since. Their previous show\, Clownfishing\, was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and toured venues in the UK and Tallinn\, Estonia. \n*Please note there is no lift to access the top floor of Three Wise Monkeys. There are five flights of hand-railed stairs to reach the top floor with rest opportunities between each flight. Also\, their licensing does not allow anyone under the age of 18 years of age to be in the venue past 9pm. Please consider this when booking.
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/wait-what-is-this/
LOCATION:Three Wise Monkeys\, 60 High Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1DN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Happily Ever Poofter
DESCRIPTION:Disney fan? Massive raging queer? Then Happily Ever Poofter is for you! \nIn fact\, whether you love or loathe all things Disney\, this show is NOT one to be missed. \nJoin Prince Henry (the only gay in the Kingdom) on his hilarious and heart-warming quest for true love! \nFrom the acclaimed team behind ‘Reclaiming Harry’ (National Pick of the Fringe Award – Colchester Fringe 2022) this cult-hit cabaret spectacular has thrilled and entertained audiences all over the world! And now it's your turn. \nFeaturing brilliantly and hilariously reworked Disney favourites – such as "Part Of Your Scene"\, "Just Come Out The The King" and "Some Day My Prince Will Cum" – don't miss out on this wonderful and wild night of entertainment. \n★★★★★ (Gay Times) \n★★★★★ (What’s On Adelaide Winner – Best New Musical Offies) \n★★★★★ (Boyz Magazine) \nWINNER – Best New Musical London Off West End Awards \nWINNER – Comedy Award London Pub Theatres \nWINNER – Audience Choice Award Mumbai Fringe \nWINNER – Big Gay Award Brighton Fringe \nPlease note: The end time shown is an estimate. Please check with the venue for confirmation.
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/happily-ever-poofter-3/
LOCATION:The Dragonfly Lounge\, The Dragonfly Lounge
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Hail Mary\, None of the Grace
DESCRIPTION:Colchester Fringe debut of dark comedy following hit Edinburgh Fringe run! \nMary Kennedy\, yes one of those Kennedys\, third cousins twice removed; all of the tragedy\, none of the money stars in Hail Mary\, None of the Grace. No Irish Catholic story is complete without a mention of a good Irish funeral! Join Mary as she lays her mother to rest. Through her mother’s dying\, Mary learned how to live. Hail Mary\, None of the Grace is a rollercoaster of awakenings for Kennedy\, which has created the woman she is today. \n*Please note there is no lift to access the top floor of Three Wise Monkeys. There are five flights of hand-railed stairs to reach the top floor with rest opportunities between each flight. Also\, their licensing does not allow anyone under the age of 18 years of age to be in the venue past 9pm. Please consider this when booking.
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/hail-mary-none-of-the-grace-3/
LOCATION:Three Wise Monkeys\, 60 High Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1DN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:HEART Performance Retreat with Amy Sigil and Catherine Idalia
DESCRIPTION:Applications are open! https://forms.gle/ZhmSqAinckUPiPY97  \nApply now and pay later! Just a deposit (£100\, non-refundable) is required to secure your spot. The remaining can be paid in installments. \nHEART Performance Retreat with Amy Sigil and Catherine Idalia2nd – 6th Nov 2026in the historic city of Colchester\, UK \nA week for growth\, creativity and connection.No work\, no chores\, no day-to-day stresses.Just dance\, inspiration\, friendship and fun. \nA week for YOU.  \nJoin Catherine and SPECIAL GUEST AMY SIGIL for a dance experience that is both supportive and challenging\, grounding and innovative. A dance experience that’s all about HEART. \nA total of 43hrs of instruction! \nBefore the retreat: 15hrs of online classes \nDuring the retreat: 28hrs of in-person training+ social events+ ‘ask us anything’ evening with the teachers+ theatre show+ professional photos and video from the show \nInvestment: £747 \nAccommodation can be arranged for an additional costPayment plans available \nMore info: www.catherinetaylordance.co.uk/learn-to-dance/#performanceretreat2026
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/performance-retreat-with-amy-sigil-and-catherine-taylor/
LOCATION:Headgate Theatre\, 14 Chapel Street North\, Colchester\, CO2 7AT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance,Wellbeing
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SUMMARY:Wonderful Wednesdays - Christopher Brett Bailey: I Saw Satan at the 7-Eleven
DESCRIPTION:Tickets Pay what you can afford  \nDoors 7.30 pm\, show 8pm \nThis show is for a seated audience\nAge Guidance: 16+ \n\nContains distressing or potentially triggering themes\, descriptions of scenes of a sexual nature and of violence\, strong language/swearing.\n\nFear and Loathing meets South Park in a screwball monologue that's part romance\, part buddy comedy\, part body horror. Two miles north of Hell\, a nameless deadbeat narrator spots Satan buying soy milk at the 7-Eleven. Satan's a washed-up has-been\, who’s totally lost his edge. That is until he falls in love with our narrator and the two embark on a debauched misadventure\, by turns slapstick\, violent\, whimsical\, dreamlike and tender.\n\n\nCredits \n\n\nLighting Design by Alex Fernandes \nProduced by Beckie Darlington \nOutside Eyes: Rens Tesink\, Felicia Kaspar\, Max Elton \nWith special thanks to George Spender. \n\n★★★★ ‘no one tells a story like Christopher Brett Bailey.’ – The Guardian \n★★★★ ‘a joyously lurid gonzo monologue’ – Time Out \n★★★★ ‘bizarre\, grotesque\, but always hilarious’ – Everything Theatre \n★★★★★ ‘a virtuoso storyteller’ – A Young(ish) Perspective \n★★★★ ‘a jaded\, hard-boiled\, almost film noir’ – Reviews Hub \n★★★★ ‘gripping… ridiculous!’ – West End Best Friend \n★★★★ ‘a brilliant\, absurd\, imaginative storyteller’ – LondonTheatre1\n\n\n\nWebsite: www.christopherbrettbailey.com\n\n\nI SAW SATAN AT THE 7-ELEVEN was seed commissioned by Fremantle and English Touring Theatre for 'That Podcast'.
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/wonderful-wednesdays-christopher-brett-bailey-i-saw-satan-at-the-7-eleven/
LOCATION:Colchester Arts Centre\, Church Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Wonderful Wednesdays - Action Hero: A Song and Dance
DESCRIPTION:Pay what you can afford  \nDoors open 7:30 pm\, Show starts 8 pm \nThis show is for a seated audience\n\nDuration: 60 minutes\n\nAction Hero are preparing something for the audience. A song and dance. \n\nIts no big deal. Just a little something. A collection of memories\, musings\, colourful costumes\, light entertainment\, comic relief\, dancing\, really easy stuff\, really good fun stuff. To help us all get by. To get through the day. To get through the week. To get through the year. To get on with it. Without a fuss. \n\nYou’re in very safe hands\, we’ve done this many many many times before. \n\nIn a Song and Dance\, a performer is lost in his own repeating anxiety dream\, trying to stay on topic and keep the show on the road. As he gradually loses the plot\, distracted by the ghosts of previous shows & his own unfeasible life story\, the show starts to unravel. He competes with himself and his intrusive autobiography as he wrestles to keep everything on track\, to keep the dances coming\, to keep himself to himself. \n\nA Song and Dance is a comical and slightly disordered show about masking\, performing and ‘putting on a show’.\n\nPress quotes \n\nthrillingly funny and strange…Beckett’s hip\, pop-culture savvy descendants\n–	Time Out London on previous work\, The Talent \n\nI have never seen a show from these artists that didn’t make you sit up a little straighter and want to peer a little more closely\n–	Lyn Gardner\, Stagedoor\n\nAbout Action Hero \n\nAction Hero create artworks that explore what is it to be human now. From stage to page to audio to immersive interaction\, Action Hero create structures for people to experience alternative ways of being together. Previous projects have toured to more than 40 countries across 6 continents\, to both critical and popular acclaim. They have been shortlisted for the Live Art Prize\, a Total Theatre award\, and won an Off West End award for Best Performance\, and a Critics Table award for Best Touring Show. They were recently longlisted for the 2025 Artangel Open. \n\nCredits \n\nDeveloped with funding from Arts Council England. \n\nCreated by Action Hero \n\nText: Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse \nDirection: Gemma Paintin \nPerformer: James Stenhouse \nDramaturgy: Deborah Pearson \nCostume: Ray Gammon \nLighting Design: Alex Fernandes \nMusic composition: Dinah Mullen \nSocial \n\nMedia & Web \n\n@ActionHeroLive \n\nactionhero.org.uk
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/wonderful-wednesdays-action-hero-a-song-and-dance/
LOCATION:Colchester Arts Centre\, Church Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Shar’s Drag Bingo
DESCRIPTION:Shar invites you to Three Wise Monkeys Colchester\, for an evening of songs\, silliness and bingo. \nTickets £5\, Doors 7pm\, Restaurant floor \nThis gig takes place on the restaurant floor of Three Wise Monkeys Colchester \nAccess – There is no lift to access the restaurant floor of Three Wise Monkeys. There are two short flights of stairs to reach the top floor with rest opportunities between each flight.
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/shars-drag-bingo-6/
LOCATION:Three Wise Monkeys\, 60 High Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1DN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Wonderful Wednesdays - SkelpieLimmer Productions & Brassneck Theatre Company: Anthem for Dissatisfaction
DESCRIPTION:Pay what you can afford  \nDoors open 7:30 pm\, Show starts 8 pm\nThis show is for a seated audience\n\n"Songs aren’t just about love or breakups. They’re about desire. Gambling. Shouting. Being skint. Frustration. Love too. They’re about us. Me and her. This is our language\, our way of consistently telling each other: It’s alright mate I’ve got you! I get it!" \n\nThe Credit Crunch\, 2007. ‘Irish Twins’ Sarah and Jamie are growing up in Belfast with a shared obsession of music and the weight of parents on the breadline. Pop\, rock and punk rails against austerity Britain and an ever-failing Tory-government\, giving these siblings an epic score to navigate lives that are destined for different paths. \n\nOasis\, The Jam\, Springsteen and Sam Fender songs scream at the state of the nation\, tugging at the memories of what it means to grow up on benefits in a country where poverty became a punchline. Benefits Britain never sounded so good… \n\nA defiant “rip-roaring tour de force” fuelled by the music and people who speak to your soul and punch you in the gut. The multi-award-winning gig-theatre show Anthem for Dissatisfaction rejoices in working class strength with wit\, integrity\, and disarming honesty.
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/wonderful-wednesdays-skelpielimmer-productions-brassneck-theatre-company-anthem-for-dissatisfaction/
LOCATION:Colchester Arts Centre\, Church Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Wonderful Wednesdays - In Bed with My Brother: Philosophy of The World
DESCRIPTION:Pay what you can afford  \nDoors open 7:30 pm\, Show starts 8 pm \nThis show is for a seated audience\n\nRidiculed then revered\, The Shaggs defied categorisation. IN BED WITH MY BROTHER attempt to wrangle their story into a three-act biopic. Part tribute act\, part feminist reclamation\, part rambling flight of ideas. PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD is about fate\, freewill\, power\, patriarchy\, band t-shirts\, daddy issues\, and the best worst album ever made. It’s about who holds the power to define you – who gets to say whether you’re a legend or loser – who owns the right (and the rights) to tell your story.\n\nFeaturing questionable mime\, high-intensity dance sequences\, awkward crowd work\, stage combat\, cheap wigs\, jump scares\, philosophising and a well trained actor\, IN BED WITH MY BROTHER twists Rock ‘n’ Roll history into a sticky\, sweaty\, searing rebellion.\n\n'Rigorous\, intelligent show’ THE STAGE ★ ★ ★ ★ ★\n ‘The show is messy\, but every provocative decision is justified\, stacking up into a coherent\, caustic comment on the inescapability of the patriarchy’ THE SCOTSMAN ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ \n​ \n‘A wild and raucous assault-course emancipation… There are essays to be written about this show’  \nTHE LIST ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ \n​ \n‘Ear-splittingly loud\, raucous\, rambling\, thoughtful\, clever\, provocative and absolutely and utterly brilliant.’ WHAT'S ON STAGE ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ \n​ \n‘IBWMB have made a visceral\, uneasy but hilarious work of performance art that is both high-brow and accessible\, provocative\, honest and intellectual. There is no-one quite like them right now\, but it feels like the beginning of a movement.’ BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE ★ ★ ★ ★ ★\n​‘Original\, unsettling\, and oddly moving’ NORTH WEST END ★ ★ ★ ★ ★\n\nCreative Team\n\nWriters\, creators and performers – Nora Alexander\, Dora Lynn and Kat Cory \nDad – Nigel Barrett \nDramaturg/Director – Louise Mari \nOutside Eye – Louise Orwin \nSound Design and Music Production – Brain Rays and Quiet\nMovement \nDirector – Dana Chmielewska \nLighting Designer – Lily Dawford \nDesign Consultant – Anna Orton \nFight Director – Ruth Cooper-Brown \nProduction Manager – Benji Huntrods \nPromotional photography – Fotometro (Rona Bar and Ofek Avashalom) \nPoster and Merch Design – Fran Ortega \nProducer – Ben Welch \nAssistant Producer – Beth Sitek \nStrategic Producer – Ruby Glaskin \nArtist Care – Jen Smethurst \nEdinburgh PR – Storytelling \n\nPR \nPartners\n\nPHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD is supported by Arts Council England. \nThe show was commissioned by Cambridge Junction and developed with the support of the National Theatre’s Generate programme\, New Diorama Theatre’s Intervention 01\, Bristol Old Vic\, Curious Directive and Exeter Northcott Theatre.
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/wonderful-wednesdays-in-bed-with-my-brother-philosophy-of-the-world/
LOCATION:Colchester Arts Centre\, Church Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Last Sunday in November 2026\na lovely afternoon of winter words \nfree to attend\, donations gratefully accepted to Teenage Cancer Trust fundraiser \nhttps://2027tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/mathilda-coldwell?utm_source=share&utm_medium=qr \n4pm-6pm \nregister your interest to  perform or to listen
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/open-mic-poetry/
LOCATION:Red Lion Books\, 25 High Street\, Colchester
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261202T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261202T220000
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SUMMARY:LATES – The Ed Poets Society
DESCRIPTION:Calling all poetry lovers! \nMaybe you like listening to poetry.Maybe you like sharing your poetry.Maybe you’ve never shared it before.Maybe you know a poet. \nIf you fall into one of the above\, then come along to the Mercury Theatre on Wed 2 Dec! \nWhether you bring a friend or come to make new ones. \nEd Ismail is providing a safe space for people to express themselves using the power of their words. \nCome. Be moved. Be inspired. \nThe event takes place from 7pm in our Café Bar. \nIf you want to read/perform on the night\, you can sign up with Ed from 6:45pm.
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/lates-the-ed-poets-society-2/
LOCATION:Mercury Theatre\, Balkerne Gate\, Colchester\, CO1 1PT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261203T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261203T200000
DTSTAMP:20260917T073031Z
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SUMMARY:Emotional Madness with MaryAnn & Mates
DESCRIPTION:Tickets £3\nDoors 7.30pm\, show 8pm\nThis show is for a seated audience\n\nAn evening of spoken word and poetry hosted by Mary-Ann Ambrose.\nA mixture of emotions\, a roller coaster of fun and sadness.\n\nLine-up to be announced!
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/emotional-madness-with-maryann-mates-4/
LOCATION:Colchester Arts Centre\, Church Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261210T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261210T200000
DTSTAMP:20260917T083000Z
CREATED:20260917T083000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T083000Z
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SUMMARY:I Hear Voices Theatre Company presents… A Ghost Story for Christmas – "The Wrong Doctor"
DESCRIPTION:Tickets £10/£8 concs\nDoors 7.30pm\, show 8pm\nThis show is for a seated audience\n\nI Hear Voices Theatre Company return for their now traditional (and extremely silly) evening of unquiet nonsense in a tale of mystery inspired (in part) by M.R. James and other writers of the incredible… \n\nMedievalist\, antiquary and genial fear monger\, Montague Roads Jim\, is poised to exhume another Ghost Story for Christmas\, but wait – the cosy familiarity of his Cambridge festive ritual is about to be rudely shattered by the unexpected arrival of two guest Story Tellers; in the form of a pair of spaced out and temporally dislodged Punk Poets\, from Wivenhoe… \n\nWhat links a hellish hotel room in Denmark\, a Royal Institution Lecture gone horrible wrong and a Viennese scientist with the naughtiest legs in Temporal Physics? \nCan Mervin Mule prevent two iterations of Brian Cox explosively cancelling each other out?\nWill Milly Bunt finally discover the super position of Kitty Schrödinger?\nCould Don Fletcher Park actually save the day with a filthy limerick and a cup of sugar\, or will he just turn out to be the Wrong Doctor… \n\nThe answers to these\, and other questions you didn’t know you needed an answer to\, will be resolved in this singularly bonkers festive crossover between I Hear Voices Theatre Company’s two popular series. So pour yourselves a glass of sherry and settle back to enjoy a brand new “timey-wimey\, spacey-wacey” tale of satanic shenanigans\, missing scientists\, and recursive chronologies\, with the usual extra helping of festive cobblers\, plus Donny and Mervin thrown in for good measure!\n\nWritten and Directed by Darren Gooding \nPerformed by Damien Bell\, Darren Gooding\, Dave Hughes & Sarah Ellen Young \nMusic by Darren Tansley and Tina Gooding \nSound Recording and Editing by Stuart Armitage
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/i-hear-voices-theatre-company-presents-a-ghost-story-for-christmas-the-wrong-doctor/
LOCATION:Colchester Arts Centre\, Church Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261219T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261219T200000
DTSTAMP:20260917T083038Z
CREATED:20260917T083038Z
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SUMMARY:Christmas Poetry Bash featuring John Cooper Clarke\, Martin Newell\, Luke Wright & Ross Sutherland
DESCRIPTION:Tickets £20\nDoors 7.30pm\, show 8pm\nThis show is for a seated audience\n\nIt's back – the hottest ticket in town!
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/christmas-poetry-bash-featuring-john-cooper-clarke-martin-newell-luke-wright-ross-sutherland/
LOCATION:Colchester Arts Centre\, Church Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261223T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261223T193000
DTSTAMP:20260917T083038Z
CREATED:20260917T083038Z
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SUMMARY:A Christmas Carol By Candlelight
DESCRIPTION:Tickets £10\, under 16's £5\n \n\nDoors 7pm\, show 7.30pm\n\nThis show is for a seated audience\n\n\nThis show will be BSL Interpreted\n \n\n\nThis is a fundraising event for Colchester Arts Centre\n\n\n\n \nColchester Arts Centre Director Anthony Roberts’ traditional rendition of the Dickens classic\, with musical accompaniment by Jamie Cunliffe.Hear this wonderful timeless tale in the beautiful surroundings of a Victorian church\, with the only illumination provided by candlelight!Guaranteed to get you in the Christmas spirit.
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/a-christmas-carol-by-candlelight/
LOCATION:Colchester Arts Centre\, Church Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261224T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261224T190000
DTSTAMP:20260917T083038Z
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SUMMARY:A Christmas Carol By Candlelight
DESCRIPTION:Tickets £10\, under 16's £5 \nDoors 6.30pm\, show 7pm\nThis show is for a seated audience\n\n \n\nThis is a fundraising event for Colchester Arts Centre\n\n\n\n \nColchester Arts Centre Director Anthony Roberts’ traditional rendition of the Dickens classic\, with musical accompaniment by Jamie Cunliffe.Hear this wonderful timeless tale in the beautiful surroundings of a Victorian church\, with the only illumination provided by candlelight!Guaranteed to get you in the Christmas spirit.
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/a-christmas-carol-by-candlelight-2/
LOCATION:Colchester Arts Centre\, Church Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20271127T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20271127T203000
DTSTAMP:20260923T115521Z
CREATED:20260916T202230Z
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SUMMARY:The LipSinkers
DESCRIPTION:Tickets £13/£12 concs \nDoors 8pm\, show 8.30pm\nThis show is for a seated audience \n\nTheLipSinkers crash-land back in Colchester with another explosive night of lip-sync\, drag and theatrical mayhem. \n \nGloriously chaotic and hilariously unhinged\, driven by an eclectic soundtrack and the unstoppable force of queer energy. \n \nHardcore fans won’t be disappointed\, and curious first-timers won’t know what’s hit them! \n \n"Utterly leftfield\, brilliantly bonkers" ★★★★★ Time Out \n"Weird\, wild\, funny and fresh." ★★★★★ The Scotsman \n"Camp\, cult and glorious"★★★★★ The Times \n\nwww.thelipsinkers\n@thelipsinkers
URL:https://keepcolchestercool.co.uk/event/the-lipsinkers/
LOCATION:Colchester Arts Centre\, Church Street\, Colchester\, CO1 1NF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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