Run, jump and kick this October with Holiday Fun Football for all ages! Meet your footfall coaching heroes from Colchester Villa. Most suitable for 4 – 11 years, but all ages welcome. Caregivers are required to stay on site throughout the activities. Activities take place outside. Please make sure those taking part in activities are [...]
Tickets £81st show: Doors 3.45pm, show 4pm2nd show: Doors 6.45pm, show 7pmThis show is for a seated audienceAge Guidance: 12+Content warnings: Audience Participation, Distressing / Potentially Triggering Themes, Scenes of a Sexual Nature / Sexual Violence / Violence, Strobe Lighting / Flashing Lights, Strong Language / SwearingBack my special request for two final rumbles! Danson Thunderbolt struggles [...]
Back my special request for two final rumbles! Danson Thunderbolt struggles to connect with his autistic son, Luke, so he has to wrestle the Autistic Shadow to try and make contact with Luke. Watch real wrestling as the struggle is played out, an emotional roller coaster of what it's like to live with Luke, from [...]
No dancers. No spectacle. No concessions. Direct to Colchester from the ancient town of Utrera, in the beating heart of Andalusia’s flamenco country, come father-and-son virtuoso guitar duo Antonio & Diego. Both conservatoire trained, they represent a rare evolution of the art: the flawless precision of the academy seamlessly combined with the "duende" of a [...]
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 [...]
The sell-out festival favourite returns from an acclaimed tour spanning Wellington, New Zealand to Brighton, England. Now even better, harder, and art-er. It's updated, innovated, and, as always, no two shows are ever the same. Art is pain. Pain is art. Two “definitely not masochistic” artists take on the challenge of a lifetime: to create [...]
An ageing woman resists her daughter's mission to get her to declutter her house, against a past that continues to haunt her. A playful, yet poignant, look into the significance of one woman's possessions. Original play by Penny Benedetti with music by singer/songwriter Sally Theobald. Colchester Fringe Festival. Performance venue: Headgate Theatre (Rehearsal Room).Age Suitability: [...]
Back my special request for two final rumbles! Danson Thunderbolt struggles to connect with his autistic son, Luke, so he has to wrestle the Autistic Shadow to try and make contact with Luke. Watch real wrestling as the struggle is played out, an emotional roller coaster of what it's like to live with Luke, from [...]
A dark tragicomedy about a pathetic Japanese salaryman who becomes a tyrant! Your favorite GUMBO’s Macbeth has finally arrived in Shakespeare’s land!Based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, this modern adaptation transplants the tragedy to contemporary Japan, reimagining Macbeth as an ordinary Japanese salaryman. His sudden rise up the corporate ladder takes him from an unremarkable office worker [...]
Mitch Benn is the 37th Beatle combines Mitch's Scouse upbringing, his love of music, and a lifelong obsession with Liverpool's most famous sons in one show.Mitch Benn was born in Liverpool in January 1970. Three months later the Beatles broke up. Coincidence? Yes.More than 60 years on from the release of Please Please Me, Mitch [...]
Colchester Art Society invites you to the Autumn Lecture at Firstsite, with CAS President Simon Carter. For more than 40 years, Frinton-based artist Simon Carter has walked, drawn and painted the landscape around him. Simon Carter: From the Landscape reflects on this long relationship with the Essex coast in an exhibition that asks us to [...]
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