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  • Valhalla Awaits – Viking Stories For Kids

    Headgate Theatre 14 Chapel Street North, Colchester, United Kingdom

    With stories Gods, Ice Giants and Monsters fighting for power, join in with an interactive storytelling of a difference, will you play Thor and get to wield the mighty Mjölnir, [...]

  • Second Thoughts

    Three Wise Monkeys 60 High Street, Colchester, United Kingdom

    Second Thoughts follows Clement Achebe, a once-successful Lagos professional who leaves behind a stable life in pursuit of greater opportunities abroad. What he hopes will be a journey toward a brighter future quickly becomes a confrontation with harsh realities, cultural shocks, and the emotional weight of having to start over. Told as an intimate one-man [...]

  • (GOD) HELP THE AGED!

    Headgate Theatre 14 Chapel Street North, Colchester, United Kingdom

    (God) Help The Aged is a light-hearted play that looks at the ageing process. It will take you down memory lane reminiscing about how things have changed including our bodies!! It tells how we are, how the world see us, but most of all, how we see ourselves as we begin to reach our mature [...]

  • Her Name

    Headgate Theatre 14 Chapel Street North, Colchester, United Kingdom

    Wu Zetian, the only woman in Chinese history to rule as emperor in her own name, has been judged by history for centuries. What happens when she finally answers back?Now, she is summoned to stand trial before history.From Mei and Meiniang, names given to shape the woman she was expected to become, to Zhao, a [...]

  • Kpop Fantasy

    Colchester Charter Hall Colchester Charter Hall

    Kpop FantasyKPOP Fantasy is a high-energy theatrical celebration of the global phenomenon that is K-pop. Blending electrifying choreography with outstanding live vocals, this immersive stage show brings the spectacle, precision, and passion of K-pop to life in a thrilling theatre experience.Featuring powerful performances inspired by the biggest K-pop moments from music, TV, and film, the [...]

  • Birth Plan

    Headgate Theatre 14 Chapel Street North, Colchester, United Kingdom

    Birth Plan is C’s experience of birth and parenthood, relayed between increasingly frequent contractions. In her lucid phases, C unfolds the tragi-comic story of how she ended up labouring alone. As the arrival of her newborn draws ever closer, C voices doubts about her family relationships, her fitness to be a parent and questions why [...]

  • The Unforgivable Crime of Love

    Three Wise Monkeys 60 High Street, Colchester, United Kingdom

    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 [...]

  • Miss Ann Thropp Presents: A Funeral For Musical Theatre

    CODA ,63, High Street, Colchester CODA ,63, High Street, Colchester

    In her debut show Miss Ann Thropp guides you through just some of the many causes of the death of originality within the musical theatre. Taking songs from a range of musical theatre shows she presents live vocals combined with critiques of various issues within the Musical Theatre Industry. Colchester Fringe Festival. Performance venue: Coda.Age [...]

  • The Toilet Monologues – Number Two

    The Dragonfly Lounge The Dragonfly Lounge

    From the writer and producers of last year's sell-out show, Wonky Hearts Collective present a brand new collection of monologues Four new women. Four new toilets. Four new stories. In the most private of public spaces the masks drop and from behind the cubicle doors the women reveal their innermost thoughts. Once again, the stories [...]

  • Turing’s Law

    Headgate Theatre 14 Chapel Street North, Colchester, United Kingdom

    In the 1950s, gay men travelled to liberal European cities in search of freedoms that were denied to them at home. Places where they could explore their sexuality, find companionship and immerse themselves in homosocial worlds beyond the reach of British convention.Alan Turing was one of those men.Quietly rebellious and ahead of his time, Turing [...]

  • PIANO SMASHERS

    Headgate Theatre 14 Chapel Street North, Colchester, United Kingdom

    PIANO SMASHERS by Rob Thompson and Rupert Page.“...among the thousands of shows, there are superb ones ... Piano Smashers is one such show.”Edinburgh Reporter. August 2024.Piano Smashers, a powerful solo play about an unwanted inheritance.In Piano Smashers a mother bequeaths her piano to her children in a will but they really do not want it [...]

  • SEVEN and a half YEARS

    Three Wise Monkeys 60 High Street, Colchester, United Kingdom

    We may fall… but can we rise?” From international acclaim to near-total isolation, this 5-star, award-winning solo show is a deeply moving, autobiographical journey of survival and creative rebirth. Written and performed by world-class composer and songwriter Mark Glentworth (celebrated collaborator of Steven Berkoff), the production chronicles a sudden, devastating breakdown that left him mute [...]