COLCHESTER ART CENTRE'S OUTPUT

Wonderful Wednesdays

9th May 2018

WONDERFUL WEDNESDAYS LISTINGS: May/June 2018

For further details, images, interviews, tickets please contact Emma Wallis
emma@colchesterartscentre.com 07942 778536 / 01206 500900

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WED 9 MAY
SH!T THEATRE: DOLLYWOULD
Following the award-winning sell-out hit Letters to Windsor House – which was named one of Time
Out London’s top ten theatre shows of the year – Sh!t Theatre return with their bold new show. It’s
about country legend Dolly Parton, cloning, branding, immortality and death.
DollyWould enjoyed a 100% sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and comes to you on its
nationwide tour off the back of a four-week off-West End London run.
‘Exhilaratingly daft – Sh!t Theatre overshare their love for Dolly Parton, with delightful results’ ****
Time Out
Pay What You Can Afford
Doors open 7.30pm, show starts 8pm.

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WED 16 MAY
STACY MAKISHI: THE COMFORTER
Part ritual, part prayer, part rowdy revivalist rally, The Comforter is a rite of passage that reclaims
spirituality and proposes a new perspective on the church. Exchanging psalms and sacrament for 80s
and 90s pop culture, it draws inspiration from ‘Twin Peaks’ and Ingmar Bergman whilst throwing a
kiss to George Michael.
Pay What You Can Afford
Doors open 7.30pm, show starts 8pm.

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WED 23 MAY
RACHEL MARS & GREG WOHEAD: STORY #1
This performance contains explicit sexual content and images and is therefore recommended for
ages 18+. An Ovalhouse seed commission
Doors open 7.30pm show starts 8pm.
Pay What You Can Afford

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WED 6 JUNE
SUICIDE NOTES... THE SPOKEN WORD OF CHRISTOPHER BRETT BAILEY

A different-every- night, shouting & reading show... stories, poems and black humour.
Bailey’s words deliver a linguistic kaleidoscope of caustic cartoons, crackpot prophesies and
demented erotica. verbal diarrhoea, dirty jokes, venomous poetry, and tall tales that corkscrew deep
into nightmares.
‘a mesmerising, mouthy athlete, all tongue-twisters and mobile lips.’ – Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

Recommended 16+
Doors open 7.30pm show starts 8pm.
Pay What You Can Afford

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WED 18 JULY
BAIT THEATRE: TALES
A bruised princess teeters through a commuter town carpark on broken stilettoes, the juice of a
poisoned apple dripping through her fingers.
High up in a tower, golden curls tumble to the floor and a girl clambers out into the night on sweat
knotted sheets.
This is a show about the stories which make us. A punk feminist quest to explode the tales which
trap us. It’s about sex and love and power and choosing. About knowing where and when you begin
because you choose to begin there. It’s about the girls we were and the women we will become.
Join BAIT on a glitterbomb rave through tall tales and urban myths old and new, battling into the
bright lights of the long, dark ever after.
All tickets £5
Doors open 7.30pm show starts 8pm