Who says the show has to stay the same every night?

Join Fred and The Bears in their quest for burly, furry love in a skinny-obsessed age.

***** 'Critics' Choice: This Burly, bristly troupe are HOT, HOT HOT! Highly recommended!' – Time Out

When a father and daughter’s struggle to understand each other risks being lost in the premature onset of Alzheimer’s it becomes clear the clock has been ticking longer than either of them realised.

‘Come, let’s have one other gaudy night. Let’s mock the midnight bell.’

Shakespeare was thinking of the TBT. The TBT was thinking of innovative insomniacs. They were thinking of a late night bar. You’re thinking of three electric new experiments by emerging artists ready to take a risk. Late nights just got mocked.

In just over an hour Benny will be thirty. He’s a talented musician, loyal friend and… he works in HMV. Max, Frank and Karen have all come around to help him celebrate his birthday and ensure Benny reaches his true potential.

East 15 graduates once again at the TBT. After a hugely successful season in 2008, graduating students from East 15 Acting School present an eclectic new repertoire.

Two teenagers sit in a desolate playground as the city tears itself apart. An old tramp waits in an empty church, as the gangs stalk the streets for their next fix. Into this wasteland of crumbling tower blocks, a shadowy figure appears, promising happiness. But at what price?

'Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Let’s mock the midnight bell.'

Shakespeare was thinking of the TBT. The TBT was thinking of innovative insomniacs. They were thinking of a late night bar. You're thinking of three electric new experiments by emerging artists ready to take a risk. Late nights just got mocked.

Featuring adventurous new writing from of the top young names in the country, as well as dance, magic, music, site-specific and meta-theatrical combinations of all kinds...

Get high on the night. Test the limits of the stage. Live on lager, alarums and a lust for electric theatre.

The Tristan Bates Theatre presents a special preview of its stellar Latitude Line-up, an eclectic and electric collection of the best new work from a year of critically acclaimed late-night extravaganzas. Recently recommended by Time Out and the London Lite.

If you don't have a ticket to Latitude, this special preview night is not to be missed at just £5

Test before you fest at the Tristan Bates. Sketch, stand-up, drama, dance, music, magic and many madcap combinations find their feet before they face the festival.

Because why should Scotland have all the fun?

A European premiere, written and directed by award-winning New Zealand playwright Tom Sainsbury.
LUV drags us through the suburban subcultures where texting, clubbing, internet dating and stalking help us stumble towards what we want most, Love.

The Midnight Matinees are raw, rude and unpredictable. I had a ball, and you will too.’ – Che Walker.
Meet the Midnight Matinee. Late nights just got mocked.

An intense extravaganza of performance storytelling, featuring world-class performers with nothing up their sleeves but humour, romance, poetry and suspense conjuring wondertales with deceptive ease.

‘The Midnight Matinees are raw, rude and unpredictable. I had a ball, and you will too.’ – Che Walker.

IGNITION is unique in British theatre. A week of brilliant new work, created from scratch, by the most exciting writers, actors and directors in dream combinations.

A double bill featuring 'Jesus Christ & Chocolate Pudding' by Punam Ramchurn and 'How The Rapist Was Born' by Sabina England.

A powerful and moving drama that shares the true stories of women whose lives have been touched by the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Shakespeare meets Whose Line Is It Anyway?

The River People, using their trademark dark style of puppetry, live music and poetic language, explore death and grieving in this intimate, mesmerising story.

This award winning tragi-comedy makes its London premiere after a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe. WINNER – Cameron Mackintosh New Writing Award.

"Sophisicated and extremely funny" The Spectator

'"A play whose subject matter is heartbreakingly apt for these fraught times... a little piece of narrative magic" – Jane Coyle, Culture Northern Ireland

Sam loves Anna, football and gambling. But when the spark disappears, how much is he prepared to risk in the chase to recapture the thrill?

Midnight strikes, coaches turn into pumpkins and strange and wonderful things start to happen at The Tristan Bates Theatre.These regular sell out nights, recommended in Time Out’s top things to do in 2009 are not to be missed!

A family in close-up – in a typical East German concrete highrise. Some years after 1989 Micha is making a documentary about his family for film school, and rather unwittingly uncovers a lot.

Every month Midnight strikes, coaches turn into pumpkins and strange and wonderful things start to happen at The Tristan Bates Theatre. Never the same twice these are for the cultural explorer in you. These regular sell out nights, recommended in Time Out’s top things to do in 2009 are not to be missed!

Manor is the brutal tale of three men thrown together by violence and love. Although set in the present day, Manor tells a story which brings Greek mythology and Biblical tales into the classic British gangster genre.

Theatre that breaks the rules! Who said we have to go to bed?

Award winning theatre ensemble Papatango present the runners-up and winning entry of the 2010 New Writing Competition. This year combines award winning writers, directors and actors with rising stars in Papatango’s most ambitious and exciting ensemble to date.

With the relentless and poetic qualities of an ancient Greek tragedy, this play pierces to the heart of a family enslaved by its father.

It’s both business and pleasure that take Frank, Damon, Rocco, George and his dad to a dive
bar in Bucharest: twenty kilos of crack to sell and that small matter of George’s mum and her Romanian lover. This is a sharp, film-noir style satire from Romania’s most talented young playwright.

A darkly comic drama that explores the quiet crumbling of love’s first flourish through the lifetime of one couple’s relationship.

Every month Midnight strikes, coaches turn into pumpkins and strange and wonderful things start to happen at The Tristan Bates Theatre.

“The Midnight Matinees are raw, rude and unpredictable. I had a ball, and you will too.”
- Che Walker

"a crackpot glamour puss: she makes up her own rules" – Time Out

A modern musical football fable.

Punter likes football, Punter likes Pies, on the last game of the season, Punter dies.

It’s burlesque Jim, but not as you know it!

Midnight strikes, coaches turn into pumpkins and the arty folk come out to play at the Tristan Bates Theatre. The Midnight Matinees are a monthly late-night happening that test and develop new work from some of the UK’s most innovative artists.

Tickets: £5
23:30 – 03:00
www.tristanbatestheatre.co.uk
0207 240 6283

Caravanserai Productions and Acting Studio present their interpretation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece charting Macbeth’s devastating descent from heroic savior to paranoid tyrant.

27th – 31st at 19:30
31st matinee at 14:30
Tickets: £12 / £10 concession
www.tristanbatestheatre.co.uk
0207 240 6283

From world renowned hat designer, David Shilling comes his debut play 'Rich Isn't Easy'. A satirical glimpse into the world of money, celebrity, sex, fashion and art

Having a baby is complicated.
It’s even tougher when you need another man’s sperm.

5 stars critically aclaimed show transfers straight from Edinburgh 2010.

‘There is no such thing as society.’

Nine Teams, With just 3 days...
The result – nine explosive pieces of theatre

Ignition 2010 has been ignited and all our teams are well on their way to creating dynamite work. After last year's sell-out festival we're advising early booking.

A double bill of drama and music, exploring the real lives of those who fight for their country – from World War One to the present day.

This year an announcement was made to cut £19m worth of funding to the arts. Some people thought this was for the best; some thought it was for the worst. Papercut theatre asked six writers to give their response.

Midnight strikes, coaches turn into pumpkins and the arty folk come out to play at the Tristan Bates Theatre. The Midnight Matinees are a monthly late-night happening that test and develop new work from some of the UK’s most innovative artists.

In December we treat audiences to a special late night performance of the award-winning Krapp, 39 followed by an all American cabaret themed Midnight Matinee.

Broadway’s award-winning production, Krapp, 39, makes its UK premiere at the Tristan Bates Theatre.

One man, 79 characters and a virtuoso live guitar soundtrack.

Hired hand Bruce Bane works the mean streets of pulp fiction. As he goes about his shadowy business down back alleys and eerie sidewalks, he shoots from the hip and asks questions later.

What do you keep hold of and what do you throw away?
Undoubtedly you’ll keep things you don’t really need,
and you’ll throw something away you wish for the rest of your life you’d kept
Charlie

Where do you come from? Where are you going?
Confused, fatalistic and loyal, Cutting the Cord reveals a young Japanese woman, Sachi’s comedic yet sincere need to belong.

Waiting, waiting for a love letter; that moment between the receiving and the unsealing of the envelope.
Looking, looking at it and through it at you.

Our Style is Legendary, a true story. Coming to ‘that there London’

How far would you go in the name of obsession?

The show stars West End favourite Jye Frasca as Nathan Leopold who has just spent the last 3 years in the multi-award winning production Jersey Boys, playing the roles of both Joe Pesci and Frankie Valli. Other credits include Boq in Wicked and Love's Labour's Lost at the National Theatre.

Also starring George Maguire as Richard Loeb – George's roles have included Tad in Bright Light, Big City, Angel in Rent and Toby in the feature film Spiderhole. Thrill Me is directed by Guy Retallack.

The show has voice-overs performances supplied by West End favourites Lee Mead and Les Dennis and the original Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show Patricia Quinn!

Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QdwUvAne2U

What would you do in the last 12 minutes and 36 seconds of your life?

A BLACKLY COMIC THEATRE PRODUCTION CREATED AFRESH EACH NIGHT
Following a sold-out regional tour, Future Ruins bring their highly acclaimed improvised drama to the Tristan Bates Theatre for one week only.

"You run far enough, there's nothing. Just your legs, your feet, your blood, your heart. If I don't run, I want to break it all up."

Tristan BatesTheatre presents
Museum of Broken Relationships
15th August-4th September

Winner of the EMF Kenneth Hudson Award 2011 for Most daring, innovative European Museum Project, 2011

Magic isn't when people disappear... it's when they come back.

In a cramped desert house, two sisters – once child performers in a disappearing act – meet for a deadly reckoning.

Losing our virginity...it happens to almost all of us, no matter who we are or where we come from.

How did it happen for you? Ever wondered what other people think and feel about this never- to-be-repeated experience? And how much more do we learn as we grow up?

6th October – 22nd October
7.30pm Thurs-Sat with 3pm Saturday matinees.

“When the door is knocked upon, open it”

A group of activists come together to explore The Possibilities, ten stories of human life at the limits of our existence in an exhilarating new interpretation of Howard Barker’s classic.

Celebrating London and Multiculturalism through Theatre

Double bill of two extraordinary comedy bands from cult comedians Jonny Donahoe (FIVE STARS 'Brilliant' – Chortle and Colin Hoult ('Rivetingly original...delightfully funny' – The Telegraph).

'This is my life. I want to do more with it than flip burgers.'

Ambition comes up against a disabling fear of failure and the reality of the dog-eat-dog TV industry in the first London revival of this searing comedy.

Celebrity, sex, men, fashion, death – all come under the piercing gaze of Norman Tortilla, an old man who's never been kissed and wants the world to listen.

Jasmin has just run away from home and Cassandra's downward spiral is fast becoming a whirlpool. Hip Hop fanatic meets performance poet in this lyrical, intense and powerful new work.

A fast-moving comedy show featuring songs, sketches, stand-up, satire and special guests.

This musical journey follows the troubled relationship of 40-year old painter and his in-denial wife, whose biological clock is ticking more each day.

The story of out-of-work actor Ruaraidh, told from the front room of a London flat – with his imaginary friend Big Sean Connery is here to help.

Can the World's Million Dollar Chihuahua™ cheat death when laminated live on stage, escapes a flaming straight jacket and is fired from the Cannon?

Rainbows, the Grand Canyon, cupcakes and pants! With optional participation, booze and beauty, join in the experiment to celebrate all things Awesome.

Keith & Christie's son is a rising football star. Eddy & Samantha's only excels at nicking donuts and smoking dope. With the boys out the parents throw a party but as drinks flow, friendships fracture...

Patrick has just moments to reorganise his personal and professional lives in this real-time comedy drama from a BBC R4 play.

'The trouble with our times is that the future isn't what it used to be.'

Cabaret, Chicago, Funny Lady and more... Kander & Ebb wrote them all. Diva-Chanteuse Melody La Rouge sings them all in this exhilarating tribute to Broadway!

I’m Annie. Wednesday I went to hell and back when a bomber blew himself up in the name of his religion... This is my story.

It's been 15 years since an explosive bust-up put an end to GIRLBAND's lucrative pop careers.

A darkly comic play for those who have always wondered what the teachers have to say when no one else is listening.

Social networking has brought the world closer together, but now it's too close for comfort. Isn't life now so much more complicated?

Singer-songwriter Gideon holds one last session to record the most important album of his life....

Three short plays. In one hour. All from your suggestions.

★★★★★ 'Storytelling to perfection' – Three Weeks
NOMINATED – STAGE BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE

The UK Festival of dyslexic story-makers comes to the TBT

Directed by Iqbal Khan (Broken Glass, Tricycle/West End)

Two people, united by blood and separated by time, weave the tapestry of their lives in this passionate new play about identity, family and homeland.

'Finally, the real deal' – Time Out on Nirjay Mahindru (for The Hot Zone)

Strip Theatre presents this unusual and striking play by Isley Lynn.

From the award-winning writer of Our Boys and I Found My Horn, Jonathan Lewis

Luke is the first in his family to go to university, and he’s determined to stop his irritating fireball of a brother from following in their father’s footsteps by joining the army.

The Emily Inspires! Centennial programme brings To Freedom’s Cause by Kate Willoughby to various venues around the UK.

Set in Baku city in 1995, this is a roller coaster ride of anarchic fun by acclaimed author and Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Elchin Afandiyev.

Young Noel Coward and his boyfriend, Tono; young ‘Dickie’ Mountbatten and a naval chum; and youngish Agatha Christie, mysteriously alone and using another name, all find themselves at an hotel on an island off the Devon coast soon after the end of the First World War.

The company behind sell-out new writing jamboree ON A SPREE returns with two new plays and a battle of the sexes.

Geek! A New Musical is an hilarious new show set in a west coast American high school, with outrageous characters, fantastic songs and just the teensiest bit of innuendo...