living spit's
odyssey
Captivating singer Kate Dimbleby joins Bristol’s favourite comedy theatre troupe Living Spit to reimagine Homer’s classic work.
The Odyssey, one of the supreme works of western literature, tells of Odysseus’ 10-year journey home to Ithaca from the Trojan War, overcoming some of Greek mythology’s greatest monsters, misfortunes and temptations. While all Greece presumed him dead, Penelope, his faithful wife, fended off 100 drunken suitors who besieged their home. The story’s scope and beauty have entranced mankind for nearly three thousand years.
Now Kate Dimbleby, the internationally renowned, stupefyingly talented singer and raconteur, joins Living Spit, a pair of scruffy, puerile, knockabout chancers from a small seaside town just south of Bristol, to create a brand new and highly original retelling of this story of redemption, isolation and a desperate yearning for love.
Expect great music and top-notch comedy married together with playful panache, pathos and painful puns a-plenty! Let’s just hope they get on…
“This ribald reworking is a beguiling rib-tickler...the sense of mischief and sheer silliness are difficult to resist" (The Times on Living Spit’s Frankenstein)
“Stunning vocal virtuosity…This is an artist absolutely at the top of her game (BBC Radio 6 Music on Kate Dimbleby)”
SALISBURY ARTS CENTRE
Fri 25 & Sat 26 October/ 7.30PM
www.wiltshirecreative.co.uk 01722 320 333
EXETER NORTHCOTT THEATRE
Mon 4 & Tues 5 November / 7.30pm
www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 01392 726 363
THE EXCHANGE, STURMINSTER NEWTON
Sat 9 November / 7.30pm
www.stur-exchange.co.uk 01258 475137
TOBACCO FACTORY THEATRES, BRISTOL
Mon 11 – Sat 16 November / 7.30PM
Sat 16 November / 2.30PM
www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com 0117 902 0344
SWINDON ARTS CENTRE
Mon 18 & Tues 19 November / 7.30PM
www.swindontheatres.co.uk 01793 524 481
BLAKEHAY THEATRE, WESTON-SUPER-MARE
Wed 20 - Sat 23 November / 7.30PM
www.blakehaytheatre.co.uk 01934 645 493
We're Living Spit. We make comedy-theatre shows. Which have music in. That we write. Some people like them. And laugh. In an appropriate way. We make them in Clevedon, North Somerset, UK. Cos that's where we live. Then we put them on all over the place.
Come and see us in 2019.
It might be alright.
ARTSREACH DORSET
Fri 13 - Sun 15 December/ 7.30pm
www.artsreach.co.uk 01305 269512
CARN TO COVE CORNWALL
Tues 17 - Thurs19 December / 7.30pm
www.carntocove.co.uk 01392 726 363
THEATRE SHOP, CLEVEDON
Sat 21 - Tues 24 December / 2.30 & 7pm
Sat 28 - Mon 30 December / 2.30pm & 7pm
www.theatreshop.org.uk 0333 666 3366
THE BLAKEHAY THEATRE, WESTON-SUPER-MARE
Wed 15 – Sat 18 January / 7.30PM
www.blakehaytheatre.co.uk 01934 645493
SALISBURY ARTS CENTRE, SALISBURY
Fri 24 & Sat 25 January /2.30 & 7.30PM
www.witshirecreative.co.uk 01722 321744
TOBACCO FACTORY THEATRES, BRISTOL
Thurs 30 January - Sat 9 February /2.30 & 7.30PM
www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com 0117 902 0344
living spit's
swan lake
Swan Lake. The most famous magical water-based avian ballet ever performed. But expensive, high-brow and
normally only at a big city theatre miles away from where you live.
Well, not any more!
Theatre Orchard and Living Spit have teamed up to make the smallest ballet ever performed (probably) especially for Clevedon’s Theatre Shop.
With Howard & Stu joined on stage by two professional real-live ballet dancers this is a proper ballet in miniature. The dynamic duo have promised to leave the tutus at home but promises are made to be broken... Suitable for anyone aged 6-106 (no older that that please), this promises to be the funniest, danciest, water-fowlest micro- ballet the world has ever seen!
