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A feast of theatre, comedy and music with Swindon Fringe

Madam Renards has been running the Swindon Mini Fringe
in association with
Festival for the past three years and every time it gets bigger
and better. For 2016 the newly rebranded Swindon Fringe
Festival takes place at venues across the town from Friday 1
April to Monday 10 April. Here’s the rundown...
Friday 1 April show is for you.
Steam - 7pm Monday 4 April
Swindon 175 Heritage Night The Ocelot Stage at The Vic - 7pm
As part of the Swindon175 Joy Carter: Spot the Difference
celebrations the fringe opens with TV comedian Joy Carter presents
a heritage event to celebrate the her new stand-up comedy show
town’s performing arts. about her differences with her
Saturday 2 April brilliant trademark storytelling.
Shoebox Theatre - 2pm Matt Hoss: Vegetari-Man
The Quiet Zone This stand-up comedy show reveals
The Quiet Zone is a short, one the positive side of vegetarianism. Murder She Didn’t Write - you become the detective at this year’s fringe
woman play which details the daily Tuesday 5 April
routine of a library assistant. Phoenix Theatre - 7pm
The Life We Lived The Escapists
A play by award winning Swindon Four stories about people who -
playwright Matt Fox follows the by mistake or design - substitute
relationship between a funeral dreams for reality.
director and a woman who will Scheherazade’s Shed
become a corpse in his parlour. A one woman riot of luscious
Platform - 7pm language and giggles with Chloë of
Daughters of the Monstrous the Midnight Storytellers.
Regiment Session 8 – The Ocelot Stage at The
Rapscallion presents three fast- Vic - 7pm
paced comedies about women who Justin Panks: Joy Is The Enemy Of The Life We Lived - a play by Matt Fox Forget Me Not - The Alzheimer’s
upset the Establishment. Progress Whodunnit
(ab) solution Brutally honest stand-up comedy. hospital, where sensitive souls are Gatecrash’s Improv Comedy Club
Three brothers go to confession, Charmian Hughes: When Comedy telling their stories... A tasty comedy feast made-up
each admitting a sin against the Was Alternative (The Laughs And Friday 8 April of audience suggestions and the
same woman. Loves Of A She-Comic) MECA - 7pm wonder of the imagination.
Sunday 3 April A stand-up visit to the 1980’s when The Lady Killers by Matt Fox Murder She Didn’t Write
MECA - 2pm comedy was alternative. Three female killers, three Move over, Sherlock! YOU are
Dog Show Wednesday 6 April monologues. Not based on the the detective in this original
Coiffed and teased to perfection, The Ocelot Stage at The Vic – 7pm Ealing Comedy Film, this piece is and hilarious improvised murder
clipped and trimmed in all the right Do you Mind? dark and stark in three vignettes. mystery comedy.
places, Sylvia Hunt’s Dog Show is a Joni has just met someone special. Dominion by TS Theatre Sunday 10 April
fabulous 50 minutes of canine high But how can she tell him she has a A new play by Max Brandt. It The Town Hall - 2pm
jinks and biscuit slobbering joy! long term mental illness? tells the delicate, intense and, CJ Cabaret
Cinco Coisas Forget Me Not - The Alzheimer’s ultimately, tender story of two Charlotte Johnson’s School of
A solo show structured around the Whodunit people caught in a situation. dance presents the beautiful story
five basic needs of a child – Place, Written and performed by ex- Saturday 9 April of Little Red Riding Hood.
Love, Support, Protection and psychiatric nurse Rob Gee (“A witty, Shoebox Theatre - 2pm The Glummer Twins
Limitation. Told through dance, skilful storyteller” Chortle), Forget Banging Fun Stuff Stand-up poetry, comedy and music
play, clowning and improvisation. Me Not has just completed a sold The Cutlery Crew wants everyone for the beat generation.
Session 5 – The Place, Wyvern - 7pm out run across Canada. to have fun and feel uplifted. But a The Town Hall - 7pm
Tales from a Jam Jar Thursday 7 April Swindon Fringe Closing Night
The story of Steve, a laid back Phoenix Theatre - 7pm crime has been committed and all Music from Sweet Nightingale, plus
hope rests upon PC Pauline.
garden fly who becomes fascinated Mysteries Of The Past But Now… A Number comedy, drama and the Swindon
by creatures that walk on two feet. Two disgruntled radio presenters You get called into the doctors for Fringe Awards Ceremony.
Guerilla Aspies bring their cancelled late-night a chat. He tells you, you are not www.madamrenards.co.uk
The world’s first, unique autism mystery-solving show to the stage. unique. You are not the only one Tickets: £10/£5 Students - Limited
conversion show. Know nothing Abnormality Does Not Exist of you that exists. He tells you that Platinum tickets (for all shows) £50
about neurodiversity and could not A path through visions and feelings you are a number. available from Wyvern on 01793
care less about autism? Good. This will bring you straight to the Doc’s
Session 13 – The Town Hall- 7pm 524481 and swindontheatres.co.uk
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