Category: Past Perfomances

Slow Puncture: Living Well with Dementia

Slow Puncture: Living Well with Dementia

Saturday 24 Jun 2023, 10:30AM – 11:30AM

Peter Berry was diagnosed with early onset dementia eight years ago, when he was fifty. Before his diagnosis, Peter ran a successful timber business. He and Deb Bunt have written two books about his experience. When he’s not delivering presentations, Peter spends his days cycling around the Suffolk countryside, being the embodiment of his own doctrine of living well with dementia. Deb is a retired family practitioner.

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Martin Newell and The Hosepipe Band

Martin Newell and The Hosepipe Band

Friday 23 June 2023 7pm
Martin Newell and The Hosepipe Band return to Felixstowe Book Festival with new offerings as well as poems and music that have proved popular with audiences in previous years.
In 2009, Martin Newell was commissioned to cover the station hoardings at Colchester Hythe Station with poetry about the area – the city’s former ‘engine room’ – with its rich industrial past. This year, for the first time, he’ll be performing some of the poems live as part of the Hosepipe Band’s current show.

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Rob Barratt – Afternoon Comedy Improv workshop & Evening Gig

Rob Barratt – Afternoon Comedy Improv workshop & Evening Gig

Sat 3 Jun 2023, 3pm & 7:30pm
An afternoon of comedy improv with an experienced performer – and then an evening of comedy from the man himself
Rob Barrett is a Dudley-born comic poet and singer from North Cornwall who writes all his own material. His act combines clever word-play with satire, verse, song and audience participation. He deals with such important topics as second homes, squid, distressed furniture, data-driven education, Neanderthal politics and my relationship with potatoes but beneath the humour serious issues lurk. Recommended 16+.

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The Matt Carter Octet

The Matt Carter Octet

Friday 2 June 7:30pm
The Matt Carter Octet is one of the most exciting young bands on today’s jazz scene. They’re on an album launch tour of the UK, and will be bringing music from their new album Read Between the Lines to Two Sisters Arts Centre for one night only!  The album was recorded at Livingstone Studios in north London in 2022, after a successful UK wide tour last summer. Now completed, they’ll play all ten tracks in their entirety as well as other material from their expanding repertoire.

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Giles Shenton – MY DOG’S GOT NO NOSE

Giles Shenton – MY DOG’S GOT NO NOSE

Saturday 20 May 2023, 7:30pm

My Dog’s Got No Nose
A one-man play by Ron Aldridge
Produced by GSP
Starring Giles Shenton Directed by Simon Downing

Giles Shenton (Old Herbaceous, Three Men in a Boat) returns with a “thought provoking” and “cleverly constructed, wonderful piece of theatre” about a man preparing to fulfil his lifelong ambition to be a stand-up comedian, “…puts one in mind of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads”
You join the man as he prepares backstage for his first ever stand-up comedy gig. Something he has waited over 30 years for. Find out how he got to this point in his life……but be warned……the man and the performance are not quite what they seem!

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Bearfoot Soul & A Light Left On

Bearfoot Soul & A Light Left On

Friday 12 May 2023, 7:30pm

Bearfoot Soul is Matt White
A World-Class Vocalist, Acoustic Guitarist & Showman, Matt White, a singer-songwriter and performer with 25+ years live music performance and entertainment industry experience.
He will be showcasing his new album Gravity & Time

A Light Left On are a folk band comprising Singer-Songwriter David J Brown & full time gorilla absurdist Simon Smith Daye.

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King Lear

King Lear

Thursday 11 May 2023, 7:30pm

Oddbodies present an adapted version of KING LEAR
An inventive, irreverent, and highly accessible solo adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays… Armed with only a drum, a guitar, a knife and a chair, the tragic trajectory of Lear’s demise is presented to you from the point of view of his long suffering and ever-loyal fool. The bastard Edmund, haughty Goneril, poor deluded Gloucester, oily Oswald, sweet Cordelia, mad Tom – all the characters from this sad and sorry tale are brought to glorious life before your very eyes. Blindness, betrayal, delusion, deceit, love, loyalty, lust and greed – it’s all here in this fast paced, funny, poignant and ultimately heartbreaking production.

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