The Place Open Day
- Genre:
- Community
- Opens:
- 07 Sept 2024
ALL DAY: Join us for venue tours, grab a drink at the bar, check out cool displays in the auditorium, and get all your burning questions answered about volunteering and …
CLICK Art Foundation – Show for World Suicide Prevention Day
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 12 Sep 2024
Champion Health recently collated statistics around suicide, finding: Over 700,000 people take their own life each year – that’s one person every 40 seconds (World Health Organisation) 115 people die …
The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 13 Sep 2024
“Wives may be merry, and yet honest too!” Sir John Falstaff, everyone's favourite Shakespearean sleazeball, has fallen on hard times. In order to fix his finances he plans to seduce …
The Big Bumper Book Sale
- Genre:
- Community
- Opens:
- 14 Sept 2024
Come and join us for our first Big Bumper Book sale in aid of our Raise the Roof campaign. Browse a huge selection of second-hand books including fiction, non-fiction and …
Keith James – The Music of Leonard Cohen
- Genre:
- Music
- Opens:
- 14 Sep 2024
These remarkable songs – stripped back, honest, naked and sensual. ‘There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’ Cohen’s most memorable and visionary line from his song …
North Bedford and Milton Keynes Poetry Stanza
- Genre:
- Opens:
- 19 Sept 2024
- Until:
- 19 Jun 2025
North Bedford and Milton Keynes Poetry Stanza is a monthly group that meets to discuss their poetry, to learn together, develop their skills and approaches. It’s open to all adults. …
Workshop – Comic Timing
- Genre:
- Workshop
- Opens:
- 20 Sep 2024
Come along and share a laugh because laughter is the best medicine. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced performer, this is a safe space to flex those comedic muscles. …
Tugging at the Sea
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 21 Sep 2024
Tugging at the Sea is an absurdist comedy about the dangers of propaganda. Set on a fog-enshrouded island, its inhabitants adhere to a strict daily routine, engaged in a bizarre …
Dancing at Lughnasa
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 24 Sep 2024
- Until:
- 28 Sep 2024
Michael looks back on the late summer of 1936, when he was seven years old and living with his unmarried mother, Chris, and her four older sisters in the village …
Exploring with Kaye Leidoskope – Exploring Colours
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 27 Sep 2024
Join Kaye Leidoskope for these lively & lovely interactive storytelling sessions for under-fives and their grown-ups. Expect songs, games, crafts and dancing …perfect for little ones to creatively learn through …
Steel Magnolias
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 03 Oct 2024
Is it best to live 30 minutes of wonderful or a lifetime of nothing special? This warm, witty play explores the impact we make on those around us and along with …
Flamenco Express
- Genre:
- Dance
- Opens:
- 04 Oct 2024
Flamenco is as universal, powerful and versatile as the blues, as epic as opera, and as delicate and pin-sharp as ballet. For over thirty years, Flamenco Express has existed to …
Howlin Mat – Cigar Box Social Workshop
- Genre:
- Workshop
- Opens:
- 05 Oct 2024
Ever wanted to make and own your own guitar? Now is your chance! This workshop introduces you to the Cigar Box Cigar and guides you through making your very own. …
Howlin Mat Concert
- Genre:
- Music
- Opens:
- 05 Oct 2024
Howlin’ Mat is a BLUES musician who has performed everywhere from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert. He performs up to 200 shows a year and his escapades include …
Read Poets Society – October 2024
- Genre:
- Poetry & Spoken Word
- Opens:
- 06 Oct 2024
Join us at the Eagle Bookshop for an evening of poetry and prose, this month on the theme of “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” See you there!
Talking Heads – Soldiering On and Her Big Chance
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 09 Oct 2024
- Until:
- 11 Oct 2024
Certain Age present two of Alan Bennett’s well-loved Talking Heads monologues. Soldiering On introduces us to Muriel whose life revolved around her husband, Ralph; she ran their home, brought up …
Playbill – The Browning Version / Harlequinade
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 15 Oct 2024
- Until:
- 19 Oct 2024
The Browning Version: a middle aged Classics teacher, who had been full of promise in his youth, finds himself with a mediocre career and a failing marriage. His inability to …
StageWrite: Autumn 24
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 20 Oct 2024
StageWrite is a hothouse for the development of new writing for theatre, designed to help plays grow from page to performance. It supports writers in the process of getting their …
Santi & Naz
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 22 Oct 2024
Santi and Naz are bestest-best friends living in a village in pre-partition India. One Sikh, one Muslim; they have little understanding of how religion will divide them. As partition draws …
Frankenstein (On a Budget)
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 24 Oct 2024
One man, one monster, one glorious dream to singlehandedly tell the most famous cult horror story of all time, and absolutely no budget whatsoever. What could possibly go wrong? Frankenstein …
Exploring with Kaye Leidoskope – Exploring Numbers
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 25 Oct 2024
Join Kaye Leidoskope for these lively & lovely interactive storytelling sessions for under-fives and their grown-ups. Expect songs, games, crafts and dancing …perfect for little ones to creatively learn through …
Kickmouse Mysterium
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 27 Oct 2024
A quest to make amends, in a magical world of Mysterium. A magical comedy fable, of few words, about perseverance & achievement. Jon, the chaotic student of Frank the Dog, …
Sunday Sound Bath
- Genre:
- Workshop
- Opens:
- 27 Oct 2024
- Until:
- 1 Dec 2024 -
Seeking relaxation and mindfulness in Bedford? My name is Yanni and I would like to invite you to join us for a relaxing Sound Bath at The Place Theatre on …
Mr Cleverly’s Transcontinental Delivery Service.
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 29 Oct 2024
Step inside the unique world of Mr Cleverly's Delivery Service – Parcels, Packages and Post. Dear Delivery Agents, you are invited to explore adventure archives from 1b Nosmo Road. Join …
Daisy Donald
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 02 Nov 2024
Daisy Donald is bright, bold and full of fun but she’s also hiding a secret…that she lives with Type 1 Diabetes, an invisible disability. When Daisy’s world starts to goes …
Read Poets Society – November 2024
- Genre:
- Poetry & Spoken Word
- Opens:
- 03 Nov 2024
Join us in November for the latest Read Poetry Society. Our theme for November is “Put a Girdle Round About the Earth” Make of that what you will! Come along …
Candlelit Theatre – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 09 Nov 2024
Candlelit Theatre bring The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde dramatically to life with their signature storytelling approach using shadows, sounds and theatricality to faithfully recreate the tale. …
Maddie Morris – Autumn Tour 2024
- Genre:
- Music
- Opens:
- 10 Nov 2024
Maddie Morris is an artist who strives to make a difference in the world. Bold, insightful and refreshingly unique, they take traditional song in new directions to shine a light …
Another Goodbye
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 14 Nov 2024
Another Goodbye – A performance and conversation about love and loss “We don’t know whether this will be the last time we’ll see each other…” When Adie’s mum decided it was …
TIBETAN MONKS FROM TASHI LHUNPO MONASTERY ‘FROM THE ROOF OF THE WORLD’
- Genre:
- Dance
- Opens:
- 15 Nov 2024
- Until:
- 16 Nov 2024
Tibet – the Land of Snows: home to Buddhist lamas whose ancient rituals have fascinated people for thousands of years. ‘From the Roof of the World’ presents chant, mantras, music …
Hands on Workshop – Tibetan Monks from Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
- Genre:
- Workshop
- Opens:
- 16 Nov 2024
An opportunity to meet the Tibetan monks from Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, who will introduce you to the unique traditions of Buddhist monastic art. These include sand mandala making – ‘painting’ …
The Innocents
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 19 Nov 2024
- Until:
- 23 Nov 2024
In the late nineteenth century, a young governess for two orphaned youngsters becomes convinced that their lonely manor house is haunted and that the children are possessed by the spirits …
NIGHTMARES
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 26 Nov 2024
The Book of Darkness & Light in association with LittleMighty present: NIGHTMARES Three classic ghost stories – live on stage! Vengeful spirits, murderous revenants and gruesome promises kept from beyond …
Exploring with Kaye Leidoskope – Exploring Sounds
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 29 Nov 2024
Join Kaye Leidoskope for these lively & lovely interactive storytelling sessions for under-fives and their grown-ups. Expect songs, games, crafts and dancing …perfect for little ones to creatively learn through …
Tony Slattery – Resuscitated
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Opens:
- 29 Nov 2024
Back from the dead following a failure to file his living will, please welcome Lord of Misrule Tony Slattery (Kingdom, The Crying Game, Coronation Street) for this rare discussion show …
Read Poets Society – December 2024
- Genre:
- Poetry & Spoken Word
- Opens:
- 01 Dec 2024
Our last Read Poets Society for 2024 – thank you to all those who have attended and contributed this year. Join us for the last event of the year as …
A Christmas Carol
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 12 Dec 2024
- Until:
- 22 Dec 2024
The critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company present a brand-new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ fantastical festive fable. It’s Christmas Eve and tight-fisted Ebenezer Scrooge is meaner than ever. He is shunning his …
Exploring with Kaye Leidoskope – Exploring Weather
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 20 Dec 2024
Join Kaye Leidoskope for these lively & lovely interactive storytelling sessions for under-fives and their grown-ups. Expect songs, games, crafts and dancing …perfect for little ones to creatively learn through …