The Great Gatsby
- Genre:
- Community
- Opens:
- 27 Feb 2020
- Until:
- 29 Feb 2020
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald Adapted by Peter Joucla “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Part morality tale, …
Swan Poetry: The Generation Game
- Genre:
- Poetry
- Opens:
- 01 Mar 2020
Members of Swan Theatre Company and guests present an evening of poetry, lightly spiced with prose and drama, in the appropriately bookish surroundings of the Eagle Bookshop, at its new …
Speech & Drama Festival
- Genre:
- Community
- Opens:
- 03 Mar 2020
An opportunity for Speech and Drama students from Bedford Modern School to showcase their work in progress. Students will perform poems, prose, extracts from plays and pieces of musical theatre …
Rebel without a Cause (PG)
- Genre:
- Film
- Opens:
- 04 Mar 2020
Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that's why his family has had to move before. Here he hopes to find the love …
King Lear
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 05 Mar 2020
Armed with only a drum, a guitar, a knife and a chair, this inventive, irreverent and highly accessible one-man is presented to you from the point of view of LEAR’s …
666 Comments
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 06 Mar 2020
Two performers. 57 Characters. 666 Comments In October 2010 cartoonist Gabby Schulz posted a comic strip on his website. It was about online sexism. What could possibly go wrong? Over the next three …
The Navy Lark
- Genre:
- Great Night Out
- Opens:
- 07 Mar 2020
Coming live to the theatre for the first time in over 60 years is The Navy Lark. Starring James Hurn known for portraying such iconic characters as Tony Hancock, …
Oh No, George!
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 08 Mar 2020
George sees something in the kitchen. It’s cake! I said I’d be good, George thinks, but I LOVE cake. What will George do? Oh No, George! is the delightfully …
…If We’ve Never Been To The Moon?
- Genre:
- Mindscapes
- Opens:
- 11 Mar 2020
Join one man's quest in search of hope, sanity and his 250 quid! “Why do we crave truths and untruths? Why do some people deny the Moon Landings? Why did that bloke not …
The Naughty Fox Workshop
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 12 Mar 2020
Come along to our Naughty Fox craft workshop and get the chance to meet our storytellers! There’ll be plenty of glue, feathers and other exciting things to play with so …
The Naughty Fox
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 12 Mar 2020
Snuggle up with comfy creatures: Honk, Splash and TaWit TaWoo as they teach The Naughty Fox a very important lesson: it's better to share. Feel your way through the immersive, …
An Evening with Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Count Basie and his Orchestra
- Genre:
- Music
- Opens:
- 12 Mar 2020
Swing’s the Thing take you back to the 1960’s when Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra were at their most popular. Katherine Mclean and Mel Peake join the orchestra …
Ladykiller
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 13 Mar 2020
by Madeline Gould Presented by The Thelmas A hotel room, a maid and a dead woman. It’s not what it looks like, really, it’s not. It was self-defence… and anyway, …
Stage Write Spring
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 14 Mar 2020
Running since 2013, StageWrite is a hothouse for the development of new writing for theatre, and now features in each artistic season at The Place. Join us to be the …
The Father
- Genre:
- Community
- Opens:
- 17 Mar 2020
- Until:
- 21 Mar 2020
by Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton Andre is a man facing a barrage: hIs favourite watch goes missing, (he has his suspicions), his daughter Anne tries to take his …
Vessel
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 25 Mar 2020
Vessel by Laura Wyatt O'Keeffe How far would you go for a cause you believed in? How far is too far?Ireland. 2018. Abortion is still illegal, another pregnant girl dies …
Jackastory (Mar)
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 26 Mar 2020
As part of our growing programme of events for the younger members of our audience to give them the excitement of being in a theatre watching a live performance we …
The Wild Boys (15)
- Genre:
- Film
- Opens:
- 26 Mar 2020
Les Garçons Sauvages (2017) This intoxicating, gender-bending adventure, shot in black and white with richly saturated colour effects, is modelled after William S. Burroughs apocalyptic novel from the early 1970s. …
Bleak House
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 29 Mar 2020
Join The Pantaloons for a fog-filled adventure in Victorian London. When a dead body is discovered in Mr Krook's Rag-and-Bone shop, a web of mysteries starts to untangle, with far-reaching …
Escaped Alone
- Genre:
- Community
- Opens:
- 01 Apr 2020
- Until:
- 04 Apr 2020
Caryl Churchill has frequently written for the Royal Court Theatre so it was fitting that in 2016 the Royal Court began its 60 years anniversary season with her new play, Escaped …
Let’s Dance
- Genre:
- Community
- Opens:
- 05 Apr 2020
Celebrating 5 years of fantastic classes, VyMy Dance is doing a special variety showcase! There will be a mixture of street dance, ballet, musical theatre, jazz and lyrical dance, as …
Swan Poetry: TITLE TBC
- Genre:
- Poetry
- Opens:
- 05 Apr 2020
Members of Swan Theatre Company and guests present an evening of poetry, lightly spiced with prose and drama, in the appropriately bookish surroundings of the Eagle Bookshop, at its new …
Nick Cope
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 07 Apr 2020
With Songs about Head lice, Hedgehogs, Redundant Robots, Saving the Polar Bears and Honey Bees, Gender stereotyping and dragons called Keith, Nick Cope performs his very special live music concert …
I Kill Giants (12A)
- Genre:
- Film
- Opens:
- 07 Apr 2020
Twelve-year-old Barbara Thorson flees from reality, living in the imaginary world of fantasy and magic, where she fights with giants. Her family does not understand her, peers do not like …
We Will Rock You – Young@Part
- Genre:
- Community
- Opens:
- 10 Apr 2020
- Until:
- 11 Apr 2020
WE WILL ROCK YOU Young@Part® is the authorized 70 minute Youth edition of the West End musical by Queen and Ben Elton. Featuring chart-topping Queen songs including “Another One Bites …
Holes (PG)
- Genre:
- Film
- Opens:
- 14 Apr 2020
A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason. “But if you forget to come …
The 400 Blows (PG)
- Genre:
- Film
- Opens:
- 14 Apr 2020
Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959) A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime. Seemingly in constant trouble at school, 14-year-old Antoine Doinel returns at the …
Swallows & Amazons (PG)
- Genre:
- Film
- Opens:
- 15 Apr 2020
The Walker children are given permission to camp on an island in the middle of a vast lake. Four children (the Swallows) on holiday in the Lake District sail on …
Britishness (PG)
- Genre:
- Film
- Opens:
- 15 Apr 2020
Award-winning artist and filmmaker Eelyn Lee considers what it means to be British in this timely, multi-faceted study of national identity. Along with a group of young writers from Sheffield, …
My Girl The River Album Launch
- Genre:
- Music
- Opens:
- 16 Apr 2020
My Girl The River, a Bedford favourite, who in recent years supported Suzanne Vega, bring family harmonies to their Americana, folk and country roots sound on this special night. They …
Intruz/Intruder
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 17 Apr 2020
What happens when something changes your life forever? How do we move on? Can we ever reallybe ourselves again? INTRUZ asks these hard questions in a physical,visceral and candid way, reflecting …
Waiting for Godot
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 18 Apr 2020
'Two Irish tramps meet, and await the arrival of ‘Godot’. Whilst they wait they while away the time by quarrelling, making up, contemplating suicide, trying to sleep, eating a carrot …
Emma
- Genre:
- Community
- Opens:
- 21 Apr 2020
- Until:
- 25 Apr 2020
“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich” Emma is Austen’s quintessential heroine, endlessly fascinating, wonderfully imperfect, but each character in this story of “3 or 4 families in a country …
Stage-Stars Theatre Academy Showcase 2020
- Genre:
- Community
- Opens:
- 26 Apr 2020
A showcase of drama, dance, singing and musical theatre pieces from our Stage-Stars Theatre Academy students aged 4-15 years old. www.stage-starstheatre.co.uk
It’s A Wonderful Life
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 15 Dec 2020
- Until:
- 28 Dec 2020
Christmas Eve. George is contemplating ending his life: He never got out of Bedford Falls; the bank is on the verge of closure; Potter is closing in; and his blasted …