Drama Welcome to the Watford Fringe Meet Me At The Nightingale - KatAlyst Prod. Cyclist Kirsty is distraught, following a near miss with a Saturday 12th - Sunday 13th October 2019 construction truck, and takes refuge in the legendary ‘Nightingale The Watford Fringe was set up by the Pump House Theatre and Arts Café’, where she meets and is befriended by the charming but befuddled Harry, waiting, seemingly for ever, for his wife to return Trust, Watford’s hub for emerging talent, as an opportunity to show from a shopping trip. Together, these two unlikely friends uncover the amazing talent and venues we have in Watford. a mystery stretching back over eighty years. Now in its third year with over 65 performance events across 10 Sat 12 @1pm & @2.15pm & @ 3pm d20 Board Game Cafe Sat 12 @4pm & @5pm Pump House Charles Room venue spaces, it has something for everybody including music, (15mins) £FREE comedy, drama, poetry, magic, dance, workshops, food & much Down The Rabbit Hole - Imajica Theatre more. A Relaxed Musical Theatre Production. An immersive We would like to thank our partners for their support for the festival production Down the Rabbit Hole follows Alice as she ventures into Wonderland. We welcome you to sing and including Watford Borough Council, Watford Palace Theatre, Viva dance with this interactive cast at a magical Tea Party Business Support, Watford & West Herts Chamber of Commerce, hosted by the Mad Hatter. Pump House Theatre Vibe Radio and the Arts Council Sat 12 & Sun 13 @2pm (60mins) £6/£5 The information in this guide is subject to changes so (L)able - Chickenshed Young Company L(able) is our view on the dangers of stereotype and bias. for the latest information and to book tickets go to: It considers how words can empower, identify, limit and separate; how societal norms manifest themselves in WatFringe.co.uk our judgements of others and whether we can, should or want to transcend our labels. Pump House Theatre You can also contact the box office on 01923 225 671 Sat 12 @3.30pm (60mins) £5

Mourning Overnight - Half-Cocked Theatre Mrs Shaw herself - Helix Productions Mourning Overnight is a classic farce in a modern context. Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, MRS SHAW HERSELF Two brothers discover a mysterious suitcase which turns is a one-woman show exploring the life of Charlotte out to belong to deadly criminals. Their ineptness to get Payne-Townshend AKA Mrs George Bernard Shaw. This rid of it ends up having deadly consequences. Sell out most unconventional of love stories is underscored by shows at the Camden and Edinburgh fringe! live music on Celtic harp. Watford Museum Pump House Theatre Sat 12 & Sun 13 @4pm (60mins) £7/£5 Sat 12 & Sun 13 @7pm (75mins) £10 Drama Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th October Pictland - PackPack Collective Dog/Actor - Threedumb Theatre Two years of famine in Pictland. Mysterious carvings are DOG/ACTOR is a “tour-de-force” comedic double-bill of appearing in stone. Shan & Tak arrive with a dilemma: do two monologues written by Steven Berkoff. The first half, they stay where they are and risk starvation or leave to go DOG, focuses on a day in the life of a racist 1980s football elsewhere. If they leave as a group, what will make them hooligan and his beloved pit-bull terrier, Roy, who changes their own “community”? Through witty and philosophical his life. The second, ACTOR, is a spoken word monologue discussion, democracy is put to the test. But what really which delves into the heart of the acting industry, needs to be sacrificed in order to build a nation? humorously and poignantly portraying the trying life of a Watford Palace Theatre Studio struggling artist. Watford Palace Theatre Studio Sat 12 @5.30pm (45mins) £5 Sat 12 @9pm (50mins) £9 My Name is Cathy - KatAlyst Productions Macready! - Bad Pie Productions A darkly comedic rise & fall story, with a coming of (middle) (Part 1: From ‘Romeo’ to ‘Richard III’) This solo performance, written age theme, dealing with alcoholism in the professional and performed by Mark Waghorn, charts the life and times of William classes, the barriers and prejudice that an ambitious Charles Macready, one of the 19th Century’s greatest actor-managers. woman faces. Honest and Hilarious. The story of Macready - a First Player in the line of Burbage, Garrick, Watford Palace Theatre Studio Kemble, and Kean - and the man to whom Charles Dickens dedicated Sat 12 CANCELLED& Sun 13 @7pm (60mins) £12 “Nicholas Nickleby” - is one of the most remarkable ever to come out The Last Walk of Shame/ Uninvited Ghost of the Theatre. Watford Palace Theatre Studio - Stage Further The Last Walk of Shame exposes the Sun 13 @5pm (60mins) £5 morning after the night before with a twist that makes us P.S. Theatre deconstruct our beliefs around casual sex and when it isn’t A collection of original P.S. Theatre Plays. ok. The Uninvited Ghost sees an estranged couple endure Pump House Theatre a meal together whilst having to face feelings around the Sun 13 @5.30pm (60mins) £5 painful history. (18+) Watford Museum Sat 12 & Sun 13 @8.15pm (50mins) £5 Noodles For Breakfast - Threedumb Theatre Dark comedy about grey areas, trust & control. In a Real Eyes - Harrison Sharpe & Archie Stevens Newcastle call centre, two university grads form an unlikely The story of two brothers who one night immerse bond over their shared love of supernoodles. Party-loving themselves in dialogue they will never forget. An engaging Kate helps socially-isolated Garry come out of his shell, exploration of memories, delving into family hardship, with a little help from a pornstar martini. When we scratch roaring ambition, and involvement with crime. Through at the surface of their friendship, what truths lie beneath? the physicalized conversations, the truth becomes darker Watford Palace Theatre Studio than the perceived reality. Pump House Colne CANCELLED Sat 12 @ 8.30pm & Sun 12.50pm (50mins) £8 Sun 13 @9pm (45mins) £7 Comedy Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th October Squeaky - Winter Foenander Life from Low Angle - Neil Ben The last few years Winter has been travelling, honing and Life from Low angle is the story of how a short, quirky perfecting the joke writing craft. After headlining gigs all looking boy managed to achieve his dream to direct over the world, he’s now bringing his hilarious, unique and television for the BBC, though doctors told him he wouldn’t side-splitting Show “Squeaky” to your town. If you want be able to do much of anything. Interested in finding how clean jokes & plenty of them, you know what to do. to get into TV, being inspired to follow your dreams, or just Hidden Bar listening to stories full of name dropping humour, you Sat 12 & Sun 13 @6.30pm (50mins) £7.50 better get your ticket. Watford Palace Theatre Green Room Cabaret Hour - Stu Turner, Stephen Owen, and Phil Reid Sun 13 @4pm (60mins) £5 Comedy magician Stu Turner; comedian and ventriloquist Comedy Herts Phil Reid; and comedy impressionist Stephen Owen, come Why go through the stress of travelling into London to see comedy together for a fabulous hour of entertainment. . This three when we have brought some of the best open mic comics to man variety show combines stand-up comedy, hilarious Watford for your pleasure and entertainment. Comedy Herts magic, ventriloquism and impressions. return to the Pump House after its success last year. Guaranteed Pump House Colne Sat 12 @7pm (60mins) £8 to make you laugh and guaranteed to sell out, so you better book your tickets fast. Pump House Theatre It Ain’t Over Till The Posh Lady Sings Sun 13 @8.30pm (90mins) £8.50 Marianne Ponsonby-White/Phil Wilmore/Yaron Winterstein/Bill White Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, a comedian has teamed Jet Set Go! - Pump House CYT up with three other comedians to bring you a full hour of A cast of drama school graduates present award winning what some critics are calling ‘comedy’. There’s something British comedy musical about the antics of a transatlantic for everyone; dancing, singing and poetry – just not in this cabin crew and their two pilots who fly to New York and show. But we do have a genuine proper posh lady though. back. After this show you will never look at a cabin crew in And remember, it ain’t over till the posh lady sings.(18+) the same way again. Pump House Theatre Sat 12 @9.30pm(60mins)£5 Watford Museum Sat 12 @5pm (80mins) £7 The Unbound Sketchbook - Queens Park Jitters - hilariously twisted magic Arts Centre’s Unbound Theatre Following a string of A show that’ll have you laughing, screaming, and sleeping successful productions at the Limelight Theatre, they are with the lights on. You’ll be taken on a hilarious and mind- hitting the road to share a plethora of pages from their boggling journey to the terrifying things that still go bump mighty book of side-splitting sketches. Penned by the very in the night. It’s a show for those who like their comedy best local comedy writers it’s the perfect evening out for with a twist, and their magic just plain twisted… comedy fans. Pump House Theatre Pump House Colne Sat 12 @8.30pm (60mins) £10/£8 Sun 13 @6pm (60mins) £8 Watford Fringe ‐ Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th October ‐ WatFringe.co.uk Saturday 12 Oct 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm Down the Rabbit hole (L)able Jet Set Go! Mourning Overnight The Unbound Sketchbook Pump House Theatre @2pm (60mins) £6/£5 @3.30pm (60mins) £5 @5pm (80mins) £7 @7pm (75mins) £10 @8.30pm (60mins) £10/8

Dr Heckyl & Mr Jive Afternoon Jazz Clog Morris Dance Taster Singing workshop Caberet Hour Real Eyes Pump House Colne @2pm(45mins)£3 @3pm(45mins)£5 @4.15pm(60mins) FREE @5.30pm(60mins)£8.50 @7pm (60mins) £8 @8.30pm (50mins) £8

100% My Type of Comedy Meet Me At The Nightingale Nicole Blakk Pump House Charles Room @3pm(30mins) @4pm (15mins) £FREE @5pm @7.30pm(30mins)£FREE

Watford Palace Theatre Alex Williams Sings Pictland £5 My Name is Cathy Dog/Actor £9 Studio @3pm (60mins) £5 @5.30pm(45mins) CANCELLED @9pm (50mins)

Watford Palace Theatre Songs to sing Green Room @4pm (60mins) £3

DIG! Mrs Shaw herself Rosemary and Time One Last Poem Last Walk of Shame/Uninvited Ghost ..Till The Posh Lady Sings Watford Museum @2pm (45mins) £5 @4pm (60mins) £7/5 @5.30pm (60mins) £6 @7pm (45mins) £4 @8.15pm (50mins) £5 @9.30pm(60mins) £5

Meet Me At The Nightingale ASO Chamber concert d20 Board Game Café @1pm (15mins) FREE @2.15pm @3pm @4pm (60mins) £5

Musical Co‐Creation Workshop The Sherry Dolls Hidden Palace ‐ EP release show The One Crown @2pm (60mins) £FREE @5pm (45mins) £3 doors @7pm FREE

Songs from the Antiques Shop Squeaky Hidden Bar @3pm (60mins) £5 @6.30pm(50mins)£7.50

Tom Lavin Accordion Dreams NPO Presents: Cafe Grooves LP Café @1pm(45mins)FREE @2pm(40mins)FREE @3pm (180mins) FREE Sunday 13th Oct 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm Down the Rabbit hole Utsav‐ Celebration of life! P.S. Theatre Mourning Overnight Comedy Herts Pump House Theatre @2pm (60mins) £6/£5 @3.30pm (90mins) £5 @5.30pm (60mins) £5 @7pm (75mins) £10 @8.30pm (90mins) £8.50

Real Eyes £8 Dr Heckyl & Mr Jive Bernard Hoskin Belly Dancer £6 Jitters‐comic twisted magic Fun Balloon Animals Frankenstein Pump House Colne @12.50pm (50mins) @2pm(45mins)£3 @3.15 (60mins) £3 @4.45pm(30mins) @6pm (60mins) £8 @8.30pm (90mins) £5

Watford Writers Nicole Blakk Pump House Charles Room @3pm (60mins) FREE @6pm (30mins)£FREE

Watford Palace Theatre Macready! My Name is Cathy Noodles for Breakfast Studio @5pm (60mins) £5 CANCELLED CANCELLED

Watford Palace Theatre Life from Low Angle Green Room @4pm (60mins) £5

Lemon Tuesday Mrs Shaw herself Lizzy Hardingham The Last Walk of Shame/Uninvited Ghost Watford Museum @2.30pm(30mins)£FREE @4pm (60mins) £7/5 @5.30pm(45mins)£4 @8.15pm (50mins) £5

ASO Chamber concert Illusions of Depression d20 Board Game Café @4pm (60mins) £5 @7pm (60mins) £10

Musical Co‐Creation Workshop The One Crown @2pm (60mins) £FREE

Bonnie & Jordanna Squeaky Hidden Bar @5pm(45mins)£FREE @6.30pm(50mins)£7.50

Lizzy Hardingham LP Café @2pm (45mins) £4 Music Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th October Dr Heckyl and Mr Jive Alex Williams Sings The Great American Songbook A quirky collaboration between Ray on vocals, sax, Alex Williams, host of the popular Dial Up open mic events, harmonicas, banjo and Roj on vocals, piano and invisible invites you to join him for an hour of pure pleasure as he instruments. It combines songs from music hall, jazz escorts you through a range of fantastic melodies from the and contemporary popular music, including our own worlds of Hollywood, Broadway and Tin Pan Alley. Alex will compositions with some humour in the mix. also be sharing excerpts from some of his published works, Pump House Colne including his young adult novel His Hidden Wings, and his Sat 12 & Sun 13 @2pm (45mins) £3 poetry collection Black Iris. Watford Palace Theatre Studio Accordion Dreams - David Silver Sat 12 @3pm (60mins) £5 David plays the piano accordion and for 40 minutes or so Songs from the Antiques Shop - Martin Lloyd Chitty will perform a selection of music from around the world, Martin Lloyd Chitty is a singer-songwriter, multi- together with some original pieces he has composed. instrumentalist and composer based in Watford. His He will also talk a little about how the instrument is distinctive strain of atmospheric folk blends lyrical storytelling constructed and how it is played. Questions will be with impeccably crafted melodies. In this show, Martin will be welcome! LP Cafe playing a selection of his original songs, including many from Sat 12 @2pm(40mins) FREE small donations welcome his 2018 album ‘Antiques’. Hidden Bar Musical Co-Creation Workshop - Nij Biswas Sat 12 @3pm (60mins) £5 Musical Workshop to introduce and use a variety of musical ideas including: - rhythms, melodies, harmony, NPO Presents: Cafe Grooves - No Particular Order improvisation, arrangement & co-creation/jam of a song We’re excited to bring No Particular Order back to The LP together for those that wish to participate. Café! No Particular Order brings the best in House and The One Crown Disco to an intimate venue where you can chill out and Sat 12 & Sun 13 @2pm (60mins) £FREE enjoy the music within feet of the residents and friends. LP Cafe Afternoon Jazz - Colne River Jazz Band Sat 12 @3pm (180mins) £FREE A selection of jazz music from the 1930s Pump House Colne Songs to Sing - Andrea Richardson Sat 12 @3pm (45mins) £5 Andrea is a vocalist and performer from West London. As lead vocalist for Jazz Mondays, she is a very experienced Nicole Blakk - Blessing-Nicole Yanda performer who owns the stage! Andrea is also an actor and Nicole Blakk is an upcoming artist signed to YCT. She won performs with Belmont Theatre Company at Pump House. Britan Does Variety & is set of to represent England at the Watford Palace Theatre Green Room European music tour festival. Pump House Charles Room Sat 12 @4pm (60mins) £3 Sat 12 @7.30pm & Sun 13 @6pm (30mins) £FREE Music Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th October Chamber concert - Audentior Symphony Orchestra Lizzy Hardingham Watford’s newest symphony orchestra, Audentior Lizzy is a folk musician/ singer songwriter, currently Symphony Orchestra, will be coming to the Watford touring England’s bustling folk scene. With the success Fringe with a selection of chamber music, from Mozart of her debut album, Dusk, on BBC radio stations she right through to the popular music of today. Join them for has had airtime all over the world. Her powerful voice, what’s sure to be an exciting and varied performance full of accomplished guitar stylings and gifted skills as a familiar tunes! d20 Board Games Cafe songwriter make her “one not to be missed”. Sat 12 & Sun 13 @4pm (60mins) £5 Sun 13 @2pm (45mins) £4 LP Cafe The Sherry Dolls Sun 13 @5.30pm(45mins) £4 Watford Museum The Sherry Dolls is a newly formed Frankie Valli tribute Bernard Hoskin group. Covering all the classics, we’ll transport you back to Singer/songwriter Bernard Hoskin has released 13 albums and the early 60s with songs such as Sherry, Walk Like a Man opened up for many of the big names on the folk scene. His and Rag Doll. The One Crown Sat 12 @5pm(45mins) £3 distinctive and original sound is based upon English songwriting and world music rhythms as well as the more common folk, Singing workshop with Helen Chadwick country and blues styles. He also plays traditional folk and covers - Persued by a bear A joyful singing workshop for on guitar and mandola. Pump House Colne all comers led by internationally renowned composer Sun 13 @3.15pm (60mins) £3 & performer Helen Chadwick. Learn songs by Helen & a rousing Suffragette Anthem. Presented by Pursued by a Bonnie Shepherd and Jordanna Peake Bear as part of the Nothing on Earth project celebrating Bonnie Shepherd and Jordanna Peake are two familiar faces from Hertfordshire’s Hidden Heroines. Pump House Colne Watford’s music scene. Jordanna is a folksy opera singer with Sat 12 @5.30pm (60mins) £8.50 a soul twist and Bonnie an acoustic singer-songwriter playing gentle popular tunes, often compared with the likes of Joni Tom Lavin Mitchell and Kate Bush. Donations in aid of the Peace Hospice. Singer songwriter Tom Lavin will perform new and other Hidden Bar rock, ballad and blues style folk songs. LP Cafe Sun 13 @5pm (45mins) £FREE Sat 12 @1pm (45mins) £FREE Fun Balloon Animals present Frankenstein Lemon Tuesday The Musical Join Lemon Tuesday choir as they perform their mix of jazz, show tunes Modern art pop take on the gothic masterpiece and pop songs which will have you tapping your feet and singing ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelly performed by Electro along. Come along and help us raise money for another fabulous Psychedelic Popsters Fun Balloon Animals Watford choir, Electric Umbrella. Watford Museum Pump House Colne Sun 13 @2.30pm (30mins) £FREE Sun 13 @8.30pm (90mins) £5 Dance Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th October Poetry, Talks & Magic Pump House Clog Morris Rosemary and Time - Sophia Odyssey Dance Taster Session Rosemary and Time is an exploration of life and creativity A Fun Taster Session as an introduction to this English in the 21st century, told in a pseudo poetic form. This Traditional Dance Style unique performance, told by author Michael Tronnolone, Pump House Colne explores the trials faced by those with big dreams, in a Sat 12 @4.15pm (60mins) £FREE world that simply doesn’t want them to succeed. Utsav- Celebration of life! (Age 12+) Watford Museum - Mansi Dabral Kathak Dance Academy Sat 12 @5.30pm (60mins) £6 An amalgamation of beautiful rhythmical dance pieces One Last Poem - David Naylor in solo, duet and group choreography celebrating life. A Inspirational talk with music. Musician and brain injury musical journey through rhythm, emotions, movements survivor David Naylor speaks of how, after coming out of and space. Pump House Theatre a coma, music gave him a reason to live. (A percentage of Sun 13 @3.30pm (90mins) £5 the ticket price to be donated to Headway East London) Dawn Harvey Belly Dancer Extraordinaire Watford Museum Traditionally Belly Dance is taught as a social grace within Sat 12 @7pm (45mins) £4 the family and not only do women dance, men and Watford Writers on Tour children do too. Today we have very different solo’s for Members of Watford Writers will be showcasing short you and a display of the different props we use within the extracts of their work. Come and be entertained with dance. Pump House Colne poetry, short stories, monologues and possibly some Sun 13 @4.45pm (30mins) £6 plays. Back for the second year, the writers will make you 100% My Type Of Comedy - Ruby Waghorn laugh, make you think, and possibly cry, hopefully for the This piece looks at Ruby’s life during and after 3 years of right reasons! The ‘cast’ will be happy to take audience performing arts at university. Making a return from last questions about the pieces, Watford Writers or the art of year’s Watford Fringe, ‘100% My Type of Comedy’ features writing. Pump House Charles Room TV impressions such as Love Island as well as observational Sun 13 @3pm (60mins) £FREE comedy. Pump House Charles Room Sat 12 @3pm (30mins) £FREE Illusions of Depression - Paul Regan A one man stage show exploring depression, anxiety and DIG! - The Pied Piper Theatre Company autism through the medium of magic. (15+) A play for babies and young toddlers. Come and join us for d20 Board Game Cafe music, singing and story – and stay to play amongst the Sun 13 @7pm (60mins) £10 plants in the garden we’ve created inside our theatre. Sat 12 @2pm (45mins) £5 Watford Museum