What’s on in November
Wed 27 Oct-Sat 6 Nov. Hamlet. Kelvin Players Studio, Gloucester Road Shakespeare’s tragedy set in Denmark directed by Kris Hallett.
Thu 28 Oct – Sat 6 Nov. Theatre Royal Bath: Private Lives. A new production of Private Lives, the inaugural show from Nigel Havers’ new theatre company which will be touring the country with a line-up of theatrical gems. Launching the company, Coward’s dazzling comic masterpiece is both a scintillatingly witty and scathingly vitriolic study of the rich and reckless in love. Nigel Havers, ever suave and thoroughly charming, plays Elyot, the role taken by Noël Coward himself in the original production in 1930.
Mon 1 – Sat 6 Nov. Bristol Hippodrome. White Christmas. A new production of Irving Berlin’s musical about a group of young people, army memories and a resort where it’s stopped snowing.
Tue 2-Sat 12 Nov. Tobacco Factory Theatre. Living Spit – Frankenstein The Musical. Howard and Stu’s comic take on Mary Shelley’s gruesome gothic novel. With original music, preposterous puppets, grotesque gags and diabolically desperate dance-moves, this rib-ticklingly raucous monster of a show will leave you in stitches.
Wed 3 Nov. The Egg Theatre Bath. Jekyll and Hyde. Students stage Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella in all its horror. This is a world in which relationships are governed by secrecy, suspicion and doubt; a world of internal and external conflict as one man’s struggles with the duality of his nature threaten to destroy himself and his relationships with those around him.
Thu 4 Nov. Hen and Chicken, Bedminster. Henrik Jensen’s plus By Thirteen. Part of the B-Bop Club in the Chicken Shed. Henrik Jensen’s quartet has toured the world from Tokyo to Moscow with various modern jazz projects and also as part of the band for close harmony group The Puppini Sisters.
Thu 4 Nov. Mission Theatre Bath: Kate Bush Stripped. Bristol based Lisa-Marie Walters together with ‘stripped back’ piano arrangements by Mark Feven celebrate the music of Kate Bush.
Thu 4 Nov. Arnos Vale Cemetery. Bristol Film Festival. At Bristol’s very own necropolis, for two nights of screenings dedicated to two of the great directors of dark fantasy, Guillermo Del Toro and Henry Selick! Enter this fascinating space after hours, get a drink from the pop-up bar, then make your way to the beautiful Anglican Chapel to take your seat, and enjoy the show in this unique venue. Next up is Selick’s wonderfully creepy adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novella Coraline. 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Fri 5 Nov. Arnolfini. Sutapas Biwas exhibition. The British Indian artist engages with questions of identity, race and gender in relation to time, space and history. Her works are inspired by oral histories, literature and art history. She is particularly interested in the ways in which larger historical narratives collide with personal narratives.
Fri 5- Sat 6 Nov. Alma Tavern Theatre. For Queen and Country. Actor Neil Summerville brings to life the true story of Major Denis Rake who worked as British spy in WW2 in Paris with a cover of a drag artist entertaining the Nazis.
Fri 5 Nov-Thu 23 Dec. Bristol’s Christmas Market. Broadmead. Wooden chalets offering a selection of gifts as well as festive food and drink.
Sat 6 Nov. Whitchurch. Car Boot Sale. From 11am. Every Saturday at Hengrove Park.
Sat 6 Nov. Andrew Bird at the Hen and Chicken. The Bedminster venue hosts Stand Up For The Weekend with Andrew Bird featuring Garrett Millerick plus compere Clint Edwards.
Mon 8 Nov. Hen and Chicken, Bedminster. Open Mic Night. Chicken Shed. Monthly open mic (2nd Monday of every month) in the custom built music room inside the Hen and Chicken pub. Hosted by James Slater, Elliot Hall and Sarah Larkham.
Tue 9 Nov. Bristol. Bristol Poppy collection day all in aid of the Poppy Appeal for the Royal British Legion.
Thu 11-Sat 20 Nov. Bristol Old Vic Studio. Macbeth. Bristol Old Vic Theatre School perform Shakespeare’s tragic Scottish saga with ghosts, witches and gruesome murder.
Sat-Sun, 13-14. Totterdown. Front Room Arts Trail. The oldest arts trail in Bristol, and one of the most biggest too. Around 200 artists will showcase their work in homes and venues across Totterdown, with this year having the theme of ‘Fairytales, Myths and Legends’.
Sat 13 Nov. Egg Theatre Bath: Puss In Boots. Your cat might turn you from a pauper to a prince just like the hero of this story. Using smoke and mirrors and hidden trapdoors we’ll show you how this sure-footed feline fools both the King and the Ogre to take his master all the way to the top. With a host of puppets, a working windmill and an avalanche of fruit and nuts come and see this classic furry tail, it’s the cat’s whiskers!
Sun 14 Nov. Antenatal & Hypnobirthing Course. Windmill Hill City Farm. Any expectant parents (first-timers or otherwise) who are looking for a complete birth preparation course that will transform their worries and fears of the unknown into calm and confidence.
Sun 14 Nov. Hen and Chicken Bedminster. Sarah Larkham. Songs from her new EP with support from beautifully ethereal folk singer-songwriter Sue Harding.
Mon 15 Nov. Redgrave Theatre Clifton. Happy Days Are Here Again. Songs of the 1940s and a celebration of the wartime era and VE Day.
Tue 16 Nov. The Forum Bath. The James Haskell Show. Top rugby talk from the former England played who knows his rucks from his scrums.
Wed 17 Nov. The Cube Cinema. Baby Cinema. 11am most Wednesdays for parents/carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring.
Thu 18 Nov. Arnolfini. Music from Leifur James. At the core of James’ distinct sound is an impressive harmony between his intricate avant-garde production and rich, emotive vocals.
Mon 22 – Sat 27 Nov. Alma Tavern Theatre, Clifton. Doodlebugs and Bogeymen. Bedminster’s Kate McNab and Ross Harvey take a fond look at the lives of Jen and Brian Milton, two evacuees from London who are sent to Somerset with songs and stories of wartime Bristol
Tue 23-Sat 27 Nov. Theatre Royal Bath: The Midnight Bell. Matthew Bourne’s story of 1930s London life where ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams in the pubs and bars of fog-bound Soho and Fitzrovia. English Patrick Hamilton’s novel Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky..
Fri 26 Nov- Sat 8 Jan. Bristol Old Vic Theatre. Robin Hood and the Legend of the Forgotten Forest. The Wardrobe Ensemble team up with Bristol Old Vic for a fresh spin on the swashbuckling legend.
Thu 2 Dec-Fri 10 Dec. The Redgrave Theatre. Romeo and Juliet. Bristol Old Vic Theatre School present Shakespeare’s tragedy of the star crossed lovers in fair Verona.
Fri 3-Sat 4 Dec. Totterdown Baptist Church. Baptist Community Players are staging The Magnificent Prince written by Martin Warren. It’s a family panto, with lots of audience participation. Friday 3rd December 7pm and Saturday 4th December at 3pm. Tickets are £5 adults (over 16) and £3 children (3-15) Under 3’s free. At Totterdown Baptish Church on Wells road, Knowle. To buy tickets online go to www.tbc.org.uk/panto21. Totterdown Baptist are also hosting artists for the Front Room Art Trail (20-21st November) and Totterdown Tots have restarted on Mondays 9.30-11am.
Sat 4 Dec-Sun 5 Dec. Redgrave Theatre. While Shepherds Watched. Retelling of the Nativity story by the drama students of the Old Vic. Not to be missed.
Wed 15 Dec. St Michael’s Without Bath: Passamezzo – Old Christmas Returned. Christmas celebrated, banned and restored in 17th Century England. A seasonal programme following the calendar from Advent to Candlemas and showing how Christmas was celebrated, banned and restored in 17th Century England. Carols, ballads, consort music, lutesongs, dance melodies and readings. Includes music by Gibbons, Locke, Peerson and Purcell; readings by Breton, Herrick and Shakespeare. Performed in Period costume by Passamezzo.
Thu 16 Dec-Sun 9 Jan. Theatre Royal Bath: Cinderella. John Monie returns as Buttons in a classic seasonal pantomime and is joined by mum-to-be Dani Harmer as the Fairy Godmother.
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