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Agatha Christie's The Rats

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Edinburgh Fringe
theSpace on the Mile
12th - 17th Aug 2024

Invited to a party in a London flat, Sandra Grey and Davey Forrester find themselves alone.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Riddles Court
2nd - 24th Aug 2024

A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…

Finlay Christie: I Deserve This

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Edinburgh Fringe
Monkey Barrel Comedy
29th Jul - 25th Aug 2024

Money, followers, religiously forbidden relationships.

Bridget Christie and Comedy Friends

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
4th Dec 2023

Bridget Christie is headlining a night of comedy in aid of Women and Children First, joined by her funny friends.

The Trial of Agatha Christie

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London Fringe
The Hope Theatre
1st - 2nd Oct 2023

“My name is Aphrodite the First, and tonight you are going to help me solve a mystery.

Bridget Christie: Who Am I?

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Stand’s New Town Theatre
2nd - 9th Aug 2023

The Taskmaster favourite and star of The Change is hot, but not in a good way.

Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial

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West End
Ambassadors Theatre.
6th Apr - 20th May 2023

From sting operations to sensational headlines, this “laugh out loud funny and surprisingly thoughtful” (Time Out) production will reveal what went on behind closed doo…

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

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London Fringe
The Bridge House Theatre
26th Jan 2023

What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …

Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial

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West End
Wyndham’s Theatre
22nd Nov 2022 - 10th Jan 2023

THE REAL COURT TRANSCRIPTS RECREATED LIVE ON STAGE! Grab a seat for the trial that gripped the nation……….

Death of an Author

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Nicolson Square
22nd - 27th Aug 2022

What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…

Finlay Christie: OK Zoomer

When Finlay Christie won the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny? competition in 2019, it seemed like his next year would be filled with preparation for his first Edinburgh sho…

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Brighton Fringe
The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
21st - 22nd May 2022

A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.

Bridget Christie: Who Am I?

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
26th - 30th Apr 2022

Bridget Christie is hot, but not in a good way.

Bridget Christie: Who Am I?

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
14th - 18th Dec 2021

Bridget Christie is hot, but not in a good way.

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

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UK Regional & Tours
Online Event
1st Oct 2021

Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…

Lest We Forget By Charlotte Green & Rasheka Christie-Carter

Lying not too far beneath the CV19 surface of 2020 lie a series of news events that seem to epitomise our times.

Bridget Christie: Who Am I?

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Stand’s New Town Theatre
6th - 30th Aug 2020

The Edinburgh Comedy Award winner is back at the Fringe with her highly anticipated, brand-new show.

Agatha Christie’s The Rats / David Hendon's Home Time

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London Fringe
Chapel Playhouse / King’s Head Theatre Pub
18th May - 29th Jun 2019

Agatha Christie’s The Rats - one of her perplexing shorter plays in all its intrigue and deceit.

Bridget Christie: Work in Progress

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West End
Museum of Comedy
18th Jun - 11th Jul 2019

New material shows from the Edinburgh Comedy Award, Rose D'Or and South Bank Arts award winner Bridget Christie.

Agatha Christie’s The Rats / Peter Hale's A Small Step for England!

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London Fringe
Chapel Playhouse
30th Jun 2019

Agatha Christie’s dark and chilling play - The Rats.

Bridget Christie. What Now?

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West End
Leicester Square Theatre
10th Sep - 10th Nov 2018

Brexit.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
1st - 27th Aug 2018

Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.

Bridget Christie: What Now? (Work In Progress)

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West End
Museum of Comedy
17th - 18th Apr 2018

Brexit.

Storyland Author Readings

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Brighton Fringe
Jubilee Library
26th May 2017

Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.

Bridget Christie: Mortal

Bridget Christie is one of the funniest comedians I’ve ever seen.

Bridget Christie: A Book For Her

It’s 11 am – for some, the time for a late, leisurely breakfast.

A Brief History of Evil

Who knew that a Dusty Springfield favourite could provide such an effective description of man’s descent into unspeakable evil? Ewan Downie and Jonathan Peck from Company of Wolv…

Oog

A belated denouement to his lauded 2005 work The Factory, award-winning performer Al Seed returns to the subject of war with striking psychological rigour.

Untold Wars: A New Verbatim Musical

Working within the rather large shadow of the National Theatre’s verbatim triumph London Road, new Leeds-based company 203 Theatre have hopped on this particular niche musical ba…

Detention

Hijinks and flying kicks abound in this piece of non-verbal physical comedy from the Hong Kong-based Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio, last unleashed on an unsuspecting Fringe in 2012.

Project HaHa

When life gives you lemons, sometimes you shouldn’t make lemonade.

BBC: Bridget Christie Minds the Gap

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Edinburgh Fringe
BBC@POTTERROW
24th Aug 2014

Bridget Christie returns to BBC Radio 4.

This Arthur's Seat Belongs to Lionel Richie

Really Broadway Baby? You want me to review a one-off stand up show in which the venue description literally reads “On Top of Arthur’s Seat” (Venue 354)? Really? I got into c…

Miranda Sings

You feel a certain apprehension going into a Miranda Sings live show.

A Chorus Line

The California Musical Theatre Ensemble’s abridged version of A Chorus Line feels like a high school production.

Out of the Lens

Joseph is wiling away his days in a tea shop looking for inspiration.

Mysteries of the Unknown

The big issue with Bristol Improv’s horror-comedy offering is sadly a brutal one: the show simply wasn’t funny enough.

Rats!

Airbourne Theatre Leeds’ original piece is a live-action cartoon, bursting with energy, colour, and child-like enthusiasm.

Sunshine on Leith

Sunshine on Leith really is a daft musical.

Bridget Christie: An Ungrateful Woman

After last year’s storm-causing, award-winning, activism-inspiring show, it was hard to see how Bridget Christie would be able to better last year’s set.

Lady Madonna

Madonna is the queen of pop.

Sister Amnesia's Country and Western Nunsense Jamboree

Watching Sister Amnesia’s Country and Western Nunsense Jamboree brought me right back to a long-forgotten primary school experience.

Swing

Sometimes we’re too afraid of looking like an eejit to fully embrace life: whether it’s not standing up for something you believe in, or being too shy to ask out the handsome…

Mrs Thundercünt's Splooge Adventurers!

I think it’s fair to say that there are issues with your sketch show when the funniest thing that happens is that a man fingers a swiss roll.

Three Shot Mockery

Three Shot Mockery is a fine way to spend an hour of precious festival time.

Vanity Bites Back

Welcome to Jill’s cookery show! Well, technically it’s a pilot, but let’s be honest, it’s going to be a sure-fire hit.

Silent Voice

Blackout.

Who Shot Hitler?

It’s the question on everyone’s lips.

Playback Impro

The Fringe is absolutely saturated with wonderful improvised comedy.

Drunk Lion

Chris is on the precipice of an existential crisis.

The Jest

The Jest feels TV-ready and in more ways than one.

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show

It is amazing what a coffee and a croissant can do to a bleary-eyed audience.

Aye Right? How No?: The Comedy Countdown to the Referendum with Vladimir McTavish & Keir McAllister

Tensions are building north of the border.

The Rules of Engagement

The Rules of Engagement, Tony Jameson’s latest Fringe hour, has the feel of bumping into a charming acquaintance that you haven’t seen in a while on the street.

Bridget Christie - A Bic for Her

Review
★★★★
Tom Moyser
Edinburgh Fringe
20th Aug, 2013

‘There’s a time and a place for that’, says Bridget Christie of serious political talk about feminism, ‘and eleven in the morning in a comedy show is not it’.

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Review
★★
Joseph Cunningham
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2013

In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.

Bubblewrap and Boxes

With such an unusual name it may be hard for a show such as ‘Bubblewrap and Boxes’ to stand out.

Hitler's Li'l Abomination

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★★★
Christie Rolley
Edinburgh Fringe
19th Aug, 2012

With a flyer covered in swastikas and a name guaranteed to raise eyebrows, audiences may feel they know what to expect when sitting down for this one woman show.

Christie In Love

Waiting to go into this production of Howard Brentons short, searing exploration of the nature of justice and retribution I witnessed the front of house staff refuse entry to a f…

Tokyo Trilogy

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★★★
Christie Rolley
Edinburgh Fringe
21st Aug, 2012

Knowing little of what to expect from Tokyo Trilogy other than a collection of old Japanese stories, one could be forgiven for struggling to keep up with the modern, fast moving, a…

Martin Dockery: Wanderlust

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★★★
Christie Rolley
Edinburgh Fringe
5th Aug, 2012

If anyone knows little about Martin Dockery and this performance beforehand, a Fringe-goer can be forgiven for being a little unprepared for the chaos and tumult that is Martin Doc…

Punch & Judy

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★★★
Christie Rolley
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2012

Subverting the stereotype of Punch and Judy puppetry, the English seaside, light-hearted entertainment, fun for all the family, Tea Break Theatre’s production of the classic duo is…

Stand Up, Woman - Free

Review
★★★
Christie Rolley
Edinburgh Fringe
16th Aug, 2012

Having been ushered onto the top deck of a bus, itself a surreal beginning to a show experience, I was unsure what to expect from ‘Stand Up, Woman.

Author

An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…

Hairy Maclary and Friends

‘Woof woof here we go, it’s the Hairy Maclary show!’ This was the enthusiastic and warm musical welcome I received as I stumbled into the theatre faced by the sight of the entire t…

Bridget Christie: Housewife Surrealist

When Bridget Christie bounds onto the stage in a bishop’s vestments and mitre, running around the audience distributing crackers and squeezes of water, and then a couple of minutes…

Bridget Christie: War Donkey

If a stand-up show concludes with an impassioned yell of the phrase ‘women’s rights are worth farting for’, chances are you’re not in the company of a normal stand-up.

Giddy Goat

Review
★★★
Christie Rolley
Edinburgh Fringe
14th Aug, 2012

Giddy by name and giddy by nature.

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs by Mike Daisey

The reputation of Steve Jobs, Apple and all its associates precedes this show.

Juana in a Million

A black box space, one woman, a percussionist and a backing track.

The Machine

On a grey yet promising day in the middle of the Fringe I found myself queuing outside the Pleasance Courtyard, being greeted by a young man in overalls displaying an almost indece…

Lysistrata - The Sex Strike

Review
★★
Christie Rolley
Edinburgh Fringe
6th Aug, 2012

Lysistrata, originally by Aristophanes, is preceded by its reputation.

The Girl With No Heart

A historic and unimaginably terrible disaster, ethereally beautiful puppetry and a fable of childhood innocence in a world of war.

Three Cities

Crammed into one of the tiniest Fringe venues I have ever seen are three girls, in three separate scenarios.

Bridget Christie - The Court Of King Charles

Review
★★★★
Tom Powell
Edinburgh Fringe
5th Aug, 2007

You might think that a visual gag involving a woman with hair not dissimilar to that of King Charles II, dressed up as King Charles II might get old after a time.

Belt Up Theatre's A Little Princess

‘Come in girls, sit anywhere you like.

Threads

Review
★★★
Christie Rolley
Edinburgh Fringe
7th Aug, 2012

A black studio space devoid of furniture, with the exception of a table and two chairs, is a space that does little to inform an audience of a play’s context, plot or characters.

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