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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…

Martin J Dixon: Big Fat Gay

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Brighton Fringe
The Snug
23rd - 26th May 2024

Martin J Dixon returns to the Fringe with his hilarious show BIG FAT GAY (he’s used the title before, it’s a good title).

Dixon and Daughters

Review
★★
Simon Ximenez
West End
Dorfman Theatre
30th Apr, 2023

The National Theatre continues its support of new writing at the Dorfman with Dixon and Daughters: an emotional play dealing with the far-reaching effects of historic child abuse.

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, …

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…

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.

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…

Hot Gays: Martin Dixon and Gareth Edward

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Edinburgh Fringe
PBH’s Free Fringe @ The Outhouse Bar
3rd - 25th Aug 2019

Martin Dixon and Gareth Edward are hot and bothered! Join these grumpy gays for some late-night queer comedy as they wax lyrical about the body beautiful, getting older and the dil…

Nick Dixon: Christianity and Me

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West End
Museum of Comedy
30th May 2019

Nick Dixon is considering doing something so controversial and shameful he will be ridiculed and hated by the comedy community, his family, and most of the country.

Thomas Dixon: The Secrets of Magic

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Brighton Fringe
The Warren: The Burrow
25th - 31st May 2019

What is real magic? Is it just tricks or magic? What’s the difference? Thomas will answer these questions and reveal some of the deepest secrets! You will learn what it takes to …

Nick Dixon: Marriage Material

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just the Tonic at The Mash House
2nd - 25th Aug 2018

Nick Dixon (Comedy Central at the Comedy Store, joke writer for Hollywood’s Will Smith) arrives with his neurotically hilarious debut stand-up show all about his disastrous attem…

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.

Nick Dixon: Work in Progress

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West End
Museum of Comedy
14th Jun 2018

Nick Dixon arrives fresh from working with Will Smith on his new movie, performing his standup on Comedy Central, and supporting Europe’s biggest comedian at the S…

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.

The Fool

The Fool follows the events leading to the incarceration of its 3 main characters thanks to a law known as ‘Kevin’s Bill’.

Bit of Sunshine

A warning should be given to the audience of this show: the Bit of Sunshine one expects from the title is limited to less than five seconds of optimism and hope for the future in t…

Christeene: Trigger

In Christeene’s second visit to Edinburgh she performs her latest show – Trigger.

Family Values

Family Values by Michael Dalberg is pure theatre with a good splash of violence.

Buzz: A New Musical

Buzz is a new musical from writer Robyn Grant.

Triumvirette

Triumvirette takes the form of a three part show – two monologues sandwiching a romantic comedy short play.

Coup de Grâce

Coup De Grâce follows the supposed mental rehabilitation (through advanced experimental therapy) of Emma, a young woman haunted by her past.

Juice Straws Are Bleak

Juice Straws Are Bleak is a fantastical, surrealist adventure experienced by a class of school children under the disinterested gaze of their teacher.

Laughing Stock

A varied sketch comedy, Laughing Stock lives up to its name, parading numerous situations of self-deprecation before us providing much hilarity.

Triple Entendre: Love, Life and Other Stuff

Triple Entendre is directed, created and designed by Emily Cairns and is a comic musical cabaret about “Love, Life and Other Stuff”, consisting of a collection of original song…

Police Cops

In its second year at the fringe, Police Cops is a spoof boys-in-blue parody along the lines of Police Squad.

The Starship Osiris

Akin to a sort of Galaxy Quest on stage, The Starship Osiris is a non-stop comedic spoof space romp.

Yokes Night

A loophole in Irish law allows for the legal of consumption of Class-A drugs for 24 hours, and the youth of Dublin are not going to let Yokes Night slip by without taking full adva…

The Inevitable Heartbreak of Gavin Plimsole

This quirkily named show from young company SharkLegs follows the story of Gavin Plimsole as he finds out he has a rare heart defect which could end his life at any moment.

Desperation Tonight With Pat Dixon

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USA Regional & Tours
Carolines
7th - 30th Mar 2016

Pat Dixon’s weekly variety show features some of the top comedic talent in New York City alongside a live band, audience interviews and giveaways.

Howard Barker Double Bill

This double bill of Howard Barker’s work features the London premiere of The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo alongside a revival of Judith: A Parting from the Body, both directed by …

The Wendy House Trilogy: Dorothy

Dorothy, part of the Wendy House Trilogy, is a humour-infused adaptation of The Wizard of Oz written by Greg and Joe Allen and directed by Joe Allen.

Hula House

Hula House, created by Permanently Visible Productions, is an immersive, semi-interactive look at the life of sex workers.

Going Viral

Going Viral, written and performed by Daniel Bye, follows an imaginary outbreak of a highly contagious weeping virus spreading across the world, by you.

Key Change

Key Change, directed by Laura Lindow, is devised by women in HMPYOI Low Newton and follows the stories of 4 female inmates.

The Paradise Project

The Paradise Project by Third Angel and mala voadora is set in a futuristic shelter-in-construction, inhabited by Stacey Sampson and Jerry Killick as they create a society within w…

Five Feet in Front (The Ballad of Little Johnnie Wylo)

This musically infused telling of Five Feet in Front (the Ballad of Little Johnnie Wylo) is a highly energised, yarn spinning hoedown of a play.

Ashes Afar

Ashes Afar follows the story of a migrant couple from different cultures in a volatile relationship.

Frankenstein

A new adaptation by Lindel Hart who also plays the Creature, this play looks more closely at the vulnerable and sensitive sides of Frankenstein’s monster.

The Gambit

The Gambit, written by Mark Reid and directed by Matthew Gould, opens to the ticking of a chess stop-clock and, of course, a chess set centre stage.

You Look Tasty! (A Play by A. Tiger)

A traumatised zookeeper tells the tale of her misadventures with her co-workers and an escaped Tiger who is now their captor… and director.

The Sacred Obscene

Set mainly in a London strip club, The Sacred Obscene is a new play following the stories of the women who work there.

Reunion

Reunion, by Neil Smith, is the story of an older couple, George and Jude, recounting their youth together and their love for one another.

The Sacred Room of Desire

The Sacred Room of Desire, written and directed by Carola Benedetto tells the story of the Hindu pantheon family of Shiva, Parvati and Ganesha.

Leftovers

Review
★★
Dixon Baskerville
Edinburgh Fringe
Zoo
19th Aug, 2015

Leftovers follows the story of a young woman Elizabeth and her tragic experiences of the break-out of war.

The Very Grey Matter of Edward Blank

The Very Grey Matter of Edward Blank is directed by Conrad Sharp and performed by Familia de la Noche, taking place in the home and imagination of Edward Blank.

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is now an institution.

A Gambler's Guide to Dying

Performed and written by Gary McNair, A Gambler’s Guide to Dying is a story told by a young boy, charting his grandfather’s extraordinary life of gambling.

Some Big Some Bang

Some Big Some Bang is set at the memorial of a mother’s death.

Pardon / In Cuffs

The ever-prevalent story of the individual being caught up in, or fighting against, the machine of society – not always nobly – is told with skill and beauty by the three actor…

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens follows the unfolding story of a group of misfits working the infamous den of iniquity – Saucy Jacks space bar.

Trygve Wakenshaw: KRAKEN

Kraken, devised and performed by Trygve Wakenshaw, is a physically charged one man mime show.

Blind Man's Song

Conceived and directed by Guillaume Pigé, Blind Man’s Song follows the imagination of a blind musician at the speed of thought.

Rebounding Hail

Written by Avital Lvova and George Vere, Rebounding Hail is set in a 13 year old girl’s room surrounded by her books.

Spillikin – A Love Story

Spillikin, expertly directed and written by Jon Welch, follows two periods in the life of Sally, a charming and rebellious woman who married her unlikely childhood companion, the c…

Eating Seals and Seagulls' Eggs

Eating Seals and Seagulls’ Eggs is a poetic telling of Ireland’s ‘most hated woman’ – Peig Sayers.

A Cinema in South Georgia

Co-written by Susan Wilson and Jeffrey Mayhew, A Cinema in South Georgia follows the misadventures and travels of a group of Edinburgh Whalers in a desolate outpost in South Georgi…

Goodstock

Goodstock is directed by Lucy Wray and written by Olivia Hirst, and follows the writer’s real-life experiences with breast cancer and how this affects her family and relationship…

Nick Dixon: Possible Future Success (WIP)

Listing
Brighton Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
5th - 12th May 2015

Insanely talented newcomer Nick Dixon presents a preview of his hilarious and ridiculously honest debut show.

Nick Dixon and Sunil Patel: Two Wrongs

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014

Nick Dixon ‘Well worth looking out for’ (Jason Manford) and Sunil Patel (BBC New Comedy Awards) perform half an hour each of finely-crafted hilarity.

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.

Dixon of Fogg Green - Free

Review
★★
Nina Seale
Edinburgh Fringe
20th Aug, 2012

You’ve got to bless the Edinburgh audience, they are a godsend for bad comedians.

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…

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