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2 Bath Road
London
W4 1LW
A minute’s walk from Turnham Green tube station (district line). Just leave the station and turn right. The Theatre has its own entrance in the Tabard pub’s beer garden.
The 94 Bus from the West End, Notting Hill and Shepherd’s Bush stops outside our front door. Other buses stopping nearby are the 27, 267, 237, 391, E3 and H91.
There is free parking on The Avenue after 6.30pm.
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Duet 18th April - 11th May by Otho Eskin
Before there was Garbo and Gaga there was Bernhardt and Duse…
Parity Productions in association with Authentic Voices and Cahoots Theatre Company presents
Bernhardt and Duse … A Rivalry For The Ages
Onstage together, for the first time, in the UK Premiere of
DUET by Otho Eskin
Directed by Ludovica Villar-Hauser
When Sarah Bernhardt arrives unexpectedly at Eleanora Duse’s dressing room on a rainy night in April 1924, the lines are drawn for a pitched battle between two legends of the modern stage. The great actresses clash as each relives the artistic and romantic triumphs and betrayals that shaped their lives.
Sam Furlonger meets the Reiss Ellis Beckles Quartet 5th May 2024 3pm Sam Furlonger and the Reiss Ellis Beckles Quartet
Following years of fronting big bands and smaller groups, Sam has more recently sold out top London venues Pizza Express Live, Dean St and the Crazy Coq’s Picadilly. Sam’s vocal style is heavily rooted in the tradition of the American masters such as Nat King Cole and Sinatra and his live show carries a real authenticity, avoiding cliches at all costs.
Sunday 12th May 11am, 1pm, 3pm and 5pm
with Ray Bubbles
Experience the best in soap bubble entertainment.
Join Ray, International Bubbleologist and Guinness World Record Holder, and help him in his quest to complete the bubble game and make the ultimate bubble.
This is a fast paced show full of high energy and surprises as Ray uses various different gases to create incredible bubble sculptures, effects and magical displays.
Watch in amazement as Ray creates a volcano bubble, a soap bubble carrousel, a bubble ghost and even a tornado inside a bubble!!!!!
Join Ray and see if he can make THE ULTIMATE SQUARE BUBBLE.
Dinner! Darlings! Dinner! Monday 13th May 7:30pm Written by and starring Josephine Pembroke
Dinner! Darlings! Dinner!
Welcome to the wonderful world of glamorous dining with ex Showgirl Sindy. A sparkling guest list, cocktails, canapés, and music (show tunes and pop), sprinkled with showbiz gossip. Time to don your Kaftan and delve in the 1970s when being a hostess really did mean the mostest. Will this dinner party be a dream come true for aspirational Sindy? Or will it turn into chaos?
Written and performed by Josephine Pembroke, ex-Sohoite, veteran night club performer (Heaven, Cafe de Paris, The Hacienda) and star of the 90s Bond girl act Pussies Galore, her last show The Working Girls of Soho played to sold out audiences at the Tabard last November.
Dinner! Darlings! Dinner! is directed by Linda Marlowe, actor and director, who worked extensively in physical theatre with Steven Berkoff. Accompanied on the piano by by George Webster, this new work plays one performance before a run at the Brighton Fringe Festival.
So come along for a cocktail infused dinner party, full of music, gossip, comedy and despair. Expect A-list celebrities and frolics.
Sing for your Supper 14th - 17th May 2024 A musical comedy of operatic proportions
Giggling Wolf Company returns to the Tabard this year with Sing for your Supper! which sold out at their last showing.
Sing for your Supper! is a tale about two groups of Singing Waiters who are accidentally booked to sing at the same restaurant, twice. Chaos and misunderstanding ensue.
Great songs and arias such as Nessun dorma, O sole mio, The Brindisi, Volare, Besame mucho, and many, many, more, make this a musical comedy of operatic proportions.
Wedding Bells 18th & 19th May 6pm Spare Space Theatre Company
It’s the morning of the big day! Everyone is trying to get him to change, but for some reason he seems reluctant, even dismissive of the idea. Can four women change his mind and make him stay for the big event, or will he forget why he is there and decide to leave with one of them. In the meantime he has a book to write, and a cat to feed.
The play looks at the nature of memory, loss, regret and the love of travel and dislike of jazz!
Spare Space is made up of 6 Chiswick residents, who wanted something to do in their spare time ( when we had it!) . Most of the cast are Drama or University Actor trained and have in the past been in many productions, and are looking for a way to rekindle their passion for Theatre.
Wedding Bells is written and directed by Tommy Robinson; a multi award winning drama teacher, writer and artist who wanted to bring this disparate group together to perform.
TOP PICK
Fondly Remembered 22nd May - 15 June 2024 by Gareth Armstrong
Is a man’s memorial service the right time to tell the truth? Reunited for the occasion, a group of friends gather to celebrate a life.
But who are they remembering? A creative genius, a former lover, a bitter rival or the man who deceived them all?
From Gareth Armstrong, the writer of last year’s critically acclaimed A Critical Stage this wickedly funny new play is full of revelation, rediscovery and revenge.
REVIEWS FROM LAST YEAR’S A CRITICAL STAGE
A Critical Stage is beautifully conceived with a huge depth of knowledge informing the story and realisation onto stage. ★★★★★ The Review Chap
Pithy opinions and witty ripostes…well worth seeking out.
★★★★ The Daily Mirror
From Gareth Armstrong, the writer and director of last year’s critically acclaimed A Critical Stage this wickedly funny new play is full of revelation, rediscovery and revenge.
One Man Poe Tuesday 28th May 7:30pm Written by Edgar Allan Poe, Performed by Stephen Smith
ONE MAN POE: A Quadruple-Bill
Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Performed by Stephen Smith
Renowned as the ‘Godfather of Gothic Horror’, Edgar Allan Poe was a pioneer in establishing the horror genre. Although his works are nearly 200 years old, Poe’s stories have stood the test of time and have inspired a countless number of horror writers.
Using Poe’s original text from the 1840s, one actor faithfully brings his words to life on stage, performing four of the most terrifying examples of gothic literature:
Act One: The Tell-Tale Heart and The Pit and the Pendulum
Act Two: The Black Cat and The Raven
2023 Offie Nominated – Best Solo Performance
★★★★★ “Horrifyingly bleak and powerfully moving” – Everything Theatre
Professor Slug’s House of Bugs 29th - 30th May 11:30am and 2pm Written by Maxwell Tyler
Professor Slug’s House of Bugs is a show all about bugs. Professor Slug is an eccentric expert on invertebrates who helps bugs out with their buggy problems – and you can too!
Get as strong as an ant! Teach a bee how to buzz! And help a dung beetle make a pooey perfume for its big date…
The House of Bugs is fully booked with all sorts of bugs seeking help from Professor Slug and his fellow bug experts (that’s you, the audience!) But can all these buggy problems be solved before the Queen Bee arrives, or will a swarm of honey-hungry wasps wreak havoc?
From the co-creator of the award winning One Duck Down, this interactive show is packed full of colourful puppets, catchy songs, and educational info about the wonderful world of bugs.
“Silly and little bit raucous, this was a total crowd pleaser” ★★★★ Children’s Theatre Reviews
Take Desire Away Monday 3rd June 7:30pm From A.E Houseman, devised and performed by Mansel David
Take Desire Away
The Queer Sensibility of A.E. Housman, in his own words
Conceived and performed by Mansel David
Mansel David revives his acclaimed show about A. E. Housman, the classics scholar whose self-published 1896 poem cycle, A Shropshire Lad, became a publishing phenomenon and connected deeply with thousands of young men. David brings a clear, queer eye to Housman’s words – his wistful poems and very funny letters – and discovers the yearning and passion burning beneath them.
“A crafted, beautifully delivered homage to Housman… I was constantly engaged. At one stage Housman writes ‘Only the archangel Raphael could read my poetry properly’. Obviously he hasn’t heard Mansel David do so – International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival Reviews.
“A polished, effective and very accomplished performance – Diarmaid Ferriter, RTE The View.
Locomotive for Murder 4th June 2024 Pinch Punch Theatre
A fully-improvised comedy murder mystery.
Pinch Punch welcome you aboard Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit, a totally improvised, totally outrageous murder mystery where killing the cast and cracking the case is in your hands.
Four characters board a train, but not everyone will survive… Thankfully, a world-famous detective is onboard, ready to solve the case. But who is the murderer? Only one person in the show knows — the murderer themself! Can you help the detective solve the case?
Using audience stories and suggestions, watch Pinch Punch create a unique, one-of-a-kind, never-to-be-repeated whodunnit. Expect dubious accents, shaky alibis, thrills, spills, and good old-fashioned kills.
Can you help the detective crack the case?
Love comedy or murder mysteries?
Then this is the show for you!
Breakfast with Johnny Wilkinson 19th - 22nd June by Chris England
Table 6 Theatre Company presents
Breakfast with Johnny Wilkinson
The hit comedy by Chris England
The high energy farce set in a provicial rugby club the morning of the 2003 world cup final. Tensions are high between the brits and the Aussies… and the game hasn’t even started.
The “hilarious fast paced, ensemble show” delivers belly laughs, endearing characters, sordid affairs & backstabbing.
Playing for a limited five performance run at the Tabard.
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International on behalf of Josef Weinberger Ltd. www.mtishows.co.uk | www.josef-weinberger.co.uk
The Enigma of Edward Elgar Sunday 30th June 3pm Written and Performed by Michael Lunts
Michael Lunts presents a one-man musical drama about the life of Edward Elgar, focusing on the complex relationship he had with his beloved wife Alice. The friends who inspired the famous ‘Enigma Variations’ are also brought to life as, following the death of Alice, Elgar’s senior by a number of years, the composer muses on the origins of that first acknowledged masterpiece, a work that put him on the musical map, and which may never have seen the light of day but for Alice’s encouragement and inspiration. But what of the other women hidden within the work’s ‘musical portraits’? And who, ultimately, was Edward Elgar? Was he the real ‘enigma’? In this performance the Enigma Variations are played live in a special piano transcription made by Elgar himself, as well as the ever-popular ‘Salut d’Amour’, dedicated to the composer’s wife.
Primary School Assembly Bangers (Edinburgh Preview) Sunday 7th July 5pm & 7pm with James B Partridge
This year, James will be attending the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and will be presenting two previews of his Primary School Assembly Bangers show at the Tabard, each lasting an hour.
Join James for an hour of pure nostalgia, stepping back in time with some joyous singalong tunes to take you back to your Primary School days. You won’t have to sit cross-legged on the school hall floor, but you will be encouraged to sing along! As well as the assembly bangers, there will be other musical surprises, throwback mashups and comic reflections on growing up in the 90s.
We are very proud to announce that LONDON PUB THEATRES MAGAZINE is now an OFFIE AWARD WINNING publication
A ONEOFF Special Award has been awarded to London Pub Theatres Magazine and Editor Heather Jeffery for providing a vital forum for highlighting the excellent work that happens in rooms in pubs, with sensitive editing, and an acute sense of the importance of tiny fringe venues to the health and development of British Theatre