Film, Multimedia, Experimental
Including Digital Arts, multi-artform performance: too clever for one category.
Listings for all events in Film, Multimedia & Digital, Installation & Immersive, Live Art at all venues on all dates
Monday 29th May 2017
No. 1 Royal Crescent - Outside
Outside! NOW!! - Bath Fringe & Natural Theatre present:
Looking after No.1
Interactive Site-Specific Performance Event
Celebrating the workers that built and served the Royal Crescent.
It’s time to remember those without whom there would be no powder, clean sheets, lice free wigs, full bellies, warming coal or empty bed pans. The Natural Theatre Company and performers from around the SW have been working with Dutch company Directie & Co to produce an immersive treat that will titillate and transfix. Spot them pop up throughout the city as they make their way to the Grand Finale.
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Wednesday 31st May 2017
The Museum of Bath at Work
Museum of Bath at Work presents
Survivors: First and Last
Introduced by Museum Director Stuart Burroughs
Forty years after the last episode of the post-apocalyptic BBC drama series Survivors was shown in 1977, the very first and very last episodes of this iconic series are being shown at the Museum of Bath at Work. Two hour long episodes will be introduced by Museum Director Stuart Burroughs. More info and booking...
Thursday 1st June 2017
Rondo Theatre
Super Hamlet 64: Parody DLC
by Edward Day
An ocarina, a ukulele and a thirst for revenge. Lecoq trained Edward Day battles four decades of videogame nostalgia in an explosion of Shakespeare, live music, video projection and 16-bit mayhem. More info and booking...
Friday 2nd June 2017
The Holburne Museum
The Miraculous Theatre Company
Romantic Botanic
A love story revealing how plants, like humans, are romantically driven.
We discover how plants communicate with each other and how they succeed in seducing us.
“It’s not the gardener who chooses the plant but the plant who chooses the gardener.â€
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Saturday 3rd June 2017
The American Museum in Britain
‘The Interlinear of Cabeza de Vaca’ by Haniel Long
Spanish Conquistador takes Theatre Bath Bus to The American Museum in Britain
Local theatre company, Thereby Hangs A Tale, are taking the Theatre Bath Bus to The American Museum in Britain, and telling the true story of a Spanish conquistador’s disastrous expedition to Florida.
Created for the Fringe Art Bath’s ‘Embodied Cartographies’ exhibition 'The Interlinear of Cabeza de Vaca' is a 25-minute recital - with live music accompaniment - of Haniel Long’s 1936 re-telling of the true story of the survivors of the 16th century expedition to Florida. In 1542 Cabeza De Vaca returned to Spain and told how he journeyed with various tribes of native American Indians who helped him find his way to Mexico.
The show will be performed with live music accompaniment.
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Burdall's Yard Saturday 3rd June 2017
Rebecca Tantony's new one woman show
All The Journeys I Never Took
directed by Raquel Meseguer, designed by Synnove Fredericks and produced by Lucy English
Poet Rebecca Tantony and director Raquel Meseguer (Lost Dog), bring you All The Journeys I Never Took, an immersive spoken word show from a stellar all female team. More info and booking...
The Holburne Museum Saturday 3rd June 2017
The Miraculous Theatre Company
Romantic Botanic
A love story revealing how plants, like humans, are romantically driven.
We discover how plants communicate with each other and how they succeed in seducing us.
“It’s not the gardener who chooses the plant but the plant who chooses the gardener.â€
More info and booking...
Widcombe Social Club Saturday 3rd June 2017
Amuse Bouche present
Valerie's Birthday Party
with the Boxcats
Valerie has reached a significant age, so her Aunties have secretly planned a fabulous party … and you are all invited! Comedy troupe Amuse Bouche and Boxcats blues band present a birthday party to remember: expect a retro buffet supper, family rows and inappropriate presents. What could possibly go wrong? More info and booking...
Sunday 4th June 2017
Sawclose & Kingsmead Square
Bedlam Fair - The Sunday
It’s the street theatre event of the year with dozens of performers from the emerging new ideas through to renowned companies at the top of their game, spilling around the streets in and around Kingsmead Square & Saw Close (roadways closed for the afternoon, no parking).
See all of Sunday's acts here
Click here for Sunday's running order (timings are a guide and are subject to change)
The event is free but please put money ‘in the hat’ if the performer is using one.
Full details download PDF programme here:
www.bathfringe.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Bedlam-Fair-2017-v-10.pdf
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Sawclose & Kingsmead Square Sunday 4th June 2017
The Colombian Street Party
Recreating a bit of Columbian cultural heritage on the streets of Bath through asphalt art More info and booking...
Monday 5th June 2017
44AD
Audio Tales
Written and curated by Harri Thompson
OtozGozo presents a new fully immersive audio participation workshop that combines sensory deprivation with binaural 3D technology to create dark and gritty short stories, taking you into the life and mind of the main character this insight to life will touch and immerse you through sound.
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Tuesday 6th June 2017
44AD
Audio Tales
Written and curated by Harri Thompson
OtozGozo presents a new fully immersive audio participation workshop that combines sensory deprivation with binaural 3D technology to create dark and gritty short stories, taking you into the life and mind of the main character this insight to life will touch and immerse you through sound.
More info and booking...
Wednesday 7th June 2017
44AD
Audio Tales
Written and curated by Harri Thompson
OtozGozo presents a new fully immersive audio participation workshop that combines sensory deprivation with binaural 3D technology to create dark and gritty short stories, taking you into the life and mind of the main character this insight to life will touch and immerse you through sound.
More info and booking...
Secret Location in Bath Wednesday 7th June 2017
Invulnerable Nothings
A Bright Room Called Day
by Tony Kushner
Invulnerable Nothings presents Kushner's spectacular political parable in a site specific apartment staging for intimate audiences. Email invulnerablenothings@gmail.com for tickets: location revealed upon booking confirmation! More info and booking...
Thursday 8th June 2017
44AD
Audio Tales
Written and curated by Harri Thompson
OtozGozo presents a new fully immersive audio participation workshop that combines sensory deprivation with binaural 3D technology to create dark and gritty short stories, taking you into the life and mind of the main character this insight to life will touch and immerse you through sound.
More info and booking...
Secret Location in Bath Thursday 8th June 2017
Fake Escape present:
Apocalypse
What if you knew exactly when your life would end?
What If You Knew Exactly When Your Life Would End? To The Very Second... How Would You Want To Go Out?
For '20:20 Vision's 5th year at Bath Fringe the acclaimed immersive experience turns its attention to our planet's final hours. 4 new plays by 4 writers under 30, with stories spanning relationships and continents played out in real time, as the audience hurtles towards the end of the world.
More info and booking...
Secret Location in Bath Thursday 8th June 2017
Invulnerable Nothings
A Bright Room Called Day
by Tony Kushner
Invulnerable Nothings presents Kushner's spectacular political parable in a site specific apartment staging for intimate audiences. Email invulnerablenothings@gmail.com for tickets: location revealed upon booking confirmation! More info and booking...
Friday 9th June 2017
Secret Location in Bath
Fake Escape present:
Apocalypse
What if you knew exactly when your life would end?
What If You Knew Exactly When Your Life Would End? To The Very Second... How Would You Want To Go Out?
For '20:20 Vision's 5th year at Bath Fringe the acclaimed immersive experience turns its attention to our planet's final hours. 4 new plays by 4 writers under 30, with stories spanning relationships and continents played out in real time, as the audience hurtles towards the end of the world.
More info and booking...
Secret Location in Bath Friday 9th June 2017
Invulnerable Nothings
A Bright Room Called Day
by Tony Kushner
Invulnerable Nothings presents Kushner's spectacular political parable in a site specific apartment staging for intimate audiences. Email invulnerablenothings@gmail.com for tickets: location revealed upon booking confirmation! More info and booking...
Saturday 10th June 2017
Secret Location in Bath
Fake Escape present:
Apocalypse
What if you knew exactly when your life would end?
What If You Knew Exactly When Your Life Would End? To The Very Second... How Would You Want To Go Out?
For '20:20 Vision's 5th year at Bath Fringe the acclaimed immersive experience turns its attention to our planet's final hours. 4 new plays by 4 writers under 30, with stories spanning relationships and continents played out in real time, as the audience hurtles towards the end of the world.
More info and booking...
Secret Location in Bath Saturday 10th June 2017
Invulnerable Nothings
A Bright Room Called Day
by Tony Kushner
Invulnerable Nothings presents Kushner's spectacular political parable in a site specific apartment staging for intimate audiences. Email invulnerablenothings@gmail.com for tickets: location revealed upon booking confirmation! More info and booking...
Sunday 11th June 2017
Secret Location in Bath
Invulnerable Nothings
A Bright Room Called Day
by Tony Kushner
Invulnerable Nothings presents Kushner's spectacular political parable in a site specific apartment staging for intimate audiences. Email invulnerablenothings@gmail.com for tickets: location revealed upon booking confirmation! More info and booking...
The Bell - Love Lounge (Back bar) Sunday 11th June 2017
Comedy & Music
Walcot Street Comedy Collective
featuring Calico Jack
The Fringe of the Fringe gets excited round the back of the pub tonight: a phalanx of performances from the truly alternative edge of the city, featuring:
Onanism - Matt Cranium - The Whistleblowers - Arnold Kuenzler-Byrt --- plus a little bit more.
The night culminates with a show from yer actual Pirates of the Kennet & Avon, Calico Jack
More info and booking...