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Events in October 2025
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Gobbess
19:30 2nd October 2025
at SpArC Theatre
Bishop's CastlesGobbess
19:30 - 20:30 2nd October 2025

More InformationA mesmerising one-creature spectacle that defies the ordinary. Prepare to be enchanted by a kaleidoscopic fusion of circus, spoken word, and storytelling. This show explores lightness & depth amid curiosity, creativity & cat-calling, blending circus skills with powerful spoken word to tell a story of rage, resilience, & transformation. Visually stunning, Gobbess seamlessly transitions from commanding on-stage performance to poetic storytelling while performing aerial hoop. It’s a captivating experience that promises to leave you spellbound and uplifted.
Gobbess is a hilarious and heart-warming kaleidoscopic one-creature spoken word show. It’s a story about creativity and identity, of queerness & self-expression & one person’s rage and resilience, amongst existential curiosity, mental chaos and cat-calling.

My Car Plays Tapes
19:30 2nd October 2025
at St Alkmund's Church, Shrewsbury
ShrewsburyMy Car Plays Tapes
19:30 - 20:30 2nd October 2025

More InformationMy Car Plays Tapes is a show about rural touring, by writer and performer John Osborne. John has been performing rural touring shows across the UK since 2012 and this is a storytelling show about getting older, driving a car that is about to be scrapped and being unexpectedly reunited with your old cassette collection from the 1990s.
From the creator of cult fringe shows 'John Peel’s Shed' and 'Circled in the Radio Times'.
'John's story left me and my children spellbound and in tears,' Stewart Lee in The Observer, on Don't Need the Sunshine on Radio 4
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My Car Plays Tapes
19:30 4th October 2025
at Lydbury North Village HallMy Car Plays Tapes
19:30 - 20:30 4th October 2025

Lydbury North Village HallSY7 8AUMore InformationMy Car Plays Tapes is a show about rural touring, by writer and performer John Osborne. John has been performing rural touring shows across the UK since 2012 and this is a storytelling show about getting older, driving a car that is about to be scrapped and being unexpectedly reunited with your old cassette collection from the 1990s.
From the creator of cult fringe shows 'John Peel’s Shed' and 'Circled in the Radio Times'.
'John's story left me and my children spellbound and in tears,' Stewart Lee in The Observer, on Don't Need the Sunshine on Radio 4
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The Great Baldini's FAMILY MAGIC
19:00 10th October 2025
at Stoke St Milborough Village HallThe Great Baldini's FAMILY MAGIC
19:00 - 20:00 10th October 2025

Stoke St Milborough Village HallSY8 2EQMore InformationFamily Magic tells the story of Baldini’s magical partnership with Baldwin the dog, from their first trick to the height of their careers – attempting Houdini’s greatest and deadliest escape.
The show is packed with magic, sweets, puppetry, sweets, clowning, sweets, eggs, sweets, and escapology. It’s hilariously silly... with sweets...it builds to the ultimate challenge – before your very eyes attempting a spectacular, death-defying piece of escape.
Join us for a joyously silly romp. Guaranteed to have children (and parents) screaming with laughter.

Wild
19:30 10th October 2025
at Beckbury Village Hall
BeckburyWild
19:30 - 20:30 10th October 2025

Beckbury Village HallMore InformationWild - What does it conjure up for you?
Is it a moment standing at the edge of a raging sea or being lifted up and spat out of a whirling tornado; running for your life through the streets or coming face to face with a wolf; the animal within that can’t always be tamed or the wilderness at the edge of your home?
‘Wild’ is a new theatre production exploring what ‘Wild’ means to us - in the natural world, in our towns and cities, and within ourselves. Weaving together stories from over 70 people, it takes you on a journey of emotions from exhilarating fear to childlike joy. Visit remote hills, mountains, dark forests and towns, and find out just how ‘Wild’ these places can be.
Featuring original songs, immersive soundscapes and storytelling, 'Wild' is a vibrant, moving, captivating show that will leave you wondering... what is your 'Wild'?
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Flicks in the Sticks, Ryton near Dorrington - A Haunting in Venice
19:30 17th October 2025
at Ryton Village Hall
ShrewsburyFlicks in the Sticks, Ryton near Dorrington - A Haunting in Venice
19:30 - 21:45 17th October 2025
More InformationA Haunting in Venice is a 2023 mystery film produced and directed by Kenneth Branagh , loosely based on the 1969 Agatha Christie novel Hallowe'en Party.
The film is set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows' Eve and is a scary mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
Heidi Talbot
19:30 17th October 2025
at Clungunford Village HallHeidi Talbot
19:30 - 20:30 17th October 2025

Clungunford Village HallMore InformationHeidi Talbot launches her brand new album, Grace Untold, with a nationwide tour in October 2025.
Over the past twenty years Heidi has performed all over North and South America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Heidi has been nominated for Folk Singer of the Year and Best Traditional Song by BBC Radio 2, Best Live Act by the Scottish Traditional Music Awards and Best Female Vocalist at The Irish Music Awards.
She has shared the stage and recorded with Mark Knopfler, Graham Coxon (Blur), Eddi Reader, Idlewild, King Creosote, Kris Drever, Tim O'Brien and Jerry Douglas.

How Reggae Changed The World
19:30 17th October 2025
at The Talbot Theatre
WhitchurchHow Reggae Changed The World
19:30 - 20:30 17th October 2025

The Talbot TheatreWhitchurch, SY13 2BYMore InformationJoin Duane Forrest on an acoustic journey through the roots of reggae to the global influence of Bob Marley.
Experience acoustic renditions of legendary reggae songs that have reshaped countless lives, including Duane's own.
From the origin of reggae to Marley's transcendent legacy, immerse yourself in the soulful melodies and transformative power of this iconic music. Audience members are invited to sing along and get involved in this interactive musical experience.
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TWO CLASSIC TALES OF TERROR from W.W. Jacobs by The Clockwork Donkey Theatre
20:00 18th October 2025
at Quatt Village Hall
BridgnorthTWO CLASSIC TALES OF TERROR from W.W. Jacobs by The Clockwork Donkey Theatre
20:00 - 22:00 18th October 2025

Quatt Village HallMore InformationTWO CLASSIC TALES OF TERROR
from W.W. JacobsTHE GHOST OF JERRY BUNDLER
As guests at a small country inn pass the evening telling ghost stories, they discover that the very inn they are staying in, has its own resident ghost, Jerry Bundler, who is known for strangling his victims while they sleep. Two of the guests proclaim they don’t believe in ghosts.
One of the other guests, an actor, decides to put them to the test by betting that he can scare them before the night is up.THE MONKEY’S PAW
Mr. and Mrs. White are visited by a friend of Mr White’s, who served with the British Army in India.
He shows them a mummified monkey’s paw and tells them that an old fakir placed a spell on it, so that it would grant three separate men three wishes but with hellish consequences for tampering with fate.
Tickets are £12 and are available online https://www.ticketsource.com/.../2025-10-18/20:00/t-ojgeeqd or in person at the Community box office at Quatt Farm shop - 1919th October 2025
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Jekyll & Hyde
19:30 24th October 2025
at The Edge Arts Centre
Much WenlockJekyll & Hyde
19:30 - 20:30 24th October 2025

More InformationUtterson, the lawyer, has a strange case on his hands. One involving blackmail, murder and his close friend Doctor Henry Jekyll. Through interviews, overheard conversations and confessions, Utterson uncovers the grisly facts that link the celebrated doctor to the monstrous Mr Hyde. But in this unbelievable story, what can possibly be the truth?
Award-winning performers Amelia Ace Armande and Joshua Crisp reanimate this classic tale, blending the original text with sinuous physicality, mesmerising puppetry and dark humour.

Third Class - A Titanic Story
19:30 24th October 2025
at Habberley Village HallThird Class - A Titanic Story
19:30 - 20:30 24th October 2025

Habberley Village HallMore InformationEdward Dorking was ‘different’. Openly different.
Third Class revives the true story of a young English man, Edward Dorking, who was packed off on the Titanic, destined to be corrected by his American relatives. Edward Dorking was gay. Openly gay, and on Wednesday, April 10th, 1912, he set sail for NYC.
He survived the sinking. This is his story.UNSINKABLE? UNTHINKABLE.
Using music, movement, projection, and historical facts, Third Class tells the story of an unknown hero from a well-known story.
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Plays for Remembrance Gerald Sibleyras Heroes translated by Tom Stoppard, with Lions led by Donkeys &The Last Lion by Tim Baker
19:30 31st October 2025
at Blackburn Theatre, Prestfelde School
ShrewsburyPlays for Remembrance Gerald Sibleyras Heroes translated by Tom Stoppard, with Lions led by Donkeys &The Last Lion by Tim Baker
19:30 - 20:30 31st October 2025

Blackburn Theatre, Prestfelde SchoolMore InformationAs part of this years Remembrance and Armistice commemoration Bloomin' Good Productions are touring three gentle, thoughtful comedies around Shropshire. On Friday 31st October they are at Blackburn Theatre Prestfelde School, Shrewsbury.
The evening features the Laurence Olivier Award-winning play Heroes by Gerald Sibleyras, translated by Sir Tom Stoppard (famous for Shakespeare In Love). It's a snapshot of three eccentric WW1 veterans plotting a hopeless escape from their French retirement home. Reviewers describe the humour as being akin to The Last of the Summer Wine.
This one-act play will be accompanied by two new pieces written by local writer Tim Baker.
Set in God's Waiting Room, Lions Led By Donkeys, which references the formation of the Poppy movement, puts Field Marshall Douglas Haig in the spotlight. Challenged over his role in the Great War can he defend his tactics which resulted in two million British Casualties.In The Last Lion we meet American Rifleman Henry Gunter. What was his unique contribution to The Great War?
An enjoyable evening is promised proving comedy can be the very best way to be respectful.
Tickets available from ticketsource.co.uk/heroes or on the door. - 11st November 2025
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