Event Types: INN CROWD

Living Legends (And Dead Ones Too)

A literary road-trip around the UK, celebrating Living Legends (And Dead Ones Too) through original poetry. From Lands End to John O’ Groats via David Bowie in Bromley, Poly Styrene in Hastings and Aphra Behn in Canterbury. Tracing its way across the UKs arteries – in a G reg VW – the show reveals its life-blood: the extraordinary people who call our nation home. Alongside Brigitte Aphrodite, prepare to meet sung and un-sung heroes, including at least one pub-specific local colourful character. Take tea with Miranda the Fortune Teller in Margate, raise a glass with Ellen Terry in Small Hythe and share stories with Alan Moore in Northampton.

Living Legends (And Dead Ones Too) embraces the characteristics that make our pubs special. It is a communal experience that welcomes a broad, diverse audience; a conversation-sparker; a raucous night out. Each poem stands alone, but, much like the union it explores, together the characters crescendo into a unique, captivating and brilliant whole.

Brigitte Aphrodite is a punk poet, musician, writer, theatre-maker and feminist show woman. She makes genre-crossing, status quo defying gig theatre and is 2019 Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club kazoo playing champion!

366 Days of Kindness – Bernadette Russell

The true story of one woman’s mission to answer the question “can kindness change the world? ” by carrying out an act of kindness for a total stranger everyday for 366 days. Involving cakes, compliments, phone boxes and Billy Bragg teaching her how to play “The Milkman of Human Kindness” in a cupboard at the BBC.

This is a comedy about how, despite what we are told about the state of the world, there is more love than hate, more hope than fear, more good than bad. All this plus a chance to win a million pounds (really)!

Jess Morgan’s Boring Someone in Some Dark Café

Meet Jess – the hardest working folk-singer-songwriter you’ve NEVER heard of.

Jess lives in London, in a flat above a carwash, spending her days churning out demos, hustling for gigs just waiting for that call from Jools Holland. She’s young, single-minded and ambitious to get out on the road…at any cost. It’s the oldest rock and roll story ever told.

So, what happens when after ten years on tour, the sleepy rural town Jess grew up resolute to leave behind suddenly glitters with possibility – something more promising than fame, and more life-changing than a spin on Radio 2..? Will she hang around long enough to find out?

With songs carefully knitted into the narrative, this show tells the story of ten glorious years being a nobody in the music industry – of festival tents, starry night drives, the romance of concrete and magic of pylons; a story of frustration, exploitation and discovering that most people don’t get famous. Most people just turn thirty.

Jess Morgan is a writer and musician from Norwich – described as “The sort of thing you put on your headphones when walking alone and wanting to feel like you’re in your own gritty British love story.”

366 Days of Kindness – Bernadette Russell

The true story of one woman’s mission to answer the question “can kindness change the world? ” by carrying out an act of kindness for a total stranger everyday for 366 days. Involving cakes, compliments, phone boxes and Billy Bragg teaching her how to play “The Milkman of Human Kindness” in a cupboard at the BBC.

This is a comedy about how, despite what we are told about the state of the world, there is more love than hate, more hope than fear, more good than bad. All this plus a chance to win a million pounds (really)!

Molly Naylor, Stop Trying to be Fantastic

One day, a magpie comes into a little girl’s house by mistake. It decides it likes her. She spends the next twenty-five years trying to get away from it.

Stop Trying to be Fantastic is a story about suffering, adventure, saviour-complex, acceptance, and a magpie who refuses to quit.

From award-winning writer/performer Molly Naylor (Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think Of You, Sky One’s After Hours) comes this lyrical and funny spoken-word show that explores what we owe to each other and what we owe to ourselves.

It’s an anti self-help show… that might actually help.

‘Brave, funny, tough and beautiful writing ‘ – the Guardian

Jess Morgan’s Boring Someone in Some Dark Café

Meet Jess – the hardest working folk-singer-songwriter you’ve NEVER heard of.

Jess lives in London, in a flat above a carwash, spending her days churning out demos, hustling for gigs just waiting for that call from Jools Holland. She’s young, single-minded and ambitious to get out on the road…at any cost. It’s the oldest rock and roll story ever told.

So, what happens when after ten years on tour, the sleepy rural town Jess grew up resolute to leave behind suddenly glitters with possibility – something more promising than fame, and more life-changing than a spin on Radio 2..? Will she hang around long enough to find out?

With songs carefully knitted into the narrative, this show tells the story of ten glorious years being a nobody in the music industry – of festival tents, starry night drives, the romance of concrete and magic of pylons; a story of frustration, exploitation and discovering that most people don’t get famous. Most people just turn thirty.

Jess Morgan is a writer and musician from Norwich – described as “The sort of thing you put on your headphones when walking alone and wanting to feel like you’re in your own gritty British love story.”

Jess Morgan’s Boring Someone in Some Dark Café

Meet Jess – the hardest working folk-singer-songwriter you’ve NEVER heard of.

Jess lives in London, in a flat above a carwash, spending her days churning out demos, hustling for gigs just waiting for that call from Jools Holland. She’s young, single-minded and ambitious to get out on the road…at any cost. It’s the oldest rock and roll story ever told.

So, what happens when after ten years on tour, the sleepy rural town Jess grew up resolute to leave behind suddenly glitters with possibility – something more promising than fame, and more life-changing than a spin on Radio 2..? Will she hang around long enough to find out?

With songs carefully knitted into the narrative, this show tells the story of ten glorious years being a nobody in the music industry – of festival tents, starry night drives, the romance of concrete and magic of pylons; a story of frustration, exploitation and discovering that most people don’t get famous. Most people just turn thirty.

Jess Morgan is a writer and musician from Norwich – described as “The sort of thing you put on your headphones when walking alone and wanting to feel like you’re in your own gritty British love story.”

James McDermott: Manatomy

Through a series of cheeky chatty performance poems, James McDermott considers sexuality, masculinity and how the rural landscape, nature, nurture, politics and pop culture have shaped his identity and life. Grab a drink and settle in for an hour with James as he takes you through childhood, adolescence, and manhood through his witty, wise eyes.

James McDermott has written two plays (Rubber Ring, Time & Tide) and now writes for EastEnders. This show is based on James’s spoken word poetry collection, Manatomy which is published by Burning Eye Books and was longlisted for Polari’s First Book Prize 2021.

“The language, wit, insights, power of expression… Simply magnificent” Stephen Fry

Brigitte Aphrodite: Living Legends (and Dead Ones Too)

A literary road-trip around the UK, celebrating Living Legends (And Dead Ones Too) through original poetry. From Lands End to John O’ Groats via David Bowie in Bromley, Poly Styrene in Hastings and Aphra Behn in Canterbury. Tracing its way across the UKs arteries – in a G reg VW – the show reveals its life-blood: the extraordinary people who call our nation home. Alongside Brigitte Aphrodite, prepare to meet sung and un-sung heroes, including at least one pub-specific local colourful character. Take tea with Miranda the Fortune Teller in Margate, raise a glass with Ellen Terry in Small Hythe and share stories with Alan Moore in Northampton.

Living Legends (And Dead Ones Too) embraces the characteristics that make our pubs special. It is a communal experience that welcomes a broad, diverse audience; a conversation-sparker; a raucous night out. Each poem stands alone, but, much like the union it explores, together the characters crescendo into a unique, captivating and brilliant whole.

Brigitte Aphrodite is a punk poet, musician, writer, theatre-maker and feminist show woman. She makes genre-crossing, status quo defying gig theatre and is 2019 Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club kazoo playing champion!

Suki Silvertongue: Bedtime Stories for Grown Ups

Lusciously lyrical and sublimely subversive, Suki Silvertongue straddles the worlds of poetry and storytelling, serving up deliciously decadent versions of classic tales as you’ve never heard them before.

Journey with Suki into a late night fantasy realm filled with kickass heroines, wondrous creatures, poetic justice and unexpected twists that is as timeless as it is bang up to date. Where traditional tales meet contemporary themes to dance the tango with a rose between gritted teeth. With an a la carte menu featuring such tantalising treats as ‘Rapunzel’s Lady Garden of Love’, ‘Titania’s Bottom’ and ‘Lady Victoria Frankenstein’, you’ll be spoilt for choice and hungry for more!

“What a performance! Suki Silvertongue is beguiling, engaging, entertaining, intelligent, witty, funny and very, very saucy. Her performance is spoken word art for grown-ups, and you are guaranteed to laugh and laugh and laugh”
Geoff Dixon, The Burston Crown