Bubble & Squeak Collective kick off our theatre programme this week with Unapologetic, a feast of exciting scenes and performances from published plays and new writing. One night only on June 26th.

From Tuesday 27th June to Saturday 1st July JamesArt Productions return to our theatre with their new production Alice.

Can you truly ever understand madness and what makes a person ‘mad’? Alice is a production that aims to explore the theme of mental health through an adaptation of a children’s book but for an adult audience. The piece uses Lewis Caroll’s absurdism and surrealism to discuss and educate about the way in which mental health problems may present themselves and whether a person who is deemed ‘crazy’ is truly understood by doctors and society. The piece contains some masked political comments but in a manner which is light hearted at times and gruelling at others. BOOK NOW!

As always, we have some great live music lined up for this week!

Open Mic Night - Wednesday Jun 21We welcome all to our Open Mic Night, sign up from 7.30pm, with charming host. All musicians and spoken word artists welcome!

Swamp Stomp String Band - Saturday Jun 24
The Swamp Stomp String Band are not your average americana band. Twangy Banjos, driving Guitars and a thudding Double Bass sit behind anything from drinking songs that'l have the room stomping there feet and shooting tequila to ballads that'l break even the most toughest folks, to ragtime songs of bar fights and gambling. The London based duo can often be found busking by the side of Thames in the day and performing in any haunt from high end cocktails joints to dimly lit Dive bars at night.

Live Music: Blues Jam - Sunday  Jun 25, 2017
The Blues Jam...Deep rooted blues in the heart of Clapham. The Jam is kicked off by 4 piece band with harmonica great Errol Linton and guitarist Dave Wilson who has been on the scene for years and has worked very successfully in the West End and much more.
Sign up from 5pm, all musicians welcome!

This week the Clapham Comedy Club has two nights of Edinburgh Previews for you!

Tuesday 20th June at 8pm
Ben Fogg: How I Won Best Newcomer 2017 / Cheekykita: Somewhere in the Ether Double Edinburgh Fringe Festival Previews MC Sion James & Free Lollipops

Thursday 22nd June at 8pm
Dane Baptiste, Eshaan Akbhar: Double Edinburgh Fringe Festival Preview MC Sion James & Free Lollipops- 25% of Profits donated to Pumpaid UK

For more information & for tickets please visit www.claphamcomedyclub.co.uk.

The line-up for The Bread & Roses tent at the Glastonbury Festival 2017:

Plenty of theatre productions lined up for this week!

Monday 19th June at 7.30pm: Free(ze)!
Four Women. Four voices. Four journeys.

Tuesday 20th & Wednesday 21st June at 7.30pm:
Going AWOL
'Ever wanted to kill your boss?'

Thursday 22nd to Saturday 24th June at 7pm
& Saturday matinée at 2.30pm:
Shakespeare's Othello
In this fast-paced telling of jealousy, love and ambition, four actors play multiple roles in this masterful debate on the human condition.

Sunday 25th June at 8.30pm: Vicky Sargent - One Woman Army
Ready for Battle. Ready for Bed. - Edinburgh Fringe Preview!

​More details and tickets at www.breadandrosestheatre.co.uk

Live Music line-up this week:

Open Mic Night
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Wedneday Jun 14, 2017
We welcome all to our Open Mic Night, sign up from 7.30pm, with charming host. All musicians and spoken word artists welcome!

​Live Music: Lit FM
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM  Saturday Jun 17, 2017
Lit FM are a spiritually conscious and international Disco / Soul-Dub / Latin / Jazz-hop fusion band founded in South London in 2014. The members originate from across the UK, Italy, Poland and the US, and are fronted by award-winning Polish vocalist Karolina Micor. Unified by chance encounters and a love of groove-laden music, they quite simply broadcast positive vibes encapsulated within a style which encompasses the history of jazz music; all the way from the american and latin roots, then through funk, soul, disco and ending with hip-hop and jungle. And there's always a message involved.

Phillip Ridley's acclaimed play Radiant Vermin is coming to The Bread & Roses Theatre in a new production by Stones Theatre Company, 14th to 17th June!

The story follows a couple in their late twenties living on a council estate who are expecting a baby and one day receive a letter. It is from the government's Dream Home scheme and they are offered a brand new perfect home, no financial catch, it's theirs - but they must renovate it themselves. Miss Dee, the estate agent, appears offering the couple guidance but is everything as it seems? What is the catch? A darkly humourous play that asks the question: just how far you would go to get on the property ladder...? BOOK NOW!

Our theatre's original new writing night is back!

The Platform
​A Page to Stage Scratch Night for New Writing
11th to 13th June at 7.30pm

The Platform has been running regularly since October 2012 and has quickly established itself as an opportunity to discover, develop and explore new short plays and monologues for audiences as well as creatives. Since starting The Platform the BRTC has also gone on to produce full scale 5 star reviewed productions of Miss Julie and Low Level Panic. As the original project that triggered the eventual launch of The Bread & Roses Theatre it now takes place twice per year and usually sells out, so make sure to book your tickets!

Some great events lined up for fans of live music this week!

Open Mic Night
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM  Jun 7, 2017
We welcome all to our Open Mic Night, sign up from 7.30pm, with charming host. All musicians and spoken word artists welcome!

Kareem Shabazz & the Ryddim Kings
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM  Jun 9, 2017
Kareem has what it takes - looks, charisma, song writing abilities and a voice that slips with stylistic ease from Al Green like textures to echoes of Curtis Mayfield/Marvin Gaye. His music is forward looking, socially conscious, street smart soul, reggae, and dance.
When it comes to music the Ryddim Kings are serious. They write their own lyrics and melodies without the benefit of formal musical training, but they know that song craft is the name of the game.

The Bread & Roses Glastonbury Launch Party
9:00 PM - 12:30 AM  Jun 10, 2017
Join us at our 2017 Glastonbury Launch Party: A fun night of music, dancing & comedy featuring artists from the 2017 Bread & Roses stage lineup *SMOOTH SAILORS* *KIMMYBEATBOX* *GECKO* & more!
If you miss this then you can catch the acts again on our Bread & Roses stage at Glastonbury Festival this year!