Performances

COMING UP!

BOILERHOUSE AND ANNAMARIA MURPHY

Saturday the 9th of May at 7.30pm

Back by popular demand for a third time, Boilerhouse & Annamaria Murphy return to The Lyric.

Boilerhouse are a five-piece a cappella group rooted in the Cornish singing tradition, blending folk, gospel, American Sacred Harp and more into something really distinctive. Their sound is rich, atmospheric and beautifully immersive.

They’ll be joined by writer Annamaria Murphy, whose stories—woven through the music—are funny, moving and quietly magical.

A lovely evening of song and storytelling.

Saturday 9th of May at 7.30pm

The Lyric Theatre, 9 Barrack Street,

Bridport, DT6 3LX

RABBIT AND REY AND THE LOST THINGS

Saturday 30th of May at 2.30pm

Stuff and Nonsense presents a brilliantly bonkers show from the makers of smash hit The Gingerbread Man and other family theatre triumphs

Rabbit & Rey and the Lost Things

Ever felt like the world’s playing hide and seek with your stuff?

One moment it’s there… the next, poof! Your toy, your glasses, your book, your sock… even your ideas, gone.

Meet Rey, an imagination expert, a question-asker, a glorious misplacer of everything, and by their side, Rabbit, their forever-loved bunny, wise and fiercely loyal. The one who’s always there when the world feels too much.

Together they set off on an unforgettable quest, to find all the things they’ve ever lost…

Whilst Rey & Rabbit explore they realise the trail of Lost Things doesn’t end with them. Other people have Lost Things too!

As Rey begins to realise that being a ‘loser’ might not be that bad, something remarkable starts to happen. What if losing things wasn’t the problem but the path?

This bold, funny and heart-tugging adventure mixes puppetry, visual storytelling and beautiful twists of the imagination, to explore our brilliant, often bewildering brains and what it means to live life a little out of order.

Ages 3+ | A joyful adventure for families with curious minds and big hearts, and for anyone who’s ever felt a little out of step.

Saturday May 30th at 2.30pm

The Lyric Theatre, 9 Barrack Street,

Bridport DT6 3LX

TROUBLED WATERS

Thursday 11th of June at 7.30pm

Ancient folklore meets ecological urgency in a bold spoken-word storytelling show touring the UK

At a time of ecological crisis and cultural reckoning, what do rivers remember — and what might they teach us now?

In Troubled Waters, storyteller Corinne Harragin draws ancient river lore into conversation with the urgent issues shaping our lives today. Blending myth, humour and environmental imagination, this contemporary spoken-word performance explores our connection to waterways, wetlands and their inhabitants — human and more-than-human.

Leaping salmon. Fishtail women. Mythical raves. Sacred springs.

With over 4,000 miles of polluted waterways across Britain and Ireland, the stories we tell about rivers matter more than ever.

“Troubled Waters will inspire people to re-establish their connection with our rivers, helping to protect them. It’s a brilliant example of people taking action for nature.” — Avon Wildlife Trust

Described by audiences as “delicious, captivating, funny, sexy and brilliant”, the show balances sensuality and scholarship, humour and mythic depth. Backstage Bristol calls Harragin “genuinely very funny… A masterful storyteller.”

The show has already completed a 15-date UK tour with multiple sold-out performances, with a further tour scheduled this spring. In 2026, Harragin will make her Edinburgh Fringe debut with a full-month run at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

A storyteller touring nationally for over a decade, Harragin reanimates folklore for adult audiences, centring marginalised voices and silenced histories. As a Research Associate at the University of Bristol, her project Storying the Avon explores connection to water through storytelling.

Troubled Waters invites audiences beneath the surface — where story, ecology and agency converge.

Thursday 11th of June at 7.30pm

The Lyric Theatre, 9 Barrack Street,

Bridport DT6 3LX

Titania

‘Run towards things that scare you, so I am running full pelt. Why wouldn’t you want to play the mother of the earth, the Queen of the Fairies?’ Nia Gwynne

Coming from the minds of British Director and Screenwriter Dictynna Hood (Wreckers, starring Benedict Cumberbatchand, Claire Foy; Us Among the Stones, starring, Laurence Fox and, Anna Calder-Marshall) and acclaimed stage and screen actor Nia Gwynne (Royal Shakespeare Company’s King Lear and Titus Andronicus; BAFTA-winning films Pride and Darkest Hour) comes a one-woman show steeped in comedy, tragedy and poetry, where the lines between past and present, and tenderness and threat begin to blur.

Four hundred years after A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titania remains – but not as you remember her. In this striking preview performance, the fairy queen Titania (played by Nia Gwynne) has fallen into our world, now living and working as a cleaner in a theatre.

Over a span of 75 minutes, Titania pieces together what has happened after Shakespeare’s ending: Oberon is gone, Puck has slipped into the digital world, the forests are thinning, the seasons faltering, and her once thriving fairy kingdom is now lost.

“Dictynna and I have known each other for several years now but never had the chance to properly work together so this is exciting. It’s very collaborative and we are enjoying the direct address nature of it very much. It’s storytelling but it’s also a conversation with the audience, it questions what’s happening with us in the world now – and we hope that we can bring it to all sorts of audiences and that we get to open discussion with people all over the country.” – Nia Gwynne

Inspired by Hood’s life attending the seasons, forests and flowers in Cornwall, “Titania” invites audiences to enter a world that is full of magic – theatrical and otherwise – to escape the difficult times of today.

Thursday 25th June, 7:30pm

The Lyric Theatre, 9 Barrack Street, Bridport, DT6 3LX

Audiences also have a chance to meet the creative team via a question and answer session

Tickets £12 and available at Bridport TIC: www.bridportandwestbay.co.uk