What’s On

FRENCH LANGUAGE GROUP

A friendly social group with sessions led by our resident teacher Monsieur Brindley

A weekly group at an intermediate level developing both their French speaking and reading skills. If your a beginner we’d recommend taking part in the 6 week beginners course first. There are held several times a year.

We also host Italian and Spanish lessons.

Tuesdays 7pm – 8pm (£5 per week) 

Our choir is a great opportunity to try out all sorts of songs and meet like minded people

Held weekly at the Ventnor Exchange, our new Choir is an informal, fun group open to all ages and abilities who enjoy singing together. Led by one our resident actors Tallulah Smith (ALRA Graduate)  who’ll be helping your explore lots of different styles of music as as sharing lots of tips and exercises to help improve your singing.

The bar will be open for those who wish to arrive early or stay after and have a drink.

Sessions will run from 6pm – 7:15pm

Course Dates: Wednesdays 13th November, 20th November, 27th November, 4th December, 11th December, 

Course Fee: £5.00 per week cash only

For more information please call (01983) 716767 or just turn up on the day! 

The much loved Christmas Garden returns once again to illuminate Battery Gardens and gather everyone for a very special event with fun for the whole family.

Vectis Brass and Ventnor Exchange Community Choir will be the festive entertainment for the evening as well as storytelling for the little ones from Sue Bailey professional storyteller. There will be creative craft activities to join in with, so get your scarves and hats on to dance in the shadow wall, toast a marshmallow and dance in the snow whilst exploring Battery Gardens.

The Battery itself will be opened up by its current residents The National Poo Museum so check out what progress they’re making and you can even experience the talking toilet!

Free Entry and all are welcome. Wrap up warm as this is an outdoor event.

The Christmas Garden is funded by The Common Space and Sandown Bay-based businesses, Arc and Artecology.

The puppets are back for a very special Christmas edition of the infamous Puppet Pub Quiz!

By popular demand and following their sold out return to the Ventnor Fringe, our well intentioned but mischievous puppets are reunited to host an all new quiz.

Test your general knowledge and be in with a chance of winning some fantastic prizes in a surreal night of comedy and madness. Being a few days before Christmas you can be sure they’ll be carol singing, terrible present ideas and kissing under the mistletoe, plus we reveal a new character or two to join our ever suffering hosts!

This event approx 2 hours. Audiences can come and go to the bar and toilets during the performance.
Recommended for 16+

Puppets designed and created by Kate Powell (Powell Puppets) & Mhairi Macaulay
Thursday 19th – Friday 20th December 2019 
All Tickets: £6.00

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The puppets are back for a very special Christmas edition of the infamous Puppet Pub Quiz!

By popular demand and following their sold out return to the Ventnor Fringe, our well intentioned but mischievous puppets are reunited to host an all new quiz.

Test your general knowledge and be in with a chance of winning some fantastic prizes in a surreal night of comedy and madness. Being a few days before Christmas you can be sure they’ll be carol singing, terrible present ideas and kissing under the mistletoe, plus we reveal a new character or two to join our ever suffering hosts!

This event approx 2 hours. Audiences can come and go to the bar and toilets during the performance.
Recommended for 16+

Puppets designed and created by Kate Powell (Powell Puppets) & Mhairi Macaulay
Thursday 19th – Friday 20th December 2019 
All Tickets: £6.00

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Theatre maker and Radio 4 regular John Osborne goes back on tour with a double bill of two shows: Circled in the Radio Times and his 2011 sellout Edinburgh show John Peel’s Shed.

John Peel’s Shed was a complete sell out at the 2011 Edinburgh fringe and went on to enjoy a sixty date UK tour, including appearances at Soho Theatre and the Glastonbury festival. It was adapted for Radio 4 and is now back on tour.

Circled in the Radio Times is a show about a box of old copies of the Radio Times that used to belong to his granddad. He pieces together his life by the shows that have been circled.

“Sits somewhere between Daniel Kitson and Tom Wrigglesworth. I could have listened for hours.’ – The Independent

“Beautifully written, funny and poignant.” – The Scotsman

“A lovely engaging writer finding the joyous in the everyday.” – Stuart Maconie

The first play is approx 50 mins, with the second piece approx 35mins. There will be a short interval between the two plays.

Recommended for 12+

Thursday 16th January 2020, 8pm 

Tickets: £10 (Under 25’s £5) Fringe Friends 2for1 

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The Time Show is the latest comedy/theatre/spoken word show by writer and performer of some of what he writes Rob Auton.

Following on from his critically acclaimed shows about talking, hair, sleep, water, faces, the sky and the colour yellow, “the Fringe’s comedian laureate” (British Comedy Guide) now turns his attention to time. He will be asking questions such as “What time is it?” and “What is it time?”

‘A genuine original. Poetical, philosophical, humane, completely charming and funny to boot.’ – The Guardian

‘Charming, eccentric and uplifting, Auton is a talent to watch.’ – The Independent

“Poetic, pithy and profound” ★★★★ Evening Standard

“He romantically seeks wonder and amazement in the everyday…an engaging, thoughtful show” ★★★★ Steve Bennett, Chortle

“Just sad.” – Vanessa Feltz

The performance is 60 mins with no interval.
Recommended for 16+
Wednesday 5th – Thursday 6th February 2020 
Tickets: £10 (Under 25’s £5) Fringe Friends 2for1 

The Time Show is the latest comedy/theatre/spoken word show by writer and performer of some of what he writes Rob Auton.

Following on from his critically acclaimed shows about talking, hair, sleep, water, faces, the sky and the colour yellow, “the Fringe’s comedian laureate” (British Comedy Guide) now turns his attention to time. He will be asking questions such as “What time is it?” and “What is it time?”

‘A genuine original. Poetical, philosophical, humane, completely charming and funny to boot.’ – The Guardian

‘Charming, eccentric and uplifting, Auton is a talent to watch.’ – The Independent

“Poetic, pithy and profound” ★★★★ Evening Standard

“He romantically seeks wonder and amazement in the everyday…an engaging, thoughtful show” ★★★★ Steve Bennett, Chortle

“Just sad.” – Vanessa Feltz

The performance is 60 mins with no interval.
Recommended for 16+
Wednesday 5th – Thursday 6th February 2020 
Tickets: £10 (Under 25’s £5) Fringe Friends 2for1 

Odd Doll take a trip to the seaside, where they find more than they bargained for. The only other inhabitant of the dilapidated pier is a rather sinister ice cream man. And he’s got some very strange stories to tell…

His mind-boggling collection of hysterical horrors includes Evil Seagulls, Zombie Donkeys, and Bingo Hairballs. But will anyone who experiences it live to describe it?

Stuffed with fun frights and ice cream chills, Seaside Terror is a celebration of the British horror and British holidays of the 1970s. Funny, nostalgic and visually stunning, Odd Doll use their trademark brew of puppetry, clown and specially composed music to fill the stage with nerve-shattering shocks.

This is the company’s first visit to the Isle of Wight with a show we felt was destined to be performed here!

“A surprisingly entertaining and imaginative piece of work.”
The British Theatre Guide

The performance is 60 mins with no interval.
Recommended for 12+

Wednesday 19th February 2020 
Tickets: £10 (Under 25’s £5) Fringe Friends 2for1 

House in association with The Thelmas

LADYKILLER

By Madeline Gould

A chambermaid, a hotel room and a dead woman. It’s not what it looks like, really, it’s not. It was self-defence… and anyway the woman was asking for it.

The chambermaid considers herself to be a pretty normal person; she reads books. She pretended to read the party manifestos at the General Election. She’s even read The Psychopath Test and she’s pretty sure she’s not one so…

Ladykiller is a blood-soaked morality tale about power, privilege, and tearing up the gender rule book on psychopathy; a jet-black comedy for the age of the gig economy.

Ladykiller presents us with a genuinely complex and compelling female character, tapping into the feminist zeitgeist in a most unexpected way.

LADYKILLER was delared ‘a smash hit’ after a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe 2018 which garnered considerable critical acclaim.

‘a smash hit at this fringe and beyond’
★★★★ Broadway Baby

‘a very funny and refreshingly offbeat comedy from The Thelmas.’
★★★★ The Stage

‘Hannah McClean is superb as the maid.’
★★★★ The Scotsman

‘a mesmeric performance.’
★★★★ Fringe Guru

The performance is 60 mins with no interval.
Recommended for 14+

Tuesday 3rd March 2020 
Tickets: £10 (Under 25’s £5) Fringe Friends 2for1 

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