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Three's Company's First London Season

Exciting news theatre fans!

Hot on the heels of another wonderful Edinburgh Fringe, Three's Company have just been offered a three-week slot at top London theatre the Tristan Bates (near Leicester Square) this January.

We're still putting the finishing touches to our exact plans for this season but here's what we've got so far:


Play On Words makes its London transfer (after a critically-acclaimed sell-out run at the Pleasance Dome) from January 4th-23rd. Bigger and better than ever before and (hopefully) ready to take London by storm.

Alongside this flagship production we'll be hosting the Reactivity Season. This is a festival of new work celebrating and exploring audience intereaction in theatre. Featuring:

An Interactivity Symposium on the three Saturdays (9th, 16th, 23rd). Talks and debates with an invited panel and performances from guest theatre companies. Bringing together everyone currently working in - or interested in - interactivity in theatre. A chance to take stock, share ideas, learn from others experiences and plan the future for this exciting, new and emerging genre.

Adventure Time: after trials around the country, we bring our anarchic, interactive, spoof radio series back to the Tristan Bates where we'll be staging the full series of pun-dimensional episodes. Can the audience save the on-air broadcast that will make Comedy Trio's name? Come along and find out / decide.

Play readings of two new works (and one in need of refreshment) by Tom Crawshaw. Still Life which explores the place of religion in modern urban life and Reverie which follows a young man on a journey to harness the power of dreams. Joined by Later Showers which makes its London premiere after wowing critics in Buxton and Edinburgh in 2005 (starring Michael Grady-Hall and directed by Yaz Al-Shaater). All readings welcome feedback to help the development of the works afterwards.

So it's all happening at the Tristan Bates theatre, 4th-23rd January. There'll be plenty more information to follow but feel free to email fun@threescompany.co.uk if you'd like to know any more. We hope to see everyone there at some point, whether you like watching, interacting or joining discussions.

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Secret Gig Announced!

Our mysterious alter-egos 'Comedy Trio' appear to have followed us up to Edinburgh and have managed to wangle themselves a secret gig at the Pleasance at tonight!

In the guise of Martin Brady-Small, Jon Grimshaw and Jazz L Carter, we'll be staging a performance of A Live Transmission of 'Adventure Time' - the interactive mock-radio-comedy show we've been developing this year.

Comedy Trio will be attemting to record - and stream live on the internet - two episodes of their new radio show: a murderously funny film-noir sppof and a murder mystery to die for. This spoof-tacular, pun-dimensional show looks set to be the perfect way to end the Festival on a bang - featuring missing actresses, audience voiced-aliens and rebellious technology.

Although it's a secret gig, we're announcing the details here on our blog. It's all kicking off at quarter past midnight (12:15am) tonight (Saturday 29th August) in the Jack Dome (Pleasance Dome). And entrance is free with the code-word "Scarlett".

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Comedy Trio Have Arrived!

Three's Company opened their latest offering to the Buxton Fringe last night.

Comedy Trio struggled through their latest episode of Adventure Time with the help of a brilliant Buxton Audience, and an excellent impromptu performance from our latest 'guest star' Neyire Ashworth.

Just to let you know Neyire is performing in her new one-woman show in Buxton and Edinburgh. Don't miss the remarkable Stolen Voices. 'A truly commendable performance!' BUXTON FRINGE 2009

Adventure Time has a few more shows in Buxton, so don't miss out. Comedy Trio return to The Paupers Pit on 13th, 14th, 23rd and 26th.

The Official Buxton Fringe Review said:

'Three's Company were on top form!'

'The hard worked script was delivered at Mach 1 speed and left me breathless but smiling. It was full of innuendo, satire and word play... don't worry if you miss a gem or two, relax and you'll hear the next one.'

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Blogger Michael Grady-Hall said...

Since Neyire's wonderful performance we have been honoured to have had Bryony Harding perform with us on 13th and Celia Dunk (or Celia What as she told Comedy Trio), a real treat on 14th.
Who knows who it'll be Thursday and Sun!

20 July 2009 19:46  
Blogger Michael Grady-Hall said...

On Thursday we had an old teacher of ours filling Teresa's spot. Jackie Cruise was wonderful as a (french) Miss Claret. And on Sunday, Rob Gibbs was first to volunteer, so Miss Claret and Miss Dumpling had unnervingly deep voices.
Congratulations to both!

29 July 2009 14:37  

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WARNING: Comedy Trio descend on Buxton!

Exciting news, as well as bringing Play On Words back to Buxton, Three's Company will be bringing two new episodes of their interactive-comedy-radio-show A Live Transmission of Adventure Time!

3C's alter-ego Comedy Trio attempt to record Episodes 3 and 4 of their spooftastic radio comedy, but a late actress, broken CDs, script malfunctions and a large dollop of over-ambition see the audience dragged in to save the day.

Join Tom, Yaz and I (as Jon, Jazz and Martin (playing Nigel, Ronnie and Archie)) with a special guest appearance from Buxton favourite Kayleigh McDonald.

Click here to book.

This summer, Noir is the new Black!

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Audience To The Rescue In Sci-fi Adventure

Thanks to everyone who came down to see A Live Transmission of 'Adventure Time' Episode #II: Attack of the Grabons and filled the house at the Midnight Matinees on Saturday. The show was a huge success and that's mostly thanks to the audience! For those of you that didn't, we got a video and two recordings, so you'll be able take a look and listen, and quietly sob over what you missed. A helpful chap on the front row took some photos with Yaz's camera, so you can also see photos of the show in our gallery, or check out our Adventure Time collection on flickr. Finally, we'll be blogging soon about the theory behind A Live Transmission of Adventure Time, and the experiments it's designed to show. Look out for that soon!

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Anonymous Kathleen said...

Hello there,

I can say it was a success and the audience was quite remarkable.
Yes, I was there and able to experience it first hand, when I was, in a way, "volunteered" as one of the Ex-wings. I couldn't refuse and didn't want to either since I went to see the show to grasp what you guys call immediacy or intereactive theatre.
Let me tell you I had a great time, and though I stick by my idea that theatre still has a unique identity (my answer to the post "the future of theatre") in regards to cinema and TV, there is definitely space for "mainstream" regular theatre and some new adventures. We actually need it in art.

I can now say I am hooked. You made it so easy and comfortable to be on stage, that I am sure people will want to go for it, even the most shy.

I have a question though: do you think it is a concept applicable to drama or can it only work with comedy?

Well, when is the next episode?

P.S: by the way, Yaz is quite a champion at having plenty of ex-girlfriends!

Kathleen (Ex-wing 5)

24 March 2009 09:17  
Blogger Tom Crawshaw said...

Kathleen,

So glad you enjoyed the show. Getting people, who would otherwise be nervous of the idea of interaction, to experience how fun theatre can be when you're a part of it is one of our main aims. It's certainly one we plan to take further with our Edinburgh show this year - provisionally titled 'Play The Play'.

We certainly felt this episode was a good indicator of how much people appreciate an opportunity to experience theatre in a different way. And how keen they are to be a part of it. Even if they are sceptical to begin with.

Thanks very much for helping us experiment. We don't have any other episodes planned at this precise moment (what with Edinburgh plans) but there are an intended seven in the 'Adventure Time' series!

This is an idea we are applying to comedy at the moment - as it seems to lend itself very obviously and comedy is an area our company has a lot of experience in. However, we do feel there is much potential for inter-reactive theatre that is mainly serious in tone. Possibly something for a few years down the line...

P.S. That's true - do you know Yaz then?

1 April 2009 12:52  

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It's Adventure Time - again!

Hey Three's Company fans!

If you hadn't already heard, we'll be onstage again at the Midnight Matinees this Saturday (21st March), at - you guessed it - midnight.

After the phenomenal success of A Live Transmission of Adventure Time - Episode #1: The Lady of FunnyHaHa, we've been invited back to the Tristan Bates theatre for Episode #2.

The show is another comedy, taken over by our fictional alter-ego theatre company Comedy Trio, and once again the audience will play an integral part in making it work.

If you want to be in that audience then call 020-7240-6283 or email boxoffice@tristanbatestheatre.co.uk and ask for a ticket to the Midnight Matinee - just £5. Book soon, they're prone to selling out!

The Midnight Matinees are an acclaimed monthly showcase for new work, featuring scratch performances a time. So for your fiver, you'll also get to see a reading of a new play by Royal Court writer Dean Stalham and a performance by Total Theatre nominees Bottlefed Ensemble. Talk about value for money.

Finally, a sneak preview of our Intro:

Find out more here.

See you there!

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Three's Company hit the West End

That's right, Three's Company's first performance since going full-time will be at the Tristan Bates Theatre in the West End... although at the not-quite-prime-time of midnight.

Each month, the Tristan Bates runs the 'Midnight Matinees' - a showcase for new work with a strong following among London theatre fans happy to stay up late.

We will be producing a new piece of interactive theatre - expanding on the work we started in Auditorium - based around the recording of a new radio comedy.

Most exciting, this latest work will be in collaboration with up-coming comedy group Comedy Trio - formed by Martin Brady-Small, John Withershaw & Jazz Carter. We can't go into detail about the exact nature of this collaboration here but head to their website - comedytrio.co.uk - to find out more.

The piece - A Live Transmission of 'Adventure Time' - will be appearing, along with other work, as part of the 'Midnight Matinee' at the Tristan Bates Theatre on Saturday November 15th - starting at (surprise surprise) midnight.

The shows sell-out each month but it would be really good to have a little bit of a home crowd so do please come along (if you don't mind a late night). It's only £5 (!) for the whole evening's entertainment and tickets can be booked by calling 020 7240 6283 or emailing boxoffice@tristanbatestheatre.co.uk

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