Sunday 7^th October 2012, 7.30pm

@ mac, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH

Tickets: £15 (£12)

Box office: 0121 446 3232 or visit www.macarts.co.uk

NB Replacement Headline Act:

Those pesky telly people have gone and decided the wonderful Isy Suttie will be needed for filming for her new role in Shameless – so sadly she won’t be able to join us as previously advertised. We’re really sorry to anyone who is particularly disappointed.

BUT…. Never fear, as Babs has been on her phone day and night to find a new headline act and secure a wonderful line up for the night. We’re therefore delighted to announce Jo Enright (recent star of Ricky Gervais comedy Life’s too Short) and all round hilarious lady!

We’ve also got local gal made good Annette Fagon, up and coming star Lucy Beaumont and of course never to be underestimated or forgotten – Barbara’s famous raffle will be back!

Women & Theatre’s 5^th Comedy fun(d)raiser is back at mac in style, celebrating World Mental Health Day.  Resident host, housewife and mother of 5, Mrs Barbara Nice, is bringing a bunch of her best comedy girlfriends including headlining act Isy Suttie (Peep Show) to join her for a night of hilarious fun and laughter.

Featuring an exciting line up of some of the UKs top comediennes, and of course, Barbara’s world famous raffle this is a night not to be missed!

Please check www.womenandtheatre.co.uk for confirmation of the full line-up closer to the time.

‘A hybrid between Mrs Merton and Victoria Wood’ (The Times on Barbara Nice)

‘Doesn’t just blur the gap between audience and performer, she obliterates it’ (Edinburgh Evening News on Barbara Nice)

‘One of the most versatile comics in the UK’ (The Scotsman on Isy Suttie)

‘Gloriously upbeat… a wonderfully whimsical musical comedian’ (The Evening Standard on Isy Suttie)

This event is part of the Birmingham Comedy Festival, Friday 5 – Sunday 14 October 2012. www.bhamcomfest.co.uk

Barbara Nice is the comedy creation of Janice Connolly, Women & Theatre’s Artistic Director. Barbara Nice and Gals is a charity Fun(d)raiser for Women & Theatre.

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Underrated: Birmingham the Musical

More miles of canal than Venice? Unlikely.
A tree for every person? Doubtful.
Underrated? Definitely.

Underrated: Birmingham The Musical will be a multi-voiced theatrical extravaganza celebrating the best bits of Brum through the eyes of its young people. Beyond the Bullring and the Balti triangle, what our city means to our most dynamic residents – the next generation who will shape its future.

Underrated has been developed by Women & Theatre working in partnership with Queensbridge Secondary School, Priestley Smith School for the Visually Impaired, and The Children’s Society’s Strong Voices, Strong Lives project for unaccompanied asylum seeking children.

This project has been funded by BCC Next Generation, The Edward & Dorothy Cadbury Charitable Trust, The Eveson Trust, The Ernest Cook Trust, the Harry Payne Trust, and supported by mac Birmingham.

The Palace of Wasted Dreams
Thurs 3rd – Sat 5th & Wed 9th – Sat 12th February, 8pm
mac, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH
Tickets & Information:0121 446 3232 www.macarts.co.uk
Tickets £12 (£8) (Suitable for ages 14+)

It’s here, it’s arrived. Come on in! The Palace of Wasted Dreams.

Licensed for laughing, crying, dancing, singing, surprising and thinking on.
A place where anything can happen, and something always does…
Whether you’ve been before or it’s your very first time, come on down to the Palace!

The Palace of Wasted Dreams is the culmination of a two-year project called Wasted, a new participatory musical theatre project exploring and giving voice to women’s relationship with alcohol.
An essential night out, an intoxicating total live theatre experience. Dress for a night out. Non-drinkers very welcome!

The Palace of Wasted Dreams has been devised by Women & Theatre from materials gathered through research. It is performed by Women & Theatre and a cast of local people and directed by Gwenda Hughes. Music has been composed by Gurdan Thomas and The Company, with musical direction by Clare Edwards. Production Design is by Andrew Purvin, Lighting Design by Simon Bond, and Stage Management by Sara Crathorne.

The Palace of Wasted Dreams is a co-production with mac and is supported by Arts Council England, Aquarius, Sir Barry Jackson Trust, Bryant Trust, AERC, John Feeney Charitable Trust, Birmingham City Council, the Harry Payne Trust, The Grimmitt Trust and The Cole Charitable Trust.

Women & Theatre invite you to join us for a comic feast hosted by everyone’s favourite Kings Heath housewife and mother of five, Mrs Barbara Nice. She presents a friendly and hilarious night of laughter from a high quality pick and mix of the nation’s funniest women. All proceeds go to support our new project, Wasted.

Susan Calman has proved herself a force to be reckoned with from her first gig in Glasgow in 2005 to rave reviews in Edinburgh. “A wee lassie with a big future” (The List)
Francesca Martinez, one of The Observer’s 50 funniest acts in British comedy, “may be wobbly, but never the jokes” (The Stage)
Isma Almas is a promising newcomer with incisive, “fantastic material. She left everyone in her slipstream” (Chortle).
All-female sketch group Lady Garden are “One of the funniest, clever and sexy new sketch groups around” (Time Out) with their rapier-sharp wit.
Barbara Nice, described as “a hybrid between Mrs Merton and Victoria Wood” (The Times), Barbara Nice “doesn’t just blur the gap between audience and performer, she obliterates it” (Edinburgh Evening News)

All proceeds go to Women & Theatre (B’ham) Ltd. Registered in England & Wales No. 1998448; Registered Charity No. 518580.

Tickets are £12 (£9 concession), available from mac on 0121 446 3232 or online at www.macarts.co.uk