Autumn-Winter 2012 Season

Troy lies in ashes. Its temples desecrated, its people massacred - a punishment for the crime of one man and one woman... for the crime of adultery. All that remain are the women of Troy. Under constant threat from the Spartan military, forced into slavery and made mistresses to their conquerors, their bonds are tested beyond endurance.

Bernie wants his pub to be "child friendly", a party atmosphere, a sort of... Santa's Grotto, with himself as Father Christmas. But he's so busy making his dream come true, that his own ten year-old son, Teddy, doesn't get a look in. Funny, full of laughter, moving, disturbing, poignant, and emotionally satisfying. One man’s odyssey, to save his son and his own sanity, from the sinister forces he's exposed them both to.

A hospital room, a traumatised teenager closely guarded by a police woman: Who is she being protected from? Will they find her - or have they already? Only the stranger has the answers, but he doesn't exist.

On a Sunday afternoon in Central Park, New York, Jerry is on a mission to tell his story – to anyone. Peter just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. And before long one of them will be dead.

Katherine Mitchell’s sassy and sensitive new script takes a look at one woman’s sexual revolution and the art of two-wheeling. It’s a witty and funny piece examining the universal quest for acceptance, self-esteem and love (No Whitney Huston belters, we promise).

From Thrice Three Muses. The gothic tale of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

Bristol Improv is currently Bristol's most active improvisational group. Using suggestions from the audience they will create a play on the spot filled with in depth characters, intricate plot twists, plenty of excitement and laughs.

FOOD! Love it or loath it, worship or abuse it, none of us can live without it! One-woman Physical Theatre piece, Amuse-Bouche, explores our relationship with food, the theatrical world of food culture and the media circus that surrounds it. This show dishes up an impactful mix of dark comedy and searing poignancy.

An evening of six new pieces of writing inspired by the Bierkeller space. From the directors that brought you site-specific pieces Moby Dick and My Girl, Dirty Stop Outs will set the bar high for your experience of realism in theatre.

Popular romance novelist Paul Sheldon retires to Colorado to write the final work in a successful series. Driving while inebriated, he loses control of his car. He regains consciousness in a dilapidated farmhouse, cut off from the outside world by a blizzard. His legs crushed, he can only rely on the woman who saved him, Annie, his number one fan.

From Darkstuff Productions (Moby Dick), comes a grand finale to the Bierkeller's horror season: Ichabod Crane and Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt are both competing for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel... but one Autumn night comes the Headless Horseman.