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Coming up in September 2025
ELEVEN MAGPIES IS A QUARTET OF MUSICIANS WHO MET DOING THEATRE. Join Theatre composer and multi-instrumentalist Ian Ross (Kneehigh, Wise Children, Told by an Idiot, Tobacco Factory) and his band Eleven Magpies for an evening of music and stories. There’ll be deep chat about loss and joy, there’ll be difficult counting and a chance to sing along. Ian, Alex Vann (Spiro, Three Cane whale), James Gow (Jow) and Lizzy Westcott (Theatre Alibi, Bristol Old Vic) will be joined by a…
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The Shambles @ Wiveliscombe Town Hall presents: Neil Brand’s Silent Comedy Triple-Bill 12 July 2025
Check out this awesome triple-bill in July! The three greatest silent comedians come together for one awesome show presented by piano dynamo and much-loved broadcaster Neil Brand. Charlie Chaplin’s classic The Rink features the Tramp working as a waiter in a high-class restaurant and bunking off to the roller-skating rink in his spare time, where he gets involved with a beautiful skater and a philandering villain, culminating in the roller-chase of all time! Buster Keaton’s The High Sign involves Buster looking for work on the…
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Films in April
The Shambles presents: ‘A Life on the Farm’ and ‘The Nettle Dress’. At Wiveliscombe Town Hall, Friday 7th and Sunday 7th April
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Four Seasons in one afternoon
A snowman melts, wasps chase a sandwich, a cow does a poop and Newby the sheepdog wins the trials. How can all this happen in just one afternoon?
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Four Seasons
Saturday 9th March (1:30pm and 4pm) and Sunday 10th March (10:30am and 1:30pm), 2024 The Shambles is delighted to welcome back Little Bulb, of Mountain Music fame, to Wivey, with this beautiful show; a theatrical love letter to nature for children and their families! We begin in Winter, where frost crunches underfoot, icy winds blow, and snow is softly falling all around. Much of nature seems to be asleep. But somewhere, preparations for something truly wonderful are underway. Join our…
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Praise is Lovely!
It’s always nice to be thanked, so to get this from Wiveliscombe Town Council was special.
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MONDAY 18th DECEMBER: An Evening with Eleven Magpies
Led by Bristol-based composer, multi-instrumentalist and music director Ian Ross (Wise Children, Kneehigh), the band features Alex Vann (Spiro, Three Cane Whale), Elizabeth Westcott (Yesterday’s Camel) and James Gow (Jow). To book tickets please follow the link: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/601697“ Together, Eleven Magpies chart a whirling journey of plucked and bowed strings, through humorous miniatures and sorrowful madrigal-esque beauty, then up into unexpected flights that come to land in moments of serene stillness. They are delighted to present an evening of music…
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Help! I think I’m a Nationalist (say it softly)
Well he (Seamus Carey) came. He saw Wivey Explorer Scouts putting out the chairs. He even played his Cornish bagpipe. Event number three at the Town Hall with another full house, taking our seats not knowing exactly what to expect of the advertised “controversial sell out comedy show about identity, second homes, xenophobia and (aforementioned) bagpipes.” Was it a pure challenging and entertaining act or just an interactive lesson/workshop (with scones, cream and jam) in exactly what makes the Cornish people wince and…
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A Vampire Visited Upon Wiveliscombe
A horror film is not the standard Sunday afternoon matinée, but neither is it typical to have the composer of the musical score perform live for the audience. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is a silent film first screened in 1922. Adapting the story of Dracula, but without the permission of Bram Stoker’s heirs, all copies of the film were meant to be destroyed after court rulings for copyright infringement. But a few prints were saved and the film is…
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We Scaled A Mountain
Last night saw our Town Hall properly open its doors for the first time in over 50 years. And what a night it was. Mountain Music, performed by the phenomenally talented Little Bulb Theatre, tells the story of European settlers setting out to find a new life on foreign shores, taking their musical traditions with them. There their songs and melodies merge with the musical styles of the Cherokee and the African slaves to become the music of Apalachian Mountains…
