Behind The Headlines – Sketch Comedy in Birmingham

Shakespeare: Tragedy Plus Time Equals Comedy

In Elizabethan London a small group of actors are in rehearsal. They are joined by a new playwright, Will Shakespeare, who is trying to write the perfect tragedy. The problem is that audiences keep on laughing at his scenes.

Join the players as they run through the first drafts of Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth and Hamlet, and let your laughter tell the Bard what he needs to change.

Sketch Comedy About The News

Join us for this topical panel show where local comedians perform sketches based on recent news stories.

As the news changes so does the show, creating hilarious and memorable moments in every performance.

“This small but perfectly formed group of local comedians delivered laugh after laugh in an evening of topical sketch comedy inspired by headlines from the previous month’s news.

The concept works brilliantly: a compere reads out a headline and shares basic details of a recent news story, sets up a scenario, allocates roles to the competing performers and, with barely any thinking time, off we go.

Headlines ranged from local to national, personal to political….Memorably surreal sketches included Boris and Stanley Johnson and a take on the knighthood scandal involving a gong made out of a baby and Harry and Megan forced out of Frogmore Cottage to the workhouse and ultimately the mines.

An enjoyable evening of comedy performed in a gem of a location.”

– Theatre Whippet