Backyard Theatre
What use is sitting alone in your room? Life IS a Cabaret, so . . why not indulge yourself, your family, your friends and come to Watchet's one and only Backyard Theatre!
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Discover our upcoming shows and events
THE 39 STEPS
Saturday, 27th June 2026 at 7:30pm
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes (including interval)
Age Advisory: 12+
Prepare for an evening of suspense and intrigue as 'Don’t Go Into The Cellar' Theatre Company presents Jonathan Goodwin’s captivating performance of The 39 Steps. An award-winning actor, Goodwin writes and stars in this stage adaptation of John Buchan’s thrilling, classic Edwardian spy tale, famously brought to the screen in 1935 by Alfred Hitchcock.
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A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
Friday, 10th July 2026 at 7:30pm
Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes (including interval)
Age Advisory: 10+
British Theatre Guide
"If you haven't seen Dyad Productions’ work before, you simply must"
The award-winning Dyad Productions (Lady Susan, That Knave, Raleigh, Christmas Gothic, I, Elizabeth, Female Gothic, A Christmas Carol and Austen’s Women) return with a twenty-first century take on Virginia Woolf’s blisteringly brilliant pre-TED talk.
Take a wry, amusing, and incisive trip through the history of literature, feminism, and gender. Meet Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Aphra Behn, and Shakespeare’s sister – Judith! Introducing a different way to look at our creativity, it even comments on what life will be like in the 2020s! Come and be amused, challenged and changed.
Rebecca Vaughan performs Woolf’s 1928 exploration of the impact of poverty and sexual inequality on intellectual freedom and creativity.
PLEASE NOTE THIS SHOW IS PERFORMED IN ITS ENTIRETY FOLLOWED BY AN INTERVAL, AFTER WHICH REBECCA VAUGHAN WILL RETURN TO THE STAGE FOR A Q&A SESSION .
You haven't seen Dyad Productions’ work before, you simpl
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UNDER THE HAMMER
Friday, 24th July 2026 at 7:00pm
Duration: 2 hours 40 minutes (including interval)
Age Advisory: 15+
A unique immersive experience by multi-award winning theatre company Brave Bold Drama.
A painting by Johannes Vermeer is going under the hammer at a high value art auction, overseen by top- secret art detective agency the Company of International Artists. Your contacts are Agents Kahlo and Dali. But wait. . mysterious intel suggests that all is not right.The game is afoot !
Can YOU crack the case?
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CARELESS TALK
Saturday, 1st August 2026 at 7:30pm
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes (including interval)
Age Advisory: 12+
A true story of high treason, espionage, spam fritters;
with Ali Williams, a versatile hat-stand and one stunning frock.
The only British person to be tried and charged with treason in the Second World War takes to the stage for the first time. Was Mabel a collaborator? A visionary? Or just an outsider? Was she the victim of a witch hunt? Or the victim of her own uncompromising nature? Join Mabel on Sandown Beach with her secateurs, sequined tassels and heartfelt - if misguided - self-belief.
Based on the novel 'Careless Talk' by James Friel, shortlisted for the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize.
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