Listings: Afternoon events

Tynan and Brandy coexist within the walls of a crumbling mansion – with only tinned pineapple and the odd animal visitor to entertain them. Day by day they act out each other's bygone memories in a desperate bid to recall what is lost and revel in the hell of it all, until one day an unexpected visitor tumbles…

Municipal Theatre London. Municipal Theatre London presents an adaptation of Lord Byron's classic verse drama: in the dark wilderness beyond the gates of Eden, Cain, the first born son of Adam and Eve holds nothing but contempt for the God that expelled his parents from the sacred garden - until the angel Lucifer…

Foolproof Theatre. Edinburgh, 1844. Jessie Mann, photographer's assistant, is alone in the studio, teaching herself the new technology and fascinated by the possibility of recording her world on salty paper. Meanwhile, having seen the major sites of the city, the King of Saxony decides to have his image captured by an…

Wotlarx Enterprises. Jimmy and Sal are a long established married couple. Jimmy has a terminal illness and is going to end his life by the assisted suicide route. Sal can't face the prospect of life without him and agreed she will share his fate. As they wait for assistance their conversation covers a wide range of…

Théâtre Sans Frontières (UK) & Teatro Tamaska (Canary Islands). Investment banker Bob Drake is up to his neck in debt. Can a rare Canarian wine, once owned by US President Thomas Jefferson, solve his problems? Against a backdrop of 500 years of international wine trade, bankers and fraudsters, find out who the real…

Running Torch Theatre Company. Storytelling at its most bizarre: with shower curtains, kazoos, party blowers and even a cactus! Join this energetic troupe as they regale you with stories bringing anarchic and endearing characters to life, as they journey towards Canterbury. Ages 12+.

Cantica Alba, the Edinburgh-based ten-voiced a cappella ensemble directed by Michael Harris, present a programme of sacred and secular music, from the Renaissance to the present day. Centred around A Hymn to St Cecilia by Benjamin Britten, in his anniversary year, there is also Scandinavian mysticism in Nystedt’s O Crux…

An epic journey in a stationary minibus. Join 14 other passengers for a story of family, of fellow travellers, of whisky and chocolate, of the longest bus journey in Britain. Heartfelt, moving and compellingly intimate. After he retired, my granddad went on a trip from the Midlands up to Cape Wrath, the most…

Brand new pirate adventure comedy and sketch show from The Spider Blues. We introduce to you Alan Beadle, World's Most Polite Man. Every day he sits at his office desk, playing pirate fantasy games and being mocked by his colleagues, before a group of fun-loving pirates find him and take him on the night of his…

Les Petits Theatre Company, Greenwich Theatre and Underbelly Productions. Join Flinn as he discovers a Pirate hiding in a cupboard, hold on tight as the cupboard falls away and together we tumble into a real life adventure! All aboard for a non-stop action-packed theatrical experience with live music, puppetry…

David Burke / Free Festival. Captain Gingerbeard wasn't always a captain, but he did always have a ginger beard. This is a heart-warming tale of one boy's adventure through life. From escaping Ireland during the potato famine to pirates and sea monsters upon the seas. The story of how a little boy from Dingle with a…

Three cardinals in a puppet theatre tell their biblical history of the world, including the Crusades and 20th-century conflict. Wordless, visually gorgeous, unintentionally hilarious and strangely moving, their show relies entirely on their ever-tolerant Muslim Stage Manager. The Cardinals is about faith and…

The Ambassador Theatre Group. An opportunity to gain insight into how to get started in theatre management led by a team from the Ambassador Theatre Group, the largest theatre group in the UK. A workshop covering routes into theatre management, experience and skills required, information from people who have worked…

Aspidistra started from very small beginnings: a group of friends and a folder of music. The folder contained worn sheets of music from the Palm Court era. Impressed by the quality of the material and surprised by the lack of interest from mainstream orchestras and broadcasting, Aspidistra decided to keep this…

Casual Violence! Comedy. Award-winning sketch terrors 'creative, strange, brilliantly performed stuff' (Kate Copstick, Scotsman) and double Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality nominees (2011 and 2012) present the rise and fall and fall and fall and fall and fall and rise and fall of the most villainous bloodline…

Lee is a very naughty cat and his owner Claire tells him about the Cat Police, who round up bad cats every month and drag them away to the Cat Court! Watch and laugh as Lee remembers all of his silly behaviour that would surely land him in the dreaded Cat Castle Prison! A fun show for children involving live…

Organists Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral), Tim Byram-Wigfield (St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle) and Donald Hunt (St Mary’s Cathedral) perform on consecutive Sundays on the Cathedral’s marvellous Father Willis organ. Full details at www.cathedral.net.

The critically acclaimed Choristers of St Mary’s Cathedral present a programme of choral, secular and instrumental music. ‘You will have to go a long way to hear finer choral singing than this’ (International Record Review).

Choral services sung by the Cathedral choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with a tradition of daily services. Evensong on Wednesday 14th August broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Details of music at www.cathedral.net.

A former Times critic’s choice. A whole month of free concerts with leading performers from some of the world’s top conservatoires and universities. Full details at www.cathedral.net.

The Shadow Ape scuffles around in the cupboards of your psyche, waiting for you to carelessly leave the doors open. It's the part of you that you hope will stay away, but always turns up to the party. With a supply of trampohol. 'Rapier wit' ★★★★★ (Scotsgay). 'Comic timing is completely and utterly perfect' ★★★…

Join this raucous buffoon / critically acclaimed star of BBC Radio 4's Sketchorama and Mission Improbable, as she takes her riotously silly characters through seven circles of hell. Prepare to be played. 'Endlessly entertaining' ★★★★ (Chortle.co.uk), 'excruciatingly impressive…a gem' ★★★★ (Fest), 'pitch perfect…the room…

CatSoup Comedy. This is a show that contains four men. One of which likes to do silly voices, one of them is medically obese, one of them is quite tall and the other is called Roger. They have written some sketches, put them altogether into a show and would like to perform them in front of you and make you laugh and…

Hepzibah Theatre Company. Follow the journey of a girl who demands her inheritance before the donor's death. Travelling a superficial world hit by recession, she meets near death experiences and is simultaneously chased by both dealers and a theme of love that she can't escape.On her adventure she discovers whilst she…