Living Spit, probably South-West England’s favourite two-person musical comedy theatre company, tour their new show Living Spit’s Beauty and the Beast from May 2021.
Living Spit started 2020 with a bang, with our first ever run in London lauded to the hills (“a brilliant, successful show that will ensure you have one of the funniest evenings of the beginning of this decade”) and earning a nomination for a prestigious Off-West End Award. We ended the year with even more of a bang when our brilliant new show *Living Spit’s Beauty and the Beast*, six months in the making, played Bristol Old Vic for just four days before being shuttered by ever-changing regulations.
So we’re bringing it back for 2021.
We’re thrilled that starting in the very week that theatre is legal again we will be back on the road, playing our favourite venues with Living Spit’s Beauty and the Beast. We are playing in our hometown of Clevedon, fulfilling a run that never happened, and playing venues across Bristol, Wiltshire, Surrey, Somerset and Dorset, along with a welcome return to the iconic Minack Theatre.
Living Spit’s Beauty and the Beast
The classic French tale of Beauty and the Beast tells of a bright and beautiful young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. She learns to look beyond the Beast’s hideous exterior and realise the kind heart and soul that lies within.
The enormously popular Living Spit stars Howard Coggins and Stu McLoughlin. Howard is beautiful. There’s no escaping that. But then so is Stu. In fact, Living Spit is widely known as the most physically attractive two-man musical comedy theatre company in the South-West. However, in this tale as old as time one of them will have to portray an ugly, foul-tempered beast. But which one will it be?
From the creators of the Offie award-nominated Six Wives of Henry VIII, the perennial Christmas favourite Living Spit’s Nativity and the “beguiling rib-tickler” (The Times) Living Spit’s Frankenstein The Musical comes a brand-new, monstrously-musical, Disney-defying version of this classic French tale about what it means to be truly beautiful in the 18th century.
Living Spit’s deadpan, well-seasoned repartee pays dividends in this playfully updated version of the 18th century French fable. The Telegraph
A well-loved tale, told with warm-hearted silliness and wit, gently reminding us that beauty is more than meets the eye. Intermission
Rollicking good fun – deserves a standing ovation every night. Bristol 24/7
Age guidance 12+
LIVING SPIT presents LIVING SPIT’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
The Pound Arts Centre, Corsham. 21 May.
Theatre Shop, Clevedon: 24 May – 17 June.
Salisbury Playhouse: 18 June.
The Spring, Havant: 21-22 June.
Bridport Arts Centre: 24 June
The Exchange, Sturminster Newton: 30 June – 1 July.
Chew Magna Church Hall: 2 July
The Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis. 6 July.
RHS Wisley, Woking. 8 July.
Minack, Penzance, Cornwall: 10 – 11 July.
Bristol Summer run 13 – 17 July venue under wraps
Plus further dates to be announced
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