A bi-monthly night of improvised comedy courtesy of Leeds’ very own award-winning improvised sketch group, The Discount Comedy Checkout. All the characters, scenarios, and situations are created using your suggestions.
Each show features a hand-picked guest performer from the UK comedy circuit. This could be another quality improv group, a sketch act, character performer, musical comedian, or a good old-fashioned stand up.
Toxic tackles men’s mental health, masculinity, and friendship. It follows two best friends and the circumstances which have caused them to spiral. Andy’s husband has left him. Best friend James is a man’s man, who uses gags to disguise his vulnerability.
As Andy’s mental health spirals, they both must learn to face their demons head on or destroy their friendships and themselves forever. Time is running out, and their lives are not the only lives at stake.
Warnings: Contains strong language, homophobic references and references to self-harm.
Join us as we tell the tale of The Wind in the Willows, from “Hang Spring Cleaning”, to boats, gypsy caravans, and of course – “poop poop…” – a few cars.
Mike Kenny’s cheerful adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s story sets our stage in the ruins of Toad Hall on the day it is to be sold. Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad reminisce about tales of years gone by and bring the events of this much loved story to life.
Craig, your friendly host, has just inherited a creepy mansion from his Great Uncle Vladimir. Join him as he explores the mansion’s secrets and meets some of its strange and spooky inhabitants.
What GHOULS and SPECTRES haunt the gloomy corridors of this old house?
What are those EERIE SHAPES moving through the dark forest outside?
And what MYSTERIOUS CREATURE lurks in the cellar down below?
The Bubble Show is a unique blend of magic, storytelling, science and bubble art! Enjoy bouncy bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, smoke bubbles, square bubbles, giant bubbles, and even fire bubbles!
Actor, storyteller, and Guinness World Record holder, The Highland Joker, is one of the top bubble artists in the world, bringing you an interactive, fun, international award-winning bubble extravaganza!
The Windrush Secret, set in 2018, is about a young white far right racist party leader, a black Caribbean diplomat and a white Oxford educated Home Office government official who are giving speeches on the same day, at different times, in separate locations about a million people who migrated from the Caribbean to Britain between 1948 and 1973 (The Windrush Generation), and the British political scandal which began in 2018.
One of them has a dark secret that he struggles to come to terms with during his fiery speech–it will change his life forever!
We're kicking off the first ever Leeds Cinema Crawl with a screening of Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom!
Two 12-year-olds, who live on an island, fall in love with each other and elope into the wilderness. While people set out on a search mission, a violent storm approaching them catches their attention.
2012 · 12A · 1hr 34min
Build your very own Morse code machine and earn a code breaking certificate.
Find out about the HMS Aubrietia, the part she played WW2 and how she saved an Enigma machine from a German U Boat.
Later in the the Kings Arms next door to the Museum enjoy a 1940’s evening with entertainment and music.
As part of Back at the Cottage, we're getting together to go Trainspotting!
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.
1996 · 18 · 1hr 33min
As part of Back at the Cottage, we're preparing for Halloween with a screening of The Shining!
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence while his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
1980 · 15 · 2hr 26min