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Jump-start your day with Joe's heady mix of character comedy and stand-up. Nominated: Best Comedy Individual, Buxton Fringe 2012. ‘Fiendishly subtle’ (List). ‘Bloody good’ (ComedyReviewer.com). ‘Life is a lemon’ (Meat Loaf).

Students have always been revolting but this time it's different. The country's a mess and this lot are going to do something - they're just not sure what. An award-winning new comedy that might just save the world.

Wilson is lost until he discovers Her. Eyes light up and a battery heart begins to beat. Lecoq trained company Superbolt Theatre use physicality and absurd humour to tell the electric love story between man and robot.

In a future Scotland, ruled by an evil clone of a famous 20th-century Scottish politician, a small band of English freedom fighters rise up against their Caledonian oppressors.

It’s a show about brotherly love, unreliable memories, kidney disease and discovering that building giant robots out of cardboard is much harder than one might first imagine.

Ballet /contemporary dance company MurleyDance present their Double Bill programme with piece La Peau (Skin) by David Murley and a new work by choreographer Gwyn Emberton. MurleyDance fuses pointe work with high heels and PVC.

When impoverished Kino finds the pearl of the world he believes his family's life will be transformed, but is blind to the danger of possessing something that everyone wants. Steinbeck's timeless story of wealth, greed and love. www.dumbshow.org

Learn improv comedy skills in this fun five-day intensive training course for all levels. Having performed and taught improv for many years our experienced tutors offer a course with optional performance opportunities. Visit www.tbcimprov.co.uk.

A riotous body-swap comedy from hotly tipped Fringe First winner, DC Jackson. 'One of Scotland's finest young writers' (Scotsman), 'DC Jackson is clearly one to watch' (Independent). Directed by double Fringe First winner Phillip Breen.

Thundering rhythms on huge taiko drums, choreographed muscular synchronisation timed to perfection, stunning post-apocalyptic imagery, belly laugh humour brought to you by Europe's leading taiko group. Feel the energy and experience the power of this spellbinding show.