Arena Nights - Autumn 2026

In partnership with Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists, we are delighted to present Arena Nights – an initiative celebrating ideas and emerging talent. Arena Nights will bring together a vibrant mix of performance, experimentation, and new work.

Whether you are a performer looking to share your work, or an audience member seeking something new and unexpected, Arena Nights promises an informal and welcoming space to experience live performance in its most immediate and rawest form.

In the spirit of fringe theatre, tickets will be Pay What You Feel.

September Show Details

‘Easy Money’ is a comedy spoken word show written and performed by Clive Oseman, in which Mickey Tipp, a popular writer well known to be dismissive of ghosts or any form of afterlife, is challenged to appear on a TV show, staying alone for a week under strict conditions in a reputedly haunted house for a fee of £20,000. He believes it will be the easiest money he will ever earn. But is it?

Clive Oseman is a widely published, multi-slam winning Brummie spoken word artist, humorist, satirist, storyteller, promoter and workshop facilitator with a liking for wordplay and the surreal and absurd, who has three times competed at the UK slam finals. He has headlined/ featured at events and Festivals around the UK as well as in New York City, where he featured on the Blackbird Stage at the New York City poetry festival on Governors Island, and at the 5C conference Centre in Manhattan in 2022, and in Lisbon, Portugal at Good Company Bookshop in July 2025. Previous one person shows Getting to know Elizabeth (performed online only in the covid era) and What if they laugh at me? (performed nationally) were well received. His fifth book, “Dig This and Smile” a collection of his own brand of humorous poetry and prose, was published by Alien Buddha Press in September 2025. His next book is scheduled to be published in Spring 2027 with Poetic Edge Publishing.