8th September 2025

Show Time: 7:30pm

Price: £5.00

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Redgrave Theatre Showcase – An Evening of Music and Spoken Word

Join us for a vibrant evening of live music and spoken word performances at the Redgrave Theatre Showcase. This exciting new event will feature 4 talented musicians and 4 spoken word artists from the local community, offering a platform for fresh voices and original creativity. 

Whether you're a long-time theatre-goer or new to the space, we would like to invite you to experience diverse performances on your local stage. 

Expect an evening full of inspiration, emotion, and creativity as these local artists share with you their powerful songs and thought-provoking words.

This is a fantastic opportunity to enjoy a night of local talent and celebrate the art of live performance in a welcoming, community-focused space.

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The Lineup for the September Showcase

Phil Cooper

Phil Cooper is a contemporary folk-pop troubadour based in Bristol. He is best known as one third of folk / americana trio The Lost Trades, but has also been performing solo for the best part of two decades, sharing the stage with the likes of Badly Drawn Boy, The Bluetones, Mark Chadwick, and many more.

His vocals and varied songwriting have been compared to the likes of James Taylor, Neil Finn (Crowded House), Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze), Stephen Stills, and Glen Hansard.

A live performance with Phil is friendly and engaging, and you'll be sure to laugh and cry, all whilst tapping your feet and humming along to the instantly catchy melodies he weaves.

Retini Dunleavy

Retini was raised in Queens, New York, before settling in Bristol, UK.

Having been influenced strongly by Singer songwriters of the 1960’s, her music explores a range of different acoustic styles, blending a range of vocal sounds and melodic instrumental styles.

Retini’s songs are inspired by emotions of love, her personal experiences of life and global events. She enjoys performing at different venues around the Southwest and loves discovering the wealth of music in and around Bristol.

Mandy Woods

Now based in Glastonbury, Somerset, singer-songwriter Mandy Woods has had a nomadic life in music, crafting songs wherever she has happened to find herself on her unconventional journey on both sides of the Atlantic.

Her Americana-infused songs of hope, heartbreak, humour, and the highway – with harmonica thrown in for good measure – are inspired by her own life and adventures, and the lives of those around her.

Anya Pailthorpe

Anya Pailthorpe is an independent singer-songwriter, taking notes from folk, pop, and indie. For fans of Dodie, Laura Marling, and The Staves, her songs tell the tales of adventures in love and connection, with the occasional deep dive into something darker.

Anya studied music at the Hereford College of Arts back in 2017, and then went on to travel the world with her guitar, writing songs of her experiences. Now settled back in the UK, she just celebrated the release of her latest album, Songs of a Travelling Heart, and is in the process of writing the next one.

Ken Rich

Rich spent the first half of his life in Bristol and now lives and works on a country estate in Hampshire.

He left school in the early '70s with no qualifications, but a love of words and language. Since the mid-1990s, he’s been having fun with words—winning his first Poetry Slam in 2000. The £5 prize money then set him up for life…

Rich prefers to call himself a wordsmith rather than a poet, enjoying making people smile with his unconventional Horrible Haikus.

Pete Weinstock

Pete has worked for nearly fifty years with ‘people in crisis’. This experience informs his poetry. Writing became a strategy for dealing with the intensity of feeling, and the unresolvable nature of this reality.

Pete also learnt that writing can be fun, and writes to entertain himself and others. In 2009, he trained as a Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes practitioner to enable him to use creative writing safely in his work with others.

Pete has an unruly mind that goes to unexpected places, then dodges about when it gets there. The results are sometimes surprising and occasionally amusing.

Becky Cawley Hassall

Becky Cawley moved to Bristol for love over a decade ago. Now 40, she’s a queer divorcee, mother, and finance director who splits her time between parenting, spreadsheets, and a compulsion to interrogate everything through writing.

Her personal non-fiction has appeared in Contrary Magazine, BabyTeeth Journal, and the anthology Awfully Hilarious: Period Pieces, with work forthcoming in Folly Journal and Heimat Review. She writes about relationships, sexuality, parenting, and class.

* The lineup is subject to change.

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Doors open 30 minutes before the performance start time.

Age Recommendation: 16+ (under 18s must be accompanied by a parent or guardian)

Approx Running Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes (with interval)

*£1.30 booking fee will be added per ticket