Up and Coming
Performances
Shirley Knot the Siren (Competition)
🧜♀️ Catch Debbie’s original musical cabaret; Shirley Knot the Siren, which is starting its 2025 tour. So if you are in Conwyn Wales, you’re in luck! Grab a ticket or tell a friend.
Shirley Knot the Siren, written and starring Debbie, is a nautical musical cabaret about ageing in a society where getting older is a crime punished with invisibility, featuring show tunes, opera and comedy with female identifiers of a certain age at the centre of it.
Book your tickets – Show details below 👇 🧜
Booking for the Competition, Conwy, Wales
What: Seren Yn Codi/Rising Star Semi-Final
When: Friday, 24th January 2025
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Conwy Comrades Club, Conwy, Wales, LL32 8AF
Ticket: £10 You can buy tickets here!
Comedy
Stand Up (Guest Slot)
🎤 Welcome to Debbie’s corner of the world! Debbie Bridge is a neurodiverse comedian navigating life with hidden disabilities, and she’s
Debbie Bridge
here to bring you laughter, perspective, and a little bit of chaos. Life isn’t always as it seems, and that’s exactly what she loves about it. Join her on this wild ride where humor meets reality, and together, we’ll laugh at the things that make us different – because let’s face it, normal is overrated. Let’s dive in!
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Booking for Sunset Comedy, London (Harrow)
What: Sunset Comedy Night
When: Tuesday, 6th January 2025
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Junction Pub, 9 Gayton Road, Harrow HA1 2DH
Ticket: Free entry, so no need to book!
Booking for DC Comedy, Brighton
What: DC Comedy Night
When: Saturday, 24th May, 2025
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: TBC
Ticket: TBC
Talks
Agatha Christie – Woman of Firsts (Talk)
🔎 A surfer, world traveller, collector, archaeologist, and singer – these aren’t the 1st descriptions which come to mind when we think of Agatha Christie. She was all these things and so much more! (To book these events, you will need to use the email links below to contact the local WIs.
Booking for Agatha Christie Talk, London
What: East London WI
When: Tuesday, 16th January 2025
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: St Margarets House, 21 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PL
Ticket: reach out here to find out how book!
What: Stroud Green WI
When: Monday, 20th January 2025
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Haringey, Station House, 73c Stapleton Hall Road, London, N4 3QF
Ticket: reach out here to find out how book!
What is Cabaret? (Talk)
🎤 In this talk Debbie will take you around the world and through some of the history of how and why Cabaret started and why it’s still very much alive today in these tough times.
Booking for Cabaret Talk, Lancing
What: Lancing U3A
When: Saturday, 12 May 2025
Time: 2:00pm
Venue: Jubilee Hall in Lancing Parish Hall, South Street, Lancing, BN15 8AJ
Ticket: reach out here to find out how book!
Classes
Acting Classes
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That’s right, Debbie’s Meisner acting classes will be starting up again in the Spring for a 6 week run.
The weekly Meisner Technique Weekly Courses for Beginners are designed for those who have had some acting training or those who have at least attended an introduction to the approach.
It is an excellent meisner training to undertake if you are looking to add to your acting toolbox. It will encourage you to create acting performances of great power and depth. The sense of play and exhilaration within the training experience is transformative. Over the course you will grow rapidly in confidence and lose self-consciousness, the real enemy of great acting.
The classes are taught by specialist practitioner, Debbie Bridge and designed to be liberating, thrilling and supportive whether you’re new to the technique, or a well versed performer.
It is the perfect building block to compliment training in other mediums such as Screen Acting. The skills you learn in Meisner Beginners will be useful to you not only in performance but are also very transferable into other areas of your working and personal life.
Get ready to enhance your presence, strengthen self awareness and ignite your spontaneity.
Meisner Acting Classes, London
Where: City Academy, 10 Herbal Hill, London EC1R 5EG
When: 6 weeks starting 19 March – 23 April, 2025
Tel: 0207 042 8833
Time: 7-9 pm
Fee: £249.00 – purchase course here! Booking early is advised.