Newcastle's Alphabetti Spaghetti, a fringe theatre company based in a room above the Dog and Parrot pub in Clayton Street in the city centre, has two shows this month.
Comedy sketch group Teeth in Eggcups will revive two of its 2012 Edinburgh Fringe shows and launch Episode 3 next week. Episode 1 (Jesus, Chckens and a Terrible Grim) plays at the Dog and Parrot on Monday; Episode 2 (Superheroes, Love and Telemarketing) is revived at the Cumberland Arms in Byker on Tuesday, and, on Wednesday and Thursday, the company returns to the Dog and Parrot with Episode 3 (The Quest for the Ultimate Sketch).
Teeth in Eggcups is Ali Pritchard, Dale Jewitt, Jacob Anderton and Hannah Murphy.
Then from 27 to 30 July, Alphabetti Spaghetti presents Best Bitter, an hour-long production written entirely in verse. It's set in The Meat & Tackle, just a standard pub where the regulars are watching yet another woeful performance by a lacklustre England team in the world cup. But when the match doesn’t go to plan the audience begin to observe the individual stories and hidden personalities of the eight characters in the pub.
It's written and performed by Asa J Maddison and Daniel Smith, and is produced and developed by Ali Pitchard, Alphabetti Spaghetti's founder and artistic director.