The Crick Crack Club Christmas Carols Show - stories by Ben Haggarty, Tim Ralphs and Steph Brittain, music by Sheema Mukherjee and Raoul Neumann

The Crick Crack Club Christmas Carols Show - stories by Ben Haggarty, Tim Ralphs and Steph Brittain, music by Sheema Mukherjee and Raoul Neumann

The Mount Without, Upper Church Lane, St Michael's Hill, Bristol BS2 8FN | 7th December 2025, 4pm and 7pm | Tickets: adults from £8, children from £5 (free for under 5s)

With Sheema Mukherjee and Raoul Neumann banging out the carols; stories from Tim Ralphs, Ben Haggarty and Steph Brittain; disorders of service, chaotic sing-alongs, and Christmas tree shrines - this is the Crick Crack Club Christmas Carol Show!

We've untangled our fairylights and polished our best baubles ready to fill your stockings with festive frippery, glee and a touch of magic. 

Join us to unwrap a teetering pile of winter-wonderlandish fairytales and glowing-by-the-fire other-tales; eat mince pies; drink mulled wine; exorcise any hint of Scrooge; skid down the icy lanes of the very best Christmas carols, and most of all, sing your heart out!

Break out your fave Christmas jumpers; tinsel-up to excess, and bring your Christmas wishes to add to our shrine. We'll supply the mistletoe - you bring the kisses.

More information and tickets for the family show: https://crickcrackclub.com/crick-crack-events/the-crick-crack-club-christmas-carols-show-for-families/ 

More information and tickets for the grown-up show: https://crickcrackclub.com/crick-crack-events/christmas-carols-show-bristol/

THE CRICK CRACK CLUB
The Crick Crack Club is England’s premier promoter and programmer of performance storytelling. Founded in 1987, it has programmed work for, and in collaboration with, The Barbican, The South Bank Centre, The National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Northern Stage, Cheltenham Literature Festival, The British Library, York Theatre Royal, The Wellcome Trust, The British Museum and many, many others. The Crick Crack Club programmes regular sell-out performances at venues across the UK, including The Story Museum, Bristol’s Cube and Cranborne Earthouse; tours work nationally; offers training, and mentors emerging artists.

BEN HAGGARTY is Artistic Director of the Crick Crack Club and one of the UK’s most popular contemporary performance storytellers. Renowned for his playful, physical and often challenging performances, his repertoire spans fairytales for grown-ups, Greek and Irish mythology, the epic of Gilgamesh and contemporary myths of Frankenstein and The Sandman. Ben will be telling Stories in the Dark with some superb guest storytellers, including Steph Brittain and Sarah Liisa Wilkinson.

STEPH BRITTAIN’S love for storytelling developed whilst studying Kathak dance in Paris and Delhi and it continued to grow during her MA in Drama and Movement therapy. She trained in performance at Acting International in Paris and Drama Centre London and has performed at Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, Arcola Theatre London and for the BBC.

TIM RALPHS is a storyteller and active exponent of narrative in art. His storytelling is rooted in the oral tradition: the craft of a speaker weaving language and gesture to entrance an audience and bring a tale to life. He has performed everywhere from majestic Teutonic castle at Alden Biesen in Belgium, to the muddy Shropshire fields of The Festival at the Edge, to the sophisticated theatres of Soho and The Barbican.

SHEEMA MUKHERJEE absorbed North Indian classical music and the western tradition side-by-side, studying sitar and Indian classical music under the tutelage of her uncle, the late Pandit Nikhil Banerjee and then with the late Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Today she is an established sitar player and composer; a regular in Transglobal Underground; a key member in The Imagined Village project and a formidable collaborator with internationally renowned artists from many genres.

RAOUL NEUMANN grew up playing in rock bands, studying classical French horn, singing in church choirs, and eventually graduated from KCL with a first class degree in music in 2013. Raoul is a member of London Contemporary Voices, Trans-Siberian March Band and Kickback function band. He has performed and recorded with a wide variety of talented international artists, and has enjoyed touring and performing all over the world.