Artsreach & The Exchange is proud to welcome

Charlie Bicknell & Louise Innes presents

Cabaret with Balls

Charlie Bicknell and Louise Innes invite you to join them for an evening which showcases their own inimitable mash of the irreverent and surreal. From Flashdance to Simon and Garfunkel interspersed with stimulating radio broadcasts from BBCs ‘Back Row’, expect AC/DC and even a throw-back to Not the Nine O Clock News.

Cabaret with Balls is a refreshing departure from real life and an arrival at the conclusion that it’s all bollocks anyway. Welcome back Benedict Cumberbatch and of course, Charlie will still be Holding out for that Hero...

“Charlie Bicknell and Louise Innes combine a gloriously dark sense of humour with amazing voices and extraordinary physical skill. A great fun night out not to be missed” – The Independent on Sunday

Charlie Bicknell became a household name playing ‘Delilah’ in BBC2’s This Life and subsequently starred as ‘Scout’ in Ben Elton’s West End hit Popcorn. Continuing to work as an actress with leading roles in the West End, Royal National theatre, Birmingham Rep, Chichester etc and in TV and film, Charlie then moved into cabaret and circus, performing all over the world.

Louise Innes is a versatile operatic mezzo soprano who made her Royal Opera debut in 2010 singing Mercedes in Carmen. Louise has gone on to perform a variety of roles, and has sung at venues including Covent Garden Opera House, Scottish Opera, La Scala, Festival Hall, and 10 Downing Street to name but a few.

Presented in partnership with Artsreach, Dorset’s rural arts charity.  Suitable 16+

“Witty, wanton, wonderful -  shamelessly sexy, murderously funny. You have been warned!” The Observer

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It’s hard to believe it’s over 60 years since Hank B Marvin, Bruce Welch, Jet Harris and Tony Meehan recorded Apache. This was the monster hit that launched the Shadows instrumental career and founded a nation of bespectacled guitarists dreaming of acquiring their very own Fender Stratocaster, so we are delighted to welcome ‘The Bootleg Shadows’ [ back by popular demand / on their first visit] to The XYZ Theatre.

With their immaculate appearance, synchronised dance movements and clean, pure melodic sound, the Shadows chalked up 35 hits of their own (not counting another 33 hits with Cliff Richard), giving them more hits than any other British group and securing them a unique place in the annals of popular music.

‘The Bootleg Shadows’ perform a show that encompasses the Shadows amazing career from 1960 up until the early 80s.Including All the hits and popular “Cliff”  vocals including some surprises!

Concert audiences are invited to relive fantastic hits such as Apache, Foot Tapper, Man of Mystery, Atlantis, Wonderful Land, Kon Tiki, Don't Cry for Me Argentina, FBI plus many, many more

In the company of Geoff, Keith, Tony, Tim and Binks the audience is taken on a tour of the Shadows career, with plenty of humour to make it a night out to remember. For anyone who loves the sounds of the 60's - and enjoys a few laughs on the way – ‘The Bootleg Shadows’ perform a unique tribute that has audiences humming the tunes and doing the Shadows famous 'walk' long after they have left the theatre.