Reading’s newest theatre venue will play to host to a variety of theatre performances and music as part of this year’s Fringe Festival.

St Bart’s, formerly known as St Bartholomew’s Church, was built in 1879 and recently transformed into a new theatre venue.

The venue, in St. Bartholomew’s Road, Reading, is being used as one of the locations for Reading Fringe Festival’s five-day series of events.

The acts due to perform there are from all parts of the UK and the world. They have already been listed by Fringe Review in their top ten as some of the ‘must sees’ of the Fringe 2015.

The schedule for St Bart’s is as follows:

Wednesday, July 15

Recalled Our Song – 7pm to 8pm – £8

These two short plays about the relationships between struggling artists is written and performed by the students of Read Dance and Theatre College. Both plays focus on the lives of struggling artists and the relationships they form.

Thursday, July 16

Seeing Iris – 8pm to 9.15pm – £8

Directed by ‘London 50 Hour Improvathon’ regular, Seamus Allen, the cast of 8 have had 3 weeks, an empty rehearsal room and no scripts to come up with the play. Go and see the results!

Friday, July 17

Seeing Iris – 7pm to 8.15pm – £8

Flamenco Thief – 9pm to 10pm – £8

Craig Sutton, a.k.a The Flamenco Thief, is a English solo-guitarist who uses the body of his guitar as a percussive instrument, and with a loop station layers metronomic hip-hop beats to get audiences dancing, delivering a unique blend of gypsy-Jazz, rumba and ska fused together with intricate Flamenco guitar techniques.

Saturday, July 18

EPICS in moderation – 6.30pm to 7.30pm – £8

Stage-Fright Youth Theatre group presents a series of happenings that changed the world with epic heroes of ordinary life standing beside the demigods of history.

Recalled Our Song – 8pm to 9.15pm – £8

Kalevala – 9.30pm to 11pm – £8

Poetry and World Music from Finland, Kallaton is a unique fusion of Finnish and Finno-Ugric folk music all the way from the Siberian steppe to the Finnish forests.

To find out more about the event take a look at our dedicated Reading Fringe Festival information page.