Summer 2025 The Composter gigs
May 4th Grow Devizes
June 1st Radstock Fayre
July 19vth & 20th Surge […]
Do you believe in Ghosts?
In a new specially commissioned show for the PASSAGE Festival, Aug 3rd-5th, Desperate […]
In 2022, Jon Beedell and Richard Headon will be going back into the streets, directing and performing in a new […]
If you can believe it, 2020 marks Desperate Men’s 40th birthday. Four decades have passed […]
It’s time to put an end to desperation.
In 2020, we will mark forty years of Desperate Men. Too many people live […]
As Desperate Men approach the 40th year of our creative endeavours in 2020, it’s time to reflect and project. […]
WYE VALLEY RIVER FESTIVAL WINS BOWLAND AWARD
Our years acting as Artistic Directors for three Wye Valley River […]
The third Wye Valley River Festival (WVRF) ended on May 20th with fire, music, and the unforgettable sight of […]
WYE VALLEY RIVER FESTIVAL 2018
There’ll be magic in the air at Tintern Abbey next month as the moon rises […]
Bickering away on the road back from fame and fortune
‘WASHED UP’ IS FULLY FUNDEDThanks so much […]
Image by Paul Bullivant
NORWICH BURSTS BRISTOL’S BALLOONS
The sporting world has been rocked by the […]
May 6th
Blooming Whiteway – DNA arts Project
May 13th
Sprung Up Springfield Park Bath – DNA arts […]
BOOTY, BADDIES & BEASTIES
“Have we awoken the terrible Dragon? Will it overwhelm us all?” […]
“Anarchic but consummately crafted sketches” – The Stage review of Slapstick & […]
August 4th – 7th
Countryfile Live, Blenheim Palace
Catch Richard Headon as Dave Fallow hosting Cirque […]
We’re preparing a travelling cavalcade of delights for 2016 as the second Wye Valley River Festival […]
Let the fanfare sound down the river from Hereford to Chepstow – the second Wye Valley River Festival […]
May 9
Round About Radstock
DNA Project
June 4
Circomedia, Bristol
Slapstick and Slaughter
June 14
Bedminster, […]
Water runs under, over and around Bristol, but how many people understand how and when it ebbs, flows, floods […]
Funding success for Wye Valley River Festival 2016 research
We’ve scored a hat-trick with our research […]
SLAPSTICK AND STEPHEN FRY
We will be sharing the stage with the inimitable Stephen Fry on January 25th during […]
We now have some confirmed dates for Slapstick & Slaughter over the summer – go to the Slapstick […]
The first ever Wye Valley River Festival has ended – two weeks of spectacular events from May 3 – […]
Read the report from Outside Online 2014, our second live online forum for outdoor artists!
It took place on […]
2014 kicks off with funding success for Slapstick & Slaughter and an Articulture commission opportunity […]
The arts have been spectacularly effective in communicating the key messages of the AONB.
Wye Valley River […]
Desperate Men are adept at bringing history, heritage and landscape to life, whether through large-scale […]
It’s a miracle! Desperate Men embarks upon our 34th glorious year of existence this September, having […]
Its summer and everybody’s going surfing but we’ve got far too much to do. From the Wye Valley River […]
WYE VALLEY RIVER FESTIVAL
We’re delighted to be working as Creative Organisers on developing the inaugural […]
Jon Beedell was invited by In Situ Theatre to collaborate with Neil Butler and Kosovar theatre company Teatri […]
We help mentor young and emerging companies, with 30 years of experience to pass on to artists interested in […]
DESPERATE MEN IN ACADEMIA
Susan C Haedicke (associate professor professor in the School of Theatre, Performance, […]
