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Jemima Coulter & Essy Sparrow
Jemima coulter & Essy Sparrow
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Friday 31 July 2026
£13
8pm (doors 7pm)
Join us for an evening of live music with Essy Sparrow and Jemima Coulter.
Line-up Change
Please note a change to the evening's line-up. Unfortunately, Lily Lyons is no longer able to perform alongside Essy Sparrow. While we're sorry that Lily can no longer join us, we're delighted to welcome Jemima Coulter, who will now be performing with Essy Sparrow.
Essy Sparrow is a multi-disciplinary artist and songwriter creating gossip-filled nostalgic indie folk from her coastal studio in Cornwall. In 2025 she played Boardmasters with BBC Introducing, supported Tors and Semler, joined Lily Lyons in opening for The Staves and sold out her 200-cap London headline at St Mary with All Souls.
Jemima Coulter is a multi-disciplinary artist working in impressionistic, dreamlike territory, turning disconnection and uncertainty into something stranger and more magical. Alongside their work with Hailaker, Coulter writes and produces largely alone at home, weaving studio recordings with iPhone voice memos and layering vocals over synths, piano, and guitar to create something intimate, playful, and entirely their own.
Before the performance by Essy Sparrow & Jemima Coulter, we'll be joined by Anya Wilding, who will be hosting a free collage craft table in our ground floor studio from 6:30pm. Everyone is welcome to drop in and take part before the show.
Jemima Coulter
DNYT: Show in a Week
DNYT: SHOW IN A WEEK
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Monday 27th - Friday 31st July 2026
£150 full week, pp
£40 per day, pp
9:30am-3:30pm per day
“Magic, myths and a dash of mayhem.”
Come face to face with cunning goblins, wicked witches and many more as you discover the stories behind them all!
Join us for a thrilling week of theatre making as you enter a magical kingdom filled with dragons, unicorns and mermaids. Discover extraordinary creatures from myths and legends as you journey deeper into this weird and wonderful new world.
Academic Years R – 3 Leap into a world of imagination, bringing to life some of the marvellous creatures that bring their own special type of mischief to the magical kingdom.
Academic Years 4 - 8 Take centre stage as we create a high-energy, wildly imaginative original show, packed with unforgettable characters and epic storytelling.
Dates: Monday 27th – Friday 31st July 2026
Time: 9:30am-3:30pm each day
Venue: The Nutshell, 15 Kings Walk, Winchester SO23 8AF
Cost: £150 per person, per week 5% sibling discount (bursaries available)
Day Rate: £40
Includes: Acting, singing, dancing and costume/set making
Performance: Friday 31st July at 3pm
The Nutshell Jazz Club: Emerging Sessions Joe Evans Sextet: Messengers and More
The Nutshell Jazz Club: Emerging Sessions
Joe Evans Sextet: Messengers and More
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Thursday 23 July 2026
£20, £13 students
8pm (doors 7pm)
Exciting young jazz trombonist Joe Evans brings his all star sextet to the Nutshell Jazz Club.
Hailing from Southampton, Joe graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2025 and is now based in London. Joe has worked with the likes of Giacomo Smith, Joe Webb, Mark Nightingale, Dave O’ Higgins and with groups such as the BBC Big Band, Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra and the Simon Spillet Big Band.
The band will present the Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers album “Caravan” along with original compositions by Joe.
Joe Evans - Trombone
Gabriel Taylor - Trumpet
Toby Evans - Tenor Saxophone
Toby Evans - Guitar
Guy Dempsey - Double Bass
Kai MacRae - Drums
THE NUTSHELL JAZZ CLUB
Join us on the third Thursday of every month* for an evening of Jazz, bring your own food and drinks a plenty in an intimate cabaret style setting.
In partnership with Winchester Jazz Festival and Alex Western-King we will host some of the UK’s best Jazz musicians on The Nutshell stage.
*please check dates as due to holiday season we will occassionally shift from the third Thursday!
Return to the Forbidden Planet
Return to the Forbidden Planet
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Thursday 16th - 18th July 2026
£16/£14 & PWYC*
7pm & 2pm (sat mat)
Fasten your seat belts, set your ray guns to stun, and get ready for a cosmic adventure of meteoric proportions!
Winner of the 1990 Olivier Award for Best Musical, this interstellar smash bursts with red-hot rock & roll hits including Great Balls of Fire, Good Vibrations, Teenager in Love, and The Young Ones.
Bob Carlton’s spectacular West End musical takes the 1956 sci-fi film with a plot inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest and raids the Bard’s other works at will, setting it all to a show-stopping soundtrack of classic pop hits from the 1960s and 70s.
Romeo & Juliet
Romeo & Juliet
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A DNYT Production.EVENT DETAILS
Thursday 9th - 11th July 2026
£16/£14 & PWYC*
7pm & 2pm (sat mat)
‘Star-crossed’ lovers, Romeo and Juliet, are caught in a brutal feud between their warring families, whose hatred poisons everything it touches. Against a backdrop of violence and fear, they dare to defy fate itself, risking everything for a chance at love and a future free from hate. But when Romeo is pulled into a deadly clash with Juliet’s fiery cousin Tybalt, their world shatters setting off a chain of events that will change their lives forever and tear apart the fragile bonds of family and loyalty.
DNYT’s bold production of Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy bursts with fierce passion, rebellion, and an aching longing for a world transformed, plunging audiences into a realm where desire blazes like wildfire, dreams clash with harsh reality, and destiny strikes with devastating force.
Urinetown, The Musical
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An exhilarating, not-to-be missed experience…the funniest, most tuneful musical in town.
Multi award-winning Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself! Hilariously funny and touchingly honest, Urinetown provides a fresh perspective of one of our greatest art forms.
Urinetown is “a mythical place…a bad place” that exists not too far in the future, where a terrible water shortage caused by a 20 year drought has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The Citizens must use the public facilities controlled by a single malevolent company that profits by charging for the “privilege to pee”. From amongst the downtrodden and desperate people, a hero decides he’s had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom!
Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis’s Urinetown is an irreverently darkly humorous satire in which no one is safe from scrutiny. Celebrated for challenging the very notion of what a musical should be, Urinetown catapults the audience into a hilarious romp with its outrageous perspective, wicked wit and non-stop ability to produce gales of unbridled laughter.
A Discarded Nut Youth Theatre production.
EVENT DETAILS
Thursday 17th July - Saturday 19th July 2025
7pm + 2pm (Saturday only)
Tickets £12 / £14 / PWYC
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Animal Farm
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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
DNYT is a cutting edge company of young actors committed to creating breath-taking & high-quality contemporary adaptations of classic plays and stories. This year DNYT explore the timeless themes of power, revolution and corruption as they bring Orwell's chilling 'fairy story' to riotous and devastating life.
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.
A Discarded Nut Youth Theatre production.
EVENT DETAILS
Thursday 10th July - Sat 12th July 2025
7pm + 2pm (Saturday only)
Tickets £12 / £14 / PWYC
Please note: no lift access to performance space