"That's why they call it Café Nero, you know. Because you sit and fiddle with your iPad while the world outside burns."

For over 500 years the smell of coffee has seeped into our streets, our lives, our society.

Hub for gossip, romance, political tub thumping, dodgy deals, completing a new pitch, book clubs, a moment alone, escaping being alone - if walls could talk.

And in one coffee shop in a town just over the horizon, those walls can talk, time escapes us and those that visit the coffee house, dream in the coffee house, plot and scheme in the coffee house all vie for our attention in a beautifully nuanced, funny and poignant new play about the dark stuff.

Writer Rose Biggin is a Bike Shed Theatre Associate Artist. Her writing includes solo pole-dancing show 'The Very Thought', genderqueer retelling 'Victor Frankenstein', and jokes for Radio 4's The News Quiz.

Plunge will be preceded by a ten minute play and is part of Theatre West's season of plays kick-started by the notion of Moving On.

Astronoids

Written by Lucy Bell
Directed by Charlie Coldfield
1st- 5th December 

Tickets: £5 Tuesdays, £10/ £8 Wed-Sat

Running time: one hour

https://www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/plunge/