Recent Productions

On Your Bike by Joe Venable & Ben James

Captivate Bärn’s second production, On Your Bike, played to full houses in June 2024. The show is an award-winning, five-star, original musical about love, labour and leftover pizza.  Delivering food you don’t get to eat is hungry work. Outside a chicken shop, a group of delivery riders wait for orders, trying to figure out life and love while they do. Threatened by nosy landlords, angry exes, and even their own employer, EATSAROO, they realise they have to group together and stand up for themselves. But fighting a billion-dollar algorithm isn’t that easy.

The show was brilliantly choreographed by Anina Rosa and directed by Robb Correll. Performers Anke Breihan, Jeremy Wright, Sebastian Coleman and Victoria Bucher sang and danced their way into the hearts of very receptive audiences and made this show as authentically touching as it is witty and up-lifting.

Winner of Best Musical at the Edinburgh Fringe, 2021 (MusicalTheatreReview.com). 

‘Raucously witty to its core…***** (Binge Fringe), ‘A riotous delight of a show’ ***** (Musical Theatre Review) ‘Finger-clicking good’ ***** (Theatre Weekly)

 

Photos by Keira Correll 

Medea The Musical by Hayley Canham

Our production of Medea the Musical (December 23 – January 24) was an immense success. All of the last performances were sold out and we had standing ovations after every show.

Renowned Swiss Singer, Director, and Producer, Simon Burkhalter, saw the show in the second week and had this to say about it:

 “What Captivate has brought to the stage in collaboration with the Kunst- und Kulturhaus VISAVIS is simply magnificent. The gutsy play performed by four virtuoso actors and a band in a creatively staged production with a strong focus on the characters, left nothing to be desired.

The quality of the performance can easily compete with renowned productions in London’s West End. I left the performance moved on all levels and hope that such outstanding productions with excellent performers will continue in the future to be staged in Bern’s most beautiful underground theater.”

 

Photos by Keira Correll