On Your Bike Baffo! is the latest production from award-winning children’s theatre company OH! Productions, coming to the Nottingham Playhouse on Saturday 19th September.
Created with the help of hundreds of children, On Your Bike Baffo! invited young audiences into the creative process from the very beginning. Creator Oliver Harrison took the character of Baffo into primary schools where the children’s ideas, reactions and instinctive sense of humour helped shape the show’s comedy, storyline and playful spirit. The result is in an interactive production where every performance continues to evolve with its audience.
Blending clowning, slapstick comedy, audience participation, accompanied by a live music score, the show follows one determined clown as he attempts to complete the world’s silliest bike ride, only to be joyfully distracted by every curious discovery along the way. It’s a celebration of imagination, perseverance and the joy of trying again.
Following the success of Signor Baffo, which toured the UK and internationally, won the Best Kids and Family Award at Adelaide Fringe 2025 and was shortlisted for the Family Friendly Award at Brighton Fringe earlier this year, On Your Bike Baffo! is the company’s biggest tour to date.
On bringing the show to Nottingham, Oliver Harrison says: “There’s a lovely fittingness to bringing a bike show to a city that was once home to the Raleigh Bicycle Factory, cycling is practically in Nottingham’s bones! It feels like a city that gets both bikes and bit of joyful silliness!”
Cast and Creatives
Creator – Oliver Harrison
Oliver Harrison founded Oh! Productions in 2010. The company specialises in children’s theatre and has toured internationally. Oliver trained at Italia Conti and developed his comic craft with Philippe Gaulier, Spymonkey, Dr Brown and Mick Barnfather. In the street-theatre world he spent many years working with the Bureau of Silly Ideas, devising The Sweet Smell of Success and performing in sideshows such as Shirt’or’Squirt and the campaign to get Pie-throwing back into the Olympics. Previous OH! Productions include Signor Baffo and Flat Pack.
Musician -Tom Penn
Tom Penn is a Gaulier-trained actor, clown, musician and theatre-maker. A multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, he performs classical, folk and jazz on violin, viola, piano and double bass As a composer, Tom scored the BAFTA-winning BBC comedy short Quiet Life, two of his songs are featured in the multi-award-winning feature film Two Big Feet. he scored Sam Nicoresti’s comedy special Woke Flake as well as Santi and Naz, which ran at the Soho Theatre in 2025 and won a Charlie Harthill award.
Performer – Drew Cripps
Dru Cripps is a two-time British Comedy Guide award winner and a Malcolm Hardee Award Winner with West End runs and Dave, ITV and BBC credit. His solo show ‘Juicy Bits’ sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2025, earning a slew of 5-star reviews and a run at Soho Theatre. He mixes improvisation, clown and musical comedy in ways that he refers to as “showing up and seeing what happens”.
Listings Information
Venue: Nottingham Playhouse, Wellington Circus, NG1 5AF
Date/Time: Saturday 19th September | 2pm
Ticket Link: https://nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/on-your-bike-baffo/
