A week long theatre festival from local companies

Monday June 1st 
7.00pm Tribes & Tribulations Substance & Shadow
9.00pm She Ain’t Heavy She’s my Mother Spit & Sawdust

Tuesday June 2nd 
7.00pm  Friction Documental Theatre
9.00pm  Happy Birthday Hetty Stage-Wright

Wednesday June 3rd 
7.00pm The Sun and the Moon: Shakespeare’s Lovers’ Sun & Moon Theatre
9.30pm  She Ain’t Heavy She’s my Mother Spit & Sawdust

Thursday June 4th 
7.00pm  Happy Birthday Hetty Stage-Wright
9.00pm  What Did You Expect? Freya Bardell

Friday June 5th 
8.00pm The Sun and the Moon: Shakespeare’s Lovers’ Sun & Moon Theatre
9.30pm  603 Miles Cyclone Theatre

Saturday June 6th 
2.00pm  Friction Documental Theatre
4.00pm  What Did You Expect? Freya Bardell
7.00pm  603 Miles Cyclone Theatre

Tribes & Tribulations
Substance & Shadow
Tribes and Tribulations is set against the bleak political landscape of Thatcher’s Britain and  tells the story of four diverse characters, who momentarily escape the tribulations of their everyday lives and descend upon the anarchic, vibrant, multicultural madness of a free festival.

She Ain’t Heavy She’s my Mother
Spit & Sawdust
Autobiographical show about a young man and his relationship with his mother’s Anorexia, performed solely by the author. The piece comprises of a recount of events through his eyes, explorations of the effects of his relationship with his mother’s illness, and his honest address of the question; what is anorexia?
Friction

Documental Theatre
Three days into motherhood, Rachel doesn’t recognise herself. There’s nothing Sam won’t do to keep his family together, but how do you beat an enemy you can’t see?
A visceral and inspiring story of hard-won recovery, and the resilience couples find when their world is falling apart.

What Did you Expect?
Freya Bardell
This autobiographical one woman show is a comedic take on dating in the modern day. However, beneath the humour, there’s a darker message about everyday sexism. Particularly it challenges the idea of Lad Culture and the pressures it puts on young people.

603 Miles
Cyclone Theatre
Two brothers. One urn. No clue.  When Michael Doherty dies his sons are obliged to take his ashes back home. The only stipulations – leave immediately, only use the money in the envelope and ‘show their old man a good time’ on the way. ‘It’s not always the destination that’s important, sometimes it’s the journey.’

Happy Birthday Hetty
Stage-Wright
Hetty hasn’t climbed out of a window, met anyone famous or broken any records and she certainly doesn’t think that life is like a box of chocolates but they do say that the personal is political.

The Sun & The Moon
Sun & Moon Theatre
A delightful two-hander play exploring love in Shakespeare’s works. Featuring classical text and live music, two actors perform Shakespeare’s greatest lovers from Comedies, Tragedies and Histories. An intimate show full of humour, passion and truth, watch these stories unfold with contemporary eyes and experience ‘the very ecstasy of love.
Ticket Price:
£8

Booking Information
Cygnet Theatre Box Office
01392 277189
Exeter Visitors Information and Tickets Dix’s Field, Paris Street, Exeter
01392 665885

http://www.cygnettheatre.co.uk/