Highly accessible and utterly engrossing, this award winning drama takes you on a highly charged journey where forgiveness and redemption are set against guilt, rage and despair.
Through brilliant storytelling and recognisable characters, experience a fascinating insight into Restorative Justice; a process which tries to repair something of the harmful consequences of crime.
This riveting production will draw you in quickly - its powerful language and thought-provoking themes uncovering layer after layer with courage and compassion. Can we ever truly forgive those who harm...
Inspired by astonishing true stories, INSIDE is a psychological drama that explores the effects of Stockholm Syndrome on a kidnap victim desperate to keep hope. Locked in a basement for 12 years, she has survived physical and psychological abuse by escaping to her childhood and recording video messages to her Mum. Now, reeling from her latest beating and in the most critical hour of her captivity, the victim discovers that not everything she's been told is true. But to find a way out, she'll have to break through something much stronger than just the basement door.
In 2000 director Ridley Scott brought you the epic Hollywood film “Gladiator”; now, fourteen-and-a-half years later, world-renowned French actress Gloria Delaneuf and her UK tour manager Josephine Cunningham bring you Gloriator - an awe-inspiring production of bravery, honour, and costumes made out of cardboard.
Russell Crowe may not be available and their budget is limited, but they are determined it will be a show you’ll never forget…
Winner – Critics’ Choice Award – Exeter Ignite 2014 “Belly-achingly funny” -Gloucester Citizen “I hooted. I snorted. I exploded with such...
DryWrite and Soho Theatre present the multi award-winning and Olivier Award nominated show FLEABAG - winner of a 2013 Fringe First Award, an Off West End Award and Critics Circle Award for Most Promising New Playwright and nominated for an Evening Standard Award for Most Promising New Playwright.
Today I am going to be a new person. No more slutty pizzas. No more porny wanks. Lots more lovely threesomes. GO.
Welcome to the world of Fleabag where the rules are out the window and she’s getting confused. She’s angry, pervy, cruel, forgetful, unforgiving, flippant,...
Dario Fo’s Farcical Drama “The Open Couple” is a play of boundaries; whether that is within the characters’ own inhibitions, or the literal playing area of the stage in which the fourth wall is tested rigorously. ‘The open couple’ mixes mind games, miscommunication and emotional blackmail with hilarious consequences in this draughty, open marriage. Using minimal set and utilizing their training from Cygnet Theatre where the emphasis is on character driven story telling, Exeter based actors, Hannah and Scott wish to draw attention to the text...
Dave only goes to see nice plays with nice stories. So he’s taken it upon himself to write one. Strange Matters. A riveting tale of love, death, betrayal and birds. But how will Dave’s evening of “tolerable, top-notch, moderately significant drama with a nice story” fare when Frank, the lead actor, fails to turn up?
As Dave’s House Theatre Company’s original script threatens to morph into something terrifyingly more original than...
After a sell-out show ‘The girls of the globe’ at The Bike Shed Theatre’s ‘From Devon With Love’ festival last year, Natasha Ayton Way returns with her brand new play ‘Cocktails For Two’. A highly accessible and hugely entertaining one woman show that celebrates some of the world’s most memorable characters and playwrights with live musical accompaniment by India Electric Co. From Noel Coward to Bernard-Shaw, Tenasse Williams to Willy Russel, this one-woman performance is filled with iconic plays, iconic speeches and iconic Women....
‘A Little Man’s Holiday’ takes the audience on a magical journey from the Little Man’s dull city dwellings to the high seas on a swashbuckling adventure for all the family. With PaddleBoat’s distinctive audience interaction, audience will be fully immersed as Little Man battles jellyfish, pirates and sharks on his voyage across freezing waters.
Even the smallest of objects on stage can tell a story, as we narrate Little Man’s epic trip from his office to deserted tropical islands. Through the use of puppetry, music and mime, we present larger-than-life characters and invite you...
Substance and Shadow . Howard Brenton’s ‘Christie in Love’ – a dark and disturbing journey into the mind of Britain’s most notorious single serial killer of the 20th century. John Reginald Halliday Christie strangled eight women, including his wife and a baby. He went on to entrap an innocent man, who was mistakenly hung as a result of Christie’s callous handiwork.
Substance & Shadow Theatre continue with their trademark style of intimate, minimalist theatre, inviting you to experience the chilling and brutal exploration of a murderous mind at...
Songs of protest, praise and prayer, unite communities worldwide. This vibrant choir from Exeter Phoenix bring you songs from South Africa, the US, here in Europe, and from around the globe, in multi part harmony. Singing to express desires, questions and joys, this mixed choir present a varied programme to reflect the changes greeting us this new year.
Tannasso and The Wounded Wild (8.15pm)
Alexa Smith . 'Tannasso & The Wounded Wild' is a unique storytelling experience, choreographed and performed by...
