After What Comes Before, an exciting new performance by Leeds-based Manic Chord Theatre company is coming to Exeter's Bike Shed Theatre on Monday 17 March.
The company was formed by Leeds University graduates Alex Monk, Sam Berrill and David Cartwright in September 2012, and is dedicated to the ideas of collective creation and ensemble theatre.
The Manic Chord Theatre company is becoming increasingly well-known for its raw and energetic works, often with an emphasis on story tell and stunning visuals. They are resident artists at Temple.Works.Leeds and offer internships to...
“Imagine someone told you a story, a story so real, so detailed that that story became your world, and your world, no matter how small, became a part of that story. The narrative of this story has power over your life. It’s future. Your future.”
After a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, New Model Theatre bring their critically acclaimed show Static to the Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter.
“A clever script, with a sterling performance. Phenomenal talent.” The Guardian
Static brings together brilliant storytelling with verbatim news reports to tell a coming of age...
A hilarious one man show about saying the wrong thing…
Harry Shawmut is a man who often says things he shouldn't. He once made an unkind comment to a lady in passing and now, years later, he has decided to apologise. But saying sorry isn't always that straightforward. Harry uses us, the theatre audience, to help rehearse the most elaborate apology in history, taking us through the contours of his hilarious, shocking and uniquely moving life story.
This heart-warming new production marks the first ever UK...
A break-up sped up by a mythbeast. Sad sitcom turns into drunk circus.
Waist is a new play about kebabs, satyrs, and not being alone, from a Royal Court Young Writer who has been shortlisted for the RSC Other Prize.
‘capturing a youthful ennui with scathing accuracy…really does embody that oft-trumpeted spirit of the fringe.’ The Independent.
‘Tom Fraser is mesmerising as the mythological half-man, half-goat and, through Parker Rees’ boisterous and lyrical dialogue, he vividly describes the creature that we, the audience, eventually, willingly and wholeheartedly...
Words, words, words. We’re battered by words, assaulted by words, wooed and seduced by words. How to pick our way through the verbiage? How to recognise the traps and snares buried beneath the seductive surface?
From the humble tweet to the set-piece public address, from whispered sweet nothings to full-blown hostilities, multi story theatre company’s new show revels in the range of language we use – alongside a growing awareness that the words we use shape the people we are, our relationships with others and the world we live in.
After What Comes Before follows a Neuroscientist, Psychologist and Physicist as they endeavour to create a machine which can extract thoughts. High octane, energetic and playful, the company submerge the audience in a farcical world of Quantum partying, flying cashew nuts and absurd game play. After What Comes Before explores the theme of conditioning within society, raising important questions regarding control, medication and self-expression.
Edinburgh Fringe Review awarded |After What Comes Before a double five stars, writing that it ‘Fizzes with energy, is hysterically funny,...
The Adventures of Perseus presents one of the most exciting stories from Ancient Greece as told by two professors who have very different ideas about where the story should begin. Starting with Perseus as a boy, the story takes us through all the twists and turns of how Perseus sets out on his great quest to capture the head of Medusa, the snake haired Gorgon. How he tricks the grumpy Graeae, meets the beautiful Hesperides, wins the head of Medusa, helps Atlas the Giant and finally defeats the cruel King Polydectes – rescuing a young maiden, Andromeda, from a sea dragon on the way…...
His son, Rob, inherited the house Jack built. Rob and his wife, Kate, are architects too. Their daughter Becky was an architectural student - a veritable dynasty. But Becky has dropped out; the house has started to crack; and Kate & Rob’s other daughter, Natalie, has gone into labour. Now Becky, caught up in the worldwide Occupy protests, is missing.
As their world crumbles around them Rob retreats into his fantasy computer games, his heroic avatar fearlessly battling dragons. Kate battles the real life challenges facing the family: searching for...
A police interrogation room. A woman has been detained for questioning after her boss is found dead in suspicious circumstances. In a room down the hall, her colleague also awaits an interview. Just routine questions. Just routine. But what if the monotony of routine was responsible for pushing one of them over the edge? When does bored become bored to death (albeit someone else’s death)? After all, perhaps it’s not unusual for employees of an adhesive supply company to feel a little … stuck.
Above Bored is an original psychological drama directed by Simon Harvey (Kneehigh o-region...
