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Shotgunned - UK-Wide Tour Kicks Off in Exeter This Weekend

Shotgunned , a brand new play written and directed by Matt Anderson, starts its 37 night UK-wide tour this weekend at Barnfield Theatre in Exeter.

Shotgunned tells the story of Dylan and Roz, a couple who unexpectedly fall out of love. It is a poignant and humorous reflection on the messy and the beautiful in relationships and how we can come up against a dead end, no matter how much we care for each other. It also speaks about our dreams and the courage and resilience it takes to follow them. In equal parts hilarious and heart-breaking, Shotgunned is a relatable and intimate...

Shotgunned

Event Date: 
01/03/2024 - 7:30pm to 02/03/2024 - 8:45pm
Venue: 
The Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Shotgunned tells the story of Dylan and Roz, a couple who unexpectedly fall out of love.

It is a poignant and humorous reflection on the messy and the beautiful in relationships and how we can come up against a dead end, no matter how much we care for each other. It also speaks about our dreams and the courage and resilience it takes to follow them.

In equal parts hilarious and heart-breaking, Shotgunned is a relatable and intimate piece of theatre about the people we lose that shape who we become.

Written and directed by Matt Anderson, Shotgunned is Kangaroo...

Radio Head Documental Theatre

Event Date: 
16/07/2017 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Boat Shed the Quay

An Unmissable Evening Of Eavesdropping

Go on admit it! Don’t you love to listen in on other people’s conversations?

The beauty of cracking good radio drama is you can revel in this guilty pleasure without being caught. But in an age of iPhones, and iPods, people increasingly listen to audio drama alone, while being jostled by commuters or mithered by children, and have no one to gas to about the characters with afterwards. Now a group of Devon-based playwrights are plotting to buck this trend...

This July Exeter’s historic Boat Shed will be taken over by The Bike...

Radio Head Documental Theatre

Event Date: 
16/07/2017 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Boat Shed the Quay

An Unmissable Evening Of Eavesdropping

Go on admit it! Don’t you love to listen in on other people’s conversations?

The beauty of cracking good radio drama is you can revel in this guilty pleasure without being caught. But in an age of iPhones, and iPods, people increasingly listen to audio drama alone, while being jostled by commuters or mithered by children, and have no one to gas to about the characters with afterwards. Now a group of Devon-based playwrights are plotting to buck this trend...

This July Exeter’s historic Boat Shed will be taken over by The Bike...

Documental Theatre at the Boat Shed

Authored by Cally Hayes
Posted: Mon, 07/03/2017 - 2:10pm

An Unmissable Evening Of Eavesdropping

Go on admit it! Don’t you love to listen in on other people’s conversations?

The beauty of cracking good radio drama is you can revel in this guilty pleasure without being caught. But in an age of iPhones, and iPods, people increasingly listen to audio drama alone, while being jostled by commuters or mithered by children, and have no one to gas to about the characters with afterwards. Now a group of Devon-based playwrights are plotting to buck this trend...

This July Exeter’s historic Boat Shed will be taken over by The Bike...

Twentysomething: a reading list (part of Exeter Ignite)

Event Date: 
04/06/2014 - 6:00pm to 06/06/2014 - 9:15pm
Venue: 
The Rusty Bike, Exeter

A new, intimate play about Millennials and trying to get on in that 'real life' thing that everyone harps on about...

4th (6pm), 5th (8pm) and 6th (6pm) June 2014 Tickets available now from ignitexeter.org.uk £7 (or cheaper the more shows you book - 5 shows for £25)

Relationships are complicated. So is University. And so is ‘real life’ afterwards. Over a third of graduates have to move back home after University, and not by choice. Almost half remain unemployed or on minimum wage. ‘Twentysomething: a reading list’ is a new play about ‘Generation Y’ and life before...

A Fool's Proof

Event Date: 
23/11/2013 - 2:00pm to 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Bike Shed Theatre

Trapped in a well shaft for 56 hours, a little girl waits to be found. Above ground, three journalists chase the story every step of the way, framing it for media consumption and spinning it wildly, erratically and erroneously away from the truth. Inspired by true events, this tale searches for answers and scatters accusations as the rescue mission struggles on.

A Fool’s Proof takes inspiration from the true story of Jessica McClure, who at 18 months old was trapped for 56 hours in a water well in Midland, Texas in 1987. In the midst of the media’s current obsession with ‘missing...

BONES: A new play by Jane Upton

Event Date: 
21/10/2012 - 7:30pm to 22/10/2012 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Bike Shed Theatre

Following a sell-out run at last year’s Edinburgh Festival, Fifth Word take their production of Jane Upton’s Bones on the road this Autumn and are coming to Exeter's Bike Shed on the 21st and 22nd of October. This production marks Fifth Word's first national tour, don't miss it.

Synopsis

I had this pet rabbit once. I used to hold it tight ‘til my knuckles went white. I held it tight so it couldn’t run. But it did. It dug itself out of the mud round the yard. I would have dug my way out and never come back if it wasn’t for her.

Nottingham,1998....