'People would still pay attention if I wasn’t…I’m not just an extension of Will.'
Consumed by the vicious, near-constant messages being sent to her by her ex-boyfriend’s fans, the last thing Jen needs is a visit from his co-star, Eli. But with Eli insistent that she should give Will another chance, and Will and Eli’s fans convinced that she’s getting in the way of true love, Jen decides that she needs to know the reality of the two men’s feelings for each other, regardless of the consequences.
Real Person Fiction is an intense new play from Living Robot Theatre...
1945. Dresden, Germany. Lizzie, her mother - and an elephant from the zoo, flee the Allied fire-bombing in the end-game of the Second World War.
Escaping the Allies' advance from the West - and also the advancing Russian armies from the East - this extraordinary trio of refugees meets: a downed RAF officer, cowering in a barn; a homeless school choir on the run and their Countess saviour, harbouring them from the Nazis; and the mechanised American cavalry, appearing over the horizon.
It is Lizzie's story – but Marlene, the elephant, is the heroine. Plodding, obdurate,...
A new adaptation created by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan
April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye.
The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in this radical new staging exploring surveillance, identity and why Orwell's vision of the future is as relevant now as ever.
Headlong continues to interrogate our most important cultural texts, following productions of Six Characters In Search Of An...
Exeter’s Cygnet theatre are celebrating today as all of the graduate cohort are signed to professional agents. The former students, who have signed to Mahoney Bannon Associates in Brighton, performed Strawberries in January at the King’s Head Pub Theatre in London, impressing the agency, who offered all of them interviews.
The Cygnet now looks forward to their success, with one student, Jessamy James, already working in a production at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The Cygnet is a hidden gem in Exeter, offering training on both short, and longer-term courses, and a range...
Gloucestershire’s acclaimed Festival Players are taking an all-male tour of William Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors across the UK and into Europe this summer. The tour will head to Devon on Thursday, August 21st to the picturesque setting of Exeter’s 14th century Powderham Castle.
Directed by Minack Theatre’s former artistic director, Michael Dyer, and with music from 70’s folk musician Jonny Coppin, the play tells of a master and his servant arriving in a foreign port which, unbeknown to them, is the home of their long-lost twin brothers. Mayhem ensues in a riotous train of...
Gloucestershire’s acclaimed Festival Players are taking an all-male tour of William Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors across the UK and into Europe this summer. The tour will head to Devon on Thursday, August 21st to the picturesque setting of Exeter’s 14th century Powderham Castle.
In Shakespeare’s 450th birthday year, The Players mainly alfresco tour will see them step on stage for some 40 performances of the play, directed by Minack Theatre’s former artistic director, Michael Dyer. It tells of a master and his servant arriving in a foreign port which, unbeknown to them, is the home...
From Common Players, in association with Exeter Northcott Theatre, a new production of Jez Butterworth’s critically acclaimed play, Jerusalem, will tour the WestCountry in May and June. The new production will be made in a new way which will involve local artists and communities and teach new skills to those involved.
First performed in 2009, Jerusalem became the Evening Standard’s Best Play of the Year and is an epic and heroic play about our great British need for a connection with the landscape and our roots; an underpinning theme of the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony.
Set in 1908 in Clecklewyke in the heart of Northern England, three well-to-do West Yorkshire couples – the Parkers, Soppitts and Helliwells – married on the same day, at the same church, and by the same vicar, join to celebrate 25 years of blissful matrimony.
Disaster strikes with the shocking revelation that the vicar who married them wasn’t actually licensed – these pillars of the church and the community, aren’t as respectably married as they thought they were!
Home truths fly like confetti, an old flame returns and other uninvited guests start to call. With a...
The Teignmouth Players 50th Anniversary Production: When we are Married by J B Priestley, directed by Jenny Brittan
Set in 1908 in Clecklewyke in the heart of Northern England, three well-to-do West Yorkshire couples – the Parkers, Soppitts and Helliwells – married on the same day, at the same church, and by the same vicar, join to celebrate 25 years of blissful matrimony.
Disaster strikes with the shocking revelation that the vicar who married them wasn’t actually licensed – these pillars of the church and the community, aren’t as respectably married as they thought they...
Stage-Wright Productions backed a winner in Suze Gardner's Motherland. A double first: new company and new play.
The script was amusing and informative, and portrayed the main character to perfection. We all know of Marie Stopes, but few know of her controversial and pioneering birth control clinics had a dual purpose: perporting to help the poorest of women limit the number of offspring, but equally furthering Stopes' rather more sinister involvement in eugenics. The script brought to light her dodgy personal contacts with...
