The Clockwork Moth bring you the finest shadow puppetry in the west in a timeless saga for all ages. Feast your senses on this little known Grimms take, performed to a striking live musical score. A teenage boy, believed to have been born lucky, embarks on a journey to the underworld and back. Enter a brutal King, a deathly ferryman, a narcissistic Lucifer and a host of wise women, curses, incantations and courtly delights. This is Grimms darkness at its best. Recommended for over 7s.
If you pinned me against a wall, I’d probably admit to being a liberal.
Of course, pinning me against a wall is exactly what I’d expect from someone like you.
A show about the gulfs we can’t talk across and about the way we choose to see only the evidence that proves we’re right.
Working with research into the phenomenon of confirmation bias, Confirmation is an attempt to have an honorable dialogue, real and imagined, with political extremism. To find out we how we believe what we believe and how we can end up so far apart. A new show from a multi Edinburgh Fringe...
Part of the Rebellious Sounds project, which is looking at stories around women’s activism across the South West, ‘The Orchard’ imagines a meeting between Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst, the moderate and the radical, and explores what happens when opposing political forces come together.
Dreadnought will host a series of unique scratch performances of ‘The Orchard’ across the region. These scratch performances are similar to script-in-hand or rehearsed readings of the material so far, and Dreadnought is inviting audiences to have their say in this pre-election time and to...
Ablutions by the award-winning FellSwoop visits The Bike Shed Theatre from 24th to 28th February following its sell-out run at Edinburgh Festival 2014. Adapted from the novel, by Man Booker Prize shortlisted author, Patrick deWitt – it is an inventive fusion of music and theatre. A heady mix of vice, violence and debauchery - Ablutions is a whiskey-soaked portrait of a bartenders descent into drink and divorce, the ultimate in dark modern drama.
Picture yourself as a Los Angeles bartender, sipping top-shelf whiskey and watching your...
Your guide to the best music, events and activities taking place in and around Exeter this weekend.
THEATRE
After the Accident Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter 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...
Wondering how you're going to keep the kids amused during the half term holiday? We've come up with a few suggestions here:
Friday 20 February
Felting Workshop Exeter Cathedral Make a countryside scene or design your own shapes and outlines for your felt square. Your finished product could be used as a wall hanging or cut up to create a broach, finger puppet or maybe a pencil case. Limited spaces, booking only. £4 for the full session (payable on arrival). Ages 6-plus. 10.30am-12.30pm. Call 01392 413174 or email education@exeter-cathedral.org.uk
This Easter, join us in the magical underwater world of the Little Mermaid, where true love must conquer the slippery evil of the terrible Sea Witch!
The classic tale is told anew in a stunningly beautiful new production featuring bewitching songs and magical special effects.
The writer and director of Exeter's premiere professional pantomimes 'Jack & the Beanstalk', 'Aladdin' and 'Cinderella' creates an enchanting new family show for the school holidays, with a fantastic West End cast, including Daniel Page as the mighty King Neptune!
Exeter theatre company Four of Swords is reviving one of its most popular productions.
Jekyll and Hyde returns for a two week run in the sinister and shambolic setting of Poltimore House on the outskirts of Exeter from 5th - 14th March.
The company first performed its mad and inventive adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Victorian chiller at Poltimore House in 2013. The production whipped up a heady mix of captivating performances, special effects, film projections and live gypsy music.
Sarah White, who directs the show, explains why Four of Swords is...
A chill will fall over the Exeter Northcott Theatre later this month as unsettling ghost story, The Mist in the Mirror, rolls into Devon.
In the mould of Susan Hill’s chilling hit The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror is staged as if audiences are eavesdroppers to a fireside ghost story told in the manner of the master of the classic English ghost story writer, M.R. James.
Mr James Monmouth has spent most of his life travelling, following in the footsteps of his childhood hero, the explorer Conrad Vane. Returning to the England he left as a five year old orphan, James...
As we approach the general election, Dreadnought South West Association is going on the road with a new play - 'The Orchard'.
Part of the Rebellious Sounds project, which is looking at stories around women's activism across the South West, 'The Orchard' imagines a meeting between Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst, the moderate and the radical, and explores what happens when opposing political forces come together.
Dreadnought will host a series of unique ‘scratch’ performances of 'The Orchard' across the region. These scratch...
