Award-winning theatre company, and associate artists at the Bike Shed Theatre, Write By Numbers return to Exeter with their play Regeneration, exploring urban regeneration, gentrification and how we might create the cities of the future. This multi-stranded epic story mixes real stories of regeneration with imagined ones in a playful and urgent production which is touring England in 2016.
It’s Brixton in 1981 and a family’s home is about to be repossessed. It’s Leeds in 2017 and an architect has designed the tallest building the city has ever seen. It’s Newfoundland in 1903 and a...
Birth & Death & Here & Now is about exactly those things; The moment of birth, the moment of death and the moment that is happening right now. The show explores each moment with a joyful mix of childish freedom and the hindsight of life experience, drawing on the real feelings and experiences of Adam and the people present in the room with him.
We meet ourselves in baby form, we are confronted by one of the many possible manifestations of death and we are thrown into the NOW with Adam as he seeks to ride the moment that we are all living together.
From Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s bestselling autobiography of the same name, I Am Not Myself These Days is a shockingly direct and heartbreakingly funny new play about love and self-discovery in the flashy, trashy New York of the 1990s. Ad man by day and drag queen by night, Josh battles his own alcoholism while desperately trying to make his relationship work with Jack, a high-class rent boy addicted to crack.
By turns brutal, funny and heartfelt I Am Not Myself These Days is a one-man tour de force of mesmerising candour.
Mmm Hmmm is a playful, poignant musical journey shaped by three exceptional female voices jumping between sound worlds and lyrical styles.
Using intricate vocal techniques and rich harmony, Mmm Hmmm holds a magnifying glass up to snapshots of everyday life. One moment a fragile apology, the next a perilous trip to the First Great Western buffet car…Verity Standen’s original a cappella songs evoke the awkward, heartrending and hilarious moments that characterise what it means to be human.
The Bike Shed Theatre has launched a new website, a newsletter, a trailer and a whole new look.
With more behind-the-scenes information, interviews with artists and specialist cocktail recipes, the subterranean venue offers an an enticing glimpse inside for anyone who’s curious.
A new season of work kicks off with a festival of the finest Devon-based theatre companies. From Devon with Love is a celebration of fresh new work from homegrown voices, taking place this January. Hot on its heels, The Laugh Out Loud festival brings acclaimed comedians to Exeter, including The...
The year is 1944. In the depths of a dusty larder in the bombed ruins of an Exeter restaurant, Eloise finds a beautiful, golden whisk.
But when she clutches the shimmering relic, she unleashes an ancient curse.
The only way to free herself is to cook the tastiest dish in the world.
With time running out, Eloise scurries into the broken city’s underworld, undertaking extraordinary feats to gather the ingredients and discover the recipe. But with a rabble of greedy gangsters also chasing the whisk, will she succeed in evading its curse?
"That's why they call it Café Nero, you know. Because you sit and fiddle with your iPad while the world outside burns."
For over 500 years the smell of coffee has seeped into our streets, our lives, our society.
Hub for gossip, romance, political tub thumping, dodgy deals, completing a new pitch, book clubs, a moment alone, escaping being alone - if walls could talk.
And in one coffee shop in a town just over the horizon, those walls can talk, time escapes us and those that visit the coffee house, dream in the coffee house, plot and scheme in the coffee house all...
We thought dance class was good, we thought dance class was English. We were wrong. Now we see you are fully English, because you argue with your parents. In Bangladesh this wouldn’t happen. Well you’ve done what we never could. You’ve left Bangladesh behind.
Ballroom dancing is not the only humiliation heaped on Saikat by his ambitious parents. There’s catechism and Latin too. And no-one gets his name right, ever.
Join Saikat as he dances precariously through his dual-identity childhood, torn between the familiar sights of Birmingham and the mysteries of Bangladesh. Meet...
"That's why they call it Café Nero, you know. Because you sit and fiddle with your iPad while the world outside burns."
For over 500 years the smell of coffee has seeped into our streets, our lives, our society.
Hub for gossip, romance, political tub thumping, dodgy deals, completing a new pitch, book clubs, a moment alone, escaping being alone - if walls could talk.
And in one coffee shop in a town just over the horizon, those walls can talk, time escapes us and those that visit the coffee house, dream in the coffee house, plot and scheme in the coffee house all...
