Bike Shed

Vintage Variety Day in Exeter

Authored by metismedia
Posted: Tue, 07/28/2015 - 4:02pm

Vintage enthusiasts are set to flock to Exeter's Bike Shed Theatre for a packed day of activities and entertainment.

The Vintage Variety Day on Sunday, August 16, begins with a flashmob at 1pm in Princesshay, when singers, dancers and musicians, including members of the many Devon ukulele groups, will join cabaret star Tricity Vogue in a singalong of You Are My Sunshine. The gathering will then promenade through the Exeter streets to the Bike Shed Theatre, in time for the opening of the vintage fair at 2pm.

Tricity said: "The day will be a chocolate box of vintage treats. I...

Mental health debate on the stage

On Thursday 2nd July, Devon’s leading mental health charities and services will make their way to the stage at The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter.

Representatives from Rethink Mental Illness, The Devon Depression and Anxiety Service, Recovery Devon, Time to Change and MIND will join Executive Producer Charlie Parker and Viki Browne to discuss HELP!

Award-winning actress, Viki Browne returns to Exeter with Ignite Festival sell out HELP! ; an engaging performance about her personal experiences of anxiety and depression. This touching and humorous performance uses striking imagery...

HELP!

Event Date: 
30/06/2015 - 7:30pm to 04/07/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

Viki is not coping. Taking you from the dairy aisle of Sainsbury’s to the green turf of Ascot, via a disco of dirty secrets with a euro-pop soundtrack; HELP! is about falling apart and pulling yourself together again. This moving, joyous show is for anyone who has ever struggled.

Award-winning performer Viki Browne returns to The Bike Shed with her collagic performance style which borrows from live art, stand-up comedy, spoken word and cabaret.

http://www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/help-1/

The Rise & Fall of a Northern Star

This Monday 15 June, musician, actor, writer, Stella Grundy will be performing her multimedia music production, The Rise & Fall of a Northern Star at The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter.

This unique and incendiary show ~ directed by Ian Bloomfield ~ blends comedy and tragedy in rhythmic, pacey dialogue, interspersed with Stella's original music.

The story is a cautionary tale of rock n roll wannabe, Tracy Star trying to make her mark in the male-dominated Manchester music scene of the eighties and early nineties.

This tour incorporates specific theatres and music...

Figs in Wigs at Bike Shed Theatre 11-13 June

Event Date: 
11/06/2015 - 7:30pm to 13/06/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
BIke Shed Theatre, Exeter

Figs in Wigs are out to reinvent themselves. Witness this playful five-piece find their calling as comedians, dancers, visual artists, musicians and circus entertainers in 'Show Off', a tongue-in-cheek variety show (without the variety).

Fresh from Soho Theatre following a successful run at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe, 'Show Off' is set to satisfy even the most depleted of attention spans. On the surface this may seem like a shallow display of narcissism fuelled by social media, but underneath the neon lights Figs in Wigs are delving deep into modern society'...

A Fool's Proof

Event Date: 
07/05/2015 - 7:30pm to 09/05/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

Scratchworks Theatre Company

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 for the child struggles on. Incorporating sharp new writing, imaginative tomfoolery and earthy folk music, Scratchworks scrutinise the media’s editorial power over public perception.

‘A Fool’s Proof...

64 SQUARES and A Strange Wild Song by Rhum and Clay Theatre Company

Event Date: 
19/05/2015 - 7:30pm to 30/05/2015 - 9:00pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre Exeter

Critically-acclaimed Rhum and Clay Theatre Company present two shows at the Bike Shed Theatre in May.

64 SQUARES

1939. On board a decadent cruise liner, the world chess champion is challenged to a match by the mysterious ‘B’. It soon becomes clear that the game is not the only thing B’s at risk of losing. For he’s not just one person, but four. And they each have their own version of the story they want to tell. With a live jazz percussive score, this is a tale of madness and memory, adapted from Stefan Zweig’s The Royal Game.

“Beautifully imaginative, with real...

Award-winning production 'Hiraeth' comes to Exeter

‘Hiraeth’ story of a farmer’s daughter and winner of ‘Best Production in the English Language’ at the Wales Theatre Awards 2015 tours UK this Spring

In the summer of 1989, a farmer’s wife gave birth to a baby girl. In this moment Buddug James Jones became heir to her family’s three hundred year old farming dynasty. Now as a modern young woman, Bud is desperate to change her destiny. Leaving five generations of tradition behind, she sets out alone into the big smoke encountering men, heartbreak, drama and hilarity along the way accompanied by live music and Welsh cakes and a Twmpath...

Mugs' Arrows

Event Date: 
16/04/2015 - 10:30pm to 18/04/2015 - 10:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

A pub. Somewhere in the middle of England. Two locals return to off an old friend. Throw a few darts. Drown their sorrows. Try to make sense of it all. Just your average night down the boozer. Or not...

"Just breathe... from the guts... just breathe. Cos nothing's going to happen..."

Mugs Arrows is a surreal black comedy set in very ordinary surroundings. With rural areas being forever altered through commercial development and extreme weather conditions and locals disenchanted by a lack of jobs and the ever increasing allure of a life elsewhere, Mugs Arrows delves in to a...

Christopher Brett Bailey's THIS IS HOW WE DIE

Event Date: 
31/03/2015 - 7:30pm to 04/04/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, 162/3 Fore Street, Exeter, EX4 3AT

A motor-mouthed collage of spoken word and storytelling. Tales of paranoia, young love and ultra-violence. From the desk of Christopher Brett Bailey comes a spiraling odyssey of pitch-black humour and nightmarish prose.

With echoes of Lenny Bruce, William Burroughs, beat poetry and B-movies, THIS IS HOW WE DIE is a prime slice of surrealist trash, an Americana death trip and a dizzying exorcism for a world convinced it is dying...

Tue 31 March - Sat 4 April, 7.30pm Tickets: (£5 Tuesday) £10/£8 conc. Age guidance 16+ To book: http://www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/this-is...

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