Welcome to B’s mind. B’s got some memories he wants to share with you. He wants to tell you about how he ended up on a cruise ship, playing chess against the current world chess champion. He wants to tell you all about his life and the choices he’s made. The problem? He’s been split into four and can’t remember what happened.
Adapted from Stefan Zweig’s The Royal Game, the critically acclaimed Rhum and Clay Theatre Company bring you 64 Squares; a tale of madness, memory and chess…all accompanied by a live percussive score.
★★★★ ‘Rhum and Clay have come of age … beautifully...
The UK’s favourite performance poet, comedian and musician hits the road, mandolin in hand, with a performance of pieces new and older, sung, spoken and awoken with dance: meditations upon family, celery and happier Daleks.
Explosive American horn-and-percussion trio Moon Hooch – Mike Wilbur (horns), Wenzl McGowen (horns), and James Muschler (drums) – has taken their exhilarating blend of virtuosic jazz, groovy funk, and pulse-pounding electronic dance music from busking the New York City subway system to stages around the world.
Onstage, the band now plays through a “Reverse DJ” setup, in which the live sound from their horns runs through laptops to process recorded effects. In addition, they utilise Moog synthesisers, as well as an EWI (an electronic wind instrument that responds to breath in...
The Actual One is Isy Suttie’s brilliantly funny new show about that moment in your late 20s when you suddenly realise that all your mates are growing up without you – featuring stories, songs and readings from the new book of the same name.
The invisible deal that Isy had made – to prolong growing up for as long as possible – was all in her head. Suddenly everyone around her is into mortgages, farmers’ markets and nappies, rather than skinny-dipping in the sea and sambuca sessions on rope-swings. When her dearest friend advises Isy that the next guy she meets will be not just The...
Described as ‘the most deathly delta blues outfit to ever emerge from Andalusia’ Guadalupe Plata channel red hot passion for the blues into Hispanic roots – this is a sound that lingers in the sunset like a voodoo curse.
Guadalupe Plate are: Pedro de Dios Barceló (“Perico”) – guitar, vocals, piano. Carlos Jimena Quesada (“Jimena”) – Drums, percussion and piano. Francisco Luis Martos Sanchez (“Paco Luis”) – washtub bass, electric bass, guitar and piano.
SKREAM An early and influential exponent of the dubstep genre, Skream is one of the most likeable personalities versatile DJs on the dance music circuit.
The first in a series of Autumn events from Exeter’s two heavyweight brands, Skream returns to the city for the first time since the heady days of Dubstep.
Of course, Skream is a different beast now. Always a musical pioneer, he switched his allegiance to a more 4/4 sound a few years back, joining the dots between Techno, House and Disco- he continues to challenge and provoke, his love of music and clubbing shining through...
Exeter Contemporary Open 2016 is an annual, open submission exhibition, which over the last eleven years has built national and international reputation as a prime opportunity for artists to showcase their work, drawing audiences and attention from across the country.
This year’s exhibition includes a shortlist of eight artists, selected from several hundred submissions by Cheryl Jones (Director of Grand Union, Birmingham), George Vasey (art writer and curator at the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland) and Phoenix Gallery curator Matt Burrows.
