Follow Ariel through Dante´s nine circles of hell to discover the blood spattered histories of eighteen of Shakespeare’s most memorable characters as they collide with likewise guilty sinners from the Bard’s canon. Faithlessness, lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery are their sins, the form their dreams took while living.
A physical and emotional performance that takes you on a fast paced journey through human wickedness and regret.
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Raging storms and supernatural forces prevail over one man’s almighty quest to get home. Immerse yourself in a journey through the high seas, soak up the adventure and encounter danger and exhilaration. Co-produced with Battersea Arts Centre, Paper Cinema present a feature length adaptation of Homer’s cornerstone of literature.
Founded in 2004 by Nicholas Rawling, Imogen Charleston and Christopher Reed, The Paper Cinema perform a unique blend of live animation and music, and tour around Britain and Internationally. The company uses the language of animation, music, film and theatre...
It’s 50,000 AD and a new blood sport rules. Legends of poetry through the ages have been resurrected to battle in the deadly game they call Poetry Ping Pong and now only two remain…
Daniel Haynes and Robert Garnham present an evening of comedy and spoken word.
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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, A Fool’s Proof searches for answers and scatters accusations as the rescue mission struggles on.
Scratchworks presents a performance inspired by the true story of the 18 month old Jessica McClure, who in 1987 was trapped for 56 hours in a Texan water-well. Using sharp new writing, imaginative tomfoolery and earthy...
Two alien ambassadors have travelled millions of miles to find out if love is the drug they need to save their dying planet. It’s in the air, it’s in the way you comb your hair… but what on Earth is love? Taking recorded interviews from the inhabitants of earth, these two creatures build a hilarious scrapbook of advice for those who just don’t know… at all.
‘Behind all of the buffoonery (and there’s a lot) are two clear, sharp and utterly brilliant comic minds.’ ★★★★★ VIEW FROM THE GODS
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Award winning comedian and political activist, Kate Smurthwaite, plus friends, bring sharp, topical wit to Exeter’s Ignite Theatre Festival for a benefit evening in support of Devon Rape Crisis Service.
An event not to be missed – bring your friends and laugh till you…!
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Ignite Festival Ticket Prices: 1 show £7, 2 shows £13, 3 shows £18, 4 shows £22 and 5 shows £25.
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Merlyn and Claudia get the fear; here they try to describe it in another way. The theme of withdrawal influences this exploration in three chapters:
+9 A fifteen minute aural meditation on the themes of distance and anxiety. Journeying from sparse soundscapes to hyperactive rhythms, it merges heavily processed field recordings with meandering electronica.
Solo A dance about being solo. Claudia looks at her ability to control, to lose control, to be out of control. In a live physical performance born from a lifetime of getting carried away.
An engaging physical theatre production combining acro-balance, movement and live music. Gypsy Ghetto Game dissects and explores the truth, and the lies, surrounding Eastern European migration to the UK.
TICKETS Ignite Festival Ticket Prices: 1 show £7, 2 shows £13, 3 shows £18, 4 shows £22 and 5 shows £25.
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O&O have alter egos. Several. There’s Wolfgang, an American jazz poet with a penchant for vegetables, an over zealous parking attendant called Betty, and Trevor, a man who fails to understand the necessity of trousers in public places. All part of their whole new show, O&O Don’t Do Edinburgh. Because they’re not doing Edinburgh. Instead, this up and coming comedy duo are storming their way back round the UK in 2014 fresh from two UK tours in 2013. Catch them on their first stop here in Exeter.
Expect a show of sketch comedy, audience interaction, songs, breathing and...
