After eight extraordinary years, The Bike Shed Theatre and Bar will close its doors on 31 March.
The Bike Shed first opened as a pop-up, transforming two dank cellars into a make-shift cocktail bar and theatre. The response was overwhelmingly positive withThe Guardian crediting the venue as ‘keeping theatre alive in Exeter’. Locals could see some of the most exciting new theatre from across the country and people would queue around the block to get in as the venue’s reputation for dancing and DJs grew.
Having decided to stay in its Fore Street home, the theatre continued to...
Writer and performer Nick Cassenbaum found what he’s looking for In East London’s last remaining bath house. Now he’s coming to Bike Shed Theatre for five shows to tell you all about it
Bubbemeises is Yiddish for a grandmother’s story, a tall story, an old wives’ tale. A schvitz is a Jewish Steam Bath where old Jewish men come to wash, relax, complain and rejuvenate, to exchange jokes and gossip and to swap bubbemeisis.
Writer and street performer Nick Cassenbaum has been trying to make sense of his Jewish identity ever since he was a young boy. He tried everything - going...
Last week, local businesses and arts organisations gathered together to celebrate the launch of Cocktails and Culture at The Bike Shed Theatre.
Initiated by The Bike Shed Theatre, Cocktails and Culture is an event in which local businesses and arts organisations get together, learn more about each other’s plans and explore opportunities for partnership. Taking place every two months, each event is hosted by a different business which invites its contacts to meet in one of the city’s cultural spaces.
David Lockwood, Director of The Bike Shed Theatre said: ‘The way in which...
As a result of a new partnership between The Bike Shed Theatre and Hawksmoor Investment Management, two hundred young people from Exeter’s secondary schools and colleges will be given the opportunity to go to the theatre.
Complimentary tickets will be given to students who might not ordinarily be able to attend. Visiting in small groups up to five, they will also have the chance to meet the cast and the creative team to find out more about the production and how new shows are created.
Students from West Exe school, Isca College, St James and St Peters along with Exeter...
War Paint is a theatre installation/live art performance, a process of 4 women getting ready in a private flat. It explores themes of beauty, vulnerability, insecurity, fragility and strength and questions the relationship of women to their bodies. The autobiographical piece comprises a sound installation sharing personal stories of vulnerability, insecurity and shame about our bodies; stories that bare precarious parts of our internal character. The voyeuristic audience experience develops into an intimate performer-audience relationship. It is performed in 30 minute slots as a durational...
"It’s a very sore subject around here. There are raw wounds.”
It’s been 30 years since the Battle of the Beanfield – a brutal crackdown on the annual Stonehenge Free Festival. Called away from policing the miners’ strike, officers enforced an injunction around the ancient stones with bloody violence and mass arrests.
Armed with a camera, a map and home-made riot gear, Breach set out to mark the anniversary with a historical re-enactment.
Onstage, the same performers try to capture the 2015 Stonehenge summer solstice: there’s hot dog stands, Hare Krishnas and MDMA-...
When I was four years old, my Dad was told our surname might be stopping him from getting a job. So we changed it. It worked.
Worklight Theatre’s award-winning show Labels draws on writer and performer Joe Sellman- Leava’s experiences of being mixed heritage to explore broader issues of racism, immigration and displacement. Labels examines how we use words, the line between curiosity and fear, and the rise of anti-immigration rhetoric.
Despite being born in Gloucestershire, Sellman-Leava grew up constantly being asked where he was really from. Cheltenham! Here, he calls for...
Over the next couple of months, The Bike Shed Theatre continues to host some of most exciting new work from around the country.
The Wardrobe Ensemble, who recently enjoyed sell-out success with Eloise and The Curse of the Golden Whisk, bring a new show for a much more adult audience, 1972: The Future of Sex. Winner of The Stage Award for Acting Excellence, the company return to Exeter as part of a national tour.
Also coming to Exeter following a phenomenal Edinburgh debut is Breach Theatre with The Beanfield, a multi-media show set between the 1985...
Following highly successful 2015 runs in Edinburgh and London, Made In China’s Tonight I’m Gonna Be The New Me now embarks on a UK tour.
It exposes how we conduct our relationships amidst a reality that just won’t live up to what the movies promised.
A woman takes to the stage. A man watches from the wings. They both wonder if their love will survive what’s about to happen.
Tonight I’m Gonna Be The New Me is an arresting physical endurance act that crashes headfirst into an impossibly true love story - and out the other side.
What is a hero and where do you find them? Tiny Heroes is a collage of true stories of heroism where you are.
It’s a show about the people who saved your life, your day, or your bacon. The people who took the time, took a stand, or took a chance. The people who tried, even if they failed.
Featuring compelling storytelling, magical light puppetry and a local choir, Tiny Heroes is an attempt to sing for the unsung.
