“In the High and Far Off Times...” Rudyard Kipling’s animals, directed by Alistair Ganley
“In the High and Far off Times …” brings favourite tales from Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book and Just So Stories to vibrant life in a playful new production.
Alistair Ganley Cygnet Theatre’s Artistic Director, whose devised productions (More Grimms Tales, Trolls, Memories of Childhood / Trinity (exe-treme imagination festivals 2013 & 2014) have enthralled audiences at Cygnet Theatre and beyond for nearly thirty years, has selected and devised this production to delight and entertain...
As Autumn approaches we have an exciting variety of shows to draw you in to Cygnet’s lovely studio theatre at Friars Gate.
Untold Theatre starts our season on 15th September, taking us Beyond Expectations - the fascinating untold story of Estella Havisham, in an exciting new adaptation of Dickens’ epic novel. A Victorian Gothic rags-to-riches tragedy, this adaptation weaves brand new scenes into Dickens’ original tale. ‘Beyond Expectations’ combines music, puppetry and striking digital projections. “Clever writing indeed! Absolutely delightful. Imaginative prop-usage and fabulous...
Cygnet’s annual Summer School is an exciting week for anyone over 18yrs wishing to perfect their acting skills.
Working with Alistair Ganley (Cygnet’s Artistic Director) and other key staff, participants will explore voice, movement and improvisation as well as a variety of dynamic approaches to acting and character development.
The week will conclude with an informal showing of work in progress to an invited audience of friends and family and tutors.
This course is ideal for actors of all levels: from potential drama school entrants to seasoned actors and for...
3rd June - 7pm (followed by a Q&A) 5th June - 8pm Production length: 1 hour Location: Cygnet Theatre, Friars' Gate, Exeter, EX2 4AZ
'The course of true love never did run smooth'
'The Sun and the Moon: Shakespeare’s Lovers' is a delightful two-hander play exploring love in Shakespeare’s works. Two actors perform Shakespeare’s greatest lovers, alternating roles from Comedies, Tragedies and Histories. Featuring scenes from Shakespeare and live music,...
Cygnet is bursting into full colour with an eclectic mix of drama, comedy and music.
And if you feel like getting out of the audience you might be tempted by Jonathan Kay’s invitation to try out Fooling or one of Cygnet’s courses in acting – a chance to build up self-confidence in public presentation.
Cygnet welcome Baroque Theatre with their exciting new Inspector Morse adventure - House of Ghosts, especially written for the stage and suitably theatrical! Pilot’s Thumb return with a comedy double bill Inner Chip and Eddie promising a hilarious evening. Cygnet graduates...
Two local birds have put their heads together and come up with ‘Double Bill’ a collaboration between Cygnet Theatre and Wren Music and follows on from last year’s successful ‘Wren presents . . ‘ at the Cygnet. Saturday 21st March sees fiddle legend Tom McConville in concert supported by Wren musician David Faulkner with this long time playing partner Steve Turner. Tom McConville is a welcome return visitor to the Cygnet, he is one of the leading fiddle players of our time. A virtuoso musician and fantastic singer, his rich and warm voice makes his interpretation of traditional and...
Two local birds have put their heads together and come up with ‘Double Bill’ a collaboration between Cygnet Theatre and Wren Music and follows on from last year’s successful ‘Wren presents . . ' at the Cygnet.
Saturday 21st March sees fiddle legend Tom McConville in concert supported by Wren musician David Faulkner with this long time playing partner Steve Turner.
Tom McConville is a welcome return visitor to the Cygnet, he is one of the leading fiddle players of our time. A virtuoso musician and fantastic singer, his rich and warm voice makes his interpretation of...
Cygnet’s graduating actors have begun working with Jemma Gross on two strong and wonderful plays, Nine and The Last Nickel by American writer Jane Shepard.
Jemma first excited Exeter audiences when she brought Gary Henderson’s Skin Tight to Cygnet Theatre during IGNITE 2012. Her production of Chicken Shop with Epsilon productions won the West End Frame’s London Fringe Production of the Year Award in 2014.
These contrasting pieces show the versatility of two actors in different roles. Women who find themselves in extreme circumstances, develop ways to cope and transcend them...
Greater respect for women? Fabulous roles… glamour and untold riches? Go and see!
The year is 1669 – a bawdy and troublesome time. The theatres have just re-opened after seventeen years of suppression under the Puritans. Charles II, now restored to the English throne, has by Royal Decree sanctioned the appearance of the first English actresses to grace the stage.
April De Angelis has taken five famous figures – Nell Gwyn, Elizabeth Farley, Rebecca Marshall, Doll Common and Mary Betterton – and given us a fascinating...
RUN, the new devised piece by Engineer Theatre Collective, will open at New Diorama Theatre this November (25th -29th). RUN tells the exhilarating tale of four investment bank interns in desperate pursuit of a career in the city. Inspired by the true story of Moritz Erhardt, a 21 year-old intern who died from an epileptic seizure at his London flat after reportedly working 72 hours straight, RUN exposes the glamour and the grind of the square mile.
Run has been developed in conversation with the freshest financial minds; the people who will be running our banks, trading our stocks...
