Substance & Shadow Theatre bring you an original tale of intolerance, alienation and Findus crispy pancakes!!!
It’s the 23rd June - the day of the Euro Referendum and just another lunch time in the works canteen for cousins Len Silver and Melvyn Gould and their colleagues, but beneath their love of haute cuisine and jovial banter there’s trouble brewing.
Sid Vishnu’s lentil Dahl and Don Beattie’s bangers and mash are emblems of a nation divided!
with Giles Shenton as ‘Herbert’
by Alfred Shaughnessy from the novel by Reginald Arkell Directed by Simon Downing
Giles Shenton, as Old Herbaceous, keeps us engrossed, entertained, amused and emotionally engaged. Old Herbaceous is an acute and sometimes hilarious observation of relationships between the classes in a gentler, simpler age.
Substance & Shadow Theatre bring you an original tale of intolerance, alienation and
Findus crispy pancakes!!!
It’s the 23rd June - the day of the Euro Referendum and just another lunch time in the works canteen for cousins Len Silver and Melvyn Gould and their colleagues, but beneath their love of haute cuisine and jovial banter there’s trouble brewing.
Sid Vishnu’s lentil Dahl and Don Beattie’s bangers and mash are emblems of a nation divided!
Immersive in style, Feeding the Darkness frames verbatim and ‘faction’ monologues, duologues and poetry as a series of ‘ministries’ which challenge our ignorance and avoidance of this sensitive and disturbing subject.
It features wide-ranging material such as the experiences of the mother of Pte Lynndie England (court-marshalled for the abuse of Abu Ghraib detainees), a Kurdish asylum seeker at an appeal tribunal, and examines the role of trained medical professionals in state-sanctioned torture, amongst many others.
Eurydice by Cygnet Company
The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold from the feminine perspective in Sarah Ruhl’s witty and moving re-imagining.
Shifting between the worlds of the living and the dead the play depicts Eurydice’s descent into the jaws of death with a touch of surreal poetry. Eurydice’s lessons in love, loss and the pleasures and pains of memory sit at the centre of this tender-hearted comedy.
“Do you know what’s wrong with this country?
Cowardice. No one’s brave enough to stand up and say what’s obvious.”
24 playlets. 31 characters. 6 actors. Rachel Besser’s new play Eggs is a fast-paced
mosaic of modern parenthood, family life and the disturbing effect it can have on the child.
This is a work-in-progress and we will be holding a short Q&A
after each performance. Please join us. Your feedback matters to us, and will be used to develop the play.
Cygnet Theatre in Exeter is running its annual Summer School August 1st – 5th
Open to anyone interested in performing (aged 16+) the 5 day course will use Shakespeare and Contemporary texts to explore approaches to acting and characterisation.
A cast of just five actors from the hilarious travelling theatre company The Pantaloons present every single one of Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless tales in under two hours.
Join the pilgrims for puppetry and poetry, music and magic, talking chickens and burnt bottoms!
