Exeter

Him With His Foot In His Mouth

Event Date: 
25/03/2014 - 7:30pm to 29/03/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

By Saul Bellow

Adapted for the stage by Jack McNamara

A hilarious one man show about saying the wrong thing…

Harry Shawmut is a man who often says things he shouldn't. He once made an unkind comment to a lady in passing and now, years later, he has decided to apologise. But saying sorry isn't always that straightforward. Harry uses us, the theatre audience, to help rehearse the most elaborate apology in history, taking us through the contours of his hilarious, shocking and uniquely moving life story.

This heart-warming new production marks the first ever UK...

Waist

Event Date: 
24/03/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

A break-up sped up by a mythbeast. Sad sitcom turns into drunk circus.

Waist is a new play about kebabs, satyrs, and not being alone, from a Royal Court Young Writer who has been shortlisted for the RSC Other Prize.

‘capturing a youthful ennui with scathing accuracy…really does embody that oft-trumpeted spirit of the fringe.’ The Independent.

‘Tom Fraser is mesmerising as the mythological half-man, half-goat and, through Parker Rees’ boisterous and lyrical dialogue, he vividly describes the creature that we, the audience, eventually, willingly and wholeheartedly...

I Don't Know What You're Talking About

Event Date: 
18/03/2014 - 7:30pm to 22/03/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

Words, words, words. We’re battered by words, assaulted by words, wooed and seduced by words. How to pick our way through the verbiage? How to recognise the traps and snares buried beneath the seductive surface?

From the humble tweet to the set-piece public address, from whispered sweet nothings to full-blown hostilities, multi story theatre company’s new show revels in the range of language we use – alongside a growing awareness that the words we use shape the people we are, our relationships with others and the world we live in.

“Performers Gill Nathanson & Bill...

After What Comes Before

Event Date: 
17/03/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

After What Comes Before follows a Neuroscientist, Psychologist and Physicist as they endeavour to create a machine which can extract thoughts. High octane, energetic and playful, the company submerge the audience in a farcical world of Quantum partying, flying cashew nuts and absurd game play. After What Comes Before explores the theme of conditioning within society, raising important questions regarding control, medication and self-expression.

Edinburgh Fringe Review awarded |After What Comes Before a double five stars, writing that it ‘Fizzes with energy, is hysterically funny,...

The Adventures Of Perseus

Event Date: 
15/03/2014 - 2:00pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

The Adventures of Perseus presents one of the most exciting stories from Ancient Greece as told by two professors who have very different ideas about where the story should begin. Starting with Perseus as a boy, the story takes us through all the twists and turns of how Perseus sets out on his great quest to capture the head of Medusa, the snake haired Gorgon. How he tricks the grumpy Graeae, meets the beautiful Hesperides, wins the head of Medusa, helps Atlas the Giant and finally defeats the cruel King Polydectes – rescuing a young maiden, Andromeda, from a sea dragon on the way…...

Above Bored

Event Date: 
10/03/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

A police interrogation room. A woman has been detained for questioning after her boss is found dead in suspicious circumstances. In a room down the hall, her colleague also awaits an interview. Just routine questions. Just routine. But what if the monotony of routine was responsible for pushing one of them over the edge? When does bored become bored to death (albeit someone else’s death)? After all, perhaps it’s not unusual for employees of an adhesive supply company to feel a little … stuck.

Above Bored is an original psychological drama directed by Simon Harvey (Kneehigh o-region...

I, Caliban

Event Date: 
03/02/2014 - 8:00pm

The play is about events on Prospero’s island as viewed by Caliban, ‘a puppy headed monster’. Caliban is alone on the island at the end of The Tempest. He has only his memories, his magic tricks and one last bottle of wine to keep him company. I, Caliban is a sweet and sorry tale about injustice, inebriation and missing your mum .... "O. Look at you. "O, you’re beautiful. You’re beautiful. I’ve never seen such beauty. You are such fine things. You’re brave spirits indeed. Sit where you can. Brave spirits or gods. Are you gods? Are you a god? No? You must be a god with a jumper like that...

I, Peaseblossom

Event Date: 
03/03/2014 - 6:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

A fairy in wellington boots has a dream.

The play tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as re-lived through the fevered nightmares of Shakespeare’s most neglected fairy.

Funny, heartbreaking and ever so slightly crazed, I, Peaseblossom is a gloriously anarchic dream of a ‘dream’.

“There’s a lion that isn’t a lion. A wall that talks and the moon comes down with a dog and everybody’s killing themselves but there’s no blood, and I’m in a play, but I don’t know the words. I’M NAKED AND I DON’T KNOW THE WORDS!!!”

Tickets £12/£8 conc

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Hard work is the key, says Mumm

Aussie international Dean Mumm says Exeter Chiefs must continue to keep working hard in their bid to rediscover their winning touch in the Aviva Premiership.

Sunday's 23-10 loss at Saracens not only gave Rob Baxter's side an unwanted hat-trick of losses against the division's top three in as many weeks, but also condemned the Chiefs to a seventh league loss in eight starts.

With London Irish next on the agenda at Sandy Park this Saturday (3pm), Mumm is hoping a return to home comforts will help re-ignite the Chiefs after a testing few weeks.

"There are positives to...

Warning issued over carpet cleaning scam

Devon and Somerset Trading Standards are warning residents today to be aware of unscrupulous traders offering carpet cleaning services, following complaints from concerned consumers.

The traders, some of whom operate nationally, normally make initial contact by telephone, offering to clean carpets for a low or special price, often around £20 per room.

A card then arrives with a date for when the work will be carried out.

However, Trading Standards officers say that this just 'a foot in the door', and once in the house, the trader will say that they have found...

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