Find timeless, historical garments transformed from natural fibres to catwalk fashion in our latest costume exhibition 'the nature of fashion'. This latest exhibition highlights the skills and processes involved in creating intricate cotton, wool, linen and silk garments from raw materials.
Motherland will be premiering on February 22nd 2014.
This brand new production from Exeter based Stage Wright Productions, charts the rather intriguing life of Dr Marie Stopes.
We join her as her once pioneering birth control practice and methods have fallen out of fashion. To make matters worse, her unconventional methods of promoting birth control and extremely suspect qualifications have alienated the Doctor from the Family Planning Association.
This wartime black comedy takes you deep into the world of Stopes' medical practices, thoughts and somewhat dubious...
Devon has added another success story to its books, with the announcement that Exeter girl group Wildwood Kin have won in the Open Mic UK Competition.
Open Mic UK offers entrants not only the chance to win prizes, but the opportunity to perform live to capacity audiences at some of the best venues in the country, with the Grand Final being held at The NEC in Birmingham! Huge crowds, record industry A & R and celebrity judges are there to cast their eye over the talent along the way.
Exeter girl group Wildwood Kin impressed judges at the audition stages and during a...
Colyton Grammer School in East Devon has received the best GCSE results in the country for the second year running according to the latest school league tables.
The news is perhaps no surprise as the school, which only takes in pupils in the top 25% of the abiltity range, has been named as the Sunday Time’s ‘Co—Educational School of the Year’ on no fewer four occasions.
Headteacher Paul Evans said of the school’s success: “Its a magic formula at Colyton; a group of students who are committed and clearly very able, a very hardworking and talented staff that constantly amaze...
Soap Soup re-invent the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood for a new generation. Meet Ethel and Sam as they get ready for bed, with a not so sweet bedtime story of a girl with attitude, a wolf with an appetite and a larger than life woodcutter with an axe and a very real fear of wolves. Join Red as she crosses eiderdown meadows and picks her way through the mug tree forest to Grandma’s house. Little Red Riding Hood combines the magical appeal of puppetry, and cutting edge, original music with our signature, darkly humorous and visually stunning style. Drawing inspiration from childhood...
Following their sell-out show A Little Nonsense at Exeter Ignite festival and Brighton Fringe, Juncture Theatre return to develop STUFF – a new work inspired by the things we own, the role that possessions play in our lives and the stories that they tell. The company will embark on a real life treasure hunt, meeting and documenting encounters with people who are selling, swapping or searching in the Free Ads. Through a patchwork of intricate storytelling, illustration, live music and obsessive list-making, Juncture will explore memory, security and the relationships we form with the stuff...
Acclaimed Bristol theatre company Juncture return to The Bike Shed Theatre with an original black comedy that explores the clown inside the man and the mirth hidden in the melancholy.
Through mime, slapstick, poetry and farce, A Little Nonsense is a bare-knuckle look at the sharp edge of funny. The play follows a tortured double-act as they walk the tightrope between love and loathing and question the importance of light and shade in our lives.
A Little Nonsense combines the physicality of Buster Keaton, the linguistic games of Beckett and the off-kilter world of a David...
Lewis Carroll’s classic sequel to Alice in Wonderland gets an imaginative treatment in this stage adaptation by Katherine Kingsford directed by Alistair Ganley
Alice crawls through the mirror into a looking glass world where she has to outwit Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and gets the rough end of Humpty Dumpty’s tongue on her journey to become Queen. Sofia Fernandes, Helen Kirk and Kaja Pecnik bring the tale to life with the help of puppets and costumes inspired by the original Tenniel illustrations.
Performances at 7.30pm daiy, 3pm matinee on 1 March.
Kagemusha Taiko, one of the leading groups in Europe, have a new Taiko Centre at Seale Hayne. It’s a dedicated rehearsal space for the company’s 3 performing groups, and where taiko workshops and courses are open to all.
Since their last appearance at the Barnfield Theatre, Kagemusha Taiko have performed in the USA and Japan – where they played to great acclaim in Fukushima and other cities affected by the great tsunami disaster of 2011.
The group makes a welcome return, bringing with them members of Kagemusha Junior Taiko and Tano Taiko, for a hugely enjoyable family show...
