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A Journey Round My Skull

Event Date: 
03/02/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

A tale of a passionate and painful love affair told by a neurosurgeon.

Using wireless headphones and a fantastical sound world, the audience is transported from their seat, to a scrap over profiteroles, into neurosurgery and onto the tracks of a ghost train. This show operates on the ears as well as the heart to dissect our most intimate relationships.

Part inspired by the auditory hallucinations experienced by satirist Frigyes Karinthy as described in his extraordinary medical memoir

A Bristol Old Vic Ferment commission.

‘It’s the careful interweaving of...

Devon mum puts play on the map

Authored by playmapp
Posted: Thu, 12/11/2014 - 11:53pm

A Devon mum has created a new website, www.playmapp.co.uk , to detail the locations of free places for children to play.

Initially covering the whole of Devon, PlayMapp features over 600 child-friendly sites.

A quick search on the easy-to-use website, designed and developed by Rokk Media Ltd of Exeter, will demonstrate that you are never far from a play area in Devon. Site visitors can also add to the quality of entries by leaving comments and uploading photos.

Playmapp’s founder, Claire McHugh, says: "I love taking my children to playgrounds, but they can be hard...

Theatre West presents Icarus in Love at Exeter's Bike Shed Theatre

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 11/21/2014 - 10:51am

Part of Theatre West’s autumn season ‘The One Day Project’Theatre West presents Icarus in Love, a new play written by Edson Burton, part of the company’s intriguing autumn season ‘The One Day Project’. The season features five new plays which all take their inspiration from the global happenings of one day in history - 1 October 2013.

Icarus in Love, opens on 25 November and runs until 6 December at The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter.

It will be preceded by Drifters, a short play by Martin Malcolm.

Set in the swinging 60s, Icarus in Love tells the story of lovers Reg and...

Exeter Scrapstore seeks views 

Authored by Mandy Pearse
Posted: Fri, 11/14/2014 - 12:44pm

An Exeter charity faced with rebuilding its headquarters is calling on artistic and creative individuals and groups to help by completing a short survey.

Over the last 30 years the Scrapstore has provided a wealth of arts and crafts materials to families, community organisations, schools, playgroups and artists across Devon.

Now in its fourth year as a charity the Scrapstore is looking to the future. Its current home, a hut in the corner of Belmont Park is over 75 years old and will need replacing or a major makeover.

Alan Caig, Chair of the Scrapstore Trust says: “...

Real Person Fiction

Event Date: 
02/12/2014 - 7:30pm to 05/12/2014 - 8:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

'People would still pay attention if I wasn’t…I’m not just an extension of Will.'

Consumed by the vicious, near-constant messages being sent to her by her ex-boyfriend’s fans, the last thing Jen needs is a visit from his co-star, Eli. But with Eli insistent that she should give Will another chance, and Will and Eli’s fans convinced that she’s getting in the way of true love, Jen decides that she needs to know the reality of the two men’s feelings for each other, regardless of the consequences.

Real Person Fiction is an intense new play from Living Robot Theatre...

An Elephant in the Garden

Event Date: 
22/10/2014 - 7:00pm to 25/10/2014 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

1945. Dresden, Germany. Lizzie, her mother - and an elephant from the zoo, flee the Allied fire-bombing in the end-game of the Second World War.

Escaping the Allies' advance from the West - and also the advancing Russian armies from the East - this extraordinary trio of refugees meets: a downed RAF officer, cowering in a barn; a homeless school choir on the run and their Countess saviour, harbouring them from the Nazis; and the mechanised American cavalry, appearing over the horizon.

It is Lizzie's story – but Marlene, the elephant, is the heroine. Plodding, obdurate,...

1984

Event Date: 
14/10/2014 - 7:30pm to 18/10/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

A new adaptation created by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan

April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye.

The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in this radical new staging exploring surveillance, identity and why Orwell's vision of the future is as relevant now as ever.

Headlong continues to interrogate our most important cultural texts, following productions of Six Characters In Search Of An...

Cygnet Theatre graduates tread the boards of success

Exeter’s Cygnet theatre are celebrating today as all of the graduate cohort are signed to professional agents. The former students, who have signed to Mahoney Bannon Associates in Brighton, performed Strawberries in January at the King’s Head Pub Theatre in London, impressing the agency, who offered all of them interviews.

The Cygnet now looks forward to their success, with one student, Jessamy James, already working in a production at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

The Cygnet is a hidden gem in Exeter, offering training on both short, and longer-term courses, and a range...

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors

Event Date: 
21/08/2014 - 6:00pm to 10:30pm
Venue: 
Powderham Castle, Kenton, Exeter, Devon EX6 8JQ

Gloucestershire’s acclaimed Festival Players are taking an all-male tour of William Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors across the UK and into Europe this summer. The tour will head to Devon on Thursday, August 21st to the picturesque setting of Exeter’s 14th century Powderham Castle.

Directed by Minack Theatre’s former artistic director, Michael Dyer, and with music from 70’s folk musician Jonny Coppin, the play tells of a master and his servant arriving in a foreign port which, unbeknown to them, is the home of their long-lost twin brothers. Mayhem ensues in a riotous train of...

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors comes to Powederham Castle

Gloucestershire’s acclaimed Festival Players are taking an all-male tour of William Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors across the UK and into Europe this summer. The tour will head to Devon on Thursday, August 21st to the picturesque setting of Exeter’s 14th century Powderham Castle.

In Shakespeare’s 450th birthday year, The Players mainly alfresco tour will see them step on stage for some 40 performances of the play, directed by Minack Theatre’s former artistic director, Michael Dyer. It tells of a master and his servant arriving in a foreign port which, unbeknown to them, is the home...

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