FAT! That's what I'm making a show about. My fat. Your fat, maybe. Fat. I've been fat for a long time now, and I thought I was fat, even when I wasn't, and as such, I've been thinking about fat for even longer. So I made a show about it. Our bodies and egos are fragile, our ways of talking about them inadequate, so I can understand that you might not be up for talking about fat for an hour. So I'll make you some promises:
- I promise to tell the truth. - I promise to make it funny. - I promise you won't get any mess on your nice clothes.
“It is not going to be easy in so short a time to tell you the fundamental reasons why I am a painter” — Roland Penrose
Roland returns home, braced for change. Friend and biographer to Picasso, husband to Lee Miller; collector and surrealist artist; teacher of camouflage to the Home Guard - Roland Penrose was a man at the heart of his time: its art, its personalities, its conflicts.
From the battlefields of Spain to the Minotaurs of desire, the tranquility of the Côte d'Azur to a bohemian London on the eve of another World War, [Roland : A Collage] is a theatrical collage...
The Bike Shed Theatre is delighted to announce that it has received a major award from the Clore Prize Fund, at a prestigious ceremony in London’s Natural History Museum on Tuesday 4th November. The £50,000 award follows the theatre’s recent success in being added to the Arts Council England’s National Portfolio - and will be used to support the next generation of emerging South West and beyond theatre companies to develop and produce nationally recognised work.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Clore Duffield Foundation, a total prize fund of £500,000 was made available....
The Best in UK live stand up, every month at The Barnfield.
An exciting partnership begins this autumn – The Barnfield will host Komedia’s Krater Comedy Club. The Krater Comedy Club has run for 15 years at Komedia Brighton and five years at Komedia Bath. In that time it has hosted the biggest names UK comedy and Komedia has won more Chortle Comedy Awards for the Best Venue than any UK operator (eclipsing even The Comedy Store). From this Autumn Komedia’s Krater Comedy Club will extend to a third city becoming a monthly fixture in Exeter at The Barnfield. The line- up this month is...
Alison Rayner – bass Deirdre Cartwright – guitar Buster Birch – drums Diane McLoughlin – saxophone Steve Lodder piano
A new band led by bassist and composer Alison Rayner, encompassing the talents of five talented and exciting jazz musicians. They combine diverse influences from American swing and funk and Afro Cuban dance music to contemporary jazz and European folk. The music is accessible and broad in its reach; the compositions are melodic with killer...
After their sensationally successful ‘An Evening with the Humour of Bob Newhart and Tom Lehrer’ at the Barnfield theatre, Peter Gill and Andrew Meller make a welcome return with more songs and sketches from the catalogue of two of America’s greatest satirists of the 50’s and 60’s.
Expect such gems as Newhart’s The Nudist Camp Exposed, The Daddy of all Hangovers and Superman and the Dry Cleaners as well as Lehrer’s Pollution, Smut and Oedipus Rex. An unmissable and hilarious evening of classics that re visits a golden age of comedy.
Seann Walsh has managed to search deep inside himself to find the inner strength to get out of bed and all the way into his support act’s car, parked just outside his flat JUST FOR YOU. Before you commend him too much for this act of heroism, be aware he will sleep in the car.
In his last show ’The Lie-In King’, 2013 Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Seann was living alone and trying to sort himself out.
At 28 years of age he returns with his aptly named new show ’28’ where he is now living with his girlfriend, and sheis trying to sort him out.
After the immense success of The Addams Family in March, Clyst Vale Community College is once again returning to present the quirky musical comedy Sweet Charity.
Sweet Charity is a tender, poignant and consistently funny look at the adventures, or rather; misadventures in the ways of love encountered by the gullible but incredibly loveable character known as Charity Agnes Valentine – “the lady of the evening” who always gives her heart, and her earnings, to the wrong man. Charity sings, dances, laughs and cries her way through romances in this classic American musical. With hits...
The Leonard School of Dramatic Art present The Wolves of Willoughby Chase .Adapted for the stage by Russ Tunney.
“Once upon a time that never was..”
A thrilling adventure set in an alternative history of England, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase tells the story of two brave and determined girls as they fight against ferocious wolves, snowy wastelands and their very evil guardian, Miss Slighcarp. During the fictional reign of King James 111, the opening of the Channel Tunnel has led to dangerous wolves roaming Britain. However, this is not the only danger that plucky cousins,...
Join Exeter Musical Society as they celebrate their 110-year anniversary.
In a production full of music, dance, laughter, colour and vitality, we'll trace the society's journey from humble beginnings in 1904 to our present day status as one of the leading musical theatre groups in the South West.
Showcasing our hugely talented company in a wide range of musical styles, SHOWTIME! will feature classic favourites from Gilbert and Sullivan, Rogers and Hammerstein and Cole Porter through to contemporary showstoppers from Les Miserables, Jesus Christ Superstar, Miss Saigon and...
