THEATRE

Join Charles Adrian Gillott as Ms Samantha Mann for stories about a well-meaning spinster librarian whose best friend has left her holding the rabbit. Part of the Ignite Festival that runs from 2nd-7th of June in Exeter (igniteexeter.org.uk)

"Wry, mischievous and strangely moving... Something like the secret life of Miss Prism imagined by Alan Bennett and performed by Hinge or Bracket" Ben Walters, nottelevision.net "A minutely-observed comic creation" The Scotsman "Delightfully feminist... a feel-good hit" The F-Word Comedy

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Join Charles Adrian Gillott as Ms Samantha Mann for stories about a well-meaning spinster librarian whose best friend has left her holding the rabbit. Part of the Ignite Festival that runs from 2nd-7th of June in Exeter (igniteexeter.org.uk)

"Wry, mischievous and strangely moving... Something like the secret life of Miss Prism imagined by Alan Bennett and performed by Hinge or Bracket" Ben Walters, nottelevision.net "A minutely-observed comic creation" The Scotsman "Delightfully feminist... a feel-good hit" The F-Word Comedy

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WINNER – FRINGE FIRST AWARD 2013 WINNER – MTN AWARD FOR INNOVATION 2013 ‘Fine Chisel’s Dumbstruck at Zoo Venues is terrific, layered work from young company who deserve a big audience.’ – Lyn Gardner

Fiona is losing her voice. Mal is losing his faith. Ted is losing his marbles.

Somewhere in the North Pacific, a lonely whale sings.

Armed with a stage full of instruments and a box of chalk, FINE CHISEL’s award-winning actor-musicians celebrate forgotten dances, mis-translations and unknown voices.

'Let Fine Chisel plunge you underwater and whisk you back in...

by Fine Chisel

Outside, the land is burning. But in the bar, music is playing, drink is flowing and there are stories to be told. The Boar’s Head in London’s Cheapside was Shakespeare’s favourite pub. Fine Chisel bring it to life and fill it with an array of colourful characters. Some of them you’d expect to find there, propping up the bar. Others we’ve relocated from across the Complete Works. Grab yourself a glass and come join them…

Foot-stomping live music, party-popper warfare and folk-fuelled storytelling.

’Fine Chisel… have sieved through the entire works of...

by Fine Chisel

WINNER – Three Weeks Editors’ Award, Edinburgh 2012. Having a baby is complicated. It's even tougher when you need another man's sperm.

Richard is infertile. Kate, a fierce-witted teenager he meets on a park bench, is an unlikely therapist. The gentle strumming of a busker underscores two people’s intimate, important stories.

Written and directed by Tom Spencer, Firing Blanks is a fresh, funny and moving play about donor conception (and ducks) with an original live score.

‘Firing Blanks is an exquisitely crafted piece of theatre’ - Three Weeks...

(Suitable for 16+) Multi-award winning theatre maker (The Beast and The World Holds Everyone Apart, Apart From Us) returns with his prototype invention, a lo-fi, DIY, off-beat, sci-fi, storytelling experience. Surreal, soulful comedy about a decomposing world and a cosmic visitor. Bowden comes to Melbourne following a 5-star season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Following the international success of 'The Beast' - nominated for Best Independent Theatre Writing and Best Independent Theatre Performer (Melbourne Green Room Awards 2013) and 'The World Holds Everyone Apart, Apart...

English Touring Opera visits The Bike Shed Theatre for the first time to bring to life the remarkable words of one of America’s greatest poets, Emily Dickinson. Famous for his unique blend of jazz harmonies and folk tunes, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Copland (Of Mice and Men, Appalachian Spring) interpets Dickinson’s words in his song cycle Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson.

Composed in 1950 before Dickinson became a household name, these songs for voice and piano echo Dickinson’s concise yet lyric language and include some of her most famous poems, such as “Heart, We Will...

Free will is a myth and choice is an illusion.

Working with neurologist Jack de Havas, TheatreState have begun to create a multiple choice show where the audience are the decision makers. Inspired by fortune tellers, corporate psychology, Greek legends and Argos catalogues. Join us as we explore fate, choice and wonder in a consumerist society.

Book online at: http://www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/scratch-multiple-choice/

Call the box office: 01392 434169

In 2010 Tess sold her feet to fund an arts internship. In 1747 Fanny Hill sold her body for pleasure. And both young women want to confess all to you.

Told through performance, dance, pillow fights and teen-film montages, Tess and Fanny recount their misadventures in the world of vice. But it seems that being honest is more difficult, and confusing, than it seems. In an unexpected shift of power, they find themselves in a surreal nightmare world of exhibitionism and raunch culture where the only way to be heard is to join in.

TheatreState present a challenging exploration...

by Tangram Theatre

Join Albert, the genius behind the übercoolest moustache in science, for a lecture like none you’ve ever attended. The eccentric theoretical physicist is accompanied by his two wives and mum on the piano, and by guest rapper MC Squared, as he quantum leaps us through two world wars, two theories of relativity, and the deployment of two very big bombs. Warning: features the wurst sausage joke ever. Peer reviewed by the University of Sussex. “Something close to brilliance” * The Times; “The clearest – and certainly the funniest – explanation of the Theory of...