This autumn, Exeter will host four new live performance experiences made, commissioned or produced by Kaleider. Taking place in public spaces throughout the city – from Exeter Central Library to the Guildhall – and all of them interruptive, and testing the boundaries of audience experience, the events offer something meaningful in everyday surroundings.
Kaleider makes the effort to continually ask the question ‘what can we do together that we couldn’t do apart? to that end artists, academics and scientists have been brought together to imagine new works that begin to look towards a...
In preparation for their upcoming show ‘ Once Upon A Time In A Western’ at the Exeter Phoenix, The Exeter Daily managed to grab a quick chat with Al from Le Navet Bete to discover more about the art of clowning and what audiences can expect from their upcoming performances.
For those readers who may not be familiar with Le Navet Bete and your latest production ‘Once Upon A Time In A Western’, could you tell us a little bit about yourselves and your latest production?
The company formed in 2007 after we all graduated with a Theatre and...
Following a sold-out 2012 tour, three Olivier Award nominations and over 10 million YouTube hits for Cheap Flights (their infamous anthem to budget air travel), Dillie Keane, Adele Anderson and Liza Pulman celebrate 30 years of Fascinating Aïda with a brand new show.
Expect topical new songs hot off the press, plus some outrageous old favourites, as Fascinating Aïda continue to grow old disgracefully!
This October, a chilling adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic horror tale Jekyll & Hyde returns to Poltimore House on the outskirts of Exeter. Preview performances in May sold out and won praise for the show's innovative use of the dilapidated and creepy location.
Performed by Exeter-based Four of Swords Theatre, the production runs for 12 performances from 10th - 19th October and tickets are available now from 01392 248938 and www.four-of-swords.com
Poltimore House is a crumbling but stunning stately home, originally the residence of the Bampfylde family...
Critically acclaimed theatre company Third Man are returning to the Bike Shed Theatre for the premiere of their new production, Mugs Arrows, which was developed at the venue last year. The show will run for three weeks starting on 24 September.
Mugs Arrows is a surreal black comedy set in very ordinary surroundings – the local pub. With rural areas being forever altered through commercial development and extreme weather conditions and locals disenchanted by a lack of jobs and the ever-increasing allure of a life elsewhere, Mugs Arrows delves in to a world that is on the change. It...
“Just breathe… from the guts… just breathe. Cos nothing’s going to happen.”
Something’s not quite right. Change is afoot. They may not like it…
First work-shopped last year at the Bike Shed Theatre, Third Man Theatre return with Mugs Arrows, a surreal black comedy set in very ordinary surroundings – the local pub.
With rural areas being forever altered through commercial development and extreme weather conditions and locals disenchanted by a lack of jobs and the ever-increasing allure of a life elsewhere, Mugs Arrows delves in to a world that is on the change. It...
A brand new folk musical set in the ticking bomb of Northern Ireland in 1970.
Based on Romeo and Juliet and with a mix of original and traditional music, it combines with Ireland’s storytelling history to create a haunting tragedy in modern language that resonates through the ages.
Simple staging with wooden stepladders and acoustic instruments allow the timeless story to unfold on our simple but ambitious stage.
Creative Cow in association with Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
William Shakespeare’s epic and delightful comedy is a rollicking tale of marriage, fidelity, trickery and love.
The puffed up and degenerate Sir John
Falstaff, a Knight of the Garter, is seized with the outrageous idea that to seduce two of
Windsor’s wealthy merry wives will prove his virility and give him access to their money, but with female cunning and a devilish plot involving their husbands, Falstaff is repeatedly tricked by the women.
Jane Eyre accepts a position as a governess to a ward at Thornfield Hall and wins the love of her dark and impassioned employer, Edward Rochester. But soon Jane's love, strength and determination are tested as Rochester's long-kept secrets are unveiled.
Contact Exeter Drama Company for information and to order tickets: www.exeterdramacompany.co.uk
Over five nights in September, Devon-based art collective Blind Ditch will complete their contemporary portrait of Exeter with a series of multi-platform performances in an empty office space. Combining live video streaming from city centre homes, live performance both in the space and on the city’s streets, and interaction with an online audience, This City’s Centre 3: Here, Now invites us to discover more about how daily life in a British provincial city shapes us, our behaviour and our dreams for change. Showing as part of Unexpected, Exeter's new arts festival.
