A witty and seductive comedy by the eighteenth century master Pierre de Marivaux.
What is a princess to do when she is in love with the handsome prince who hates her because her father usurped his father’s throne? The answer is simple – dress up as a boy and woo the prince, his tutor and the tutor’s sister who have all renounced love. Enlightenment reason is challenged by those most basic of human instincts – love and desire - in this delightful and playful romp.
On tour around Devon July 8-17 More details www.cygnettheatre...
Viki is not coping. Taking you from the dairy aisle of Sainsbury’s to the green turf of Ascot, via a disco of dirty secrets with a euro-pop soundtrack; HELP! is about falling apart and pulling yourself together again. This moving, joyous show is for anyone who has ever struggled.
Award-winning performer Viki Browne returns to The Bike Shed with her collagic performance style which borrows from live art, stand-up comedy, spoken word and cabaret.
We Are Brontë is a piece of comic visual theatre inspired by the real and imaginery worlds of Yorkshire’s literary siblings, presented in Publick Transport’s irreverent style. Physical theatre collides with clowning and improvisation as two performers deconstruct not only gothic themes of love, madness, repression and revenge, but also themselves. Part play, part enquiry into the act of putting on a play, this promises to be no ordinary Brontë adaptation.
Performances and tickets: http://www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/we-are-bronte/
Dark physical comedy, Beyond Cragporth Rock, invites the audience to ride a rollercoaster of bleak laughs and horror. The lights rise upon a bizarre sprawl of bodies. A dystopian world, unseen by the reclusive Cragporth sisters for some years, has emerged following a financial and social crisis. The six sisters reside in a ramshackle cottage on the edge of an eroding cliff. Afraid of what might lie beyond the walls of their cottage, they live in constant fear of faceless foes and unspecified attacks.
Haste Theatre and Director Ally Cologna create a heightened and witty microcosm of...
A story for anyone who ever dreamed of a different world.
A hundred-year-old mechanical monster emerges from the waves. Everyday objects turn on their makers and the Empire is plunged into chaos. No one knows why. No one can stop it. Except maybe Grandad. He always was good with a spanner.
That’s why Imogen and her father head north to find him. Their journey becomes an epic quest across England that leads to the heart of a dark family secret.
A brand new steampunk fairytale for grownups, mixing vivid storytelling with an original score. There will be Zeppelins. It...
This Monday 15 June, musician, actor, writer, Stella Grundy will be performing her multimedia music production, The Rise & Fall of a Northern Star at The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter.
This unique and incendiary show ~ directed by Ian Bloomfield ~ blends comedy and tragedy in rhythmic, pacey dialogue, interspersed with Stella's original music.
The story is a cautionary tale of rock n roll wannabe, Tracy Star trying to make her mark in the male-dominated Manchester music scene of the eighties and early nineties.
This tour incorporates specific theatres and music...
This Monday 15 June, musician, actor, writer, Stella Grundy will be performing her multimedia music production, The Rise & Fall of a Northern Star at The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter.
This unique and incendiary show ~ directed by Ian Bloomfield ~ blends comedy and tragedy in rhythmic, pacey dialogue, interspersed with Stella's original music.
The story is a cautionary tale of rock n roll wannabe, Tracy Star trying to make her mark in the male-dominated Manchester music scene of the eighties and early nineties.
This tour incorporates specific theatres and music...
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THEATRE
Figs in Wigs: Show Off Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter Figs in Wigs are out to reinvent themselves. Witness this playful five-piece find their calling as comedians, dancers, visual artists, musicians and circus entertainers in 'Show Off', a tongue-in-cheek variety show (without the variety). Tickets £10 (£8). www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk
Open air theatre, including works by Shakespeare and Jane Austen, will be staged in two of East Devon’s best loved parks this summer.
Four touring theatre companies are bringing their productions to the beautiful Connaught Gardens in Sidmouth and Manor Gardens in Exmouth in a joint project between East Devon District Council’s StreetScene and Countryside departments. Topping the bill will be The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice and the Triumph of Love.
Cllr John O’Leary, the district council’s Culture Champion, said: “These gardens have wonderful...
