What happens when you want a different life to the one chosen for you? A story of desire, duty, deceit and revenge. An innovative re-telling of an ancient Welsh myth where nothing is quite as it seems.
Rose cannot remember what came before the house at the edge of the isolated forest. Gwynne says he magicked her out of the flowers, but she's not so sure. She has played the part of the perfect farmer’s wife for Lewis, who is kept firmly in place by his uncle Gwynne, and accepted her lonely existence. Then a stranger is seen in the forest. What lengths will she go to, to escape the...
Outside, a storm is raging. Inside, a darkened room preserves the fragments of a past underneath dust sheets. Sea-shells, voices, yellowing postcards: the flotsam and jetsam of a childhood spent beach-combing on the coast of Brittany. Stories emerge: of treasure found in tidal ponds, and women metamorphosing into serpents. But beneath the floorboards, the creaking groans of whales warn of unsettled futures.
In a sparkling one-woman performance that blends poetry with theatre, Anglo-Breton poet Claire Trévien navigates a shifting maritime landscape. Memory and myth from the Celtic...
Prepare to be enlightened. On the opening night of the first ever, Relight My Fire festival, join performance poet Matt Harvey as he premieres his new energy-inspired collection, ‘The Element In the Room’.
Currently poet-in-residence with Regen SW, (a centre for expertise in sustainable energy), Matt has gleaned some stimulating new material inspired by our love affair with energy.
Where do we go from here? If anyone can make light of the situation, it’s this man. Putting solar under the spotlight and giving wind-turbines a twist, Matt introduces a packed programme with...
When impoverished pearl-diver Kino finds the ‘pearl of the world’ he believes his family’s life will be transformed forever. Seduced by the pearl’s beauty and promise of riches, he is blind to the danger of having something that everyone else wants. Instead of bringing hope, the pearl leads Kino and his family down a dark and dangerous path. A timeless fable about the allure of wealth, the confines of class, and the redemptive power of love. The Pearl asks us to consider what we value most in the world. Dumbshow present their critically-acclaimed new adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic...
A chilled-out showcase of germinating ideas, presented by Framework, the artistic development arm of the Bike Shed Theatre.
This Sunday Theatre Rush will be sharing the early stages of their next piece 'yet to be titled' and Ella Evans will be here with the beginnings of ELMIS, a stand up show musing on feminist learnings.
This opportunity is open for all Artists to use so if you'd like to show any work at it's early stages just e-mail chloe@bikehsedtheatre.co.uk in fact e-mail her if you want to know how we can support you making and showing work you are creating.
An East Devon community has given its backing to a local population of wild beavers.
160 people attended a ‘beaver meeting’ in Ottery St Mary on Tuesday 19 August. The meeting had been specially convened by the Devon Wildlife Trust in an attempt to give everyone what the charity called, ‘a chance to make their views known about the future of their new and unusual neighbours.’
Beavers are a species that were once native to England and were widely found, including in Devon. However they were hunted to extinction several hundred years ago. The source of this wild beaver...
First Great Western have named one of their high speed trains in celebration of the Red Arrows’ 50th display season.
The power is named “Red Arrows: 50 Seasons of Excellence” . The train naming, which took place at Exeter St David’s Station, celebrated the start of the 2014 Dawlish Air Show and marks a significant milestone for the Red Arrows.
First Great Western’s General Manager, West, David Crome, said: “I’m delighted we’re able to celebrate the Red Arrows 50th display season and we’re proud to be naming one of our high speed trains in honour of them.
Two new Parkinson’s Nurse Specialists have joined the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital to improve care for patients with Parkinson’s disease. Stacey Andrew and Samantha Moore will help to ensure patients receive the right specialist care when they are in hospital. Their part-time posts have been funded by the charity Parkinson’s UK for the first two years.
Stacey and Samantha will help to ensure patients with Parkinson’s are identified at the earliest opportunity following admission, and will then provide an outreach service to review inpatients and ensure they are receiving the...
Children and young people who are having oncology treatment on Bramble ward at the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital can now enjoy two newly refurbished rooms thanks to Dawlish charity Richard’s Wish.
Richard’s Wish was set up in memory of seventeen year old Richard Cridge, who had oncology treatment for Ewings Sarcoma on Bramble ward before he passed away in 2008.
The refurbished rooms, which have been designed with teenagers and young people in mind, were recently opened by Richard’s parents, Jo and Dave Cridge, along with representatives from the charity and the Exeter...
With the August bank holiday upon us doctors in Devon have reminded people where they can find medical help if they need it.
Dr Tim Burke, a family doctor from Devon and chair of the Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group, said people should choose the most appropriate NHS service so they can get fast and effective advice and treatment for their health issue.
Every year emergency departments (A&E) at hospitals in Devon see approximately 300,000 patients, a number of which have common illnesses or ailments, which may be better treated elsewhere...
