Words, words, words. We’re battered by words, assaulted by words, wooed and seduced by words. How to pick our way through the verbiage? How to recognise the traps and snares buried beneath the seductive surface?
From the humble tweet to the set-piece public address, from whispered sweet nothings to full-blown hostilities, multi story theatre company’s new show revels in the range of language we use – alongside a growing awareness that the words we use shape the people we are, our relationships with others and the world we live in.
After What Comes Before follows a Neuroscientist, Psychologist and Physicist as they endeavour to create a machine which can extract thoughts. High octane, energetic and playful, the company submerge the audience in a farcical world of Quantum partying, flying cashew nuts and absurd game play. After What Comes Before explores the theme of conditioning within society, raising important questions regarding control, medication and self-expression.
Edinburgh Fringe Review awarded |After What Comes Before a double five stars, writing that it ‘Fizzes with energy, is hysterically funny,...
The Adventures of Perseus presents one of the most exciting stories from Ancient Greece as told by two professors who have very different ideas about where the story should begin. Starting with Perseus as a boy, the story takes us through all the twists and turns of how Perseus sets out on his great quest to capture the head of Medusa, the snake haired Gorgon. How he tricks the grumpy Graeae, meets the beautiful Hesperides, wins the head of Medusa, helps Atlas the Giant and finally defeats the cruel King Polydectes – rescuing a young maiden, Andromeda, from a sea dragon on the way…...
A police interrogation room. A woman has been detained for questioning after her boss is found dead in suspicious circumstances. In a room down the hall, her colleague also awaits an interview. Just routine questions. Just routine. But what if the monotony of routine was responsible for pushing one of them over the edge? When does bored become bored to death (albeit someone else’s death)? After all, perhaps it’s not unusual for employees of an adhesive supply company to feel a little … stuck.
Above Bored is an original psychological drama directed by Simon Harvey (Kneehigh o-region...
The play is about events on Prospero’s island as viewed by Caliban, ‘a puppy headed monster’. Caliban is alone on the island at the end of The Tempest. He has only his memories, his magic tricks and one last bottle of wine to keep him company. I, Caliban is a sweet and sorry tale about injustice, inebriation and missing your mum .... "O. Look at you. "O, you’re beautiful. You’re beautiful. I’ve never seen such beauty. You are such fine things. You’re brave spirits indeed. Sit where you can. Brave spirits or gods. Are you gods? Are you a god? No? You must be a god with a jumper like that...
The play tells the story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as re-lived through the fevered nightmares of Shakespeare’s most neglected fairy.
Funny, heartbreaking and ever so slightly crazed, I, Peaseblossom is a gloriously anarchic dream of a ‘dream’.
“There’s a lion that isn’t a lion. A wall that talks and the moon comes down with a dog and everybody’s killing themselves but there’s no blood, and I’m in a play, but I don’t know the words. I’M NAKED AND I DON’T KNOW THE WORDS!!!”
Aussie international Dean Mumm says Exeter Chiefs must continue to keep working hard in their bid to rediscover their winning touch in the Aviva Premiership.
Sunday's 23-10 loss at Saracens not only gave Rob Baxter's side an unwanted hat-trick of losses against the division's top three in as many weeks, but also condemned the Chiefs to a seventh league loss in eight starts.
With London Irish next on the agenda at Sandy Park this Saturday (3pm), Mumm is hoping a return to home comforts will help re-ignite the Chiefs after a testing few weeks.
Devon and Somerset Trading Standards are warning residents today to be aware of unscrupulous traders offering carpet cleaning services, following complaints from concerned consumers.
The traders, some of whom operate nationally, normally make initial contact by telephone, offering to clean carpets for a low or special price, often around £20 per room.
A card then arrives with a date for when the work will be carried out.
However, Trading Standards officers say that this just 'a foot in the door', and once in the house, the trader will say that they have found...
Watch local history come alive at DWT's headquarters. Volunteer millers will be on hand to show you the traditional way of grinding grain for flour using historic watermill.
If you feel inspired to get baking, the stone-ground wholemeal flour is available to buy.
10am-noon
Free admission and there is no need to book in advance except for groups and schools. To enquire please call 01392 279244
Is your fledgling food or drink brand the next big thing? The search is on for the region’s most promising start up
Four South West businesses have joined together to form The Seed Fund – a start-up business incubator designed to offer one young, regional food or drink brand the support needed to grow and build a future-proof brand. The 2014 Seed Fund launches this week and is calling for entries to find the next Pieminster, Weston’s Cider or Wyke Farms Cheese. Applicants should apply online at www.seedsw.co.uk before 14 March 2014.
