bike shed theatre exeter

The Various Lives Of Infinite Nullity

Event Date: 
22/04/2014 - 7:30pm to 26/04/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

"Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular and by nature it is interminable..." Flann O'Brien

A post-suicide support group meet to reflect upon their lives. Ignoring symptoms of their own deaths, three characters guide us through the strange and disquieting landscape they now inhabit. A plastic wasteland where domestic disputes last thousands of years, death doesn't work and milk-drinking children make the rules. A place of bloodbaths, shopping lists, premature burials and polite tea drinking.

Award winning Clout Theatre return with their trademark absurdism and...

SCRATCH: The 36

Event Date: 
11/04/2014 - 7:30pm to 12/04/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

Rachel is obsessed with the myth of ‘Lahmed Vovnik’ – The Thirty Six – a Talmudic suggestion that there are 36 special people in the world, and were it not for them, all of them, even if one was missing, the world would come to an end. Tradition holds that their identities are unknown both to each other and themselves, and that they hold the fate of the world on their shoulders. The making of this show will see Rachel ask ‘If you were going in search of the 36 righteous people, what terms would you search under, how do you break-down ‘goodness’, what would it be like to know that your...

FAILURE (& other opportunities for non linear success)

Event Date: 
26/05/2013 - 7:30pm to 27/05/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

FAILURE (& other opportunities for non linear success) Mary Pearson Left standing at the disco. Caught naked on the red carpet. Gathering dust after the big sale. Expired. Bagged. Tagged. And recalled. Stuck somewhere amongst the glitter and glamour of Las Vegas, magic, and selling cars… a fashion victim, aspiring pop diva, and chronic underachiever is consumed by delusional fantasies of commercial success. Watch with amusement, outrage, empathy, embarrassment and relief as her pedestal becomes a soapbox and her FAILURE turns into freedom. A new solo performance bringing together...