A-Z of Shows

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• A Feast of Taiko

  Exeter Northcott Theatre - 29th June - £10 (£8)

  8th Annual Taiko Festival more...

• Al Head in Are You Talking to Me

  The Barnfield Theatre - 27th June - £6 (£4)

  Created and performed by Al Head this show weaves together themes of gender, ageing, disability and sexuality; utilising static trapeze, physical theatre, text, music, film and Fooling. more...

• Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

  The Barnfield Theatre - 5th July - £9 (£7 concessions)

  Uncommon Players present more...

• A Psychophysical Workshop with Baram Theatre

  Library - 30th June - £3

  Baram International Theatre Troupe present a psychophysical workshop. An exploration of the techniques used in 'Reflection': a one woman show addressing memory loss as a result of dementia with an unrelated text. The workshop will address the following: more...

• A Rusty Film Night

  The Rusty Bike - 6th July, 7th July - Free admission

  Come and relax to a selection of locally made short films. Screened in the warm atmosphere of the Rusty Bike. A perfect way to end the Ignite Festival! more...

• As Within, So Without - Awkward City Theatre

  Cygnet New Theatre - 5th July - £8 (£6)

  July 5th 7.30pm more...

• A Very Very Serious Evening of Theatre by Le Navet Bete

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 25th June, 26th June, 28th June

  Stop. Pause. Breathe. Take a moment to reflect upon what the theatrical world has to offer. Dance. Poetry. Song. Theatre. Cross-Cultural movement. Seriousness. Invoke your senses on this theoretical and practical exploration into the HERE AND NOW. Specially selected extracts of…Stop again. Pause. more...

• Baby in the Basement, BLUD and Threnody by Break Point Theatre

  The Rusty Bike - 2nd July, 3rd July, 4th July - £5

  Following on from the success of their debut production of "FLUSH" by David Dipper, Break Point Theatre productions present a showcase of 3 different performance pieces. more...

• Big Society

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 29th June, 30th June, 25th June

  The coalition government’s vision is to unleash the social energy that exists in order to build better, healthier communities. This is the world of Cameron’s big society. Big Society is a romp through the chaos that ensues when one well meaning individual tries to make this vision a reality. more...

• Bursary Boy

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 28th June, 29th June, 30th June - £5

  Peter is 26. He’s about to enter the priesthood. But he has doubts. more...

• The Cabinet Maker's Daughter

  The Barnfield Theatre - 29th June - £9 (£7 Concessions)

  As One Theatre Company in The Cabinet Maker’s Daughter By Peter J Cooper more...

• Carter Davis: Secret Agent

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 2nd July, 3rd July, 3rd July - £5

  Multi-award-winning movie The Artist was a stunning throwback to the era of silent films, before special effects were even a twinkle in a director’s eye. more...

• Charles V by Howard Barker

  Exeter Northcott Theatre - 22nd June - FREE

  An investigation by University of Exeter Drama DepartmentThis investigation of Howard Barker’s Charles V is the second part of a project to examine the extremes of language in theatre, the first being the epic drama BLOK/EKO, premiered at the Exeter Northcott last year, with its cast of over 60 and complex, poetic verbal exchanges. In sharp contrast, Charles V, employs a single word, and this event will show how actors might extract meaning and beauty from uttering it. How does context alter a word? And can tone reverse its obvious meaning more...

• Cold Call - PlasticFactory

  Cygnet New Theatre - 4th July, 5th July - £6

  Set in a call centre follow this ensemble as they fuse high energy moves to mimic the mundane, repetitive, dull, excessive nature of an office existence. more...

• Contain Spoilers - Trash Dollys

  Cygnet New Theatre - 25th June, 26th June, 27th June - £5 (£4)

  An obsessed photographer and an unhinged widow - a twisted love story. TrashDollys, an untypical duo, weave a layered retelling of desire through an intriguing mix of image and dance. more...

• Contractions

  Cygnet New Theatre - 25th June, 26th June - £7 (£5)

  Emma thinks she’s in love with Darren. Her boss thinks she’s in breach of contract. more...

• Cover Story by Pilot's Thumb

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 28th June, 29th June, 30th June - £5

  After a successful run with their powerful and moving production of ‘Touched’ Pilot’s Thumb bring us their new play ‘Cover Story’. Devised using their signature style of fusing the personal and political, Cover Story is another telling insight into modern day society. more...

• Don Quixote

  Outdoors - 26th June, 6th July, 8th July - £7.50 (£5) (£22.50)

  See the kingdom of La Mancha by Bicycle, and live to tell the tale! Burn The Curtain, an innovative Devon based outdoor theatre company, create fun and engaging outdoor promenade shows for families and adults of all ages. This summer they are performing ‘The Adventures of Don Quixote by Bicycle’ ! Don Quixote has spent his whole life reading about the heroic exploits of famous Knights in books. Now, with a little help from his reluctant squire Sancho Panza, and you the audience, he's going to bring those stories to life, whatever the consequences! Travelling together on bicycles, actors and audiences will experience the colourful and misguided escapades of Don Quixote - self styled Knight of La Mancha. This exciting piece of interactive family theatre involves actors riding custom designed bikes; tall, wide, beautiful and strange, these are steeds that even a medieval knight might be proud to ride. As part of the show you too can decorate your cycle, or turn your bike into a horse. Commissioned by Beaford Arts and funded by Arts Council England, Devon County Council and Exeter City Council, this exciting new show is being premièred as part of Exeter’s Ignite Festival. A series of performances will take place at Exeter’s Historic Quayside with audiences and performers taking a short promenade ride along the Exeter Canal Cycle Route. more...

• Dorian Gray

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 26th June, 27th June, 28th June - £5

  **Pregant Fish Theatre Company presents: more...

• Duality by Pair Dance

  Exeter Phoenix - 3rd July, 4th July - £10 (£8)

  A fast-paced world of technological illusion created through digital media, bringing dance and technology together to interact and exist simultaneously. Five international performers connect and recognise ways in which technology shapes how we communicate, think, move, play and act. more...

• Edge Comedy

  The Oddfellows - 26th June, 27th June - £5

  Exeter's best comedy club presents the best talent on the UK Comedy circuit at the moment more...

• Field Of Asphodel

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 4th July, 5th July, 6th July - £5

  **Idolrich Theatre presents: more...

• Flushed

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 25th June, 27th June, 28th June - £5

  Theatre Rush presents... more...

• Fools Gold

  Cygnet New Theatre - 2nd July - £8 (£6)

  The fools play dramas about money that walk a tightrope between comedy and tragedy, irreverently opening bank accounts and exposing their stories. more...

• Fresh, Live & Dead...

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 2nd July, 3rd July, 5th July - £5

  **The Improsarios present... more...

• The Game

  Exeter Phoenix - 26th June, 26th June, 27th June - £8 (£6)

  DI Jack Powell is dead. It's up to you to find out why. Exeter Theatre Collective are giving you and your friends the opporunity to become the ultimate crime-solving team and join Exeter's finest in a whodunnit experience which puts you in the driving seat. Sign up now. more...

• Gesig

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 25th June, 27th June, 28th June

  Exeter-based theatre company Doll Tear-she present a beautiful piece about femininity in the twenty-first century more...

• Grand Guignol

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 2nd July, 3rd July, 4th July - £5

  Exeter Alternative Theatre presents... more...

• Howard Barker's Charles V

  Exeter Northcott Theatre - 26th June - FREE

  This investigation of Howard Barker's Charles V is the second part of a project to examine the extremes of language in theatre, the first being the epic drama BLOK/EKO, premiered at the Exeter Northcott last year, with its cast of over 60 and complex, poetic verbal exchanges. more...

• How To Start a Riot by Worklight Theatre

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 5th July, 6th July, 7th July - £5

  If actions are mindless, what's in the mind? Using text, torchlight and physical theatre, three performers unpick presumed causes of civil unrest. more...

• Jack & The Beanstalk - Cygnet Company

  Cygnet New Theatre - 3rd July, 3rd July - £5

  When Jack’s cow Milky White has to go to market he trades her for a sack of magic beans and so his adventures begin…. more...

• Janne B presents... Janne B

  The Rusty Bike - 5th July - £5

  Janne “B” and friends are stepping over the cliff into the Empty space. more...

• Jojo Spinks: Writing for the Arts

  Library - 26th June

  Local writer Jojo Spinks gives an hour-long talk about how she got into writing for the theatre and discusses how her work is socially relevant in our age of relentless economic cuts and unemployment. This talk is aimed at anyone looking at starting out as a new writer, whether young or seasoned professionals. more...

• Julie Jepson - Personal Triumph

  Cygnet New Theatre - 30th June - £8

  Comic Julie Jepson returns to her old stomping ground once again and brings a new hour of funnies as it is honed for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. more...

• Kagemusha Taiko

  Exeter Northcott Theatre - 30th June - £12.50 - £18

  8th UK Taiko Festival more...

• Labyrinth by Inkling Productions

  The Oddfellows - 4th July, 5th July, 5th July - £5

  Labyrinth is a modernisation of the ancient myth ‘Theseus and the Minotaur’. Four actors, a blow-up doll and a puppet draw the audience into this fantastical ‘Romeo and Juliet’ with a twist. A combination of mime, physical theatre, music, poetry, dance and drama involves the audience in a story of ancient feud and forbidden love. more...

• Le Foulard by Lucy Hopkins

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 5th July, 6th July, 7th July - £5

  Lucy Hopkins is trying to tell a story. A love story, that more or less really happened. more...

• Loose Tongues by Inkling Productions

  The Rusty Bike - 5th July, 6th July, 7th July - £5

  With free flowing alcohol and a charged atmosphere, six characters loosen their tongues to reveal a tangled web of half-truths, lies and deceit that has led them to this point, the funeral of a local businessman. This cabaret style dark comedy draws the audience into its heart, sharing its deepest, darkest secrets. The audience is part of intimate, emotional moments as the story uncovers intriguing links between the characters and the consequences of the tales they tell. Comprising moments of intense emotion, humour, horror and surprising twists, Loose Tongues is a darkly compelling piece of theatre and has enjoyed success at venues in Barnstaple, Salisbury and Bristol in 2011. more...

• “Make Love Not War”- Aristophanes’ Lysistrata

  Cygnet New Theatre - 27th June, 28th June - £7.50

  Bantam Theatre Collective presents Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. more...

• Make Shift

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 28th June - £8 for the House Event

  An ecologically aware house party with a difference. make Shift is a unique networked performance and discussion event connecting houses in Exeter, Munich and globally through a specially designed online interface. more...

• Make Shift

  The Oddfellows - 28th June - free

  An ecologically aware house party with a difference. make-shift is an intimate networked performance and discussion event that re-imagines the private actions of our domestic lives as multiple, interconnected and with global consequences. more...

• Middle Class Tripe by Simply The Jest

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 27th June, 4th July - £5

  It’s time to dust off those gilets and iron your tweeds because Simply the Jest are back! Having performed to packed-out audiences at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and throughout the year at the Bike Shed, the nine-strong sketch troupe from Exeter have returned with their brand new show, dissecting the habits, rituals and downright absurdities of middle class life. Through a variety of sketches, songs and parodies, the group will once again be showing off their 'not-so-conventional, exceptionally witty' (www.newkid.co.uk) comedy that went down so well at the Fringe last year. Anyone for croquet more...

• Obstacles and Horizons - SpinDrift

  Cygnet New Theatre - 6th July, 7th July - £7

  Two acts of contemporary dance by the ever growing collective of artists that make up SpinDrift Dance Company. more...

• Oshea & Ogilvie - Out Of Season

  Cygnet New Theatre - 6th July, 7th July - £8 (£6)

  Exeter’s own female comedy duo bring their sketch, song and dance show Out of Season back to the New Theatre. From Irish Dancing misfits, shoulder padded, big haired 80s parodies, original music to their Jazz poets – these girls are sure to keep you laughing out loud! more...

• Paper Tom by Handheld Arts

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 2nd July, 3rd July, 4th July - £5

  It's 1918 and Tom returns from the trenches of World War One. Almost 100 years later another British soldier returns home from Afghanistan. This timely new play interweaves the stories of these two veterans and looks at the challenges they face once the adrenaline of active service has faded. The psychological impact of war is told through a bold blend of new writing, physical theatre and multimedia. more...

• Plastic Beach by Theatre With Teeth

  Exeter Phoenix - 25th June, 26th June - £8 (£6)

  7,200 yellow rubber ducks fall into the ocean, spreading like confetti. This inventive ensemble piece combines imaginative storytelling with bold imagery to follow one lonely beachcomber's obsessive for these friendly floatees. more...

• The Raven and other Underworld Journeys

  The Rusty Bike - 26th June, 27th June, 28th June - £5

  Explore the ancient darkness that lies beneath our feet more...

• Reflection by Baram Theatre

  The Oddfellows - 2nd July, 3rd July, 4th July - £5

  This one woman show influenced by Joanna Murray Smith's Bombshell's centred on the most important day of woman's life memory loss as a result of dementia. Looking from the inside out, the nameless character unknowingly invites you in. Composed and perform by Laura Height from Baram International Theatre Troupe. more...

• Resonance by Dori Kirchmair

  The Oddfellows - 25th June, 26th June - £5

  Dori Kirchmair's spoken word performance includes her short story 'Resonance' which she has read on many occasions throughout the UK. It is a witty and thoughtful story about what resonantes and feels true to us. She will also read a range of poems about friends, relationships and finding yourself. more...

• Sad Stories of the Death of Kings

  The Rusty Bike - 25th June, 26th June - £5

  What makes a King? more...

• The Secret Life of Ophelia

  The Rusty Bike - 29th June, 30th June - £5

  Steven Berkoff’s The Secret Love Life of Ophelia bears witness to one of William Shakespeare’s most notable female characters. A secret correspondence with the Danish prince uncovers an intimate and erotic bond that could only be hinted at in Hamlet. The pair exchange a series of letters that are overflowing with utter frustration and longing as they survive on one another’s words and wait for the moment where their flesh can join. more...

• Self Centred by Bare Bones Theatre

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 26th June, 29th June, 30th June - £5

  Self Centred is a fresh and original play that uses monologue interwoven with music to explore powerful themes. By laying bare the multiple aspects of the self and exploring how we deal with life changing events, Self Centred takes you on a journey through the senses. Using a myriad of voices to portray inner conflict and examine the human condition. more...

• Severance - Interwoven Theatre

  Cygnet New Theatre - 28th June, 29th June - £6

  June 28 & 29 7.30pm more...

• Skin Tight - Epsilon Productions

  Cygnet New Theatre - 29th June, 30th June - £8

  Skin Tight is the story of an ordinary couple with an extraordinary love. more...

• Sorry by Aperta Vocem Productions

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 5th July, 6th July, 7th July - £5

  Do we shape our future with an unsaid word or action that has a consequence to others? Is the mask we wear a time bomb lreading to destrcution or salvation? Does anyone actually know who we are? These are only questions, do we hold the answers ourselves or does fate more...

• Thinking of You By Niki Orfanou

  Cygnet New Theatre - 30th June, 1st July - £8 (£5)

  A world premiere, directed by Jens Peters. more...

• This Was Your Life by Thomas Sellwood

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 25th June, 26th June, 27th June - £5

  A comedy play with music where the audience are invited to the recording of everyone's favourite reality TV show to determine the eternal fate of a recently deceased contestant. more...

• Tim McNiven: Emasculated

  The Rusty Bike - 25th June, 27th June, 28th June - £5

  Tim McNiven, stand up, has long suspected that he is not very good at being a man. In Emasculated he tries to find the root of this asking; “What is masculinity?”, “Why is it so difficult?” and “Why does he prefer being little spoon?” more...

• The Tintagel Storyteller by Jill Lamede

  The Oddfellows - 30th June, 1st July - £5

  Stories for adults and children. Stories old and new. Some familiar, some strange. Always entertaining. Choose a story from the story basket, sit back, listen and relax. Suitable for ages 5 to 95. more...

• Titanic Sinks Titswilly - Patchwork Theatre Company

  Cygnet New Theatre - 30th June, 1st July - £7 (£5)

  When a successful director retires from London to rural Titswilly, the last thing she wants is to be roped in to the village production of ‘Titanic’. Exciting new company Patchwork combine their trademark physical energy with absurdist more...

• Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing

  Exeter Northcott Theatre - 3rd July, 4th July, 5th July, 6th July - £12.50 - £20.50 (Conc £2 off)

  Henry is a brilliant and celebrated playwright. With his wife Charlotte in the starring role, his new play examines the complexity of love and infidelity. Henry's reality and fiction blur when passions ignite and his own marriage becomes entwined with that of Charlotte's co-star Max and his wife Annie. As Henry struggles to write a new work, the players in this game of deceit and lust are searching. But can any of them find The Real Thing? more...

• Under Stokes Croft by Jack Dean

  The Oddfellows - 2nd July, 3rd July - £5

  Unknown to most, there is a large furry, clumsy, irange monster living under Stokes Croft, Bristol's dilapidated, graffitti scrawled cultural quarter. By day, he watches over its people and records their stories. By night he wanders alone and paints their dreams. Or nightmares. A live graphic novel with stop motion animatio more...

• Vitamin - Carlo Jacucci

  Cygnet New Theatre - 2nd July, 3rd July - £8 (£6)

  July 2nd & 3rd 9.30pm more...

• The War of the Roses

  Exeter Northcott Theatre - 22nd June, 23rd June - £5 (£4 Concs)

  Presented by The Elysium Theatre Company in association with Event Exeter. more...

• The Whale

  Outdoors - 7th July - FREE

  Saturday 7 JUly 10.30am - 4.30pm more...

• Where The Wind Blows by Baram Theatre

  The Rusty Bike - 2nd July, 3rd July, 4th July - £5

  A dreamlike depiction of life, love and loss, through music and movement. In 'Where the Wind Blows', imagination and reality are interwoven; a man and a woman have to cope with being without one another in the extra-ordinary daily life. Featuring traditional Korean dance (Do-Salpuri) and physical theatre, the two performers cross culture and traditions with modern values and mundane movements, and fully embrace other inspirations along the way. more...

• Women of an Uncertain Age

  The Bike Shed Theatre - 2nd July, 3rd July, 7th July - £5

  Middle aged women: an Endangered Species. Are we too old for careers, sex and social life? Who says? Flip and Maggie dissect modern life through comedy sketches, monolgues song and dance and share what it means to be thirty plus: well 30XL in the 21st century. more...

• WORKSHOP: 'A Masterclass in Stupidity' with Le Navet Bete

  Library - 27th June - £5

  TAKING PLACE AT EXETER CENTRAL LIBRARY more...