Performance

This is a great opportunity to network with South West based artists for projects & collaborations.

A monthly evening of have-a-go magic, hosted by spoken word artist and pandemic Bard of Exeter Tim King.

A chance to listen to published poets read from their work and perhaps read two or three of your own. Hosted by Chrissy Banks & Matt Bryden.

Are you a writer for performance based in or around Exeter? Join us on the first Thursday of each month for the Exeter Playwrights Cafe.

Want to vocalise your bare bones vision? Give it a try! Need to stand up and show without a ticketed audience? Go for it! Maybe you would like to hear people read your script out loud? Just ask! New to this and have a curiosity about making something from scratch? Start here!

Join us for a remarkable exploration of how our bodies keep us alive – and what simple changes might allow us to live longer.

Featuring comedy and original live music, Close Enough is an autobiographical solo performance about belonging that challenges stereotypes around immigrant women from Eastern Europe.

Connected by the music of Frank Sinatra, this intimate, humorous, and deeply moving drama examines the power of music, memory, and the nature of enduring love. ★★★★ ‘Powerful’ The Sunday Times

It’s the year 2225, and the people of Mars have risen up to claim their freedom. Now is a time for heroes: you. As leaders of the Martian Revolution, the decisions you make will shape your world for generations to come. No pressure…

Imaginative young people aged 7 to 11 are invited to create a stage play with award winning PaddleBoat Theatre Company during the Easter holidays.

With live musicians, sing-a-long songs and a chance to float away as we create our own Big Dream Lullabies together.

Join us for Illumic Open Mic Night, a vibrant and inclusive event showcasing emerging talent in music, comedy, and the performing arts.

Described as England’s most beautiful Decorated Gothic cathedral by English Heritage, Exeter Cathedral is a striking example of this style of Gothic architecture.

Acclaimed performance company Platform 4 takes you on a sonic journey through the Wonderland of Alice, weaving together original music, Lewis Carroll’s text and voices from 40 contemporary Alices!

The chief foreign correspondent of The Sunday Times and bestselling author of ‘I am Malala’ and ‘The Girl From Aleppo’ visits the South West.

An enticingly varied set of exciting new works by renowned and upcoming international contemporary choreographers. The diverse repertoire offers audiences a refreshing mixture of gritty dance-theatre, athletic and fast-paced choreography.

12 poets will battle it out across 3 rounds of fierce but friendly competition. With feature slots from previous City Slam winner and stand-up poet Edward Tripp, as well as the brilliant award-winning poet Bryony Littlefair and UK Slam Champion Bradley Taylor.

World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker is back and more full of wonder than ever. Wonderful 2.0 will make you cry with laughter, laugh through tears, or dream scenario both.

A bunch of local theatre makers, comedians, dancers, musicians, actors and clowns are going to try some new things – and you’re invited to experience it.

If the Two Ronnies were cast as the Gravediggers in Hamlet re-written by Samuel Beckett you might have something like Ridiculusmus’s “Alas! Poor Yorick”. A fresh take on Shakespeare’s much-loved clowns, re-enacting all the preceding acts of the original and meticulously staging the famous graveyard scene in all its 420 year-old glory.

A hilarious and heart-warming kaleidoscopic one-creature spoken word show. It’s a story about creativity and identity, of queerness and self-expression and one person’s rage and resilience, amongst existential curiosity, mental chaos and cat-calling.