Performance

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

Imaginative young people aged 7 to 12 are invited to create a stage play with award winning PaddleBoat Theatre Company during the Summer holidays.

Join us for a special evening performance honouring a decade of movement, creativity and community with Chhaya Youth Dance Company.

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.

On Midsummer’s Eve, 1925, magic collides with reality as bickering fairies, hapless actors, and runaway lovers create chaos. With love potions, power struggles and follies anything can happen!

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.

A sun-drenched hour (and a bit) of sumptuous spoken-word, poetry, silliness, and songs, featuring some of the best Wordsmiths around.

Part of Theatre in the Park: SPLAT is a family friendly physical comedy about Art. Two artists, one neat, the other messy attempt to cover the history of art with chaotic consequences.

Professor Slug’s interactive show is packed full of colourful puppets, catchy songs, and educational info about the wonderful world of bugs.

An evening of spoken word, comedy and performance poetry, from a selection of the South West’s freshest word artists.

Want to vocalise your bare bones vision? Maybe you would like to hear people read your script out loud? New to this and have a curiosity about making something from scratch? Start here!

Inspired by true events, Is Anybody There? is an interactive, documentary theatre performance about how our minds can lead us astray.

Lee Rawlings of Montagfire events gives a special reading of the M.R James classic chilling ghost story ‘Lost Hearts’.

Lady Mary Howard is famous on Dartmoor as the woman who murdered her four husbands. But is there any truth to the many stories, or have the facts been lost in time?

Hell Tor presents a very special audience with Caroline Munro. Join us for a special Q&A hosted by Jonathan Rigby to celebrate her wildly rich and varied career on screen.

Revered author Mark Norman takes a look at the legends of ‘Screaming Skulls’ – paranormal objects which by legend speaks, screams, bleeds or otherwise haunts its environs.

Join us for talk of ghosts, vampires, werewolves and question whether an interest in horror culture actually gives us safe ways to confront our mortality and even have power to re-enchant a jaded world?

Join celebrated actor Pauline Moran for insights into her portrayal of Susan Hill’s malevolent spirit as well as tales of a rich and varied screen career.

Award winning writer Stephen Volk hosts a special panel discussion of on screen ghosts: personal favourites, their influence and why they resonate still.

Join us for a special career spanning conversation with the man who Rob Zombie describes as “the master of bringing a film to life in a two-dimensional space.”

Get ready to be amazed as physical comedian Jody Kamali masterfully transforms everyday household items into the tools of a Hollywood-style, action-packed romance.