Performance

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.

Disguise and deception collide with propriety and desire in this vibrant, hilarious and emotional production. Suitable for all ages, featuring love, laughter, wit, music, mistaken identities.

Spike Lee (Do the right thing) transforms the popular Broadway show created by Talking Head’s David Byrne into an immersive, dynamic cinema that radiates with astounding performances, inventive contemporary dance and political urgency.

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

Are you a writer for performance based in or around Exeter? Join us on the dates below for the Exeter Playwrights Cafe.

A rat-astic and realistic look into refuse and recycling. Rummage through the rubble with Bin Rat to discover where all the junk goes! Find out what literally happens to litter in this outdoor interactive puppetry show.

Get ready for a night of fabulousness with Roberta Calamari – The Tasty Catch with a Voice to Match – as she takes the stage for a live cabaret guaranteed to have you singing along!

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

A space for dance artists, movers and choreographers to share, learn, grow, support and be supported, meeting on the second Friday each month.

It’s been raining all summer. The village pub’s closing down. And a wild storm threatens to scupper the harvest show… Riddlestick Theatre present a new musical comedy telling tales of folk intrigue.

Threads combines dance, voice, film, sound, writing and personal stories to explore our changing relationships to fabrics over time.

The story of Luke Wright’s adoption – the life he leads, and the one he might have done. Expect raucous laughter, tear-stained cheeks, and a little smattering of drum n bass.

We are delighted to announce that Kaleidoscopic Minds: Festival of Neurodiversity is returning for 2026. An event designed by, and for, neurodivergent people and their families.

Step inside A Small Enclosed Room with Alfie Murphy – a funny and fearless dark comedy where fantasy tangles with reality. With sharks, cardboard cut-outs and a rap about Devon, acclaimed autistic artists Cian Binchy and Anna Constable invite you into a world that’s playful, surprising and quietly profound.

Have you got a wild side? Batty has. She dreams of running barefoot, wild swimming, lighting fires and talking to trees. In fact she’s starting to wonder if she might be a witch…

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!

Newly widowed, Mrs Lovett ‘recalibrates’ her relationship with God. The scales of social justice may be tipped against her, but Eleanor has counterweights of her own: creativity, a can-do spirit, and a dream of joys to come. A fascinating, darkly comic tale of her life before she met Sweeney Todd.

Solo-storyteller Liz revisits her childhood memories and home in an attempt to understand whether she still belongs there, or ever did. This new LR Production takes us from laughter to tears and back again as Liz reconnects with voices from the past and her young family now, unearthing painful home truths.

‘Paper Swans’ draws on absurdist theatre, visual symbolism and the playwright’s personal experience, as a woman from a post-Soviet country coming to the UK.

Does AI spell the end of humanity, or the dawn of a new utopia? Fringe First Winner Joe Sellman-Leava might be a technophobe, but he’s going to try and find out!