Performance

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.

Join James for an evening of pure nostalgia, stepping back in time with some joyous singalong tunes to take you back to your Primary School days. You won’t have to sit cross legged on the school hall floor, but you will be encouraged to sing along!

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

Join Sally-Anna Hayward for hilarious tales of dating apps, fragile neighbours, and trying to hold in farts on a yoga retreat.

Why don’t we talk about it? Fehinti Balogun asks this urgent question and offers an invitation in Can I Live?, a vital new digital performance about the climate catastrophe, sharing his personal journey into the biggest challenge of our times.

From naked mole rats and their teeth digging skills to kickboxing secretary birds, join us for this funky Agile Rabbit talk!

With live music, DJs, and even fire eaters we will be celebrating the creative and independent spirit that has kept the flame of Exeter Phoenix burning bright for 25 years.

Actress, voice artist and author Tracy Norman examines the origins and emergence of the idea of the vampire across races, religions and cultures.

Exeter based animator Ashley Thorpe discusses the launch of his career via the Exeter Phoenix, the animated films and the inspirations and techniques behind their creation.

Hammer glamour…Bond girls…icons – Caroline Munro and Madeline Smith join us for a very special Q&A hosted by Jonathan Rigby.

Star of Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You and QI Kiri Pritchard-McLean is back with a brand new tour, her funniest and most personal to date. 

A special vampire themed live reading by local writer and performer Lee Rawlings.

Folklore author and researcher Mark Norman looks at the fascinating life of the Exeter based bibliographer, antiquary and ‘lycanthaphile’ Sabine Baring-Gould (perhaps best known for writing the hymn ‘Onwards Christian Soldiers’), his Book of werewolves and the possible links between Devon and Dracula.

Renowned author, actor and friend of the Hell Tor festival, Jonathan Rigby (English Gothic, Borley Rectory) joins actor and writer James Swanton (The Host, The First Omen, Lot No. 49) to discuss the many actors who have inhabited the famed role of the Count.

Renowned author and film critic Kim Newman (Anno Dracula, Nightmare Movies) discusses his love of vampires, the background of his popular ‘alternate history’ novel series and how the vampire has evolved with popular culture throughout the years.

An evening of lifestyle medicine; from the gut microbiome and beyond, how to harness lifestyle medicine to better your health and wellbeing.

Kook Ensemble invites you to Filibuster – a funny, playful and sometimes downright absurd story of fantasy, hope and love – brought to life by acclaimed gentleman juggler Tom Gaskin and international circus director Sean Kempton.

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!

Hsiao-Kang is suddenly struck by debilitating neck pain in director Tsai Ming-Liang’s subversive family drama.

Ladies & Gentleman! Gary Meikle is back yet again with another self-written, self-deprecating show to leave you all short of breath again.

A queer-friendly techno club in Chengdu is under threat in this coming-of-age documentary that celebrates the ephemerality of youth.