Performance

The Exeter Cultural Research Exchange is an evening of live spoken word, performance, facilitated dialogue and networking. Led by poet Jenniah “Senxe” Brown, the evening translates Exeter’s own strategies and priorities into language people can feel.

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

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

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…

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.

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!

A one-woman play about when said woman did a play she doesn’t remember doing. Join her in this fictional retelling of the astonishing time she played Ariel in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, whilst spiked. One minute she was in her campus bar, about to leave for the show, the next… blackout.

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.

It’s 2026 and King Herod is leading a self-development pyramid scheme. Join award winning clown, Riss Obolensky, for an hour of frivolity, shock and redemption. In a post-truth world punctuated by conspiracy, division and collapse, it’s time to forgive… yourself.

Groundhog Day meets Waiting for Godot. ‘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.

Get the bubbly out of the fridge, because for ONE NIGHT ONLY we’re taking the East all the way West, and travelling to Exeter to immortalise the campest, loudest and silliest moments from everyone’s favourite soap in DRAG!

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!

Designer-performer Dylan Howells weaves psychological illusions and fragmented memories into a magical, chilling tale of a home that won’t stay still.

The Truth About Trees follows eight-year-old Alfie after he learns that paper can tell the story of the tree it came from. He must spring into action to save the trees and all the creatures that live there after he learns what the trees have to say.

An exhilarating fusion of dance, acrobatics, and martial arts that pushes the boundaries of physicality and human connection.