Theatre

This Christmas, join the Psammead and five children for a fresh, festive take on a childhood classic, as E. Nesbit’s beloved children’s book gets the Quirk treatment.

A dark comedy about a woman (sometimes funny), her vampire (kills every night) and the reality of ageing in a youth-obsessed culture.

Placing their ears to the forest floor, Emergency Chorus explore the slow, strange world of fungi — and what mushrooms might say to us in an age of climate emergency.

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.

Full of laughter, love, and original music, Joshua (and Me) explores the writer’s own experience of growing up with an autistic sibling; giving a voice to young people with responsibilities of care.

PaddleBoat Theatre Company presents a thrilling family whodunnit with our distinctive fingerprints all over it! Expect music, puppetry, clowning and more.

Future Proof explores how our experience of the present is informed by a ‘misremembered past and an imagined future’ and how, when the future ceases to be predictable, we can find comfort in the present.

A darkly comedic explosion of multimedia, verbatim, cabaret and drag; a contemporary Brechtian-style play that poses the question: How much has changed between the Hollywood of yesteryear and now?

Interested in new writing? Excited by fresh stories? Want to watch work from the voices of tomorrow? Come along to Beyond Face’s New Writing scratch night.

Critically acclaimed storyteller James Rowland returns following his sellout run with a brand new show about fathers, sons and the hope that makes life liveable.

RIGHT OF WAY, written while walking the South West Coast Path, is an embodied story of joy: of choosing to walk, to grow, and to reclaim space. A 5 star, award-nominated new play, exploring disability, chronic illness, and Young Carers.

Hilarious and provocative, award-winning Rosy Carrick takes a deep dive into her earliest erotic fantasies in this exploration of power, performance and female pleasure in heterosexual relationships.

Teen Queen Mary Tudor takes to the mic to rehab her so-called “bloody” image in a gleefully vicious stand-up special. Mary tackles the drama every #queenager deals with: divorced parents, sibling rivalry and religious purges (…oops).

Gamble is a glittering, glamorous peek into the spectacular world of online gambling. A bittersweet multimedia show about addiction and its effect on families, friendships and communities.

A brand new Kid Carpet & The Noisy Animals show for early years and family audiences. Featuring their signature relaxed performance style of catchy songs, lofi puppetry, video magic and audience participation!

A funny and poetic collision of harp, vocals and a throbbing cosmos. The show dives into themes of madness, philosophy and the Mind, with the help of synthesizers and FX machinery. Laugh, sing and prepare to be enchanted.

VOXED presents a searing and physical drama that imagines the planet and a human being in a make-or-break conversation about the future. They discover that only when they are honest with each other, can they find hope.