Following the success of last year's Exeter Fringe Festival at The Bike Shed Theatre, this year's fringe has grown. Now including venues across the cityand with support from Exeter City Council, the programme includes theatre,performance, comedy, music and dance.

For full listings and more information visit www.exeterfringe.org.uk

 

This year's Exeter Fringe Festival Show's are;

About A Bench – ‘Owdyado Theatre
City Gate Hotel Basement

One bench. One hour. Ten stories.
‘Owdyado Theatre, Cornwall's most exciting company for new writing put the humble park bench centre stage to explore the dramas that take place upon this normally inconspicuous object.

Sister Of – Nick Bruckman
the Bike Shed Theatre

50-minute award-winning new writing about a female anti-hero from ancient Thebes. ‘Simply amazing’ Südkurier

‘Concise, clear, intense and moving' Volkskrant

‘Extraordinary theatre’ Groene Amsterdammer

‘Simple and unpretentious, packs a punch’ CE

Price: £6

Escapologist Tour – Katy Carr
City Gate Hotel Basement

The Escapologist Tour – Katy Carr and the Aviators:

An intimate evening of highly acclaimed live music and multi-media film dedicated to the honour of a Polish boy scout who escaped from Auchwitz.

The Sum of Our Parts – Wind Up Theatre
the Bike Shed Theatre

Three darkly comic one-act plays about the ties that bind us together (and sometimes drive us apart).  Apparently “we’re all in it together” – have you ever wished we weren’t?

Price: £6

Re: - BitRandom Theatre
Barnfield Studio

2 women, 10 years, 2 distorted memories.

Once inseparable friends, 10 years of life has changed them and their relationship. Can the future improve the past?

We Have Won – GeCco Dance
Cygnet New Theatre

Emerging Cornish company, GECco Dance presents a triple-bill of live performance work. Dedicated to producing innovative, athletic and physical choreography it captivates audiences from all disciplines.

On The Spin – Vortext
City Gate Hotel Basement

Our world is On The Spin. People are thrown together just as they are whipped apart. Stories are written, re-written and unwritten, as we try to find out where came from and where we are going to end up.

Price: £6.50

Clotted Cream Dreams – Dean Reeve
the Bike Shed Theatre 

Just a normal, idyllic sea side town like any other, but living too comfortably can make you complacent, isolated and regretful, these are Clotted Cream dreams.

Price: £5

Indecent Interlude – Bloody Livid Productions
Barnfield Studio

“Picture this: You get locked in a room for 48 hours....You think that’s bad? Well, I got locked in a room for 48 hours with my two ex-boyfriends”

Measure for Measure – Little Life Shakespeare Company
Cygnet New Theatre

This challenging comedy closely scrutinizes issues such as sex, crime, punishment, law and morality. Brecht called it Shakespeare's most progressive play, and its concerns are as relevant as ever.

Price: £8 (£6)

Foreground – James Bennet and Gemma Prangle
Exeter Phoenix Black Box

Two brand new physical performances that look closely at the human being and its encounter with the world.

Price: £6

DNA Poets
Rusty Bike

Intelligent, tight writing delivered with pace, wit and energy. Poems about scientific concepts brought to life, poems illustrated with live music. An intimate, atmospheric and above all original event.

Price: £5

Spelt’s Chapbook – Earthdrum Theatre
City Gate Hotel Basement

Earthdrum Theatre was formed in 2009 to produce 'Spelt', a series of three one person shows written and performed by Mark Drummond. Two of these, 'Spelt's Chap-Book' and 'Spelt's Rosary' are showing at the Bikeshed Theatre during the Exeter Fringe Festival. Through margins of mind, heart and landscape these plays trace a route from self to other, from isolation to community, from exile to belonging.

Finding himself at the edge of the world, with the shards of a broken story, Spelt begins...

Price: £7/£5

Happily Never After - O.M.(t). F. G. Company
the Bike Shed Theatre

Have you ever wondered what happened when the story ended, and Happily Ever After became a reality? Cinderella may have gotten her man, but was it a dream come true?

Price: £6

Self Portrait – Ana Mendes
Exeter Phoenix Black Box

Self-portrait is a play about my identity. Over the years, I collected my personal records and wondered what’s the role that our heritage plays in our life. It could be an interrogatory or an inquiry, but it is just a self-portrait. Perhaps, an automatic self-portrait.

Chamos Woke Up a Trash Dolly  - Trash Dollys
Cygnet New Theatre

A beautiful demonstration of contemporary and bboy dance, both gracefully collide within an intense and alluring environment. The intimate and powerful setting causes the performers react in the most intriguing of ways…

Price: £5

Annika Brown – Annika Brown Live
Rusty Bike

The Brighton-based singer/songwriter is bringing her highly original songs to Exeter. Her music is an astonishing blend of skilful storytelling and haunting melodies, with hints of Regina Spektor and Dylan.

Price: £5

Christopher Best – Echoes of a Lost Music
City Gate  Hotel Basement

Music half remembered, half forgotten. The waking remnants of a melody composed in dreaming. The air still moved by the echoes; the chord of resonance; the music of the spheres.

Price: £6

Stand Up Comedy: Steve Day
the Bike Shed Theatre

Steve Day is a truly unique comedian - warm, witty and engaging whilst dealing with the dilemmas of being a deaf man in a hearing world.

His stories of multiple children, wearing a suit and the problems caused by not knowing how words are pronounced will have audiences in raptures, and his uplifting tales of overcoming the obstacles in his path will leave crowds feeling inspired.

Steve is a favourite at many venues across the UK and abroad, and is quickly establishing himself as one of the most popular and respected acts on the circuit.

"revelatory and very funny" - The Guardian

"wonderful" - Bath Chronicle

"warm, funny, frank and thought-provoking" - The Scotsman

"the best comedy often comes from real-life observations, something that Day had down to a T" - Brighton Argus

"a very different kind of comedy ... something which Day seems particularly proud of, and so he should be" - Three Weeks

"a hilarious, hard-of-hearing, heavenly host" - Time Out Comic's Choice

"has a self-effacing charm which endears him to audiences" – Chortle

Price: £8

Spelt- Rosary – Earthdrum Theatre
City Gate Hotel Basement

Earthdrum Theatre was formed in 2009 to produce 'Spelt', a series of three one person shows written and performed by Mark Drummond. Two of these, 'Spelt's Chap-Book' and 'Spelt's Rosary' are showing at the Bikeshed Theatre during the Exeter Fringe Festival. Through margins of mind, heart and landscape these plays trace a route from self to other, from isolation to community, from exile to belonging.

Finding himself at the edge of the world, with the shards of a broken story, Spelt begins...

Price: £7(£5)

How Intimately Can You Know Another? – Random Lives
Exeter Phoenix Blackbox

Random Lives presents How Intimately Can You Know Another? a newly

devised solo piece exploring the hidden lives, the secret memories, and the

mundane outer existence of different women.

Price: £7

Snowbarger - way beyond a fringe - Drift Snowbarger
Rusty Bike

Straight from the Bath Comedy Festival! What goes on inside Drift’s head? NOT logic, maths or chess solutions, this is a place......of something else. Drift Snowbarger, way beyond a fringe.

Price: £5

Monkey’s With Puns
City Gate Hotel Basement

"Monkeys With Puns is an ape-pallingly funny comedy show including original sketches, interactive “Whose Line Is It Anyway”-style improvisation games and special guest acts from all over the South West.”

Price: £5

Stand Up Comedy: Tony Law

Like Ross Noble, London-based Canadian Tony Law peddles surreal streams of consciousness that frequently go off at hilarious and bizarre tangents.

When he's not trying to get a fatwah issued against him for doing an impression of Prophet Mohammad using a cash machine,

he offers stories that feature skateboarding bears, sharks disguised as salmon, rapist dolphins and, most notably, sausage dogs, which he keeps as pets
Price: £8

The Two of Us – Shan NG and Simon Wu
Barnfield Studio 

Did Sam murder his brother, or his brother murder him? The TWO of US is a one-man schizophrenic thriller told through a character’s obsessive interaction with increasingly disturbing home videos.
Price: £10 (£8)

Clown Cafe - Frame by Frame productions
the Bike Shed Theatre

Two shows. One Cast. One evening of exquisite new writing from across the border. Collecting love, clowns, kebabs and mishaps in their pockets - this show is not to be missed!

Tickets: £6

Experi:mental – The Laugh Lab
Exeter Phoenix Dance Studio

Join us on a hilarious experimental expedition in Exeter to collectively formulate a night of comedy like no other; built up cell by cell into an explosion of sheer comic delight.

Price: £9

True Love, The Truth - Isley Lynn

Isley blurs the line between hilarious and heartbreaking in her casual, confessional show. "She’s fantastic, never before have I heard poetry I find moving, arousing,humorous, technically brilliant and achingly honest." – Her Ex (16+)

Price: £5

Feathers – Sibling Productions
the Bike Shed Theatre

Who is more trustworthy than a sister?

Marisa and Dan invite Marisa’s sister Edie into their home. As Dan’s attraction to Edie develops, a dark history between the sisters begins to emerge. 

Price: £8

You Just Live - Thom Rackett Dance Company
Cygnet New Theatre

“Actions and movements are your philosophy of life”.

‘You Just Live’ by Thom Rackett Company explores the questions and underlying beauty of the individual, and offers opportunity to notice our daily stereotypical judgments.

Price: £6

18.00pm

After Liverpool – Bantam Theatre
Rusty Bike

Bantam present a playful, sneaky peak into everyday games people play with those closest to them. After Liverpool can be described in many words, Liverpool isn’t one of them.

Price: £6

The Middle Bit – Ed Rapley
the Bike Shed Theatre

What should I do with my life? I have no idea.

In this funny and thoughtful show notorious Bristol performer Edward Rapley attempts to overcome his own lazy demons...and fails.

Price £8 (£6)

Napoleon: A Defence - Le Navet Bete
the Bike Shed Theatre

A hilarious roller-coaster ride, NAPOLEON: A DEFENCE will turn history upside down and inside out until you don't know where the laughter is coming from.

Price: £7.50 (£5)

SpinDrift and ShiftFocus Dance Company Mixed Bill (SpinDrift and ShiftFocus Dance)
Cygnet New Theatre

Schizophrene - Eric Mutch
the Bike Shed Theatre

"You're just jealous cause the little voices are talking to me". An authentically random, unscripted and unpredictable solo stand up theatre show, starring the little voices in my head. www.thefunrevolution.com

Price: £6

Keith Hyett
Rusty Bike

The guitar music of Keith Hyett will transport you to many places with his varied programme of guitar music, which has been described as 'English Pastoral'.

Price: £6

Sunday Morning - Hagit Yakira
Cygnet New Theatre

Four people share glimpses of memory, in a space of intimate togetherness.

An experimental and human performance, collaboration between different artists from around the world.

Price: £7 (£5)

The Fearless Navigator - Spaniel in the Works
City Gate Hotel Basement

In 1899 Howard Blackburn sailed single handed across the Atlantic despite having lost his fingers through frostbite. This one hour performance explores his remarkable life and the hardships he endured.

Price: £5

Slowly We Collide - Antique Dances
Cygnet New Theatre

Slowly We Collide looks at the relationships between the dancers. As the dancers move and interact with each other, how does this develop the movement we see and what relationships appear between the dancers.
Price: £6

Escape Velocity – Barometric
Exeter Phoenix Black Box

Like a rocket to the face. Like an astronaut's last breath. A performance piece about space travel, loss, and loneliness. Emergent artist Tom Martin takes one small step for man...
Price: £5

Mad Jack and the Severn Bore - Spaniel in the Works
City Gate Hotel Basement

This solo performance explores the remarkable life and daring exploits of “Mad Jack” Churchill, commando, archer, concentration camp escapee, bagpipe player and the first man to surf the Severn Bore.

Price: £5

Le Cafe De La Vie – Cygnet
Cygnet New Theatre 

Le Café de la Vie     A Cygnet Production
Scenes from Life: Paris in the 1940s

This evocative entertainment, directed by David Angus, includes INTIMACY, a play by Michael Almaz, freely adapted from Jean-Paul Satre’s short story.
Price: £7

Home - Openbatch Theatre
Exeter Phoenix Black Box

There is something sinister about Home. Amongst the lamps and wallpaper Openbatch Theatre mix up the real and the fabricated to explore the surreal and the mundane.

Price: £5

Rosa Rebecka
City gate Hotel Basement

Swedish singer/songwriter, folk performer and multi-instrumentalist. BBC Music describes her voice as ‘lyrical, sun-dappled and golden, tinged with a hint of steely moonlight that brings to mind Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell’. www.rosarebecka.com

Price: £5

The Impresarios - The Impresarios
Exeter Phoenix Black Box

A hilarious roller-coaster ride, NAPOLEON: A DEFENCE will turn history upside down and inside out until you don't know where the laughter is coming from.
Price: £7 (£5)

Andabrek - Steven James
Barnfield Studio Theatre

A live performance of the critically acclaimed thought-provoking album 'andabrek' in its entirety, specially arranged and performed by Stephen James with a live band and a full choir. Highly Recommended. 
Price: £10

Commando Spirit - Dave Gardner
the Bike Shed Theatre

Dave Gardner - Commando Spirit...Cheerfulness in the face of adversity

Dave Gardner has promoted and compered shows across the Uk for almost 15 years before moving into comedy management with such names as Reginald D Hunter who he managed for 5 years resulting in a Ed Fest Perrier Award nomination

Price: £8

Simply The Jest
City gate Hotel basement

Please don't come see this Edinburgh bound comedy sketch show if you're offended by the following: displaced nipples, Yorkshire's all-male Destiny's Child tribute band and a penguin called David Cameron.

Price: £5

Opposition - Hannah Silva
the Bike Shed Theatre

Opposition, A Little Political Speech Opera

Hannah Silva dissects and parodies political language, revealing the meaning(lessness) and music beneath the rhetoric of today’s society. Collect your name badge and become a delegate at this political conference remixed.
Price: £7 (£5)

The Two- Headed, Four- Legged, Hermaphroditic Bardic Beast of Exeter - The Bards of Exeter
Rusty Bike

Stand up poetry cabaret from two of the wildest wordslingers in the west. Twisted tales of schizophrenic dogs and Betterware catalogues plus songs to amuse and bemuse, performed by the current Bards of Exeter.

Price: £5

19.00pm

Description of Everything - White Hippo Productions
Barnfield Studio Theatre

A kidnapped journalist tries in secret to weave the events of his capture into the narrative of a spectacular fantasy epic.

Find out more @ www.whitehippos.moonfruit.com
Price: £6

Catching the Gypsyʼs Tale - Walk on the Wild Side
Rusty Bike

Join Storyteller Michael Loader for a twist of Tantalising Traditional Tales, a spoonful of Splendiferous Spontaneous Storymaking, a mix of Music, heaps of humour and an abundance of audience participation!

Price: £5

Four Man – SourDough Theatre
City Gate Hotel

Four Man explores what it is to be human in the modern age. Through the unique, intimate experience of solo performance we take a look at the secret, personal and hidden aspects of the modern psyche and also look at how we, as humans, are portrayed through modern media.

Price: £5

Peter Crawford
Rusty Bike

An acoustic performance bringing the best soul, rock, folk and pop song covers to the Exeter Fringe mixed with fresh and frank original material from his debut album ‘Hold True.’

Price: £6

Stand Up Comedy - Tom Deacon

Tom Deacon was the 2007 winner of Chortle's Student Comedian Award and finalist in the Amused Moose New Act Competition. Tom has burst onto the comedy circuit ensuring all eyes are on him with his undeniable stage presence and slick timing.

Tom can be heard on Radio One every Sunday night from 7pm to 9pm with his random humour, celebrity guests and the best in new music.
Price: £8

How to Climb Mount Everest – Autojeu
the Bike Shed Theatre

1 Mountain, 1 Man, 1 shot 1 outcome? Mixing puppetry, live music and physical theatre Autojeu invite the audience to join them following one man on incredible journey to the peak of Mount Everest!

Price: £5

Confidence with Comedy - Dave Gardner
Exeter Phoenix Black Box

Confidence through Comedy is a fresh innovative and fun filled way to engage individuals, enabling them to begin to realise their full potential by reframing their lives through the use of creative expression and positive regard.
Price: £5

Purgatory Passengers – Autojeu Theatre
Rusty Bike

Come and enjoy an evening of interactive performance comedy inspired by the Italian Commedia form of theatre.  Expect fart noises, exploding chickens and a (very) lose narrative.

Price: £5

Fair Winds and Sunny Days – Flintknap Theatre
Barnfield Studio Theatre

This innovative and resourceful piece combines puppetry, physical theatre, and multimedia to give a curious glimpse into the day-to-day lives of the remarkable volunteers who enable the RNLI (the Royal National Lifeboat Institution) to operate.
Price: £5

Ava Vidal
the Bike Shed Theatre

Ava Vidal is a cool and composed performer with an intriguing past. She was a teenage mum,she earned a living as a prison officer before turning to stand-up, a move inspired by watching Chris Rock.
Price: £8

Monkeys with Puns
City Gate Hotel Basement

"Monkeys With Puns is an ape-pallingly funny comedy show including original sketches, interactive “Whose Line Is It Anyway”-style improvisation games and special guest acts from all over the South West.”

Price: £5

Recovery at the Cinema (Devon Partnership NHS Trust)
the Bike Shed theatre

Recovery at the Cinema will screen a series of short films and multimedia projects, including Tuesday 21st, a film by David Salas, that speak to mental health issues, recovery and wellbeing.
Price: FREE

Thatʼs Easy For You To Say - Mab Jones and Anthony Fairweather
Rusty Bike

Using the fast paced charm offensive fashion, performance poets Mab Jones and Anthony Fairweather take a comical look at life. Anthony tries provides the Charm, Mab definitely provides the Offence...

Price £6

The Slug - Human Behaviour
Cygnet New Theatre

A comic adventure, illustrating the perils of Tango and slugs. For anyone who has ever longed to be swept off their feet or lost a beloved plant to a hungry gastropod mollusk
Price: £5

10 Ways to Die Onstage - Ed Rapley
the Bike shed Theatre

Fusing stand-up and storytelling with captivating images and clowning, 10 Ways to Die on Stage brings one man's life, full of hopes and failures, into sharp yet bewildering focus.

Price: £8 (£6)

Andabrek – Stephen James
Barnfield Studio Theatre

A live performance of the critically acclaimed thought-provoking album 'andabrek' in its entirety, specially arranged and performed by Stephen James with a live band and a full choir. Highly Recommended. 
Price: £10

Dick and Gina Show - Jo Wharmby
Rusty Bike

Want to know what he or she’s really thinking?

Here’s what men wish women knew about sex and vice versa; everything from kissing to shagging - brutally honest, bloody funny.

Price: £7 (£5)

Ian Cognito
the Bike Shed Theatre

Ian Cognito is one of the best comics on the national circuit, a veteran who clearly knows what he’s doing as he spits his darkly humorous vitriol over an unsuspecting crowd. Outspoken, opinionated, and totally clued up, this man’s take on the world will have you convinced and convulsed (with laughter).

Price: £8

Speltʼs Chap-book - Earthdrum Theatre
the Bike Shed Theatre

Earthdrum Theatre was formed in 2009 to produce 'Spelt', a series of three one person shows written and performed by Mark Drummond. Two of these, 'Spelt's Chap-Book' and 'Spelt's Rosary' are showing at the Bikeshed Theatre during the Exeter Fringe Festival. Through margins of mind, heart and landscape these plays trace a route from self to other, from isolation to community, from exile to belonging.

Finding himself at the edge of the world, with the shards of a broken story, Spelt begins...
Price: £7 (£5)

Titus Clown - Cardboard Shakespeare Company
Exeter Phoenix Black Box

three CLOWNS, one precious BABY, a giant PIE, some FLIES, american FOOTBALL, baby BARF, a HOLE, william SHAKESPEARE, hard-core RAP, and DEVASTATING notions of MURDER and REVENGE. -TITUS CLOWN- Beautiful... horrible...funny.

Price: £6

Mars:Tarrab – Tomboy Blues
Exeter  Phoenix Black Box

Tomboy Blues – The Theory of Disappointment

Funny, confessional, and a little bit sad at times, Tomboy Blues is a show about tomboyism, disappointment and culottes. Using theatre and unreliable science, Rachel Mars and nat tarrab look at gender identity and falling in love.
Price: £7 (£5)

Telling the way back home - ...and then she said...
Rusty Bike

“…and then she said…” present Telling the way back home

a cabaret of spoken word

bold, humorous poetry, vibrant storytelling,

mesmerising live sound textures.

“Gob-smackingly, spine-tinglingly, inspiring!” Audience comment.

“Intense, powerful, brilliant” Apples & Snakes.

“Tour guides into the heart of imagination”  Matt Harvey, poet, Radio 4.
Price: £7 (£5)

Hometowns - SourDough Theatre
the Bike Shed Theatre

SourDough Theatre consists of nine members. Each one has called at least two very different towns their own throughout their lives. Their new devised piece explores the connections such towns hold with themselves and others.
Price: £5

Shake In A Day

Determined and slightly insane actors set out to do the impossible, perform a Shakespeare play with only 24 hours to pull it together. In support of The British Red Cross.
Price: £5

Letʼs Talk About Sex - Jo Wharmby
Rusty Bike

A hilarious guide to great sex – the importance of masturbation, how to get more head, what to do when faced with someone’s bits! ‘Ought to be required viewing’ The Scotsman

Price:£7 (£5)