We work collaboratively to highlight and explore contemporary issues in society.

Our project, ‘Timeless’ is an investigation into the current debate surrounding online privacy on social networking sites such as Facebook.

In addition to exploring how we can physicalize a virtual environment, this project places the life ‘Lea Raimont’ in the space, providing students with the opportunity to explore her past as a result of her ‘open’ privacy settings.

The purpose of the piece: to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining strong security settings when operating online and to highlight that people are not always who they appear to be.

Our Interactive Installation creates a new way of exploring this, and after huge success at a school in Exeter, we have decided to tour this project to other schools.

Hire fee to be negotiated. Please contact us if you are interested in this educational piece of theatre. Reference on request.

An Exeter Blitz Audio Tour. Follow Edith through the city centre as the ghosts of Exeter emerge from the rubble to tell their stories.

Members of Exeter based company, SourDough Theatre, have collaborated with Dan Smith from WootWoo.com to create a new audio experience for the city, to commemorate the bombing of Exeter in 1942.

The tour takes the listener on a journey through central Exeter, guiding them to places of resonance in relation to the Blitz. Places where 18^th century buildings stood, roads that were flattened and structures that were damaged yet survived. The tour comprises of stories and memories surrounding wartime Exeter and the night of May 4^th, woven together with soundscapes and voices that echo from beneath your feet.

“We want the people of Exeter to walk through the city with a new perspective. For us, this project has uncovered a part of Exeter’s rich history. We now look at the high street in a very different way, realizing what was lost and why the city is now shaped as it is.” SourDough Theatre.

The tour has been made in association with Viva Voce and The Bike Shed Theatre as part of The Exeter Blitz Project. The tour is one of many events happening throughout the city, all put together to commemorate the bombing of Exeter in 1942.

Edith’s Walk is available to download from the theatre companies website, www.sourdoughtheatre.com, free of charge. The tour can be downloaded onto any mp3 player, ipod or smart phone and can be experienced at an audience member’s convenience. To launch the project, group led tours will be taking place on May 7^th at various times throughout the day.

Let SourDough take you back to old Exeter, to a time of romance and rationing. Experience the city through the eyes of 1940’s shop girl when Exeter was the ‘Jewel of the West’.

ONLY 7 Performances Left...Don't miss this beautiful and moving tribute to the people and the city of Exeter. Book online now at www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk

“On the night of May 3rd, I recall walking up the road to a vantage point during a longer than usual, noisier than usual air raid, and seeing the heart of the city of Exeter ablaze. This was The Blitz - or as my diary recorded this unfamiliar word, the Blizt. And I added, next day, with all the reserve of one of those great stiff-upper-lip wartime films, Did not bother to go to school.” - Roger Free (11 years old in 1942)

Between 1940 and 1942 Exeter was raided by the German Luftwaffe 19 times. The worst raid took place in the early hours of May 4th, 1942. This event dramatically altered the landscape of the city of Exeter forever.

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Exeter Blitz in May 2012, Viva Voce, in collaboration with the Bike Shed Theatre, have created a theatrical blitz experience, which will share and celebrate the real-life stories of those who experienced the Blitz here in Exeter.

Viva Voce have interviewed over 20 people who were between the ages of 6 and 25 in 1942. The play is a testament to their extraordinary stories.

Comments from audiences so far include, stunning, moving, heartwarming, worthwhile theatre, fantastic!

Written By Hannah Barker, Liam Jarvis and Lewis Hetherington & Company

2401 Objects is the latest Fringe First winning show by Analogue, ‘bright new things of British Theatre’ (Observer), direct from an acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Festival.

Inspired by the world’s most important neuroscientific case-study, 2401 Objects tells the remarkable story of a man who could no longer remember, but who has proven impossible to forget.

In 1953 Henry Molaison emerges from experimental brain surgery without any recollection of the last two years of his life, or the ability to form new memories. In 2009 Patient H.M.’s brain is dissected live on the internet to a global audience of 400,000 people, cut into carefully preserved slices; manuscripts of tissue like the pages of a book.

Told in their brilliant multi-media visual style, Analogue return to the Drum following Mile End in 2008 and Beachy Head in 2011.

'An understated and outstandingly gentle piece of theatre' The Scotsman – Fringe First

'I defy anyone not to be drawn into this deeply moving examination of life, death and memory.' The Telegraph

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Edward Hall
Designed by Michael Pavelka
Lighting designed by Ben Ormerod
Music by Propeller

“Shakespeare as it should be done, fast, sinuous and surprising” The Independent

Henry V tells the tale of the greatest British warrior in English folklore. In a time when nationalism is at its most dangerous and exciting and increasing numbers of British servicemen and women are seeing active service, Propeller brings its own unique take on one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Thrilling and deeply moving, Henry V marks the beginning of a journey that takes us from the corridors of Westminster to the fields of France in an evening of unforgettable power.

Led by Director Edward Hall, internationally acclaimed all-male company, Propeller returns to Plymouth following their highly praised productions of Richard III and The Comedy Of Errors. Renowned for combining a rigorous approach to the text with an exciting, physical aesthetic, Propeller engages its audience’s imagination and brings fresh understanding to classic plays.

It’s Shakespeare rediscovered

Access Performance:
Audio Described: SAT19 MAY, 7.30pm.

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Edward Hall
Designed by Michael Pavelka
Lighting designed by Ben Ormerod
Music by Propeller

“Shakespeare as it should be done, fast, sinuous and surprising” The Independent

A tragic fairytale, The Winter’s Tale tells mysterious and extraordinary story of a man consumed by an inexplicable jealousy that destroys his family, his kingdom and himself. Wracked by guilt, Leontes sets off a chain reaction of events that leads to a miraculous climax and the chance of redemption. The greatest playwright writing at the height of his powers, this is poetry in motion.

Led by Director Edward Hall, internationally acclaimed all-male company, Propeller returns to Plymouth following their highly praised productions of Richard III and The Comedy Of Errors. Renowned for combining a rigorous approach to the text with an exciting, physical aesthetic, Propeller engages its audience’s imagination and brings fresh understanding to classic plays.

Acces Performances:
Audio Described Saturday 19 May 2pm

Thurs - Sat 7.30pm
Schools Matinee Fri 18 May 1.30pm

On your starting blocks!

Vamos Theatre presents its new touring production, Much Ado About Wenlock, a play about health, sports, a reforming doctor, and a runaway chicken!

In 1850, the Shropshire market town of Much Wenlock hosted its very own ‘Olympian Games’, an inspiration for the modern Games. In a captivatingly comic production celebrating the Games’ unlikely UK roots, Much Ado About Wenlock reveals a local doctor’s determination to improve the health of all. Will Dr Penny Brookes inspire the workers to swap tipple for triple jumping? Will schoolmistress Beatty win over the cynical Reverend Benedict Wayne? Will little Eddie Sankey triumph over the bullying butcher’s boy, Archibald Blockley? And will our national love of the underdog be satisfied in this heroic piece of theatre?

A glorious full mask show, with original music, physicality, and choreography, Much Ado About Wenlock is an adventure for audiences from 8 to 108!

www.vamostheatre.co.uk

Vamos Theatre’s Nursing Lives played Exeter Northcott in Autumn 2010, and was also widely acclaimed.

BYG join this year’s Jubilee flag waving with this new version of the Tommy Steele classic musical. Based on the novel Kipps by HG Wells, the script recently under-went a re-write with several new musical numbers interspersed with well-known favourites. This amusing tale of rags to riches to rags promises to be another great Flash Bang Wallop of a show by this talented young company.

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly. I don’t know why she swallowed a fly...

And now you can too as they bring one of the world’s best loved nursery rhymes to life for the very first time. Presented by the team behind How The Koala Learnt To Hug this magical new show has been written especially for parents to enjoy with their children, so come and relive the delights of this most charming of tales with a feast of first class games, colourful animal characters and heart warming family fun.

“ A great introduction to the theatre with just the right balance of sitting listening and taking part.” – Bristol Guide

“Perfect interactive fare for a young crowd while having enough to keep grown-ups entertained. A charming and entertaining way to spend a weekend morning.” – Nottingham Post

Channel 4 presenter and award-winning author Tim Clare can help. In six easy steps, Tim maps out the path to power taken by everyone from suicide cult leader Jim Jones to former Democratic Republic of Congo president Mobutu Sese Seko, who claimed to walk with a cane twice the density of the earth’s core.

With examples ranging from Willy Wonka to Margaret Thatcher, Tim analyses successful leadership techniques including nonsensical corporate speak, international politics, and magical hypno-crowns. One of the comic successes of the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe.

The Aggi, Braunton: Tickets £8 – Tel 01271 817980. Bar open, food available from 5.30pm - full menu and snacks, table reservations available.

Thurs - Sat 7.30pmSchools Matinee Fri 18 May 1.30pm

Thurs - Sat 7.30pm
Schools Matinee Fri 18 May 1.30pm