The Forest and the Field is a gently seductive, immersive piece of non-fiction storytelling, which asks its audience to look at themselves and to consider what we’re all doing when we meet in a theatre space.
Using live demonstrations and video clips and drawing on a wealth of examples from Shakespeare to O.J...
For the first time, students from the Theatre and Performance Department at Plymouth University will showcase an exciting range of dance and theatre practice in their home town!
Stage 3 students from our BA Theatre and Performance and BA Dance Theatre degrees are delighted to present Performance Showcase 2013 - an evening of innovative and contemporary theatre and dance performance work at TR2.
Come and join us and help to support the next generation of theatre and dance makers. This work will also go on tour to schools and colleges in October, so this is your...
In a tour de force performance, Valentijn Dhaenens pays tribute to 2,500 years of oration.
Ingeniously weaving together fragments of seminal speeches from the Grand Inquisitor and Socrates to Mohammed Ali and Osama Bin Laden, Bigmouth shows that the tricks of rhetoric have hardly changed....
Each year the National Theatre asks ten exciting writers to create new plays which are performed by young theatre companies from all over the country. From Plymouth to Inverness and from Belfast to Norwich, National Connections celebrates great new writing for the stage and the energy, commitment and talent of young theatre-makers.
The Theatre Royal Plymouth is one of 21 venues hosting a showcase festival of these plays, with the following companies taking part:...
Cast. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.
Showing as part of our Held Film Season this is the brilliant but despicably cynical view of human obsession from Hitchcock. Stewart is excellent as the neurotic detective employed by an old pal to trail his wandering wife, only to fall for her himself and then crack up when she commits suicide. Then one day he sees a woman in the street who reminds him of the woman who haunts him... Hitchcock focuses on Stewart's...
A photographic document of Strong Clothing, the detailed dresses used to restrain patients in late 19th and early 20th century asylums, instigating a dialogue about histori and contemporary methods of confinement and control.
Exhibitions at Plymouth Arts Centre are free to browse.
An investigation into methods of containment and coercion, focused on a former 19 th century lunatic asylum at Exminster near Exeter. Wall-wounds (found) and Wall-wounds (fabricated) are two series of photographic images from this project.
Exhibitions at Plymouth Arts Centre are free to browse.
Michael Ball, Britain’s leading musical theatre star has today announced an extensive UK tour in April and May 2013 and will return to Plymouth Pavilions on Monday 29 April 2013.
In addition to this Michael will be returning to BBC Radio 2 next year with a brand new radio show and in February he will release a new studio album also titled ‘Both Sides Now’. Both the tour and the album will comprise of 2 halves, encompassing Michael’s biggest hits from both his recorded and stage careers.
Michael Ball has won critical and public acclaim over the last 25 years with his dynamic...
A play for young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
It’s the last night of Sam’s school holidays. He’s alone in the moonlit garden; high up in the tree he can hear the white peacock calling. But then a young girl appears from the nearby wood. Join us in the garden to find out what happens next! Dip your feet in the pond, lie under Sam’s favourite tree, and shelter from the storm in his den. Share the tingle of excitement of a first kiss, and discover something amazing about the white peacock.
Keep the kids busy this Easter holiday with cracking free activities hosted by the Council’s library service.
Staff at libraries across the city will be making Easter bonnets and sharing stories with a ‘hatty’ theme, such as ‘Millie’s Marvellous Hat’, ‘I Want My Hat Back!’ and ‘The Cat in the Hat’. There will also be a film showing at Plymstock Library.
Most activities are suitable for children aged four to 11 and are all free of charge but booking may be required for some sessions – contact your local library for more information.
