It’s fair to say many people have a fear of clowns, which is known as Coulrophobia. A child’s fear of an unfamiliar face has become widespread, with many developing a fear of clowns. The phobia leads to people in later life being anxious when confronted with clown costumes, a clowns facial features and of course their make up. A clown therefore would not seem to be the ideal employment for...
The children of a Plymouth school have something to celebrate after being gifted a theatre performance by Happy Days Children’s Charity, a national charity that is helping local children with a variety of special needs with day trips and holidays.
On 14th January 2016, children from Cann Bridge School will be treated to a performance of Peter Pan when the M&M Productions traveling...
This Christmas you shall go to the ball as Qdos Entertainment, the world’s biggest panto producer, and Theatre Royal Plymouth stage the most magical pantomime of them all, Cinderella!
Everyone’s favourite fashion-guru, Gok Wan, and comedy ventriloquist, Paul Zerdin, will star in this year’s magical pantomime adventure, Cinderella,
The famous rags-to-riches story will be brought magically to life in a sumptuous production which carries the Theatre Royal Plymouth’s hallmark of quality entertainment for all ages; an abundance of comedy, stunning sets, outrageous costumes, some...
This November, Plymouth is in for a blast of high-energy comedy as Hugh McCann brings his debut show, Ensuite, to Theatre Royal Plymouth. The show, which recently began its UK Tour at Exeter’s The Bike Shed Theatre, is performed by McCann himself with direction from New Model Theatre’s Tom Nicholas.
Ensuite is a coming of age story, following the macbook-toting avant garde of...
Halloween spectacular with Haunt the Woods plus very special guests this October at the B-Bar.
This gig will spread out across multiple floors of the wonderful Barbican Theatre and B-Bar, will feature guest DJs and support acts and see the band play material from their upcoming album plus live favourites.
With major label interest, a slew of successful support slots and a new album on the way, 2015 is becoming a huge year for the south-west's Haunt the Woods. This will be a show to remember. The excellent Wildwood Kin and Gareth & Annie will provide support sets....
There is just one month to go until the 2015 Glyndebourne Tour arrives at the Theatre Royal Plymouth.
Now in its 47th year, Glyndebourne Tour will present three main stage productions, two of which transfer straight from the 2015 Glyndebourne Festival where they premiered this summer.
Starting the week of world-class operas is a revival of an opulent period staging of...
Actors Touring Company and the Unicorn Theatre present the UK premiere of Marius von Mayenburg’s study of religious radicalisation in the classroom.
At the same time as announcing the autumn tour dates, ATC and the Unicorn Theatre announce the cast for their co-production of the UK premiere of Martyr. Flaminia Cinque (Bridget Jones – The Edge of Reason), Kriss Dosanjh (Rafta Rafta),...
A performative gesture inspired by iconic queer artist, filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman. Temporal orientations arise and fall away as one artist traces the origins of Jarman’s brilliant queerness. Performed by force/collision’s Founding Director John Moletress with a text by OBIE Lifetime Achievement Award-winning playwright Caridad Svich, Jarman explores spatial relationships between live performance and media.
Wednesday 25 November 2015 | 19:30 The House, Plymouth University Tickets: £12 / £9 concessions. Ticket discounts available via Artory app.
Rick Nodine Mary Prestidge Amy Voris Adam Benjamin Jane Mclean Seke Chimuntengwende
60 minutes of unscripted, un-choreographed creativity; six dancers, in Plymouth as part of Inquiring Bodies 3, will meet on stage prepared for instant decision-making and compositional choices.
Inquiring Bodies 3 is funded by Cheshire Dance with support from Plymouth University.
Saturday 14 November 2015 | 19:30 The House, Plymouth University Tickets: £12 / £9 concessions. Ticket discounts available via Artory app.
Falling in love with Frida is an intimate and enticing performance that explores the life, loves and legacy of painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954).
It is a reclaiming of a disabled artist, a love-like obsession, and an enquiry into how we shape what we are remembered for and how much we can really control others’ memories of us. It exposes many little-known facts about the infamous woman, remembered for her art. Where affinities and parallels are drawn, happy distractions are employed and a tale of ‘the great concealer’ is skilfully revealed by, and through,...
