THEATRE

Plymouth Conservatoire Performer Training Summer School

This summer our Plymouth Conservatoire Performer Training Summer School will take place at our award winning and world class theatre the House and offer a six day intensive training for aspiring performers who are interested in pursuing a career in the performing arts and professional level training.

Participants will be able to train in their chosen art form, acting, theatre and dance, it is open to all levels and ages 14 and over.

The Summer School Monday July 29 – Saturday August 3 will culminate in a performance sharing presented on the House Stage on August 3. Times to...

Intronauts comes to Plymouth

Green Ginger's new show Intronauts comes to Theatre Royal Tuesday 29 January – Saturday 2 February. It propels audiences into a microscopic world, taking them on a fantastical journey deep into the inner reaches of the human body. Intronauts is a madcap story that sheds light on advancing technology and brings us face to face with big syringes and a tiny submarine.

In a future not so...

Devon Tour for Classic Tale: Elves on Hand to Help this Christmas!

Popular Devon based Theatre Company Above Bounds are delighting audiences this Christmas with The Elves & The Shoemaker, their theatrical retelling of the Grimms Brothers classic story.

This magical, heart warming and interactive show for 3-7s and their families will be in Plymouth (22 December 2018) and Great Torrington (11–12 December 2018) as part of a South West tour. This...

National Theatre comes to Vue

Two diverse but equally outstanding productions from National Theatre are coming live to Vue Plymouth and will form part of its September Big Screen Events calendar.

Vanessa Kirby (The Crown) and Eric Kofi Abrefa (The Amen Corner) feature in NT Live: Julie on Thursday 6th September. Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party, where Jean and Kristina clean up in the kitchen...

Theatre Royal Plymouth’s Young Company present THEY

After the success of The Blue Road (2017) Theatre Royal Plymouth’s Young Company return to the stage with THEY from Wednesday 22 – Saturday 25 August in the Drum.

This is going to be brilliant. Really brilliant. We can’t tell you what’s going to happen because we’re not exactly sure ourselves. But it’s going to be alright. Probably . . . The rest, THEY say, is history.

Directed...

War Horse comes to Theatre Royal Plymouth

War Horse, the unforgettable theatrical event based on Michael Morpurgo’s beloved novel is now on a 10th Anniversary UK tour and comes to Theatre Royal Plymouth Wednesday 29 August – Saturday 15 September.

War Horse, which has been seen by over seven million people worldwide, completed its record breaking eight year London run at the New London Theatre on 12 March 2016. It has won 25...

Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em

The first ever stage production of popular 1970s classic TV comedy, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em comes to Theatre Royal Plymouth Tuesday 5 – Saturday 8 June.

Betty has exciting news for Frank, but he’s preoccupied by possible fame as a magician. With guests arriving for dinner and crossed wires all round, priceless misunderstandings are on the menu.

Joe Pasquale stars as the...

New play inspired by the Suffragette-Suffragist struggle comes to Plymouth

A new play inspired by an imagined meeting between two great leaders of the women’s suffrage campaign is coming to the Barbican Theatre Plymouth as par of a tour of the South West.

The Cause depicts the explosive meeting of minds when Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst come together at a time when campaigns for women’s rights were at their most revolutionary & embattled....

The Damned United comes to Plymouth

The stage adaptation of The Damned United is touring to Theatre Royal Plymouth on Tuesday 8 – Saturday 12 May. Award-winning playwright Anders Lustgarten (LAMPEDUSA/THE SEVEN ACTS OF MERCY) has adapted David Peace’s novel for Red Ladder Theatre Company which brings the play to Theatre Royal Plymouth as part of its first UK tour.

Combining fiction, fact and hearsay, David Peace’s...

Critically acclaimed drama This House comes to Plymouth

James Graham’s critically acclaimed and prescient political drama This House which played to sold-out houses at the National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and in the West End comes to Theatre Royal Plymouth Tuesday 1 – Saturday 5 May.

Directed by Jeremy Herrin, the production is designed by Rae Smith with lighting design by Paule Constable, music by Stephen Warbeck, choreography...

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