On the 31st March, the Bike Shed Theatre opened its doors to the public for the last time. What started as an ambitious theatrical venture back in 2010 has grown over the last eight years to become a hub of talent, leading the way for creativity to flourish across Exeter. The small theatre on Fore […]
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Review: ‘The Claim’ @ Bike Shed Theatre
A performer stands on stage, but the lights have yet to go down. He stands before the audience in silence, making eye contact, expression unreadable. Eventually, he speaks: “This is a place of performance, isn’t it?” The Claim follows its three characters – the claimant, the interpreter, and the interviewer – through the process of […]
Review: Twenty Something @ The Bike Shed Theatre
Freya Bardell bursts onto the stage, gyrating to the Pussycat Dolls’ ‘When I Grow Up’. I would say I was surprised, but then the play is called Twenty Something – isn’t this just what we’re meant to expect? A deftly executed mix of stand-up and performance, satire and realism, the one-woman show is, at just […]
Review: ‘Sunked’ @ the Bike Shed Theatre
Chris has a dream. He’s tired of feeling that his life is going nowhere fast, tired of working in a café, tired of feeling that what he does has no impact on other people – luckily, the solution is simple. Chris has found his purpose in life: all he has to do is raise the […]
Review: Tell Me Anything @ The Bike Shed Theatre
When he was 15, David Ralfe loved a girl called Kate. Well, to be precise, he “loved her he loved her he loved her” (exclamation mark, exclamation mark, exclamation mark.) Enough to save her from the eating disorder slowing taking over her existence? Well, he was going to darn well try. Tell Me Anything is […]
Exeter’s old Maritime Museum set to become 250-seat theatre
During the Second World War, Exeter was devastatingly bombed as part of the Baedeker Blitz – a German campaign against five British cities with specific cultural and historical value. After the worst of these attacks in May 1942, German radio announced that “Exeter was the jewel of the west… we have destroyed that jewel”. Fast […]