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Alan Davies - Life Is Pain

“ONE OF THE BEST STAND-UP COMICS OUT THERE…PACKED WITH DEFT SILLINESS AND SHREWD OBSERVATION” Guardian

Following the phenomenal success in 2012 of his critically acclaimed show, Life Is Pain, Alan Davies - the much-loved star of iconic television series such as Jonathan Creek and QI - will extend the tour through UK this Autumn, making his debut at Plymouth Pavilions in November.

“ALAN DAVIES HAS LOST NONE OF HIS APPEAL…HEART-TUGGING AND DEEPLY FUNNY” Big Issue

This show has a recommended age limit of 16+. This means that under 16s can attend with their parents, but...

Little Red Riding Hood

Soap Soup Theatre Company re-invent the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood for a new generation.

Meet Ethel and Sam as they get ready for bed with a not-so-sweet bedtime story of a girl with attitude, a wolf with an appetite, a larger than life woodcutter with an axe (and a very real fear of wolves) as...

The Forest and the Field

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...

University Student Showcase

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...

Bigmouth

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....

National Theatre Connections 2013

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:...

Vertigo

Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, US, 1958, 128 mins.

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...

Jane Fradgley - Held

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.

http://www.plymouthartscentre.org/

Sarah Bennett - Wall-wounds

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.

http://www.plymouthartscentre.org/

Michael Ball 2013

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...

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