Saturday 18 February, 19:30 The House, Plymouth University £10/£7 Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
Running time: 105 minutes with a 20 minute interval
It’s 1966. The record player’s on, her hair’s bobbed and eye-lashes curled: for seventeen-year-old Susan, life is an adventure waiting to begin. But what happens next turns everything upside down. Step into the wordless world of Vamos Theatre for this bitter-sweet story of mistaken morals and broken hearts, 45s and beehives, where sexual revolution proves a hard and...
Choose your path through an imagined world... or perhaps your neighbour will choose for you. Without leaving your seat, you - or most of you, anyway - can go anywhere. But don’t worry. Life is full of second chances.
Explore a new interactive performance from the creator of The Unbuilt Room.
Commissioned by and developed at Battersea Arts Centre.
Wednesday 2 December 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.
Confirmation is a show about the gulfs we can’t talk across, and about the way we choose to see only the evidence that proves we’re right. Working with research into the phenomenon of confirmation bias, Confirmation is an attempt to have an honourable dialogue, real and imagined, with political extremism. To find out how we believe what we believe, and how we can end up so far apart.
A 2014 Fringe First award-winning show: written and performed by Chris Thorpe (Unlimited Theatre, Third Angel), developed with and directed by Rachel Chavkin (The TEAM).
Candoco Dance Company, the world’s leading contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled performers, has been creating acclaimed and cutting edge work for over 20 years. In this new double bill they are presenting works by two of the most exciting new artistic talents working in the UK today.
Hetain Patel’s Let’s Talk About Dis, is a mischievous and intimate piece that builds on an exploration of the dancers' personalities and bodies, interrogating questions of what identity is and how it is formed. With seductive charm, Hetain challenges audiences to think beyond...
Performed by Hannah Silva and produced by Penned in the Margins
In the grand tradition of literary terrorism, Hannah has ripped up her copy of Fifty Shades of Grey and now, surrounded by the crumpled pages and with the help of radical punk-pirate Kathy Acker, she attempts to put the female body back together. Join them on a journey through texts and voices pregnant with pain and pleasure, mothers and babies, domination and submission. In a performance as strange as it is beautiful, we discover there are no safe words.
Hannah will conclude this performance with a post-show...
Plymouth University has formally unveiled its award-winning performance space – The House – a venue with facilities to rival the best university theatre provision in the UK.
At a ceremony attended by cultural and community leaders from the South West and beyond, the new centre was officially opened by director and actress Thelma Holt.
A landmark project that will provide Plymouth with a first class performance, education and research space is nearing completion.
A topping out ceremony has been held at The House, Plymouth University’s new £7 million performing arts centre, which will be open in time for the new intake of students in September 2014.
Furthering the commitment to investing in world class...
