What's on at Cygnet Theatre
Autumn 2024
Storytelling double bill
23rd November
7:30pm
Storytelling Double Bill: we bring you comedy & tragedy, local legend & global myth, daylight & darkness and an unforgettable night of story that will have you on the edge of your seats. Two UK storytellers at the top of their game.
The Unbelievable Adventures and Most Tragical Death of Tom Thumb, Knight of Arthur's Court
It's the time of King Arthur, and young Tom wants more than anything to be a knight at the court of Camelot. There's just one problem: Tom is only the size of a man's thumb and has a bad habit of being eaten by things... A many-stomached journey through the madcap adventures of one of Britain's most overlooked folklore heroes on his quest for recognition and glory. Amelia Ace Armande brings us a tale of heart, soul, and plenty of guts! “Poised and sparkling” – Fringe Review
Walk By Night
It’s London, now, and a young woman is taking a short-cut home through the park. Her story shifts, becomes entangled in a dark knot of tales: Giles Abbott twists together threads of Devon song, Irish folktale, medieval Japanese legend and more. Watch where you tread – there is danger to and danger from those who walk by night…
Part of The Exeter Story Fix (www.artemis-storytelling.co.uk/storyfix)
Tickets £13/£11 or pay what you can
UKRAINIAN SINGERS OF PLYMOUTh
New Date 14th December
7:30pm
Commended by the Lord Lieutenant of Devon and the Ukrainian Embassy, the Ukrainain Singers of Plymouth are dedicated to showing and sharing the best of Ukrainian traditional culture to their UK friends.
There will be happy songs, sad songs, amazing dances and some amusing folk theatre.
Come and support us!
Coming Soon!
Katy Kerley & Pete Rawcliffe's Student's Christmas Concert
8th December
5:00pm
Carol celebration
4:00pm
Future Shows!
will butterworth trio
24th Jan 2025
7:30pm
Will Butterworth grew up in Devon playing classical music on the cello and improvising on the piano. He has played on many albums as a side man and released 5 albums as leader, which have achieved great critical acclaim.
This piano trio is about interaction and swing. Playing some of the wonderful tunes of the great American song book with a huge sense of adventure!
Line up: Will Butterworth piano, Marcus Vergette bass, Preston Prince drums.
Edifice & Artifice
20-22nd Feb
7:30pm
Edifice And Artifice is an urgent satire on the state of the wealth gap today and its consequences for the planet. It takes place in the near future at the London headquarters of fictional oil company Starco, and in the protest camp laying siege to the skyscraper outside.
As London floods and the government retreats and factionalises, victims of the flooding join those protesting. Meanwhile, the staff left in the building, including the executives, assume the authorities will step in at any moment. With this powder keg of expectation, it’s only a matter of time before the haves and have-nots collide.
Last Dance Saloon
15th March 2025
7:30pm
There was once an old woman who couldn’t dance. And there was once an old man who couldn’t dance either. She’s from rural Devon, he’s an ex-pat living in Chile - both having been around the block a few times. Each decides on a whim to learn how to tango. In Buenos Aries. They meet, they dance, they tell stories together, and their lives are irrevocably changed.
Last Dance Saloon is two older people being – by turns – playful, silly and serious. It’s about telling stories together, stories full of wit and wonder; about singing and dancing with each other - messages of hope for a shared humanity. It’s about love and legacy and the world we want to leave for future generations.
“You expressed lots of different threads about what it is to be alive and human at this time of my life, in this age. And you wove those threads into something that for me, expressed a beautiful freedom of the dance of the heart. Thank you both for creating something that could do that... it's very special."
multi story theatre company have been creating big stories for smaller spaces for nearly a quarter of a century. Last Dance Saloon springs from that life-experience and decades of theatre-making. The play moves across continents, up into the heavens and deep into the underworld. It marries contemporary political, social and ecological realities with timeless myths.
Join us at our Tango Milonga. Enjoy the show we have prepared for you. If you feel so inclined, there is the opportunity to throw a few shapes yourself at the end of the evening.
First Men in the Moon
29th March 2025
7:30pm
Embark on a hilarious cosmic adventure with a penniless playwright, and a potty professor in this uproarious adaptation of HG Wells’ classic, where moon creatures and typewriters collide!
Meet Bedford, an aspiring playwright on the edge of bankruptcy, and Professor Cavor, a scientific genius on the verge of a discovery that will either change or (just as likely) destroy the world. From the sleepy Kent countryside of 1919 the unlikely duo board a homemade metal space sphere, armed only with avarice and ambition, and boldly go where no one-man show has gone before. Will they find life?
Probably, but not as we know it. The First Men in the Moon is a show packed with comic creativity, dramatic twists and turns, Selenite moon creatures and a Hermes 2000 typewriter.
Written and performed by South West based theatre maker Mark Jardine, this adaptation of The First Men in the Moon is a comic and thrillingly dramatic ride through a Sci-Fi classic from the pen of HG Wells.