June-July 2019Box Office 01392 277189

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Cygnet Theatre, Exeterand Touring the Westcountry

The Last Days of Judas IscariotMartin Scragg / Wren MusicAn InterventionBoston MarriageCautionary TalesThe Merry Wives of Windsor

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Dear Friends, Welcome to our new season. We will be touring our acclaimed 5 Star production of Shakespeare’s masterpiece The Merry Wives of Windsor in July. We are delighted to continue our Supper Club with our friends at The Oddfellows, so why not enjoy a delicious meal before joining us for a performance? As you may know, Cygnet is an independent educational charity which relies on support from our friends to continue our work training actors, staging plays and hosting productions at our theatre in Friars Gate, Exeter. Can you help us?

Join ACT and your membership fee, donation or offer of help will go a long way towards nurturing Cygnet’s work and our talented students.

More details: www.cygnettheatre.co.uk/ACT info@cygnettheatre.co.uk

60 New North Road Exeter EX4 4EP Tel: 01392 209050Email: exeter@theoddfellowsbar.co.uk

EXETER INTENSIVE: BADC STANDARD

15th – 22nd July Eight days of fighting in dramatic combat for industry recognition,

with the team from Captivate Action Ltd and Cygnet Theatre

The BADC Intermediate (Level Two) Certification is industry-recognised training in

dramatic combat training, both in the U.K. and internationally. This is where you will

learn the essential skills for performing safe but realistic fight scenes for stage, screen and

motion capture.

More details: 01392 277189 Info@cygnettheatre.co.uk

Tickets: £10 (£8 Concs)3

Tickets: £10

Tuesday 4th June 7.30pm

Friday 7th June 7.30pm

Wren Music

Martin Scragg

Accomplished Devon-born singer and guitarist Martin Scragg collaborates with Wren Music’s 21-voice male singing group MenSing to bring you an evening of powerful, radical and sociable songs with plenty of chances to join in. Accompaniment instruments will include guitars, accordion, piano and some more exotic relatives. Wren Music’s Paul Wilson is the musical director of MenSing. Formed a couple of years ago, the voices of MenSing singers have been heard in local festivals, community halls, as well as at Exeter Chiefs matches. Martin has worked as a folk singer in London and the South West over 50 years appearing on radio, TV and CD. “Such a powerful sound” “These guys really commit to their songs”

The Actors Wheel

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot This is a story about choices and consequences and a journey through time and place. A host of historical, fictional and biblical characters gather in a makeshift courtroom in purgatory with Judas at the centre of it all, catatonic with despair and unable to defend himself in a trial that debates the motives of Christianity’s least popular apostle.

‘If betrayal is the ultimate sin, then is forgiveness the ultimate sign of grace?’ Michael Billington (The Guardian)

The Actor’s Wheel is an acting training company based at Plymouth Marjon University; providing degree-level training from industry professionals to guide and inspire the next generation of performers.

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Cygnet Summer Repertory Season June 14 - 22

Cygnet Company

An Intervention by Mike Bartlett Director Alistair Ganley

June 14, 20, 22 at 7.30pm

One of them went to the anti-war protest, shouted their lungs out, then got horrendously and staggeringly drunk.

The other stayed at home, watched TV for a bit, and thought about the future.

The political and the personal are inextricably linked in Mike Bartlett’s funny and touching play about what happens when you hate your best friend.

- I don’t believe it - Yes it’s true

- You would support an intervention?

Mike Bartlett is one of UK’s most exciting and innovative writers with his original plays and adaptations performed at RSC, National Theatre, Almeida and Royal Court. HisTV dramas Dr Foster and The Town have been hugely popular.

Suitable age 14+ adult content

Tickets: £12 (£10 student concs) See both shows for £20 (£18 student concs)5

Cygnet Summer Repertory Season June 14 - 22

Cygnet Company

Boston Marriage by David MametDirector Stephen Copp

June 15, 19, 21 at 7.30pm

Anna is being kept by a married man, but she prefers the company of women.

Claire, Anna’s paramour, has become infatuated with a much younger woman.

Anna’s lover has given her a fabulous emerald which belongs to the mother of Claire’s inamorata...

Mamet’s witty and provocative play gives us his trademark blunt language and scheming characters, set among the Victorian female intellectual set.

David Mamet is an American playwright, film maker and author. He received the Pulitzer Prize and two Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow. His most recent play Bitter Wheat, inspired by the Harvey Weinstein scandal is currently playing in London’s West End, starring John Malkovich.

Suitable age 14+ adult content

Cygnet Company

The Merry Wives of WindsorDirector Amanda KnottWilliam Shakespeare’s epic and delightful comedy is a rollicking tale of marriage, fidelity, trickery and love.

The puffed up and degenerate Sir John Falstaff, a Knight of the Garter, is seized with the outrageous idea that to seduce two of Windsor’s wealthy merry wives will prove his virility and give him access to their money, but with female cunning and a devilish plot involving their husbands, Falstaff is repeatedly tricked by the women. Amanda Knott is a regular collaborator with Cygnet, directing Playhouse Creatures and Animal Farm for the Cygnet Company in 2015 and 2017. Formerly Associate Director of Theatre Royal, Plymouth, she is now Director of Creative Cow whose many productions have toured extensively around the UK.

Amanda Knott presents her audience with a thoroughly enjoyable event which I fully intend to watch again. Avril Silk remotegoat

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“Sheer pleasure. Don’t miss it!” remotegoat

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Open Air Performances - Please bring your own seating and rugs

Indoor Performance

Palace Theatre, PaigntonMon 8 July 7.30pm Ticket Price: £13 - £10 + Booking Fee

Bookings: 01803 665800 www.palacetheatrepaignton.co.uk

Whyte House, Farringdon EX5 2HY Wed 10 July 7.00pm Grounds open 6.30pm for picnics. Bar available Ticket Price: £10 (£5 Under 18/NUS, Free Under 12s) Bookings: 01395 239181 Some chairs available at venue - Please Check

Hillersdon House, Cullompton, EX15 1LS Thu 11 July 7.00pm Grounds open 5.00pm for picnics. Bring your own drinks Ticket Price: £12 (£8 Under 18/NUS)Bookings: www.wegottickets.com/cygnettheatre Cygnet Box Office 01392 277189 / 665885

Garden Theatre Knackershole Barn West Knowle, DulvertonFri 12 July 7.00pm Grounds open 5.00pm for picnics. Bar available No dogs are allowed (except guide dogs). Ticket Price £10Bookings: 01398 323837 - Tickets are available at Dulverton Post Office.

Undercliffe, Lympstone EX8 5HH Sat 13 July 6.00pm Garden opens 5.00pm Bring chairs/picnic. Garden adjacent to the Public Car Park, Underhill If wet venue would be the Church, Church Road, EX8 5JU with parking nearby Ticket Price: £10 (£30 Family, £5 under 18/NUS) Bookings: boxoffice@lympstone-entertainments.net Cygnet Box Office 01392 277189 / 665885

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Cygnet Theatre at Summer Festivals

Age 8+

Cygnet Company Cautionary Tales for the World’s Worst Victorian Children

Tales of death, doom and destruction to ensure juvenile propriety & fear! Before David Walliams’ The World’s Worst Children there were plenty of naughty children whose stories needed to be told.

Parents told tales to curb bad behaviour and children listened politely; pondering the likelihood of the stories being true, while relishing the humour, death and destruction.

Join the Cygnet Company for 50 minutes of ghoulish & playful physical storytelling.

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Cygnet Theatre at Summer FestivalsQueens Theatre Barnstaple 27th June 5.30pm28th June 7.00pm29th June 4.30pm & 7.30pm

This is a pay-what-you-will-show There are no tickets but there will be a bucket collection

Tickets: £8

Wren Music

Trade Roots

Join the North Devon Folk Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Wren Music leaders Becki Driscoll & Nick Wyke, on a musical journey across the sea.

Discover the fascinating history of Bideford’s trade links through songs, music, stories & images that stir the imagination and evoke times past. Trade Roots is inspired by Maggie Curtis’ ceramic trade maps and Maggie will launch her book ‘Trade Maps’ at the event.

Wren Music is a Devon-based folk arts and community music organisation which works with people and music of all ages and abilities in a variety of settings throughout the county. Wren’s North Devon community folk choir and orchestra have worked together to create the Trade Roots project.

Saturday 20th July 7.30pm

Exeter FRINGE Festival

Exeter Phoenix studio 27th July 2.00pm28th July 11.00am29th July 7.00pm Bookings: www.exefringe.co.uk

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Have you thought about Drama Training 3 Years full time Professional Training for Actors 1 Year Foundation Course One day coursesCygnet Theatre has nearly 40 years’ experience of helping young actors to develop their individual qualities.

Actors joining Cygnet’s unique full-time professional training work as part of an ensemble (Cygnet Company) and have an ongoing commitment to public performances from day one.

Actors learn from expert professionals, their peers & their audiences

The Cygnet training is an intensely practical blend of classwork, rehearsal and performance covering all aspects of the actor’s craft (from voice work, movement and improvisation to microphone technique, stage combat and acting for camera).

Annual touring to theatres, community spaces and open air as well as a London Showcase gives a solid grounding in the joys and rigours of the professional actor’s life.

Cygnet graduates have gone on to have successful careers in all aspects of stage, film, TV & Radio, to form their own companies and found theatres.

More details: www.cygnettheatre.co.uk

TRAINING @ CYGNET THEATRE

TRAINING @ CYGNET THEATRE

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Workshop Opportunities

Once again, Cygnet is offering short courses and workshops for professional and community artists to join.

Cygnet works with a range of visiting professional practitioners who come to Exeter to offer their expertise in a series of workshops open to local actors and community performers alongside the Cygnet Company.

Our upcoming opportunities are listed on our website www.cygnettheatre.co.uk.

If you would like to be added to our Artists Mailing List to receive information on upcoming workshops please email info@cygnettheatre.co.uk

JuneTue 4 The Last days of Judas Iscariot Exeter Theatre 7.30pmFri 7 Martin Scragg Exeter Music 7.30pm Fri 14 An Intervention Exeter Theatre 7.30pmSat 15 Boston Marriage Exeter Theatre 7.30pmWed 19 Boston Marriage Exeter Theatre 7.30pmThu 20 An Intervention Exeter Theatre 7.30pmFri 21 Boston Marriage Exeter Theatre 7.30pmSat 22 An Intervention Exeter Theatre 7.30pmThu 27 Cautionary Tales Barnstaple Fringe Children 5.30pmFri 28 Cautionary Tales Barnstaple Fringe Children 7.00pmSat 29 Cautionary Tales Barnstaple Fringe Children 4.30pm Sat 29 Cautionary Tales Barnstaple Fringe Children 7.30pm

July Mon 8 The Merry Wives of Windsor Paignton Theatre 7.30pmWed 10 The Merry Wives of Windsor Farringdon Theatre 7.00pmThu 11 The Merry Wives of Windsor Cullompton Theatre 7.00pmFri 12 The Merry Wives of Windsor Dulverton Theatre 7.00pmSat 13 The Merry Wives of Windsor Lympstone Theatre 6.00pmSat 20 Bideford Port Memorial Trade Maps Exeter Music 7.30pm Sat 27 Cautionary Tales Exeter Fringe Festival Children 2.00pmSun 28 Cautionary Tales Exeter Fringe Festival Children 11.00amMon 29 Cautionary Tales Exeter Fringe Festival Children 7.00pm

Programme subject to change please check with venue before travelling

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