The New Theatre is pleased to host Creative Cow Theatre Company once more, with their summer tour of Peter Nicholls’ 1979 play Born in the Gardens.
In the family mock-Tudor home in Bristol, Maud & her son Mo largely ignore the changing world which siblings Queenie and Hedley have embraced. Creative Cow directed by Amanda Knott, bring their usual hilarity and panache to this production proving that ‘opening the cage door does not necessarily imply an escape.’
Tickets £10
7.30pm
16th & 17th May
Box office: 01392 277189 , cards: 01392 666885, online: www.wegottickets.com
Cygnet Company follow on with director Louisa Wilde’s new take on The Taming of the Shrew, challenging modern perceptions with cross-gender casting, revealing the inherent violence, whilst still enjoying all the wit of Shakespeare’s much-loved account of the battle of the sexes.
Tickets £8 (£6)
7.30pm
29th 30th 31st May and 1st June
Box office: 01392 277189, cards: 01392 666885, online: www.wegottickets.com
The New Theatre with its intimate studio feel is a marvellous setting for folk musicians, and we are delighted to welcome local singer-songwriter Mark Waistell, as he launches his new CD Latecomer with its blend of folk-acoustic, classical and traditional music from Ragtime to Rock, from 1930’s to tomorrow.
Tickets £8
7.30pm
9th June
Box office: 01392 277189, cards: 01392 666885, online: www.wegottickets.com
Cygnet Company welcome back director Peter Ellis to reprise his production of Fen, from one of our most gifted contemporary playwrights, Caryl Churchill. Fen, set in East Anglia tells the stories of lives of people in the Fen lands, but with its themes of rural life, has much in common with Devon.
Tickets £10 (£8 £6)
7.30pm
21st, 22nd and 23rd June
Box office: 01392 277189, cards: 01392 666885, online: www.wegottickets.com
Cygnet finishes June by touring to Poltimore House for an open air reprise of As You Like It, which played to great acclaim at the New Theatre in February and again in London in March. “One of the best Shakespeare performances I have seen outside Stratford,” Tim Derrett. Poltimore Gardens will become the forest of Arden, where Rosalind, fleeing her uncles court, along with her cousin Celia and Touchstone the court jester, can find safety and eventually love. Wrap up warm and bring a picnic! (indoor plan if wet)
Tickets: Adults £10 (FoPH & ACT £8) Children £5
7.00pm
28th, 29th and 30th June
Book online at www.poltimore.org/events or phone 01392 248938 (answerphone).