Plymouth

That'll Be The Day

Prepare yourself for a party as the legendary That’ll Be The Day will be rocking into the Theatre Royal Plymouth with a brand new show this March.

That’ll Be The Day is all about nostalgia, reflecting the music and tone of an era that changed the course of music history and youth culture forever. The show was established on the cabaret circuit in the late 1980s and began playing regional theatres in the early 1990s....

Come To Where I'm From

The leading new writing company Paines Plough is asking playwrights from across the UK to write plays about the places they grew up. In villages and towns and cities, these plays will be performed by the writers themselves.

In this special one-off performance at Drum Theatre Plymouth, playwrights from Plymouth come home to tell their tale.

Come To Where I'm From will result in a theatrical tapestry of the UK, woven by writers...

Bryan Ferry

UK Superstar and true musical icon Bryan Ferry is to embark on a major UK Tour in 2013, with a welcome return to Plymouth Pavilions in November!

This will be his first major tour since the Dylanesque tour in 2007. The tour will feature both his usual band and also The Bryan Ferry Orchestra, with whom he has just released the highly acclaimed instrumental album; The Jazz Age. Bryan will be performing an eclectic selection of songs chosen from across his whole career to celebrate his 40 years as a singer and songwriter.

VIP Tickets (£199) are available from our Box Office...

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...

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