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THEATRE REVIEW: Really Want To Hurt Me

THEATRE REVIEW: Really Want To Hurt Me @FlamingTheatre @AssemblyFest @edfringe @edfests

The year is 1984. And the world of a nameless fourteen-year-old schoolboy from Exeter is as nightmarish as that imagined by George Orwell. As demonstrated by his difficulty in recounting the ever-decreasing “good bit” between waking up dead and wanting to be dead as he crawls through a crowd of strutting bullies who police the school gates like gorgons, beyond which he is served a daily diet of…

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Free workshop exploring LGBT experiences at school, self-empowerment and creating theatre, in Exeter

Playwright and director Ben SantaMaria is running a free workshop for young people aged 15-18 at the Boat Shed on Exeter Quay on Saturday 27th January, supported by the Arts Council. (more…)

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Sublime, at the Tristan Bates Theatre (review)

Sublime, at the Tristan Bates Theatre (review)

Sublime is a new play by Sarah Thomas, directed by Ben SantaMaria, which has had its first run at the Tristan Bates Theatre.  It is a story about two siblings who carry out heists together. Sam and Sophie are brother and sister and have grown up in a criminal lifestyle, mentored by their uncle Vic after their mother died.  Sophie has been away for 2 years, latterly in Corsica, and Sam hardly…

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