Four new short plays commissioned by Exeter Northcott from local playwrights and staged by regional directors, part of the Elevate Festival.
Elevate Shorts runs at the Barnfield Theatre on Tuesday 3 November, as part of the Elevate Festival. It's a night of four new short plays commissioned by Exeter Northcott, each written by a local playwright in response to a set of stimuli. The plays are The Archivist by May McEvoy, Black Witch by Deen Reinard, Hell's Kitchen by Izzie Harding-Perrott and Stone Stack by Taylor Ayling, staged by directors Danielle McIlven and Lara Lawman with assistant director Thea Mackney.
Elevate Shorts is one strand of the Elevate Festival, Exeter Northcott's annual celebration of South-West artists. The festival takes over the Barnfield Theatre for a week, bringing together local makers and audiences through performances, workshops, exhibitions and member-only sessions. The Shorts themselves follow a specific format: the theatre commissions a group of local playwrights to write in response to a set of stimuli, and the resulting plays are staged by regional directors and actors. It's a good way to see new work from writers and directors based right here in the region.
If you're around for the rest of the festival, there's more to see. The Barnfield Theatre also hosts Inner Horizons, an exhibition by self-taught artist Dominic Baker (born 1978), whose abstract and impressionist work draws on local landscapes like Dartmoor. Between the plays and the exhibition, there's plenty to keep you in the building for more than just one night.
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Elevate Shorts starts at 7:00pm and runs for 90 minutes without an interval, so you'll be out by half-past eight. Tickets are £10, or £8 for Elevate members.
