Bunnies. Kieran Lynn
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Boys In Blue (Artshed, Hertfordshire); Viewed from here (Fat Lemons, Totnes); 3Works, 333 Gallery, The Phoenix, paintings at Umbrella Factory and Bookcycle and Flowerbed at NOSE2011, Exeter.
As sonic artist AntiSocial Services: album Hypnogog Demigod on Earthmonkey productions; on compilations: monographic 020. INQ; Bend it Like Beckett (Soundworks) on ArtTrail; Audiograft Jukebox, Oxford Brookes 2011 and Field Notes EMP075.
As an artist-maker: collages for Otto, assemblage and furniture for Junque, and commissions for the Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter.
Stuart is also a freelance arts correspondent and photographer (Devon Life, tonespy, Magic Carpet, downstream, Exeter Life) and radio presenter on phonic.fm as well as currently curating art space for a local charity. He graduated from Dartington College of Arts in the early 90s. Stuart is co-partner at Familiar, which deals in bricolage and the macabre. They have provided a number of the props used in this production.
Rachael Duthie – Lighting Designer
Trained at University of Wales Aberystwyth. Lighting Designs by Rachael for the Bike Shed Theatre: Playing with Snails (2012), The Dumb Waiter (2011), Circus Britannica (2011), Waiting for Lefty (2011), Still (2010), Beanfield (2010). As Re-Lighter and CSM: Macbeth (Long overdue, 2002), Heart and Stone (New Theatre Works, 2006), I’m a Minger (The Belgrade Theatre, 2010), The Fever Chart (Pilot Theatre, 2009 – 2010),2010 A Space Oddity and The Six Sided Man (Company Gavin Robertson, 2009 – 2011), Step Change (Take Art, 2010), In The Dust (2Faced Dance, 2012), As Production Manager: Jigsaw (Dancefest, 2009), ZOO venues (2009 – 2012), Dead or Alive (Feral Productions, 2012). As DSM and Stage Manager: The Courtyard (Centre for the Arts 2003 – 2009), Shattered (Feral Productions, 2011), Aladdin (The Courtyard, 2010), Sleeping Beauty (The Courtyard, 2011), Glow (2Faced Dance, 2012). Other Lighting Design: Jigsaw (Dancefest, 2009), Crossing Borders (Attitude Dance Company, 2007), Popcorn (4Play Theatre, 2005), Playing for Time (UWA, 2002).
Izzy Irwin-Bowler – Stage Manager
Graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Stage Management, this is her third theatre show at the Bike Shed Theatre and she is delighted to return. Previous credits include: Macbeth (Cube Theatre), The World At Your Feet (Barbican Theatre, Plymouth), Bunnies, The Little Prince (Bike Shed Theatre). Continuity Supervisor for independent film, Tin (Miracle Theatre). Television credits in the Art and Props Department include: Baker Boys, Sherlock, Dr Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.
David Lockwood – Director
For the Bike Shed Theatre: Playing with Snails, A Christmas Carol: Smoke & Mirrors, Circus Britannica (also Theatre503), The Dumb Waiter, The Little Prince (co-directed with Fin Irwin), The Magic Flute, Beanfield (also Tobacco Factory, Bristol), Still, The Distance. As director: Forsaken (Hourglass, Exeter), On the Cusp (Roundhouse Studio), Bald Prima Donna (South West tour). As associate director: La Bohème (Choir of London, West Bank tour). As assistant director: Northanger Abbey, Far From The Madding Crowd (both Dorset Corset, South West tour), The Borrowers (Basingstoke Haymarket). In 2010, David co-founded the Bike Shed Theatre in Exeter with Fin Irwin, where he remains co-director. He trained in Exeter.
Kieran Lynn – Playwright
Kieran Lynn trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. His plays include An Advert for the Army (Oran Mor Theatre) The Recurring Rise and Fall (Hampstead Theatre) and Pushing Up Poppies (Theatre503 and the Hill Street Theatre, Edinburgh). His most recent play An Incident at the Border was produced at the Finborough Theatre, London, a critical and commercial success, the production then transferred to London’s West End and played the Trafalgar Studios. Kieran was the recipient of the 2012 Nick Darke Award.
Fin Irwin - Producer
Fin is the co-founder and co-director of the Bike Shed Theatre in Exeter. Graduating from Exeter University in 2005, he has been an Associate Lecturer of Arts Management at Exeter College for four years. He is co-founder of AvantRural who specialise in festival management and organisation and has played a key role in the establishment and production of Wattsfest since 2007. At the Bike Shed Theatre, he has co-directed A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Northcott Theatre, Sept 2010) and The Little Prince (BST, Dec 2010) and directed Waiting for Lefty (BST, Mar 2011), LBW and England Street (New Blood Festival, BST, Jun 2011). He directed the first full-length production of Bunnies in November 2011.
Special Thanks To
Belinda Dillon, Mike Reddaway, Jack Dean, Hanger 124, Charlie Coldfield, Tobacco Factory Theatre, Theatre Alibi, Jessica Beck, Callum Elliot-Archer, Katie Villa, Chloe Whipple, Exeter Labour Party, The Courtyard, Mr. Duthie, West Town Farm
Winner of Peter Brook Empty Space Award (Mark Marvin rent subsidy)
“Providing Exeter with a note of optimism”
The Guardian
“The arrival of The Bike Shed Theatre
has electrified the city’s arts scene”
Exeter Living
“A powerhouse of new writing.”
Nestled at the end of an alleyway between a strip club and a church, occupying two adjacent cellars of a Victorian Warehouse, you will find The Bike Shed Theatre & Bar. The theatre opened in February 2010 beneath a bike shop in Exeter, initially as a pop-up venue for a three-week run of a new play: The Distance by Craig Norman. Staying for a further five months, the venue produced two more world premieres (one of which, Beanfield by Shaun McCarthy, transferred to the Tobacco Factory, Bristol), and created the first Exeter Fringe Festival (now Exeter Ignite) with twenty-three visiting companies and sixty-five performances over eleven days.
Expanding into an adjacent cellar over the Summer of 2010, the theatre produced eight in-house productions in its first full year. These ranged from a jazz opera version of The Magic Flute to a critically acclaimed intimate production of The Dumb Waiter. The theatre also produced the first productions of Sam Randall’s Serendip, Neil Bebber’s Cul de Sac and Shaun McCarthy’s Circus Britannica (which transferred to Theatre503). Along with bringing in a range of visiting companies, including Paines Plough and Chris Goode and Company, the theatre created New Blood, a platform for playwrights to submit short plays in response to a public provocation. From this came Bunnies, in a shorter version, which became the opening production of the Bike Shed’s 2011-12 season, and won the theatre a Peter Brook Empty Space Award.
The Bike Shed continues to work with playwrights, showing Peter Kesterton’s Playing with Snails in 2012 and following this with a second season of New Blood with plays by Gerald Clarke, Rebecca Megson, Bea Roberts and Perdita Stott. The venue now focuses its programme around bringing in visiting companies for residencies, in which they can develop new work whilst showing existing productions. The theatre is dedicated to working with the wealth of artistic talent in Exeter and the South West, in supporting the development of playwrights and creatives and in providing a relaxed environment in which to enjoy quality theatre.
The Empty Space Award
‘The Empty Space Peter Brook Awards is a registered charity committed to supporting fringe/studio theatres throughout the UK. It has been doing so for more than 20 years. The awards are given for a body of work and in recognition of pioneering concepts/innovations, in the spirit