Substance and Shadow Theatre Company present their new stage production "Tribes & Tribulations" Blackmore Theatre Exmouth (Exmouth Festival) Two performances Saturday 23 and Thursday 28 May Cygnet Theatre (Festival@Cygnet) Monday 1 June Barnfield Theatre Exeter Friday/Saturday 12/13 June 2015

Substance & Shadow Theatre Company

Photography: Matt Austin Images     Make-up: Hannah Marshall

Midge Mullin
is "Crumb"

Substance & Shadow Theatre present:
Tribes & Tribulations

Festival season will be soon be upon us, which can mean only one thing… time to scrape the mud off your wellies and get your waterproofs on! Tribes & Tribulations takes you on a trip back to 1984, to a time before portaloos and pop-up tents when festivals were really free.

With sell out shows at the Exeter Ignite Festival (2013 – 2014) and From Devon With Love Festival (2013 - 2015) Substance and Shadow Theatre return with Tribes & Tribulations, a fast moving original play written by Midge and Rosie Mullin.

Substance & Shadow Theatre are delighted to be part of the forthcoming Exmouth Festival this May, which will be hosting theatre for the first time in its 19 year history! Substance and Shadow Theatre’s Co-Director, Rosie Mullin said,

“We are very excited to be part of such a vibrant and diverse Festival”.

Tribes & Tribulations will also be performed as part of the ‘Festival @ Cygnet’, Cygnet Theatre’s inaugural festival of drama to be held in June. Rosie invites you all to
“ . . . come along and experience a festival within a festival!”

Tribes and Tribulations is set against the bleak political landscape of Thatcher’s Britain and tells the story of four diverse characters, who momentarily escape the tribulations of their everyday lives and descend upon the anarchic, vibrant, multicultural madness of a free festival. In a muddy field in deepest, darkest Wales, the tribes are gathering to exercise their right to party and four individuals embark on a unique journey, each of them searching for personal resolution, with life changing results.

Remote Goat: “Substance & Shadow’s experimental approach to storytelling really pays off, the end result being a gripping evening which is both entertaining and thought provoking.”

Arts Award Magazine: “Rosie and Midge Mullin, have such a talent for capturing and evoking a sense of history and controversy.”

Blackmore Theatre
7 Bicton Street Exmouth

Venues & Dates:

The Blackmore Theatre
(as part of the 2015 Exmouth Festival)
Saturday 23 May & Thursday 28th May 8pm
Tickets: £5
Box Office: 01395 276681
Book Online: Ticket Source

Cygnet New Theatre
Friars Gate Exeter

Cygnet New Theatre
(as part of the first Cygnet Festival)
Monday 1 June 7pm
Tickets: £8
Box Office: Exeter Tourist Info 01392 665885
Booking Hotline: 01392 277189   
Book Online: WeGotTickets

Barnfield Theatre
Barnfield Road Exeter

The Barnfield Theatre
(Clifford Room)
Friday 12 June & Saturday 13 June 8pm
Tickets:  £8
Box Office: 01392 270891
Barnfield Theatre: 01392 271808 (Mon-Fri 10-4)
Book Online: Barnfield Website

Wardrobe Theatre
White Bear Hill Bristol

The Wardrobe Theatre
Friday 26 June 8pm
Tickets: £5
Box Office: 01179 020344 
Book Online: Wardrobe Website

Audience:  16+

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