About Shotgun Theatre
📌Innovative, boundary-breaking musical theatre
📌University of Exeter
📌Cultivating talent with an inclusive ethos
Shotgun Theatre Description
At Shotgun Theatre, we strive to create innovative and boundary-breaking musical theatre. We are committed to providing opportunities in all aspects of theatre for our members to push creative and personal boundaries, producing work with the potential to excel in, and go beyond, the student theatre scene.
We hold a 10-year history of producing prestigious shows to excellent reviews, presenting multiple full-scale shows throughout the year. We pride ourselves on our inclusive ethos, opening our choice of shows to a members’ vote twice a year - we want to create work that YOU want to see and take part in.
Shotgun are also committed to our society’s social aspect, offering social memberships and hosting events for theatre-lovers throughout the year, such as our bi-termly Open Mic Cabaret Evenings. Whether you are a seasoned MT veteran or are yet to sing your first showtune, anyone is welcome to sing their hearts out or simply enjoy a night of great music and infectious vibes!
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Come along to Kay House tomorrow from 3pm to catch the productions from Theatre at Exeter going to Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This includes our Original Musical ‘The Remarkables’!
Our final Cabaret Evening of this academic year is tonight at 8:30pm at Hole in the Wall!
Come along to celebrate the success of Shotgun Theatre 2018/19.
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Join us tomorrow at Hole in the Wall from 8:30pm for our final Cabaret Evening of this academic year!
To secure a performance slot, please email our events managers Charlotte Harris and Samuel Loader at sl683@exeter.ac.uk.
We look forward to seeing everyone as a celebration of Shotgun Theatre 2018/19.
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It's sadly time for our final Cabaret Evening of the 2018/19 year! Join us from 8:30pm on Tuesday for musical theatre karaoke, with the theme 'Finale'!
Please email our Events Managers Charlotte Harris and Samuel Loader at sl683@exeter.ac.uk to secure a performance slot.
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ELEGIES FOR ANGELS, PUNKS AND RAGING QUEENS
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a song cycle inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt – a memorial quilt made to celebrate those who have lost their lives due to AIDS related causes – and Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology. Each monologue is written from the perspective of characters who have died from AIDS and the songs represent the feeling of friends and family members dealing with the loss. The shows reminds us that the HIV epidemic is about millions of individuals and not an unnamed and stigmatized group.
This versatile and adaptable piece features a gender blind cast and a flexible cast size. As our Term 1 show, it would fall at the beginning of AIDS awareness month in December, giving this show the potential to have an active place in our wider society.
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
A musical that has everything - humour, charm, vibrant music and even audience participation! In the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, six teens compete for the spelling championship of a lifetime, all hoping to achieve one thing: avoiding the infamous 'ding' of the bell that signifies a spelling mistake. Complete with flashbacks and stories from their home lives to add to the comedy, the six adolescents spell their way through (sometimes) made up words until the winner is crowned: six spellers enter, and only one leaves!
TERM 1 SHORTLISTED SHOW INFO
Can’t decide which of our shortlisted shows to vote for? Read a little more about each show, and remember to place your vote by Friday May 24th @ 7pm!
LOSERVILLE
... ‘Loserville’ is a fun, energetic and dorky musical. Set in 1971 and based around a group of young people who want to change the course of history, technology, fashion and dating… but not necessarily in that order. The soundtrack has been described as ‘the most memorable since Avenue Q’, and it hosts a range of exciting and fresh characters, plots and songs.
This show boasts a large split-gender cast, and presents opportunities for lots of different vocal abilities. It is your classic high school story, but from the perspective of the underdogs, the geeks who are underestimated, and teaches the virtue of not judging a book by its cover.
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TERM 1/2 SHOW SHORTLISTS We are thrilled to release the shortlists for Shotgun's Term 1 and 2 shows for 2019/20.
TERM 1 The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee... Loserville Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
TERM 2 Company Sweeney Todd 9 to 5
Members can vote through the following link: https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLScT0nC uls9dsdA9oZ…/viewform
VOTING DEADLINE: Friday 24th May @ 7pm
Can't decide which show to vote for? Keep your eyes peeled for show descriptions being published very shortly, to learn a bit more about our shortlisted productions.
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Good luck to Exeter Shakespeare Society’s for their opening night of HAMLET
We hear you’re sold out for tonight, but there are still tickets for the next few nights: exeshakesoc.co.uk
Break a leg to Exeter University Gilbert & Sullivan Society for their opening afternoon of The Sorcerer!
Get your tickets here: https://www.exeterguild.org/societies/gil bertandsullivan/
SHOW VOTING T1/2 2019/20 Hot on the heels of the overwhelming response we have received to 'Spring Awakening', we are ecstatic to announce that voting for next year's Term 1 and 2 Shotgun shows is now OPEN!
1. SUGGEST Members may suggest shows they would like to see Shotgun take on in 2019/20. These suggestions will then be considered by the Shotgun committee for a shortlist of 3 shows for each Term.
... 2. VOTE Shotgun will publish the shortlist of shows for both Terms, which members can vote for to determine which show get selected.
3. DECIDE We will announce the chosen Term 1 and 2 shows, and open creative team applications for both productions (more information to follow regarding applications and interviews.)
Suggestions will close Friday 17th May @ 7pm. We cannot wait to see what you suggest!
https://docs.google.com/…/1XB04bmTsH0vn 6o0J5R-hSK019A…/edit…
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Feedback from our Left Behind board
A massive thanks to our audiences, and to everyone who has supported us through this process.
We're going to miss it.
YoungMinds Exeter Student Nightline... #springawakening19
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"Spring Awakening reminds me to talk. Always talk to your family, friends and loved ones. No matter how you're feeling, talking will make it better."
Thank you to last night's audience for their notes on the #LeftBehind board.
If you are yet to book your ticket, come along to our matinee performance at 2:30pm and book your ticket in advance: bit.ly/springawakening19
... At least half of all proceeds from our matinee will go towards YoungMinds, our partner charity.
#springawakening19
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We're sold out this evening!
Your last chance to see Spring Awakening now is our afternoon performance. 12 tickets are available on the door and will go on sale at 1pm today.
Can't believe it's all nearly over already #springawakening19
"I struggle to remember when I last saw such a well-deserved standing ovation." - Sam Thomson from Exeposé on Spring Awakening.
https://exepose.com/…/print-review-shot gun-theaters-spring…/
Limited tickets for our matinee are still available: bit.ly/springawakening19