Productions for November 2011

Keep Breathing 16 - 26 November 2011 Drum Theatre In this new piece of evolving, gently interactive documentary storytelling, Chris Goode looks at what can be found, said and shared in the space of a breath: nitrogen, oxygen and argon; love, laughter and longing; hopes, ideas, testimony.

Glyndebourne On Tour (GOT) La Boheme 22 - 25 November 2011 Theatre Royal One week. Three operas. 12 hours of passionate performance from some of the opera world's brightest rising stars, wrapped in Glyndebourne's trademark quality.

Glyndebourne On Tour (GOT) Don Pasquale 23 - 26 November 2011 Theatre Royal Heralded for its lyrical characterisation and witty exploration of greed and matrimony, this classic opera buffa remains one of the composers most popular works.

Glyndebourne On Tour (GOT) Rinaldo 24 November 2011 Theatre Royal The first Italian opera specifically created for the British stage, Rinaldo boasts one of Handel's most richly enticing scores...

Fisherman's Friends 27 November 2011 Theatre Royal After their success at the 2011 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award, these Shanty men of Port Isaac are out on the road to delight and enthral audiences with their voices in an incredibly rousing and joyful set of shanties and Cornish folk songs.

The Elves and the Shoemaker 29 November 2011 - 15 January 2012 Drum Theatre Sat in his kitchen workshop, Sam Lacey makes terrible shoes and tries to sell them online. They are so bad that no-one really wants them. Then one night, two tiny visitors climb in through the window and start cutting and stitching and gluing?

Rambert Dance Company: Seven for a Secret Tour 2011 30 November - 2 December 2011 Theatre Royal Rambert Dance Company celebrates 85 years at the heart of British dance, and returns to the Theatre Royal with a thrilling new programme...

British Art Show 7                                                   
In the Days of the Comet
17 September – 4 December                                                                                                                                                                  

Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth University

Plymouth Arts Centre                                                                                                                                   
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
The Slaughterhouse, Royal William Yard
Plymouth College of Art Gallery

Charles Avery, Becky Beasley, Karla Black, Juliette Blightman, Varda Caivano, Duncan Campbell, Spartacus Chetwynd, Steven Claydon, Cullinan Richards, Matthew Darbyshire, Milena Dragicevic, Luke Fowler, Michael Fullerton, Alasdair Gray, Brian Griffiths, Roger Hiorns, Ian Kiaer, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Sarah Lucas, Christian Marclay, Simon Martin, Nathaniel Mellors, Haroon Mirza, David Noonan, The Otolith Group, Mick Peter, Gail Pickering, Olivia Plender, Elizabeth Price, Karin Ruggaber, Edgar Schmitz, Maaike Schoorel, George Shaw, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sue Tompkins, Phoebe Unwin, Tris Vonna-Michell, Emily Wardill, Keith Wilson

The British Art Show is widely recognised as the most ambitious and influential exhibition of contemporary British art. Organised by Hayward Touring, it takes place every five years and tours to four different cities across the UK.

Curated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton, the 39 selected artists have been chosen on the grounds of their significant contribution to contemporary art in the last five years. All artworks included have been produced since 2005 and encompass sculpture, painting, installation, drawing, photography, film, video and performance, with many artists creating new works especially for the exhibition.

It takes as its subtitle In the Days of the Comet, employing the motif of the comet to explore and draw together a related set of concerns in contemporary British art. The comet, here, operates primarily as a measure of time, an emblem of historical recurrence and as a pocket or counter world. It may also be understood as a harbinger of change, an indifferent wished-upon star, and a hidden thing that is always with us.

A Hayward Touring exhibition organised in collaboration with galleries across Nottingham, Glasgow and Plymouth and at the Hayward Gallery in London.