We are delighted to invite Living Room Theatre to Exeter Library to perform their celebration and exploration of what it is like to have autism. This show is perfect for those who have experience with autism, those who want to learn more about it, or those that want to witness high quality and hilarious theatre.
Luca Saunders is still a teenager; Philip Robinson is getting on a bit. Both are on the autistic spectrum. The Washing Machine Of Destiny theatre show is a conglomeration of their bonkers ideas, perhaps like nothing you will have seen before. An eclectic mixture of music and characters and story and conversation and yet more music in a show that they have created together.
Luca had the idea he wanted to make a play that could communicate some of the weird and wonderful and occasionally worrying things that zip through his neurodivergent brain at a hundred miles an hour, and Philip was well up for that, adding in his own zippy things too. Pippa Marriott came in to slow things down a little and do some directing. All three live in Devon.
It's true to say young Luca is now an emerging actor and is certainly an experienced ‘autie’. Old Philip is a very experienced actor and, it would also be true to say, is now an emerging ‘autie’. Their ten-year friendship is a match made in heaven, or at least in the hot temperature tumbling crazy spin cycle of their shared experiences.
This show lasts 80 minutes, no interval. Come for a spin.
About Living Room Theatre: Living Room Theatre often tour shows into non-theatre settings: living rooms and kitchens, department stores and shops, gardens and caves. We like performing shows that are funny and powerful, that have something important to say: Every Brilliant Thing centred on suicide and enlisted the audience to help tell the story; All Is Mended told real-life stories from Devon’s Care Homes within a repurposed Midsummer Night’s Dream; the Ukrainian play Bad Roads shocked and moved us all. As well as performing all over Devon, the Southwest and nationwide, we have worked from Ireland to Iraq, from Lisbon to Las Vegas, and now in Exeter Library.
Cost: Pay What You Choose - £6 / £8 / £10
Accessibility Statement: The Library can be accessed via Castle Street which runs parallel to Exeter Library High Street. The Library connects directly to the Rougemont Gardens.
The Library is in close proximity to Exeter Central Station (roughly 5 minutes’ walk), Exeter Bus Station (roughly 10 minutes’ walk), and many connection bus stops on the high street.
There are five Blue Badge spaces outside the main entrance and four / five at the bottom of the slope (on Musgrave Row). These are all public Blue Badge parking spaces however and not dedicated to the library.
The are numerous car parks situated within walking distance of the building, including Guildhall Centre Parking (EX4 3HJ), John Lewis Car Park (EX4 6AH) and Princesshay Parking (EX1 1EU).
The entrance to the building is wheelchair accessible. There is a circular ramp, as well as a small set of stairs. As you enter, you walk into our foyer and café area and can continue through the building to the main library floor, children’s library, and accessible toilet. The second floor houses our quiet area. The third has our Rougemont Lounge and Balcony, and Rougemont Meeting Room. The fourth floor has the public toilets.
All floor are accessible using a set of customer stairs or a public lift. The public toilets on the top floor have four cubicles, one of which is accessible (and baby changing). The Rougemont Balcony is accessible via a small step, however we have portable wheelchair ramps that can be used to allow access.
The toilet in the children’s library is accessible and has baby changing facilities.
The library furniture and bookshelves are laid out in such a way to ensure wheelchair access throughout.