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Carn to Cove is Cornwall’s performing arts scheme for rural communities. We fill our wonderfully varied community halls with poetry, laughter, music, drama, stories and dancing. Local people choose the live shows they want to see and hear in their halls. This means we have loads of variety for everyone across Cornwall.
Carn to Cove works in close collaboration with Cornwall Young Promoters Scheme which enables young people to select and promote shows in their communities. Groups are springing up all over Cornwall! If you would like to talk about programming work for young people in your venue or need help attracting younger audiences visit www.youngpromoters.org
The success of Carn to Cove is founded on the commitment and enthusiasm of the local promoters across the county. Tickets can be booked here or by calling your local hall on the phone number given on the events pages.
Please support your local volunteers who work so hard to make a great night out by making sure you are in the village hall on the night Carn to Cove comes to you!
If you are interested in joining our mailing list, our 200+ volunteers, or wish to enquire about including your community on the scheme, please contact us on 01209 312500.
Tim Smithies and Claire Marshall
Carn to Cove
Carn to Cove raised over £4500 through the Big Give Christmas Challenge last December, so we want to say a massive thank you to everyone who pledged or went online to donate during the Challenge Week - it wasn't without it's problems, so we were really chuffed once again to have taken part! Thanks one and all.
Coming Soon
Pinocchio
Cube Theatre
The classic story of one puppet’s quest to become a real boy.
Along the way he falls in with an assortment of colourful characters, who all try to lead him astray – but in the end, courage and love will see him through.
cube’s enchanting adaptation delights children and adults alike. Pinocchio is a captivating tale, featuring spellbinding puppetry, original music, and a bundle of laughs!
Meet the puppets after the show.
Event Dates
16:30 |
Polruan Theatre Club |
Wooden Heart
Cube Theatre
Using two performers, combining cube’s trademark electric dialogue with mesmerizing puppetry, Wooden Heart is a heart-rending, but often hilarious story of a broken man’s obsessive search for his own puppet-boy, and how the chance pairing of this odd couple offers them both a glimpse of something lost and something to be yet found.
Event Dates
19:30 |
Polruan Theatre Club |
Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks
The Foundry Group
At 4pm every Saturday, from 1976 to 1988, tens of millions of Britons were in the grip of an extraordinary sports phenomenon; watching two fact men (aka Shirley Crabtree and Martin Ruane) pretend to fight each other. This is their story.
Winner of three awards - Buxton Fringe Award for Best Theatre, Latest 7 Award for Best Actor, and a Fringe Guru Editor's Choice Award - this champion new comedy from the writers of the Edinburgh hit play Those Magnificent Men brings back to grunting, grappling life these two hugely popular battling behemoths and the bizarre world they bestrode.
With an all-star cast of thousands including Dickie Davis, Paul McCartney, Chris Tarrant, Frank Sinatra, Princess Margaret, Maggie Thatcher and Greg Dyke, this ambitious, hilarious two-hander conjures up a whole nation during its most colourful era.
Event Dates
20:00 |
The Acorn, Parade Street |
I'm An Aristocrat, Get Me Out Of Here
Gonzo Moose
A spoof historical epic set in revolutionary France and inspired by the legend of the Scarlet Pimpernel and the classic swashbuckling movies of Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn.
This wonderfully inventive and gripping comedy adventure features three fearless and daring actors, playing over 20 roles in 75 minutes of fast-paced fun and thrilling action. Packed full of hilarious slapstick, verbal wit, live music and magical illusion this show has everything.
With irreverent humour and a vivid physical style I’m An Aristocrat, Get Me Out Of Here! is extremely accessible, visually inventive and very, very funny.
Event Dates
19:30 |
The Tolmen Centre |
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19:30 |
Wadebridge Town Hall |
If The Shoe Fits
C Scape
Emily was growing up fast. When she walked her big toe was peeking through the seams of her old trainer. 'Come on' said Mum, 'It's time to get you some new shoes'.
New shoes? What will they be like? Emily's imagination started to whir. If the shoe fits... it will take you on a journey. It will tell you a story, and it will lead you on a dance to who knows where! So pick a shoebox and see what tale unfolds…
Join C Scape as they jump feet first into the magical world of a very special kind of shoe shop. This is a new interactive children’s show written by Annamaria Murphy (Kneehigh), and directed by Simon Harvey (o region).
Event Dates
18:30 |
Warleggan Jubilee Hall |
Click on our venue page for some gorgeous pictures of a selection of our village halls...