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The Hidden City festival takes the city of Plymouth as inspiration and invites you to places you've never gone before! Fascinating sites and buildings have been chosen, for their history, their architecture and the stories they hold. Well known and loved venues are opening up their hidden spaces and historic café, bars and restaurants are hosting play readings and cabaret. The regions finest writers and artists have created original performances for them all, leading you down secret streets, enticing you to unknown parts of the city and taking you into buildings you never thought to look at. Devonport Guildhall Hugh Janes, writer and Jules Laville, choreographer use the changing fortunes of Devonport to create a visual physical feast for the eye, mind and heart. Tue 30 Sep -Fri 3rd Oct 8pm-9pm & Sat - 1pm -2pm. Mayflower Sailing Club Shiona Morton, writer co-commissioned by the Drum and Bill Wroath, installation artist, lead you into a unique performance experience exploring the forces behind epic journey's across the sea and the people who make them. Tue 30 Sep - Fri 03 Oct 8pm-9pm & Sat - 1pm -2pm. Catherine Street Peter Oswald, writer and Hugh Nankivell, musician, take you on an extraordinary journey down Catherine Street and invite you to piece together the traces of past, present and future in a scrambled city. Thu 02 Oct 7pm-8pm & 8pm-9pm, Fri 03 - Sat 04 Oct 1pm - 2pm & 2pm -3pm Tickets for both performances £7 (£6 concessions). Uncharted Waters Take an unforgettable journey around a building you thought you knew! 6 exciting new writers, 6 new monologues, 6 hidden spaces: Barbican Theatre - Wed 01 Oct 6pm-7pm Roland Levinsky - Thu 02 Oct 6pm-7pm Theatre Royal - Fri 03 Oct 6pm-7pm Wordworks New performance poets delight and amuse with work inspired by stories of what can be spied whilst at sea on this quirky boat journey. Festival poetry boat, Mayflower steps. Sat 04 Oct 12.30pm & 7.30pm, Sun 05 Oct 1pm