10cc's Graham Gouldman presents Heart Full of Songs

Event Date: 
21/04/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange

Anyone who's attended a 10cc concert in recent years is likely to have seen band co-founder Graham Gouldman's opening acoustic set, featuring some of the hits he wrote for other artistes.

The success of those performances, in which fellow 10cc band members back Gouldman, has evolved into Heart Full of Songs, which plays a more significant role as opening act on this autumn's 28-concert 10cc tour.

Taking it a stage further in spring 2013, under the banner of Graham Gouldman's Heart Full of Songs, Gouldman and his 10cc bandmates Rick Fenn, Mick Wilson and Mike Stevens will...

Kinky & Quirky's Spring Fling Burlesque & Boogie

Event Date: 
13/04/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange

A tassel twirling, tail feather shaking, bunny jumping, glitter fest - spring is in the air!

K & Q's Burlesque event is always a night of unexpected treats and old school glamour sprinkled with fun and frivolity.

Tickets: £12.50.

Box office: 01392 665938.

www.exeter.gov.uk/cornexchange

Feast of Fiddles - 20th Annual Tour

Event Date: 
03/04/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange

2013 sees the 20th outing of this band of friends which promises a new album launch, a booklet about the band's history as well as the usual glorious live show.

It all started in a folk club as a bit of an idea in 1993 and has developed into a UK folk-rock institution.

Six of the country's best fiddle players front a cracking band of guitars, keyboards, sax and accordion. It's all held together by the grandfather of folk-rock drumming - Dave Mattacks.

The show includes solos, original and traditional songs, a few iconic rock references and theme tunes plus mighty...

MERGE 7 - Telling Stories

Event Date: 
19/04/2013 - 7:30pm to 20/04/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
New Theatre, Friars Gate, Exeter

New contemporary dance by South West Artists.

Merge 7 follows in the successful footsteps of Merge: Touch with a new collection of contemporary dance talent.

Enigmatic, characterful and loyal to local stories, these new pieces are inspired by writings and journals of memories and local accounts.

Join another joyous and thought provoking evening of high quality dance as Merge tours through the South West to The New Theatre, Exeter.

Tickets £10 (£8).

Box office 01392 277189.

www.cygnetnewtheatre.com

www.spindriftdance.org.uk

Front Room Theatre: Lie Back and Think of America

Event Date: 
18/04/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
New Theatre, Friars Gate, Exeter

1940’s London. Sarah wishes dad could meet GI Joseph. Evacuee-with-attitude, little sister Lucy, descends on Wales. Can Sarah find the courage to tell them the truth?

This engaging multi-role World War Two comedy-drama is written and performed by Natalie Wilcox and comes to the New Theatre following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Natalie’s previous work includes Mark Locke’s beautiful ‘Black Swan Song’, Shared Experience, BBC, Channel 4, Nottingham Playhouse, Watford Palace, Guildford Shakespeare Company and Fort Mark Films.

Tickets £8.

Box office...

The Image of Cliff Richard: Kytsun Wolfe and the Sounds Of The Shadows

Event Date: 
27/04/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Kytsun Wolfe and the Sounds of the Shadows are incomparable entertainers who are loved and supported all across the country, not only because of their exceptional talents, but also, because no other act can recreate the illusion with such amazing accuracy.

Their performance is so uncanny that fans all agree, the experience is truly magical and makes them feel as though they are back in their teens at an actual Cliff and the Shadows concert.

Whether you are a fan or not, it cannot be denied that Cliff Richard and The Shadows are the most iconic 'Rock 'n' Roll' act ever...

Alistair McGowan: Not Just a Pretty Voice

Event Date: 
24/04/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

The Nation’s favourite impressionist, Alistair McGowan, goes back to his stand-up roots for a new two-hour show.

Asking the big questions like: would the world be a happier place if Ed Miliband was Prime Minister? What are we really thinking while watching Shakespeare? And is Hilary Devey Jessie J’s mum? Expect to hear everyone from Andy Murray to Colin Murray, riffs on everything from Jeff Stelling to bad spelling and at least one song about butter.

Warning: May contain puns!

Tickets: £15.

Box office: 01392 270891.

www.barnfieldtheatre.com

Back Coffee Theatre presents The Seagull by Anton Chekhov

Event Date: 
20/04/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Clifford Room, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov.

The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingénue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin.

As with the rest of Chekhov's full-length plays, The Seagull relies upon an ensemble cast of diverse, fully developed characters. In contrast to the melodrama of the...

Exeter Little Theatre Company present 'Allo 'Allo

Event Date: 
16/04/2013 - 7:30pm to 20/04/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Based on the hugely popular TV comedy series, the stage version of ‘Allo ‘Allo, by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, follows the adventures of René, the hapless (and somewhat randy) café owner in the town of Nouvien in war-torn occupied France, as he and his wife, Edith, struggle to keep for themselves a priceless portrait of the ‘Fallen Madonna with the big boobies’.

René is also hiding two British airmen and is endeavouring, with the help of the French Resistance, to repatriate them. However, communications with London through a wireless in disguise add to the many embarrassments he...

Sock Puppet Theatre: Scottish Falsetto

Event Date: 
13/04/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Once again the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre return to the Barnfield Theatre with a hosiery-based stage show that tours theatres and clubs in the UK and beyond.

Kev F is proud to be assisting hit comedy double act The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre.

Tickets: £8.50, £7.50 conc.

Box office: 01392 270891.

www.barnfieldtheatre.com

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