A Harmony of Mediums

Event Date: 
06/06/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Demonstration of Clairvoyance

An Evening of Clairvoyance with a group of Mediums who altogether have over 100 years experience: Harry and Pauline Alldritt, Karen Hamon, Margaret Marciniak, Rachel Rendell and Karen Sands.

Tickets: £7, £3.50 conc.

Box office: 01392 270891

www.barnfieldtheatre.com

Edge Comedy Club: Nick Page

Event Date: 
01/06/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Edge Comedy Club returns to the Barnfield Theatre to bring you the best of UK stand up.

This month’s headliner is the fantastic Nick Page who will be supported by a full line up of brilliant comedy talent!

Nick Page is a disgraced former Daytime TV presenter and convicted forger who revels in the kind of stories most people would want locked in the darkest cupboard. His unique rapid fire delivery will leave you wondering how anyone can get through so many words so quickly, and how he’s escaped justice, or at least retribution, for so long.

Doors Open 7pm

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Jammy Voo presents Birdhouse

Event Date: 
25/06/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

You may not remember Mrs Smith crossing the street in Hitchcock's classic film The Birds, or Ms Schiffer and Miss Spoke lurking in the background of the café, or Miss Shire working behind the counter in the petrol station...

In Jammy Voo's Birdhouse, these minor characters step out of the shadows; sole survivors of the bird attack that wiped out the town. Taking refuge in the Coronet Cinema, they live in a permanent state of post-traumatic shock. Will they now survive their own personal apocalypses?

This wonderfully surreal comedy horror, featuring sumptuous visuals, wild...

Funding not Drowning: The crisis in regional arts funding

Event Date: 
12/06/2013 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

Funding not Drowning: The crisis in regional arts funding with Professor Frayling Arts funding is being squeezed hard in this harsh economic climate, nowhere more than outside London in regional theatres, libraries and arts and culture organisations.

To address this, Professor Frayling, Chairman of Arts Council England from 2005 until January 2009 and formerly Rector of The Royal College of Art, will discuss the future of funding of the arts, with a particular focus on the problems of allocation of funding between regional and national organisations.

This will be followed...

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Event Date: 
04/06/2013 - 7:30pm to 08/06/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

Bristol's nationally renowned company makes its second visit to the Exteter Northcott Theatre, after its much celebrated production of The Comedy of Errors in 2011, with this darkly comic early romance in which friendship and love, and loyalty and betrayal are the real players.

Two lifelong friends – the two young gentlemen of the title – are parted first by circumstance, and then by rivalry in love. Can their loyalty to each other survive the test, or will new loyalties drive out the old? How deep into perfidy can one be driven by sexual obsession? And what do even the most adored...

Wren Band: When The Moon Is Full...

Event Date: 
02/06/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

The new show from the Wren Band is full of rich harmonies and top class musicianship. Songs and music delve into a mesmerising world of myth and legend from near and far, much of it drawn from the research and writings of Victorian hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar Sabine Baring-Gould (notably his The Book of Were-Wolves), along with newly-written pieces inspired by his other folklore writing.

The show features internationally-acclaimed duo Marilyn Tucker & Paul Wilson, award-winning Border piper David Faulkner and leading figures...

Ballet Theatre UK: Alice in Wonderland

Event Date: 
25/05/2013 - 7:30pm to 26/05/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth

Come with Alice on a magical adventure as she tumbles into Wonderland!

Guided by the White Rabbit, Alice meets some astonishing characters, including the Mad Hatter,The Queen of Hearts, a studious caterpillar and those mischievous twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Saturday evening at 7.30pm and Sunday at 2.30pm and then at 7.30pm.

www.manorpavilion.com

The Matchmaker

Event Date: 
14/05/2013 - 7:30pm to 18/05/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth

Sidmouth Amateur Dramatic Society Ltd presents The Matchmaker Horace Vandergelder decides to take a wife. He employs a matchmaker, Dolly Levi, who subsequently becomes involved with his clerks and young and lovely ladies.

Evening performances at 7.30pm Saturday Matinee at 2,30pm.

Ticket Prices £10, £5 under 16s. Tuesday eveing only buy two tickets get a third free.

www.manorpavilion.com

Up Your Game at Exeter's Molton Brown store

Event Date: 
16/05/2013 - 5:30pm
Venue: 
Molton Brown, Princesshay, Exeter

Molton Brown introduce their new Sport Collection at this evening event for all men and sports lovers in general.

Experts will be on hand to show you how to use the range to maximise your pre and post-workout routine with a hand and arm massage while you nibble on some half-time snacks.

Take home a goody bag with your purchase, enjoy one-on-one grooming consultations and the chance to win a Molton Brown hamper and tickets to an Exeter Chiefs match in the free prize draw.

The Sweat and Stretch Fitness Centre as well as a physio will also be on hand offering advice...

Ginger Baker's Jazz Fusion

Event Date: 
12/06/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Once voted as ‘the musician least likely to survive the 60s’, over four decades later ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker has proved them all wrong, returning to the UK after living abroad for many years, with a formidable quartet of funk and jazz giant Pee Wee Ellis (tenor sax), Alec Dankworth (bass) and Ghanaian percussionist Abass Dodoo.

The music is a healthy mix of Thelonius Monk, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, plus originals from Messrs Ellis and Baker – a challenging and fresh sound with Baker and Dodoo providing a perfect powerhouse of rhythms.

www.gingerbaker.com...

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