MERGE 6 Touch - contemporary dance at the New Theatre

Event Date: 
18/01/2013 - 7:30pm to 19/01/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
New Theatre, Friars Gate, Exeter

New contemporary dance by South West Artists: Exim, Kayleigh Anne Crook, Saffy Setohy, Spindrift Dance Company, Susie Reeves Sharp.

Merge returns to Exeter with new, refreshing, inspiring and powerful contemporary dance.

A talented group of artists from the South West have been choreographing a mixed bill exploring ‘Touch’ and its many manifestations.

Join us for a breath taking evening of high quality Dance as Merge tours through the South West

SpinDrift Dance Company: Local Artists, Local Creativity.

http://www.spindriftdance.org.uk/

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Lee Hurst - Too Scared to Leave the House

Event Date: 
02/02/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange

Hilarious comedian Lee Hurst is back on the road with his new show, 'Too Scared to Leave the House'.

In this show Lee casts his comedy eyes over the many end-of-the-world scare stories from Acid Rain and Global Warming to Bird Flu and Mad Cow Disease and many other 'apocalyptic disaster predictions' that never were. He also muses over all the everyday dangers that face us in our daily lives.

Ultimately Lee believes that you choose your own fate... You can stay indoors, hoarding cans of beans, clutching a Ray Mears book or you can go out and laugh in the face of doom. After...

Howard Marks: An Audience with Mr Nice

Event Date: 
18/01/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange

You've read the book, you've seen the film, now this is your chance to meet the legend Howard Marks aka Mr Nice!

Howard Marks is the writer of the best-selling autobiography Mr Nice and performs his critically acclaimed one-man show: An Audience with Mr Nice.

Marks draws on a wealth of experience, ranging from growing up in South Wales and his time at Oxford University to incarceration at America's toughest federal penitentiary.

Howard, who once assisted and worked with the British Secret Service and has been connected with the Mafia, the IRA, MI6 and the CIA, and...

Toy Train and Collectors Fair at Westpoint Arena

Event Date: 
27/01/2013 - 10:30am
Venue: 
Westpoint Arena, Exeter

Come and visit the Toy and Train Collectors Fair. Catering for all collectors, walk, browse and look for those elusive and hard to find models - the list is endless: Dinky, Corgi, Minichamps, Hornby Bassett Lowke, Meccano, Spot-On, Marklin, Scalextric, EFE, Actionman, Dolls,Teddies... and much more.

Open 10.30am-3pm.

Admission: £3.50, children under 15 free with an accompanying adult.

For more information: call 01373 452857, email stuvowles@aol.com or visit www.bulldogfairs.com

The popular Craft 4 Crafters show returns to Westpoint

Event Date: 
24/01/2013 - 10:00am to 26/01/2013 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Westpoint Arena, Exeter

Craft 4 Crafters returns to Westpoint Arena for its 11th year.

The show is the ideal place to buy thousands of crafting supplies, get great ideas and inspiration. With leading local and national exhibitors offering products for Card Making, Papercrafts, Stamping, Scrapbooking, Sewing, Cross Stitch, Embroidery, Beading, Painting, Patchwork, Quilting, Knitting, and many others.

Open daily 10am-5pm, admission £7.50, £6.50 conc.

www.craft4crafters.co.uk

Tel: 0845 30 40 222

Winter Blues Acoustic with Michael Roach

Event Date: 
18/01/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Blow away those January winter blues with a night of the highest quality acoustic music.

Michael Roach who has performed across the globe including many of the major blues festivals is originally from Washington DC, USA.

He is founder of the European Blues Association and is widely regarded as one of today’s finest exponents of East Coast blues.

As well as being an amazing performer he is a respected historian having lectured for the Smithsonian Institute in the USA, Oxford University and presented Deep Blue, a Radio 4 series on blues music. Joining Michael in his...

Gypsy Fire come to Exeter's Barnfield Theatre

Event Date: 
12/01/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Gypsy Fire's explosive energy and talent has created a dynamic acoustic quartet that is unrivalled. Their show is an acoustic white knuckle ride encompassing many different musical genres, four musicians from the worlds of Classical, Jazz, Gypsy and Heavy Metal, these influences are responsible for this spectacular musical showcase. Individually they are acclaimed soloists, together they are simply breathtaking.

Tickets: £14.

Box office: 01392 270891.

www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk

RAW comedy at Exeter's Barnfield Theatre

Event Date: 
05/01/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Clifford Room, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Come and join us at the Barnfield for a night packed full of laughter and raw talent with Russ Powell, Paul James, Ws Packer, Richard James, Jimmy Berrigan and more. Doors Open from 7pm, bar and cafe available.

Tickets: £10 from http://www.rawcomedy.co.uk/

Box office: 01392 270891.

www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk

Creative Cow presents The Rivals

Event Date: 
18/01/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Tiverton Community Arts Centre

Creative Cow, in association with Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, presents

The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A day in the life of a circle of socialites swooping in on the fashionable city of Bath, to take the waters, find romance and have a jolly good gossip.

Confusion, duels, madness and mayhem ensue in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's hilarious 18th century masterpiece.

Tickets: £10, £8 over 60s and registered disabled, £6 students,

Box office: 01392 493493

http://www.exeternorthcott.co.uk/

http://www.tivertontheatre.com/...

A Midsummer Night's Dream at Exeter Northcott

Event Date: 
29/01/2013 - 7:30pm to 02/02/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

"Ay me! For aught that ever I could read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth." Act 1, Scene 1.

Shakespeare's great comedy is magically retold in a thrilling production which moves from a bleak, modern, inner city school detention room to the fantastical world of princes and lovers, forests and fairies.

Performed by eight actors, this fast-paced, beautiful and inventive production will sweep audiences into a world full of passion and enchantment.

The play comes to...

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