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...

Barry Manilow's Copacabana at the Northcott Theatre

Event Date: 
23/01/2013 - 7:30pm to 26/01/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

"Ladies and Gentleman, it's showtime at the Copacabana..."

Join the University of Exeter's leading musical theatre society 'Footlights' as they take you back to 1947 New York, to the dazzling Copacabana nightclub for another show-stopping tale of music and passion.

Barry Manilow's musical follows aspiring songwriter, Stephen, as he composes what he hopes will become a hit musical. His imagination creates a story surrounding an ambitious young singer who arrives in New York City hoping to become a star.

Her name was Lola, just arrived from Tulsa, Oklahoma and with...

Miki: A story about friendship, courage and adventure

Event Date: 
19/01/2013 - 3:00pm to 20/01/2013 - 3:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

"I wish I could catch a star. A star would shine forever..."

A long time ago and very far away, Miki, Polar Bear and Penguin live in a place where nothing ever grows. One midwinter eve, they make a wish and Miki embarks on a magical adventure... in search of a star.

Featuring amazing underwater creatures, songs to sing along to and extraordinary puppetry, Miki is an inspiring story about friendship, courage and adventure.

Created by Slot Machine, the company who created One Snowy Night.

http://www.mikiplay.com/

Tickets: £10.

Family ticket: £...

Come prepared, it's going to be wild... Alaska

Event Date: 
17/01/2013 - 7:30pm to 18/01/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott theatre

"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences" - Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer

Visit Alaska, one of the last great frontiers of the modern world; a magnificent wilderness of untamed beauty where you can be at one with nature; a desolate wasteland at the borderline of civilisation... a place where you can easily lose your way, your bearings and your very mind!

One man goes in search of adventure, freedom and "a piece of the good life", but soon finds that the reality is no picnic. Plummeting temperatures, technical disasters (and a severe lack of any...

Fhlip Fhlop - an energetic comedy for all at the Northcott

Event Date: 
12/01/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

Rannel Theatre Company and makin projects in association with Swindon Dance and Redbridge Drama Centre present

Take a whole bag full of classic comedy routines, shake them up and update them for the hip hop age and you have the exhilarating and hilarious Fhlip Fhlop.

Two painter-decorators are doing a job in a friend's flat, but in traditional slapstick manner, things go wrong.

In a dynamic display of one-upmanship, they compete to out-do each other with moves essentially unchanged from the time of the Marx Brothers.

Outrageously talented performers, Matt...

Birdwatching with Seaton Tramway - A Bird Hide on Wheels

Event Date: 
09/01/2013 - 9:00am
Venue: 
Seaton Tramway

Join us for a ride through two beautiful nature reserves, Seaton Marshes and Colyford Common, next to the glorious River Axe estuary, which plays host to an ever-changing selection of birds through the seasons.

Trips give you exclusive access to remote parts of the valley, where you are likely to see between 30 and 50 different species of bird during your two hour trip.

Birdwatching takes place with specialist guides and commentary from either Ian Waite or Donald Campbell on special tram trips throughout the year.

Ian Waite, shares his enthusiasm as walker leader...

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