Meet the fools, clowns and ordinary folk of Shakespeare’s plays on Friday 13 December in Exeter city centre.
Masters students from the University of Exeter’s Staging Shakespeare course will be in costume outside the Elizabethan Guildhall in Exeter High Street at 5.30pm ready to parade down to St Nicholas Priory (The Mint, off Fore Street), where followers will be met with a glass of punch and promenade drama performances between 6pm and 7pm.
Admission is free-of-charge and all are welcome. They will be presenting comic Shakespearean scenes in St Nicholas Priory, an...
Andrew Lawrence is one the country's leading stand up comedians with appearences on Live at the Apollo and Stand up for the week as well as primetime comedy shows on BBC Radio 4
Andrew is bringing his unique mix of whimsy and misanthrophy to Exeter's Barnfield Theatre, TED caught up with him ahaed of the show.
Andrew you’re playing at the Barnfield Theatre this Friday are you looking forward to the show? Yeah whenever I’ve been down here in the past its always sold well with a good crowd, so yeah Exeter is a bit of a comedy town. This time of year it seems like there’s a...
Fresh from the Edinburgh Festival, Amos is hitting the road with a brand new show for 2013 and sharing with the UK the show which has been a smash hit success across Australia and New Zealand! Expect an evening of fun, warmth, big laughs and audience interaction from the master of feel-good comedy.
Listen out for Series 3 of Life: An Idiot's Guide - Coming to Radio 4 soon!
"The warmest comic around, able to riff off a crowd and make them feel good about themselves.." The Sunday Times
"It was all fabulous. But it was when riffing with the audience that Amos truly...
Fresh from his triumph as host of Channel 4's critically acclaimed entertainment show 'The Last Leg', Australian funny man Adam Hills returns to the UK with his long overdue and highly anticipated new show Happyism. Happyism will see everyone's favourite Antipodean comedian take to the stage for a first-class evening of comedy with the usual anecdotes and audience participation all delivered in his refreshingly unique, laid-back style.
Adam became a household name in the UK after his part in the London Paralympics Games where he fronted the hugely successful 'The Last Leg with Adam...
I've hosted Live at the Apollo, sold out my three-times extended Lee Nelson Live tour, had over two million people watching Lee Nelson's Well Good Show and I've got a brand new series, Lee Nelson's Well Funny People, coming soon to BBC3.
The time's now right... for me to come to Exeter. So get yourselves along to my brand new show for a night of qwaliteeee jokes, games and banter. Everyone's welcome.
Plus I'll be bringing Dr Bob, Jason Bent and a few others.
Go on, it's not like there's anything else to do in Exeter.
Fed up with the usual sickly-sweet family-friendly festive fare? Oedipuss In Boots is “a fantastically ridiculous, twisted alternative to your traditional Christmas pantomime” (★★★★ The Public Reviews).
After a sold-out run at Bristol’s Wardrobe Theatre in 2012 and a turn at Shambala Festival, Oedipuss In Boots and its all-male cast return with this new mother loving puntomime full of dark, twisted, adult humour, outrageous costumes, hilarious characters and far too much anthropomorphism for its own good. Featuring original music from Kid Carpet.
As seen on BBC1′s Live At The Apollo, star of his own BBC Radio 4 series How Did We End Up Like This? Andrew Lawrence presents his latest stand-up show of all new material.
‘Anyone who gives this spikily inventive performer the time of day will realise they’re in the presence of an A-list talent.’ The Guardian
‘Few people have caught the irritated, misanthropic mood of the moment better than this supreme misfit; the only wonder is that it’s taking Lawrence so long to become a national institution.’- The Telegraph
Whether it's a spot of theatre that takes your fancy or you just want to have a good old guffaw at some of the region's best undiscovered comedy talent, don't plan your weekend until you have checked out our essential guide to what's on in and around Exeter...
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The Mikado Friday & Saturday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter St David’s Players present one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s best known works. The wandering minstrel son of the Mikado falls for and flirts with a girl who is engaged to her guardian Ko-Ko. Unfortunately the Mikado has decreed that flirting is...
