The Baskerville fortune comes with a family curse: death at the fangs of a horror that prowls the moor. Only Sherlock Holmes can stop the beast. While mysterious lights signal Baskerville Hall and the hound terrifies the countryside, the sleuthing begins and suspicion falls on sinister servants, butterfly collectors, ladies in distress, and escaped convicts. Who wrote the letter that summoned the hound? Is Sir Henry’s romance with the lovely Kathy doomed? Is the supernatural at work?
Find out by booking your tickets for Exeter Drama Company's production of The Hound of the...
Do you have an imaginary friend? A little piece of mischief only you can see?
Sophia’s imaginary friend is called Mr. Whatsit, and he’s always there with a new joke to tell and a new game to play – that is, until the day she unimagines him. Now there’s a new imaginary friend in town – the tea-drinking, lipstick-wearing, ever-confident Margo. Can Mr. Whatsit’s childish playfulness keep him from being unimagined forever?
PaddleBoat Theatre Company present a lively and imaginative tale full of mime, puppetry, music, clowning and object play and invite you to enter Sophia’s...
Join Saba Douglas-Hamilton, the highly acclaimed elephant conservationist and wildlife TV presenter of This Wild Life and Big Cat Diaries for an evening of exciting animal stories and intimate behind the scenes tales of life in Kenya with her young family.
The mysterious and fabulously wealthy Phileas Fogg wagers his life’s fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days. Join Fogg and his loyal valet, Passepartout, as they voyage from the misty alleys of Victorian London to the exotic subcontinent and the Wild West in a race against the clock.
Theresa Heskins’ celebrated production – ‘remarkable’ * * * * (The Guardian) ‘highly entertaining* * * * (The Times) comes to the Northcott as part of a major six month UK tour. A hugely talented cast of 8 play over 125 characters in this imaginative, high-spirited escapade...
'In delay there lies no plenty ... youth's a stuff will not endure'
Sun & Moon Theatre are back at the Cygnet Theatre in Exeter by popular demand with their vibrant, intimate production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (or What You Will), enriched with passion, wit and live music.
Christmas 1917. As war wages on, those at home in Illyria try to forget and seek distraction. But when refugee twins, Viola and Sebastian, are shipwrecked and separated, they shake up this grief-stricken community, resulting in mistaken identity, folly and love. Warm yourself with a free mulled...
It’s May 1997. Tony Blair has won the election and Katrina and the Waves have won Eurovision. Channel 5 is a month old. No one knows who Harry Potter is. Britain is the coolest place in the world.
At the local secondary school it’s a different story. Miss Belltop-Doyle can’t control her year 9s, Mr Pashley has been put in charge of a confiscated tamagotchi and for some unknown reason Princess Anne is attending the Year 11 leavers assembly. Tobias, the German language assistant, watches on. Things can only get better.
The show is devised by The Wardrobe Ensemble, who have...
Over the next couple of months, The Bike Shed Theatre continues to host some of most exciting new work from around the country.
The Wardrobe Ensemble, who recently enjoyed sell-out success with Eloise and The Curse of the Golden Whisk, bring a new show for a much more adult audience, 1972: The Future of Sex. Winner of The Stage Award for Acting Excellence, the company return to Exeter as part of a national tour.
Also coming to Exeter following a phenomenal Edinburgh debut is Breach Theatre with The Beanfield, a multi-media show set between the 1985...
3rd June - 7pm (followed by a Q&A) 5th June - 8pm Production length: 1 hour Location: Cygnet Theatre, Friars' Gate, Exeter, EX2 4AZ
'The course of true love never did run smooth'
'The Sun and the Moon: Shakespeare’s Lovers' is a delightful two-hander play exploring love in Shakespeare’s works. Two actors perform Shakespeare’s greatest lovers, alternating roles from Comedies, Tragedies and Histories. Featuring scenes from Shakespeare and live music,...
Metta Theatre in association with the Bikeshed Theatre present Arab Nights by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Chirine El Ansary, Ghalia Kabbani, Tania El Khoury, Raja Shehadeh and Anonymous
Shahrazad needs to survive for just one more night. Can her stories save her? The audience must decide – after each story – if she lives or dies.
An Arabian Nights for a modern age, Metta Theatre rides the wave of change currently breaking across the Middle-East with this compelling collection of short plays responding to the Arab Revolutions by writers from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine...
