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.
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...
Sitting in his kitchen workshop, Sam Lacey makes terrible shoes and tries to sell them online. They are so bad that no-one really wants them, not even his neighbour (who thinks he should give up and get a real job!). Then one night, two tiny visitors climb in through the window and start cutting and stitching and gluing...and Sam's life is never quite the same again! Following their sell-out shows, The Enormous Turnip, Little Red Hen and 3 Little Pigs, the inescapably eccentric Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company return with an up-to-date, size 13½ retelling of everyone's favourite story...
A musical fable of Broadway based on a story and characters of Damon Runyon; music and lyrics by Frank Loesser; book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.
Set in 1950s New York, Guys and Dolls follows high roller Sky Masterson in his plight to win the heart of Salvation Army Sergeant Sarah Brown. But is it only for a bet or has he really fallen in love?
His opponent Nathan Detroit is having similar problems with Adelaide, his long suffering partner of 14 years. So, will Sarah ever curb Sky's gambling and will Adelaide ever pin down Nathan?
TEDx events are all about ideas worth spreading and TEDxExeter will be an inspirational day conference of talks, performance and films.
The invited guests, speakers and performers are people who are changing the world through their ground-breaking work and ideas.
They include Jonathon Porritt, sustainable development campaigner; Patrick Holden, founder of the Sustainable Food Trust; Stewart Wallis, executive director of the New Economics Foundation; Jo Royle, ocean advocate, explorer and marine conservationist; Pam Warhurst, local food campaigner; Peter Owen-Jones, author,...
Appetite Dance Productions present a powerful and beautiful double bill of contemporary dance, with hypnotically intricate body poetry, high-energy pirouettes and complex rhythmic body movement.
Choreographer and artistic director Apple Yang merges techniques from Chinese theatre, martial arts and calligraphy to symbolise the turbulent meeting between East and West.
Letter to My Father Shaped through experiences as a Chinese woman living in contemporary Britain, the story explores her relationship with her loving, ambitious and authoritarian father through its challenges...
Adapted from her own book of children's poetry, popular TV presenter Michaela Strachan will take families on a delightful journey through an alphabet jungle of animal rhymes.
From Antelopes to Zebras, from orphaned orangutans to polar bear dentistry, this is a whistle-stop interactive show full of poetry, dancing, music and lots of fascinating wildlife facts.
The show is directed by award-winning Malachi Bogdanov and Michaela will be signing copies of her book after the show.
Suitable for children ageed 3-6.
Tickets: £12, family ticket: £33 for 3 plus up to...
It is 1892 and dashing Oxford undergraduates, Jack and Charley are preparing to propose to Amy and Kitty, but a chaperone is needed or the girls will refuse their lunch invitation. As luck would have it, Charley's Aunt is arriving from Brazil (where the nuts come from) and will happily serve the purpose. However, a telegram declares that her trip is delayed so their plans are in disarray until they hit upon the idea that Lord Fancourt Babberley, their good friend, should put on a frock and assume her identity.
But, madness ensues when Charley's real aunt from Brazil (where the nuts...
Martin has performed regularly across Europe, the Far East, Australasia and South Africa. Recent and future engagements include appearances with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Symphony Orchestra, as well as recital performances at the Bridgewater Hall, Musée d’Orsay and Wigmore Hall.
Haydn - Sonata in B minor Hob.XVI/32 Schumann - Kinderszenen Op.15 Beethoven - Sonata in F minor Op.57 ‘Appassionata’ Schubert - Sonata in B flat D.960
The star of The Thick of It , and Mock The Week brings his twice extended, critically acclaimed tour The Time Is Now, Again to Exeter Northcott Theatre.
Top class stand-up from one of the classiest, toppiest stand-ups around. You should come and see him.
