Monday 9th to Wednesday 11th November 2015 in the Chapter House
Monday 9th November at 19.30: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tuesday 10th November at 19.30: Hamlet
Wednesday 11th November at 19.30: A Midsummer Night's Dream
After hugely successful tours in the summers of 2013 and 2014, described by none other than Sir Ian McKellen as 'uproariously funny', the HandleBards are back on their bikes for their most diverse season to date. Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream are touring the country as we speak - and they think they may just be...
Two of East Devon’s best loved parks will be the venue for several outstanding shows this summer.
Well regarded touring theatre companies will be performing at Connaught Gardens in Sidmouth and Manor Gardens in Exmouth. Choose from Much Ado about Nothing, Hamlet or Pride and Prejudice.
This is a joint project between East Devon District Council’s StreetScene and Countryside departments bringing new events to our outstanding parks and gardens.
Prices for adults will start from £12 with concessions, child and family tickets available. For box office please contact the...
The Bard’s wonderful pastoral comedy full of love, laughter, and lyricism, and performed by this talented all-male company. A colourfully-costumed two hour show, set in the Forest of Arden, full of engaging characters, and featuring songs set to original music by Johnny Coppin. Perfect entertainment for a Summer’s evening.
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,...
Dr Ian Mortimer (author of the bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England') gives the first presentation of his new paper The Shakespeare Authorship Debate and Historical Responsibility, on the anniversary of the Bard's death (and accepted birth)
The endlessly inventive Ian Mortimer is the most remarkable medieval historian of our time. - Christina Hardyment, The Times
About the event
There is much rhetoric flung about these days by supporters and denigrators of William Shakespeare. Did he write...
Award-winning Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre will visit Exeter Northcott Theatre in April with its brand new version of the classic tragedy, Romeo & Juliet.
A violent street brawl between their rival families is the prelude to Romeo’s first encounter with Juliet. Despite this, and the fact Juliet has been promised to another, they fall in love. But any plans for their future happiness are cruelly destroyed by renewed violence between their families and tragedy begins to unfold.
A small troupe of travelling players takes to the road with Shakespeare’s tale of star-crossed...
There is much rhetoric flung about these days by supporters and denigrators of William Shakespeare. Did he write the plays and poems that bear his name – or were they the work of another Renaissance genius, such as Marlowe or Bacon? Or was it the Earl of Oxford? Or a whole committee of intellectuals?
Such is the range of possible authorships put forward that members of the public can be forgiven for being bewildered. Why is there so much doubt when the first folio of Shakespeare’s works clearly has his name on the cover?
On 28th May 2014 the HandleBards – four men on four bicycles – cycled out of London. Their mission? A 2000 mile tour across the UK, Holland and Belgium, carrying all the necessary set, props, costumes and camping equipment to perform two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays – Macbeth and The Comedy of Errors - seventy-two times. Since then, they’ve delighted audiences at, amongst others, the Tour de France, the Commonwealth Games and the Edinburgh Fringe.
The HandleBards do Shakespeare differently. Performing with eight very sore legs, they play all the parts in Director James Farrell’s...
William Shakespeare's Macbeth is the original `Game of Thrones, a disturbing tale of treachery and murder set in the savage landscape of medieval Scotland. With its compelling mixture of historical fact and supernatural invention, the play is a incisive psychological study on the corrosive effects of mad ambition.
Harry Meacher plays the eponymous role, and Judi Bowker is Lady Macbeth in Traffic of the Stage's atmospheric production which focuses on the raw and earthy emotions of those living in dangerous times.
Tickets: £12 & £8 concession (under 18 & over 60)...
Gloucestershire’s acclaimed Festival Players are taking an all-male tour of William Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors across the UK and into Europe this summer. The tour will head to Devon on Thursday, August 21st to the picturesque setting of Exeter’s 14th century Powderham Castle.
Directed by Minack Theatre’s former artistic director, Michael Dyer, and with music from 70’s folk musician Jonny Coppin, the play tells of a master and his servant arriving in a foreign port which, unbeknown to them, is the home of their long-lost twin brothers. Mayhem ensues in a riotous train of...
