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.
In Shakespeare’s 450th birthday year, The Players mainly alfresco tour will see them step on stage for some 40 performances of the play, directed by Minack Theatre’s former artistic director, Michael Dyer. It tells of a master and his servant arriving in a foreign port which, unbeknown to them, is the home...
Devon based Restless Theatre Company are bringing Shakespeare in a Box: Much Ado About Nothing to cafes, pubs, village halls and theatres around the county over the next fortnight. Whilst keeping the original text,
Restless put a new spin on this classic comedy about the fragility of honour. Using only six actors, a box, and upcycled props. Restless Theatre create an uncompromisingly imaginative performance that is suitable for the whole family to enjoy.
The production will tour to: 6th & 7th August City Gate Hotel, Exeter (7pm), 8th August, Boston Tea Party, Honiton (7...
The Festival Players will be performing Shakespeare’s shortest play in the Castle courtyard. This is a brilliant farce of mistaken identities, combined with a few undertones of the dramatic and sinister. A master and his servant arrive in a foreign port which, unbeknown to them, is the home of their long-lost twin brothers. Mayhem ensues as brother is taken for brother in a riotous train of misunderstandings, seduction, and pursuit. A colourful and entertaining romp.
Open air performance in the Castle courtyard. Bring your own seating...
The Cygnet Company with guests in a new production of one of Shakespeare’s best loved comedies. The world order is turned upside down: servants dress up as their masters, and men as women. Amid such confusions, what happens to Love and Fancy? Wit changes place with Folly, as Malvolio, Lady Olivia’s puritanical steward, gets ideas above his station, donning ‘yellow stockings, cross-gartered‘ and shipwreck brings handsome twins to shore …
Jacquie Crago, actor, director and RSC voice coach, is currently resident voice and dialect coach on the National...
Following their hugely successful productions of The Comedy of Errors and Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol's internationally-renowned ensemble company, return for their third visit to the Exeter Northcott Theatre with one of theatre's most celebrated comedies.
Expelled from the city, Rosalind and Orlando – the one fleeing a tyrranous uncle, the other a murderous brother – rediscover each other in the Forest of Arden. But what awaits them in that Arcadian wilderness? Will they find true love, or just lose themselves? Are they merely players in a...
If music be the food of love… These famous lines from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night give a flavour of Cygnet’s Summer season.
The theatre has much on the menu to tempt you:
Wren Music are bringing five much loved West Country folk musicians James Findlay and Solaference to Cygnet Theatre on 23 May and Jonny Dyer and Vicki Swan with Marilyn Ticker and Paul Wilson on 13 June.
The main course on offer is Shakespeare’s Classic comedy of wit and folly – Twelfth Night, served with renaissance style by director Jacquie Crago, which previews on 11 June and plays at Trebah...
This year is the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, and there won't be a more spectacular tribute than Four of Swords Theatre's latest production.
The Exeter-based company will perform a striking new adaptation of Macbeth in Beer Quarry Caves, the first time a theatrical production has been staged at the 2,000 year old site between Sidmouth and Lyme Regis. The quarry is famous for its "Beer Stone" which was used in the building of Exeter Cathedral, St Paul's and Windsor Castle among others.
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...
Two worlds collide in Filter's explosive new take on Shakespeare's lyrical Twelfth Night.
Olivia's melancholic, puritanical household clashes head on with Sir Toby's insatiable appetite for drunken debauchery. Orsino's relentless pursuit of Olivia and Malvolio's extraordinary transformation typify the madness of love in Illyria: land of make-believe and illusion.
We're delighted to welcome back this enormously funny, fast-paced production of Shakespeare's much-loved comedy, which was a sell-out in 2010. The dynamic narrative, witty invention and bursts of music result in a...
