‘Devil’s Drum Productions’ will tour a new play in the spring of 2019. The production company will perform 21 shows at 17 theatres in the south of England with a cast of seven. Unusually for a Sherlockian drama, this new story centres on Dr John Watson and not the great detective. In the drama Watson has a personal mystery to solve but without the help of his retired friend Sherlock Holmes. Although Holmes does appear quite a lot in the play, he has now taken to the South Downs and has started a new career as a Beekeeper. Watson discovers that his late wife Mary Morstan may have passed in...
After rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018 and sell-out shows in Bristol and Sheffield, Riddlestick Theatre bring their interactive musical comedy The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé to Exeter Phoenix for one night only on Sunday 28th April.
Their riotous show invites the audience to meet the eccentric 18th century explorer, Madame Fanny, and to take their pick from the weird and wonderful souvenirs in her cabinet of curiosities. For whichever curio they choose, Fanny and her servants perform the elaborate tale behind it, taking the audience on a voyage of hilarity. From...
One of The Guardian's 'Best Shows at the Edinburgh Festival 2018'. Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance. Also, some juggling. Reach into Fanny’s cabinet for a musical voyage of hilarity. But beware! Somebody’s out to sink her ship. Riddlestick Theatre are dedicated to tickling fancies with weird and wonderful stories and enchanting live music. Roll up your sleeves and choose the tales we tell in this riotous celebration of curiosity and imagination. “Their energy is boundless, the script fiercely intelligent and the original live music bound to stay dancing...
Footlights is Exeter University’s largest Musical Theatre society, now in its 32nd year. Each year, we strive to create show-stopping student productions to a professional standard. Following four consecutive sell-out shows at Exeter’s Northcott Theatre (West Side Story; Evita; The Phantom of the Opera; The Producers; Singin’ In The Rain), we are now looking forward to our 2018 Northcott production of the legendary Oklahoma!
Footlights proudly presents OKLAHOMA! - an illustrious classic propelled by love, community and integrity. One of Rogers and Hammerstein’s most beautiful but...
Social Group for people who are single and 50ish+ Our primary goal is to operate a social club where members are able to have fun and make the most of the facilities and events around them in the local area. Although we are not a dating agency, some members do become couples and we welcome this.
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“Nature Knows Best” is a compilation of three short comedy plays by Devonshire playwright Nick Discombe. Each play portrays a day in the life of three different animal couplings.
“Sheep Mount” is a hilarious, yet poignant piece, in which a ewe and a ram escape their depressing lives on an enclosed farm in Devon, to roam free on Dartmoor. The defiant ewe, Zoe, is fed up of the farmer taking her young and hopes to rescue her relationship with her ram, Wayne, despite his roving eye. Meanwhile Wayne has been contending with many horrible scientific treatments from the farmer. “Sea Gull...
TicTac Theatre (which stands for two is company three’s a crowd theatre) is an emerging theatre company based in Exeter that specialises in two-handers and multi role productions.
TicTac’s repertoire includes a mixture of classical and contemporary plays.
TicTac Theatre will soon be undertaking its third production “Nature Knows Best”.
“Nature Knows Best” is a compilation of three short comedy plays by Devonshire playwright Nick Discombe. Each play portrays a day in the life of three different animal couplings.
Following their ★★★★★ sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe and SOHO Theatre, Roxy Dunn (C4’s Babylon , BBCThree’s Top Coppers ) and Alys Metcalf (Olivier Award-winning The Play That Goes Wrong ) compete with their egos to tell a comic, time-hopping story, exploring whether our lives are predetermined or shaped by our choices.
’A breath of fresh air’
THE TIMES
’An hour well spent in the company of two future stars’
SUNDAY MAIL
’Very funny stuff and the performances are excellent’
An event not to be missed, the critically-acclaimed theatre company the Pantaloons are coming to Exeter to give Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet a fresh twist that will have you laughing until you cry.
With all of the classic ingredients including romance, swordfights, potions and tragically slow messengers, the Pantaloons take this ill-fated love story and combine it with live music, audience interaction and their trademark vital sense of ‘play’ to perform a version of Romeo and Juliet like you’ve never seen before. And not forgetting that famous bit on the balcony…
Step up to the oche and bit the bulls eye! Substance & Shadow Theatre return this summer with a new, original work, Silver and Gould, taking audiences back to the decade where Sunday tea time wasn't the same without a 'bit of Bully'!
This fast paced comedy follows the fortunes (or misfortunes) of mismatched cousins, Leonard (Len) Silver and Melvyn Gould, who are reunited after the sudden death of Len's mum, Elsie. Left out of his mum's will and forced to spend cold nights in his Rover; Len finds that desperate times call for...
