“There’s such a lot of things that’s true, even if they never really happen”
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules the roost at Oregon State Psychiatric Hospital. Her word is final, and more fool anyone daring to argue differently. When Randle P. McMurphy, a swaggering, free-spirited con-man is added to her list of charges, the sterile and repressive atmosphere of the ward is warped. Beaten down, bullied and shattered into submission by Ratched, the inmates are sceptical of McMurphy’s revolutionary words and actions, afraid to embrace their individuality – buried deep within after years...
Tomas didn't like books or stories. Stories were just for "Little Snotties". He was happier clambering in the mountains like a goat or tobogganing with his Dad. That was until the Unicorn Lady came to town and reeled him in with her irresistible magic tales. But then disaster struck and put everything that mattered most in Tomas's life in terrible danger... I Believe in Unicorns is a spellbinding and moving story by one of our greatest storytellers.
Theatre Alibi last worked with Michael Morpurgo on Why the Whales Came which ran in the West End to...
The UK’s leading and longest running musical theatre concert, Beyond the Barricade makes a long overdue first appearance at Exeter Northcott Theatre, with a sensational new show for 2015. This exciting concert re-creates original West End/Broadway musical hit songs with amazing authenticity and features a cast of past principal performers from the West End production of Les Miserables, and the 25th Anniversary Concert at the 02 Arena.
Beyond the Barricade recently celebrated an amazing fifteen years on the road which has taken the show all over the world and its repertoire includes...
Alcohol: One minute a soul mate, the next a psychopath; it can be both creative muse and pesky mischief-maker.
Slide onto the bar stool of discovery and enjoy several free deluxe drinks as the Thinking Drinkers explore the liquid lives of history’s most extraordinary elbow-benders.
Alexander the Great, Humphrey Bogart, Dorothy Parker, Frank Sinatra and Winston Churchill star in this brand new show from award-winning drinks experts whose 'Guide to Alcohol' has sold-out at the Fringe and at London’s Soho Theatre for three years running.
Don’t make any plans for the weekend until you’ve checked out our guide to what’s on in and around Exeter.
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April De Angelis Friday & Saturday, 7.30pm, Cygnet Theatre, Exeter The theatres have just re-opened after seventeen years of suppression under the puritans, encouraging a great upsurge in dramatic writing. Of vital importance to the development of drama was the entrance of the first English actresses upon the English stage. April De Angelis has taken five famous figures – Nell Gwynn, Elizabeth Farley, Rebecca Marshall, Doll Common and Mary Betterton – and...
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...
Score is a musical play from Documental Theatre about friendship, dognapping and two-part harmonies. It’s inspired by the frank and funny accounts of parents using Bournemouth drug treatment services.
Hannah is an X Factor aficionado with a mile-a-minute mouth, a ten year-old daughter and a low-level Heroin habit.
Her childhood friend, Kirsty, who has never “picked up”, is pulled along in her slipstream days before giving birth.
Two years later they meet at a child contact centre. Hannah’s joined a choir to replace one kind of score with another, but she’s the last...
The Exeter Northcott Theatre has announced that Paul Jepson has been engaged as its new Artistic and Executive Director. Paul has an extensive background in the performing arts. He has been joint Artistic Director of two Arts Council funded new writing theatre companies and an associate of the Nottingham Playhouse. He is also an experienced dramaturg and a published playwright. He has directed at the Royal National Theatre, major regional theatres and in the West End, and has over twenty years of extensive public sector producing experience. Chair of Exeter Northcott Theatre Board of...
Exeter Northcott Theatre has put its backstage heroes, the technical team, centre stage as it launches its spring/summer 2015 season.
Photographer Matt Austin spent an afternoon with Dominic (Technical Manager), Lee (Technical Stage Manager) and Jamie (Chief Electrician) for a photocall which put the team thoroughly in the spotlight and resulted in some fantastic images.
Packed with the usual great drama, dance, opera, family theatre and comedy the spring/summer 2015 season is now on sale.
The Exeter Northcott Theatre is delighted to be hosting Shakespeare’s Globe...
A musical written and performed by Soundwaves Music Project.
With wicked intent ‘The Evils’ are taking over the world.
For every bad deed committed, a mystical forest in the Far East begins to die.
The earths peoples and its animals unite to stop ‘the Evils’.
A cast of 20 supported by live musicians will put a smile on your face and chase away the mid-winter blues. Soundwaves Music Project supports people with and
