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Your guide to What's On this weekend

If you are looking for something to do or somewhere to go this weekend, there’s plenty to choose from in our guide to What's On in and around Exeter.

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Jack and the Beanstalk Exeter Corn Exchange, Market Street, Exeter Fee fi fo fum! One minute Jack's mother is chucking his magic beans in the bin, the next thing he knows he's whisked off to a land of giants where great treasures await... unless he ends up in an enormous cooking pot! With a stellar cast, Kickline returns with the same incredible mix of magic, laughs and silly sing-alongs that made 'Cinderella' such a...

Edgar and the Land of Lost

Event Date: 
16/12/2014 - 7:00pm to 10/01/2015 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
The Bike Shed Theatre Exeter

This festive season from Tuesday 16th December to Saturday 10th January, The Bike Shed Theatre, in Exeter’s Fore Street, will be transformed into an extraordinary kingdom, filled with magic and mystery - The Land of Lost. The perfect show for all the family, Edgar and the Land of Lost is an original Bike Shed Theatre and Wardrobe Ensemble production with family of three tickets available at just £25.

Join lonely, sensible, grumpy Edgar and adventurous, unruly Peewee as the unlikely pair travel through the imposing doors of lost property in sleepy Winton town - into the undiscovered...

International recognition for Exeter-based theatre company

Theatre Alibi’s latest show will be touring to Exeter, following performances in Philadelphia, where the company has been selected from competition across the world to perform at the International Performing Arts for Youth Showcase.

The Exeter-based theatre company’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s I Believe in Unicorns will be performed at Exeter Northcott Theatre in February 2015.

Set in Croatia, Morpurgo’s tale is inspired by a visit to Russia where he witnessed a standing ovation for an old man who had rescued all the books from a library when it caught fire. Moved by...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

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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Exeter Comedy Club Christmas Specials Friday, 8.30pm, Exeter Corn Exchange, Market Street, Exeter Featuring Lloyd Griffiths, Joel Dommett, Nathan Caton and Rob Deering. www.exeter.gov.uk/cornexchange

George's Marvellous Medicine Daily, Exeter Northcott Theatre The Birmingham Stage Company present Roald Dahl's amazing story about a young boy who makes a marvellous new medicine to cure his grandmother of her terrifying temper. But when his grandmother...

Doctor Faustus is back...and this time it’s personal

Authored by Kickline
Posted: Tue, 11/25/2014 - 10:42pm

Four of Swords terrified sell-out audiences with its version of Christopher Marlowe's classic play Doctor Faustus, performed at Exeter's 900 year old St Nicholas Priory for Hallowe’en 2014.

The Exeter theatre company has now developed a spin-off show which will be performed at The Devon and Exeter Institution in Cathedral Close. There will be just three exclusive performances of Dr Faustus Presents An Evening of Renaissance Magic, 16th and 30th January and 13th February

It is not a re-run, but a new kind of play which blends story-telling with music, film...

April De Angelis

Event Date: 
16/01/2015 - 7:00pm to 24/01/2015 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Cygnet Theatre, Exeter

Directed by Amanda Knott

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 given us a fascinating look at the precarious lot of actresses at that time. A moving and often comic account of the true lives of Restoration actresses, with...

Dansette Christmas Show

Event Date: 
04/12/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Go back in time to when life was fun and the music fab. The Dansette Days of the 50’s and 60’s.

Listen to and singalong to all the hits. Liza Starlight as Helen Shapiro, Steve Conway as Bobby Vee, Vicki Lambert as Dusty Springfield and Rob Lee as Billy Fury.

‘Walking Back to Happiness’, ‘Halfway to Paradise’, ‘Son of a Preacher Man’ and ‘Rubber Ball’ are a few of the featured hits.

Tickets £12.50

Box office: 01392 271808

www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk

A Medieval Christmas

Event Date: 
10/12/2014 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Clifford Room,Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Following on from their highly successful touring show “A Victorian Christmas”, acclaimed historical entertainment company Blast from the Past now delve further back in time to bring you “A Medieval Christmas”. Featuring long-forgotten festive songs (plus some surprisingly familiar carols!) played on authentic instruments such as cittern, bagpipes and shawm, this celebration of Yuletide Past is sure to warm the hearts of young and old.

Christmas in the Middle Ages was very different from the celebration that we know today –yet many of our Yuletide customs stem from this period,...

Komedia Xmas Special

Event Date: 
19/12/2014 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

The line-up for the Xmas Party is as follows:

MC – Bennett Arron 1. Joe Rowntree 2. Jim Campbell 3. Mickey D

The sure fire, risk- free Christmas party that everyone will enjoy.

Perfect for friends and large office parties alike.

Enjoy to three top circuit comedians with a compère.

Over 18s

£17.00 (Students £15.00)

A Charity Command Performance

Event Date: 
14/12/2014 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

A unique event of world class performances and artists including, amongst others, DAME HILARY MANTEL, MARK RYLANCE, IMOGEN STUBBS, JONATHAN LEWIS, JOSS ACKLAND AND VANESSA KIRBY.

Champagne & Canape Reception, Souvenir Brochure, Raffle and Bespoke Auction.

Further artists to be confirmed.

Tickets: £60

Please note that all artist appearances are subject to availability. Exeter Northcott Theatre reserves the right to make changes to the programme if necessary.

Details here .

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