Don't make any plans until you have checked out our essential guide to what's on in and around Exeter this weekend:
THEATRE
English Touring Opera: Agrippina Friday & Saturday, 7.30pm, Northcott Theatre, Exeter Widely regarded as Handel’s first operatic masterpiece, Agrippina stands out for the quality of its music, full of freshness and musical invention. Sung in English. Tickets: £17-£32. www.exeternorthcott.co.uk
A Fool's Proof Friday & Saturday, The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter A Fool’s Proof takes inspiration from the true story of Jessica McClure, who at...
Heading to the Exeter Northcott Theatre for the first time, this phenomenally popular company featuring 10 exceptional young dancers presents an exhilarating evening of exciting and explosive dance.
The Talent 2013 features two stunning new dance pieces by internationally celebrated choreographers Russell Maliphant and Liam Scarlett.
“In performing these two outstanding works, our company of ten fantastic male dancers will give audiences the chance to see what brilliant work is being produced by...
A new event called The Money taking place at Exeter's Guildhall invites players to spend money. Not fake money, real money. On a table will be a pile of cash and the participants or 'Benefactors' have to unanimously agree what to spend the collective money on. The group will only have two hours to decide. There are no rules and players can be as creative as they like as long as they keep within the law.
Taking place in Exeter’s Guildhall where the council make their decisions, The Money playfully poses questions about value, priorities and collective decision making...
We all know the story of the girl who fell down the rabbit hole...
Razzamataz Exeter presents its own twisted take on this enchanting tale through street dance, song, puppetry, physical theatre, mime and more!
The youngest of our performers are just 4 years old, and the oldest are 18 - all of whom work together each week learning drama, dance andsinging to unravel the crazy, funky world which Alice discovers through the rabbit hole...
Funding not Drowning: The crisis in regional arts funding with Professor Frayling Arts funding is being squeezed hard in this harsh economic climate, nowhere more than outside London in regional theatres, libraries and arts and culture organisations.
To address this, Professor Frayling, Chairman of Arts Council England from 2005 until January 2009 and formerly Rector of The Royal College of Art, will discuss the future of funding of the arts, with a particular focus on the problems of allocation of funding between regional and national organisations.
Bristol's nationally renowned company makes its second visit to the Exteter Northcott Theatre, after its much celebrated production of The Comedy of Errors in 2011, with this darkly comic early romance in which friendship and love, and loyalty and betrayal are the real players.
Two lifelong friends – the two young gentlemen of the title – are parted first by circumstance, and then by rivalry in love. Can their loyalty to each other survive the test, or will new loyalties drive out the old? How deep into perfidy can one be driven by sexual obsession? And what do even the most adored...
The new show from the Wren Band is full of rich harmonies and top class musicianship. Songs and music delve into a mesmerising world of myth and legend from near and far, much of it drawn from the research and writings of Victorian hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar Sabine Baring-Gould (notably his The Book of Were-Wolves), along with newly-written pieces inspired by his other folklore writing.
The show features internationally-acclaimed duo Marilyn Tucker & Paul Wilson, award-winning Border piper David Faulkner and leading figures...
Come with Alice on a magical adventure as she tumbles into Wonderland!
Guided by the White Rabbit, Alice meets some astonishing characters, including the Mad Hatter,The Queen of Hearts, a studious caterpillar and those mischievous twins Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Saturday evening at 7.30pm and Sunday at 2.30pm and then at 7.30pm.
Sidmouth Amateur Dramatic Society Ltd presents The Matchmaker Horace Vandergelder decides to take a wife. He employs a matchmaker, Dolly Levi, who subsequently becomes involved with his clerks and young and lovely ladies.
Evening performances at 7.30pm Saturday Matinee at 2,30pm.
Ticket Prices £10, £5 under 16s. Tuesday eveing only buy two tickets get a third free.
