Over 150 shows in eight venues for the 2013 festival: Exeter Phoenix / The Bike Shed Theatre / The Hour Glass / Cygnet New Theatre / The City Gate / The Globe Inn / The Rusty Bike / Poltimore House
Ignite is a 6 day celebration of new live performance work from the South West and beyond. It hosts events in a number of venues across the city to create an exciting festival experience, with a diverse and inspiring summer festival programme.
The festival takes place between 3rd and 9th June with performances happening throughout each day and sometimes twice nightly. A vibrant...
Sitting in his kitchen workshop, Sam Lacey makes terrible shoes and tries to sell them online. They are so bad that no-one really wants them, not even his neighbour (who thinks he should give up and get a real job!). Then one night, two tiny visitors climb in through the window and start cutting and stitching and gluing...and Sam's life is never quite the same again! Following their sell-out shows, The Enormous Turnip, Little Red Hen and 3 Little Pigs, the inescapably eccentric Stuff and Nonsense Theatre Company return with an up-to-date, size 13½ retelling of everyone's favourite story...
Adapted from her own book of children's poetry, popular TV presenter Michaela Strachan will take families on a delightful journey through an alphabet jungle of animal rhymes.
From Antelopes to Zebras, from orphaned orangutans to polar bear dentistry, this is a whistle-stop interactive show full of poetry, dancing, music and lots of fascinating wildlife facts.
The show is directed by award-winning Malachi Bogdanov and Michaela will be signing copies of her book after the show.
Suitable for children ageed 3-6.
Tickets: £12, family ticket: £33 for 3 plus up to...
Superjohn loves to fly through outer space. But one day... crash! His superpowers are stolen and he has to travel to a dangerous world to get them back.
Fresh from a “Super” run at the Edinburgh Festival, Firehouse Creative Productions bring their educational show for the whole family to the Bike Shed Theatre.
"Superjohn is riotous fun for kids, but also deeply deeply moving for adults" - New Statesman.
"Cleverly and sensitively...engaging young minds with a fantastical story about mortality and the power of the imagination" - The Metro
Fab Beatles return to the Barnfield after 10 years to celebrate 50th Anniversary of the Beatles 1st single ‘Please Please Me’ reaching No1 in the charts.
The FAB Beatles are widely regarded as the ultimate tribute to the Beatles. They have gained ultimate respect within the ‘Beatles’ own community in the UK & one of the most sought after and highly recommended tribute bands in the world today.
Each instrument and costume is an exact replica of the real thing, even down to the drum kit used by the FAB Beatles which was used by Ringo Starr on the 1964 American tour....
It is 1892 and dashing Oxford undergraduates, Jack and Charley are preparing to propose to Amy and Kitty, but a chaperone is needed or the girls will refuse their lunch invitation. As luck would have it, Charley's Aunt is arriving from Brazil (where the nuts come from) and will happily serve the purpose. However, a telegram declares that her trip is delayed so their plans are in disarray until they hit upon the idea that Lord Fancourt Babberley, their good friend, should put on a frock and assume her identity.
But, madness ensues when Charley's real aunt from Brazil (where the nuts...
Così Fan Tutte is in many ways Mozart’s most perfect opera score, and Da Ponte’s most challenging script. It is a comedy of innocence and experience, funny and unnerving, touching and satirical. The delicate balance between recognizing the posturing of the four young lovers and loving them all the same is a challenge to each director and singer.
In one day fiancés are parted, and new fiancés found – or so it seems. Discovering they are not at all the people they thought they were is strange, exciting, and very embarrassing.
Martin has performed regularly across Europe, the Far East, Australasia and South Africa. Recent and future engagements include appearances with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Symphony Orchestra, as well as recital performances at the Bridgewater Hall, Musée d’Orsay and Wigmore Hall.
Haydn - Sonata in B minor Hob.XVI/32 Schumann - Kinderszenen Op.15 Beethoven - Sonata in F minor Op.57 ‘Appassionata’ Schubert - Sonata in B flat D.960
Exetreme Imagination is a festival of writing for and by young people, as well as for older generations who wish to celebrate our young people's achievements and reminisce over their own childhood memories.
With events at various locations in and around the city of Exeter, the festival runs from 16-24 February 2013.
The festival has grown up through a collaboration of partners across the city and beyond who all aspire to celebrate young people's literature, art and culture. Pre-festival projects have produced many exhibitions and performances waiting to be seen and enjoyed...
