THEATRE

Comedy of Errors

Event Date: 
20/07/2017 - 7:30pm to 30/07/2017 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Rougemont Gardens, Eeter

Exeter Northcott Theatre is proud to present a brand-new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors.

The production will open at Exeter’s Rougemont Gardens before touring to Knackershole Barn in Dulverton and Torre Abbey in Torquay.

Directed by Metta Theatre’s Poppy Burton-Morgan, the production will feature a cast of recent graduates including Martin Bassindale (Antipholus of Syracuse), Katriona Brown (Ring Mistress), Ella Dunlop (Dromio of Ephesus), Grace Hussey (Dromio of Syracuse), Lucy Rothwell (Luciana), Jennifer Ruth-Adams (Adriana), Tanwyn Smith-Meek (...

Re: Produtcion - A play questioning female legacy

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Posted: Mon, 06/26/2017 - 6:59am

Can you have it all? Do you want it all? A scientist, on the cusp of a new IVF discovery, is faced with difficult decisions about her own fertility. This lovable yet challenging story explores women’s choices, and the science behind those choices, when weighing up careers, parenthood, and where self-worth is found.

The award-winning White Slate Theatre are back for a third piece of new writing to face the stage. First came the iconic tumultuous story of Your Fragrant Phantom, then the compelling & exposing Captured, and now don't miss out on the stunningly innovative Re:...

Toxic Masculinity explored in ‘Give Me Your Skin’

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Posted: Sat, 06/24/2017 - 12:52pm

Critically-acclaimed theatre artists Tom Ross-Williams and Oonagh Murphy have announced the premiere of their latest show, Give Me Your Skin.

The show dramatises questions around how gender stereotypes shape our lives, looking at the future of gender, offering solutions and showing how feminism can be a powerful force for good in the lives of boys and men - and will be showing at Exeter's Bike Shed Theatre on 27/28 June.

In Give Me Your Skin, Ross-Williams and Murphy offer a fresh perspective on gender inequality, weaving together narratives of violence, intimacy and...

Dame Judi Dench announced as Exeter Northcott Patron

Exeter Northcott Theatre is delighted to announce that the highly acclaimed and much loved actress Dame Judi Dench has accepted to be Patron for its 50th anniversary year, 2017-2018.

Dame Judi is admired around the world for a 60 year career of phenomenal performances on both stage and screen. She has won an Academy Award, ten BAFTA Awards and six Laurence Olivier Awards. In recognition of her many achievements, she received an OBE in 1970, became a DBE in 1988, and in 2005 was awarded a Companion of Honour.

Dame Judi was a long-time friend and colleague of the Northcott's...

Our Man in Havana

Event Date: 
04/07/2017 - 7:30pm to 08/07/2017 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

Innovative theatre company Creative Cow from Devon brings an evening of hilarity and satire to Exeter in this witty adaptation of Graham Greene’s spy thriller ‘Our Man in Havana’. Known as one of Greene’s ‘entertainments’, the play tells the tale of a luckless vacuum cleaner salesman who gets sucked in to a dirty world of espionage and double agents when the chance of helping out MI6 with a job or two proves too good an offer to resist.

Touring venues around the UK following a hugely successful Autumn tour of another Graham Greene popular classic ‘Travels with my Aunt’, this...

Spy thriller Our Man in Havana comes to Exeter

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Posted: Tue, 06/20/2017 - 9:08pm

Innovative theatre company Creative Cow from Devon brings an evening of hilarity and satire to Exeter in this witty adaptation of Graham Greene’s spy thriller ‘Our Man in Havana’. Known as one of Greene’s ‘entertainments’, the play tells the tale of a luckless vacuum cleaner salesman who gets sucked in to a dirty world of espionage and double agents when the chance of helping out MI6 with a job or two proves too good an offer to resist.

Touring venues around the UK following a hugely successful Autumn tour of another Graham Greene popular classic ‘Travels with my Aunt’, this...

Live Before You Die

Event Date: 
02/07/2017 - 6:00pm to 03/07/2017 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
Boat Shed, Exeter Quay

Live Before You Die Two neurotic northerners on a desperate quest for inner peace. A theatre/comedy/spoken word show written and performed by Byron Vincent and Dave McGinn Themes: True story, Mental Health, Happiness, Suicide, Bipolar, Friendship, Science, Philosophy, Adventure, Men’s Issues. Suicide is the leading cause of death in UK men aged 18-45. So why do we find it so hard to talk about? Live Before You Die tells the true story of two working class northerners finding laughter and friendship in the depths of mental illness. ***** Byron is a bipolar writer. His best mate Dave only...

Curtain up on Sidmouth’s annual Summer Play Festival

Award-winning West End producer Paul Taylor-Mills will be raising the curtain on his hugely popular Summer Play Festival at Sidmouth’s Manor Pavilion Theatre from Thursday (June 22) with a three-month run of productions featuring works from iconic playwrights including Cooney, Coward, and Ayckbourn.

Tickets for the play season went on sale last month and the box office took an astonishing £14,000 in the first four hours of trading.

The theatre – owned and managed by East Devon District Council - is the last in the UK to offer a season of repertory productions that...

The Emperor's New Clothes by Illyria

Event Date: 
14/07/2017 - 5:00pm to 9:30pm
Venue: 
Nethercott House, Iddesleigh, Devon, EX19 8SN

The Emperor’s New Clothes” will be performed by Illyria who originally performed this timeless Hans Christian Andersen story in 2000, when it was the Critic’s choice at the Edinburgh Fringe festival and attracted multiple 5-star reviews on a sell-out UK tour.

Beneath the fancy clothes of the tale lies something more meaningful; human weaknesses are satirised mercilessly; and a capacity for loving is the highest value.

There are larger-than-life characters, lots and lots to join in with – and an ending that will leave you helpless with laughter!

The event will take...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (16-18 June):

THEATRE

The Railway Children Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Northcott Theatre, Exeter E. Nesbit’s classic novel The Railway Children is brought thrillingly to life in a stunning new stage production. When their father mysteriously disappears with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are turned upside down. Forced to leave the comforts of their privileged London life in exchange for a simple existence in the depths of the Yorkshire countryside, this fractured family soon...

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