Sidmouth’s Manor Pavilion Theatre has topped the bill with its own audiences after being awarded a Certificate of Excellence Award from TripAdvisor.
Staff at the venue, owned and managed by East Devon District Council, are thrilled with the surprise accolade and believe they are one of the few theatres in the South West to have received such an award.
The 277 seat theatre continues to go from strength to strength and has attracted more than 32,000 visitors in the last year with over 265 performances. Investment and improvements made to the venue by the council over the...
Weekly rep continues at the Manor Pavilion Theatre in Sidmouth next week with the arrival of the second production, Joking Apart by Alan Ayckbourn, which runs from Thursday 2 to Wednesday 8 July 2015.
The Summer Rep Season sees one company of actors present a season of twelve classic revivals throughout summer, with a new production each week until the end of September.
Joking Apart tells the story of Richard and Anthea, the ideal couple who are charming, generous and successful. They bought their big country house for a song, Richard breezes through his work life as easily...
Meet Arthur – an old man who lives alone in his attic unleashing his imagination through pen and paper. He never ventures outside, instead he spends his time writing stories for the moon. But Arthur needs your help! The clouds have covered the sky and the moon is nowhere to be seen, and without it Arthur can’t finish his stories. PaddleBoat Theatre Company invite you to bring your own stories and your unbounded imagination as together we try to help Arthur write the best stories in the world – and learn something of Arthur’s own story too...
Set sail with PaddleBoat Theatre Company as we journey on the high seas with Little Man – an ordinary man who dreams of adventure. When his terrifying boss reveals the whereabouts of a mysterious treasure island, Little Man leaves his dull office life behind and finds himself swept along on an exhilarating pirate adventure, with only his mother and his imagination to help him along the way. Grab your treasure maps, bring all your imagination, and watch as Little Man realises he’s not so little after all.
Come and join us earlier at 15:30 for a fantastic family storytelling workshop...
On Thursday 2nd July, Devon’s leading mental health charities and services will make their way to the stage at The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter.
Representatives from Rethink Mental Illness, The Devon Depression and Anxiety Service, Recovery Devon, Time to Change and MIND will join Executive Producer Charlie Parker and Viki Browne to discuss HELP!
Award-winning actress, Viki Browne returns to Exeter with Ignite Festival sell out HELP! ; an engaging performance about her personal experiences of anxiety and depression. This touching and humorous performance uses striking imagery...
Inspired by the ancient legend of a man who spent 35 years in solitude in the Egyptian desert, this new Wellcome Trust-supported ensemble performance explores, through song and body, landscapes where mental health and religious experience collide.
How to treat a religiously-orientated mental illness? This is a problem facing NHS psychiatrists treating patients who say they are possessed by spirits. Is there a limit to what Western medicine can heal, when faced with a dark night of the soul?
With insight from psychiatry and anthropology, this show plunges soul-first into the...
If you could eradicate the world of pain, what would be your price?
A newly written comedy drama set in 1860’s Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Based upon the true events from the life of Dr. William Morton and his obsession to the patent the world’s first pain relief solution. Relucatantly yet loyally assisted by his young British protégé, Nathaniel Jameson, whilst dutifully supported by his wife, Elizabeth and their house maid Mary. The debate emerges, befitting morality, decency and legacy; threatening the deterioration of family and friendship when desire for recognition and...
If you could eradicate the world of pain, what would be your price?
A newly written comedy drama set in 1860’s Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Based upon true events from the life of Dr William Morton and his obsession to patent the world’s first pain relief solution, reluctantly yet loyally assisted by his young British protoge Nathaniel Jameson, whilst dutifully supported by his wife Elizabeth and their house-maid Mary. The debate emerges, befitting morality, decency and legacy; threatening the deterioration of family and friendship when desire for...
Vivie Warren, a young Cambridge graduate is horrified to learn that her education and entire luxurious life-style has been financed by her mother's career in the world's oldest profession.
Due to its frank portrayal of Mrs Warren's Profession, this groundbreaking play was originally banned in England by the Lord Chamberlain. Written in 1894, it was not allowed a public performance for the next thirty years and during its first performance in New York, the police stopped the play and arrested the cast!
Bernard Shaw's period drama is full of insight and humane understanding...
Tedburn St Mary Community Choir and guests will provide an evening's entertainment of popular songs from film and stage including Les Miserables and Fiddler on the Roof together with pop classics from the 1960s to the present day.
