Returning after a critically acclaimed, total sell-out spring 2014 tour the Grumpies are back to knock some sense into the nation. Perrier Award-winning comedian, writer and original star of Grumpy Old Women Jenny Eclair will be joined by fellow recruits Susie Blake (Mrs Brown’s Boys BBC One, Coronation Street, ITV1) and actress and singer Kate Robbins (Where The Heart Is ITV1, Casualty BBC One).
This jam-packed show includes… learning the art of ‘Grumpy Grooming’, the joy of large pants, a free nagging master class (how to get your own way without him even noticing), beards for...
Shadowlands is the stunning drama written by William Nicholson that poses classic questions about religion, pain and love, through childhood innocence through the beautiful wonder of late-flowering love.This West End and Broadway hit is the love story of C.S. Lewis – Oxford don and author of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters – and American poet Joy Davidman.
Lewis is comfortable in his life at Oxford University, smug in his convictions about God and His plan for the world until his fan Joy and her young son enter his life and the...
Matt Cardle shot to fame when he was crowned the winner of The X Factor in 2010, the show’s most successful series watched by over 19.1 million people. His phenomenal vocals won over the public and he’s since gone on to have a number of enormous hits including three-week No.1 When We Collide, First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and Top 10 hit Loving You with Spice Girl Melanie C.
Most recently Matt’s four-octave vocal range earned him the leading role next to Beverley Knight in Memphis The Musical in London where he won the ‘Best West End Debut Award’ for his portrayal of Huey Calhoun...
Following the blockbuster sell-out success of Les Miserables in 2014 and Grease in 2015, Stage by Stage returns with another high-energy, high comedy explosion! This spectacular staging of the award-winning Broadway and West End show features all the classic characters, including The Knights who Say Ni and the ferocious Frenchmen with a taste for elderberries. The hilarious score by Eric Idle and John DuPrez includes such favourites as Brave Sir Robin and We’re Knights of the Round Table, but lobs in capering corpses and dramatic divas for good measure!
A young woman, using skills bequeathed her by her father, saves the French King’s life and is rewarded with the right to choose her own husband. But what if the chosen one won’t play the game? How can she win him to her? How can she get him into bed?
All’s Well That Ends Well is presented in repertoire alongside Hamlet, to celebrate ‘Shakespeare 400’ – four centuries since the great playwright died on April 23 1616.
Hamlet Tue 14 - Sat 18 June 2016 book now Tue, Thu, Fri & Sat 7.30pm Wed Schools’ matinee 1.30pm
By William Shakespeare Directed by Andrew Hilton
Hamlet turns a new face to every decade. So many elements – realpolitik, madness, sex, murder – are all brought together in a drama that is both a thriller and the profoundest meditation on our human condition.
Hamlet is presented in repertoire alongside All’s Well That Ends Well, to celebrate ‘Shakespeare 400’ – four centuries since the great playwright died on April 23 1616.
Devised by Paul Drayton Narrated by JOHN NETTLES with Tenor DAVID WEBB and Soloists & Chorus of Duchy Opera
Puccini unleashed a volcanic explosion of operatic passion that shook the musical world to its core. Audience reactions ranged from revulsion to ridicule. After the passage of nearly a century, it has become clear that some of the tragedy we find in Puccini’s operas reflects his own rather tempestuous life. Throughout his career he felt he was hunting (in vain) for the one perfect operatic story. Perhaps, without knowing it,...
With the recession biting hard, Emily and Oliver have decided to downsize and shift their middle-class London lifestyle to a small town in the north of England.
One night they open their doors and invite next door neighbours, Dawn and Alan into their home.
Over the course of a disastrous evening of olives, anchovies, Karl Marx and abstract art; class and culture collide where the consequences are as tragic as they are hilarious.
From one of the most exciting playwrights to emerge since Alan Ayckbourn,...
A former NHS communications manager from Mid Devon is preparing to walk 630 miles along the entire South West Coast Path this summer to raise money for two local charities that support cancer patients and their families.
Jim Bray left his job with the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust last month to take up an eight-week challenge entitled Jim’s Journey.
The 36-year-old will be raising money for Exeter-based charity FORCE and the Seamoor Unit, the new £2.5 million chemotherapy and day treatment centre at North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple.
