La Bohème

Event Date: 
28/04/2015 - 7:30pm to 01/05/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

La Bohème is a tale of young love, starting on Christmas Eve in a Paris garret. On this festive night Mimì and Rodolfo draw close, before poverty and ill-health force them apart. With some of the most memorable music in opera, ETO's new Italian-language production lifts every spirit and breaks every heart.

Sung in Italian, with English surtitles.

www.englishtouringopera.org.uk

Tickets: £17-£33.

Pre Show Talk: 6.30pm Fri 1 May (Venue TBC)

All transactions are subject to a £2 booking fee.

www.exeternorthcott.co.uk

The Siege of Calais

Event Date: 
29/04/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

The Siege of Calais (L'assedio di Calais) enjoyed its first ever UK professional tour with ETO in 2013, when it was acclaimed as one of the company's greatest achievements.

Constructed of bel canto arias and ensembles of extraordinary quality, it tells the story of the citizens of Calais who offer up their lives to save their city from the besieging English army.

Proud, fierce, exhilarating – this is history on stage, in thrilling music.

Sung in Italian, with English surtitles.

www.englishtouringopera.org.uk

Tickets: £17-£33.

Pre Show Talk:...

Return of The Grumpy Old Women

Event Date: 
26/04/2015 - 2:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

Returning after a critically acclaimed, total sell-out 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) in this brand spanking new show.

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...

Romeo & Juliet

Event Date: 
16/04/2015 - 7:30pm to 18/04/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

Award-winning Shakespeare’s Globe from London comes to Exeter Northcott Theatre.

A violent street brawl between their rival families is the prelude to Romeo’s first encounter with Juliet. Despite this, and the fact Juliet has been promised to another, they fall in love. But any plans for their future happiness are cruelly destroyed by renewed violence between their families and tragedy begins to unfold.

A small troupe of travelling players takes to the road with Shakespeare’s classic tale of star-crossed lovers. Performed on an Elizabethan-style stage, this stripped-down...

BSO: Country Folksongs

Event Date: 
16/04/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, University of Exeter

KHACHATURIAN Adagio from Spartacus KHACHATURIAN Violin Concerto DVOŘÁK Symphony No.7 Aleksandar Marković conductor Nikita Boriso-Glebsky violin

Khachaturian was a composer with an incredible gift for melody, and the Violin Concerto is a fun and playful example of this. Its lush, oriental-sounding tunes, high-flying virtuosity and yearning melodic intensity soon appealed to worldwide audiences. Musical elements drawn from the folk songs and dances of Khachaturian's native Armenia add to the festive intoxication, which are also present in the lusciously evocative Adagio from his...

Dr Seuss's The Cat in the Hat

Event Date: 
15/04/2015 - 1:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

From the moment his tall, red and white striped hat appears around the door, Sally and her brother know that The Cat in the Hat is the funniest, most mischievous cat they have ever met. With the trickiest of tricks and craziest of ideas, he turns a rainy afternoon into an amazing adventure. But what will mum find when she gets home?

Based on the much loved book by Dr Seuss, The Cat in the Hat is a lively and engaging first theatre experience for young children aged 3+.

Expect towering hats, mischief and an imagination recharge!

Play originally produced by the...

The Business of Murder

Event Date: 
06/04/2015 - 7:30pm to 11/04/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

Middle Ground Theatre Company is delighted to present The Business of Murder, the acclaimed psychological thriller from the pen of Richard Harris (The Sweeney, A Touch Of Frost,The Avengers) which enjoyed a successful 9-year run in the West End.

Stone, a humourless and dour man, invites Dee, a television playwright, over to his flat on the premise of discussing a script. Once there, she is surprised when superintendent Hallett, the man with whom she is having an affair, also arrives for an entirely different reason.

But nothing is as it seems, and as the plot twists and...

Reduced Shakespeare Company in The Complete History of Comedy (abridged)

Event Date: 
05/04/2015 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

They’ve skewered history, the Bible and the world’s most celebrated playwright, now the Reduced Shakespeare Company tackles the subject it was born to reduce.

Tickets to The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) are far more affordable than tickets to an amusement park, but you’ll come away with the same feeling of nausea and motion sickness. From the high-brow to the low and everything in-between, the bad boys of abridgment leave no joke untold as they deconstruct the entire history of comedy in 90 rollicking minutes.

Shows at 5pm and 8pm.

www.reducedshakespeare....

Sister Act The Musical

Event Date: 
30/03/2015 - 7:30pm to 04/04/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

Following on from its 110th anniversary celebrations, this Easter Exeter Musical Society begins a new era with the ‘divine musical comedy’ Sister Act.

Based on its namesake 1992 movie, Sister Act tells the story of Deloris Van Cartier, an aspiring disco diva trying to make her way to the top in 1970’s Philadelphia.

Deloris falls in love with Curtis Shank, a gangster. However, when she sees him commit a murder, the police put her in a witness protection scheme and send her to a convent.

Deloris finds her calling with the choir.

Her glamorous lifestyle and...

‘Get On Board’ With #CatchOfTheDay Campaign

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sun, 03/01/2015 - 4:35pm

Fish lovers and members of the South West fishing industry are being urged to get on board with a forthcoming campaign designed to champion the diversity and sustainability of many species landed by the UK fishing fleet in a week-long Twitter campaign set to take place in March.

The initiative, dubbed #CatchOfTheDay, is being launched by the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO), the body which represents fishermen’s groups, individual fishermen and producer organisations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Running from Monday 16 March until Friday 20...

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