Chris Brooks hosts an evening of hilarious comedic entertainment, sublime stand-up and inventive improve featuring Jeff Sleeman, Robert Garnham, Graham Gorfore, Improperly, Iszi Lawrence and special guest Arthur Smith. Stand-up legend, Arthur Smith is one of comedy’s elder statesmen: an Edinburgh Fringe stalwart and a club compere since the early days of the alternative scene. He’s also been a regular Grumpy Old Man on BBC TV and a Countdown wordsmith.
Iszi Lawrence is a Time Out Recommended (2013) international comedian. She is a mainstay fixture at comedy festivals and had her...
Exeter’s Middle-Weight Theatre Company proudly present Ray Cooney’s award-winning comedy – Run For Your Wife.
The story of London cab driver John Smith, with two wives, two lives and a very precise schedule for juggling them both.
With one wife at home in Streatham and another at home in Wimbledon, trouble brews when Smith is mugged and ends up in hospital, where both of his addresses surface, causing both the Streatham and Wimbledon police to investigate.
Having upset his schedule, Smith becomes hopelessly entangled in his attempts, along with his layabout...
Money for Nothing was formed in 2000 as a tribute to one of the world’s premier rock bands – Dire Straits. The abundant energy and the excellence and musicality of their performance makes Money For Nothing a “must see” for any rock enthusiast or Dire Straits fan.
Fronting the band is the brilliant guitarist and Mark Knopfler sound-alike Aled Williams. Behind him the line-up features top-class and experienced musicians that make this band a worthy tribute to Dire Straits. Aled and all the band have studied Dire Straits in great depth to re-create their tribute to be as close as...
Dotdotdot Flamenco Company presents its award-winning show, No Frills.
Three dancers, one voice, one guitar and one percussion box: No Frills is flamenco stripped down to its bare essence. A celebration of the raw and yet nuanced energy that flamenco awakens not only in the dancer but in the spectator too. Through an exploration of a number of its traditional styles in their most evocative form,this show goes in search of pure expression. Three young artists Noemi Luz, Magdalena Mannion, and Yinka Esi Graves seamlessly interweave their individual styles creating a shared flamenco...
Composed by bassist and sculptor Marcus Vergette, ‘The Marsyas Suite’ is inspired by the Titian painting ‘The Flaying of Marsyas.’ First premiered on BBC Radio 3 in the late 90s, Marcus has revived this work with a new lineup: Roz Harding on alto sax, Janna Bulmer and Lucy Welsman on twin cellos, Tom Unwin on piano and Marcus on double bass.
Extra, extra! University of Exeter Dance Society presents their annual dance showcase, “Read All About It!”
With a piece from every class in the society, including both beginner and advanced members, and dances from the Performance Squad and Competition Squad, the society presents to you a news story related showcase of this year’s work and talent. From a current affairs themed contemporary routine to a travel section themed Irish piece, along with Street, Commercial, Ballet, Tap and Jazz styles the Dance Society brings you their very latest news.
Oldham Coliseum Theatre and imitating the dog return following their hugely entertaining 2012 collaboration Hound of the Baskervilles. Adapted from the novel by Susan Hill author of The Woman in Black, this tense and atmospheric new production is an otherworldly mystery that leaves a terrifying eeriness suspended in the air. A ghostly chill falls over the Exeter Northcott Theatre this winter with a traveller's strange tale of threats from beyond the grave.
The Mist in the Mirror is a gothic fireside story which the audience is invited to eavesdrop on. Visual theatre innovators...
After covering weighty issues like death, love, religion and spam javelins, "The King of Edinburgh" (THE LIST) is in a frivolous mood with this show about daftness, whether the term "cool comedian" is an oxymoron, bouncing joyously on the sofa and how Herring's whole career is a failed attempt to top a piece of visual slapstick comedy he came up with at 16. Can he revisit the joke thirty years on or will it smash his old bones?
Back by popular demand, Pete Harrison and the BSO present another evening of some of the best film scores from the movies. Blockbuster soundtracks include those written by Maurice Jarre, Hans Zimmer, John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith and, of course, the master of the film-score, John Williams. Films represented include Gladiator, Lawrence of Arabia, Schindler's List, The Last Samurai, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars and a reprise of the best superhero of them all – Superman. As well as heroes, this year there may also be a few villains lurking about too!...
“There’s such a lot of things that’s true, even if they never really happen”
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules the roost at Oregon State Psychiatric Hospital. Her word is final, and more fool anyone daring to argue differently. When Randle P. McMurphy, a swaggering, free-spirited con-man is added to her list of charges, the sterile and repressive atmosphere of the ward is warped. Beaten down, bullied and shattered into submission by Ratched, the inmates are sceptical of McMurphy’s revolutionary words and actions, afraid to embrace their individuality – buried deep within after years...
