Frankenstein! A new play by Bill Scott at Exeter Phoenix

Event Date: 
20/02/2013 - 2:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

A futuristic musical comedy of love, revenge and short circuits

When power is cut off from the Eternalife Cryonics facility, Dr Frankenstein must race against time to construct a superhuman of epic proportions that can carry the precious genes of the rich and famous into the future.

His cut and paste creation is a hideous mistake. Feared by its creator, shunned by the world, the monster takes revenge. It craves the one thing it can never have… LOVE!

Miracle Theatre’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic novel is set in the distant future. Complete with original foot-...

Frankenstein! - 2.30pm

Event Date: 
20/02/2013 - 2:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix
Frankenstein! A new play by Bill Scott, with songs by Tom Adams

A futuristic musical comedy of love, revenge and short circuits

When power is cut off from the Eternalife Cryonics facility, Dr Frankenstein must race against time to construct a superhuman of epic proportions that can carry the precious genes of the rich and famous into the future.

His cut and paste creation is a hideous mistake. Feared by its creator, shunned by the world, the monster takes revenge. It craves the one thing it can never have… LOVE!

Miracle Theatre’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic...

Folded Feather presents Nice

Event Date: 
13/02/2013 - 6:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

For ages 4+

There are two things in Lucy’s life which she prizes more than any other. One is her faithful companion and sidekick, Sancho, a threadbare glove puppet who is always by her side. The other is an old toy theatre; little more than a half broken box with a few faded cardboard characters and a miniature moth eaten curtain. For Lucy though, it is more than this. It is a chance for her to escape to a world where anything is possible, far from the one she knows.

Using puppets, live animation, music and sound, Nice is a story of loneliness, hope, friendship and the...

Tony Law

Event Date: 
13/02/2013 - 9:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix
Tony Law: Maximum Nonsense

Edinburgh Comedy Award 2012 Best Show Nominee

Join Tony Law, “ the sherpa of stand-up ” (Stewart Lee), for some gloriously absurd, loud and ridiculous comedy. As seen on Have I Got News For You , Never Mind The Buzzcocks , Russell Howard’s Good News and Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle . Tony is striding out on tour this spring with his five-star, Edinburgh Festival sell-out show.

Tony won the Amused Moose Laughter Award 2011, the Chortle Breakthrough Award 2012 and was nominated for the most prestigious prize in live comedy, the Edinburgh Comedy...

Rich Peppiatt

Event Date: 
03/02/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix
Rich Peppiatt: One Rogue Reporter

Puncturing the pomposity of the powerful… one tabloid editor at a time.

Grab the inside scoop as red-top renegade Rich Peppiatt delivers a merciless dissection of his former trade, testing the public’s right to know to its side-splitting extremity, against the tabloid bully boys themselves.

A daring mixture of live stand-up and outrageous video content, join him as he plots a path to redemption… save one rampage through Fleet Street’s gutters.

From undercover escapades to leaving the editor of the Daily Mail cowering in his own home...

O’Shea & O’Gaukroger - A Comedy of Careers

Event Date: 
02/02/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix
O’Shea & O’Gaukroger: What Will We Do When We Grow Up?

A Comedy of Careers…

After a successful national tour of ‘ Out of Season ’, O’Shea & O’Gaukroger comedy duo unite with the new show exploring what might have happened had they chosen different careers. Featuring new sketches, characters and new songs inspired by the fantastic support act Spike Pike.

Marina O’Shea & Tess O’Gaukroger, are two actor comediennes, whose unique repertoire is making a name for them with their friendly, witty and instinctive style. The pair are already making great strides in the...

Midge Ure

Event Date: 
15/05/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

From Slik and The Rich Kids to Ultravox and Band Aid, Midge has produced consistently innovative and excellent pop music. Fronting Ultravox, Midge had nine top 10 albums and sold in excess of 20 million records in the UK alone before moving on to an equally sucessful solo career. His most successful song though remains the multi million selling Do They Know It’s Christmas, which he co-wrote with Bob Geldof.

www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/midge-ure/

Martin Simpson

Event Date: 
25/04/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Nominated for Best Album (Purpose and Grace), Musician of the Year and Best Traditional Track (Lakes of Ponchartrain) – BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2012.

Martin has been nominated an astounding 29 times in the eleven years of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards – more than any other performer – with 11 consecutive years as nominee for Musician of The Year, which he has won twice.

His 2007 release, Prodigal Son was nominated for 5 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and won Album of the Year, and Best Original song for the deeply moving Never Any Good. At the end of 2008, Simpson returned to the...

Quercus

Event Date: 
23/04/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Quercus brings together three of the UK’s most creative and original musicians to create beautiful poignant music that transcends musical genres. Drawing on each player’s repertoire of originals, timeless folk songs and reclaimed standard repertoire, the trio subtly recolour the music with their individual palettes to create exquisite acoustic chamber music. It would be hard to put together a group which offers more heartfelt music; from June’s gripping voice and intense delivery to Iain’s gloriously mellifluous melodies and Huw’s lyrical off-kilter musicality, the trio carries the...

The Beat

Event Date: 
20/04/2013 - 2:15pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

One of the biggest bands of the 2-Tone movement, The Beat present a wall of sound that transcends time and ska fusion rhythms to ignite a crowd. They play with the sole aim of connecting with and entertaining their appreciative audience with their relentless energy and world class musicianship.

The Beat are known the world over for a string of hit singles, including Mirror in the Bathroom , Too Nice To Talk To , Can’t Get Used To Losing You , Hands off She’s Mine and All Out To Get You . Their songs of peace, love and unity fuse ska, pop, reggae and punk rock and their dynamic live...

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