Paul Morrissey, Christopher Wheeler and Molly Morris are pleased to announce for the cast for the UK Tour of When Darkness Falls .
Written by James Milton and Paul Morrissey , When Darkness Falls , will open at London’s Richmond Theatre on Wednesday 9th February 2023.
When Darkness Falls will continue a UK tour, visiting Poole, Mold, Salford, Exeter, Dundee, Windsor, Bromley, Leicester, Oxford and closing at Devonshire Park Theatre , Eastbourne on Saturday 29th April 2023.
West End star Tony Timberlake and Thomas Dennis will co-star in the UK Tour of When...
Following the record-breaking smash-hit Robin Hood, Exeter Northcott and Le Navet Bete are teaming up once again to bring you an unmissable family panto for Christmas 2023 – Dick Whittington!
Expect plenty of laughs, great music, amazing special effects and full-on-fun for every generation with this fabulous rags-to-riches tale.
Kelly Johnson, Interim Co-CEO at Exeter Northcott, said: "The Northcott pantomime is a Christmas tradition for so many families in Devon and we've been bowled over by the glowing reviews and the sheer joy we are seeing from the thousands of...
Exeter Community Initiatives (ECI), a charity based in Exeter, has been given 40 free Christmas pantomime tickets by Exeter Northcott Theatre to distribute to local families.
ECI’s Devon Family Resource project, which supports families with children aged 0-18 facing challenges and hardships, will distribute the Robin Hood panto tickets amongst the families it works with.
ECI helps people facing poverty, inequality and homelessness to get their lives back on track by involving them in community projects to improve their mental, emotional and physical wellbeing, increase...
Exeter Northcott has reached its stretch goal of gifting 750 tickets for family Christmas show Robin Hood to children, young people and carers in Devon through its Pay It Forward audience donation campaign.
The theatre had already achieved its initial end-of-year aim of giving away 500 tickets through the scheme to people who might not otherwise be able to experience the magic of theatre at Christmas in October.
In total, 1234 people donated £12,559 towards the Northcott’s Pay It Forward campaign this year.
The Northcott is gifting the 750 Pay It Forward tickets...
Exeter Northcott Theatre has launched a new stretch goal of gifting 750 tickets for its family Christmas show Robin Hood to children and young people in Devon through its Pay It Forward donation campaign by the end of this year, having reached its initial aim of giving away 500 tickets.
The Northcott’s Pay It Forward campaign, now in its third year, asks audience members to donate towards the cost of a theatre ticket for children and young people who would not otherwise be able to go.
Between January and October this year, 766 people donated £7,392 towards the campaign...
Exeter Northcott Theatre is adding more live performances and theatre shows to its already packed programme of plays and comedy, dance and music events this year. Alongside a line-up of big hits including The Rise and Fall of Little Voice , Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World , English Touring Opera’s La Bohème and BalletBoyz’s Deluxe , Exeter’s flagship theatre has announced:
Extraordinary Bodies’ Human
Human (17-18 June) is a hybrid piece of circus, film and music that explores life-changing events from the performer’s lives. Human is audio described,...
This autumn, critically acclaimed choreographer Richard Chappell premieres his most ambitious work to date, Infinite Ways Home, opening at Exeter Northcott on 24 & 25 September and Cardiff’s immersive CULTVR on 2 October.
Chappell’s first full-length production for a mid-scale stage, Infinite Ways Home sees six performers explore their perceptions of reality through other-worldly experiences, connecting ideas of Celtic traditions of ritual with modern day experiences of rave culture.
Combining Chappell’s diverse choreographic language of ballet, contemporary dance...
Devon-based playwright, Lucy Bell, is to create a new film, Grown Ups to be released in July. Inspired by interviews undertaken by students from Dawlish College with people in their 70s, 80s and 90s, Grown Ups will share stories across generations, gathering reflections on life from people with a broad range of perspectives and experiences.
Whilst researching the project the students spoke to Lynda who moved from Sierra Leone to England when she was 12 years old; Philip, now 93, who served in World War 2 and remembers his ‘best thing since sliced bread’ wife; and Graham, a...
Exeter Northcott Theatre will host an online discussion to explore the representation of ethnically diverse stories in its archive.
Learning from the past so we can be better in the future: Considering representation and ‘voice' is a free event taking place on 8 June at 7pm via the theatre’s website www.exeternorthcott.co.uk .
Louisa Adjoa Parker , a poet and writer, will chair the discussion and she’ll be joined by a panel of guests including Alix Harris , Director of Beyond Face Theatre and Sandhya Dave , co-founder of Devon Diversity Consultants.
An acclaimed playwright will collaborate with University of Exeter experts on a new production exploring how LGBTQ+ communities have experienced loneliness and isolation in the past and present, including during the coronavirus pandemic.
Natalie McGrath will work with researchers at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health and Exeter’s Northcott Theatre to create the new piece of work. It will explore the loss of hard won social and emotional spaces which LGBTQ+ people have created to share with one another, and think about experiences of lockdown as part of a...
