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A Message From… Jazz Toast

Event Date: 
25/03/2016 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Clifford Room, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Jazz Toast celebrates youth music at its most dynamic and experimental. This gig will be bursting at the seams with youthful energy and jazz improvisation, all locked together by the power of groove!

Jazz Project are a MEGA band of young musicians forged from a collective of around 38 Exeter College Music Academy students. In varying shapes and forms, they will be performing funk, fusion, Latin, contemporary jazz, club jazz plus student original compositions and arrangements.

The Theo Brown Trio features Theo Brown (tenor sax), Ozzie Parker (keys) and Kai Craig (drums)....

Beach Boys Band

Event Date: 
25/03/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

The Beach Boys Band is a tribute show that performs 100% LIVE the fantastic hits of the original Beach Boys, including God Only Knows – Good Vibrations – Wouldn’t It Be Nice – Surfin’ USA – I Get Around – California Girls – Fun Fun Fun and many more.

Based in the South West and touring the UK, The Beach Boys Band is available for bookings to Europe and beyond, providing a fun packed show of musical excellence, outstanding vocals and colourful costume, that come together in a stunning 100% live performance

To create a truly believable and memorable tribute act, both vocal...

Women and Peace – an Exhibition

Event Date: 
01/03/2016 - 10:00am to 31/03/2016 - 2:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre Front of House Gallery, Exeter

An exhibition of inspiring art and photography to celebrate International Women’s Day (8th March). Created with support from Exeter Barnfield Theatre, Devon United Women, Centre for Human Rights and Social Equality and Exeter City Council

Free entry

http://www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk/

The Tiger’s Bones and Other Stories

Event Date: 
01/04/2016 - 2:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

New Perspectives bring three hugely imaginative and funny stories from one of the giants of 20th century British poetry vividly to life in a brand new production for children and family audiences. The Coming of the Kings is a wild retelling of the nativity. Sean, the Fool, the Devil and The Cats is a cautionary tale about eating the wrong person’s stew. The Tiger’s Bones is a brief history of the foolishness of modern man.

Ted Hughes had a lifelong passion for nurturing creativity in the young and this dazzling and brilliant collection of short plays for children and families...

This is My Body

Event Date: 
23/03/2016 - 7:30pm to 24/03/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

There are “reasonable grounds” to suspect that a Romanian woman, who has been working as a prostitute in the UK, is the victim of human trafficking.

She is given 45 days to “reflect and recover”. But will this be enough time to come to terms with the horrors she has endured?

This powerful one-woman play, written by Martin O’Brien, directed by Paul Jepson and performed by Agata Jarosz, toured the UK in 2014, including a performance at the St James Theatre in London.

It uncovers the shocking reality of human trafficking in the UK, and the failures of the system to...

The Herbal Bed

Event Date: 
15/03/2016 - 7:30pm to 19/03/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

An English Touring Theatre, Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Rose Theatre Kingston co-production.

“Love changes us. Love’s alchemy! In that furnace everything changes. Hard stone shatters, iron goes soft and turns to liquid… and so do we… in love’s fire”

Based upon real events from Stratford-upon-Avon in the summer of 1613, The Herbal Bed is a powerful thriller about human desire. When William Shakespeare’s daughter is publicly accused of adultery, her family’s lives fall under the glare of intense public scrutiny. Culminating in a dramatic trial at Worcester Cathedral...

Here Be Monsters

Event Date: 
13/03/2016 - 11:30am
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

Ahoy there young sailors and all aboard to join the villainous Captain Cut-Throat and his fearsome crew! With anchor up prepare for a sea-faring adventure packed full of songs, interactive fun and surprises in this exciting, brand new stage adaptation of the hit children’s book Here Be Monsters.

Get ready to set sail through monster-infested waters in search of a mysterious island crammed with jewels and gem stones, and whilst the Captain is certain that “monsters simply don’t exist,” as the island comes closer in around them, his crew are not so sure!

This action-packed...

The Songs of Hollywood

Event Date: 
12/03/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

A journey through the world of movies in a cavalcade of all time classic Hollywood songs with the singing star of the award-winning Fascinating Aïda. In Concert with Joseph Atkins & The Stardust Orchestra.

Liza Pulman (of Fascinating Aïda) brings you an evening of some of the greatest songs from the silver screen. Her glorious voice, charming personality and quirky comedic skills make her a unique entertainer. The evening will take you on a musical journey celebrating the golden age of Hollywood and beyond. From As Time Goes By to Moon River, through Hitchcock, the romantic...

Richard Herring: Happy Now?

Event Date: 
11/03/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

After years of drifting aimlessly and alone, Richard Herring is now settled down with a wife and a tiny baby. Is he finally happy now? Or does responsibility for the lives of others come with its own terrors?

In his twelfth solo stand up show, Richard examines whether we are can ever hope to be or are meant to be truly content. If we were never unhappy would happiness have any meaning? Why do our brains force us to envision the worst possible outcomes even on a day when everything seems fine.

How likely is it that Richard’s baby will be skewered by a stalactite of frozen...

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra: Firebird

Event Date: 
03/03/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Great Hall, Exeter University

Fabien Gabel, conductor

Frank Braley, piano

Two French extraordinary musicians make their return to Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in this concert. One of the most impressive calling cards in the history of music, The Firebird is a work of such brilliance that it could only have been written by Stravinsky, mixing the orchestral mastery of his Russian mentors with the rhythmic vitality of the revolutionary about to burst out of his shell. The musical language shifts between exotic, chromatic gestures to illustrate the supernatural dimension and the sing-song simplicity of...

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