Following the blockbuster sell-out success of Les Miserables in 2014 and Grease in 2015, Stage by Stage returns with another high-energy, high comedy explosion! This spectacular staging of the award-winning Broadway and West End show features all the classic characters, including The Knights who Say Ni and the ferocious Frenchmen with a taste for elderberries. The hilarious score by Eric Idle and John DuPrez includes such favourites as Brave Sir Robin and We’re Knights of the Round Table, but lobs in capering corpses and dramatic divas for good measure!
A young woman, using skills bequeathed her by her father, saves the French King’s life and is rewarded with the right to choose her own husband. But what if the chosen one won’t play the game? How can she win him to her? How can she get him into bed?
All’s Well That Ends Well is presented in repertoire alongside Hamlet, to celebrate ‘Shakespeare 400’ – four centuries since the great playwright died on April 23 1616.
Hamlet Tue 14 - Sat 18 June 2016 book now Tue, Thu, Fri & Sat 7.30pm Wed Schools’ matinee 1.30pm
By William Shakespeare Directed by Andrew Hilton
Hamlet turns a new face to every decade. So many elements – realpolitik, madness, sex, murder – are all brought together in a drama that is both a thriller and the profoundest meditation on our human condition.
Hamlet is presented in repertoire alongside All’s Well That Ends Well, to celebrate ‘Shakespeare 400’ – four centuries since the great playwright died on April 23 1616.
Devised by Paul Drayton Narrated by JOHN NETTLES with Tenor DAVID WEBB and Soloists & Chorus of Duchy Opera
Puccini unleashed a volcanic explosion of operatic passion that shook the musical world to its core. Audience reactions ranged from revulsion to ridicule. After the passage of nearly a century, it has become clear that some of the tragedy we find in Puccini’s operas reflects his own rather tempestuous life. Throughout his career he felt he was hunting (in vain) for the one perfect operatic story. Perhaps, without knowing it,...
With the recession biting hard, Emily and Oliver have decided to downsize and shift their middle-class London lifestyle to a small town in the north of England.
One night they open their doors and invite next door neighbours, Dawn and Alan into their home.
Over the course of a disastrous evening of olives, anchovies, Karl Marx and abstract art; class and culture collide where the consequences are as tragic as they are hilarious.
From one of the most exciting playwrights to emerge since Alan Ayckbourn,...
A former NHS communications manager from Mid Devon is preparing to walk 630 miles along the entire South West Coast Path this summer to raise money for two local charities that support cancer patients and their families.
Jim Bray left his job with the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust last month to take up an eight-week challenge entitled Jim’s Journey.
The 36-year-old will be raising money for Exeter-based charity FORCE and the Seamoor Unit, the new £2.5 million chemotherapy and day treatment centre at North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple.
Love Labours Won, written by R J W Smith, is a Shakespearean style comedy set in a pub in 2016. The play follows two rugby boys and their long suffering girlfriends when a travelling theatre troupe comes to town.
The play has won both Edinburgh and Hollywood fringe awards and Avant’s run at the start of the year had fantastic reviews on National Theatre Wales TEAM Critical Chinwag.
Avant are a forward thinking company and we decided to perform Love Labours Won as our nod to celebrate Shakespeare 400, the play is a modern interpretation of Shakespeare and allowed for a...
Police have released CCTV images following an assault in Exeter which left a man with a serious head injury.
Around 2am on Sunday 5th June an assault took place on Summerland Street, near the junction of Sidwell Street.
An 18 year-old-man from Kent suffered a serious head injury and remains in hospital undergoing treatment.
The police are keen to speak to the three men pictured in connection with the assault.
The first man is described as a white man, of thin build, around 6 foot in height and aged in his 20’s. He has dark coloured hair, and a short beard....
Exeter-based rock newcomers Witterquick are pleased to reveal their brand new single ‘Rise’, the latest track to be taken from their debut EP ‘Beneath The Spinning Lights’ released via LAB Records on 17th June, available to preorder on iTunes now.
Fans can also be in with a chance of winning a Playstation 4 or Xbox One gaming console simply by preordering the new record.
The band will be playing a very special EP launch show in their hometown on 19th June at Exeter Phoenix to celebrate the release of the record, with special guests to be confirmed.
