With the mission to develop, encourage and cultivate young talent and young audiences, Jasmin Vardimon Company has formed JV2, delivering a new one-year further education certificate. Tomorrow presents the debut tour of this year's JV2, a vibrant and fresh new group of 10 young international dancers, hand-picked by Artistic Director Jasmin Vardimon.
Showcasing the performing talent of tomorrow, this triple bill stages three new works. Former JVC dancer Mafalda Deville creates athletically challenging work with an alluring visual style.
What does it mean to be a citizen? What is it that a citizen owes to his city, or country? This is the question posed by Donizetti’s rarely performed epic The Siege of Calais (L’assedio di Calais) – a ‘serious’ opera, sung in Italian, constructed of bel canto arias and ensembles of extraordinary quality.
It is the story of the burghers of Calais (depicted by Rodin in his famous sculpture outside the Houses of Parliament), citizens who offer up their lives to save their city from a besieging army. Their sacrifice is quiet, ordinary, sublime – and it culminates in one of the most...
ETO’s first new Verdi production for several years is Simon Boccanegra – a mature masterpiece, and an intimate drama uniquely suited to venues like Exeter Northcott Theatre.
The story comes from the history of Genoa, for centuries a great maritime republic, and from it Verdi creates an impassioned plea for Italian unity. The title character is a former pirate who returns to the city to become its leader.
The composer’s musical depiction of the shimmering Mediterranean is wonderful. So too are the characters he creates, from the rough-hewn buccaneer-turned-ruler (the title...
Charles Dickens’ Old Curiosity Shop revisited, adapted by Daniel Jamieson
Nell Trent lives with her grandfather above The Curiosity Shop, a vintage record store. When the shop is repossessed by Quilp, a malignant loan shark, Nell and Grandpa are forced to hit the road.
Living rough, they meet the usual suspects – conmen, Good Samaritans, wide boys and buskers - in cities and villages across England.
Imaginatively translated to the present day, Dickens' story of love, human...
This year, the young people from the fourteen schools in the Crediton Learning Community will be performing a selection of songs from their favourite era – taking you on a journey through time from the days of The Entertainer right through to last year’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations and a massed performance of Sing.
The children will be sharing the stage with Oxford University premier all-male a cappella group Out of the Blue who will be performing a full hour’s concert that will inspire and entertain young and old alike. This ever evolving group has gone from strength to strength...
Devon Youth Dance Company, local schools and dance groups showcase their latest dance performances in these separate shows that highlight the breadth of talent we have in the county.
Groups Performing at 1pm: Devon Youth Dance Company, Moretonhampsted Primary School, Ellen Tinkham Special School, Midmoors Federation (Copplestone and Spreyton Primary Schools), Hemyock Primary School, Cockwood School, Area Dance Group (Uffculme Primary School).
Groups Performing at 7pm: Clyst Vale Community College, Devon Youth Dance Company, St Lukes Science and Sport College,...
For the first time ever, direct from its London HQ, Guinness World Records arrives on stage with its officially amazing, record-breaking, science mad, all new live show.
From the producers of Brainiac Live! and Science Museum Live on Tour, comes a new show which explores the best, the worst, the weirdest and the unbreakable world records ever attempted and the extraordinary talents in each and every one of us.
You may not be the world's tallest man, but have you got the loudest voice?
Join the Official Guinness World Records Adjudicator and team of presenters in...
"Run. Keep running. You're doing the right thing. Lay low. Head down. Don't look back. Just keep running. And whatever you do, don't tread on the cracks..."
Leo's world has been turned upside down. Her parents are gone and her bird-loving uncle is getting too close for comfort. She is only sure of one thing...she must get out.
In a desperate bid to find the grandparents she never knew, Leo jumps on a train to Glasgow, penniless and stealing food to survive. A nationwide hunt for her begins. Will she track down her grandparents, or will her uncle get to her first?
"Run. Keep running. You're doing the right thing. Lay low. Head down. Don't look back. Just keep running. And whatever you do, don't tread on the cracks..."
Leo's world has been turned upside down. Her parents are gone and her bird-loving uncle is getting too close for comfort. She is only sure of one thing...she must get out.
In a desperate bid to find the grandparents she never knew, Leo jumps on a train to Glasgow, penniless and stealing food to survive. A nationwide hunt for her begins. Will she track down her grandparents, or will her uncle get to her first?
New Old Friends and makin projects present Silly Songs of Shakespeare, part of the Laugh Out Loud Exeter Comedy Festival
Originally commissioned by Theatre Royal Bath's Shakespeare's Unplugged, Silly Songs of Shakespeare is a show that does exactly what it says on the tin...there are songs, they are silly and they are based on Shakespeare.
Spend an evening with 'Fearg & the Sonnettes' while they serenade you with hilarious "synopsongs" of some of Will's most famous works and illuminate a weird corner of Shakespeare's world with their witty and catchy tunes.
