Due to massive public demand TEDxExeter has found an additional venue for the public to attend this year's conference.
The talks will be streamed live from the Northcott Theatre to an audience of 80 people in Exeter Library's Rougemont Room. Tickets for the 2015 conference on 24 April 2015 sold out in a record two hours when they went on sale in December. Concessionary tickets went in 15 minutes! There are currently more than 100 people on the waiting list and they will be given the first chance to apply for tickets for the Library livestream. "We are aware that the appetite for...
The Exeter Northcott Theatre has announced that its 2015 Christmas production will be a brand-new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ much-loved classic, A Christmas Carol and will be produced by Exeter Northcott Theatre and Creative Cow. The production marks the return of Exeter Northcott Theatre to once again producing its own work.
Ebenezer Scrooge is a notoriously bitter old man who is determined not to let Christmas interfere with his miserly routine. But one Christmas Eve, Scrooge receives some unexpected supernatural visitors who are determined to show him the true spirit of...
Exeter University Theatre Company (EUTCo) are proud to announce their production of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Dale Wasserman’s stunning stage adaptation of Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel. This modern American classic follows the inmates of an Oregon psychiatric hospital under the sinister watch of Nurse Ratched, who are disrupted by the arrival of troublemaker Randle Patrick McMurphy. As the play unfolds the inmates, under McMurphy’s leadership, continue to test Nurse Ratched’s authoritarian control. Tensions rise as McMurphy’s antics become progressively more ambitious, screening the...
Some of Exeter’s best known organisations are getting behind an inspiring event, which is set to bring some of the world’s best thinkers to the city this year.
TEDxExeter, which will take place on 24 April at the Exeter Northcott Theatre, sold out in a couple of hours before Christmas.
TEDxExeter is an independently-organised event, made possible by local volunteers who want to engage their communities. This year’s event will feature speakers and performance artists from the Exeter area and from much further afield. It will span a wide range of topics from the death penalty...
Oldham Coliseum Theatre and imitating the dog return following their hugely entertaining 2012 collaboration Hound of the Baskervilles. Adapted from the novel by Susan Hill author of The Woman in Black, this tense and atmospheric new production is an otherworldly mystery that leaves a terrifying eeriness suspended in the air. A ghostly chill falls over the Exeter Northcott Theatre this winter with a traveller's strange tale of threats from beyond the grave.
The Mist in the Mirror is a gothic fireside story which the audience is invited to eavesdrop on. Visual theatre innovators...
After covering weighty issues like death, love, religion and spam javelins, "The King of Edinburgh" (THE LIST) is in a frivolous mood with this show about daftness, whether the term "cool comedian" is an oxymoron, bouncing joyously on the sofa and how Herring's whole career is a failed attempt to top a piece of visual slapstick comedy he came up with at 16. Can he revisit the joke thirty years on or will it smash his old bones?
“There’s such a lot of things that’s true, even if they never really happen”
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules the roost at Oregon State Psychiatric Hospital. Her word is final, and more fool anyone daring to argue differently. When Randle P. McMurphy, a swaggering, free-spirited con-man is added to her list of charges, the sterile and repressive atmosphere of the ward is warped. Beaten down, bullied and shattered into submission by Ratched, the inmates are sceptical of McMurphy’s revolutionary words and actions, afraid to embrace their individuality – buried deep within after years...
Tomas didn't like books or stories. Stories were just for "Little Snotties". He was happier clambering in the mountains like a goat or tobogganing with his Dad. That was until the Unicorn Lady came to town and reeled him in with her irresistible magic tales. But then disaster struck and put everything that mattered most in Tomas's life in terrible danger... I Believe in Unicorns is a spellbinding and moving story by one of our greatest storytellers.
Theatre Alibi last worked with Michael Morpurgo on Why the Whales Came which ran in the West End to...
The UK’s leading and longest running musical theatre concert, Beyond the Barricade makes a long overdue first appearance at Exeter Northcott Theatre, with a sensational new show for 2015. This exciting concert re-creates original West End/Broadway musical hit songs with amazing authenticity and features a cast of past principal performers from the West End production of Les Miserables, and the 25th Anniversary Concert at the 02 Arena.
Beyond the Barricade recently celebrated an amazing fifteen years on the road which has taken the show all over the world and its repertoire includes...
Exeter Northcott Theatre has put its backstage heroes, the technical team, centre stage as it launches its spring/summer 2015 season.
Photographer Matt Austin spent an afternoon with Dominic (Technical Manager), Lee (Technical Stage Manager) and Jamie (Chief Electrician) for a photocall which put the team thoroughly in the spotlight and resulted in some fantastic images.
Packed with the usual great drama, dance, opera, family theatre and comedy the spring/summer 2015 season is now on sale.
The Exeter Northcott Theatre is delighted to be hosting Shakespeare’s Globe...
