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Exeter to host Ignite - a six-day celebration of live performance

Exeter will host a six-day celebration of new live performance work from the South West and beyond. Over 50 performances are to take place across the city at venues including Exeter Phoenix, The Bike Shed Theatre and The Cygnet Theatre as well as pub venues such as The Hourglass, The Globe and The Rusty Bike.

One of Exeter Phoenix’s highlights includes an inventive and quirky play, The Last Post , in which 17 audience members watch a nostalgic love story about the wonderful art of letter writing, in the back of a mobile sorting office in the Phoenix carpark.

At the Bikeshed...

Imitating the Dog 'Making Memories' Workshop

Event Date: 
25/03/2013 - 12:00pm to 5:00pm
Venue: 
Cornwall House, University of Exeter

Kaleider and Exeter Northcott are pleased to be able to offer the workshop 'Making Memories' led by Simon Wainwright from Imitating the Dog next week to artists in and around Exeter.

Making Memories: Taking as its starting point a box of found objects, this workshop explores writing and devising techniques and introduces the participants to Projection Mapping, a technique used in our most recent work. Concentrating on the ideas of memory, remembering, nostalgia and history this workshop outlines some key techniques used in our current work and gives the participants the chance to...

Seven ways to say "He's behind you!" around Exeter

What would Christmas be without the prerequisite pantomime dames, fairytale princesses and cross-dressing performers cavorting around the city's theatres and village halls.

Here is The Exeter Daily's round-up of the best pantomimes in and around the city...

Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves

Until 16 December, Broadclyst Victory Hall

Join Broadclyst Theatre Group for some Arabian Nights as Ali Baba, his family, friends and foe conjure up the bustling streets of Baghdad at the Victory Hall this Christmas. This production promises to be colourful, musical,...

The Snail and the Whale exhibition opens today

Arts education charity Daisi will be drawing on its team of more than 150 professional artists and its links with schools across the county once more to put together a very special project, which is part of a longer-term partnership with Exeter Northcott Theatre.

In all, The Snail and the Whale exhibition will show the work of children between the ages of five and eleven from several schools across Devon, exploring the story and recreating the magical world of The Snail and the Whale .

Last year, Daisi staged an exhibition to run alongside Exeter Northcott's 2011 Christmas...

"How I long to sail,” said the tiny snail... Northcott Theatre

This year’s Christmas show at Exeter Northcott looks set to be a winner with children and grown-ups alike.

Tall Stories, creators of The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom , bring their latest production, The Snail and the Whale , to the theatre for a festive run on 12-30 December.

This charming play of bravery tells the story of a tiny snail who longs to see the world and hitches a lift on the tail of a humpback whale. What an adventure the pair embark upon, as they journey together across the seas.

But then disaster strikes – the whale gets...

Banxy workshops for half term at the Northcott

Exeter's Northcott Theatre is offering an exciting half term of workshops with veteran UK hip-hop dance artist Banxy . As one of the original practitioners of the b boy/b girl, street and hip-hop genre, he has taught the core fundamentals of this ever-popular art form to participants for over 20 years.

All his workshops offer participants the chance to learn new and challenging moves, explore their own creativity and engage positively with others whilst learning in a fun and safe environment.

Banxy's workshops are suitable for those aged 7 yrs+ and are...

The Mysterious Vanishment of Pobby and Dingan

Adapted from the short story, Pobby and Dingan , by Ben Rice, The Mysterious Vanishment of Pobby and Dingan will be coming to the Northcott Theatre this Sunday and is recommended for children of nine and over. The Stage said of it "This Tasmanian writer has a quirky, audacious, wonderfully unfettered way of looking at life'.

The storyline is based around Kellyanne’s best friends, Pobby and Dingan. Her big brother Ashmol hates them. They’re invisible and they make her act weird. Everyone thinks she’s a fruitloop and it’s no fun having a fruitloop for a sister in Lightning Ridge....

Footsbarn Theatre returns to its roots

Event Date: 
26/09/2012 - 7:45pm
Venue: 
The Northcott Theatre

One of the most thrilling and influential theatre companies to emerge out of the South West made a welcome return to its roots at the end of September, when internationally acclaimed Footsbarn Travelling Theatre performed the Indian Tempest at Exeter's Northcott Theatre to rave reviews.

Having studied The Tempest as part of my Drama degree at University, I was intrigued to see how this multi-cultural, rich and evocative reworking would play out, and I was not to be disappointed. The overwhelming response from the opening night audience was a feeling that we were in the...

Jerusalem

Event Date: 
27/05/2014 - 8:00pm to 28/05/2014 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

On the morning of the local country fair, Johnny 'Rooster' Byron, the local waster and modern-day Pied Piper, is a wanted man. The council officials want to serve him an evictin notice, his son wants to be taken to the fair, a father wants to give him a serious kicking, and a motley crew of mates wants his ample supply of drugs and alcohol.

Jerusalem premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 2009 and became the Evening Standard's Best Play of the Year. It is an epic and heroic play about our great British need for a connection with the landscape and our roots. In part lament...

Make some room, make some noise, here come the BalletBoyz!

BalletBoyz – The Talent

Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 November

Heading to the Exeter Northcott Theatre for the first time, this phenomenally popular company featuring 10 exceptional young dancers presents an exhilarating evening of exciting and explosive dance.

The Talent 2013 features two stunning new dance pieces by internationally celebrated choreographers Russell Maliphant and Liam Scarlett.

“In performing these two outstanding works, our company of ten fantastic male dancers will give audiences the chance to see what brilliant work is being produced by...

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