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'Monmouth: A West Country Rebellion'

Event Date: 
14/09/2017 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Phoenix Theatre

At the Phoenix Theatre in Exeter, Thursday 14th September, 7.30pm. Tickets £10

June 11th 1685. The Duke of Monmouth lands at Lyme Regis with 83 men to raise a Protestant army against James II, and begin what was to be England’s last rebellion against the Crown. Five weeks later and with a 3000-strong army swelled by dissenting men and women from Dorset, Devon and Somerset, Monmouth prepared to fight the last ever pitched battle on English soil, and the first step towards modern democracy. This epic history of Dorset, Devon and Somerset, told through the eyes of Alice who joins the...

"Rough Justice"

Event Date: 
25/09/2017 - 7:30pm to 30/09/2017 - 10:00pm
Venue: 
The Blackmore Theatre, 10 Bicton Street, Exmouth, EX8 2RU

The Exmouth Players presents “Rough Justice”, a Courtroom Drama by Terence Frisby at The Blackmore Theatre in Bicton Street, Exmouth, from Monday 25th through to Saturday 30th September 2017, to include a Matinee performance on the Saturday. Evening performances are at 7.30pm – Matinee starts at 2.30pm.

A play that makes you think. Controversial? Yes. What would we do in such circumstances? In the dock, having admitted responsibility for the death of his severely incapacitated child, James Highwood, the host of a popular television program, British Justice?, conducts his own...

Open Auditions for "A Tomb With A View"

Event Date: 
27/08/2017 - 2:30pm to 5:00pm
Venue: 
The Blackmore Theatre, 10 Bicton Street, Exmouth, EX8 2RU

OPEN AUDITIONS For "A TOMB WITH A VIEW" A Comedy-Thriller by Norman Robbins Director: Margaret Bond Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 2.30 pm at The Blackmore Theatre

Production Dates: Monday 26 Feb – Saturday 3 March 2018 (including a matinee performance on the Saturday)

A Tomb With A View is set in a sinister, old library presided over by a portrait of a grim faced, mad-eyed old man. There, a dusty, lawyer reads a will (involving a vast fortune) to an equally sinister family ...... one has werewolf tendencies, another wanders around in a toga of Julius Caesar, and a third is a...

Michael Morpurgo's Out of the Ashes

Event Date: 
24/07/2017 - 6:00pm to 25/07/2017 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
The Boat Shed, Maclaines Warehouses, Haven Road, Exeter Quay

Tickets: £5 from https://www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk/shows/out-of-the-ashes/

Becky Morely begins her diary on New Years Day 2001, little does she realise just how much that year would change her life.

Based on the novel by award-winning writer Michael Morpurgo, Out of the Ashes is the story of Becky’s experience on her family farm in Devon, during the outbreak of foot and mouth disease across the UK.

We experience Becky’s memories of the outbreak as she wrote them in her diary. The story features the birth of her first lamb, Little Josh, her glorious rides with Ruby...

Sidmouth Play Festival

Event Date: 
22/06/2017 - 8:00pm to 22/09/2017 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Manor Pavilion Theatre, Manor Road, Sidmouth

The Summer Paly Festival brings weekly rep to The Manor Pavilion Theatre with one company presenting a season of twelve classic revivals:

CAUGHT IN THE NET By Ray Cooney Thursday 22 - Wednesday 28 June 2017

MURDER IN COMPANY By Philip King and John Boland Thursday 29 June - Wednesday 5 July 2017

THE ODD COUPLE By Neil Simon Thursday 6 - Wednesday 12 July 2017

LADIES IN LAVENDER By Shaun McKenna Thursday 13 - Wednesday 19 July 2017

DIAL M FOR MURDER By Frederick Knott Thurs 20 - Wednesday 26 July 2017

WUTHERING HEIGHTS By Emily Bronte Thursday...

"The Titfield Thunderbolt"

Event Date: 
03/07/2017 - 7:30pm to 08/07/2017 - 10:00pm
Venue: 
The Blackmore Theatre, 10 Bicton Street, Exmouth, EX8 2RU

The Exmouth Players presents “The Titfield Thunderbolt”, a comedy by Philip Goulding, based on the original Ealing screenplay by T.E.B. Clarke, at The Blackmore Theatre in Bicton Street, Exmouth, from Monday 3rd through to Saturday 8th July 2017, to include a Matinee performance on the Saturday. Evening performances are at 7.30pm – Matinee starts at 2.30pm.

Finding that their branch railway line will be axed, the residents of the village of Titfield decide to buy the railway and run it themselves. Now they must convince the railway authorities they are competent, and complete...

Open Auditions for "Rough Justice"

Event Date: 
11/06/2017 - 2:30am
Venue: 
The Blackmore Theatre, 10 Bicton Street, Exmouth, EX8 2RU

OPEN AUDITIONS For "ROUGH JUSTICE" A Courtroom Drama by Terence Frisby Director: Wendy Bishop Sunday, 11 June 2017 at 2.30 pm at The Blackmore Theatre Production Dates: Monday 25 – Saturday 30 September 2017 (including a matinee performance on the Saturday) Although the subject matter of this courtroom drama might be sensitive and controversial for some, the verbal skill of the writer is acerbic at times, periodically tender and certainly will tug at your heartstrings; as a whole it is altogether absorbing. As the Sunday Express critic observed “.. the courtroom interchanges positively...

Preliminary Read Through of the "Rough Justice" Script

Event Date: 
17/05/2017 - 7:30am
Venue: 
The Blackmore Theatre, 10 Bicton Street, Exmouth, EX8 2RU

This is a Pre-Audition Read Through to familiarise yourself with this sensitive and absorbing Courtroom Drama. This is open to both Members and Non-Members of The Exmouth Players. It is also open to all age groups. No prior acting experience is needed. Scripts will be provided. Just pop along and join in the fun of it all. This will commence at 7.30pm at The Blackmore Theatre.

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 04/28/2017 - 10:42am

Your guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this bank holiday weekend (28 April – 1 May).

THEATRE

Richard Herring – The Best Friday, Exeter Northcott Theatre Richard Herring, King of the Edinburgh Fringe, Metro columnist and the UK’s Podfather (RHLSTP, AIOTM) picks his favourite routines from his 12 one-man shows and crams them into 90 minutes for your delectation. https://exeternorthcott.co.uk

The Castle Builder Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter The Castle Builder is an emotional and hard rocking journey into the hearts and souls that exist on the...

Vampire Night at Exeter’s Northcott Theatre

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 03/23/2017 - 12:01pm

An acclaimed Professor of Gothic horror is to come to Exeter’s Northcott theatre to reveal how Dracula was based on medical evidence of ‘real’ vampires, before a performance of Dracula itself.

‘Prof of Goth’, Nick Groom, who is world expert on Gothic fiction, is preparing to present to the Exeter audience compelling medical evidence of the ‘real’ vampires that Dracula was based on.

The Professor of English literature at Exeter University has just been commissioned by Yale University to write a book on vampires, and has published widely on the Gothic.

He will explain...

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