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A Double Bill of Contemporary One Act Plays

A Double Bill of Contemporary One Act Plays

Event Date: 
12/03/2020 - 7:00pm to 13/03/2020 - 9:45pm
Venue: 
The Blackmore Theatre, 10 Bicton Street, Exmouth, EX8 2RU

Sidmouth Amateur Dramatic Society Ltd – Youth present A Double Bill of Contemporary One Act Plays at The Blackmore Theatre, Exmouth on 12th & 13th March 2020 commencing at 7.00pm.

The plays are:

1. 'Through the Looking Glass' Adapted by Lindsay Price from the original by Lewis Carroll

“You can be the White Queen’s Pawn, if you like. You’re in the Second Square to begin with: when you get to the Eighth Square you’ll be a Queen.”

Alice is back in Wonderland and things are more confusing than ever – Flowers talk, the White Queen cries before she pricks her...

Head on down to Exmouth’s Queen’s Drive Space for live theatre, film nights and music

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 06/20/2018 - 4:29pm

Exmouth’s new Queen’s Drive Space events area will take on a distinctly Russian theme on Saturday (June 23) with a live performance of The Cherry Orchard which is being staged by the Miracle Theatre Company.

The production is the second in a series of theatre and music events on the new site this summer and the venue is already proving to be very popular with people of all ages.

Last week more than 250 people enjoyed Swan Lake which was streamed live to a big screen in the events area from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

Queen’s Drive Space opened less than...

Exeter Northcott Theatre announces exciting autumn 2017 season

Exeter Northcott Theatre is delighted to announce its exciting autumn 2017 season. The season will see the theatre celebrate its 50th anniversary, co-produce another UK national tour, and see pantomime return.

Paul Jepson, artistic and executive director at Exeter Northcott comments on the season “This autumn the Northcott turns fifty and I’m very proud to present this exciting season. There’s much to celebrate in our birthday year. We have an education department that is admired.

"We produce our own work. We have an Associates Programme that is supporting ambitious,...

Curtain up on Sidmouth’s annual Summer Play Festival

Award-winning West End producer Paul Taylor-Mills will be raising the curtain on his hugely popular Summer Play Festival at Sidmouth’s Manor Pavilion Theatre from Thursday (June 22) with a three-month run of productions featuring works from iconic playwrights including Cooney, Coward, and Ayckbourn.

Tickets for the play season went on sale last month and the box office took an astonishing £14,000 in the first four hours of trading.

The theatre – owned and managed by East Devon District Council - is the last in the UK to offer a season of repertory productions that...

Eurydice

Event Date: 
27/10/2016 - 7:30pm to 04/11/2016 - 9:00pm
Venue: 
Cygnet Theatre, Exeter

Eurydice by Cygnet Company The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold from the feminine perspective in Sarah Ruhl’s witty and moving re-imagining.

Shifting between the worlds of the living and the dead the play depicts Eurydice’s descent into the jaws of death with a touch of surreal poetry. Eurydice’s lessons in love, loss and the pleasures and pains of memory sit at the centre of this tender-hearted comedy.

“Cygnet’s young, talented actors were excellent, bringing terrific energy and insight to the script. Ensemble work at a high level.” Remote Goat review Terrorism...

Exeter theatre announces new season of shows

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 08/07/2015 - 2:10pm

This season The Bike Shed Theatre has handpicked a selection of excellent shows from some of the most exciting theatre companies around.

Some, like Fellswoop’s Ghost Opera, are innovative productions, delightfully playing with what theatre is or can be. Some, like Hugh McCann’s Ensuite, are intimate, honest and witty explorations of human nature. And some, like its Christmas co-production Eloise and the Curse of the Golden Whisk, are family-friendly adventure stories.

The Bike Shed is inviting everyone in Exeter to come and see a show - for free! If you haven’t been to the...

Sidmouth rep summer season

Weekly rep returns to the Manor Pavilion Theatre in Sidmouth next week, when The Summer Rep Season 2015 opens with a new production of Noel Corward’s Hay Fever from Thursday 25 June to Wednesday 1 July 2015.

The Summer Rep Season sees one company of actors present a season of twelve classic revivals throughout summer, with a new production each week until the end of September.

Season producer Paul Taylor-Mills said today: “This is my third year producing the Summer Rep Season at the Manor Pavilion Theatre, and this is by far the most ambitious. Audiences can expect West End...

Three days of family fun at Unexpected Exeter

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 08/18/2014 - 11:28pm

Exeter's Unexpected 2014 Festival, running 29-31 Aug, brings some of the UK's most explosive street theatre and circus shows to the open-air streets, cultural venues and public spaces of Exeter in an extraordinary three days of family festival fun to end the summer holidays. Best of all, almost the entire programme is free and unticketed – meaning families can enjoy all the fun at their leisure, on what promises to be the most exciting Exeter weekend of the summer. Returning after Exeter City Council's huge success producing Unexpected 2013 - the Festival's stunning debut, this major 2014...

4 plays from and inspired by Le Théatre du GRAND-GUIGNOL

Event Date: 
22/05/2014 - 8:00pm to 24/05/2014 - 10:15pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

For 65 years people from all over the world walked the streets of Pigalle, the notorious red light district of Paris, in search of thrills & titillation. At the end of the Cité Chaptal stood a building that would give them all they were looking for, & more: Le Théatre du Grand Guignol. EAT invite you to an evening of frights & delights as they take you on a journey into this unique theatrical genre.

THE MAN WHO SAW THE DEVIL by Gaston Leroux Based on the short story ‘L’homme qui a vu le diable’ by the author of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’. A group of hunters seek shelter...