Featuring music by Matthew North’s Department Factory
Folk and fairytales of love, longing and downright idiocy! Does the path of true love ever run smooth? Not when your lover’s been turned into a pigeon, been fool enough to invite a ghost to your wedding or happens to be a serial killer, it doesn’t! Find out how intrepid princesses and wily brides save the day and their marriages, in this fabulous kaleidoscope of funny and feel-good tales for Valentine’s Day.
The show includes free marriage guidance, love heart...
“Russell Crowe may not be available and their budget is limited, but they are determined it will be a show you’ll never forget...”
This February South West based comedy duo Spitz & Co return to Exeter’s The Bike Shed Theatre for what the theatre’s co-founder David Lockwood has described as “the funniest thing he’s ever seen.” A big claim, but one that appears to be echoed by audiences and critics alike and culminating in the production winning the Critic’s Choice Award at the 2014 Exeter ignite Festival.
Exeter Northcott Theatre has launched a club for people who’d love to go the theatre if they had someone to go with.
The Go Together Club is free to join and makes the whole experience of a theatre trip more enjoyable than going alone.
The club is the idea of the Northcott’s Development Committee, on which Tricia Cotton and Michael Terry serve as volunteers. It was trialled with a limited number of performances last autumn and proved so successful that the number of shows is being increased for the Spring 2015 Season.
Michael Terry says, “People are often reluctant...
Marie was no ordinary woman… at fifteen, when her mother died, she raised her siblings, learnt 4 different languages including Esperanto, got a degree, became a prize-winning cook, dancer, gymnast, swimmer, fencer, bob-sledder and canoed from Paris to Germany. However, she longed for something more. She longed to fly. Come on an odyssey of the skies and discover the incredible life and adventures of one of France's first female aviators, otherwise known as 'The Fiancée of Danger.'
This is a magical tale of a young woman's yearning for unbound freedom. The greatest story that...
Head In The Clouds by Broken Spectacles arrives at The Bike Shed Theatre from 2nd to 5th February to kick-off the exciting new Spring Season with tickets to the show available from £5. An odyssey of the skies, and voyage of discovery through the incredible life and adventures of one of France's first female aviators, Marie Marvingt - otherwise known as The Fiancée of Danger. Head In The Clouds is a magical tale of a young woman's yearning for unbound freedom.
Marie Marvingt was no ordinary woman, born in 1875, she had a strong...
A cracking programme of one-night-only shows will be taking place on Monday nights at The Bike Shed Theatre throughout the Spring Season – the perfect antidote to those dark winter evenings! With so much going on, we thought we would guide you through our pick of the best coming up throughout February and March.
To further sweeten the deal, the theatre has dropped adult ticket prices to £10 with all concessions at £8.
The February/March line-up includes: compelling wartime drama - Waiting for Stanley; psychological thriller exploring Stockholm Syndrome - Inside; the...
A tale of a passionate and painful love affair told by a neurosurgeon.
Using wireless headphones and a fantastical sound world, the audience is transported from their seat, to a scrap over profiteroles, into neurosurgery and onto the tracks of a ghost train. This show operates on the ears as well as the heart to dissect our most intimate relationships.
Part inspired by the auditory hallucinations experienced by satirist Frigyes Karinthy as described in his extraordinary medical memoir
Tickets are selling fast for the ultimate Vaudeville Theatre experience! Comedy, Cabaret, Music & Magic! Get yours before they sell out!
The Barnfield Theatre, Exeter UK, 7th March 2015.
Tickets are only £12.50 from Barnfield Theatre box office 01392 271808
Following its hugely successful debut back in October 2014, The Rogues Gallery Tour returns to The Barnfield Theatre with its award winning comedy, burlesque, music and magic. The Rogues Gallery brings a modern twist and a hint of darkness to the Victorian vaudeville variety genre with eleven acts, a fast...
Chris Brooks hosts an evening of hilarious comedic entertainment, sublime stand-up and inventive improve featuring Jeff Sleeman, Robert Garnham, Graham Gorfore, Improperly, Iszi Lawrence and special guest Arthur Smith. Stand-up legend, Arthur Smith is one of comedy’s elder statesmen: an Edinburgh Fringe stalwart and a club compere since the early days of the alternative scene. He’s also been a regular Grumpy Old Man on BBC TV and a Countdown wordsmith.
Iszi Lawrence is a Time Out Recommended (2013) international comedian. She is a mainstay fixture at comedy festivals and had her...
Exeter’s Middle-Weight Theatre Company proudly present Ray Cooney’s award-winning comedy – Run For Your Wife.
The story of London cab driver John Smith, with two wives, two lives and a very precise schedule for juggling them both.
With one wife at home in Streatham and another at home in Wimbledon, trouble brews when Smith is mugged and ends up in hospital, where both of his addresses surface, causing both the Streatham and Wimbledon police to investigate.
Having upset his schedule, Smith becomes hopelessly entangled in his attempts, along with his layabout...
