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Dotdotdot Flamenco Company – No Frills

Event Date: 
26/02/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Dotdotdot Flamenco Company presents its award-winning show, No Frills.

Three dancers, one voice, one guitar and one percussion box: No Frills is flamenco stripped down to its bare essence. A celebration of the raw and yet nuanced energy that flamenco awakens not only in the dancer but in the spectator too. Through an exploration of a number of its traditional styles in their most evocative form,this show goes in search of pure expression. Three young artists Noemi Luz, Magdalena Mannion, and Yinka Esi Graves seamlessly interweave their individual styles creating a shared flamenco...

Read All About It!

Event Date: 
28/02/2015 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Extra, extra! University of Exeter Dance Society presents their annual dance showcase, “Read All About It!”

With a piece from every class in the society, including both beginner and advanced members, and dances from the Performance Squad and Competition Squad, the society presents to you a news story related showcase of this year’s work and talent. From a current affairs themed contemporary routine to a travel section themed Irish piece, along with Street, Commercial, Ballet, Tap and Jazz styles the Dance Society brings you their very latest news.

£8.00 (£6.00 Senior;...

The Mist in the Mirror

Event Date: 
24/02/2015 - 7:30pm to 28/02/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

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...

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

Event Date: 
18/02/2015 - 7:30pm to 21/02/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

“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...

I Believe in Unicorns

Event Date: 
12/02/2015 - 11:30am to 15/02/2015 - 10:30am
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

Adapted by Daniel Jamieson

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...

Beyond The Barricade

Event Date: 
06/02/2015 - 7:30pm to 07/02/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

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...

The Thinking Drinkers Guide to the Legends of Liquor

Event Date: 
05/02/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

Alcohol: One minute a soul mate, the next a psychopath; it can be both creative muse and pesky mischief-maker.

Slide onto the bar stool of discovery and enjoy several free deluxe drinks as the Thinking Drinkers explore the liquid lives of history’s most extraordinary elbow-benders.

Alexander the Great, Humphrey Bogart, Dorothy Parker, Frank Sinatra and Winston Churchill star in this brand new show from award-winning drinks experts whose 'Guide to Alcohol' has sold-out at the Fringe and at London’s Soho Theatre for three years running.

Tickets: £16

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THEATRE

April De Angelis Friday & Saturday, 7.30pm, Cygnet Theatre, Exeter The theatres have just re-opened after seventeen years of suppression under the puritans, encouraging a great upsurge in dramatic writing. Of vital importance to the development of drama was the entrance of the first English actresses upon the English stage. April De Angelis has taken five famous figures – Nell Gwynn, Elizabeth Farley, Rebecca Marshall, Doll Common and Mary Betterton – and...

Handlebards - Shakespeare at Exeter Cathedral Chapter House

Event Date: 
25/03/2015 - 7:30pm to 26/03/2015 - 9:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral Chapter House

On 28th May 2014 the HandleBards – four men on four bicycles – cycled out of London. Their mission? A 2000 mile tour across the UK, Holland and Belgium, carrying all the necessary set, props, costumes and camping equipment to perform two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays – Macbeth and The Comedy of Errors - seventy-two times. Since then, they’ve delighted audiences at, amongst others, the Tour de France, the Commonwealth Games and the Edinburgh Fringe.

The HandleBards do Shakespeare differently. Performing with eight very sore legs, they play all the parts in Director James Farrell’s...

Score

Event Date: 
16/01/2015 - 8:15pm to 17/01/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Score is a musical play from Documental Theatre about friendship, dognapping and two-part harmonies. It’s inspired by the frank and funny accounts of parents using Bournemouth drug treatment services.

Hannah is an X Factor aficionado with a mile-a-minute mouth, a ten year-old daughter and a low-level Heroin habit.

Her childhood friend, Kirsty, who has never “picked up”, is pulled along in her slipstream days before giving birth.

Two years later they meet at a child contact centre. Hannah’s joined a choir to replace one kind of score with another, but she’s the last...

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