‘No Filter’ is a challenging and intimate look at how our culture and society can shape the way women view and project sexuality. Putting musical comedy at the forefront, Squiffy Cabaret take you on a journey of playful sketches and outrageously funny songs, drawing from heartwarming, personal experiences in a slick, sexy and sophisticated cabaret setting. Exploring the boundaries and connection between performance and truth, ‘No Filter’ is moving, relevant, and outspoken.
Using interweaving narratives and multi-roling, the show...
Encounter Theatre & Therapy The Crane Wife, brought to you by Encounter Theatre & Therapy (ETT), is based upon ancient Japanese folklore. It is a natural, heartfelt story, touching upon the therapeutic issues of grief and loss. This performance will be of interest to learning disabled adults, their enablers and family support, and others who are curious to immerse themselves in an interactive world developed specifically for this audience group.
ETT are currently translating what works in dramatherapeutic group encounters into...
Following its hugely successful début 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 moving show which is fun, quirky and sometimes rather naughty, in keeping with the traditional format while remaining current. The show is hosted by award winning Bristol comedian Cerys Nelmes – she is a leading MC on the comedy circuit, has a solo show at The Edinburgh Festival and has...
Pantomime is a unique British tradition. You will not find pantos being performed in any other part of the world except, of course, wherever several enthusiastic Brits with a penchant for slapstick and cross dressing are gathered together.
The panto season stretches into the New Year and in Exeter and the rest of the country hundreds of companies will be staging pantos now and in the coming months.
They could be amateur or professional, well funded or on a shoestring, treading the boards in theatres, arts centres or village halls. The common purpose is to entertain people,...
From the 19-22 January the Exeter Phoenix will be hosting an exciting new production of the musical Rent, produced and performed by the University of Exeter’s Shotgun Theatre Company.
Set in early 1990s Manhattan, Rent tracks the trials and tribulations of several struggling artists living in the island’s East Village. The musical’s narrator is film-maker Mark Cohen who, along with musician Roger Davis, can’t drum up the outstanding rent for their old friend and landlord Benny. Mark and Roger’s story is intertwined with those of their friends and love interests, as well as all the...
‘Tis definitely a bit brillig in Beamish-on-the-Marsh. Slithy toves have appeared on the school playing field, SOMETHING is whiffling and burbling in Tulgey Wood, and Cook is very worried that this might delay lunch.
This Christmas, Quirk Theatre and Exeter Phoenix invite you to take your vorpal sword in hand and join us as we face the Jabberwocky!
Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s classic nonsense poem and retold with Quirk’s finely honed sense of the ridiculous, our latest adventure is a ripping yarn for all primary...
Shotgun Theatre (NSDF award-winning) presents RENT, following a group of New Yorkers in the early-1990s. Mark Cohen guides the audience through this rock opera, deep into the personal stories of the people who surround him; the outcasts of society. This production exposes the realities of AIDs, poverty, and bohemian life.
Has it really been 50 years since the most successful Folk/Rock Duo of all time recorded their first no1 hit single ‘The Sound of Silence’?
With standing ovations at every performance, The Simon and Garfunkel Story’ is currently the biggest and the most successful No 1 touring theatre show celebrating the lives and career of Folk/Rock sensation Simon and Garfunkel.
Featuring West End, award-winning leading man DEAN ELLIOTT (Buddy Holly in ‘Buddy – The Musical’) and a full cast of talented actor- musicians...
Exeter Police & Hospital Players would like you to join them for their annual pantomime Babes in the Wood, this year raising money for the Lord Mayors Charity ELF.
The Sheriff of Exeter is shocked when he learns that he has become guardian to his brother’s children Jack and Jill, that is until he realises that should they die he will inherit their fortune!
On hearing this he plots to have them killed by his two idiot helpers Sam and Dan. Are they brave enough to kill Jack and Jill?
Robin Hood and his Merry Men and Maid Marion also help to find poor Jack and Jill...
This captivating story follows the rise and fall of a nation’s hero. Based on the life of Argentine actress and political leader Eva Perón, who rose from nothing to become one of the most famous political figures in the country’s history. Evita features music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice and is one of their most successful musicals. The show had an incredible run in the West End and on Broadway and has recently finished a successful UK Tour.
This is a student production by Footlights, the University of Exeter's longest running Musical Theatre society. The society...
