THEATRE

The Simon & Garfunkel Story

Event Date: 
23/01/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

The Simon and Garfunkel Story

(50th Anniversary Tour)

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...

Babes in the Wood

Event Date: 
28/01/2015 - 7:30pm to 01/02/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

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...

Evita

Event Date: 
28/01/2015 - 7:30pm to 31/01/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

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...

Watch this Space

Event Date: 
22/01/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

Celebrating our shared commitment to dance development in Devon, Dance in Devon and Exeter Northcott Theatre are delighted to come together to present this platform for emerging dance artists from our region.

Watch This Space is your opportunity to see what professional dance makers in Devon and the South West are creating right now. Share your thoughts and ideas with the choreographers in a Q&A after the show.

Please join us for a celebration of local talent and show your support for the exceptional work being produced on your doorstep.

Tickets: £8 Concessions...

An Evening of Murder with Dr Lucy Worsley

Event Date: 
17/01/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

An illustrated tour through the dark story of our fascination with murder, with Dr Lucy Worsley, BBC TV presenter, renowned historian and Chief Curator at the charity Historic Royal Palaces. She’ll not only examine some notorious crimes and criminals, but also explain how murder became a form of middle-class entertainment through novels, plays, paintings, and the press. Starting with an horrific early nineteenth-century serial-killer in the East End of London, she’ll end with the tame drawing room dramas of Agatha Christie.

Dr Lucy Worsley is Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces...

Earworms

Event Date: 
11/01/2015 - 2:00pm
Venue: 
Northcott Theatre, Exeter

Hosted by Mervyn Bedford (Musikgarten)

Enjoy, discover and experience music in a family-friendly atmosphere, featuring a wide range of musicians and music.

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Tickets: £4.50, £3 children over 2 years Age: families with primary-aged childrenand their siblings. Running Time: 1hr

All transactions are subject to a £2 booking fee.

Box office: 01392 493493 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk

Review: Edgar and the Land of Lost

Authored by BelindaD
Posted: Tue, 12/23/2014 - 6:15pm

It’s Christmas in Winton, but there’s little festive spirit in evidence at widower Edgar’s house, whose life revolves around a strict routine of cricket highlights on telly, beans on toast, and a weekly visit to the village to buy supplies (more beans). The arrival of his whirlwind of a niece, PeeWee – who’s been left to her own devices yet again by her globe-trotting parents – is disruptive enough, but when she loses a bracelet belonging to his late wife Lily, the pair must venture to the mysterious Land of Lost to retrieve it. And with the rest of Winton’s residents similarly affected by...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

If you are looking for something to do or somewhere to go this weekend, there’s plenty to choose from in our guide to What's On in and around Exeter.

THEATRE

Jack and the Beanstalk Exeter Corn Exchange, Market Street, Exeter Fee fi fo fum! One minute Jack's mother is chucking his magic beans in the bin, the next thing he knows he's whisked off to a land of giants where great treasures await... unless he ends up in an enormous cooking pot! With a stellar cast, Kickline returns with the same incredible mix of magic, laughs and silly sing-alongs that made 'Cinderella' such a...

Edgar and the Land of Lost

Event Date: 
16/12/2014 - 7:00pm to 10/01/2015 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
The Bike Shed Theatre Exeter

This festive season from Tuesday 16th December to Saturday 10th January, The Bike Shed Theatre, in Exeter’s Fore Street, will be transformed into an extraordinary kingdom, filled with magic and mystery - The Land of Lost. The perfect show for all the family, Edgar and the Land of Lost is an original Bike Shed Theatre and Wardrobe Ensemble production with family of three tickets available at just £25.

Join lonely, sensible, grumpy Edgar and adventurous, unruly Peewee as the unlikely pair travel through the imposing doors of lost property in sleepy Winton town - into the undiscovered...

International recognition for Exeter-based theatre company

Theatre Alibi’s latest show will be touring to Exeter, following performances in Philadelphia, where the company has been selected from competition across the world to perform at the International Performing Arts for Youth Showcase.

The Exeter-based theatre company’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s I Believe in Unicorns will be performed at Exeter Northcott Theatre in February 2015.

Set in Croatia, Morpurgo’s tale is inspired by a visit to Russia where he witnessed a standing ovation for an old man who had rescued all the books from a library when it caught fire. Moved by...

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