THEATRE

Dansette Christmas Show

Event Date: 
04/12/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Go back in time to when life was fun and the music fab. The Dansette Days of the 50’s and 60’s.

Listen to and singalong to all the hits. Liza Starlight as Helen Shapiro, Steve Conway as Bobby Vee, Vicki Lambert as Dusty Springfield and Rob Lee as Billy Fury.

‘Walking Back to Happiness’, ‘Halfway to Paradise’, ‘Son of a Preacher Man’ and ‘Rubber Ball’ are a few of the featured hits.

Tickets £12.50

Box office: 01392 271808

www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk

A Medieval Christmas

Event Date: 
10/12/2014 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Clifford Room,Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Following on from their highly successful touring show “A Victorian Christmas”, acclaimed historical entertainment company Blast from the Past now delve further back in time to bring you “A Medieval Christmas”. Featuring long-forgotten festive songs (plus some surprisingly familiar carols!) played on authentic instruments such as cittern, bagpipes and shawm, this celebration of Yuletide Past is sure to warm the hearts of young and old.

Christmas in the Middle Ages was very different from the celebration that we know today –yet many of our Yuletide customs stem from this period,...

Komedia Xmas Special

Event Date: 
19/12/2014 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

The line-up for the Xmas Party is as follows:

MC – Bennett Arron 1. Joe Rowntree 2. Jim Campbell 3. Mickey D

The sure fire, risk- free Christmas party that everyone will enjoy.

Perfect for friends and large office parties alike.

Enjoy to three top circuit comedians with a compère.

Over 18s

£17.00 (Students £15.00)

A Charity Command Performance

Event Date: 
14/12/2014 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

A unique event of world class performances and artists including, amongst others, DAME HILARY MANTEL, MARK RYLANCE, IMOGEN STUBBS, JONATHAN LEWIS, JOSS ACKLAND AND VANESSA KIRBY.

Champagne & Canape Reception, Souvenir Brochure, Raffle and Bespoke Auction.

Further artists to be confirmed.

Tickets: £60

Please note that all artist appearances are subject to availability. Exeter Northcott Theatre reserves the right to make changes to the programme if necessary.

Details here .

George's Marvellous Medicine

Event Date: 
09/12/2014 - 7:00pm to 04/01/2015 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

For Christmas 2014 Exeter Northcott is delighted to welcome The Birmingham Stage Company with Roald Dahl's amazing story about a young boy who makes a marvellous new medicine to cure his grandmother of her terrifying temper.

But when his grandmother drinks his special new potion, the most incredible things start to happen. And George's adventure has just begun!

If you're looking for fizztickling fun and wizzpopping magic for your Christmas theatre trip, then don't miss George and his Marvellous Medicine!

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Tavaziva Ten

Event Date: 
02/12/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

Tavaziva Ten is a special anniversary show celebrating ten years of unique dance making. Bawren Tavaziva's distinctive African style is powerful, memorable and entirely contemporary. His music composition and unique choreographic inventions have been described by the press as "a contemporary African masterpiece" and "nothing short of explosive."

This extraordinary story of one man's imagination is a stunning and seductive collection of 10 dance gems performed by Tavaziva's eight outstanding dancers.

Join us on a journey of favourite works including Sensual Africa, Wild Dog...

Mark Rylance stars at Northcott's fundraiser

The Exeter Northcott Theatre is proud to present its inaugural Charity Command Performance which will take place on Sunday 14 December.

The evening will bring together luminaries from stage and screen in exceptionally unique music and spoken word performances which will raise a considerable amount of money for the theatre.

Olivier-award winning actor Mark Rylance will join Dame Hilary Mantel (Mann Booker winner for her books Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies), actor partners Imogen Stubbs and Jonathan Guy Lewis, veteran actor Joss Ackland; reknowned opera singers Theresa...

Theatre West presents Icarus in Love at Exeter's Bike Shed Theatre

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 11/21/2014 - 10:51am

Part of Theatre West’s autumn season ‘The One Day Project’Theatre West presents Icarus in Love, a new play written by Edson Burton, part of the company’s intriguing autumn season ‘The One Day Project’. The season features five new plays which all take their inspiration from the global happenings of one day in history - 1 October 2013.

Icarus in Love, opens on 25 November and runs until 6 December at The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter.

It will be preceded by Drifters, a short play by Martin Malcolm.

Set in the swinging 60s, Icarus in Love tells the story of lovers Reg and...

Magic and mystery at Exeter's Bike Shed Theatre this Christmas

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 11/13/2014 - 11:16pm

From Tuesday 16 December to Saturday 10 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, Land of Lost -...

Edgar and the Land of the Lost

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

Welcome to Winton, a sleepy, monochrome town where everything feels misplaced and one young girl is growing restless. The singer has lost his voice, the butcher has lost her cleaver, Edgar has lost something much closer to home. Can anyone remember?

Join us as our unlikely pair travel through the imposing doors of lost property to somewhere undiscovered. An extraordinary kingdom, filled with magic and mystery; The Land of Lost. 


Will Edgar find what he’s looking for? Or is it best left forgotten? 


Join The Bike Shed Theatre and The Wardrobe Ensemble this Christmas...

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