THEATRE

Gawain and the Green Knight at Poltimore

Authored by Kickline
Posted: Mon, 08/04/2014 - 10:17am

Hopefully you’ve had a great summer so far. However if you’re already running short of things to do with the family, Four of Swords Theatre has an evening for you that will turn a great summer into a legendary one.

The Exeter based company is reprising its family blockbuster Gawain and The Green Knight from 7 - 9 August at Poltimore House just outside Exeter.

Tickets at just £10 are available from www.four-of-swords.com where you’ll also find out more about the show and about the company which counts amongst its hits sold-out productions of Jekyll and Hyde, also performed...

Expect the Unexpected as Exeter's three day, family friendly festival returns

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sun, 08/03/2014 - 11:10pm

Produced by Exeter City Council, Unexpected triumphantly returns in August with a fabulous three day, family-friendly, Festival programme (29-31 Aug), taking performance and visual art out of venues and into exciting, unexpected, locations across the city.

With only one ticketed event throughout the three Festival days, the rest entirely free, Exeter will come alive with street theatre, circus shows, performances and workshops, that will truly amaze and delight. Building on the Festival's substantial 2013 launch, Exeter City Council, has again for the second Festival year running,...

The Day We Played Brazil Gala Evening

Authored by Jenny Hogg
Posted: Fri, 08/01/2014 - 12:02pm

The final whistle will blow on The Day We Played Brazil this Saturday so make sure you don't score an own goal by missing out on this "must-watch musical" (Express and Echo). With standing ovations after every performance during the run, this special show is a sensational celebration of Exeter’s history and its surprising place in international football.

The last ever performance is part of a special Gala evening to welcome back Exeter City Football Club and its fans from their 2014 tour of Brazil. The evening includes drinks and delicious hot supper served in the...

Gawain and The Green Knight by Four of Swords Theatre

Event Date: 
07/08/2014 - 7:00pm to 09/08/2014 - 8:30pm
Venue: 
Poltimore House, Exeter

Hopefully you’ve had a great summer so far. However if you’re already running short of things to do with the family, Four of Swords Theatre has an evening for you that will turn a great summer into a legendary one.

The Exeter based company is reprising its family blockbuster Gawain and The Green Knight from 7 - 9 August at Poltimore House just outside Exeter.

Tickets at just £10 are available from www.four-of-swords.com where you’ll also find out more about the show and about the company which counts amongst its hits sold-out productions of Jekyll and Hyde, also performed...

Ablutions by FellSwoop Theatre (in association with Bristol Old Vic Ferment)

Event Date: 
21/07/2014 - 7:30pm to 26/07/2014 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Bike Shed Theatre

Picture yourself as a bartender, sipping top-shelf whiskey and watching your customers descend into nightly oblivion. Your heart is broken by the world around you and, leaving the whiskey aside, you hatch a devious, unthinkable plan of escape…

A dark, boozy, grimly funny tale from the sodden depths of the Los Angeles underworld, blending a live soundtrack (devised and composed by the cast), detailed mime and the heart-wrenching humour of Patrick deWitt.

Ablutions is Winner of last year's Exeter Ignite Festival Critic's Choice Award.

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Alice Through The Looking Glass

Event Date: 
28/06/2014 - 8:15pm to 19/07/2014 - 8:15pm
Venue: 
Cygnet Theatre / Poltimore House

Cygnet Company Director Alistair Ganley

Alice crawls through the mirror into a looking glass world where she has to outwit Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and gets the rough end of Humpty Dumpty’s tongue on her journey to become Queen.

ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Lewis Carroll’s classic sequel to Alice in Wonderland gets an imaginative treatment in this adaptation by Katherine Kingsford.

Performance Dates: Cygnet Theatre June 28th & 3rd July 7.00pm 12th July 2.00pm

Poltimore House (Open Air) July 18th 7.oopm July 19th 3.00pm

Ticket Price: £8 (£6...

Twelfth Night

Event Date: 
28/06/2014 - 7:30pm to 12/07/2014 - 9:45pm
Venue: 
Cygnet Theatre

Director Jacquie Crago

The Cygnet Company with guests in a new production of one of Shakespeare’s best loved comedies. The world order is turned upside down: servants dress up as their masters, and men as women. Amid such confusions, what happens to Love and Fancy? Wit changes place with Folly, as Malvolio, Lady Olivia’s puritanical steward, gets ideas above his station, donning ‘yellow stockings, cross-gartered‘ and shipwreck brings handsome twins to shore …

Jacquie Crago, actor, director and RSC voice coach, is currently resident voice and dialect coach on the National...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Don’t make any plans for the weekend until you’ve checked out our guide to what’s on in and around Exeter:

THEATRE

The Great Gatsby Friday & Saturday, 7.30pm, Barnfield Theatre, Exter It’s the 1920’s, the age of jazz and women’s independence; when wealth, glamour and decadence ignited public fascination for a fleeting moment in time. Jay Gatsby embraced the era as he set about acquiring all the trappings of a self-made millionaire. His biggest conquest was the young socialite, Daisy. For years, Gatsby is passionate in his pursuit of her love until it all ends...

Exeter Music Holiday School

Event Date: 
25/08/2014 - 9:00am to 29/08/2014 - 3:30pm
Venue: 
Magdalen Court School, Victoria Park Road, Exeter, EX2 4NU

EMHS are a creative alternative to holiday childcare. We are open during the Summer holidays. To kickstart our week and celebrate our first anniversary we will be having a morning of workshops followed by a disco/party. As a gift to you the 28 July will be £10 for the day (a saving of £15).

EMHS have a wide range of instruments for the children to trial and use during our workshops.

You can book the whole week or select days from our timetable.

Check out our website for full details: www.exetermusicholidayschool.co.uk or call Laura on 07572 610742

Something marvellous is brewing for Christmas

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 06/11/2014 - 10:25pm

Exeter Northcott Theatre has announced George’s Marvellous Medicine as its Christmas show for 2014.

This acclaimed adaptation of Roald Dahl by Birmingham Stage Company shows 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.

Full of fizztickling fun and wizzpopping magic, George’s Marvellous Medicine is set to delight children and adults alike this Christmas with this marvellous dose of...

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