THEATRE

Theatre in the Garden: A History of Britain

Event Date: 
14/08/2014 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Killerton House, Broadclyst

Theatre in the garden: A history of Britain

A comic twist on the history of this great land! Family entertainment by comedy group Panatloons performed in the garden.

Bring a rug or chair to sit on and enjoy an evening of summer entertainment.

Make an evening of it and have a delicious pre-theatre supper with award winning local produce in the Killerton Kitchen restaurant, £12.50 per person. Call 01392 881345 to book a table.

More Information: Killerton, 01392 881345, killerton@nationaltrust.org.uk

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/killerton

Cygnet Theatre graduates tread the boards of success

Exeter’s Cygnet theatre are celebrating today as all of the graduate cohort are signed to professional agents. The former students, who have signed to Mahoney Bannon Associates in Brighton, performed Strawberries in January at the King’s Head Pub Theatre in London, impressing the agency, who offered all of them interviews.

The Cygnet now looks forward to their success, with one student, Jessamy James, already working in a production at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

The Cygnet is a hidden gem in Exeter, offering training on both short, and longer-term courses, and a range...

Big Screen in the Park returns

Exeter’s Northernhay Gardens will host Big Screen in the Park, which starts on Wednesday 13 August.

A different film for each of the four nights is played on a 10 metre wide screen in the picturesque Northernhay Gardens.

Along with the entertainment there are also several places to get a drink or something to eat. The Little Devon Pizza Co will be serving up delicious wood fired pizzas, Bar Belafronte will be offering specially selected craft beers and there will also be some homemade butter fudge popcorn on sale.

Gates open at 7.30pm and the film starts at...

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...

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