Inspired by courageous protesters who risk everything for what they believe in, three women decided to take action. These women resolve to stop their ineffectual moaning and complaining and to find playful ways to stand up for what they believe in. Playful Acts of Rebellion questions what makes something worth the fight, what effect can an individual have? and how does trying to change the world end up changing us?
Charting the performers journeys, from unusual concepts to moments of desperation, despair and human triumph, Playful Acts of...
Football fever hit the Exeter Northcott Theatre last Sunday as rehearsals for the upcoming musical The Day We Played Brazil began.
Over 100 participants gathered at the theatre to begin rehearsing dialogue, songs and dance moves for the show that is set to be the biggest cultural event to hit Exeter.
The Day we Played Brazil will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the football match between Exeter City and the Brazil national team – the first-ever game played by Brazil. The play is based on the extraordinary true story of Exeter City FC’s tour to South America in 1914....
For 65 years people from all over the world walked the streets of Pigalle, the notorious red light district of Paris, in search of thrills & titillation. At the end of the Cité Chaptal stood a building that would give them all they were looking for, & more: Le Théatre du Grand Guignol. EAT invite you to an evening of frights & delights as they take you on a journey into this unique theatrical genre.
THE MAN WHO SAW THE DEVIL by Gaston Leroux Based on the short story ‘L’homme qui a vu le diable’ by the author of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’. A group of hunters seek shelter...
Game of Thrones actor Owen Teale will star in director Terry Hands’ new production of Under Milk Wood, which comes to the Exeter Northcott Theatre on Tuesday 29 April.
The production marks the centenary of Dylan Thomas’ birth, as well as the 60th anniversary since Under Milk Wood was first produced in Britain, as a radio play by the BBC, in 1954. A cast of Welsh actors also includes Torchwood actor Kai Owen and Steven Meo (The Fabulous Baker Boys).
Come to Llareggub, a small Welsh town by the sea. Meet blind Captain Cat, Mog Edwards and his sweetheart Miss Price, Sinbad...
For the third summer in a row the amazing Illyria are back at West Town Farm to perform another terrific children's classic!
Their production of The Twits in 2012 sold out, Babe The Sheep-Pig charmed the audience in 2013 and now they're back with Roald Dahl's most glorious classic "George's Marvellous Medicine".
It's the first day of half-term, Grandma has written to say she is coming to stay, and George is going to have to give up his bedroom for her. It wouldn't be so bad if Grandma were a nice Grandma. But George's Grandma is...
C.S Lewis’s classic tale of good versus evil is magically brought C.S Lewis’s classic tale of good versus evil is magically brought to life by Exeter College’s BTEC Performing Arts Department.
Four siblings are evacuated from London to an unusual home in London to an unusual home in the countryside during the Blitz. Through a forgotten wardrobe filled with musty fur coats, the children discover the enchanted land of Narnia. A secret world of magic, danger and talking animals, Narnia is ruthlessly ruled by the White Witch who has cast the land into eternal winter. Only the return of...
Exeter Musical Society begins its 110th anniversary celebrations with the Olivier award-winning Me and My Girl.
A sublime treat for musical comedy fans of all ages.
Lambeth costermonger, Bill Snibson, discovers he is the illegitimate heir to Lord Hareford and uses his wit and humour to break down the class divisions with his aristocratic relations. The fun and games never cease as they attempt to educate cheeky and cheerful Bill into the ways of the gentry and to separate him from his cockney girlfriend Sally. This toe-tapping musical, which includes songs The Sun Has Got...
Musically charming and dreamlike, this cross between an opera and a musical re-creates the great myth of the American frontier – peopled by a giant, singing geese and cats, dancing Swedes, lumberjacks, and good and bad cooks. The score is brilliantly inventive, mixing elements of blues, folk songs and hymns in a witty and irreverent response to the American Dream.
Sung in English.
www.englishtouringopera.org.uk
Tickets: A £33 B £30 C £24 D £19
Concs: £2 discount
Student Standby: £8
Pre-Show Talk: 6.30pm Fri 16 May in the Council Chamber,...
Matilda is my Grandma. She migrated from Jamaica to England in 1962. Now all of her memories have faded. I need to remember for her, for me, for us…
A woman makes a decision that will change her family’s history and the course of their future. Five decades later her granddaughter reflects on the eminence and consequence of that choice, retracing Matilda’s journey to discover how it has shaped her own.
Weaving together storytelling, spoken word, dubpoetry, live art, autobiography, and reggae music, this colourful and challenging performance offers a political viewpoint...
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Double Bill of Comedy Plays with Supper Friday & Saturday, 7.30pm, Broadclyst Village Hall Two Fat Men features Duncan and George who have been forced by their wives to attend Weight Busters. Surrounded by women and waiting for the meeting to start they think that they know each other. Join them on a hilarious journey of discovery. Stop and Run is the story of Eileen, a lonely pensioner who, much to the horror of her family finds love at a...
