This Saturday, Cygnet Training Theatre is holding a one-off taster workshop covering acting, movement and voice for anyone over 16 years considering a career in acting.
With Cygnet’s unique selling point of concentration on the individual, this workshop will give you an idea of what it is to train as a professional actor with us. You will be working alongside the Cygnet Company, led by our very own Artistic Director, Alistair Ganley.
Cygnet Training Theatre is the only Drama UK actor training centre in the South West Peninsula, and the only one where students perform in...
This season, Sidmouth’s Manor Pavilion welcomes a brand new resident theatre company in the form of Paul Taylor Mills Ltd, who will be presenting the new Repertory Summer Season.
Paul has a proven track record in producing productions of the highest level, which have received rave reviews at home and abroad.
Planned productions from June to September include: The Ghost Train , Don’t Dress for Dinner , The 39 Steps , Deathtrap , Blithe Spirit , Stepping Out and many others.
Paul has experience of producing shows both nationally and internationally and brings a wealth...
If you're looking for ideas to keep the family entertained this Easter weekend, here is a selection of what's going on in and around Exeter:
THEATRE
Gabriela Munoz: Perhaps, Perhaps, Quizas... Friday & Saturday, 7.30pm, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter If at first you don’t succeed, try again… and again… and again. A solo clown show about loneliness, waiting and hoping for the right man. Once a week Greta rehearses for the arrival of the “one”. Will she get lucky tonight? Perhaps, Perhaps… Quizás… Part of the Theatre Rush & Friends Residency. Single show £10/7, two shows...
Brother Jacques by Nick Stimson and Chris Williams
8th - 13th April 2013 QECC Lower School, Barnfield, Crediton
France 1789: Revolution
Three young men and a journey of passion, hope and discovery. The revolution brings them to Plymouth, prisoners of war on the hulk ships. Parole offers hope, but how will the peaceful town of Crediton react to the 'wretched Frenchmen'? Will this be the end of their suffering? Based on true events binding revolutionary France and Devon, England, this is a moving and...
Leaving the Exeter Northcott with your mouth open after seeing a Theatre Alibi production is starting to become a regular occurrence. Curiosity Shop , which had its premiere tonight is the latest in a line of jaw-dropping productions by Exeter’s own Theatre Alibi.
A modern-day adaptation of the Dickens novel, the show blends photography, music, film and Theatre Alibi’s signature immersive performances and the end result is an utter triumph.
Directed by Nikki Sved, this is a very different style of performance from their last show here, The Crowstarver , which was quite...
Apparently there was an outbreak of Blitz Spirit this afternoon. What on earth is going on? The Ministry of Historical Defence were on hand to reassure the public that this was merely a leak of history and that we should not be alarmed or panic. We were instead handed business cards and encouraged to report any other siting of History Leaks to their website or on twitter.
Apparently there will be a public event to sort it all out on Saturday 23rd February in Belmont Park.
Stuck for something to do this weekend? Here's a selection of events happening in and around Exeter, 25-27 January.
Theatre
Kinky and Quirky: Burlesque & Boogie
Today, 8pm, Exeter Corn Exchange
Funny, frivolous, frightful, fantastic, fabulous, fish fingers and other F words abound at Kinky & Quirky’s infamous January Comedy Burlesque and Boogie. 8pm, tickets £12.50, 01392 665938. www.exeter.gov.uk/cornexchange
Miracle Theatre has been touring innovative comic theatre across the UK since 1979. Renowned for their surreal and comic re-workings of well-known and loved stories, Miracle’s inventive approach to Frankenstein! promises to tickle funny bones and have audiences jumping out of their seats!
Originally a Victorian novel, famously a black and white movie starring Boris Karloff and the inspiration for the 70’s musical, The Rocky Horror Picture Show , Miracle presents its Frankenstein! as a musical - performed by the Ffitch Repertory Players in 1947.
The year is 1980. Born out of the cultural melting pot of Jamaica, London and Coventry, Ska and Two Tone music is sweeping the nation and has arrived in Exeter!
Four lives are touched and entwined forever by Ska music, fashion and culture but friendships are stretched and bonds tested when Jem suddenly returns ‘home’ from London, bringing with him a new identity. Skin Deep explores themes of cultural identity, working class values, race and sexuality in a Devon City set against the volatile backdrop of Thatcher’s Britain.
The title role in Exeter’s own professional pantomime Aladdin, running at Exeter Corn Exchange until 6th January, is taken by sixteen year old Will Trafford in his first professional stage outing.
Given that his father is the writer, producer and director of the show you might say it was inevitable that Will would get a starring role, but there's no denying Will's pedigree, and he had to prove himself before getting the part.
Writing in the Express & Echo, reviewer Anita Merritt said of Will’s performance: “He dazzled during his dance scenes and looks destined...
