by Evelyne de la Chenelière in a version by Rona Munro Director Alistair Ganley
A cinematic rom-com live on stage!
This fizzy concoction takes the classic ingredients of romantic comedy - love, humour, coincidence and fantasy- and serves them up with a surprisingly touching twist... Strawberries in January is a biting, heart-warming comedy about four romantically challenged singletons who stumble through contemporary Montréal in search of love. If only life could be like the movies! Originally written in Québec French the play won the Masque Award for Best Original Script...
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (23-25 March).
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Up 'n' Under Friday & Saturday, Exeter Northcott The Wheatsheaf Arms rugby team, the laughing stock of Castleford’s Amateur Rugby League 7-a-Side tournament have never won a game, don’t have seven players and spend more time in the pub than on the pitch. With just 5 weeks to go, our hero coach Arthur has to convince them they can beat the mighty Cobblers Arms, but first he has to work out how to communicate with them… https://exeternorthcott.co.uk
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (16-18 March):
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Awful Auntie Friday & Saturday, Exeter Northcott Theatre When Stella sets off to visit London with her parents, Lord and Lady Saxby, she has no idea her life is in danger! Waking up three months later, only her Aunt Alberta can tell Stella what has happened. But not everything Aunt Alberta tells her turns out to be true and Stella quickly discovers she’s in for the fight of her life against her very own awful Auntie! https://exeternorthcott.co.uk
"Imagine rolling the dice 6,000 times.” That’s the central conceit — and probably the most telling line — in Constellations, playwright Nick Payne’s two-character study in ‘what ifs.’ The show, which debuted in London in 2012, then moved to Broadway in 2015 where it starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, compresses a lifetime of joy, anguish and alternate paths into a fleet, satisfying 80 minutes.
Nick Payne’s “Astonishingly fine new play” (The Independent 2012) is laced with humour, pathos and drama. Winner of Best Play 2012 Evening Standard...
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (9-11 March).
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‘Aint’ I A Woman Friday, 7.30pm, Cygnet Theatre, Exeter A new show is touring venues in Devon and Dorset to celebrate International Women’s Day 2018, after an appeal for women to join the choir led to 63 arriving for rehearsals! ‘Aint’ I A Woman’ is the third ‘Her Story’ show organised and written by Devon-based arts charity, Wren Music, and featuring women from across the South West. Tickets £10. www.wrenmusic.co.uk
Police Cops in Space Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Bike...
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (2-4 March).
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A Tomb With A View Friday & Saturday, The Blackmore Theatre, Exmouth This play is set in a sinister, old library. There, a lawyer reads a will to an equally sinister family. One family member has werewolf tendencies, another wanders around in a toga of Julius Caesar, and a third, a gentle old lady, who plants more than seeds! By Act 3, there are more corpses than live cast members left. The whole plot heads towards a surprising conclusion! This is the first of the Tomb trilogy....
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (23-25 February).
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Soldier On Friday, Exeter Northcott Theatre What happens when a company of ex-soldiers becomes a company of actors? A theatrical band of brothers. Although it’s not a cure all, the bonding, the humour, the theatre of war helps to put them back together again - as a company of veterans and actors rehearse a play about a company of veterans and actors. Although worlds apart they begin to realise there are more similarities between military life and the theatre than they bargained...
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (16-18 February).
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The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon Friday & Saturday, Exeter Northcott A magical tale of big ideas and sky-high courage… Some pretty odd ideas are floating around Paul’s street. There’s Mabel, whose brother hides under a brown paper bag. And Clarence the poodle who thinks he can fly. But Paul has the oddest idea of all. He thinks that the moon is a hole in the sky and he’s going to climb into it. Anything’s possible in this warm and very funny story by David Almond. https://...
The Battle Of Boat is an original musical by composer Ethan Lewis Maltby and lyricist Jenna Donnelly. Set during WW1, it follows the adventures of a group of children trying to find their place in a world at war. Heartwarming, funny and emotional, The Battle Of Boat is an original musical, beautifully written by composer Ethan Lewis Maltby and lyricist Jenna Donnelly.
Together they have created an extraordinary theatrical piece suitable for the whole family. Battle of Boat is brought to the Barnfield by the immensely talented students of Clyst Vale Community College (previous...
