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Gandy Street Summer Fete

Event Date: 
25/06/2017 - 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Venue: 
Gandy Street, Exeter

Summer Festival on Gandy Street

As the days get longer and lighter and spring turns to summer, the Gandy Street Traders will be bringing the summer holidays to Exeter with a spectacular family Summer Cider and Real Ale Festival.

On Sunday June 25th the cobbles of Gandy Street will be swamped with street entertainers, barbeques, musicians and crazy games as everyone gets into the swing of summer.

Visitors are invited to come along and try the ales and ciders, check out the offers from all the fabulous independent boutiques and businesses, enter the Fancy Dress...

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Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (9-11 June).

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The Mikado Friday & Saturday, Northcott Theatre, Exeter Sasha Regan’s all male company make a welcome return to Exeter with their latest thrilling all-male version of The Mikado. Gilbert and Sullivan take us to the far away land of Titipu, where their penchant for poking fun at British Institutions combined with their inherent humour and timeless tunefulness make for, arguably, the most popular opera ever written. https://exeternorthcott.co.uk Blush Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed...

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Blush

Event Date: 
07/06/2017 - 7:30pm to 10/06/2017 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

Snuff Box Theatre presents the award-winning play from Charlotte Josephine (writer of Bitch Boxer) through five candid stories about revenge pornography and its many victims

‘She just needs to understand that it’s not her fault, that she’s not to blame, that she’s not a slut.’

Three women and two men swim in shame. Everyone’s exposed. Everyone wants revenge. No one’s talking about it.

www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk

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The Mikado

Event Date: 
07/06/2017 - 7:30pm to 10/06/2017 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

Sasha Regan’s all male company make a welcome return to Exeter with their latest thrilling all-male version of The Mikado.

At the height of their creative genius, Gilbert and Sullivan take us to the far away land of Titipu, where their penchant for poking fun at British Institutions combined with their inherent humour and timeless tunefulness make for, arguably, the most popular opera ever written. Includes the memorable musical numbers A Wand’ring Minstrel, Three Little Maids, Willow Tit Willow and Some Day it Might Happen aka The List!

The company are riding high...

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The Boat Shed Pop Up opens in Exeter

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 06/05/2017 - 5:20pm

This summer The Boat Shed Pop Up will transform two derelict warehouses on Exeter’s quayside into a new creative venue for the city.

Alongside a programme of theatre, comedy, art and music, The Boat Shed will house a cocktail bar, a goats milk ice-cream parlour and a mini golf course.

Local artist Fi Russell has been commissioned to design the golf course which will be inspired by the stories and heritage of Exeter.

With nine holes to complete, players will be challenged by Exeter’s ancient Roman wall, they’ll skirt around the sleepers of the city’s first railway...

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The Lady Boys of Bangkok

Event Date: 
07/06/2017 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

It just couldn’t be more fabulous! It’s the show everyone talks about.

Hotter....cheekier....funnier than ever – the country’s number one touring cabaret show – The Lady Boys of Bangkok return to the UK with a lavish new production - WHO RUNS THE WORLD!

Elections and referendums may come and go, but in the stakes for the best party night out in town, there’s no doubt where the popular vote goes. WHO RUNS THE WORLD! is not a political question – it’s a positive celebration of the fair sex performed by 16 of Thailand’s most alluring and stunning Lady Boys. Escape the drab...

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Animal Farm

Event Date: 
28/06/2017 - 7:30pm to 01/07/2017 - 9:00pm
Venue: 
Cygnet Theatre

An imaginative adaption for the stage of George Orwell’s allegorical masterpiece. What happens when the animals rise up. Assume power and take control of the farm.

Their revolutionary strategies for an idyllic and entirely fair existence free from human tyranny - seem tempting and preferable. No more short rations (benefit cuts), no more exploitation (zero hours contract), and no more spartan quarters (bedroom tax)... until one day power amongst the pigs turns them into arrogant and despotic masters - worse than the humans they sought to eliminate.

Join Napoleon, a middle...

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Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (2-4 June):

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Death of a Salesman Friday & Saturday, Exeter Northcott Willy Loman is not as young as he once was, and boy is he feeling it. After half a lifetime on the road, this once successful travelling salesman is unable to keep up in a changing workplace; he’s on the brink of unemployment, and he and his wife have got bills to pay. When his drop out son Biff moves home again, Willy decides to give success one last shot. Can he prove to everyone he’s got what it takes? https://exeternorthcott.co.uk...

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Your guide to What's On this weekend

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 05/25/2017 - 12:02pm

Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this Bank Holiday weekend (26-29 May)

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Bubble Schmeises Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter Bubbemeises is Yiddish for a grandmother’s story, a tall story, an old wives’ tale. Writer and street performer Nick Cassenbaum and his Klezmer musicians invite you into the warmth of the Canning Town Schvitz, East London’s last authentic bath house. Amongst the steam and ritual Nick will take you on a journey to find the place he belongs. Schlapping through summer camps, barber shops and Spurs games, will...

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Exeter Northcott presents The Railway Children

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 05/18/2017 - 9:10pm

Exeter Northcott Theatre and Nick Brooke Ltd are proud to present a brand-new adaptation of E. Nesbitt’s classic tale, The Railway Children. The production will open at Exeter Northcott in June before embarking on a UK tour to cities including Newcastle, Glasgow, Norwich, Canterbury, Northampton and Southampton.

Directed by Exeter Northcott Theatre’s Paul Jepson, the cast includes Stewart Wright (Perks), Joy Brook (Mother), Millie Turner (Roberta), Andrea Davy (Mrs Perks), Katherine Carlton (Phyllis), Neil Salvage (Old Gentleman), Vinay Lad (Peter), Callum Goulden (John), Andrew...

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