Patience pokes fun at the eccentric affectations of barely-disguised Victorian celebrities, including Oscar Wilde and his followers. Willowy poets, sighing maidens, hearty milkmaids and burly officers – all become targets of Gilbert and Sullivan’s razor-sharp wit. Expect plenty of tunes and humour as fresh today as it was at the first performance.
Puccini’s visceral depiction of love in the midst of a war-torn Rome, Tosca is one of the world’s best-loved operas, brimming with lust, corruption and political intrigue. When the painter Cavaradossi helps a fugitive escape, he attracts the attention of Scarpia, the malevolent chief of police. What will Tosca be prepared to sacrifice to save her lover from his fate?
Fawlty Towers meets Noises Off in this multi award-winning West End smash hit comedy.
The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society are putting on a 1920s murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong… does! As the accident prone thesps battle on against all the odds to reach their final curtain call, hilarious results ensue!
Hailed “a gut-busting hit” by the New York Times, Mischief Theatre’s sell-out West End comedy has won a host of celebrity endorsements from the likes of Joanna Lumley “We laughed until the tears ran down our faces, it has to be seen”...
One of Shakespeare’s most startlingly contemporary plays, Othello is a masterful depiction of a life torn apart by racism and the destructive nature of prejudice.
Venice, a western colonial power, employs the newly-married Othello, a Muslim general, to lead their army against Turkish invasion. The difficulties of assimilating into a society riven by discrimination, fear and mistrust, soon begin to take their toll on Othello: manipulated by Iago, his life quickly unravels, and he turns on all he holds dear.
A truly timeless play, Othello speaks afresh to each society that...
From the Olivier award-winning Producer of West End hits Top Hat, The Play That Goes Wrong and Hetty Feather
Based on the subject and script work by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli
Frederico Fellini’s Oscar-winning La Strada is one of the all-time masterpieces of world cinema. This stunning new stage adaptation is directed by Olivier Award nominee Sally Cookson (Jane Eyre & Peter Pan National Theatre, Hetty Feather West End) and boasts a beautiful new score by Benji Bower with songs performed by an international cast of actor...
Exeter University Footlights warmly invites you to our upcoming production of the musical fable 'Gypsy' to be performed at Exeter’s Barnfield Theatre from the 18th-20th May 2017!
Widely touted as the greatest American musical, 'Gypsy' follows the dreams and efforts of Rose, the mother of all stage mothers, to make stars of her two daughters – whatever the cost.
Adapted from the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, Queen of the Strip Tease, Gypsy is a raw, restless, and racy tragicomedy with flashy orchestration and show-stopping numbers from Jule Styne (Funny Girl) and Stephen...
David’s 15. He’s doing OK. His girlfriend has an eating disorder but he’s doing OK.
Combining rich storytelling with physical theatre, Tell Me Anything is tender, raw, brutally honest boy-meets-girl story – about a boy who’s trying to be a man and a girl who doesn’t want to be rescued.
On The Run return to The Bike Shed Theatre, following UK and international tours of their sell out smash hit So It Goes .
‘An emotionally complicated piece of theatre that successfully, even rivetingly, tries to come to grips with the toll taken on a self-styled care-giver determined...
A dark contemporary myth about England featuring highly physical storytelling, film and animation by the former director of Bike Shed Associate Company, Rhum and Clay (64 Squares, A Strange Wild Song, Shutterland).
“In 1985, a fissure formed at England’s centre and split the north from the south. A giant tear through the landscape, a real gap, descending into an abyss of bottomless depth. And in the north, cut off, things began to stir. Beneath the moors and the rivers, in the valleys and by the sea.”
It begins with a phone call and some shocking news. A young man, seeking...
Your guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (21-23 April).
THEATRE
The Castle Builder Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter An emotional and hard rocking journey into the hearts and souls that exist on the outer limits of creativity and building regulations. It tells the true story of an inmate in a Norwegian psychiatric institute who, over 5 years, built a castle on a remote headland. www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk Babe, The Sheep-Pig Saturday & Sunday, Exeter Northcott Theatre Meet the lovable Babe in a heart-warming tale of friendship, adventure...
