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Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your essential guide to what’s on in an around Exeter this bank holiday weekend (26-29 August).

MUSIC

Live Music Friday, Exeter John Gandys, Gandy Street: Reckless, 9pm, free. Ship & Pelican, Heavitree: Booster, 9pm, free. The Lord Nelson, Topsham: Wired, 9pm, free.

The Cheeky Boys of Pop Saturday, 2pm, Exmouth Pavilion Free outdoor event feat Robbie and Olly tribute. The Cheeky Boys Of Pop battle it out this afternoon, but who will win? Robbie or Olly?! An afternoon of pop which will have you dancing and singing to the hits we know and love form two of the...

Volunteers to cast a Grimm spell over Killerton

Volunteers at Killerton are well underway with making decorations for this years’ hotly anticipated theme ‘A Grimm Christmas’.

For the first time, the National Trust property will bring to life the classic fairy tales this winter, and as Christmas at Killerton has become so popular, booking timed tickets to the exhibition will be essential.

‘A Grimm Christmas’, based on The Grimm Brothers’ classic fairy-tales, will be Killerton’s fifth Christmas celebration.

The volunteers work hard to make each year more extravagant than the last, and decorations are started as...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Wed, 08/17/2016 - 10:10pm

Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (19-21 August).

THEATRE

The Dreamboys Friday, 7.45pm, Exeter Corn Exchange The Dreamboys are back and hotter than ever with a brand new show and UK tour. Over 18s only. Tickets £23.50. https://sites.exeter.gov.uk/cornexchange/

Music

Mr Woodnote with Lil Rhys and Eva Lazarus Friday, 8pm, Exeter Phoenix Notorious street performers, Mr. Woodnote, Lil Rhys & Eva Lazarus are bringing their unique brand of funky business to Exeter. £8 (£6) standing. www.exeterphoenix.org.uk

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64 Squares

Event Date: 
26/09/2016 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

Welcome to B’s mind. B’s got some memories he wants to share with you. He wants to tell you about how he ended up on a cruise ship, playing chess against the current world chess champion. He wants to tell you all about his life and the choices he’s made. The problem? He’s been split into four and can’t remember what happened.

Adapted from Stefan Zweig’s The Royal Game, the critically acclaimed Rhum and Clay Theatre Company bring you 64 Squares; a tale of madness, memory and chess…all accompanied by a live percussive score.

★★★★ ‘Rhum and Clay have come of age … beautifully...

There Shall Be Fireworks

Event Date: 
27/09/2016 - 7:30pm to 01/10/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

Inspired by the path to Afghanistan, well trodden down the ages whether by Western merchants, missionaries, Hippies or soldiers, There Shall Be Fireworks unearths a startling true story from a two hundred-year-old cemetery in Kabul known as the Kabre Gora (‘the Graveyard of Foreigners’).

It’s a send off. An American stockbroker turned statesman, thwarted in one wildly ambitious plan to change the world for good, bids farewell once again to the land that he loves. Your host is played by Martin Bonger (Fat Man, NIE’s Around the World in 80 Days), with composition and sound design by...

Nincompoop

Event Date: 
25/09/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

Join your effervescent host Deirdre Me, and let your Nincompoop loose on the stage or off as we get ready for some of the newest, nakedest, gorgeousest, wonderfully ridiculous, often heart-warming, sometimes, side-splitting offerings, performed live in front of your eyes.

Nincompoop is a monthly night where brave people try out new ideas on other brave people to see if they are good ideas or bad ones. And as we all know, sometimes the worst ideas are the best ones of all.

A silly night stuffed full of laughs, laughing, confusion and ludicrous nonsense; where anything can...

I Can’t Believe it’s not Buddy!

Event Date: 
16/08/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Buddy Holly & The Crickets are brought back to life as they looked and sounded on their first tour of the UK in 1958 by the outstanding Spencer J & the Copy-Cat Crickets. Taking you back to the age of the soda shop, the drive through diner and the record hop, this is a non-stop rock ‘n’ roll concert straight from the fifties with the songs that Buddy recorded such as ‘Peggy Sue’, ‘That’ll Be The Day’, ‘Oh Boy’ and ‘Heartbeat’, but also other rock n roll hits such as ‘La Bamba’, ‘Blue Suede Shoes’, ‘Rip It Up’ and ‘Shake Rattle & Roll’ which Buddy performed time and again....

One Man Two Guvnors

Event Date: 
20/09/2016 - 7:30pm to 24/09/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Exeter Little Theatre Company proudly presents the Exeter premier for ‘the most hilarious comic evening in the theatre since Noises Off’ (The Stage). In the seaside town of Brighton in 1963, Francis Henshall has just been fired from his skiffle band. Despondent and desperate for fish and chips, Francis becomes separately employed by two men – Roscoe Crabbe, a local gangster, and Stanley Stubbers, an upper class criminal. As fate would have it, it turns out that Roscoe is really Rachel Crabbe in disguise, her twin brother Roscoe having been murdered by her lover, who is none other than...

Jenny Éclair: How to Be A Middle Aged Woman (Without Going Insane)

Event Date: 
04/10/2016 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

Following a complete sell-out spring tour professional grumpy old woman, Splash survivor, amateur soup maker, and novice knitter Jenny Eclair extends her hit tour into the autumn. Jenny is younger than Madonna but eats crisps and likes wine. Semi-bearded and suffering from outbreaks of gout and hysteria, Eclair puts middle age under the microscope and decides whether to laugh, cry or buy a dachshund! You are most welcome to join her, just button your cardi up properly and wipe that lipstick off your teeth.

www.jennyeclair.com

Tickets £19

https://exeternorthcott.co...

Exeter cultural venues celebrate new season

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 08/12/2016 - 11:46am

On 5th September, Exeter’s cultural venues will celebrate a new season of events taking place in the city.

The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter Cathedral, The Cygnet Theatre, Devon Libraries, Exeter Northcott Theatre, Exeter Phoenix and RAMM, will officially announce an exciting programme of events taking place between September and December at a launch party held at The Bike Shed Theatre.

This is the first time the city’s venues have collaborated on such an event and, to mark the occasion, they are opening the launch to the public. Anyone who wishes to find out about the range of...

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