THEATRE

Betrayal

Event Date: 
26/02/2016 - 7:30pm to 05/03/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Northcott Theatre

Betrayal by Harold Pinter

Directed by Paul Jepson

Emma is married to Robert. But for seven years, she’s been having an affair with Jerry, Robert’s best friend.

Betrayal begins at the end of the affair, and pursues an enthralling journey to its very beginnings. As memory reels backwards towards the moment the affair started, the lies tangle into a web of deception. Is Emma betraying her husband? Is Jerry betraying his best friend? Or are they all betraying themselves.

Of the countless eternal love triangles written for the stage, few have matched Harold...

Regeneration

Event Date: 
01/03/2016 - 7:30pm to 05/03/2016 - 9:00pm
Venue: 
The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

Award-winning theatre company, and associate artists at the Bike Shed Theatre, Write By Numbers return to Exeter with their play Regeneration, exploring urban regeneration, gentrification and how we might create the cities of the future. This multi-stranded epic story mixes real stories of regeneration with imagined ones in a playful and urgent production which is touring England in 2016.

It’s Brixton in 1981 and a family’s home is about to be repossessed. It’s Leeds in 2017 and an architect has designed the tallest building the city has ever seen. It’s Newfoundland in 1903 and a...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

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

THEATRE

Tiny Heroes Friday & Saturday, 7.30pm, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter What is a hero and where do you find them? Tiny Heroes is a collage of true stories of heroism where you are. It’s a show about the people who saved your life, your day, or your bacon. The people who took the time, took a stand, or took a chance. The people who tried, even if they failed. Featuring compelling storytelling, magical light puppetry and a local choir, Tiny Heroes is an attempt to sing for the unsung...

English Touring Theatre return to Exeter

English Touring Theatre return to Exeter Northcott Theatre in March with their new, critically-acclaimed, production of The Herbal Bed.

"I have always wanted that which I cannot have."

Based upon real events from Stratford-upon-Avon in the summer of 1613, The Herbal Bed is an emotional thriller recounting the public trial of Shakespeare’s daughter. Accused of adultery with her neighbour, Susanna and her husband fall under the glare of intense public scrutiny as they sue her accuser for slander.

A powerful exposé of the contradiction between human desire and social...

Norse by South West

Event Date: 
18/02/2016 - 7:00pm to 20/02/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Silverton Millennium Hall, Silverton

After almost 1,000 years of peace, Viking hoards are again amassing their forces for a show of strength in mid Devon.

But locals don’t need to be too alarmed, the Norsemen and women have an unlikely mission, the quest to find Thor’s hammer!

Silverton’s drama troupe, the Silverton Luvvies, is sharpening battle axes and honing their hammers up for a new musical saga – Norse by South West, or How Thor Lost his Hammer.

The play, as with all of the Silverton Luvvie’s productions, is an original work written by director Portia Smith and cast members and promises plenty of...

The Vikings are coming!

After almost 1,000 years of peace, Viking hoards are again amassing their forces for a show of strength in mid Devon.

But locals don’t need to be too alarmed, the Norsemen and women have an unlikely mission, the quest to find Thor’s hammer!

Silverton’s drama troupe, the Silverton Luvvies, is sharpening battle axes and honing their hammers up for a new musical saga – Norse by South West, or How Thor Lost his Hammer.

The play, as with all of the Silverton Luvvie’s productions, is an original work written by director Portia Smith and cast members and promises plenty of...

Concert of folk songs for International Women’s Day

Saturday 12th March sees a new show of folk songs come to the Cygnet Theatre in Exeter, celebrating women from history.

The show is being curated by three of the team from Wren Music – Amy Wilson, Sarah Owen and Marilyn Tucker (pictured), and has already recruited a chorus of 30 women who are sure to make the evening extra special.

Although the arts organisation already runs five community choirs across the county, they spotted an opportunity to bring together a women-only singing group specifically to celebrate women’s history for international women’s day.

Marilyn...

Heads South Latin Jazz play Barnfield Theatre

Heads South Latin Jazz Quintet bring their exhilarating music to Exeter on Friday February 26.

The acclaimed Band, who will be on tour in the South West, will perform at 8pm at the Barnfield Theatre. Heads South combine Cuban and other Latin rhythms with distinctive melodies in a thrilling repertoire of original compositions and arrangements of classic tunes.

Heads South features the UK's top jazz trumpeter Steve Waterman, band leader John Harriman on piano/organ, Venezuelan bassist Adolfredo Pulido, Cuban percussionist Chino Martell Morgan on congas, bongos, cajon, guiro,...

Mind Your Farce

Event Date: 
09/03/2016 - 7:30pm to 19/03/2016 - 10:00pm
Venue: 
Cygnet Theatre, Exeter
Cygnet Company Mind Your Farce

A trio of delicious French Fancies to tickle your palate and tantalise your propriety!

She’s a woman of the world Misunderstandings and confusion ensue when two philandering husbands take their new mistresses out to dinner. Through the Window A maid-less lawyer and a glamorous stranger seek revenge on their respective spouses with hilarious consequences. Rest in Peace A night at the Quatr’Arts Ball spells disaster for a cashier at the Galeries Lafayette, his upwardly ambitious wife, their flu-ridden maid and a manservant with no sense of direction...

Review: A Little Man’s Holiday, Exeter Phoenix

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 02/12/2016 - 10:04am

Five star performance from PaddleBoat and Exeter Deaf Academy

How many shows have you been to and felt engrossed in the performance? Like you were fully immersed in the experience?

PaddleBoat Theatre Company’s production of “A Little Man’s Holiday” takes the audience on a sensory pirate adventure of light up jellyfish, origami seagulls and paper cannonballs.

This enriched production has been made accessible to all children and families, telling a special, vibrant and sensory story using clever puppetry, interaction, a set that can be touched and explored, characters...

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