Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (6-9 November).
THEATRE
An Evening with Sir Roger Moore Friday, 7.30pm, Northcott Theatre, Exeter Celebrating 70 years in showbusiness this year, the Hollywood legend and James Bond star chats with biographer Gareth Owen about his extraordinary life and career. Featuring inside stories and exclusive anecdotes from an astonishing career that has included the hit TV series The Saint and The Persuaders, plus Hollywood blockbusters and, of course, seven iconic movies as the world’s most famous spy, 007....
This spectacular production follows the story of a young girl and her quest in search of The Snow Queen who has placed the Kingdom under an evil spell.Her magical adventure takes her on a journey across the frozen north where she encounters an enchanted reindeer, glittering Ice Princesses and charming Snowmen in search of true love.
A sprightly Raven guides her north to the Snow Queen's Palace of Ice. Only true love can break the spell and release the Kingdom from the Snow Queen's curse of eternal winter.
Ballet Theatre UK's renowned company of international dancers,...
English Touring Theatre return to the Exeter Northcott Theatre at the end of November, this time with The Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead, their acclaimed collaboration with Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse.
The production reunites Simon Armitage and Nick Bagnall after their recent collaborations on The Last Days of Troy and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
A high ranking government minister with a colourful past is sent on a delicate diplomatic mission to Istanbul. But when his trip ends up in a horrific bar room brawl, social...
Start Christmas in Style with this delightful and unforgettable festive trip down memory lane. We can all be dreaming of a White Christmas and watching Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, as we sing along to all your festive favourites. This enchanting Christmas production is a truly wonderful mixture of all of your favourite Christmas songs and carols, stunning costumes, lots of good old fashioned festive fun, and a unique atmosphere that will warm your heart on the coldest winters day, taking you back to a time when Christmas really was the most wonderful time of the year. Show starts...
We thought dance class was good, we thought dance class was English. We were wrong. Now we see you are fully English, because you argue with your parents. In Bangladesh this wouldn’t happen. Well you’ve done what we never could. You’ve left Bangladesh behind.
Ballroom dancing is not the only humiliation heaped on Saikat by his ambitious parents. There’s catechism and Latin too. And no-one gets his name right, ever.
Join Saikat as he dances precariously through his dual-identity childhood, torn between the familiar sights of Birmingham and the mysteries of Bangladesh. Meet...
"That's why they call it Café Nero, you know. Because you sit and fiddle with your iPad while the world outside burns."
For over 500 years the smell of coffee has seeped into our streets, our lives, our society.
Hub for gossip, romance, political tub thumping, dodgy deals, completing a new pitch, book clubs, a moment alone, escaping being alone - if walls could talk.
And in one coffee shop in a town just over the horizon, those walls can talk, time escapes us and those that visit the coffee house, dream in the coffee house, plot and scheme in the coffee house all...
Choose your own path through an imagined world... or perhaps your neighbour will choose for you. Without leaving your seat, you - or most of you, anyway - can go wherever you want. If not, don’t worry. Life is full of second chances. Explore a new interactive performance from the creator of The Unbuilt Room.
Commissioned by and developed at Battersea Arts Centre.
“[Kriebel’s] words are powerful, conjuring rooms without you even leaving your seat... This game is absorbing, enlightening and often funny.” - Londonist on The Unbuilt Room
University of Exeter Footlights proudly presents The Phantom of the Opera coming to the Exeter Northcott in January 2016.
"Let it heighten each sensation."
Paris, 1883: the Opera house is ablaze with a haunting. Christine, full of grief over the death of her father, steps in to cover the sick Prima Donna Carlotta at the Opera’s gala. Upon hearing her, the Phantom is breathlessly captivated by her magical voice. Isolated for centuries by his ghoulish demeanor, he is crippled by a desire to love and to be loved. Thus, in despair, he lures Christine into his lair. In true...
