This year marks the 20th year of the collaboration between choreographer Russell Maliphant and lighting designer Michael Hulls. Together, they have developed a unique and unparalleled language between light and movement that is revered the world over.
During Maliphant’s hugely successful career he has received many of the highest theatrical accolades including an Olivier Award, two South Bank Show Awards and three Critics’ Circle Awards. Similarly, Michael Hulls has won several awards including an Oliver for Outstanding Achievement in Dance and a Knight of Illumination award....
Billy has everything a young goat could need – and more besides. On New Year’s Eve, Billy’s parents tell him about the legendary Snow Dragon, who will bring him even more goodies during the night. But when Billy bumps into some wolves in the woods, New Year’s Day seems a long way off. Find out how Billy escapes – and whether the Snow Dragon will bring him a present.
Has Billy been naughty or nice?
Story-telling, comedy and songs create a magical, mysterious world for everyone aged 3 and up, from the company that brought you...
Celebrating 70 years in show business 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.
There will also be a unique opportunity to put your own question, live, to Sir Roger at the end of the show.
Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend
THEATRE
The Rogues Gallery IV Friday, 7.30pm, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter Award winning comedy, burlesque, music and magic come together once more in one fantastic show. The Rogues Gallery brings a modern twist and a hint of darkness to the Victorian vaudeville variety genre. Be prepared to be blown away! Tickets £12 (over 16s only). www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk
A Murder is Announced Friday & Saturday, Northcott Theatre, Exeter The residents of Chipping Cleghorn are astonished to read an advert...
Award-winning FellSwoop Theatre present ‘Ghost Opera’: a mesmeric two-hander, spoken and sung, accompanied by a string quartet and devised in development with The Lowry and the Tobacco Factory Theatres.
Two strangers, both haunted by living ghosts in their everyday: one, her dying mother, and the other, his celebrity idol. Escaping to seek refuge at a spa retreat, the thirty year-old woman and the seventeen year-old boy meet, and together they try to resist becoming that which haunts them.
FellSwoop Theatre are a Bristol-based company exploring the relationship between...
Co-Produced with Tobacco Factory Theatres and Nordland Visual Theatre
If you’re drunk on power can you ever sober up?
Luis and BK are stationed at a remote border crossing between their two countries. Luis believes in order and discipline. BK believes in taking things easy. And he believes that somewhere out there, mysterious creatures roam the desert. The chance discovery of a strange other-world takes the two guards on a journey into the dark heart of politics, tyranny and murder.
Absurd comedy and grotesque puppetry combine to explore nationalism, leadership and...
Luis and BK are stationed at a remote border crossing between their two countries. Luis believes in order and discipline. BK believes in taking things easy. And he believes that somewhere out there, mysterious creatures roam the desert. The chance discovery of a strange other-world takes the two guards on a journey into the dark heart of politics, tyranny and murder.
Absurd comedy and grotesque puppetry combine to explore nationalism, leadership and the terrible consequences of using another man’s toilet, in a 65-minute show...
2015 marks the 21st anniversary of the formation of Mugenkyo; over two decades of rigorous touring, performing and teaching have cemented their place as one of the most successful and enduring Taiko groups in Europe.
This latest show, which attracted a host of five star reviews at the Edinburgh, will feature mysterious masked choreography interwoven with an almighty musical force that will leave the unforgettable feeling of rhythm pounding through your chest for weeks to come.
Mugenkyo’s modernisation of the ancient art of Taiko is encapsulated in a spellbinding display of...
There's a new performance concept in town and it's home-grown right here in Exeter!
JoJo Spinks of Interwoven Productions explains that “It's different from what we've come to expect of performance in a whole range of ways. Not only do we perform in the street but we perform about your street, about the landscape we all share – we grow the stories from the very ground beneath your feet!”
This Half-Term sees a new production from the Heavitree Squilometre Project, celebrating some of Heavitree and Wonford's most ancient and revered trees. The walking...
Would you like to meet Hippocrates, Queen Seaxburh and Heavitree's own Richard Hooker? Well, why not join us for some half-term, family fun in celebration of some of Heavitree and Wonford's most ancient and revered trees. Including a discounted family lunch from the Royal Oak, Heavitree when booked through:-
