THEATRE

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 05/15/2015 - 12:14pm

If you are looking for something to do or somewhere to go this weekend, there’s plenty to choose from in our essential guide to What's On in and around Exeter.

THEATRE

Exeter Comedy Grove Friday, 8.30pm, Lemongrove, Exeter University The very best of UK live stand up comedy with Adam Kay (headliner), Adam Rushton, Mark Simmons and compere Cerys Nelmes. Tickets are £10. www.exetercomedygrove.club Doors open 7.30pm and show starts at 8.30pm

Nel Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter Meet Nel; a quirky, shy foley artist, who, for the first time in her life...

Get Changed in Wonderland

Event Date: 
06/06/2015 - 1:00pm
Venue: 
Community Stage, Exeter Respect Festival, Belmont Park

Get Changed Theatre Company proudly presents its latest production Get Changed in Wonderland to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is one of the most famous and enduring children's classics. The story is full of the kind of whimsical charm and feeling for the absurd that Get Changed performances always deliver.

Come and see our opening show on Community Stage at 1pm at the FREE Respect Festival, Belmont Park in Exeter, on Saturday 6 June.

Northcott Theatre and University of Exeter announce exciting new partnership

The University of Exeter will make significant investment into the Exeter Northcott Theatre as part of a new partnership.

The arrangement will see the Theatre and the University working more closely together in a number of different areas with both academics and students involved in future projects.

The investment from the University has helped to realise the first tangible outcome of the partnership. This will see significant improvements made to the theatre building this summer, including a cinema quality screen and sound system in the auditorium, high speed broad band,...

Festival@Cygnet

Event Date: 
01/06/2015 - 7:00pm to 06/06/2015 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate, Exeter

A week long theatre festival from local companies

Monday June 1st 7.00pm Tribes & Tribulations Substance & Shadow 9.00pm She Ain’t Heavy She’s my Mother Spit & Sawdust

Tuesday June 2nd 7.00pm Friction Documental Theatre 9.00pm Happy Birthday Hetty Stage-Wright

Wednesday June 3rd 7.00pm The Sun and the Moon: Shakespeare’s Lovers’ Sun & Moon Theatre 9.30pm She Ain’t Heavy She’s my Mother Spit & Sawdust

Thursday June 4th 7.00pm Happy Birthday Hetty Stage-Wright 9.00pm What Did You Expect? Freya Bardell

Friday June 5th 8.00pm The Sun...

Faustus

Event Date: 
21/05/2015 - 7:30pm to 22/05/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate, Exeter

After last years’ highly praised tour of The Tempest, ‘The Actor’s Wheel’ return toFaustus Image Cygnet with a collision of texts based on the Faustian myth. This highly visual and physical production utilises illusion, live music and a dynamic ensemble to entice the audience into a world of temptation. What would you sell your soul for?

www.theactorswheel.com

Ticket Price: £10 (£8 cncessions)

Booking Information

Cygnet Theatre Box Office 01392 277189

http://www.cygnettheatre.co.uk/

The Open Couple

Event Date: 
15/05/2015 - 7:30pm to 16/05/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Cygnet Theatre, Friars Gate, Exeter

TicTac Theatre presents ‘The Open Couple’ by Dario Fo, (famous for ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’).

During this farce, a wife threatens suicide because of her husband’s infidelity. He doesn’t understand why he can’t have both wife and mistress… Miscommunication; mind games and emotional blackmail have hilarious consequences in this drafty, open marriage.

May 15 & 16 7.30pm Ticket Price: £12 (£10 concessions)

Booking Information Cygnet Theatre Box Office 01392 277189 Exeter Visitors Information and Tickets – Dix’s Field, Paris Street, Exeter 01392 665885...

Lee Nelson - Suited & Booted

Event Date: 
17/05/2015 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange, Market Street, Exeter

Lee Nelson is back with a brand new show! You may have seen him host Live at The Apollo or caught him singing on The X Factor! Now see Lee live in his highly anticipated, all new, nationwide tour.

Tickets £20

7.30pm (doors 6.45)

www.exeter.gov.uk/cornexchange

Wonka!

Event Date: 
28/06/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Razzamataz Theatre Schools Exeter present their own take of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory… Wonka!

The town where Charlie Bucket lives with his family has hit hard times ever since the wonderful Wonka factory closed down. But the smoke keeps rising from the factory, and the chocolate bars keep arriving on the shop shelves – but nobody knows how! With the announcement of a golden ticket competition to win a tour through the factory, there is pandemonium in the sweet shops! Everybody wants that golden ticket – could Charlie Bucket be one of the lucky winners to find...

Kamatala

Event Date: 
20/06/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Join us in our journey as we bridge the mystery and mystique of the Orient with the might and majesty of the Occident in this first of its kind theatre production to hit the UK, right here in the heart of Exeter.

From the ancient traditions of the truly refined and thought provoking depth discovered in Classical Indian Raga, featuring many of our favourite instruments such as Sitar, Tabla and Surbahar, the feminine grace of Odissi Indian Temple Dance, the strong lines, elaborate footwork and hand mudras of Bharatanatyam Indian Classical Dance and the trance inducing whirling of...

The FAB Beatles

Event Date: 
28/05/2015 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, exeter

Formed in 1991 – turning fully professional in 2000.

The faB Beatles are widely regarded as the most authentic ‘live’ tribute to the Beatles performing professionally all round the world today.

Chosen by the BBC as ‘the best’ in the UK and commissioned by EMI to promote the ‘Beatles1’ CD.

Also after working with Paul Gallagher (brother of ‘Liam’ and ‘Noel’) are now acknowledged by the famous ‘Beatle-mad’ brothers themselves.

Each instrument and costume used is an exact replica of the real thing, even down to the drum kit used by the Fab Beatles which was...

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