Shobana Jeyasingh Dance return to Exeter with a radical re-imagining of the celebrated ballet, La Bayadère,for the 21st century. Moving between fact and fantasy, the original story is interwoven with the first ever visit of Indian dancers to Europe in 1838.
The many-layered narrative presents a fresh new vision of dance that belongs to both India and Europe and features originally commissioned music by Gabriel Prokofiev, the London-based composer, producer and DJ. Expect a visually stunning performance packed with visceral energy and choreographic virtuosity from an international...
Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage Northcott Theatre Exeter 5-9 May 7.30pm "I was doing something nobody had done before, and if you're the first to do something, you have to be prepared to take the sh*t for it." On the eve of one of the most important games of his career, Welsh rugby legend Gareth Thomas received a warning: The Sun newspaper was going to "out" him as gay. This is the story of two Welsh names bruised, but not beaten, by media speculation: Gareth Thomas, 100 caps for Wales, now the world's most prominent gay sportsman; and his hometown, Bridgend, itself a victim of intrusion...
Voted the nation’s favourite play, Alan Bennett’s multi award-winning The History Boys will return in 2015, visiting the Exeter Northcott Theatre in May as part of a major new UK tour for 2015.
Winner of over 30 major awards including the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best New Play, The History Boys is the story of a group of bright, funny and unruly sixth-formers in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. Their maverick English teacher is at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher, whilst their headmaster is obsessed with results and league tables. Staffroom rivalry...
Critically-acclaimed Rhum and Clay Theatre Company present two shows at the Bike Shed Theatre in May.
64 SQUARES
1939. On board a decadent cruise liner, the world chess champion is challenged to a match by the mysterious ‘B’. It soon becomes clear that the game is not the only thing B’s at risk of losing. For he’s not just one person, but four. And they each have their own version of the story they want to tell. With a live jazz percussive score, this is a tale of madness and memory, adapted from Stefan Zweig’s The Royal Game.
One of the South West's most exciting theatre companies, Live Wire Theatre, has been awarded grants by the Arts Council England, The Big Lottery and the Bath and North East Somerset Arts Development Fund to stage a production of a newly commissioned comedy play written to celebrate The Rugby World Cup 2015 which is to be hosted in England and Wales this Autumn.
The new comedy intriguingly entitled Hands Up for Jonny Wilkinson's Right Boot by award winning writer Dougie Blaxland will open at The Cotswold Playhouse Stroud on September 10th before touring the South West for the six...
Baroque Theatre Company bring House of Ghosts to Exeter
Colin Dexter’s eponymous sleuth made famous by the late, great John Thaw returns to the stage in this original play written by Alma Cullen, author of several episodes of the original TV series.
Inspired by both the TV series and the Colin Dexter novels, this intriguing incarnation of the unassuming, stoically-reserved, often grumpy Inspector takes its cue firmly from theatrical history.
Opening with a performance from Hamlet, a young professional actress playing Ophelia dies suddenly mid-performance. Inspector...
The Olivier Award-winning English Touring Opera (ETO) is performing a new season of fully-staged Italian opera at Exeter Northcott Theatre this April and May.
Puccini’s masterpiece La bohème is joined by two rare Donizetti titles, The Wild Man of the West Indies (Il furioso all’isola di San Domingo) and The Siege of Calais (L’assedio di Calais). All three are sung in full costume, in Italian with English surtitles, accompanied by ETO’s chorus and 25-piece orchestra.
One of the greatest and most moving operas of all time, La bohème is a story of young love, starting on...
‘Hiraeth’ story of a farmer’s daughter and winner of ‘Best Production in the English Language’ at the Wales Theatre Awards 2015 tours UK this Spring
In the summer of 1989, a farmer’s wife gave birth to a baby girl. In this moment Buddug James Jones became heir to her family’s three hundred year old farming dynasty. Now as a modern young woman, Bud is desperate to change her destiny. Leaving five generations of tradition behind, she sets out alone into the big smoke encountering men, heartbreak, drama and hilarity along the way accompanied by live music and Welsh cakes and a Twmpath...
Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend:
THEATRE
Exeter Little Theatre Company: Murder on the Nile Friday & Saturday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter On board the paddle steamer Lotus, cruising under the scorching Egyptian sun, honeymooners Simon Mostyn and his wealthy socialite wife Kay find themselves being pursued by an old flame of the newly wedded groom. Then a tragedy strikes, Kay is found shot in her bunk, and all fingers point to Simon’s ex fiancée. Tickets: £12.50 (£10.50 under 16s). www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk
Tarte Noire Women's Playback Theatre Performance (WOMEN ONLY)
This is an invitation for you to come and share your experiences. The evening promises to be fun, poignant and powerful.
What is Playback Theatre?
Imagine theatre where the actors listen to the people who have come to watch, and create theatre from the stories they hear - this is Playback Theatre. Performances are facilitated by a ‘Conductor’ who asks the audience to tell something about their real life, and shapes this into a story for the actors to improvise on the spot. Audiences often find that...
