Started in 1983 the Exeter & District Scout & Guide Gang Show return after a years break to the Exeter Barnfield Theatre with their 31st variety show.
With a cast of over 50 Cubs, Brownies, Scouts, Guides, Explorer Scouts, Rangers and Leaders will be taking to the stage, in a show packed with songs, dance, comedy and celebration that all the family will enjoy.
A brand new adaptation of Aristophanes’ zany comedy about summoning dead playwrights to settle a divine score. Join the god of drama, Dionysus, on a journey to the Underworld to spark rivalry, ribbiting and an epic battle of wits. Hecate Theatre’s Frogs is an all-female take on this bonkers Greek classic. Featuring a literary smack-down between William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, plus a quirky choral soundtrack, Hecate create an eerie post-apocalyptic world in which the grotesque “frogs” tell their story as an ensemble cast of five females.
Exeter Little Theatre Company presents Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder on the Nile’.
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.
Murder on The Nile is a classic Agatha Christie story packed full of autocratic dowagers, bright young things, suspicious foreigners, exotic locations and a plot which twists and...
Returning after a critically acclaimed, total sell-out sell-out spring 2014 tour the Grumpies are back to knock some sense into the nation. Perrier Award-winning comedian, writer and original star of Grumpy Old Women Jenny Eclair will be joined by fellow recruits Susie Blake (Mrs Brown's Boys BBC One, Coronation Street, ITV1) and actress and singer Kate Robbins (Where The Heart Is ITV1, Casualty BBC One) in this brand spanking new show.
This jam-packed show includes... learning the art of 'Grumpy Grooming', the joy of large pants, a free nagging master class (how to get your own...
Award-winning Shakespeare’s Globe from London comes to Exeter Northcott Theatre.
A violent street brawl between their rival families is the prelude to Romeo’s first encounter with Juliet. Despite this, and the fact Juliet has been promised to another, they fall in love. But any plans for their future happiness are cruelly destroyed by renewed violence between their families and tragedy begins to unfold.
A small troupe of travelling players takes to the road with Shakespeare’s classic tale of star-crossed lovers. Performed on an Elizabethan-style stage, this stripped-down...
From the moment his tall, red and white striped hat appears around the door, Sally and her brother know that The Cat in the Hat is the funniest, most mischievous cat they have ever met. With the trickiest of tricks and craziest of ideas, he turns a rainy afternoon into an amazing adventure. But what will mum find when she gets home?
Based on the much loved book by Dr Seuss, The Cat in the Hat is a lively and engaging first theatre experience for young children aged 3+.
Expect towering hats, mischief and an imagination recharge!
Middle Ground Theatre Company is delighted to present The Business of Murder, the acclaimed psychological thriller from the pen of Richard Harris (The Sweeney, A Touch Of Frost,The Avengers) which enjoyed a successful 9-year run in the West End.
Stone, a humourless and dour man, invites Dee, a television playwright, over to his flat on the premise of discussing a script. Once there, she is surprised when superintendent Hallett, the man with whom she is having an affair, also arrives for an entirely different reason.
But nothing is as it seems, and as the plot twists and...
They’ve skewered history, the Bible and the world’s most celebrated playwright, now the Reduced Shakespeare Company tackles the subject it was born to reduce.
Tickets to The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) are far more affordable than tickets to an amusement park, but you’ll come away with the same feeling of nausea and motion sickness. From the high-brow to the low and everything in-between, the bad boys of abridgment leave no joke untold as they deconstruct the entire history of comedy in 90 rollicking minutes.
Following on from its 110th anniversary celebrations, this Easter Exeter Musical Society begins a new era with the ‘divine musical comedy’ Sister Act.
Based on its namesake 1992 movie, Sister Act tells the story of Deloris Van Cartier, an aspiring disco diva trying to make her way to the top in 1970’s Philadelphia.
Deloris falls in love with Curtis Shank, a gangster. However, when she sees him commit a murder, the police put her in a witness protection scheme and send her to a convent.
Your guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend.
THEATRE
Ablutions Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter FellSwoop Theatre return with Ablutions, adapted from the novel by Patrick DeWitt. A dark, boozy tale from the sodden depths of the LA underworld, blending a live soundtrack, detailed mime and DeWitt's heart-wrenching humour. Tickets: £10/ £8 conc. www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk
The Mist in the Mirror Friday & Saturday, Northcott Theatre, Exeter Adapted from the novel by Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black, this tense and atmospheric...
