Following a sold-out 2012 tour, three Olivier Award nominations and over 10 million YouTube hits for Cheap Flights (their infamous anthem to budget air travel), Dillie Keane, Adele Anderson and Liza Pulman celebrate 30 years of Fascinating Aïda with a brand new show.
Expect topical new songs hot off the press, plus some outrageous old favourites, as Fascinating Aïda continue to grow old disgracefully!
Beth is currently in the process of organizing and cataloguing the Costume store with the help of a volunteer team. She also designs and produces costume for theatre productions. At times, Beth does this managing a team of professional wardrobe staff while at other times she works with students or a community wardrobe team. The Exeter Daily team caught up with Beth during her busy schedule to find out a little more about what she loves about the city of Exeter.
Exeter Northcott Theatre has launched its new look autumn 2013 season brochure. As well as being packed with great drama, dance, opera, family theatre and comedy, the brochure features stunning images throughout by local photographer Matt Austin.
Inspired by the family Christmas show, The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr Benn , dressing up is very much the theme this autumn. The Exeter Northcott Theatre invited members of their audience to delve into their magical dressing up box whilst Matt Austin took a fantastic set of photographs.
A concert of songs about legendary tales of English werewolves is being taken on tour by South West-based folk act the Wren Band.
The band – formed specially by the eight musicians of Wren Music to mark the folk music charity’s 30th anniversary – is taking the show on tour this summer and is hoping the popularity of all things werewolf and vampire will bring a new audience to traditional English folk music.
The concert, which premieres at Exeter Northcott Theatre on 2 June, features 21 songs and two stories – all about legendary creatures.
Leaving the Exeter Northcott with your mouth open after seeing a Theatre Alibi production is starting to become a regular occurrence. Curiosity Shop , which had its premiere tonight is the latest in a line of jaw-dropping productions by Exeter’s own Theatre Alibi.
A modern-day adaptation of the Dickens novel, the show blends photography, music, film and Theatre Alibi’s signature immersive performances and the end result is an utter triumph.
Directed by Nikki Sved, this is a very different style of performance from their last show here, The Crowstarver , which was quite...
Exeter's Northcott Theatre has revealed to The Exeter Daily that it has a very exciting opportunity coming up for a small but dedicated group of volunteers in the New Year.
Beth de Tisi, Wardrobe Manager at the Northcott, says: "We have this amazing resource that we are no longer able to utilise to full advantage since we are currently not putting on our own productions at The Northcott."
Beth, who worked at The Northcott for 10 years, has a terrific sense of what costumes are in the department already. However, in order to make the stock available to a host of outside...
Exeter Northcott Theatre is delighted to be teaming up with the University of Exeter Drama Department and Arts & Culture team to present RAW: Emerging Arts Platform.
In a new initiative from the two organisations, RAW is a platform for emerging choreographers, live artists and playwrights. It is an opportunity for Exeter Drama graduates to show exciting new work to a range of audiences, professional artists, programmers and organisation representatives; a place to share knowledge, skills and ideas.
Tuesday, 11th June will showcase two works of new writing.
Master wordsmith Roger McGough dips his quill into a Molière classic in this mockery of manners and morals set amid 17th century French aristocracy.
Considered by many to be Molière's best work, The Misanthrope will again join the creative forces of McGough, director Gemma Bodinetz and English Touring Theatre to complete a tricolour of Molière comedies following the huge successes of Tartuffe and The Hypochondriac.
Poet Alceste is disgusted with French society. Powdered fops gossip in code and bejewelled coquettes whisper...
Building on the recent successes of Kellerman, and their collaboration with Oldham Coliseum's The Hound of the Baskervilles , imitating the dog create a memorable and immersive experience for the audience in this captivating fusion of cinema and theatre.
A man on his deathbed attempts to explain to his daughter why he abandoned her as a young child.
The resulting journey, part French film and part Edwardian vaudeville, takes the audience through a world of sailors, barflies and nightclub singers in a mythical European port, conjured up with all the breathtakiing invention...
Così Fan Tutte is in many ways Mozart’s most perfect opera score, and Da Ponte’s most challenging script. It is a comedy of innocence and experience, funny and unnerving, touching and satirical. The delicate balance between recognizing the posturing of the four young lovers and loving them all the same is a challenge to each director and singer.
In one day fiancés are parted, and new fiancés found – or so it seems. Discovering they are not at all the people they thought they were is strange, exciting, and very embarrassing.
