At the Phoenix Theatre in Exeter, Thursday 14th September, 7.30pm. Tickets £10
June 11th 1685. The Duke of Monmouth lands at Lyme Regis with 83 men to raise a Protestant army against James II, and begin what was to be England’s last rebellion against the Crown. Five weeks later and with a 3000-strong army swelled by dissenting men and women from Dorset, Devon and Somerset, Monmouth prepared to fight the last ever pitched battle on English soil, and the first step towards modern democracy. This epic history of Dorset, Devon and Somerset, told through the eyes of Alice who joins the...
The Exmouth Players presents “Rough Justice”, a Courtroom Drama by Terence Frisby at The Blackmore Theatre in Bicton Street, Exmouth, from Monday 25th through to Saturday 30th September 2017, to include a Matinee performance on the Saturday. Evening performances are at 7.30pm – Matinee starts at 2.30pm.
A play that makes you think. Controversial? Yes. What would we do in such circumstances? In the dock, having admitted responsibility for the death of his severely incapacitated child, James Highwood, the host of a popular television program, British Justice?, conducts his own...
OPEN AUDITIONS For "A TOMB WITH A VIEW" A Comedy-Thriller by Norman Robbins Director: Margaret Bond Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 2.30 pm at The Blackmore Theatre
Production Dates: Monday 26 Feb – Saturday 3 March 2018 (including a matinee performance on the Saturday)
A Tomb With A View is set in a sinister, old library presided over by a portrait of a grim faced, mad-eyed old man. There, a dusty, lawyer reads a will (involving a vast fortune) to an equally sinister family ...... one has werewolf tendencies, another wanders around in a toga of Julius Caesar, and a third is a...
Tickets: £5 from https://www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk/shows/out-of-the-ashes/
Becky Morely begins her diary on New Years Day 2001, little does she realise just how much that year would change her life.
Based on the novel by award-winning writer Michael Morpurgo, Out of the Ashes is the story of Becky’s experience on her family farm in Devon, during the outbreak of foot and mouth disease across the UK.
We experience Becky’s memories of the outbreak as she wrote them in her diary. The story features the birth of her first lamb, Little Josh, her glorious rides with Ruby...
The Exmouth Players presents “The Titfield Thunderbolt”, a comedy by Philip Goulding, based on the original Ealing screenplay by T.E.B. Clarke, at The Blackmore Theatre in Bicton Street, Exmouth, from Monday 3rd through to Saturday 8th July 2017, to include a Matinee performance on the Saturday. Evening performances are at 7.30pm – Matinee starts at 2.30pm.
Finding that their branch railway line will be axed, the residents of the village of Titfield decide to buy the railway and run it themselves. Now they must convince the railway authorities they are competent, and complete...
OPEN AUDITIONS For "ROUGH JUSTICE" A Courtroom Drama by Terence Frisby Director: Wendy Bishop Sunday, 11 June 2017 at 2.30 pm at The Blackmore Theatre Production Dates: Monday 25 – Saturday 30 September 2017 (including a matinee performance on the Saturday) Although the subject matter of this courtroom drama might be sensitive and controversial for some, the verbal skill of the writer is acerbic at times, periodically tender and certainly will tug at your heartstrings; as a whole it is altogether absorbing. As the Sunday Express critic observed “.. the courtroom interchanges positively...
This is a Pre-Audition Read Through to familiarise yourself with this sensitive and absorbing Courtroom Drama. This is open to both Members and Non-Members of The Exmouth Players. It is also open to all age groups. No prior acting experience is needed. Scripts will be provided. Just pop along and join in the fun of it all. This will commence at 7.30pm at The Blackmore Theatre.
Your guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this bank holiday weekend (28 April – 1 May).
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Richard Herring – The Best Friday, Exeter Northcott Theatre Richard Herring, King of the Edinburgh Fringe, Metro columnist and the UK’s Podfather (RHLSTP, AIOTM) picks his favourite routines from his 12 one-man shows and crams them into 90 minutes for your delectation. https://exeternorthcott.co.uk
The Castle Builder Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter The Castle Builder is an emotional and hard rocking journey into the hearts and souls that exist on the...
An acclaimed Professor of Gothic horror is to come to Exeter’s Northcott theatre to reveal how Dracula was based on medical evidence of ‘real’ vampires, before a performance of Dracula itself.
‘Prof of Goth’, Nick Groom, who is world expert on Gothic fiction, is preparing to present to the Exeter audience compelling medical evidence of the ‘real’ vampires that Dracula was based on.
The Professor of English literature at Exeter University has just been commissioned by Yale University to write a book on vampires, and has published widely on the Gothic.
