Bristol's nationally renowned company makes its second visit to the Exteter Northcott Theatre, after its much celebrated production of The Comedy of Errors in 2011, with this darkly comic early romance in which friendship and love, and loyalty and betrayal are the real players.

Two lifelong friends – the two young gentlemen of the title – are parted first by circumstance, and then by rivalry in love. Can their loyalty to each other survive the test, or will new loyalties drive out the old? How deep into perfidy can one be driven by sexual obsession? And what do even the most adored of women count for in a profoundly masculine world?

Shakespeare's vision is both comic and shocking - and extraordinarily modern.

7.30pm daily, schools matinee on Thursday at 1.30pm, Saturday matinee at 2.30pm.

Tickets: £8-£20.50

Post show talks on Wednesday at 7.30pm and Thurday at 1.30pm. BSL interpreted performance on Friday, 7.30pm, audio-described performance on Saturday at 2.30pm with touch tour at 1pm.

Box office: 01392 493493

www.exeternorthcott.co.uk