Registered Charity No. 1151620

SPRING/SUMMER 2018

BOX OFFICE 01392 726363 DAME WWW.EXETERNORTHCOTT.CO.UK Patron of 50th Anniversary Year WELCOME A lot of you have been kind enough to say that the programme at the Northcott has deepened in quality in the three years that I have been running the building. We certainly feel that we have the right ideas. The return to producing work, our Education and Reach Out offer, the Associates Programme, our IMPACT co-commissioning strand together with a series of Tickets: first visits from companies with a national and international reputation across the range of Preview: £15 (Sat 2 & Sun 3 Dec) performance that we curate. Preview Family Ticket: This spring we have the first visit to the theatre from Kneehigh. We host our Associate £36 for 3 + up to 3 more Company Metta’s Little Mermaid (you may have seen and enjoyed Metta’s Jungle Book). We tickets £12 each are bringing back our own IMPACT production – Beyond My Control as part of a National Tour. Off-peak: A £19 B £17 C £15 D £11 + We have a packed dance programme including Ballet Black, Alston and Mark Bruce. Alibi’s Off-peak Family Tickets: The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon and Awful Auntie amongst the family work – and if you A £48* (£16) B £42* (£14) like a big musical, there’s . There’s a new play – Soldier On – and the wonderful C £36* (£12) D £24* (£8) Fingersmiths with their version of Up ‘n’ Under. Not to mention Vamos, Sasha Regan’s all *for 3, up to 3 more tickets male G&S, Filter with their critically acclaimed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a new version of at price in brackets Great Expectations and – of course English Touring Opera. Peak: A £26 B £24 C £17 D £13 We’ve worked hard to transform the organisation, to make it alive and give it new purpose. Peak Family Tickets: You’ve been instrumental in helping us do this. Now we’re fifty years young – we reckon we’re A £69* (£23) B £63* (£21) all set for the next fifty years. C £42* (£14) D £30* (£10) *for 3, up to 3 more tickets Very best wishes, at price in brackets +Please note: seating plan Paul Jepson Sat 2 Dec 2017 - Sun 7 Jan 2018 bands for this show are different to the one printed Artistic & Executive Director Pantomime comes home to the Northcott with a spectacular in this brochure on page 50 new staging of Dick Whittington, starring ’s most popular – contact the box office for Dame – Steve Bennett and directed by one of the country’s leading details, or view online pantomime directors, Tony Lidington. /ExeterNorthcottTheatre Schools: £10 for groups 10+ Age: 6yrs+ Expect plenty of audience participation, live music, magic, @ExeterNorthcott Running Time: 2hrs 10mins mayhem and lots of laughter – the perfect recipe for a family Registered Charity No. 1151620 Christmas panto treat! FAMILY MEMBERS SUPPORT YOUR STUDENT COMPANY SUPPORT YOUR STUDENT COMPANY Exeter Northcott Theatre in association with the presents

Exeter University Theatre Company University of Exeter Footlights present presents SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green by Anthony Burgess Songs by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed Wed 17 – Sat 20 January 7.30pm Wed 24 – Sat 27 January 7.30pm Wed (Preview) & Sat Matinees 2.30pm A Clockwork Orange is an iconic story, set in an abandoned warehouse. Alex and Following the success of The Phantom of his Droogs wreak havoc and mayhem the Opera (2016) and The Producers (2017) resulting in Alex’s imprisonment. After Footlights are proud to present Singin’ in the Rain. Voted the ‘Greatest Movie Musical of All spending two years in prison, Alex Time’, this is a theatrical experience the whole undergoes corrective treatment to cure family will enjoy. Faithfully and lovingly adapted his violent tendencies. How does he fit by Broadway legends, Betty Comden and back into society and how does society Adolph Green, from their original award-winning respond to him? When a man cannot screenplay, each unforgettable scene, song choose, he ceases to be a man. and dance is celebrated on stage, including toe tapping tunes such as Make ‘em Laugh This bold and dynamic production seeks to and Good Morning as well as the historic title Tickets: £7.50 explore concepts of power and control and number, immortalised by Gene Kelly in the Sun 4 Feb 7.30pm Concs: £2 off combines physical theatre and live music. MGM movie. Age: 11yrs+ Science meets theatre in this interactive performance Running Time: 60mins + Q&A about epilepsy, excitability and all things neurological. f @eutco Filled with dazzling routines, joyful musical l @clockworkeutco numbers and laugh out loud moments, this is Following last year’s successful pilot, this performance i @clockworkeutco the musical of the year. kick-starts a national tour of this fascinating show that brings together the worlds of science and theatre to Tickets: £15 f ExeterUniversityFootlights explore a new breakthrough in epilepsy diagnosis. Concs: £3 off (registered disabled, i @footlightsexeter “Fascinating and effective students, 60+) For one hour we’ll bring together the logical world of production about epilepsy Age: 14yrs+ contains violent content and Tickets: A £19.50 B £18 C £15.50 D £14 mathematics and the unpredictable world of theatre to themes of a sexual nature Concs: £1.50 off all price bands modelling - quite help us understand what’s really going on inside our heads. Running Time: 2hrs 30mins (U16s, Students, 60+) Wed Mat (Preview): £10 (£5 conc.) Audience members will be invited to offer feedback and the emotional too!” Age: 7yrs+ chance to interact with the performance as we explore just AUDIENCE RESPONSE 2017 Running Time: 2hrs 15mins how much control we have over our brains.

4 @ExeterNorthcott This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe). SUPPORT YOUR STUDENT COMPANY A Unity Theatre and Riksteatern () co-production Tickets: £21.50 Concs: £2 off Student Standby: £5 Age: 16yrs+ NINA – A STORY ABOUT ME includes strong language Running time: 75mins AND NINA SIMONE (no interval) MEMBERS Devised by Dritëro Kasapi & Josette Bushell-Mingo

Mon 5 & Tue 6 February 8pm

Exeter University Gilbert & Sullivan Dance in Present Society present THE MIKADO WATCH THIS SPACE Composed by Arthur Sullivan Written by W. S. Gilbert Wed 7 February 7.30pm

Wed 31 Jan – Sat 3 Feb 7.30pm Dance in Devon brings Watch This Space Sat Matinee 2.30pm back to the Exeter Northcott Theatre with some of the region’s best home-grown Exeter University’s Gilbert and Sullivan contemporary dance. This platform of new Society celebrates its fiftieth anniversary «««« works is buzzing with energy and is a vibrant in style, with a performance of the duo’s iconic piece: The Mikado! One of Gilbert and showcase of the diverse dance taking place “A searing tribute restarts Sullivan’s most popular and enduring works, in Devon and beyond. Simone’s revolution” The Mikado follows the antics of Nanki-Poo, the son of the Mikado, and the hilarity that There will be a post-show discussion hosted LYN GARDNER, ensues in the Japanese town of Titipu when, by Dance in Devon. disguised as a wandering minstrel, he arrives to declare his love for Yum-Yum. She was www.danceindevon.org.uk the beautiful Ward of Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor now raised to the exulted rank of the Town’s Lord High Executioner, under a set of equally Tickets: £10 "Scalding" amusing circumstances. Concs: £2 off Backed by a brilliant band, Olivier Award-nominated NEW YORK TIMES Student Standby: £5 actress Josette Bushell-Mingo (Disney’s The Lion King) Taking a satirical look at the British class system, The Mikado is a humorous, farcical mixes story and song as she draws together tales from GROUPS Nina Simone’s life and her own extraordinary career. show, underpinned with beautiful melodies TALK «««« that is not to be missed. Touching upon the 1960s civil rights movement and Supported using public funding from Arts Council England. drawing into parallel the struggles of the civil rights TIME OUT f @eugns movement today.

Tickets: A £20 B £17 C £14 D £11 Nina Simone was one of the most extraordinary artists Concs: £2 off (Students, U18s) “A thrilling, sometimes of the twentieth century. She was the consummate Schools: £6.50 for groups 10+ Student standby: £5 musical storyteller who used her remarkable talent to spine-tingling experience… Age: suitable for all ages create a legacy of liberation, empowerment and love Running Time: 2hrs 30mins through a magnificent body of work. catch it while you can”

GROUPS BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE /ExeterNorthcottTheatre Registered Charity No. 1151620 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 7 Theatre Alibi presents

THE BOY WHO CLIMBED Tickets: £14 Family Ticket: £39 for 3 + up INTO THE MOON to 3 more tickets £13 each Wed Green Matinee: £12* Family Ticket: £33 for 3 + up From the book by DAVID ALMOND to 3 more tickets £11 each Adapted BY DANIEL JAMIESON BSL & Audio Described Performance: Sat 17 Wed 14 – Sat 17 February February 2pm, with Touch Tour at 1pm Wed – Fri 6pm Age: for 6 – 11 year olds and Wed Green Matinee 2pm* their families. Running Time: 1hr Speakers from the Edge present Sweeney Entertainments presents Sat Matinees 11am & 2pm (no interval)

A magical tale of big ideas and *Support the environment ANDY KIRKPATRICK’S ABBA - FOREVER sky-high courage… and use Public Transport PSYCHOVERTICAL: A HIGHER EDUCATION IN CONCERT to attend this discounted Some pretty odd ideas are floating midweek matinee show. Thu 8 February 7.30pm Fri 9 February 8pm around Paul’s street. There’s Mabel, whose brother hides under a brown FAMILY Top British mountaineer, big-wall climber ABBA - Forever is one of the UK’s leading paper bag. And Clarence the poodle and winter expedition specialist, Andy International tribute Shows and theatre who thinks he can fly. But Paul has the has soloed the most difficult routes in the audiences from across Great Britain and oddest idea of all. He thinks that the “Theatre Alibi have a world. A leading expert on climbing gear, Sweden have long enjoyed this superb moon is a hole in the sky and he’s going reputation as Andy is also an award-winning writer and recreation of possibly the world‘s greatest to climb into it. film-maker with an ability to captivate pop band. terrific storytellers” any audience with his unique brand of Anything’s possible in this warm and motivational story-telling. The unique Abba look and sound is very funny story by David Almond, THE GUARDIAN replicated with an incredible attention to award-winning writer of Skellig and In his brand new show, Psychovertical: A detail as the beautiful lyrics penned by My Dad’s A Birdman, Theatre Alibi’s Higher Education, which will coincide with Benny and Bjorn are sung in wonderful production features original live music the release of the film Psychovertical by harmony by all six performers on stage. and puppetry. award-winning director Jen Randall, Andy Dynamic non-stop choreography, stunning Kirkpatrick looks back at forty years of visuals, top-class musicianship and an www.theatrealibi.co.uk climbing and adventures, from the Alps to ALL - LIVE performance ensures that the Patagonia, Yosemite to Greenland, a story Tribute to ABBA Forever Show captivates of all the things that make life amazing. audiences from the opening refrain to the final sing-along chorus of this www.andy-kirkpatrick.com two-hour spectacular.

Tickets: £17.30 Tickets: £21.30 Age: 14yrs+ strong language probable Running Time: 2hrs MAIN Running Time: 2hrs 20mins AND A DRINK CURRY AND A £15 DRINK £12

8 @ExeterNorthcott /ExeterNorthcottTheatre Registered Charity No. 1151620 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 9 Varsity Vocals presents ICCA UK SOUTH-WEST QUARTER-FINAL

Starring Ben Garrod The Soldiers' Arts Academy in association Tickets: £14 Sat 10 February 7pm with the Playground Theatre presents Concs: £2 off Student Standby: £5 Sun 4 March 3pm As featured in the hit 'Pitch Perfect' Age: 14yrs+ contains strong So you think you know about Dinosaurs! films, The Varsity Vocals International language and adult references is the hit stage show starring dinosaur Championship of A Cappella is the only SOLDIER ON Running Time: 2hrs international tournament that showcases aficionado Dr Ben Garrod. Get ready to by Jonathan Lewis go on an exciting pre-historic adventure the art of university a cappella singing. In GROUPS this Quarter-Final, audiences will see six as Ben talks you through the deadliest MEMBERS predators that ever roamed the planet. to ten of the finest university a cappella Thu 22 & Fri 23 February 7.30pm Yes dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex, groups that the South West has to offer; all battling for a place in the prestigious Allosaurus and Spinosaurus would have What happens when a company of ex-soldiers becomes UK Final at the New Wimbledon Theatre, MAIN walked or swam right where you are now! a company of actors? A theatrical band of brothers. in March 2018. Groups will there AND A Although it’s not a cure all, the bonding, the humour, the have the opportunity to advance to the DRINK Pitting the knowledge of unwitting parents theatre of war helps to put them back together again Broadway International Finals in New York. £15 against their all-knowing kids, Dr Ben - as a company of veterans and actors rehearse a play presents an interactive, educational about a company of veterans and actors. and highly entertaining show using film Expect riffing, humour, and superb musicianship, in an evening that is perfect footage from the BBC's Planet Dinosaur. Although worlds apart they begin to realize there are for all ages. So come and test your knowledge against more similarities between military life and the theatre Dr Ben in this hit live interactive show than they bargained for, building a powerful new world www.varsityvocals.com which is bigger and better than ever. of their own.

Tickets: A £25 B £20 C £17.50 D £15 Tickets: £17 This is a heart-warming story about surviving the Concs: £5 off all bands Family Ticket: £45 for 3 + up to 3 more forces and PTSD and what happens when you leave the Ages: all ages tickets £15 each military ‘family’. Age: 5yrs+ Running Time: TBC Running Time: 1hr 45mins

10 @ExeterNorthcott /ExeterNorthcottTheatre Registered Charity No. 1151620 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 11 Tickets: A £21 B £18 C £15 D £13 RICHARD ALSTON DANCE COMPANY Concs: £2 off bands B-D Schools: £9 for groups 10+ Student Standby: £5 Thu 8 & Fri 9 March 7.30pm Age: 8yrs+ Running time: 1hr 55mins Richard Alston Dance Company is an avidly followed UK Post Show Talk: Thu 8 March dance company with some of the world’s finest dancers. It returns with a full programme of works including a GROUPS brand new piece by Associate Choreographer Martin TALK Lawrance.

The programme also includes Carnaval a brand new piece by Alston performed to Schumann’s music of the same name. These evocative piano pieces describe different aspects of Schumann’s complicated personality. The music is played live by outstanding “As tellingly musical as any pianist Jason Ridgway and the costumes are by BAFTA choreographer alive.” STEWART LEE - SEMI-TONED: Award winning designer Fotini Dimou. NEW YORK TIMES Finally, Gypsy Mixture, a great Alston favourite has CONTENT PROVIDER LIVE AT THE EXETER NORTHCOTT been newly revived for the first time in a decade. Sat 10 March 7.30pm With exhilarating dancing to the infectious music of “The Alston artists are Mon 5 & Tue 6 March 7.30pm Romanian and Macedonian gypsy bands this dance will After four years writing and performing For one night only, see Semi-Toned in their lift your spirits and quicken your pulse. exhilarating to watch” his TV show Stewart Lee’s Comedy biggest show yet! Fresh from their recent Vehicle, Content Provider is Stewart’s appearances on BBC Two as winners of www.richardalstondance.com first brand new full-length show since the The Choir: Gareth's Best in Britain and award-winning Carpet Remnant World. as runners up on Sky 1's Sing: Ultimate A Cappella the boys in burgundy are back, www.stewartlee.co.uk singing a wide variety of modern hits as well as plenty of old classics. A preview of Tickets: £24.80 their forthcoming USA tour, this brand new Age: 16yrs+ show promises to wow audiences of all ages Running Time: 2hrs 10mins with its impressive harmonies and stunning choreography. Featuring special guest support act. ««««« Tickets: £17.50 “The most consistently funny Students: £10 MAIN AND A show of his brilliant career… Age: all ages DRINK Running Time: 2hrs I laughed till it hurt.” £15 CURRY THE TIMES AND A DRINK ««««« £12 "This show will blow «««« your socks off" “Characteristically twisty BROADWAY BABY and frequently brilliant” THE GUARDIAN 12 @ExeterNorthcott /ExeterNorthcottTheatre Registered Charity No. 1151620 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 13 DINING EVENTS OUR DINING EVENTS ARE POPULAR, SO EARLY BOOKING IS STRONGLY ADVISED

Wed 14 - Sun 18 March 2018 Tickets: A £26 B £23 C £20 D £18 + Wed - Fri 7pm, Sat 11am & 3pm, Sun 11am Family Tickets: School Matinees A £75* (£25) B £66* (£22) C £57* (£19) D £51* (£17) Thu 1.30pm & Fri 10.30am *for 3, up to 3 more tickets at price in brackets When Stella sets off to visit London with her parents, Lord and Lady Saxby, she has no idea her life is in danger! Waking up + Please note: seating plan three months later, only her Aunt Alberta can tell Stella what has bands for this show are happened. But not everything Alberta tells her turns out to be different to the one printed MURDER MYSTERY EVENINGS ONLY FOOLS AND THE WEDDING true and Stella quickly discovers she’s in for the fight of her life in the brochure on page 50 against her very own awful Auntie! – contact the box office for details, or view online. 3 COURSES RECEPTION From the award-winning West End producers of Gangsta Granny MOONSTONE Fri 2 March 7.30pm Sat 17 March 7.30pm comes the world premiere of David Walliams’ amazing tale of Schools: £11.50 Sat 3 March 7.30pm frights, fights and friendship, featuring a very large owl, a very for groups 10+ Join us for the dinner event The Wedding Reception sees small ghost and a very awful Auntie! Age: 5yrs+ Gabriel runs a successful of the year which combines Kate and Will expecting a Running Time: 2hrs jewellery business and has fine food and classic comedy small party to celebrate their “The Birmingham Stage Company’s Gangsta Granny is truly arranged a party for his action, served up Only Fools wedding. But Kate’s mum had brilliant, so I’m hugely excited that they’ve now brought Awful FAMILY friends and family. However, & Horses style. Marlene and other plans. Cue uninvited Auntie to the stage. Wagner and I can’t wait to see it!” before the evening is out, one Boycie are hosting a Gala guests, misbehaving family of the party is dead and a Dinner, but will things go to and secrets better left in the very precious stone plan with Del, Rodney and closet! ««««« www.birminghamstage.com has gone missing. Uncle Albert on the guest list? This unbeatable theatrical "A triumphant adaptation of dining experience is a side- Expect a big fun night out in splitting, highly improvised David Walliams' much loved

A MIDSUMMER 2010 Blake, name © Quentin author’s of Lettering 2014. Ross, © Tony Illustrations a friendly party atmosphere comedy featuring four actors book!" WHAT'S GOOD TO DO NIGHT'S MURDER with some of the finest playing nine characters in a comedy actors in the land, whirlwind two hours full of Sat 30 June 7.30pm and with your enjoyment top laughter, love and tears. of the menu. It is 1935 and rehearsals are Tickets: £42.50, including a underway for a performance Tickets: £45, including a 3 course meal of A Midsummer Night’s 3 course meal Dream at the Northcott FROM THE Theatre. The cast are excited PRODUCERS OF after a successful rehearsal, FAULTY TOWERS but they are interrupted by The Dining Detective Chief Inspector Experience Appleby of Scotland Yard who has some bad news. For all dining events, please Tickets: £39.50, including a contact the Box Office on 3 course meal 01392 726363 if you have any special dietary requirements.

14 @ExeterNorthcott /ExeterNorthcottTheatre 15 “If you’ve never seen full mask theatre, there could be no better introduction than Vamos... the irresistible mix of humour and heartbreak makes them a must-see.” HEREFORD TIMES

“The storytelling is excellent” LYN GARDNER, THE GUARDIAN

THE MAGIC OF MOTOWN Clive Conway Productions Ltd Celebrating the sound of a generation LUCY WORSLEY – Wed 21 March 7.30pm JANE AUSTEN AT HOME

Music fans are invited to the biggest Sun 25 March 7.30pm party of the year as the unstoppable Vamos Theatre presents a co-production with Mercury Tickets: £14 Magic of Motown show steams into town! Dr Lucy Worsley is passionate about Theatre Colchester and a co-commission with London Concs: £2 off Prepare yourself for 40 back-to-back making history engaging to the widest International Mime Festival Schools: £9 groups 10+ classic Motown hits, glittering costume possible audience. Her new biography Student Standby: £5 of Jane Austen will be published in May changes, dazzling dance moves and Age: 12yrs+ accessible to next year and takes a new look at Jane outstanding musicianship in this hearing and d/Deaf Austen’s life from the perspective of her explosive concert experience. A BRAVE FACE audiences alike. bi-centenary. It considers what home Running Time: 75mins meant to Jane, and tells the story through (no interval) With timeless music of Marvin Gaye, Diana the rooms, spaces, possessions and places Mon 19 & Tue 20 March 7.30pm Post Show Talks: Mon 19 & Ross, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, which mattered to her. Dispelling the myth Tues 20 March The Supremes, The Four Tops, Jackson 5, of the cynical, lonely spinster Lucy instead Award-winning Vamos Theatre brings its trademark, Smokey Robinson and more. offers us a witty and passionate woman of wordless, full mask style to a story that needs to be told. GROUPS her time, who refused to settle for anything Set in Afghanistan in 2009, A Brave Face explores TALK This breath-taking concert spectacular less than Mr Darcy. Post-Traumatic Stress, an unseen injury of war, and the takes you on a musical journey through impact it can have on even the closest of families. With all your favourite songs, including: Ain’t Lucy is Chief Curator at Historic Royal engaging storytelling, physical dexterity and emotional ««««« No Mountain, Signed Sealed Delivered, Palaces and is a hugely popular writer, insight, A Brave Face engages audiences across borders Dancing In The Streets, My Cherie Amor, broadcaster and speaker. This exclusive and boundaries. Heatwave and many more. show accompanies the launch of her new “Simply beautiful” biography of Jane Austen. www.vamostheatre.co.uk WHAT’S ON STAGE www.themagicofmotown.com There will be a Q&A and book signing after Tickets: £29.30 the show. “Outstanding” Age: suitable for all ages MAIN Running Time: 2hrs AND A www.lucyworsley.com DRINK TIME OUT Tickets: £23.80 £15 Running Time: 2hrs 10mins

16 @ExeterNorthcott /ExeterNorthcottTheatre Registered Charity No. 1151620 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 17 Exeter Musical Society present OLIVER! BRAINIAC LIVE! Music, Lyrics and Book by Lionel Bart Produced for the Broadway stage by David Sun 8 April, 2pm Merrick and Donald Albery Strap on your safety goggles boys and girls, as Science’s greatest and most volatile live Mon 2 - Sat 7 April 7.30pm show comes to Exeter. Based on the multi- fingersmiths in co-production with The New Wolsey Theatre Tickets: £15.50 Fri & Sat Matinees 2.30pm award winning TV show, Brainiac Live! is Sat Matinee: £13.50 back. More mischievous than ever before 2018 is a special year as it marks the Brainiac Live! will take you on a breathless John Godber's Concs: £2 off 50th anniversary of the 1968 musical film Schools: £9 for groups 10+ adaptation of Oliver! and Exeter Musical ride through the wild world of the weird and Student Standby: £5 Society (EMS) are delighted to be once again wonderful. Age: 14yrs+ performing this wonderful story. Running Time: 1hr 55mins Expect exploding dustbins, combusting UP ’N’ UNDER Let EMS take you on a musical adventure Access: every performance as you journey through Victorian England microwaves and loads of live daredevil Fri 23 & Sat 24 March 7.30pm has live Audio Description, joining orphaned boy, Oliver Twist as he stunts! Watch from the safety of your seat British Sign Language and escapes the workhouse and travels through as the Brainiacs delve fearlessly into the Sat Matinee 2.30pm spoken English. the underworld of London, meeting thieves and vagabonds on the way. mysteries of science and do all of those things on stage that you’re too scared to do The Wheatsheaf Arms rugby team, the laughing stock of GROUPS From the company that bought you Sister at home! Castleford’s Amateur Rugby League 7-a-Side tournament MEMBERS Act and Legally Blonde, Oliver! features have never won a game, don’t have seven players and spend fantastic sets, wonderful costumes and www.brainiaclive.com more time in the pub than on the pitch. With just 5 weeks favourite songs including Consider Yourself, Oom Pah Pah and Who Will Buy. to go, our hero coach Arthur has to convince them they can “Extraordinary practice that Tickets: £16 beat the mighty Cobblers Arms, but first he has to work out transforms contemporary www.exetermusicalsociety.com Family Ticket: £42 for 3, + up to 3 more how to communicate with them… Tickets: tickets £14 each classics for a 21stC audience” A £22.50 B £20.50 C £18.50 D £16.50 Age: 6yrs+ John Godber’s award winning comedy, Up ’n’ Under, is given AUDIENCE MEMBER Fri & Sat Matinees: £16.50 Running Time: 60mins (no interval) fingersmiths’ spin with a cast of Deaf and hearing actors Family Ticket: £60 (2 adults & 2 U16s - using British Sign Language and spoken English to delight matinees only) Age: 8yrs+ all audiences. Running Time: 2hrs 30mins www.fingersmiths.org.uk GROUPS

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Kneehigh and Bristol Old Vic Tickets: A £27.50 B £24.50 C £22.50 D £19.50 Wed Green Matinee: £18.50* Sat Matinee: £19.50 Concs: £2 off bands B-D Schools: £9 groups 10+ Student Standby: £5 Age: 10yrs+ contains references to war and Written by Daniel Jamieson some sexual references Directed by Emma Rice Running Time: 90mins (no interval) Tue 10 - Sat 14 April 7.30pm *Support the environment and use Public Transport to attend Wed Green Matinee 2.30pm* this discounted midweek Sat Matinee: 2.30pm matinee show.

Perhaps you’ve seen them floating over a Russian village? GROUPS Or perhaps you’ve seen her toppling forward, arms full of wild MEMBERS THE ENGLISH CONCERT flowers, as he arches above her head and steals a kiss. Harry Bicket director/harpsichord Meet Marc and Bella Chagall! The flying lovers of Vitebsk! «««« Nadja Zwiener violin Partners in life and on canvas, Marc and Bella are "A visual gem" Fri 20 April 8.30am-5.30pm immortalised as the picture of romance. But whilst on canvas Sun 15 April 2.30pm they flew, in life they walked through some of the most THE STAGE Exeter’s leading ideas festival is back for the devastating times in history. The English Concert rank among the finest seventh year, bringing you another exceptional «««« chamber orchestras across the world with line-up of speakers who are changing the world Daniel Jamieson’s The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk traces this an unsurpassed reputation for performances through their groundbreaking work and ideas. young couple as they navigate the , the Russian "Gloriously romantic" of baroque and early classical music. For The talks will inform, challenge and entertain. Revolution, and each other. Emma Rice’s production is drawn this visit to Exeter Northcott the Orchestra We will encourage the audience to connect in a theatrical language as fluid as Chagall’s paintings, and THE TIMES presents music from the greatest Baroque with each other, reflect on the day and turn woven throughout with music and dance inspired by Russian masters upon whom they built their inspiration into action. reputation, and casts light on some of the Jewish tradition. What people said last year: WINNER OF THE CAROL more neglected corners of the period with TAMBOR, BEST OF “I’m still buzzing from TEDxExeter last Friday Perhaps you’ve glimpsed her rising like a kite, anchored to the Tartini’s virtuosic violin concerto, performed EDINBURGH AWARD 2017. – and can’t wait for TEDxExeter 2018!” earth only by his triumphant hand? They are holding on to by the orchestra’s inspirational leader hope, to history, and to each other. Nadja Zwiener. “They’ve done it yet again TEDxExeter was breath-taking.” Handel – Arrival of the Queen of Sheba www.kneehigh.co.uk Tickets go on sale at 10am on 1 Dec 2017 Purcell – Suite from Faerie Queen Rameau – Suite from Les fêtes de L'Hymen LIVE in Exeter Northcott Theatre £75 et de l'Amour LIVESTREAM at Exeter University’s Vivaldi – Concerto for strings in G minor Alumni Auditorium £25 Tartini – Violin Concerto in B minor Both audiences will come together in the Bach – Orchestral Suite No 3 University’s Great Hall for delicious refreshments and lunch (all included in englishconcert.co.uk the ticket price). Tickets: A £32.50 B £28.50 TEDxExeter is licensed by TED and C £24.50 D £18.50 independently organised by volunteers. Concs: £2 off bands B-D www.TEDxExeter.com Student Standby: £5 Photo: Steve Tanner Steve Photo: Daryl Waller Title: GROUPS /ExeterNorthcottTheatre www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 21 ASSOCIATE

RICHARD HERRING: ebp presents HENRY BLOFELD: ««««« OH FRIG, I’M 50! “jaw dropping... a Sat 21 April 7.30pm 78 RETIRED superb production” “I only regret the people I didn’t have sex Sun 29 April 7.30pm with….. And 60% of the people I did have EXPRESS & ECHO sex with.” Henry ‘My Dear Old Thing’ Blofeld has hung up his microphone after 50 years on Jungle Book “Podfather” (The Guardian) and star of commentating on international cricket. Radio 4’s Relativity, Richard Herring gets The cherished golden voice of cricket has Tue 24 – Sat 28 April 7pm to the half century (against all odds) and decided to celebrate by touring the country looks at how his life has changed in the Wed Schools Matinee 1.30pm with his brand-new show, jam-packed full last decade, from irresponsible, single of unheard anecdotes from on and off the Sat Matinee 2.30pm «««« kidult, literally fighting his way through pitch, as well as stories from the TMS box a mid-life crisis, to married father who is not allowed on the radio! From the team that brought you the smash hit Jungle “a sparkling production mid-way to the telegram from the Queen Book, the award winning Metta Theatre, an Associate ...thrilling” IRISH TIMES (though given she will be 140 in 2067, she Don’t miss the chance to wave a bat in Company of Exeter Northcott Theatre, return with might forget to send it). honour to the last bastion of the original their extraordinary new adaptation of Little Mermaid. on Jungle Book Test Match Special team; the team who With spectacular circus, awe-inspiring acrobatics and Following on from Oh F***, I’m 40!, this made it the much-loved programme it is spellbinding original songs this is a show for everyone. Tickets: £15 is the second (and let’s face it, almost today. The summers of cricket will never be Family Ticket: £39 for 3, + up certainly penultimate) instalment in the same without our ‘Dear Old Thing’. The Little Mermaid longs for life on land, the Prince is to 3 more tickets £13 each Herring’s once-a-decade examination consumed by the lure of the sea. When a raging storm Schools: £9 for groups 10+ of ageing. www.henryblofeld.co.uk brings them together the wheels of fate are set in motion. Student Standby: £5 Sacrificing her voice to the powerful Sea Witch, the Little Age: 8yrs+ www.richardherring.com Tickets: £21.50 Mermaid and her Prince will face many more obstacles if Running Time: 70mins Running Time: 2hrs 10mins they are ever to be together. (no interval) Tickets: £16.80 CURRY BSL & Audio Described Running Time: 1hr 50mins AND A This breathtakingly beautiful production will enchant DRINK Performance: Sat 28 April everyone from 8 to 108. A triumphant tale of love 2.30pm, with Touch Tour at 1pm £12 overcoming all. FAMILY www.mettatheatre.co.uk

22 @ExeterNorthcott /ExeterNorthcottTheatre Registered Charity No. 1151620 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 23 Mark Bruce Company present Tickets: A £19 B £17 C £15 D £13 Concs: £2 off bands B-D Schools: £9 for groups 10+ Student Standby: £5 Age: 11yrs+ Running Time: 1hr 45mins Post Show Talk: Mon 1 May Mon 1 & Tue 2 May 7.30pm GROUPS TALK Multi-award-winning Mark Bruce Company present a striking dance theatre adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, a tragic descent into the darkest sides of human nature. © Disney 2017 Goaded by the whispers of demons, the Macbeths (Jonathan Goddard, Eleanor Duval) unleash murder for “Kill for a ticket.” their own gains and set in motion their path to madness on Dracula and self-destruction, unravelling events in a nightmare SING-A-LONG-A ENCORE DANCE they cannot control.

With a cast of nine and designed by the creative team BEAUTY AND THE BEAST COMPANY that brought you Dracula and The Odyssey, this dance theatre production realises a beautifully harrowing Sat 5 May 7pm Sun 6 May 2.30pm vision of an internal wasteland formed from the Encore Dance Company, the 3rd year pursuit of power through ruthless means. Singalonga Productions invite you to “Be our Guest” at Sing-a-Long-a Beauty and Graduate Company from Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, returns with an www.markbrucecompany.com the Beast. Join us as we celebrate with a screening of Disney’s brand new adaptation exciting mixed programme of all of the iconic fairy tale, with on-screen lyrics dance genres. so everyone can join in! This year’s show includes works by Sir Our Singalonga host will start with a pre- Kenneth MacMillan, Ernst Meisner, Kerry show where they will warm up your voices, Nicholls and many other world-acclaimed teach you some hand actions, show you how choreographers. to use the famous Singalonga props bag Tickets: £15 during the film and when to Boo the arrogant Concs: £2 off for benefit recipients, Gaston and of course judge the fancy dress registered disabled, students, 60+, U16s competition! Age: all ages Running Time: 2hrs So some along and celebrate this “tale as old as time”, dress as your favourite character GROUPS and get ready to feel part of a real fairytale. www.singalonga.net “an impressive performance… Tickets: £16 This was Encore Dance in the U16s: £12 Family Tickets: £48 for 4 (max 2 adults); best form I’ve ever seen it.” £36 for 3 (max 1 adult) DANCING TIMES on Age: PG Running Time: 2hrs 50mins Encore Dance 2017

FAMILY 24 @ExeterNorthcott /ExeterNorthcottTheatre GROUPS Registered Charity No. 1151620 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 25 Jammy Voo presents Tickets: £16 Concs: £2 off Age: 11yrs+ Running Time: 60 mins THE SLEEPER - A Teenage Fairy Tale (no interval) in collaboration with Rhum and Clay GROUPS MEMBERS Thu 3 & Fri 4 May 7.30pm

A teenager refuses to get up. She only wants to sleep. For a hundred years. At least.

With glittering 80s glam, Exeter-based touring theatre company Jammy Voo team up with Rhum and Clay to bring you a darkly delicious and furiously funny performance «««« inspired by the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. With physical theatre, puppetry and featuring eighties pop duo ‘The "Adventurous Fairies’ live on stage, we are served a juicy portion of fantasy theatre" teenage-trouble, where a kiss can solve a lot of problems, but not all of them... HAMAR NEWS, NORWAY A Lyric Hammersmith & Filter Theatre production Tickets: A £25.50 B £22.50 A show for family audiences, ages 11 + C £20 D £17.50 Sat Matinee: £17.50 Commissioned by Exeter Northcott Theatre and Co- "A fascinating show Concs: £2 off bands B-D produced by Teater Innlandet (Norway), with support from A MIDSUMMER Schools: £10 groups 10+ Arts Council England. for all ages" Student Standby: £5 Age: 14yrs+ GD KULTER LILLEHAMMER, Running Time: 100 mins NIGHT’S DREAM (no interval) NORWAY By William Shakespeare GROUPS Directed by Sean Holmes MEMBERS Tue 8 – Sat 12 May 7.30pm ««««« Wed & Thu School Matinees 1.30pm “Quite brilliant” Sat Matinee 2.30pm INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY The Lyric and Filter’s riotous reinterpretation of one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, comes to Exeter Northcott, after its critically «««« acclaimed London and international festival runs. “Slapstick, magic Featuring original live music, this classic tale of young lovers and warring fairies is given a unique and and mayhem”

irreverent twist. Kenton. Tristram by Photo 2016. Dream in A Midsummer Night's as Oberon Jonathan Broadbent THE GUARDIAN Don’t miss one of the most exciting and inventive Shakespeare productions of recent years. «««« “Knock-you-sideways funny” WHATSONSTAGE 26 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 27 UK Touring presents Komedia Entertainment & Live Nation Present ROGER McGOUGH COUNT ARTHUR +LiTTLe MACHiNe Sun 13 May 7.30pm STRONG IS ALIVE

Roger McGough’s new show with Walter, Featuring the music and lyrics of Tickets: £22.80 Steve and Chris of LiTTLe MACHiNe AND UNPLUGGED Richard M Sherman & Robert B Sherman Wed Green Matinee: £18.80* features a fine selection of vintage, classic and and Robert J Sherman Concs: U16s £15 and surprising poems set to music, as Sat 19 May 8pm Book by Robert J Sherman Age: all ages featured on the new album The Likes Alone, solo and by himself, with no one with Running Time: TBC of Us. him, the show business Colossasus (check that) takes us back on a journey through his Tue 15 May – Fri 18 May 7.30pm *Support the environment Hilarious and surreal, McGough is early career. Using the latest technology and and use Public Transport a poet of many voices. Menace and all that (I presume we’ve got a projector?) Wed Green Matinee 2.30pm* to attend this discounted melancholy there may be, but with plenty he will be delving into his own personal midweek matinee show. The compelling story of one family’s century-long, of McGough’s characteristic wit and box of video cassettes and talking us (you) award-winning musical journey; and you already know wordplay too. LiTTLe MACHiNe are the through the highlights of his glittering TV GROUPS all the songs! must have act at Literary Festivals from career, with many of his trademark stories York to Dubai, setting classic poems to we’ve come to love him for. If you only buy music and performing them with energy, one ticket for something this year make sure Three generations of Sherman songwriting is brought passion and humour. It’s poetry but not it’s this and bring someone with you. You to life in this delightful show: from like you’ve heard or seen it before. won’t be disappointed by him (me). songwriter Al Sherman— writer for artists including and — to the Oscar and Grammy Award winning (Mary @McgoughRoger MAIN Tickets: £22.80 Poppins, , The Jungle Book, AND A Age: all ages Tickets: £20 DRINK Running Time: 1hr 50mins Winnie the Pooh) up to present day, with songs from Robert J. Sherman’s own musical Love Birds. Age: 12yrs+ MAIN £15 Running Time: 2hrs 10mins AND A DRINK Catch this practically perfect family production on its premiere UK tour celebrating 100 years of Sherman "What a night. Roger and Little Machine £15 family music. stormed it!" BEWDLEY FESTIVAL /ExeterNorthcottTheatre Registered Charity No. 1151620 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 29 PaddleBoat Theatre Company present Tickets: £9 Family Ticket: £21 for 3, + up to 3 more tickets £7 each Age: 4yrs+ MARGO & MR. WHATSIT Running Time: 50mins (no interval) Sun 20 May 2.30pm FAMILY Do you have an imaginary friend? A little piece of mischief only you can see?

Sophia’s imaginary friend is called Mr. Whatsit, and he’s always there with a new joke to tell and a new game to play – that is, until the day she unimagines him. Now there’s a ASSOCIATE new imaginary friend in town – the tea-drinking, lipstick- wearing, ever-confident Margo.

Can Mr. Whatsit’s childish playfulness keep him from being unimagined forever? And as Sophia’s imagination goes to war, will she manage to find peace in her new home? BALLET CENTRAL BARRY CRYER & COLIN SELL Sun 27 May 7.30pm PaddleBoat Theatre Company present a lively and - STRICTLY COME JOKING imaginative tale full of mime, puppetry, music, clowning Under the artistic direction of Christopher and object play and invite you to enter Sophia’s world, Marney, Ballet Central returns with a new Sun 10 June 7.30pm where the real and the imaginary collide and friends are programme showcasing the best in dance never far away. theatre. These young dancers on the cusp Barry Cryer and Colin Sell – the Ant and of their professional careers will perform Dec of the sanatogen set, reunite to bring o @paddleboattco a mixed bill, featuring works by world- you a new show, devised by them after the www.paddleboattheatre.co.uk renowned choreographers. visitors left. Cryer, still a “Sprightly Veteran” (Undertakers Gazette) and Sell a “Legendary See Jenna Lee’s brand new creation Black Virtuoso” (Pensioners Website) combine Swan, a dark twist on the iconic classic, to entertain you with songs, jokes and the and a gothic reworking of the Fairies amazing realization that they’re still here. Prologue from Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty. An excerpt from FAR by the multi Join them before they come apart. award-winning choreographer and director Wayne McGregor will also feature and to Tickets: £22 celebrate the work of Kenneth MacMillan Running Time: 2hrs the repertoire includes an excerpt from his rarely-seen Valley of Shadows. Finally, enjoy Christopher Gable’s Cinderella, a timeless version of a much-loved fairy tale.

Tickets: A £16.50 B £14.50 C £12.50 D £12.50 Concs: £2 off bands B-D Schools: £9 groups 10+ Student Standby: £5 Age: 6yrs+ Running Time: TBC

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30 Registered Charity No. 1151620 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 31 Tickets: MOZART // A £36 B £33 C £26 D £21 Concs: £2 off bands B-D Student Standby: £5 THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Pre-Show Talks: 6.30pm Wed 23, Fri 25 & Sat 26 May (Venues TBC). Tue 22, Wed 23 & Sat 26 May 7.30pm GROUPS English Touring Opera presents an energetic new production TALK of one of the world’s most beloved operas, Mozart’s classic comedy The Marriage of Figaro. During the course of one eventful day, Figaro and Susanna must overcome every obstacle put in their way by Count Almaviva and his cronies before they can finally be united as man and wife. Blanche McIntyre (Tosca, 2017) returns to direct this most warm- Praise for Il tabarro & hearted of operas, equally acclaimed for its sublime music and huge sense of fun. Gianni Schicchi (2011) Sung in English with surtitles “Ensemble work doesn’t get PUCCINI // tighter than this” IL TABARRO & GIANNI SCHICCHI INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY  Thu 24 & Fri 25 May 7.30pm Puccini’s one-act operas Il tabarro and Gianni Schicchi could hardly be more different: one is a moody romance ending in a grotesque murder on a barge in , and the other is a sparkling comedy about a family inheritance in Florence.  First performed in 2011 to great critical acclaim, this double bill shows Puccini at his finest as a master of the theatre that SUNDAY EXPRESS speaks to the heart. Sung in Italian with English surtitles 

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32 @ExeterNorthcott Registered Charity No. 1151620 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 33 Iolanthe

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MAIN AND A DRINK £15

Mon 28 May – Sat 2 June 7.30pm Tickets: Mon – Thu Evenings: «««« «««« «««« Wed Green Matinee 2.30pm* A £36 B £34 C £32 D £28 Sat Matinee 2.30pm Fri & Sat Evenings: “It looks superb, sounds divine “entirely enchanting” “this absurdly silly but sweetly A £38 B £36 C £34 D £30 and ends happily. Who could touching version of Iolanthe is Flashdance – The Musical returns to the UK for the first time Wed Green Matinee: TIME OUT since 2011 starring Strictly Come Dancing Champion Joanne A £28 B £26 C £24 D £20* ask for more?” a comic pleasure.” Clifton as Alex Owens and A1 heart-throb and singer-songwriter Sat Matinee: Ben Adams as Nick Hurley. A £36 B £34 C £32 D £28 THE EVENING STANDARD THE GUARDIAN

Concs: £2 off bands B-D Flashdance tells the inspiring and unforgettable story of Alex, Tickets: A £26 B £23 a welder by day and ‘flashdancer’ by night, who dreams of Age: 11yrs+ Tue 5 – Sat 9 June 7.30pm Running Time: TBC C £20.50 D £18 going to the prestigious Shipley Dance Academy and becoming Sat Matinee 2.30pm Sat Matinee: £18.50 a professional dancer. When a romance with Nick Hurley Concs: £2 off bands B-D complicates her ambitions, she harnesses it to drive her dream. GROUPS Having wooed audiences with the Pirates of Penzance, Student Standby: £5 Age: 6yrs+ Prepare to be blown away with an astonishing musical spectacle *Support the environment H.M.S. Pinafore and The Mikado, Sasha Regan returns with her most critically acclaimed production to date, Iolanthe. Running Time: 2hrs 25mins and phenomenal choreography to this iconic score, including the and use Public Transport Post Show Talk: Wed 6 June smash hits Maniac, Gloria, I Love Rock & Roll and the award- to attend this discounted winning title track Flashdance - What a Feeling. midweek matinee show. Universally regarded as Sir Arthur Sullivan’s most beautiful score, Iolanthe is a topsy-turvy love story between the GROUPS Presented by Selladoor Productions - producers of most unlikely of couples… fairies and members of the MEMBERS Footloose, Avenue Q and Little Shop of Horrors and Runaway House of Lord’s! Sasha Regan’s inimitable inventiveness TALK Entertainment, Flashdance - The Musical is not to be missed! combined with Gilbert and Sullivan’s inherent barminess make for an unmissable night out.

34 @ExeterNorthcott /ExeterNorthcottTheatre Registered Charity No. 1151620 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 35 ««««« Tickets: £9.50 Family Ticket: £22.50 “no-holds- for 3 + up to 3 more barred comedy” tickets £7.50 each presents Age: suitable for all ages METRO Running Time: 40 mins (no interval) «««« FAMILY “Hugely funny” ugly duckling THE TIMES "A spellbinding treat" Sat 16 June 2pm, 4pm & 6pm THE STAGE

Don’t miss Northern Ballet’s hugely popular Ugly Duckling as it returns to the stage for WHO, ME. the first time since 2013. Wed 27 June 7.30pm Ugly Duckling is lonely and fed-up, ignored by those around her who think is about to face his greatest she is too ugly to fit in. She tries to challenge: his number one fan. Rob make friends with fellow ducklings Lloyd (BBC America’s Doctor Who: Earth as well as with frogs, cats and Wed 13 June 7.30pm Conquest) is putting The Doctor on trial. even a fox, but realising she is Is Doctor Who (the television show) guilty not like any of these animals, Following a sold out run at London’s of inciting in Rob a debilitating obsession, she is left sad and alone. Menier Chocolate Factory and two or has it shaped him into a well-rounded, Follow the duckling on critically-acclaimed West End runs, David mentally-sound member of society? her journey as she Baddiel takes his Olivier-nominated one- overcomes her troubles man show to theatres nationwide. WHO, ME. is a hilarious romp across the and realises that she Doctor’s 54 years, 13 faces and countless was beautiful My Family: Not the Sitcom is a show adventures. all along. about memory, ageing, infidelity, dysfunctional relatives, moral policing Retelling the famous Hans on social media, golf, and gay cats. A Tickets: £15 Christian Andersen fairytale, massively disrespectful celebration of Concs: £2 off Ugly Duckling is the perfect the lives of David Baddiel’s late sex-mad Age: all ages opportunity for your little ones mother, Sarah, and dementia-ridden Running Time: 80mins (no interval) to enjoy live ballet, music and father, Colin. theatre for the first time. GROUPS Come and be offended on David’s behalf! As seen on CBeebies, Northern Ballet’s sell-out productions Tickets: £27 CURRY for children are not to Age: 14yrs+ AND A be missed. Running Time: 2hrs «««« DRINK “boasts side-splitting £12 MAIN AND A laughs and also moves DRINK people to tears” £15 EVENING STANDARD 36 @ExeterNorthcott /ExeterNorthcottTheatre Registered Charity No. 1151620 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 37 Tilted Wig Productions and Malvern Theatres present Tickets: A £25 B £22 Tickets: C £19.50 D £16.50 A £21.50 B £18 Wed Green Matinee: £15* BALLET BLACK C £15 D £13 Sat Matinee: £17 Concs: £2 off bands B-D GREAT EXPECTATIONS Concs: £2 off bands B-D Schools: £9 for groups 10+ Schools: £9 groups 10+ (Wed Mon 25 & Tue 26 June 7.30pm Student Standby: £5 by Charles Dickens mat & Tue - Thu eves B-D) Age: 7yrs+ Student Standby: £5 Audiences can’t resist the ‘joyously unpredictable’ Running Time: TBC With Nichola McAuliffe as Miss Havisham Age: 12yrs+ Post Show Talk: Mon 25 June (Guardian) programmes danced by Ballet Black, back Adapted by Ken Bentley Running Time: 2hrs 30mins for their seventh year. GROUPS *Support the environment and MEMBERS Tue 19 – Sat 23 June 7.30pm use public transport to attend Led by Artistic Director Cassa Pancho, this company this discounted midweek celebrates dancers of black and Asian descent, TALK Wed Green Matinee 2.30pm* matinee show. showcasing technique, precision and grace in Sat Matinee 2.30pm specially commissioned pieces. GROUPS  The producers who have delighted audiences in recent MEMBERS As part of their latest double bill, renowned British “a delicious confection of a years with Travels with my Aunt, Our Man in Havana and choreographer Cathy Marston, choreographs a new A Christmas Carol are back with Dickens’ timeless classic narrative ballet for the Company. Based on Can Themba’s Dream, richly choreographed… in a powerful new stage adaptation. South African fable The Suit, this is the first dance adaptation of the affecting short story. but subverted by a rude and Following a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict, young Pip is given an unexpected surreal spirit of misrule.” chance to better himself by visiting the reclusive and mysterious Miss Havisham. In the Completing the evening is Arthur Pita’s Olivier nominated decaying grandeur of her house, Pip falls in love with Estella and helped by an anonymous A Dream Within a Midsummer Night’s Dream, described as THE GUARDIAN benefactor, he moves to the bustling city to pursue his dream of winning Estella’s heart and of ‘charming and hilarious’ by Dance Europe magazine. The becoming part of the educated elite. production mixes classical and contemporary to distil the essence of Shakespeare’s comedy, unfolding to an eclectic “magical, funny, beautiful Olivier Award-winning actress, Nichola McAuliffe, leads the cast as the iconic Miss Havisham. soundtrack that includes Eartha Kitt, Barbra Streisand and anarchic” Nichola is best known for her role in the long running TV series, Surgical Spirit, the films and Yma Sumac. Performing it, ‘the company have never and Chéri and her many stage appearances including Kiss Me Kate for looked better’ (Independent). THE STAGE the RSC, The Night of the Iguana in the West End and Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van. www.balletblack.co.uk

38 @ExeterNorthcott /ExeterNorthcottTheatre Registered Charity No. 1151620 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk 39 Tall Stories present Tickets: £14 Family Ticket: £39 for 3, + up to 3 more tickets £13 each Age: 4yrs+    Running Time: 55mins daily telegraph the times mail on sunday (no interval) « « « FAMILY whatsonstage libby purves city am a trademark touring and watermill theatre  production “Faultless family fare… Sat 7 & Sun 8 July One of the best examples Sat 2pm & 4pm; Sun 11am & 2pm of children’s theatre” WHATSONSTAGE.COM

“An exquisite piece of theatre” by IAN HISLOP & NICK NEWMAN THE STAGE

Tickets Join a tiny snail on her trip round the world in Tall Stories’  Mon 10 – Sat 15 September 7.30pm Mon – Thu Evenings & Sat Matinee: (creators of the and Room on the Broom stage Wed Green Matinee 2.30pm* A £31.50 B £29 C £27 D £23 shows) magical, musical adaptation of the fantastic picture “An imaginative and Fri & Sat Evenings: book by and Axel Scheffler. heartfelt adaptation” Sat Matinee 2.30pm A £33.50 B £31 C £29 D £25 Wed Green Matinee: £22* Longing to see the world, a tiny snail hitches a lift on the THE LIST Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s The Wipers Times Concs: £2 off bands B-D tail of a humpback whale. Together they go on an amazing tells the true and extraordinary story of the satirical Student Standby: £5 adventure - but when the whale gets beached, how will the newspaper created in the mud and mayhem of the Age: 10yrs+ snail save him? Follow the tiny snail’s exciting journey, as Somme. The Wipers Times is coming to Exeter direct Running Time: 2hrs 20mins seen through the eyes of an adventurous young girl and her from a record breaking West End season. seafaring father... *Support the environment and use  Public Transport to attend this discounted midweek matinee show. Storytelling, live music and lots of laughs, in a show for "remarkable forerunner to Private Eye" everyone aged 4 and up. Scheffler & Axel © Julia Donaldson Snail and the Whale The GROUPS /ExeterNorthcottTheatre DAILY TELEGRAPH MEMBERS www.tallstories.org.uk EXETER NORTHCOTT THEATRE IS ALSO SELLING TICKETS FOR:

Crediton Schools Music Cluster present POP OF COLOUR Wed 7 March 7pm The Great Hall, University Of Exeter

Young people from fourteen schools in the Crediton music cluster bring you a fabulous evening of musical entertainment. Each school has chosen a different song or medley to perform and looks forward to presenting a colourful evening of music. Be entertained with music such as Mr Blue Sky, Supermassiveblackhole or songs from The White Stripes or Pink. As always, our singers are looking to provide you with an evening of pure entertainment so do 2017/18 SEASON come along and be uplifted by the enthusiasm of youth!

f/csms2s The BSO continues its concert season with Tchaikovsky’s most famous symphony, Britain’s Tickets: A £7.50 B £6.50 C £5.50* favourite Cello Concerto, and appearances by world-class artists including BSO Chief Concs: £2 off for U16s, students, 60+, benefit recipients and registered disabled Conductor Kirill Karabits and Stephen Hough. Multibuy discounts are still available for booking 4 or more concerts!

Wednesday 20 December 7.30pm Wednesday 21 February 7.30pm LAST NIGHT OF THE CHRISTMAS PROMS ELGAR’S CELLO EULOGY AMADEUS ORCHESTRA Hits from Broadway and the West End, as well as Wagner Siegfried Idyll Friday 20 July 7pm seasonal classics including Chestnuts Roasting, Elgar Cello Concerto Santa Baby and more! Dvorák Symphony No.9 'New World' Exeter Cathedral Pete Harrison conductor Christoph König conductor Annie Skates, James Spilling singers Leonard Elschenbroich cello Conductor: Philip Mackenzie

Tuesday 2 January 3pm Thursday 15 March 7.30pm Adams: Short ride in a fast machine NEW YEAR JOHANN STRAUSS GALA FINDING ANSWERS Stravinsky: The rite of spring Celebrate the New Year in a swirling selection of Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 ‘Emperor’ waltzes, marches, polkas and arias! Ives The Unanswered Question Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Victor Aviat conductor Brahms Symphony No.1 Rhian Lois soprano Thierry Fischer conductor The Amadeus Orchestra returns to Exeter Stephen Hough piano Friday 26 January 7.30pm Cathedral with their much anticipated annual TRIUMPH AND PASSION Thursday 26 April 7.30pm summer concert and a thrilling programme of Khachaturian Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia EXETER CATHEDRAL music from USA, Russia and . Short Ride is described by Adams as a 'Fanfare for Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.2 NOTES OF NOSTALGIA Orchestra' and leaves the listener breathless during its four minutes of puslating rhythmic Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 Britten Four Sea Interludes Mikhail Tatarnikov conductor Dvorák Cello Concerto drive. Stravinsky's Rite, although 105 years old, sounds as fresh today as it ever did. The first Boris Giltburg piano R Strauss Tod und Verklärung performance famously caused a riot! Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is an hedonistic ride James Feddeck conductor through the fantasies of a young musician who has poisoned himself with opium in a paroxysm Thursday 1 February 7.30pm Daniel Müller-Schott cello of love-sick despair. What better orchestra to play these three vivid and ground-breaking MONUMENTAL BRAHMS Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 Tickets £16-£40. pieces than the Amadeus Orchestra who were praised in the Times thus: "They played with a Lyatoshinsky Symphony No.3 5-8 concerts - 20% discount, zeal and quality that some more famous orchestras might learn from." Kirill Karabits conductor 4 concerts - 10% discount Sunwook Kim piano www.amadeusorchestra.co.uk Thursday 15 February 7.30pm Tickets: A £35 B £30 C £25 D £20* HEROES & MONSTERS All concerts take place at the Great Hall, University Concs: £2 off bands B-D More music from the movies including Dracula, of Exeter, except Thu 26 April, which takes place at Jurassic Park, Lord of the Rings, King Kong, Jaws, Exeter Cathedral. Gremlins and more! Pete Harrison conductor Exeter Northcott Theatre Box Office: 01392 726363 42 www.exeternorthcott.co.uk *A 50P PER TICKET FEE APPLIES TO THESE TICKET AGENCY SALES 43 ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCES

SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETED PERFORMANCES During these performances a British Sign Language Interpreter will be positioned on the stage. Specific seats with a clear view of the signer are reserved in the main house auditorium and should be requested when booking.

Dick Whittington Sat 9 December 2pm The Boy Who Climbed Into The Moon Sat 17 February 2pm Up ‘n’ Under Fri 23 March 7.30pm & Sat 24 March 2.30pm & 7.30pm Little Mermaid Sat 28 April 2.30pm

AUDIO DESCRIBED PERFORMANCES Audio described performances provide the audience with a description of the set, the characters, the costume, the scene and the lighting throughout the performance, interspersing with the actors’ dialogue. The information is relayed through a headset that will be given to you on arrival at the theatre. The headsets must be booked when booking your tickets (at no extra cost) and collected from the Box Office before the performance.

Dick Whittington Sat 9 December 2pm, with Touch Tour at 12.30pm The Boy Who Climbed Into The Moon Sat 17 February 2pm, with Touch Tour at 1pm Up ‘n’ Under Fri 23 March 7.30pm & Sat 24 March 2.30pm & 7.30pm Little Mermaid Sat 28 April 2.30pm, with Touch Tour at 1pm

RELAXED PERFORMANCES Relaxed and Dementia Friendly performances create a safe environment for those GO TOGETHER CLUB to enjoy theatre that would not normally have the opportunity to do so. If a member of your family is on the autistic spectrum or suffers from dementia then these performances are designed for everyone to enjoy in a relaxed and Do you love theatre but don’t like going alone? welcoming environment. Have you recently moved to the area and want to meet others who love theatre? Why not join our GO TOGETHER CLUB! Best of all – it’s FREE TO JOIN! Dick Whittington Wed 13 December 2pm (Schools Matinee) and Thu 28 December 11am When you come to a production you will be welcomed by one of our team, and have the opportunity to meet other members over coffee, a drink or even supper before the show. Some generous group members have even offered to pick people up from the car parks if needed.

We believe that there are many theatre, dance and music We’ve reserved B Band seats in the theatre auditorium for the following theatre shows in our performances that could be enjoyed by adults with autumn season: learning disabilities here at the Exeter Northcott Theatre and at partner venues across the city. The Audience Singin’ in the Rain Thu 25 Jan Club offers subsidised tickets which can be bought as The Boy Who Climbed Into The Moon Thu 15 Feb single tickets or in bundles for the season. The Audience Richard Alston Dance Thu 8 March Club is a safe and familiar group supported by regular The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk Thu 12 April volunteers to make going to the theatre a great and Little Mermaid Thu 26 April accessible social activity. Thu 17 May Iolanthe Thu 7 June The Audience Club is run by Encounter Theatre & Great Expectations Thu 21 June Therapy as part of their Positive Cultural Participation & Engagement project in partnership with Exeter There is no extra charge – all you have to do is contact the Box Office on 01392 72 63 63 and ask Northcott Theatre, Exeter Phoenix and The Bike Shed Theatre with support from Theatre Alibi. for a ‘Go Together Ticket’ for a show of your choice and one of our volunteers will be in touch to finalise details for your visit. To find out about the current Audience Club season, you can get in touch with our co-ordinator Amerie Rose by telephone and text on 07421 813 979 or by email at [email protected] Why not give it a try and Go Together!

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Awful Auntie Art & Drama Workshops January, February & March Years 4, 5 and 6 – for groups of up to 40 students

Experience the power of friendship, the search for truth, a dose of owls, some nasty tricks – and one awful auntie! Take part in our Key Stage Two workshops to explore these The education department has been busier than ever in 2017. As well as the successful launch of our Easter and Summer themes and more as we welcome Birmingham Stage Company’s adaptation of David Walliams’ best-selling book Awful Auntie to Schools, which offered 40 young people the opportunity to work intensively, creatively and collaboratively and create a piece our stage in March. of theatre from scratch in a week, we also re-launched the Northcott Young Company. 18 young people took to the stage in Following the success of our Gangsta Granny and The Twits September to present RIME – their twenty-first century re-imagining of Samuel Taylor-Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. workshops, we are excited to offer these two-hour practical sessions which can be delivered at your school from mid-January to mid-March. Easter School 2018 For more information and prices visit our website. 9 – 13 April For up to 20 participants aged 11 – 14

Want to make a piece of theatre from scratch in a week? Come and join us for this week long course, meet new friends and have fun! “My son thoroughly enjoyed the workshops, made some new friends and wants to do it all again! We thought the final production was really impressive. So thank you to you and the team for all your hard work and inspiration” PARENT OF 2017 EASTER SCHOOL PARTICIPANT Little Mermaid Workshops See our website for more information and prices. March & April BTEC and GCSE – for groups of up to 30 students (can be Summer School 2018 adapted for Key Stage Three) 30 July – 3 August Following the massive success of Jungle Book in 2016, Exclusively for Year 10 students award-winning Metta Theatre return to the Northcott in April As an alternative to a traditional work experience with their extraordinary new adaptation of Little Mermaid. programme, we are excited to run our Summer School Featuring spectacular circus, awe-inspiring acrobatics and again in 2018. Designed especially for Year 10 students, spellbinding original folk songs this is a show for everyone. this free week long course offers opportunities to gain an Inspired by the work of Exeter Northcott Associates Metta insight into all the workings of the theatre, trial an audition Theatre in adapting classic stories, participants will explore piece as well as making a piece of theatre to share with how to reimagine and retell classic stories through spoken word friends and family on the Friday! and free verse. Led by Lisa Hudson of Exeter Northcott Theatre 20 free places are available and application forms will be these workshops will culminate in the chance to perform short available on our website from January. spoken word narratives inspired by the stories of Hans Christian Anderson. “I thoroughly enjoyed the Northcott Summer School Week. It was a great experience, and I learnt so much about how the theatre runs, both on the performing side and behind the scenes… It For more information and prices visit our website. was an amazing experience to meet like-minded people and spend a week exploring creative performance styles, creating a show that pushed us to work together efficiently and imaginatively. At the end of the week, I had an immense feeling of accomplishment” 2017 SUMMER SCHOOL PARTICIPANT

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Whatever you love about Exeter Northcott Theatre, be it drama, dance, music or a little bit of everything, our scheme is the perfect way for you to get more of what you love for less. With savings of 20% on up to 4 tickets per show on selected productions and a host of other exciting and valuable benefits you can support Exeter Northcott Theatre and get a great deal however you enjoy your theatre. All you need to do is pick the membership level that’s right for you…

Member Friend £42 per annum, Joint £60† £90 per annum, Joint £108† • 20% off up to 4 tickets for participating All the benefits of a Member plus... shows* • 10% off at our bar • 10% off food, drink and Ice Cream in the • Advance notice of new shows on sale View Restaurant and early access to the season brochure • Notification of selected additional offers • A 24hr exclusive priority booking • Meet the stars (at least 2 chances a year period for selected shows to meet the stars in our shows) • Free ticket postage • A seasonal newsletter and monthly updates from the theatre • A Membership Card

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Patron Benefactors £150 per annum £300+ per annum All the benefits of a Friend plus... All the benefits of a Patron plus... • An invitation to at least one of our in • An annual meeting with the Artistic & house production press nights Executive Director Paul Jepson 0% • An invitation to our Chair of the Board of • A pair of complimentary tickets for our VE 2 Trustees’ Summer Drinks Christmas show press night and selected A • Selected opportunities for behind the other shows scenes access • Exclusive access behind the scenes to T US AND S experience the rehearsal process for Membership selected productions SUPPOR Memberships can be purchased online or by calling the Box Office.

*This excludes commercial and community hires, charity events, tickets for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concerts and work by English Touring Opera. Shows sold at other venues may also not be included depending on circumstances.

Joint Memberships include an extra membership card but only allow the ticket discount to be applied to one account.

†This product has been classified as standard rate VAT. As a result our memberships must include a VAT contribution of 20%. This is the reason why membership prices (for Member, Joint Member, Friend and Joint Friend) have increased by 20% for 2017.

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A B C D 50 Price Band Price Band Price Band Price Band Stocker Road is open to pedestrians and attend these discounted midweek matinee cyclists only. Vehicles should enter the campus shows; School Matinees – we advise groups from Prince of Wales Road via to travel to the theatre by coach for these GETTING HERE Drive and then The Queen’s Drive, before performances. Situated at the heart of the University of Getting home by bus joining North Park Road and then Rennes Drive Exeter’s , the Exeter The D bus leaves the bus stop opposite the (please see map below). This map will help you find the car parks. Northcott Theatre is easier to get to than you front entrance of the theatre on North Park For up to date information about planning The biggest demand for parking at Streatham your visit please contact the Box Office on might think, with good public transport links Road at 21mins and 51mins past the hour Campus is expected to be between 9am 01392 726363, visit our website or check the and plenty of FREE parking a short distance after 7pm and continues until 11.21pm (Mon – and 6pm from Monday to Friday during the information we send you with your tickets. from the theatre. Sat) and 11.13pm (Sundays) to the city centre, ready for you to connect to other city centre University term. For this reason we now only late night services. For more information schedule the following daytime shows: Green N about this bus service, including updates to Matinees – please show your support for the timetabling, please call 01392 427711 or visit environment and use Public Transport to www.stagecoachbus.com. Getting here by train

From Exeter St Davids Station, take the 1km CAR N walk up the hill to the University Campus. PARK B CAR Alternatively, taxis are available from both PARK A Exeter St David’s and Exeter Central railway

stations. For more information on train R E All University N services call 08457 48 49 50 or visit N car parks and E www.nationalrail.co.uk. S designated D R parking N

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K T S R T PA H RTH O We’d like to encourage those who are able to walk NO available to L M E W or cycle to the Theatre to do so whenever they CAR S visitors free of T PARK D can. There are several cycle paths and lanes in charge after CAR and around the Theatre and university campus to PARK C 6pm and at 5 weekends. ensure the safety of cyclists and there is a cycle 7

shelter to the left of the theatre’s front entrance. NO ACCESS Theatre STOCKER R I D T patrons may Getting here by car H E 3 6 park from

All car parking is FREE on campus after Q U E O 5pm – ask the E 2 C F 6pm Mon - Fri, and all day on Saturdays and N W E S I A Box Office for 9 N R L T P E Sundays, regardless of permit restrictions on R ’ S S E R a voucher to D A D T signage. All restrictions on parking are lifted R D display. H P R R A I Getting here by bus S N for visitors during these times, but please be M 4 E C

L E D O The D bus runs from Exeter City Centre direct aware that car parks are pay and display at all A R F W W A to our theatre 7 days a week including Bank other times. F LE OD S R R Holidays. E D CS E Vehicle Routes and Parking INL RA P The nearest car parks to the theatre are Car W The last D services from the city centre to F O Parks C & D, located only a few minutes walk E Exeter Northcott Theatre for evening shows C IN away, and Theatre patrons may park from 5pm R Monday to Saturday are at 6.40pm (for 7pm P I Exeter Northcott Theatre shows), 7.02pm (for 7.30pm shows) and if displaying a voucher which the Box Office Car park will issue with your tickets on request. 2 Northcote House 7.32pm (for 8pm shows). Sunday D services Bus stop R RDD 3 Great Hall N F WAALLEESS start at 9.53am and then run at 23 and 53 E PPRRININCCEE O OF W Pedestrian route Car Park C is located next to the INTO W 4 Queen’s Building N mins past the hour until 6.23pm, then hourly O One-way system Academic Centre at the top of Stocker Road. R 5 Peter Chalk Centre T at 7.02pm and at 2 mins past the hour until Entrance to the car park is on North Park H No vehicle access R 6 The Forum O UNIVERSITY MAIN ENTRANCE 11.02pm. Road, opposite the bus stop. A Cycle path D 7 INTO Building

D Route Car Park D is located at the end of North Park 8 Sports Park B Digby – St Lukes – City Centre – University 3 9 Reed Hall Road and is just a five minute walk from the 1 200m 8 approx. scale theatre. This is a permit holder only car park Mon 3 – Fri until 6pm, please check with the box office if attending a weekday daytime performance.

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January Tue 3 Oliver! 7.30pm Mon 1 Dick Whittington 2pm 7pm Wed 4 Oliver! 7.30pm Wed 3 Dick Whittington 2pm 7pm Thu 5 Oliver! 7.30pm Thu 4 Dick Whittington 10.30am* 7pm Fri 6 Oliver! 2.30pm 7.30pm Fri 5 Dick Whittington 10.30am* 7pm Sat 7 Oliver! 2.30pm 7.30pm Sat 6 Dick Whittington 2pm 7pm Sun 8 Brainiac Live! 2pm Sun 7 Dick Whittington 2pm 7pm Tue 10 The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk 7.30pm 2018 DIARY Tue 16 A Clockwork Orange 7.30pm P Wed 11 The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk 2.30pm G 7.30pm Wed 17 A Clockwork Orange 7.30pm Thu 12 The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk 7.30pm Thu 18 A Clockwork Orange 7.30pm Fri 13 The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk 7.30pm Fri 19 A Clockwork Orange 7.30pm Sat 14 The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk 2.30pm 7.30pm Sat 20 A Clockwork Orange 7.30pm Sun 15 English Concert Orchestra 2.30pm Wed 24 Singin' in the Rain 2.30pm P 7.30pm Fri 20 TEDx Exeter Thu 25 Singin' in the Rain 7.30pm Sat 21 Richard Herring - Oh Frig, I'm 50! 7.30pm Fri 26 Singin' in the Rain 7.30pm Tue 24 Little Mermaid 7pm Sat 27 Singin' in the Rain 2.30pm 7.30pm Wed 25 Little Mermaid 1.30pm* 7pm Wed 31 The Mikado 7.30pm Thu 26 Little Mermaid 7pm SPRING/SUMMER February Fri 27 Little Mermaid 7pm An Exeter Northcott, Thu 1 The Mikado 7.30pm Sat 28 Little Mermaid 2.30pm †‡ 7pm BSL & Audio Described Fri 2 The Mikado 7.30pm Sun 29 Henry Blofeld: 78 Retired 7.30pm Nuffield Southampton Theatres and Sat 3 The Mikado 2.30pm 7.30pm May Rose Theatre Kingston co-production Sun 4 Beyond My Control 7.30pm Tue 1 Macbeth 7.30pm Mon 5 Nina - a story about me and Nina Simone 8pm Wed 2 Macbeth 7.30pm Tue 6 Nina - a story about me and Nina Simone 8pm Thu 3 The Sleeper - A Teenage Fairy Tale 7.30pm DON CARLOS Wed 7 Watch This Space 7.30pm Fri 4 The Sleeper - A Teenage Fairy Tale 7.30pm Thu 8 Andy Kirkpatrick's Psychovertical 7.30pm Sat 5 Sing-a-long-a Beauty and the Beast 7pm by Friedrich Schiller TICKETS Fri 9 ABBA - Forever 8pm Sun 6 Encore Dance 2.30pm Translated by Robert Davis MacDonald Previews: £15 (Thu 11, Fri 12, Sat 10 ICCA - Exeter Quarter Final 7pm Tue 8 A Midsummer Night's Dream 7.30pm Director Gadi Roll Sat 13 & Mon 15 Oct 7.30pm) Tue – Wed Eves & Sat Matinee: Wed 14 The Boy Who Climbed Into The Moon 2pm G 6pm Wed 9 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1.30pm* 7.30pm A £30.50 B £28 C £25.50 D £23 Thu 15 The Boy Who Climbed Into The Moon 6pm Thu 10 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1.30pm* 7.30pm Thu 11 - Sat 20 October 2018 7.30pm Wed Green Matinee: £22* Fri 16 The Boy Who Climbed Into The Moon 6pm Fri 11 A Midsummer Night's Dream 7.30pm Wed Green Matinee: 2pm* Thu, Fri & Sat Evenings: Sat 17 The Boy Who Climbed Into The Moon 11am 2pm +# 2pm BSL & Audio Described Sat 12 A Midsummer Night's Dream 2.30pm* 7.30pm A £32.50 B £30 C £27.50 D £25 Thu 22 Soldier On 7.30pm Sun 13 Roger McGough + LiTTLe MACHiNe 7.30pm Sat Matinee 2.30pm Concs: £2 off Fri 23 Soldier On 7.30pm Tue 15 A Spoonful Sherman 7.30pm Schools: £10 for groups 10+ (a March Wed 16 A Spoonful Sherman 2.30pm G 7.30pm We are delighted to announce a major new revival of Friedrich limited number of tickets are Fri 2 Only Fools & Courses 7.30pm Thu 17 A Spoonful Sherman 7.30pm Schiller’s Don Carlos starring Tom Burke as the Marquis of Posa. available in bands B-D Mon & Tue Sat 3 Murder Mystery 7.30pm Fri 18 A Spoonful Sherman 7.30pm This great Romantic drama forms part of our 50th anniversary 7.30pm and Wed 2pm only) Sun 4 So you think you know about Dinosaurs! 3pm Sat 19 Count Arthur Strong is Alive & Unplugged 8pm season. Student Standby: £5 Mon 5 Stewart Lee - Content Provider 7.30pm Sun 20 Margo & Mr. Whatsit 2.30pm Tue 22 ETO - The Marriage of Figaro 7.30pm ‘Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love’ BSL & Audio Described Tue 6 Stewart Lee - Content Provider 7.30pm Performance: Sat 20 Oct Thu 8 Richard Alston Dance Company 7.30pm Post Show Talk Wed 23 ETO - The Marriage of Figaro 7.30pm Pre Show Talk (Venue TBC) Don Carlos faces the most profound of dilemmas. In a cruel twist 2.30pm, with Touch Tour at 1pm Fri 9 Richard Alston Dance Company 7.30pm Thu 24 ETO - Il tabarro & Gianni Schicchi 7.30pm of fate, his former fiancé and the love of his life, Elizabeth, has Age: 12yrs+ Sat 10 Semi-Toned 7.30pm Fri 25 ETO - Il tabarro & Gianni Schicchi 7.30pm Pre Show Talk (Venue TBC) recently become his stepmother. His father and usurper is the Running Time: TBC Wed 14 Awful Auntie 7pm Sat 26 ETO - The Marriage of Figaro 7.30pm Pre Show Talk (Venue TBC) tyrannical Philip II. Thu 15 Awful Auntie 1.30pm* 7pm Sun 27 Ballet Central 7.30pm GROUPS Fri 16 Awful Auntie 10.30am* 7pm Mon 28 Flashdance - The Musical 7.30pm Abandoned by both man and decree, Don Carlos must fend Tue 29 Flashdance - The Musical 7.30pm MEMBERS Sat 17 Awful Auntie 11am 3pm for himself. But one man, Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa, has never Sat 17 The Wedding Reception 7.30pm Wed 30 Flashdance - The Musical 2.30pm G 7.30pm forgotten the childhood act of sacrifice that the Prince made on Thu 31 Flashdance - The Musical 7.30pm * Support the environment and Sun 18 Awful Auntie 11am his behalf. Dreaming of freedom for his people, Rodrigo becomes use Public Transport to attend Mon 19 A Brave Face 7.30pm June an unlikely power broker in the King’s duplicitous court. this discounted midweek matinee Tue 20 A Brave Face 7.30pm Fri 1 Flashdance - The Musical 7.30pm show. Wed 21 The Magic of Motown 7.30pm Sat 2 Flashdance - The Musical 2.30pm 7.30pm A double edge story of loyalty, love and friendship, and the abuses Fri 23 Up 'n' Under 7.30pm †‡ BSL & Audio Described Tue 5 Iolanthe 7.30pm of power and statesmanship, Don Carlos is as resonant today as it Sat 24 Up 'n' Under 2.30pm †‡ 7.30pm †‡ BSL & Audio Described Wed 6 Iolanthe 7.30pm Post Show Talk was at the time. Sun 25 Lucy Worsley - Jane Austen at Home 7.30pm Thu 7 Iolanthe 7.30pm April Fri 8 Iolanthe 7.30pm Israeli theatre director Gadi Roll brings his trademark dynamic Mon 2 Oliver! 7.30pm Sat 9 Iolanthe 2.30pm 7.30pm imagery and haunting soundscapes to Schiller’s masterpiece. 55 56 56 Sun 10 Barry Cryer & Colin Sell - Strictly Come Joking 7.30pm Wed 13 David Baddiel My Family: Not The Sitcom 7.30pm Sat 16 Northern Ballet - Ugly Duckling 2pm 4pm 6pm Tue 19 Great Expectations 7.30pm Wed 20 Great Expectations 2.30pm G 7.30pm Thu 21 Great Expectations 7.30pm Fri 22 Great Expectations 7.30pm Sat 23 Great Expectations 2.30pm 7.30pm Mon 25 Ballet Black 7.30pm Post Show Talk Tue 26 Ballet Black 7.30pm Wed 27 Who, Me 7.30pm Sat 30 Murder Mystery 7.30pm July Sat 7 The Snail and the Whale 2pm 4pm Sun 8 The Snail and the Whale 11am 2pm

G = Green Matinees. Support the = Off peak performances environment and use Public Transport to attend these midweek matinee shows. * = Schools’ matinee † = BSL Interpreted ‡ = Audio Described RP = Relaxed Performance P = Preview Performance VOLUNTEER Come and join our team… Volunteers are not only a vital part of our day to day team here at the Exeter Northcott Theatre but essential if we are to continue to give our audiences and visitors memorable experiences.

Volunteer Stewards We are currently looking for friendly and approachable people to join our busy front of house team as volunteer stewards. Duties include showing people to their seats, selling programmes and ensuring the smooth running of every show. You can download a volunteer steward pack with more information from our website or contact info@ exeternorthcott.co.uk / 01392 722409

Theatre Hires Did you know you can hire the theatre, bar and restaurant for your own production or event? We have experienced staff at your disposal to offer you all the advice and guidance you may need. Our kitchen is run by our head chef, Paul George Bending who can tailor a menu to suit your own requirements.

Our main auditorium seats up to 460 people, whilst our bar and restaurant area is a flexible space that can be laid out in a style to suit your needs.

For more information about hiring the theatre please contact Mark Gambrill, General Manager [email protected] / 01392 722409

All information contained in this brochure was correct at the time of printing, however Exeter Northcott Theatre reserves the right to make changes to the programme where necessary. Design & Print: Brightsea Print Group – www.brightsea.co.uk