SPRING/SUMMER SEASON 2020 BOX OFFICE 01392 726363 EXETERNORTHCOTT.CO.UK 2 3 WELCOME JOHN CLEESE AND DANIEL To the Northcott Theatre BUCKROYD IN CONVERSATION This season really does start with a bang as we talks, family shows and other entertainment, so make a brand-new show, Bang Bang!, right here tell your friends and family (you get a discount in Devon with comedy legend John Cleese. A when you bring a group) and we look forward to "Now, I’m the famous one here and Daniel’s the other one…. top-notch cast, including Tessa Peake-Jones, welcoming you to the theatre again soon. Daniel is very clever at running theatres so when he got to Tony Gardner and Wendi Peters, join us to Exeter, he said: ‘may I do your play again?’ I was thrilled… " bring Cleese’s hilarious adaptation of Georges Finally, I want to say a heart-felt thank you to JOHN CLEESE Feydeau’s classic French farce to life here all of you who support the theatre. We’re a at the Northcott, before it heads off on tour charity with big ambitions to offer more creative around the UK. I do hope you’ll join us for a opportunities, especially to those who might not "It’s a fantastic script. What John did was unearth this extraordinary farce called 'Monsieur night of comedic chaos and lots of laughter! usually access them. From giving free tickets Chasse' by George Feydeau. He’s shaken it and come up with something that’s got all the to families, to devising specialist workshops fun of this amazing farce by the master of French farce, but with all the wit and wisdom that I’m also delighted that our new artist for community groups and young people, we’ve John brings to his comedy. Some of my happiest moments in the theatre have been when development programme, Exeter Northcott seen how this work can change people’s lives. I’m surrounded by an audience watching a farce because of the gales of laughter." Futures, launches this season, supporting Without your kind donations, we simply couldn’t DANIEL BUCKROYD the next generation of Devon-based theatre do this. makers to produce new work and build careers in the South West. We’ll be announcing the "The gales of laughter! It really makes you feel like life is worth living because it’s terribly companies and artists that we’ll be supporting good for us when we laugh… the audience for farce is the comedy. When people laugh they soon, so watch this space! become part of the show." JOHN CLEESE As you’ll see, we’ve got a jam-packed season Daniel Buckroyd of the very best theatre, music, comedy, dance, Artistic Director and Chief Executive "You told me that some of your early experiences of seeing farce were in regional theatre. I’m really chuffed that we’re making this show in Devon. Making a show like 'Bang Bang!' at the Northcott before it goes on tour gives us a chance to bring some fantastic artists to Exeter and whilst they’re in Exeter they can share those skills and experiences with other local artists." DANIEL BUCKROYD "Well it’s wonderful to be part of a theatre. A theatre has a connection to its community and there’s so little of that communal stuff these days that I think when you’re in a theatre, you have an experience you don’t have anywhere else." JOHN CLEESE Here’s to having a good laugh! See you soon. CONTENTS P. 4 Theatre SUN 9 FEB AN EVENING IN CONVERSATION P. 16 Amateur & Hires 7.30PM P. 18 Comedy WITH JOHN CLEESE P. 22 Dining Events TICKETS £35 P. 23 Circus AT THE A CHARITY PERFORMANCE FOR EXETER NORTHCOTT THEATRE P. 24 Family GREAT HALL Join Daniel Buckroyd in conversation with John Cleese about P. 34 Dance life, laughs and live performance. P. 38 Music P. 42 Opera The money raised will enable us to bring excellent productions P. 46 Also Selling for to Exeter, make quality work in Devon, offer vital support to P. 48 Talks emerging artists and life-changing opportunities to young people. P. 49 Film EXETERNORTHCOTT.CO.UK BOX OFFICE 01392 726363 4 THEATRE THEATRE 5 EXETER NORTHCOTT THEATRE & DERMOT MCLAUGHLIN PRODUCTIONS LTD PRESENT PEAKE-JONES GARDNER and PETERS Based on ‘Monsieur Chasse’ by Georges Feydeau Directed by Daniel Buckroyd ohn Cleese makes his stage writing debut THU 6 - SAT 15 FEB Jwith a hilarious new adaptation of this 7.30PM classic comedy – a delicious blend of French WED GREEN farce and Fawlty Towers based on Monsieur MATINEE 2.30PM Chasse! by Georges Feydeau. SAT MATINEE 2.30PM When Leontine, a respectable society lady, TICKETS £40-£16 discovers that she’s been hoodwinked by her husband, Duchotel, who’s always pretending to MEMBERSHIP DISCOUNT SAVINGS > P. 55 go hunting but is really chasing after other ‘prey’, she vows to take revenge on the philanderer! But while Duchotel’s away, his lifelong friend comes calling – and he’s on the hunt too. Will Leontine get caught in his sights, or instead set a trap of “ her own? “ Secrets unravel as the devilish Duchotel finds himself snared in a door-slamming, trouser- dropping, balcony-climbing night of chaos set amidst the stylish apartments of Paris. THE STAGE FRIENDS' EVENT MON 10 FEB 7.30PM FRI 7 FEB after the 7.30pm performance THU 13 FEB 7.30PM More info > P. 33 SAT 15 FEB 2.30PM EXETERNORTHCOTT.CO.UK BOX OFFICE 01392 726363 6 THEATRE THEATRE 7 LUNG PRESENTS WED 19 FEB 9-11 MAR 7.30PM 7.30PM MY MOTHER SAID I TROJAN HORSE TICKETS £18.50-£14 TICKETS NEVER SHOULD IN ASSOCIATION WITH LEEDS PLAYHOUSE AGE 12+ £18.50-£14 AGE 13+ A FINGERSMITHS AND SHEFFIELD THEATRES hy should I continue to be tolerant? Post-show talk PRODUCTION When the world has been so "W ou are always your Mother’s child, my intolerant of me." Tue 10: Mother used to say." Trojan Horse was a local story that hit Post-show talk "Y A moving and funny exploration of the lives the national press, accusing ‘hardline’ of four generations of women in one family. Muslim teachers and governors of plotting Shifting back and forth in time, we see their extremism in Birmingham schools. Integrated BSL & Captioning loves, expectations and choices play out against Adapted from the real-life testimonies of and Audio Described, with touch tours before every huge social change from 1900-1980s. those at the heart of the UK Government’s performance inquiry, critically acclaimed theatre- Presented in British Sign Language and spoken company LUNG investigate what really English and featuring a cast of one hearing and three d/Deaf actors, this production’s visual, happened. Trojan Horse is the story of a "...ingenious..." community torn apart by racial division, physical storytelling captures the rich breadth WHATSONSTAGE of communication styles that have always been ‘British values’ and the culture WHATSONSTAGE of Prevent. "...inventive, used by the d/Deaf community. inclusive..." THE STAGE BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE By Charlotte "...poignant Keatley and funny..." ONEREVIEW SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH 25-26 FEB WED 18 MAR A LITTLE SPACE NIGHT OF THE LIVING 7.30PM 2.30PM TM & 7.30PM A GECKO AND MIND THE GAP CO-PRODUCTION WED GREEN DEAD - REMIX TICKETS AN IMITATING THE DOG AND LEEDS MATINEE 2.30PM £18.50-£14 hat does it mean to you to have a little PLAYHOUSE CO-PRODUCTION TICKETS Wspace? £18.50-£14 A little space where we can escape the world even strangers take refuge from flesh AGE 15+ Seating ‘ghouls’ in an isolated farmhouse. Wed 18 matinee: and be ourselves. Where we can say whatever As the night draws in, their situation becomes Post-show talk we want, do whatever we feel and where no one desperate, hope turns to despair, and the picket- will ever bother us. d/Deaf community fence American dream is smashed apart. enabled, including Sound But it can be an unpredictable space too, where Seven performers enter the stage armed with World Information Sheet. voices are funnelled away, fears leak through The Post-show talk will the floorboards, songs light up the room and you cameras, a box of props and a rail of costumes. "Imitating the be BSL Interpreted. Can they recreate the film, shot-for-shot before Dog is not only never know who’s listening behind the door. our eyes, using whatever they can lay their a company A little space combines a unique blend of hands on? without theatre, choreography and stunning imagery 50 years after the release of George A. Romero’s imitators, it with incredible performers from Mind the Gap, politically charged zombie movie, imitating the is currently one of Europe’s leading learning disability theatre companies. dog and Leeds Playhouse create a love-song to without peer" the original 1960s film, retelling it as a searing story for now. THE GUARDIAN Presented by courtesy of Image Ten, Inc. EXETERNORTHCOTT.CO.UK BOX OFFICE 01392 726363 8 THEATRE THEATRE 9 THE ORIGINAL COUNTRY HOUSE THRILLER WHICH production INSPIRED THREE CLASSIC MOVIES and Theatre Royal Plymouth A Told by an Idiot BILL KENWRIGHT PRESENTS created by Told by an Idiot with Royal & Derngate Northampton and Unity Theatre, Liverpool "Theatre about as inventive, imaginative and fantastical as it gets" TIME OUT "Told by an Idiot’s work is never less than THE TIMES ON LIVING SPIT’S sublime"FRANKENSTEIN GUARDIAN 20-25 APR n 1910 the unknown Charlie Chaplin autobiography Stan Laurel is never 24-28 MAR wenty years after the death Building on the phenomenal 7.30PM Iand Stan Laurel set sail for New mentioned.