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Exeter Northcott Theatre launches Autumn 2010 season 27/07/10 »
Exeter Northcott Theatre is delighted to announce details of its full Autumn 2010 programme of events. Packed full of classic and contemporary plays, music, comedy, dance and family shows, there is sure to be something to tempt everyone.
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Maurice Marshal 1934 - 2010 »
Maurice Marshal MBE, former Chief Electrician and Technical Training Associate at Exeter Northcott and co-founder of Stage Electrics has died following a courageous battle to fight cancer at the age of 76.
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University steps in to operate Exeter Northcott 20/05/10 »
The University of Exeter has agreed to set up a new company to run the Exeter Northcott. The theatre will go ahead with both the Exeter Summer Festival events and is planning a winter programme, including a Christmas show.
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New enhanced hearing system installed »
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Are you under 26? Get free tickets to the theatre... »
A Night Less Ordinary is an Arts Council England scheme in association with Metro, which provides 618,000 free theatre tickets to anyone under 26 in more than 200 venues across England.
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Exeter Northcott announces Summer Festival Programme 28/04/10
Exeter Northcott is delighted to announce details of its programme of events for this year’s Exeter Summer Festival.
The season launches on Thursday 24 June with the Mark Bruce Dance Company’s Love and War, presented in a special in-the-round theatre. In his startling new work, choreographer Mark Bruce uses a soundtrack including Sparklehouse, The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age and György Ligeti, to present 360 degrees of dance in a transformed Exeter Northcott auditorium.
The in-the-round-theatre theme continues on Saturday 26 June with two poetry events presented by Live Canon: Poetry Party, an hour of interactive verse for 5 – 8 year olds and their families, features music, games, surprises and lots of poems; whilst Sundowners and Sonnets offers a more grown up evening of poetry by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, with a free cocktail included in the £10 ticket price and post-show music.
Linda Marlowe delivers a virtuoso performance of poems by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy in The World’s Wife on Wednesday 30 June and the Critics Circle award-winning Independent Ballet Wales return to the theatre on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 July with their heart-breaking production of Giselle, with music by Adolphe Adam.
Exeter Northcott also plays host to the Friends of Exeter Festival event, Richard Holmes – in the Footsteps of Churchill on Monday 5 July, in which the world renowned writer tells the soaring but controversial story of Winston Churchill, followed by an open question time for the audience.
Closing the Northcott’s Festival season on Thursday 8 July is the delightfully madcap Barbershopera II – The Barber of Shavingham, where an unlikely story unravels of a Catalan matador who inherits a Norfolk barbershop. This award-winning musical comedy garnered rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe in both 2008 and 2009, winning Best Lyrics at the Musical Theatre Matters awards in both years.
Exeter Northcott is also delighted to announce that San Jose Taiko will appear at the theatre on Sunday 18 July as part of the 6th UK Taiko Festival, hosted here in Exeter by Kagemusha Taiko who will play the first part of the show.
Tickets for Exeter Northcott’s Summer Season of events go on sale on Friday 30 April and are available from the Exeter Northcott Box Office on 01392 493 493 or online at www.exeternorthcott.co.uk
Tickets will also be available from the Exeter Summer Festival Box Office, on 01392 667067 / www.exeter.gov.uk/summerfestival (online sales subject to a £1.50 booking fee).
Exeter Summer Festival is promoted and supported for Exeter City Council in partnership with Exeter Northcott. Full listings for events taking place at Exeter Northcott follow below and on the next page.
Are you under the age of 26? Exeter Northcott continues to offer up to 50 free tickets a week as part of Arts Council England’s A Night Less Ordinary scheme. Tickets for events in the summer season can be booked from Wednesday 5 May and are limited to two per person for the season. Full details of the scheme can be found here.
For further information and to request interviews and images, please contact:
• James Fenton for Exeter Summer Festival on 01308 420 785/07780 976 163, email james@watershedpr.co.uk
To request review tickets, please contact:
• Katherine Scott for Exeter Northcott on 01392 223 988, email k.j.scott@exeter.ac.uk
For more information about Exeter City Council and the Summer Festival schedule please visit: www.exeter.gov.uk/summerfestival To request a Festival Brochure please contact the Exeter Festival Box Office on 01392 667 067.
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Exeter Northcott Summer 2010 Season – Full Listings
The Mark Bruce Company present
Love and War
Thurs 24 and Fri 25 June
7.30pm
£15 unreserved seating, half price concessions
Post Show Talk - Thurs 24 June
Startling new dance work that uses theatre-in-the-round and a soundtrack of contemporary music to create a savage otherworld in a transformed auditorium.
An Exeter Northcott promotion in association with Exeter Summer Festival
Exeter Northcott & Live Canon present
Poetry Party
Sat 26 June
2.30pm
£7.50 unreserved seating; Family Ticket: £18 for 3, additional tickets half price.
Inspiring poetry for 5 – 8 year olds and their families, featuring music, games and interactive verse, and presented in a special in-the-round theatre.
An Exeter Northcott promotion in association with Exeter Summer Festival
Exeter Northcott & Live Canon present
Sundowners and Sonnets
Sat 26 June
7.30pm
£10 unreserved seating (includes cocktail)
An evening of poetry by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, presented in a special in-the-round theatre.
An Exeter Northcott promotion in association with Exeter Summer Festival
Seabright Productions and LMP present
The World’s Wife
Wed 30 June
7.30pm
£10 to £14, half price concessions
Post Show Talk 8.45pm
A new stage version of poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s acclaimed poems, performed by Linda Marlowe.
An Exeter Northcott promotion in association with Exeter Summer Festival
Independent Ballet Wales present
Giselle
Fri 2 & Sat 3 July
7.30pm
£12 to £20, half price concessions
A passionate and dramatic reworking of Petipa’s romantic ballet, featuring an original score by Adolphe Adam.
An Exeter Northcott promotion in association with Exeter Summer Festival
The Friends of Exeter Festival in association with Clive Conway present
Richard Holmes – in The Footsteps of Churchill
Mon 5 July
7.30pm
£18
Professor Richard Holmes tells the soaring but controversial story of Winston Churchill, followed by an open question time for the audience.
Seabright Productions and Barbershopera Productions present
Barbershopera II – The Barber Of Shavingham
Thurs 8 July
7.30pm
£10 to £16, half price concessions
The unlikely story of a Catalan matador who inherits a Norfolk barbershop unravels in this delightfully madcap show packed with laughs, tears and stampeding cows.
An Exeter Northcott promotion in association with Exeter Summer Festival
Kagemusha Taiko present
San Jose Taiko
Sun 18 July
7.30pm
£12.50 to £22
San Jose Taiko, from California, make their first ever concert appearance in the UK as part of the 6th UK Taiko Festival.
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