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Spotlight On: Elevate Festival 2024

Posted October 29th, 2024

Reflections on our jam-packed week of performances, masterclasses and socials for South-West artists and audiences.

Three actors stand side-by-side on a stage, singing towards the camera. Behind them, a simply-made bed and a chair pulled up to a table.

Introducing our Elevate Associate Artists and Companies

Posted October 15th, 2024

We’re delighted to reveal our first five local Elevate Associates.

Martin Berry, wearing a burgundy polo shirt, leans over a line of chairs to study his script. Behind him, the purple chairs of the Northcott auditorium.

The Commotion Time: Hannah Mulder’s rehearsal diary

Posted October 13th, 2024

Experience the excitement of the rehearsal room for The Commotion Time.

Photo of four of the cast members of Exeter Northcott's Cinderella, standing side-by-side, arm-in-arm on the steps of a formal garden. Left to right: a man wearing a violent orange dress and matching bow; another man wearing a pink gown and enourmous wig; a woman with long dark hair in a denim jacket and blue tulle skirt; a man in an acid green dress and matching bow.

Meet the cast of Cinderella

Posted October 10th, 2024

Le Navet Bete are back, alongside six superstar 9-11-year-olds playing Quackers the Duck, and six other professional actors, all from the South West.

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Reclaim: our new festival of work by women, for women

Posted October 3rd, 2024

We’re inviting artists and audiences to take part in a week of locally-sourced, patriarchy-smashing creativity.

Sarah Dickenson, a middle-aged brunette in a pinstriped shirt, sits in a seated circle with a script on her lap. She has one finger, holding a pencil, against her lips.

Meet The Commotion Time playwright, Sarah Dickenson

Posted September 3rd, 2024

Discover how our world premiere drama came to be, and what it means to its playwright.

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Meet Squeeze Box, our Elevate Festival Resident Company

Posted August 30th, 2024

We’re providing a local theatre company with space and support to spend some time making.

Exeter Northcott launches new artist development programme: Elevate

Posted August 30th, 2024

Introducing our brand-new Elevate membership, and Elevate Festival.

A young girl wearing a blue and white-coloured hoodie leans forward onto a red theatre seat. She is resting he head on her crossed arms, and is looking up and smiling at what is happening off-camera on stage. She is surrounded by other young people, also engaged with what is happening off-camera on stage.

Exeter Northcott partners with local charities to gift 200 tickets

Posted August 22nd, 2024

We’ve launched our fifth annual Pay It Forward campaign by gifting tickets to our upcoming pantomime, Cinderella.

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Barnfield Writing Residency: Ali May and Hattie Collins reflect on their experiences

Posted August 12th, 2024

Two local playwrights share their thoughts on having a week’s paid time to write freely.

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Exeter Northcott launches annual script submission window for South-West playwrights

Posted August 8th, 2024

Revamped new work strategy offers one writer a seed commission for a full-length play.

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Local children to star in pantomime – register to audition now

Posted July 16th, 2024

A team of just five 7 – 11 year-olds will share the role of Quackers the Duck in Cinderella, each appearing in 12 performances during the run.

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Exeter Northcott is back producing original work made in the South West

Posted June 13th, 2024

South West artists and audiences are at the heart of our Autumn/Winter 2024 season, which includes three original productions.

Potholes on Mars production image. Background: The Northcott Theatre stage. Black curtain backdrop. A stage floor lit with blue and red lighting. Foreground: A mixed group of people wearing white lab coats. The people on the left-hand side of the image are holding fishing lines with red string. One of them is using a wheelchair. On the end of the string are household objects and children’s toys. The people on the right-hand side of the image are holding and trying to catch the objects on the string and place them on a table.

Exeter Northcott partners with Ramps on the Moon to champion anti-ableism

Posted June 4th, 2024

We are delighted to join Ramps on the Moon’s first ever cohort of Change Partners, developing anti-ableist practice across the sector.

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Local people invited to audition for The Commotion Time

Posted May 29th, 2024

Exeter Northcott has issued an open call-out for voluntary local performers to form a community ensemble for the world premiere of Sarah Dickenson’s play The Commotion Time.

Exeter Northcott leads national conversation about opportunities in theatre

Posted May 24th, 2024

Exeter Northcott has made a public commitment to advertise a minimum of one creative role on every home-produced show.

The Commotion Time artwork: A young woman wearing historical clothing (white shirt under a yellow dress) is seen from neck to waist. In her outstretched hands she holds a miniature Gildhouse, set atop a mound of grassy earth. The earth falls through her fingers.

Exeter Northcott to present the world premiere of The Commotion Time

Posted May 16th, 2024

We are delighted to announce the world premiere of The Commotion Time, a compelling tale of insurrection, love, desperation and murder by South West-based playwright Sarah Dickenson.

Text reads Exeter Northcott Theatre and Le Navet Bete present: Cinderella. Two little mice are haning out on the letters. On the right, is Cinderella practically floating. We see a poofy blue dress skirt, sparkly boots with one lace trailing behind and orange tights. Sparkles are trailing around her feet and there's a little duckling in her boot.

Exeter Northcott Theatre and Le Navet Bete present Cinderella for Christmas 2024

Posted April 4th, 2024

After year-on-year record-breaking success, Exeter Northcott and Le Navet Bete team up once again to bring you this fabulous modern take on a classic story.

Feel Me production photo. Three causally-dressed young performers sit on the floor and take selfies.

We’re bringing young people’s empathy centre stage

Posted March 22nd, 2024

We are bringing two visually stunning and provocative shows, Feel Me and Belongings, to the Northcott Theatre within the next few weeks. Both shows’ creative teams have used years of research and planning to actively connect the audience to their stories and help build empathy.

A woman dressed in a red onesie controls a sweet looking baby clown puppet, which looks up at a light up crescent moon being held by another actor.

We’re launching our first pyjama performance for families at the Barnfield Theatre!

Posted March 11th, 2024

We’ll be holding our first ever pyjama performance for the upcoming early years show The Farmer & The Clown on Wednesday 13 March, 6pm, at the Barnfield Theatre.

Exeter Northcott Theatre Spring / Summer 2024 announcement artwork. Pink background. A yellow paint stroke descends diagonally across the pink background from left to right. In the centre of the artwork, a spiral paintbrush strokes, spiralling out from the centre. In the top left-hand side of the artwork, paintbrush strokes in the shape of an arrow pointing towards the bottom right-hand corner of the artwork. Inside the spiral paintbrush stroke, images of people performing and artwork from shows being performed at Exeter Northcott Theatre and the Barnfield Theatre between January and June 2024.

Spring / Summer Shows Revealed

Posted December 13th, 2023

We’ve announced over 100 exciting new events at our Northcott and city centre Barnfield theatres from January until June 2024.