Free Theatre Tickets! For under 26's: A Night Less Ordinary

Exeter Northcott has been the home of high-quality professional theatre in Exeter and Devon for forty years. Located on the campus of Exeter University, the theatre presents a high quality, year-round programme of professional drama, music, dance and light entertainment. Through its Creative Learning Programme, the Theatre also provides opportunities for the local community to actively engage with the arts and is renowned for giving its Young and Community companies the opportunity to perform on stage in professionally produced productions. A wide range of local community and amateur groups also present performances on the Theatre’s stage.

Forthcoming:

• 28/04/2009 - 30/04/2009 The Snow Queen

  In a distant land a demon creates a magic mirror which turns good to bad and beautiful ugly. It shatters and a million fragments fly around the universe...

  Kay is pierced by two tiny splinters from the mirror, freezing his heart and darkening his view of the world. The icy snow queen takes him prisoner in her frozen palace, leaving all to think him dead, except his best friend Gerda. And so begins her brave adventure through magical landscapes to find and rescue her friend...

  Internationally acclaimed Italian Theatre Company, Teatro Kismet, returns on a rare visit to the UK with a spine-tingling version of Hans Christian Anderson's magical tale.

  Renowned for creating visually stunning theatre, their new work combines physical performance, breathtaking aerial acrobatics and choreography with music, playful humour and deliciously inventive storytelling.

  The Snow Queen is a thrilling theatre experience dedicated to childhood as well as to all grown ups who still love a good story and retain a sense of wonder.

  
  
  
• 16/04/2009 - 18/04/2009 Vincent In Brixton

  The year is 1873. A young art dealer called Vincent van Gogh arrives at 87, Hackford Road in Brixton looking for a room and looking for love. As Vincent settles in to his new lodging he finds himself inexplicably drawn to his grieving landlady Ursula with whom he starts a turbulent, secret relationship that will change his life forever.

  Set in a working, authentic kitchen, the smells, sights and sounds of life in 87, Hackford Road are brought vividly to life, immersing the audience in a truly extraordinary theatrical experience. The play wrenches home the destructive power of love and art and the sacrifices made by those who create it. As the allusions between life at 87, Hackford Road and art intensify, this story turns into a tragic parable about the ruthless flame of art consuming all in its path.

  
  
  
• 06/05/2009 - 09/05/2009 Look Back in Anger

  Jimmy Porter is the original 'angry young man'. Funny, clever, charismatic; he should have it all. Has the world let him down? Or is he intent on destroying himself and everyone he loves? Alison, his wife, suffers his furies on a daily basis and the arrival of her best friend can only inflame Jimmy more.

  Osborne's 1956 masterpiece is a shocking love triangle, exploding with the extraordinary passions of everyday life.

  Starring Bill Ward (Coronation Street's Charlie Stubbs) as Jimmy, Nia Gwynne as Alison, Laura Howard (Midsomer Murders' Cully) as helena, Robb Storr as Cliff and Robert East as the Colonel.

  Northern Stage is one of the UK's leading producing theatres, and has built a reputation for creating fresh and relevant adaptations of classic plays. Director Erica Whyman and Designer Soutra Gilmour recently collaborated on a 1950's version of Ibsen's A Doll House and previously mounted the first ever revival of the Geordie epic Our Friends in the North (nominated for a Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards).

  
  
  
• 10/05/2009 - 10/05/2009 Solstice String Quartet

  Founded at Cambridge University in 2003, the Solstice Quartet has proven itself to be a vital young ensemble of outstanding talent and musicality, and has enjoyed widespread success with its varied schedule of recitals, collaborations and study.

  HAYDN – QUARTET Op.71 No.3 “Rider” MOZART – Quartet in B flat K.589 “Prussian” SCHUBERT – Quartet in A minor “'Rosamunde”

  
  
  
• 19/05/2009 - 20/05/2009 Birmingham Royal Ballet

  Birmingham Royal Ballet returns to the Exeter Northcott Theatre with another exciting and varied programme of world-class dance.

  Led by Artistic Director, David Bintley, the company is renowned for its exciting mix of the classics and daring and innovative new ballets. The evening features three very different one-act ballets and demonstrates the versatility and skill of this talented company.

  George Balanchine’s Mozartiana is a sparkling piece of pure classical dance to similarly effervescent music from the great ballet composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

  Twilight is a breathtaking mini drama by Hans Van Manen. Set to John Cage’s exhilarating music (The Perilous Night) for prepared piano, a couple’s quarrel deteriorates into dynamic full-blown rage, as the sound of the woman’s stilettos pounds the floor matching her furious passion.

  The evening also features a brand-new piece from contemporary choreographer Garry Stewart, Artistic Director of Australian Dance Theatre. This stylish and dynamic piece is set to an urban and industrialised soundscape and presents the audience with an intense explosion of modern dance.