Exeter Northcott Theatre Announces New Season

Exeter Northcott Theatre is delighted to announce its exciting autumn 2016 season. This season the theatre has cut its £2 transaction booking fee. Instead, customers who want their tickets posted will be asked to pay a small charge to cover postage costs.

After seven years local actor Steve Bennett will return to the Exeter Northcott Theatre this Christmas, playing the roles of Mr Darling and Tinkerbell in Peter Pan. Featuring death-defying feats of flying and a generous sprinkling of fairy dust, Peter Pan is the perfect festive treat for all the family.

Exeter will be the first stop on a tour of English Touring Theatre's French Without Tears (16-24 September), a rare chance to see Terrence Rattigan's ravishing 1930s comedy of young love and stiff upper lips, while the Edward Fox-starring Sand in the Sandwiches travels through Betjeman's boyhood to life as Britain's Poet Laureate.

Comedy highlights include Jenny Éclair's new tour, How to Be A Middle Aged Woman (Without Going Insane), on October, and Pam Ayres on 12-13 November. Shakespeare's Globe returns to the Exeter Northcott with their riotous Two Gentlemen of Verona (8-11 September), while Complicite's brand new musical A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer is an all-singing, all-dancing examination of life with a cancer diagnosis. The production opens first in HOME in Manchester, before touring to Exeter Northcott (28 September-2 October) and then heading to the National Theatre.

Clare Balding shares stories and family entertainment to mark the publication of her very first children's book The Racehorse Who Wouldn't Gallop (5 October), Two Bit Classics' adaptation brings to life Austen's Pride and Prejudice with just two actors (13-15 October), hypnotic Told by the Wind combines movement and text (17 October), and Graeme Swann, England's greatest ever spin bowler, discusses his career with commentator Henry Blofeld (22 October).

Original Theatre Company brings Emlyn Williams's psychological thriller Night Must Fall (25-29 October), and Dead Sheep tells the true story of Mrs Thatcher's downfall (31 October-5 November).

Family events include Metta Theatre's Blown Away (3-4 September), Monstersaurus (25 September), musical adaptation of Mr Poppers Penguins (8 October), aerial circus company Ockham Razor's Tipping Point (7-8 November), and several Exeetreme Imagination Festival events in October, including a talk by Michael Morpurgo.

In dance, Move It! showcases the stars of tomorrow (9 October), 2Faced Dance Company bring an explosive new triple bill (11 October), Chance to Dance involves local dancing schools and groups (30 October), and Ballet Black return with an abstract trilogy. English Touring Opera performances include Handel's Xerxes (22 November), Monteverdi's Ulysses' Homecoming (24-26 November) and Cavalli's La Calisto (23 November).

Tickets for the Spring/Summer 2016 season are on sale at 10am on Friday 10 June. Call the Exeter Northcott Theatre box office on01392 726363 or book your seats online at the Exeter Northcott Theatre website: www.exeternorthcott.co.uk. Alternatively buy in person from Exeter Northcott Theatre, Stocker Road, EX4 4QB

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