ON THIS WEEK AT: EXETER

... EXETER A RARE revival of Thomas Heywood's heroic 16th century drama Fair Maid of the West, newly transformed into a folksy romantic musical by Jack Emery, is at the Northcott prior to a tour of the Southwest and a quent run at Exeter until August ...

Published: Thursday 08 July 1971
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

On this week in: EXETER

... EXETER ALAN BENNETT'S satire on the permissive society Habeas Corpus is at The Northcott, directed by its new associate director David Thacker, in a crisp and incisive production that has all the naughtiness and satirical humour of the rol licking ...

Published: Thursday 15 June 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

On this week in: EXETER

... production remains at the Northcott until Sep tember and then goes on to the Sherman at Cardiff for two weeks and Aberystwyth for one week. On this week in ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1974
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 376 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

ON THIS WEEK AT: EXETER

... EXETER TWO STARS are shining brilliantly at the Northcott in Aleksei Arbuzov's play Old World. Phyllis Calvert ana ueoi- frey Toone form a delightful duo in this gentle, romantic comedy of the Doctor and his patient which besides possessing beautifully ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

ON THIS WEEK AT: EXETER

... EXETER THE FIRST production under Jane Howell's administration at the Northcott, Arthur L Miller's 'The Price is, in some ways, a rather dis appointing choice. Wordy, introspective and repititious it has, for all its intrinsic competence, little to commend ...

Published: Thursday 11 February 1971
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

On this week in: EXETER

... EXETER LAST SUMMER the Northcott, Exeter staged part of the Cornish Cycle of Mystery plays from the New Testament which later transferred to the Globe, Bankside. This year as part of their summer programme they are presenting The Creation of the World ...

Published: Thursday 23 August 1973
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 295 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

On this week at: Exeter

... Exeter AUDIENCES from all over Devon and Cornwall are packing the Northcott for the first professional production of Hamlet in the West Country since the Donald Wolfit Co. tour nearly 30 years ago. Director tony murcn, wno is assisted by Nicholas Arnold ...

Published: Thursday 11 December 1969
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 346 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

ON THIS WEEK AT: EXETER

... EXETER TOM STOPPARD'S Travesties is not for all audiences and tastes, and for that matter, not for all actors, but its presentation this week at the Northcott is satisfying on both counts for it merits that much over-used word ant. Brilliant as a ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 312 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

On this week in: EXETER

... EXETER THE NORTHCOTT is drawing the crowds with Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy The Norman Conquests which opened with Table Manners on September 1. Ayckbourn's facility for extracting humour from the commonplaces of family life even from reading from the ...

Published: Thursday 06 October 1977
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 183 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

On this week at: EXETER

... EXETER TEN minutes before the curtain rose on Edward Bond's play Narrow Road to the Deep North at the Northcott, Exeter, on April 14, part of the ceiling plaster showered upon the audience, luckily without damage or harm, but unconsciously set ting ...

Published: Thursday 29 April 1971
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

On this week in: EXETER

... the numbers from Penny Cherns' production of Stop the World, I Want to Get Off now in repertoire at the Northcott, Exeter. On this week in ...

Published: Thursday 24 July 1975
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

ON THIS WEEK AT: EXETER

... EXETER BERNARD SHAW'S In Good King Charles's Golden Days at the Northcott appears now as an old man's gallant attempt to recapture the zest of his theatrical youth only to find the power of his once contentious reduced to mere words. Written in 1939 ...

Published: Thursday 18 May 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 411 | Page: 23 | Tags: none