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Exeter Northcott has announced details of its new Autumn / Winter season. This is the third season for the professional theatre-producing venue since it reopened last Christmas following a £2.1 million refit.

The huge range of performing arts events contained in the Autumn / Winter season – including drama, contemporary dance, opera, pantomime, music, comedy, community and amateur performances – demonstrates a rapid evolution in the way Exeter Northcott caters for it loyal core patrons and also seeks new audiences.

With such a variety on offer, it is difficult to pick out highlights, but mention should be made of the season opener: a new adaptation by Mark Healy of Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd, co-produced by English Touring Theatre and Exeter Northcott and starring Stephen Billington (Greg Kelly in Coronation Street) as Boldwood.

Among the new visitors to Exeter Northcott is one of the Arts Councils newest RFO’s, Freedom Studios, with Happy & Married, directed by Madani Younis, also Lifeblood Theatre Company (with Shakespeare’s Globe) with Glyn Maxwell’s Liberty; Trestle theatre company and the Jasmin Vardimon dance company. One night only events include Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra and appearances by comedian Jeremy Hardy and TV architectural historian Dan Cruickshank.

Established companies returning this season include English Touring Opera, Richard Alston Dance Company and Pilot Theatre (with York Theatre Royal) with its award-winning adaptation of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.

Exeter Northcott Theatre Company will once again produce an in-house pantomime, The Sleeping Beauty, written and directed by Artistic Director Ben Crocker who leaves the venue in August after a very successful ten years at the helm. Older members of Exeter Northcott's Young Company - part of the theatre's community participation programme - tackle Sarah Kane's Crave, and local performing arts school Stage by Stage perform The King and I.

Performances Include:

1 October: Ronnie Scott's Jazz Orchestra

3 October: Dan Cruickshank

7 & 8 October: Trestle Theatre: LOLA: The Life Of Lola Montez
This autumn, Trestle Theatre comes to Exeter Northcott with Lola, a new touring production which tells the true story of Lola Montez, the infamous 19th century fake Spanish dancer.

Lola Montez was born Eliza Rosanna Gilbert in Ireland in 1821. As an adult, she re-invented herself as the Spanish dancer Lola Montez and went on to perform throughout the world seducing many wealthy and influential men along the way including Franz Liszt and King Ludwig 1st of Bavaria. Lola led a tumultuous life, never settling in any one place or with anyone for long. She lived the life of a celebrity but died alone.

In Trestle’s latest work, Lola prepares for the final performance of her life, revisiting her bittersweet past from humble Irish origins to becoming one of the most notorious women in the world. Lola’s unique tale is told through the wit and passion of her own published words with live music from renowned guitarist Ricardo Garcia - an accomplished Flamenco musician blending the classic Spanish rhythms with his spellbinding signature style.

9 October: Tall Stories: How the Giraffe got its neck

10 October: Freedom Studios: Happy & Married?

14 - 18 October: Lifeblood Theatre Company: Liberty
Following its world premiere at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Liberty is the first Globe main stage production to tour the UK and co-producers, Lifeblood Theatre Company, are the first company ever to co-produce a show with The Globe.

The play tells the story of how a group of friends are sundered by mass hysteria and how idealism is corrupted and degraded by fear within a violent state dictatorship. Paris, 1793. The French Revolution is four years old when ambitious young artist, Gamelin (David Sturzaker), discovers he has been made a magistrate for the ruling forces. Gamelin believes the Revolution divides the world between good and evil, he sees conspiracy and corruption everywhere. How strong will the ties of love and friendship prove when he is given power over life and death, as the new order plunges with terrifying momentum from high idealism to bloody mob rule?

Writer Glyn Maxwell is an award winning poet, playwright and novelist. His play Lifeblood was voted best play by the British Theatre Guide in 2004 and led the producer, Sue Scott Davison to create Lifeblood Theatre Company which champions new writing. Glyn’s novel The Girl Who Was Going to Die was published in March this year and his new book of poetry, Hide Now, will be available this autumn.

21 - 25 October: English Touring Opera

28 Oct - 1 Nov: Stage by Stage - The King and I

4 & 5 November: Richard Alston Dance Company

7 & 8 November: Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company

11 - 15 November: Pilot Theatre: Lord of the Flies

21 - 22 November: Northcott Community Company: Crave

25 November: Jeremy Hardy

10 December 2008 - 17 January 2009: Northcott Theatre Company: The Sleeping Beauty