Creative Schools

Below you’ll find a number of shows that we think may be of interest to you. We’ve noted any schools offers available. To book, please contact our Box Office on 01392 72 63 63 or [email protected].

If you’re interested in workshops or bespoke projects, please contact our Creative Engagement Team. Make sure you scroll down to find out more about available resource packs too!

When you scroll all the way down, you’ll find answers to our most frequently asked questions, as well as our safeguarding policy and draft risk assessments that you are welcome to adapt and use.

Email Creative Engagement Email our Box Office to book

Schools Offers For Upcoming Shows

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.

Early bird offer for panto 2024 now on!

Schools performances:

Mon 2 Dec, 10.30am
Tue 3 Dec, 1pm
Mon 9 Dec, 1pm
Tue 10 Dec, 10.30am
Thu 12 Dec, 10.30am
Fri 13 Dec, 1pm
Mon 16 Dec, 10.30am
Tue 17 Dec, 1pm

Tickets: £11 + every 11th free
Early bird offer runs until 23 July: £10 + every 11th free

Cinderella is recommended for ages 5+

To make a booking, please contact our box office team on 01392 72 63 63 (Tue – Sat 10am – 2pm) or [email protected].

Early Years / Key Stage 1 and Older

Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book – School Groups £10

Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book artwork. Illustrated. A light green grassy field, in front of forests and mountains. A castle sits in front of the mountain peaks. O the grassy field, (left to right) a green dragon, and orange frog sitting on a stack of books, a bear, a pirate, a knight in medieval armour and a parrot circle around a young boy wearing a red and white striped shirt and blue jeans sitting in a yellow chair with a repeating leaf and parrot pattern. Above, text reads (top to bottom): ‘A musical adaptation of the best-selling book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book.’ Below this text, a crocodile tears apart a book. Other books lie on the right side of the crocodile in the grass.
Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book
Fri 10 May 2024 – Sun 12 May 2024
Northcott Theatre
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Key Stage 3 & 4 and Older

Hedda – School Groups £14 (no group comps)
Happy Father’s Day – School Groups (Ages 11+)
ETO – Puccini: Manon Lescaut – School Groups
ETO – Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress – Schools
Shechter II presents From England with Love – School Groups (Ages 14+)
Ballet Cymru presents Romeo a Juliet – School Groups

Hedda artwork. A young white woman with brown hair tied in a bun and wearing a red dress with rose and thorn print patterns, gives a hard stare to the camera while holding two flintlock pistols in the air either side of their head. They are stood inside a country mansion. Overlaid on the image, text reads: 'Hedda.
Hedda
Tue 30 Apr 2024 – Sat 04 May 2024
Barnfield Theatre
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Happy Father's Day artwork. Black background. Dani Harris-Walters (a young black man wearing a blue jumpers and black trousers) forms a straight line with his body, arms by his sides. He is tilted at a diagonal angle. In the top left corner, text that is formed out of illustrated sperm reads 'Happy Father's Day'.
Happy Father’s Day
Wed 08 May 2024
Northcott Theatre
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English Touring Opera Manon Lescaut artwork. Yellow background. (Bottom left) text reads: ‘Puccini. Manon Lescaut.’ (Centre right) A young woman with long black hair wearing a black jumper holds can be seen through five thin rectangle cut outs in the yellow background. She is holding onto one of the non-cut out parts, which make her look as though she is behind prison bars. (Top right) text reads: ‘English Touring Opera. Opera that moves.’
ETO – Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Thu 23 May 2024 – Sat 25 May 2024
Northcott Theatre
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English Touring Opera The Rake’s Progress artwork. Red background. (Bottom left) text reads: ‘Stravinsky. The Rake’s Progress.’ (Centre) A young white man with dark brown hair and beard looks out from a cut-out in the red background, shaped like the head of the devil with horns. (Top right) text reads: ‘English Touring Opera. Opera that moves.’
ETO – Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress
Fri 24 May 2024
Northcott Theatre
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From England with Love artwork. A photograph looking out over the River Thames and Westminster Bridge, a long green metal bridge, in front of the Palace of Westminster, a large light brown stone building, and Big Ben, a large light brown stone clock tower, in London, England. At the bottom left-hand corner of the artwork, two silhouetted figures stand in the river water.
From England with Love
Tue 11 Jun 2024 – Wed 12 Jun 2024
Northcott Theatre
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Ballet Cymru's Romeo a Juliet promotional artwork: two dancers leap into the air side-by-side, looking into one another's eyes; the background is a cloudy urban skyscape.
Romeo a Juliet
Mon 24 Jun 2024 – Tue 25 Jun 2024
Northcott Theatre
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Key Stage 5 and Older

The Passion of Living Spit – School Groups (Ages 12+)

The Passion of Living Spit artwork. Leonardo Da Vinchi's painting 'The Last Supper', featuring Jesus and his disciples sat along a large rectangular table in a spacious room. However, the Living Spit have superimposed their performers faces onto the faces of Jesus and his disciples. The Living Spit performers all have different expressions, ranging from shocked to laughing.
The Passion of Living Spit
Tue 21 May 2024 – Wed 22 May 2024
Barnfield Theatre
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Northcott Heritage Schools Resource

The creation of the Northcott Young Company heritage show The Back End of the Cow and Other Stories was a highlight of our year in terms of Children and Young People’s work.

Not only were we able to create a show with 15 of our young people, we also offered early career opportunities for 2 former Northcott Young Company members and a University of Exeter undergraduate student.

The 5 backstage promenade performances were all sell-outs and really positively received.

A young man looks down at a fake cow head – to their right, a sign saying ‘stage left, quiet please’
Photo: Ralph Whitehead

Explore our Education Resource

In conjunction with the making of this show we have developed a schools’ education resource.

This in-depth teaching and learning resource is aimed at Key Stages 3 and 4 and encourages students to use verbatim theatre techniques to make their own piece of promenade theatre.

Explore the resource

It was great to perform in a different way and exciting to tell people’s stories and experiences in the places where they actually happened.

Northcott Young Company member

Workshops and Field Trips

Photo © Ralph Whitehead

We have a series of workshops we can bring into schools and colleges, including ‘Introduction to pantomime’, ‘Opening up the Archive’ and more. We also offer a half day introduction to technical theatre for Key Stages 2 and 3: ‘Behind the Curtain’.

We are also able to tailor bespoke field trips, visits and workshops to the needs of your students and curriculum.

If you would like to learn more about our workshops and how we can support your students, please email our Children and Young People producer Lisa Hudson at [email protected]

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Digital Educational Resources

We have created five free practical ‘how to’ guides on digital storytelling. Inspired by the story of Little Red Riding Hood, these guides have been designed for Year 6 (easily adaptable for Y 4/5 or Y 7/8) and focus on scriptwriting, audio recording, photography, filmmaking and animation.

Go to Resources
Digital StoryTelling Workshop Offered free to Year 6 teachers and support staff
© Benjamin Akira Tallamy

Your Visit / FAQ

  • Yes, we offer school booking discount on selected shows at the theatre. You’ll find available discounts higher up on this page. If there is a different production you would be interested in bringing your school group to, please speak to our Box Office.

  • When making a school booking, we will make a provisional reservation, which we can hold whilst arrangements are made with parents/pupils for the visit. We will look to confirm the final number of tickets needed at least one month ahead of the show, at which point we will issue the school an invoice for the order.

  • We can offer Home Education groups school rate tickets on eligible shows, providing there are over ten people in the attending group.

  • Yes, you are welcome to book ice creams in advance for your visit. To do this, please request a booking form from our Box Office.

  • We have limited space at the theatre, so we ask that children eat packed lunches/food elsewhere. The Exeter Northcott is located on the University of Exeter Streatham campus, where there is a lot of outside space to eat before/after visiting the theatre.

  • If you are attending with a coach, please let us know. We will ask campus services to open Forum Hill for coach parking if we know in advance. The hill is just outside the theatre and very easy to get to for visiting schools.

  • While we do offer school specific matinees for some shows, most of our weekday matinees are open to the public as well, so please bear this in mind when planning your trip.

  • Yes, our risk assessment for visiting the theatre, as well as our safeguarding policy can be downloaded below.

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