Elevate Festival: Newsicals
Schedule
Fri, 17 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Exeter Northcott | Exeter, EN
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An evening of drinks, chat and ideas for new musicals hosted by Documental Productions. Newsicals showcases original musical theatre songs by local talent, demonstrating Devon’s new musical theatre scene and platforming a number of exciting and ambitious new musicals which are being developed right here in Exeter and the wider South West.Full artist line-up TBA in September.
If you’re interested in performing a song from a current musical theatre project at Newsicals, please come along to this event and see what we’re all about. We’ll launch an open call later this Autumn for our next Newsicals in Spring 2026.
Alternatively, you can email [email protected] to ensure you stay in the loop.
About Documental
Documental stories begin with interviews and archive finds. Their productions document British life in all its variety through playful, thought-provoking audio, theatre and musical productions. Documental want their shows to open up their arms and welcome the audience in. Increasingly, they’re involved in community action; Makaton choirs, songs created with rural communities, podcasts for community stations up and down the country, and a grown-up musical with Makaton signing.
Devon-based Documental is led by Kevin Elyot Award-winning writer Lucy Bell and local producer Naomi Turner. Their associates include award-winning neuro-diverse, carer and disabled creatives from the South West. Lucy was part of the first graduating class of producers on the Northcott Futures programme in 2020. Documental Theatre have since returned to our artist development programme, now called Elevate, to lead a masterclass on writing and dramaturgy in 2023, and to host Newsicals and perform Scaffolding in 2024. Naomi Turner co-produced the Northcott’s inaugural Reclaim Festival in November 2024.
Elevate Festival
This event is part of Elevate Festival, a week-long celebration of new work from South-West artists.
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Where is it happening?
Exeter Northcott, Stocker Road,Exeter, Devon, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
