Your guide to What's On this weekend
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (8-10 June).
THEATRE
The Simon and Garfunkel Story
Friday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter
Direct from it’s success at London’s Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, a SOLD OUT Worldwide tour and standing ovations at every performance, The Simon & Garfunkel Story is back! Using huge projection photos and original film footage, this 50th Anniversary Celebration also features a full live band performing all the hits including ‘Mrs Robinson’, ‘Cecilia’, ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’, ‘Homeward Bound’ and many more. Get your tickets fast as this is an evening not to be missed! Tickets £20. http://www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk
Into The Woods
Friday & Saturday, Exmouth Pavilion
Exmouth Musical Theatre Company present Into The Woods, a family friendly, funny, touching and magical mixture of the our most famous fairy tales. As the result of the curse of a once-beautiful witch, a baker and his wife are childless. Three days before the rise of a blue moon, they venture into the forest to find the ingredients that will reverse the spell and restore the witch's beauty: a milk-white cow, hair as yellow as corn, a blood-red cape, and a slipper of gold. During their journey, they meet Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack, each one on a quest to fulfill a wish. Will they all live happy ever after or should they be careful what they wish for? https://www.ledleisure.co.uk/exmouth-pavilion/
The Importance of Being Earnest
Friday & Saturday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter
One of the funniest plays in the English language is given a whole new burst of life thanks to the inimitable style of Russell Grant as Lady Bracknell! Now that’s a performance not to be missed! http://www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk/the-importance-of-being-earnest/
Barry Cryer & Colin Sell - Strictly Come Joking
Sunday, Exeter Northcott
Barry Cryer and Colin Sell – the Ant and Dec of the sanatogen set, reunite to bring you a new show, devised by them after the visitors left. Cryer, still a “Sprightly Veteran” (Undertakers Gazette) and Sell a “Legendary Virtuoso” (Pensioners Website) combine to entertain you with songs, jokes and the amazing realization that they’re still here. Join them before they come apart. https://exeternorthcott.co.uk
Iolanthe
Friday & Saturday, Exeter Northcott
Universally regarded as Sir Arthur Sullivan’s most beautiful score, Iolanthe is a topsy-turvy love story between the most unlikely of couples… fairies and members of the House of Lord’s! Sasha Regan’s inimitable inventiveness combined with Gilbert and Sullivan’s inherent barminess make for an unmissable night out. https://exeternorthcott.co.uk
MUSIC
Lemonfest
Friday & Saturday, Newton Abbot Racecourse
The popular independent, two-day boutique festival returns. Full details and tickets: www.lemonfest.co.uk
Smoove & Turrell
Friday, Exeter Phoenix
Smoove & Turrell are an English electronica group that creates a style of music they describe as ‘Northern Funk’. The duo’s contemporary sound fuses a variety of musical genres including funk, Northern soul, hip hop and jazz. http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/
Phonic FM Takeover
Saturday, Exeter Phoenix
Celebrating 10 years of broadcasting with a building takeover featuring live music, DJs, films, outside broadcasts, studio tours and a radio conference. Noon-midnight. Free. http://phonic.fm
EVENTS
Marina Day
Saturday, 10am, Torquay Marina
Don’t miss out on all the family fun of Marina Day in Torquay, if’s a big celebration of marina life with lots of activities out on the water, displays along the promenade and live entertainment. www.mdlmarinas.co.uk
Coffee Morning
Saturday, 10am, The Blackmore Theatre, Bicton Street, Exmouth
Join the Exmouth Players for tea, coffee and some very lovely home-made cakes. There will be a raffle, books, cards, DVDs and much more on sale. 10am-2pm.
Exeter Dissenters Graveyard Open Weekend
Saturday & Sunday, Magdalen Street, Exeter
Visitors can walk through the nearly restored graveyard and browse through the range of information on the histories of the Graveyard, of Dissent, of the monuments and the people associated with site; hear about previous excavations including an investigation of an intact underground vault with visible burials and the histories and sometimes the transatlantic connections of families represented in the Graveyard. Open between 11am and 4pm on Saturday and Sunday. www.edgt.org.uk
Holbefest 2018
Saturday, Flete Park, Holbeton PL21 9NU
A charity event, this family fun and music festival, promises to be bigger and better than ever - with a new location in the beautiful Devon countryside. https://holbefest.uk/
EXHIBITIONS
Anita Reynolds - A Year on Dartmoor
Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey
Local printmaker and artist Anita represents her journeying over 365 square miles of Dartmoor through various prints, painting and installations. Her dynamic artwork often created on-site, reflects the impact of the changing seasons on the wild Devon landscape. The exhibition runs until Sunday 1 July and is open daily, 10am-5.30pm. http://www.crafts.org.uk
Another Spring
Exeter Phoenix
An exhibition curated by art historian, critic and curator Dr Jean Wainwright. The show brings together work by an outstanding group of internationally recognised artists. Running alongside the exhibition will be a series of special events including a free tour of the exhibition with curator Dr Jean Wainwright, a talk from artist Steffi Klenz, and a workshop where you can create your own protest posters. The exhibition runs until 17 June. Exeter Phoenix Gallery is open Monday to Saturday between 10am–5.30pm and on Sundays from 12–5.30pm. Entry is free.
Braded: Fashion, Femininity and the Right to Vote
Killerton House, Broadclyst
To mark 100 years since some women got the right to vote, this exhibition reflects the timeline of the campaign for women’s suffrage from 1866 until 1928 through the changing styles of fashion. The exhibition highlights the relationship between politics and dress and how this was exploited by the campaigners and supporters of women’s suffrage. Groups involved in the campaign used design and colour to identify themselves and to raise awareness and support for their cause. The exhibition runs until 4 November and entry is free, but normal admission charges apply for the venue. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/killerton
