Entertainment & Reviews

The tables are coming, go play on the streets!

It will soon be GAME ON when the Ping! street festival returns to Exeter to serve up another fantastic summer of free outdoor ping pong. The fun launches this Friday 10th June at Princesshay when 6 tables will be laid out for the official launch of Ping! Exeter

The fun kicks off nationally with a ‘Ping Pong Bonanza’ on Friday 10th June in Bournemouth. Under the watchful gaze of the Bournemouth Eye tethered balloon, itself resembling a giant ping pong ball, the Lower Gardens will be populated with ping pong tables providing...

After performing their first ever tragedy this Spring, Pop-Up Opera return to comedy for their Summer Season 2016.

Pop-Up Opera challenge the way opera is traditionally performed, by taking it into unusual spaces and making it fun, fresh and intimate. Rossini's famous opera buffa Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) is brought to life by the critically acclaimed company, sung in Italian with English captions.

Pop-Up Opera take to the stage with this incredibly fast-paced comical farce in their adaptation of this much loved score. Witness razor-sharp timing as the...

The Donkey Sanctuary is holding a Father’s Day Challenge on Sunday 19 June with plenty of things for the whole family.

Get outdoors this Father’s Day and enjoy some time with the family. The Donkey Sanctuary is holding a challenge event perfect for a family day out.

Spread across the two parts of a challenge is an exciting hunt driven by a list of clues that lead to secret locations across the Sanctuary. At each locations a puzzle will be found that needs completing to access the code it is hiding. Once all of the codes are found, teams can head back to the Events Barn for...

Book up for Gulliver’s Travels in Connaught Gardens on Sunday (June 5)

Sidmouth’s best loved garden will be the setting for an open air production of Gulliver’s Travels being performed by The Pantaloons theatre company on Sunday June 5.

The production – to be staged in Connaught Gardens - is a funny new adaptation based on the book by Jonathan Swift and begins at 7pm.

Later in the summer on August 10, a family-friendly production of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales will be staged by The Pantaloons in the Manor Gardens in Exmouth, again beginning at 7pm.

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