Entertainment & Reviews

Exeter’s busiest multi-artform venue is set to start a new spring season of events spanning everything from live performance, comedy and music, arthouse cinema and documentaries to contemporary art exhibitions. Regular visitors and city centre shoppers will be pleased to hear that the venue’s buzzing café bar has rolled out a new menu of fresh, lovingly made nibbles and meals to enjoy on its suntrap terrace. The venue’s live music programme this spring features one of Britain’s most noteworthy bands, Brighton based indie rockers British Sea Power.Other highlights include two of the country...

Cygnet’s summer is packed with delights from Shakespearean Romance in The Winter’s Tale to the shocking reality of Terrorism a contemporary play by Russian Presnyakov Brothers. Between these many visiting companies join us at Cygnet Theatre; eight of whom will be with us for our second Festival at Cygnet week 6th-11th June - join us to find out more at our Press Launch night on 10th May from 6-8pm.

TICTAC Theatre kick off the performance season on May 11th & 12th with a double bill of relationship comedies: Steven Bloomer’s fast-paced and witty You Were After Poetry, and The...

Film fans will be heading to Pavillion in the Park, Okehampton at the end of June as after details were revealed for a new open air cinema festival weekend.

Firm Open Air Film and Chill is set to bring two iconic films to the big screen, an all time favourite Top Gun on Friday 24th June and musical Dirty Dancing to the site on Saturday 25th June. Tickets are available to purchase online priced from £12, full details of purchase are available on the facebook page. Tickets are unlikely to be available to purchase on the night.

Organiser and Owner Mo Davies, 31, from Hereford...

When I was four years old, my Dad was told our surname might be stopping him from getting a job. So we changed it. It worked.

Worklight Theatre’s award-winning show Labels draws on writer and performer Joe Sellman- Leava’s experiences of being mixed heritage to explore broader issues of racism, immigration and displacement. Labels examines how we use words, the line between curiosity and fear, and the rise of anti-immigration rhetoric.

Despite being born in Gloucestershire, Sellman-Leava grew up constantly being asked where he was really from. Cheltenham! Here, he calls for...