Entertainment & Reviews

Your guide to the best music, events and activities taking place in and around Exeter this weekend.

THEATRE

After the Accident Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter Highly accessible and utterly engrossing, this award winning drama takes you on a highly charged journey where forgiveness and redemption are set against guilt, rage and despair. Through brilliant storytelling and recognisable characters, experience a fascinating insight into Restorative Justice; a process which tries to repair something of the harmful consequences of crime. This riveting production...

Exeter theatre company Four of Swords is reviving one of its most popular productions.

Jekyll and Hyde returns for a two week run in the sinister and shambolic setting of Poltimore House on the outskirts of Exeter from 5th - 14th March.

The company first performed its mad and inventive adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Victorian chiller at Poltimore House in 2013. The production whipped up a heady mix of captivating performances, special effects, film projections and live gypsy music.

Sarah White, who directs the show, explains why Four of Swords is...

Cygnet’s graduating actors have begun working with Jemma Gross on two strong and wonderful plays, Nine and The Last Nickel by American writer Jane Shepard.

Jemma first excited Exeter audiences when she brought Gary Henderson’s Skin Tight to Cygnet Theatre during IGNITE 2012. Her production of Chicken Shop with Epsilon productions won the West End Frame’s London Fringe Production of the Year Award in 2014.

These contrasting pieces show the versatility of two actors in different roles. Women who find themselves in extreme circumstances, develop ways to cope and transcend them...

A new music project based in Axminster aims to strike a chord with young people from across East Devon by offering free music making sessions.

Soundwaves is for young people aged 11 to 19 who play an instrument, DJ, or sing – or would like to.

“We welcome everybody, whatever their level of musical experience, style or interest,” says professional musician Pete Wild, Soundwaves’ music leader. “We are keen to work with everybody – from very experienced musicians to those who have not had opportunities to play an instrument, but feel they would like to have a go in a relaxed,...