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Free Cider and Summer Tunes Come to Devon with a Music Series from Thatchers Cider

Free pints, live music and summer vibes

Thatchers is set to delight music and cider fans heading into venues and pubs across the summer with a national 40+ gig series that will visit Devon throughout August.

A mix of Juicy Sounds DJ nights and Summer Sessions acoustic evenings will be held to celebrate what promises to be a summer filled, not just with sport, but with music too.

Events are currently planned for:

  • The Blue Ball in Exeter on Friday 7th August.

  • Boathouse, Dawlish, Saturday 8th August.

  • Hyde Dendy,

  • ...

Local filmmaker is Seeing Red

Authored by lukejeffery
Posted: Sun, 05/25/2014 - 7:37am

Newton Abbot writer/director, Luke Jeffery, 22, has been commissioned to make his film Seeing Red by Exeter Phoenix as part of their Devon Short Film Commission scheme, and is currently auditioning actors and crew.

Set in the 1960s, the surreal comedy is about a straight-laced wedding photographer who is prescribed LSD in a misguided attempt to cure his colour blindness, and will be filmed in and around Exeter and Newton Abbot. The film willpremiere at the Exeter Phoenix’s Two Short Nights film festival on December 12th.

Playing the role of photographer Drake Dalton is...

Killerton’s classic car celebration

Killerton’s annual classic car day has reached its ten year mile stone and, to celebrate, the event will be extended to a two-day festival.

On Sunday and Monday (25 and 26 May) from 10.30am-5pm there will be hundreds of vehicles on display in the historic parkland at Killerton.

A significant occasion in the classic car world, which has grown every year with increasing popularity, this year’s event is set to be the biggest yet with a display of over 250 elegant vehicles. Killerton are keen to celebrate the landmark anniversary with a live jazz band, family games, drinks,...

Dick Gaughan comes to The George Hotel

The George Hotel, South Molton ( www.georgehotelsouthmolton.co.uk ) relishes the fact that its programmes combine a fusion of new talent and established artists, and on Friday 6 June local audiences will no doubt be delighted to hear that favourite folk legend Dick Gaughan ( www.dickgaughan.co.uk ) is returning to enchant once again.

Dick was an early member of the Boys of the Lough, and the now-legendary Scottish folk-rock band, Five Hand Reel, having made three albums with them. He is also a prolific songwriter whose compositions have been recorded by the likes of Billy Bragg,...

Cygnet Theatre's recipe for summer

If music be the food of love… These famous lines from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night give a flavour of Cygnet’s Summer season.

The theatre has much on the menu to tempt you:

Wren Music are bringing five much loved West Country folk musicians James Findlay and Solaference to Cygnet Theatre on 23 May and Jonny Dyer and Vicki Swan with Marilyn Ticker and Paul Wilson on 13 June.

The main course on offer is Shakespeare’s Classic comedy of wit and folly – Twelfth Night, served with renaissance style by director Jacquie Crago, which previews on 11 June and plays at Trebah...

Review: The Fanny Hill Project V.2.0

Authored by Grace Vans
Posted: Mon, 05/19/2014 - 4:43pm

The Bike Shed Theatre was the perfect venue for the recent performances of TheatreState’s intimate and absurd brand of theatre.

The Fanny Hill Project V 2.0 came to the bike shed following a run in London and a earlier summer run at the Edinburgh fringe. The piece juxtaposed the stories of Fanny Hill, a literary creation of an eighteenth century prostitute, penned by John Cleland, with the autobiographical account of a graduate drama student, Tessa, who worked at a foot fetish parlour in New York.

The performance started in true untraditional fashion with some audience...

Ballet Black - A Dream Within a Midsummer Night’s Dream

Cassa Pancho's award-winning Ballet Black is to return to the Exeter Northcott Theatre for the fourth time as they celebrate the talents of black and Asian dancers from around the world. Founded in 2001 Ballet Black has achieved great success and garnered numerous awards, including the 2012 Critics Circle National Dance Award for Best Independent Company.

For their return to Exeter Northcott Theatre, the Company are delighted to present a triple bill of new work with exciting ballets from two of Britain's best choreographers, Christopher Marney (Gothenburg Ballet, New Adventures)...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

There's something for everyone in our guide to what’s happening in and around Exeter this weekend:

THEATRE

The Fanny Hill Project v2.0 Friday & Saturday, 7.30pm, The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter In 2010 Tess sold her feet to fund an arts internship. In 1747 Fanny Hill sold her body for pleasure. And both young women want to confess all to you. Tickets £12/£8. www.bikeshedtheatre.co.uk

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter C.S Lewis’s classic tale of good versus evil is magically brought to life by Exeter...

Exeter dance teacher to meet one of her ballet idols

Ava Barron Thomas who runs her babyballet school in Exeter is to meet national ballet treasure, Wayne Sleep, OBE.

At only 5’2in Sleep is famous for being the shortest male dancer ever admitted into the Royal Ballet School. He has performed with everyone from Nureyev to Princess Diana and earlier this year won public acclaim for turning non-professional, largely overweight amateurs into dancers for a Channel 4 documentary, ‘Big Ballet’.

Sleep is the guest speaker at babyballet’s annual conference on Saturday, May 31 at babyballet’s Head Office in Halifax, West Yorkshire....

Literary Festival announces line-up

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sat, 05/17/2014 - 11:39am

Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival announces literary line-up for the sixth year of inspiring talks, readings and conversations with talented authors, scientists, playwrights, historians, broadcasters, economists, comedians and rising literary stars.

Organisers of the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival have announced the full programme for this year’s festival. Taking place from Thursday 18th – Sunday 21st September 2014, the Festival will once again feature a diverse selection of talented, prize-winning and critically acclaimed authors. Best-selling and prize-winning author...

Loving local crafts at the Devon County Show

Local craftspeople are getting a higher profile at this year’s Devon County Show next week (May 22-24) at Westpoint, Exeter, thanks to a new policy of promoting local artisans.

Devon craft champions Love-Local.com are teaming up with the Show’s West Country Craft Marquee to create a series of complete room-sets and there will be more local producers than ever before.

Show Secretary Ollie Allen said: “I am delighted to be working with Love-Local to showcase some of the very talented local craftsmen and women in Devon and the region.

“I am bowled-over by the variety...

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