Entertainment & Reviews

Travel to Treasure Island and search for pirates and loot in a story based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s book. It is 1953 and wartime sugar rationing has finally ended. Jess Hawkins and her gang, dreaming of gobstoppers and pineapple chunks, slip into old Mr. Jenks’ garden, just like they do every afternoon after school. Jenks has never caught them… not until today that is.

Mr Jenks is a gardener… but he is also a pirate! Threatening them with the Black Spot, he takes them on a wild adventure on the high seas meeting bloodthirsty Black Dog, mad Ben Gunn and the infamous one-legged...

Oxjam Exeter has announced some of the venues that will together host up to 120 live music acts during the Oxjam Exeter Takeover weekend, taking place on 19 and 20 October 2013.

The Takeover weekend venues confirmed are The Cavern, The Phoenix (bar), Mama Stones, The Old Firehouse, The Revelry, Cellar Door, The Lemon Grove, The Angel and the Orchard at National Trust Killerton, where Takeover ticket holders will be able to attend their annual Apple and Cider weekend.

Oxjam Exeter is part of a national live music festival, taking place in up to 60 towns and cities across the...

This autumn, Exeter will host four new live performance experiences made, commissioned or produced by Kaleider. Taking place in public spaces throughout the city – from Exeter Central Library to the Guildhall – and all of them interruptive, and testing the boundaries of audience experience, the events offer something meaningful in everyday surroundings.

Kaleider makes the effort to continually ask the question ‘what can we do together that we couldn’t do apart? to that end artists, academics and scientists have been brought together to imagine new works that begin to look towards a...

Running from 25 to 28 September at Exeter's Northcott Theatre on Streatham Campus, this bitter-sweet comedy written by Willy Russell and starring Mary Elliot and Eddie Holden, is an absolute treat for anyone aged 18 years or above (it contains some strong language). Originally commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company in June 1980 and starring Julie Walters and Mark Kingston, it was immediately a big hit at the box office. This production is presented by the Uncommon Players, a group of enthusiastic theatremakers from around the Exeter area.

Educating Rita explores the...