Part of Cygnet Summer Repertory Season June 14 – 22
June 15 19 21 7.30pm Boston Marriage by David Mamet Director Stephen Copp Anna is being kept by a married man, but she prefers the company of women. Claire, Anna’s paramour, has become infatuated with a much younger woman. Anna’s lover has given her a fabulous emerald which belongs to the mother of Claire’s inamorata… Mamet’s witty and provocative play gives us his trademark blunt language and scheming characters, set among the Victorian female intellectual set. David Mamet is an American playwright, film maker and author. He...
Part of Cygnet Summer Repertory Season June 14 – 22 June 15 19 21 7.30pm An Intervention Cygnet Company An Intervention by Mike Bartlett Director Alistair Ganley One of them went to the anti-war protest, shouted their lungs out, then got horrendously and staggeriingly drunk. The other stayed at home, watched TV for a bit, and thought about the future. The political and the personal are inextricably linked in Mike Bartlett’s funny and touching play about what happens when you hate your best friend. – I don’t believe it – Yes it’s true – You would support an intervention?
There’s nothing guaranteed in this world, except for death and taxes, as the saying goes. We certainly aren’t going to leave this earth alive. And for the most part, we can’t control when or how we die. However, one thing we can control is how we wish to be remembered. These days, people are getting creative with their remembrance wishes, funeral services, and memorial tributes. And they’re doing it with ashes.
According to the Cremation Society of Great Britain , 75% of people choose cremation over a burial. By 2035, the cremation rate is projected to be 80% in the US. Not only is...
Accomplished Devon-born singer and guitarist Martin Scragg collaborates with Wren Music’s 21-voice male singing group MenSing to bring you an evening of powerful, radical and sociable songs with plenty of chances to join in. Accompaniment instruments will include guitars, accordion, piano and some more exotic relatives. Wren Music’s Paul Wilson is the musical director of MenSing. Since their formation a couple of years ago, the voices of MenSing singers have been heard in local festivals, community halls and busking locations as well as at Exeter Chiefs matches, while Martin has worked as...
International animal welfare charity The Donkey Sanctuary is proud to welcome accomplished vet and star of the popular TV show, The Yorkshire Vet, as its new ambassador.
Peter Wright will be familiar to viewers of the award-winning Channel 5 television showwhich follows the lives and work of Peter and fellow veterinarian Julian Norton at their two practices in North Yorkshire. Peter is based at Skeldale Veterinary Centre, the former workplace of famous veterinarian and author James Alfred "Alf" Wight, more widely known by his pen name, James Herriot.
TO MARK the start of summer, people in Exeter are being offered a special incentive to sign up to Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life as soon as possible.
Race for Life is offering half price entry to anyone who joins between Monday 3 June and Monday 10 June, using discount code SUMMER50.
The discount is available for one week only, starting at 9:00am on June 3 and finishing at midnight on June 10. It can be applied when entering any Race for Life, Pretty Muddy and Pretty Muddy Kids event.
This year, for the first time, Cancer Research UK is inviting everyone – women...
One year ago, independently owned coffee chain Boston Tea Party (BTP) – which has 22 coffee shops across the UK, including in Exeter, Plymouth and Barnstaple – took the bold step of banning the use of single use coffee cups. It is celebrating its first Cuppaversary by making 1st June ‘National Making Things Better Day’.
From now on, each year on 1st June, BTP will pledge something more for the planet. This year, it is removing single use plastic milk bottles.
Boston Tea Party’s 22 cafés currently use a staggering 190,000 single use plastic milk bottles every year, and milk...
A pilot project to help communities revitalize their roadside verges, and by doing so create a network of safe havens for wildflowers and endangered pollinators, has been so successful it has been launched across the county.
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) ‘Life on the Verge – Biosphere’ (LoVe-B) project has led to 40 North Devon verges being managed and monitored by communities over the last three years.
More than 100 volunteers have learnt new skills to help them maintain and improve their condition.
Now communities all around Devon are being encouraged to follow...
A RECENT survey by Skills for Care found staff retention was one of the biggest issues facing the care industry but one south Devon care provider says it is bucking the national trend (May 2019).
Guardian Homecare, which provides services in Exeter and Torbay, says the findings by the strategic body for workforce development in English adult social care don’t apply to its team, as it is successfully retaining its staff.
Manager for Guardian Homecare, Catherine Porter said: “It was revealed in the research that staff retention is a bigger challenge than recruitment for care...
Devon based hairdresser, Energy Hair is thrilled to be shortlisted for the national Salon Business Awards in the Business Salon category. The most prestigious awards in the hairdressing industry, Energy Hair has been selected as a finalist amongst thousands of other entries across the country. On 10th June, the exclusive Mondrian Hotel in London will host the Grand Final of the awards where Energy Hair will compete for the title.
Commenting on the awards, Nathan Plumridge owner of Energy Hair says: “We’re honoured to be a finalist in the Salon Business Awards and in such great...
