The Clockwork Moth bring you the finest shadow puppetry in the west in a timeless saga for all ages. Feast your senses on this little known Grimms take, performed to a striking live musical score. A teenage boy, believed to have been born lucky, embarks on a journey to the underworld and back. Enter a brutal King, a deathly ferryman, a narcissistic Lucifer and a host of wise women, curses, incantations and courtly delights. This is Grimms darkness at its best. Recommended for over 7s.
If you pinned me against a wall, I’d probably admit to being a liberal.
Of course, pinning me against a wall is exactly what I’d expect from someone like you.
A show about the gulfs we can’t talk across and about the way we choose to see only the evidence that proves we’re right.
Working with research into the phenomenon of confirmation bias, Confirmation is an attempt to have an honorable dialogue, real and imagined, with political extremism. To find out we how we believe what we believe and how we can end up so far apart. A new show from a multi Edinburgh Fringe...
Part of the Rebellious Sounds project, which is looking at stories around women’s activism across the South West, ‘The Orchard’ imagines a meeting between Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst, the moderate and the radical, and explores what happens when opposing political forces come together.
Dreadnought will host a series of unique scratch performances of ‘The Orchard’ across the region. These scratch performances are similar to script-in-hand or rehearsed readings of the material so far, and Dreadnought is inviting audiences to have their say in this pre-election time and to...
After hibernating in their mysterious lair for over 3 years, the time has come for the owls to descend once again from their colony in the highest mountain peaks and unleash a wave of hip hop unlike anything you mere humans have heard before in the form of their new 2nd album ‘Natural Order’.
The formula is the same, but the potion is as mysterious as ever; Deformed Wing’s beat making talons are sharper than ever, and the four MCs have soared to new lyrical and conceptual heights. Just when you think it can’t get any better, the Owls have also recruited non other than the legendary...
The Family Law Company’s Domestic Violence and Private Law Children Team held a coffee and cake afternoon to raise funds for two local organisations: SAFE (Stop Abuse for Everyone) and Splitz Support Service.
Staff from the law firm baked cakes, and the catering equipment was donated by South West Events Hire. The event was well attended by members of the judiciary and Court Service, counsellors, financial advisers and local barristers and solicitors.
“We were delighted with the turnout of people keen to get behind these much-needed services,” said The Family Law Company...
With excitement building ahead of Rugby World Cup 2015, schools are being offered the opportunity to be part of the ceremonies which will welcome the 20 participating teams to the Tournament in England and Wales.
Each of the 20 teams will be officially welcomed to the Tournament and their respective Team Base regions by local schools in September 2015.
The Welcome Ceremonies, delivered by Tournament Organiser, England Rugby 2015, will feature a performance by the selected schools, as well as a celebration of the local community and the game.
Manchester trio GoGo Penguin are hotly tipped as the rising stars of the UK Jazz scene. Featuring pianist Chris Illingworth, bassist Nick Blacka and drummer Rob Turner, GoGo Penguin are an exhilarating live act, drawing on a heady brew of influences from Aphex Twin to Shostakovich, Massive Attack to Manchester’s grey rain-streaked urban streets – they create a brave new sound all their own.
Their début album Fanfares (Gondwana Records) has won rave reviews from the Guardian to BBC Music and support from the likes of Mike Chadwick and Gilles Peterson and was nominated for Best Jazz...
