Honesty is the best policy. As it is in song, so it is in life for Mary Coughlan.
“If you don’t wash your own dirty linen, the press’ll do it for you,” she part roars, part giggles in an ‘I’ve got the measure of you, boy’ kind of tone. “But they can say what they like because they’ll never be able to say anything about me that anybody would be shocked about or that I would be ashamed of. Not any more.
Such a forthright preemptive strike is not untypical of a singer whose first album bore the title Tired and Emotional. At twenty-eight...
For the first time in eight years, Nick Hennessey, Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer re-combine as seriouskitchen to create a brand new show.
Drawing on the rich heritage of Scandinavian myths and stories, The Whispering Road is a show blending Nick Hennessey’s spellbinding storytelling with Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer’s renowned musicianship and their collective wealth of experience of Nordic traditional folk culture.
The Whispering Road tells the story of hope in the darkness, of two strangers bound by a ring and of the one who could not love.
Nostalgia just doesn’t come any better! Another sensational show from the producers of ‘Memory Lane’, ‘All our Yesterdays’ and ‘Rolling back the Years’. One of the biggest shows of its kind in the UK, taking the audience on a thrilling and breathtaking musical journey through the 40′s, 50′s, 60′s, and 70′s. Stunning costumes! Brilliant choreography!
‘West End’ and international vocalists, along with the stunning ‘Memory Lane’ dancers perform some of the greatest hits from each decade including Swing, Country and Western, Movies and Musicals to name but a few. Includes songs by...
Stompin’ Dave brings another great night of acoustic music to the Barnfield Theare this time with a duo direct from the USA Alice Gerrard and Beverly Smith. Alice Gerrard is a talent of legendary status. In a career spanning some forty years she has performed and recorded with many of the old-time and bluegrass greats, won numerous honours, including an International Bluegrass Music Association Distinguished Achievement Award. Alice is particularly known for her ground breaking collaboration with Appalachian singer Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and ’70s. Her many talents include...
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”
From a miserable childhood controlled by uncaring adults, Jane Eyre learns to rely on her own resources and determination to make her way in the world. She longs to learn. She dares to hope for better.
Employed as a governess, she travels across the bleak Yorkshire moors to the Gothic isolation of Thornfield Hall – a house of locked doors with a dark and dangerous secret.
There she meets the mysterious but fascinating Mr Rochester. Can the narrow constraints of Victorian...
Spectators flooded to Exeter today to catch a glimpse of the Tour of Britain. The high street saw the five lead cyclists compete for points on the sprint before the peloton (main pack of riders) came past. Among the crowds, children from St Sidwell's Primary School lined up outside the school gates to cheer on the riders with a banner saying ‘Go Bradley’. On Topsham road parents and pupils from St Leonard's Primary School and the Exeter Academy for the Deaf also gave their support. The cyclists will continued through Devon before reaching the finish line atop Dartmoor.
Otis Gibbs is a man in search of an honest experience. Gibbs is often referred to as a folk artist, but that is a simplistic way to describe a man who has planted over 7,000 trees, slept in hobo jungles, walked with nomadic shepherds in Romania, was a fifth grade yo-yo champion and once wrestled a bear (and lost). Otis has played countless, theatres, festivals, bars and house concerts and has managed to carve out a living, while remaining happily independent.
Much of his work concentrates on the world ignored by pop culture. Sometimes forgotten, obsolete, or simply marginalized, it...
One of Gilbert & Sullivan’s best known and most celebrated works, the Mikado is a light-hearted comedy set in the fictional town of Titipu, Japan.
The wandering minstrel son of the Mikado falls for and flirts with a girl who is engaged to her guardian Ko-Ko. Unfortunately the Mikado has decreed that flirting is punishable by death and Ko-Ko, who has been appointed Lord High Executioner, must find someone to execute before the Mikado’s forthcoming visit! Throw a corrupt public official into the mix and confusion and deceit abound.
