A turf cutting has been held to mark the recent start of improvements to the A379 Sandy Park Junction in Exeter
Earthworks are underway on the £2.5 million upgrade to create a signalised junction which will allow all traffic movements. A recent overnight closure has enabled temporary barriers to be installed to protect the workforce and also road users from excavations.
The current junction, which accesses Sandy Park rugby ground and David Lloyd leisure centre, has a ‘left-in, left-out’ traffic system. The upgrade will enable right turns in and out of the site in order to...
Exeter Deaf Academy Year 10 student Molly will be attending the glittering Devon Performance awards tonight after being nominated for Junior Performer of the Year.
Exeter Deaf Academy Expressive Arts Teacher, Deb Thomas, is also up for an award in the category of Outstanding Contribution to Artistic Performance in Education.
For the last 12 months Exeter Deaf Academy has been working with Paddleboat Theatre Company to create an enriched production of ‘A Little Man’s Holiday’ using non-verbal communication and British Sign Language, which is also up for nomination at the...
Thursday 3 November 6.30 pm-8.30 pm Price: RSPB members free, non-members £10. (Become an RSPB member on the night and your £10 will be reimbursed.)
Booking essential
Come and enjoy a taster session - discover why the 'Birdwatching for Beginners' course is so popular.
This evening's session is a fantastic opportunity to find out more about the wonderful world of birds and have birdwatching demystified. It's a perfect opportunity to find out more about this respectable, well-liked course that is run regularly at Darts Farm by our volunteer, Chris Lee.
At The Bike Shed Theatre prior to a run at The Young Vic in London
Meet Mark. The thing is I’ve got myself into a bit of a mess… Mark’s an actor. I keep forgetting my lines. I’ve left my girlfriend and I’m beginning to stink. Mark was an actor. And to make matters worse I’ve met the Devil.
Hilarious, touching and utterly bonkers, a gripping story of a life lived at the edge.
Mark Lockyer trained at RADA. For the last 30 years he’s been at the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Old Vic, Young Vic and the Royal Court working with Ken Campbell, Mark Rylance...
Candid, poignant and intimate, this new play by award winning playwright Ali Taylor offers a timely reflection on the social and personal impact of spiralling housing costs, gentrification and the challenges of the forced relocation away from London.
Acclaimed Theatre Company Cardboard Citizens presents this powerful and emotive Forum Theatre show, exploring resonances in today’s society with the story told in the ground-breaking Ken Loach...
A story that will make you stop and think about where you, and we, are in the world.
Award-winning theatre-maker Andy Smith (co-director of An Oak Tree with Tim Crouch) presents this newly commissioned piece of theatre, telling a tale of a man from this city, and all that has happened here, there, and everywhere in this last 80 years.
Developed as part of Fuel’s New Theatre in your Neighbourhood project. Commissioned by They Eat Culture. Supported...
Meet Elsie, she lives in the countryside, it’s her 90th birthday and you’re invited to celebrate. Bring your friends, bring your family or just bring yourself, there will be cake!
Elsie has lived here all her life. She has seen elections, weddings, wars, people coming, people going. This village is where her daughter grew up, it’s where her husband died and it’s where she’s going to stay. Here I Belong takes you through decades of history seen through the eyes of one village resident in this funny and moving new play. A sensitive, charming and honest portrayal about changing...
“Bienvenue. Kalosórisma. Welcome. We are so happy to see you all here. Some of you we know rather well, some of you we don’t. But it doesn’t matter, you all look… stunning.”
Two performers – one Greek, one French – dance and shout, cry and sing, agree and disagree, about life in the Eurohouse. A darkly comic look at the EU’s founding ideals and what got lost along the way. Suitable for 14+.
Made in transit between Greece and the UK, Eurohouse is developed with the help and support of Bios Athens, Bristol Ferment, MAYK, CPT & Arts Council England.
‘I woke up early with the birds to hand up sturdy planks of words to my speech-slave, my tongue, to build echoing halls of praise, light-filled….’
A Viking poet from Iceland sails around the North Sea, fighting, escaping, and delivering unforgivable insults in thunderous verse. Egil is the greatest of the Viking poets, and his adventures and poetry are recorded in one of the greatest Icelandic sagas. Peter Oswald performs his version written in English rhyming verse; it’s in three parts, of twenty minutes each. He performed the first part at Shakespeare’s Globe and York Minster –...
Beth Vyse is back with an extraordinary look at her battle with Breast Cancer.
‘But then, as comedians go, Beth Vyse doesn’t have much time for the expected.’ THE GUARDIAN
A bodacious and ballsy look at her battle with breast cancer. Hear the tale of her Stoke-on-Trent family; The Waltons on Alcohol, her time with Nelson Mandela, acting and thieving at the Royal Shakespeare Company, settling down with Michael Jackson and finding cancer. Not to mention her producing two football teams from her womb. And all before the age of 30!
