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Honiton play areas ready for action

Work has finished on £46,850 of eagerly awaited improvements to East Devon District Council’s Bowling Green/Millers Way and Langford Avenue play areas in Honiton and the two play areas are now open and ready for action.

Earlier this year local children at Honiton Primary School and Honiton Littletown Primary School chose the designs for the improvements to the council’s play areas in Honiton, which have now been implemented to a high standard.

East Devon District Council and Honiton Town Council have been working closely together to spend a total of £46,850 on improvements...

Eggs by Rachel Besser

Event Date: 
02/09/2016 - 7:30pm to 03/09/2016 - 9:00pm
Venue: 
Cygnet Theatre, Exeter

Directed by Louisa Wilde

“Do you know what’s wrong with this country? Cowardice. No one’s brave enough to stand up and say what’s obvious.” 24 playlets. 31 characters. 6 actors. Rachel Besser’s new play Eggs is a fast-paced mosaic of modern parenthood, family life and the disturbing effect it can have on the child. This is a work-in-progress and we will be holding a short Q&A after each performance. Please join us. Your feedback matters to us, and will be used to develop the play.

Playwright and paediatrician, Rachel Besser, has been part of the New Writers Programme...

The Bear Trail set to get kids back in the great outdoors

Devon's latest outdoor adventure centre, The Bear Trail, is celebrating its official Opening Day on Saturday 23rd July. The Bear Trail is an innovative and challenging outdoor adventure trail set over a 10 acre site in Wescott, near Cullompton, which features over 16 separate obstacles where children (and adults!) can run, jump and climb their way across zig-zag bridges, high nets and bear-infested mud pits.

Primary school pupils to re-enact famous day in Devon’s history

Sixty-four nine-year-olds from Year 5 at Broadclyst Community Primary School (BCPS) will be taking on the challenge of re-enacting a famous day in Devon’s history when they perform It’s our land in the house and grounds at National Trust Killerton on 16 and 17 June.

The youngsters will recreate the momentous day in 1925 when 20,000 people packed the parklands at Killerton to hear liberal politician and statesman Lloyd George deliver his powerful Land Reform speech to the people of Devon. This eagerly-anticipated speech took place at a time between the wars when landowners, farm...

Love Labours Won Tour

Love Labours Won, written by R J W Smith, is a Shakespearean style comedy set in a pub in 2016. The play follows two rugby boys and their long suffering girlfriends when a travelling theatre troupe comes to town.

The play has won both Edinburgh and Hollywood fringe awards and Avant’s run at the start of the year had fantastic reviews on National Theatre Wales TEAM Critical Chinwag.

Avant are a forward thinking company and we decided to perform Love Labours Won as our nod to celebrate Shakespeare 400, the play is a modern interpretation of Shakespeare and allowed for a...

Let Me Tell You What I Want - Rights, Choices and Wishes at End of Life

Event Date: 
11/05/2016 - 9:30am to 9:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter EX1 3LS

Living Well Dying Well is delighted to host an event open to all in the Community during Dying Matters Awareness Week to talk and plan for what people want at end of life. We'll illustrate how advance planning can make it easier for the people we love to support us to have control and choice when the time comes

Theatre in Killerton's garden: Much Ado About Nothing

Event Date: 
02/08/2016 - 7:00pm to 9:30pm
Venue: 
Killerton, Broadclyst, near Exeter, EX5 3LE

Join the Lord Chamberlains Men for a sparkling, battle-of-the sexes comedy. Enjoy this funny, moving and fast-paced production of one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, marking the 400th year anniversary of his death. Recommended for aged 8+.

Full details and booking here .

Theatre in Killerton's garden: Ratburger

Event Date: 
13/08/2016 - 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Venue: 
Killerton, Broadclyst, near Exeter, EX5 3LE

Heartbreak Productions bring to life David Walliams top-rated book. Support Zoe as she battles to escape the leaning tower block to fulfil her dream of travelling the world. Expect a blend of dark reality and empowering comedy. Recommended for aged 7+.

Full details and booking here .

Theatre in Killerton's garden: The Importance of Being Earnest

Event Date: 
14/07/2016 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Venue: 
Killerton, Broadclyst, near Exeter, EX5 3LE

Join Heartbreak Productions for a hilarious adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s brilliant masterpiece. Expect laugh-out-loud mistaken identities as everyone learns the vital importance of being earnest. Recommended for aged 8+.

Full details and booking here .

You Were After Poetry

Event Date: 
11/05/2016 - 7:30pm to 12/05/2016 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Cygnet Theatre, EX2 4AZ

We are TICTAC Theatre (Two Is Company, Three’s A Crowd Theatre); a South-West based Company specialising in two-handers and multi-role plays, producing a mixture of classical and contemporary plays.

TICTAC Theatres first production ‘The Open Couple’ by Dario Fo premiered to a sell out show at the award winning Bike Shed Theatre.

It has since completed a small UK tour in the summer of 2015 receiving great reviews.

Following it’s success we are now touring our new production for this year. This next production is to be a double bill of two 30 minute shorts.

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