A new adaptation created by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan
April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye.
The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in this radical new staging exploring surveillance, identity and why Orwell's vision of the future is as relevant now as ever.
Headlong continues to interrogate our most important cultural texts, following productions of Six Characters In Search Of An...
Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Jasmin Vardimon returns with her critically-acclaimed dance theatre production, Park.
Park is an urban oasis, a place of refuge from ordinary life where eight characters play, fight, fall in love and learn to survive. In this playground of relationships, young lovers wrestle in a historic fountain, a graffiti artist sprays his story, a busker finds his only appreciative audience in a bag lady and a flag-waving bully rants worn out political beliefs. Their stories intertwine creating a modern day fairytale that is alternately sharp, funny and cruel...
Kirill Karabits conductor Andreas Ottensamer clarinet
The BSO opens its 2014/15 concert season with Principal Conductor Kirill Karabits leading the Orchestra in Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, which occupies a singularly important place in the composer's output. It was with this piece that Bruckner finally achieved widespread recognition, and it has remained the most popular of his nine symphonies. The opening melody apparently came to him in a dream: a friend from Bruckner...
Dilys, the Queen's maid, is the royal custodian of her Majesty's 'intimate apparel', otherwise known as the Queen's knickers. She guards HRH's smalls as if they were the crown jewels. She would be mortified if anyone got a glimpse of them.
But one day the knickers go missing, causing a national state of emergency and a diplomatic incident of catastrophic proportions.
A celebration of the garments we all wear, but never show, this children's classic is inventively told by two elastic actors.
Following the annual RAW Platform during the Ignite Festival in June, we present a new autumn event - a programme of the best new work, created by recent graduates of the University of Exeter Drama Department.
The programme will include work from new practitioners such as Simon Dean, Viki Browne and Scratchworks.
Visit rawplatform.com for full details of the programme.
Renowned gypsy jazz guitarist Remi Harris will be performing at Hope Hall, Exeter on Sunday 7th September.
Born in Herefordshire, the gifted 26 year old is now regarded in the top handful of gypsy jazz guitarists in the UK, and is visiting Devon as part of his national summer tour.
2014 has seen him impress crowds at jazz festivals and prepare for a series of concerts across the length and breadth of Britain. After a successful tour through France and a packed month long tour of Australia last winter, Remi has been performing at prestigious venues including The Royal Albert...
The University of Exeter has strengthened its commitment to encouraging access to medicine in low income and developing countries by adopting a new approach to health-related intellectual property on products and technologies deriving from its research.
The change aims to make it as easy as possible for those in need to access medicine advances linked to the University. Working with its partners and commercial licensees in the sector, the University will, wherever possible:
only apply for and implement patent applications relating to healthcare technologies in less
The multi-award-winning musical Billy Elliot will be beamed from the stage of London's Victoria Palace Theatre to the Exeter Picturehouse
There will be 30 minutes of pre-show onscreen before each performance.
Based on the Oscar-nominated film, Billy Elliot has been dazzling London’s West End since 2005, winning more than 80 awards and captivating audiences around the world.
Set in a northern mining town against the backdrop of the 1984-85 miners’ strike, Billy Elliot is the inspirational story of a young boy’s struggle against the odds to make his dream come true...
A community was today in mourning after the death of a 12-year-old boy following a collision with a lorry in Exeter.
Flowers were laid at the scene of the accident on the junction of Topsham Road and the Countess Wear roundabout.
Among the heartfelt messages was one which read: “The little lad with the biggest, cheesiest smile. Taken far too soon. RIP little fella. Bunches, Shannon, Alfie and Ellie xxxxx”.
Another read: “I send my love and thoughts to your family at this hard time. You were not alone in your final moments on this earth”.
There are hundreds of user-worked crossings on farmland in Britain, which see a marked increase in traffic during the harvest season. Figures collated over the past ten years reveal that the number of collisions and near misses at these types of crossings also sharply increases over the harvest months.*. Since the beginning of June, Network Rail has recorded dozens of incidents of level crossing misuse on farm crossings. Fortunately none of these have resulted in collisions or serious harm but they have caused over ten hours of delays to rail services.
