Cinderella, one of the best-known rags-to-riches fairy tales of all time will be brought to life by the Vienna Festival Ballet when they return to Exeter Corn Exchange this month.
A mistreated young girl, a glass slipper, two comical ugly step-sisters and a handsome prince combine to make the perfect piece of story-telling.
Based on the traditional story, this ballet will surely touch and reach out to everyone’s heart, with its combination of pure classical dancing and a touch of pantomime.
The music contains a collection of Rossini’s most famous operatic...
Tickets are still available for a performance of An Evening of Dirty Dancing: The Tribute Show at Exeter Corn Exchange on Friday 24 March.
Now in its 7th record-breaking year, An Evening of Dirty Dancing: The Tribute Show is a 5 star homage to the greatest movie soundtrack of all time. The original concert celebration of the iconic music from the multi-award winning soundtrack to Dirty Dancing.
A high energy, emotional roller-coaster of an evening with breathtaking choreography and buckets of nostalgia.
Tickets for the Corn Exchange show cost £21 and can be booked...
A national charity is appealing for volunteers to come forward and help the blind people it supports in the Exeter area.
British Wireless for the Blind Fund (BWBF) provides specially adapted audio equipment to visually impaired people across the UK.
The charity is looking for radio support volunteers, whose role would be to visit people with sight loss in their homes throughout Exeter, install their new radio and teach them how to use it as well as provide on-going support where needed.
The role involves a small amount of admin and there would be one to two visits a...
Devon County Show’s appeal for hand-made poppies has reached its 11,000 target more than two months early thanks to the support of creative, local people.
The appeal was launched in October with a target of collecting the red poppies in time for this year’s Show on May 18-20 at Westpoint, Exeter.
‘Devon Remembers’ will be a tribute staged at the Show to the men and women from the county who lost their lives in the First World War.
The hand-crafted poppies will be put together to form a poignant memorial in the crafts and gardens pavilion.
A deaf student care worker from Exeter Deaf Academy has challenged deaf students to test their grit determination and physical endurance by training them for the Escot Mud Run at Escot Park near Honiton, on Saturday 25 March.
Escot’s new obstacle challenge event is organised by South West Military Fitness.
Tony Whiteley, 51, from Honiton works at Exeter Deaf Academy and has entered with a team of Deaf students to fundraise for the Academy.
Tony said: “We are looking forward to the Escot Mud Run and all its obstacles. Our Deafness is certainly not a barrier though. I...
Lift your spirits and say hello to spring with this wonderful and varied programme from the Exeter Symphony Orchestra.
We are pleased to welcome pianist Richard Deering to the stage to perform William Sterndale Bennett's sparkling Piano Concerto No 4. This is to mark the bicentenary of the composer's birth.
For those who like the more familiar, we will be playing the fabulous Karelia Suite by Jean Sibelius and the ever popular Serenade for Strings by Edward Elgar.
The programme will end with Cesar Franck's great Symphony in D Minor.
Your guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (17-19 March)
THEATRE
Leaving Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter Leaving home for the first time is a step into the dark. If you’re leaving the care system, the reality hits even harder. This play tells the real stories of care leavers and their experiences at the pivotal moment when they leave care. It also gives voice to those working within the system from staff in children’s homes to MPs and policy makers. Using the young people’s own words, an ensemble cast and an award-winning creative team will...
Following continued success, the board of Ward Williams Associates (WWA) are delighted to announce the appointment of David Carkeek and Kate Mills to support the delivery of their future plans for growth
David joins us from Gleeds following 17 years’ service, where he was Head of Residential and a Cost Management Director in London. He brings a wealth of experience across London and South East residential sector with particular expertise in delivery of high-spec residential schemes. David will lead our London team and focus on delivery across the London and the South East.
In Vienna strict codes of behaviour have not been enforced by those in power for a generation and moral laxity is rife. What will it take for the Viennese authorities to regain control of the public morality and at what cost?
CYGNET is passionate about Shakespeare and strives to create accessible and relevant productions which value the text and draw out the drama and themes from the plays.
Peformances
March 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 31 & April 1 at 7.30pm March 25 at 2.00pm
A rare chance to ride on the old buses of Devon General and Exeter City Transport will be available, for one day only on Sunday 19th March. Owners of around 20 preserved buses will be providing rides around Exeter between 10.00am and 5.00pm.
The event, organised by the Devon General Omnibus Trust was originally planned to commemorate the closure of Exeter’s bus and coach station. However, this closure has been paused, as a result of a delay to the redevelopment plans. But the organisers had already gathered the buses and coaches together on this day and advertised the event to...
