Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend:
THEATRE
Exeter Little Theatre Company: Murder on the Nile Friday & Saturday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter On board the paddle steamer Lotus, cruising under the scorching Egyptian sun, honeymooners Simon Mostyn and his wealthy socialite wife Kay find themselves being pursued by an old flame of the newly wedded groom. Then a tragedy strikes, Kay is found shot in her bunk, and all fingers point to Simon’s ex fiancée. Tickets: £12.50 (£10.50 under 16s). www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk
Join wild food expert Chris Holland in the beautiful surroundings of Holyford Woods Local Nature Reserve for a foraging walk and supper.
The walk, organised by East Devon District Council’s Countryside team, is on Friday 15 May from 7 until 9pm. Participants will learn how to safely recognise and prepare at least 15 wild edible plants to be found in the woods during mid May and will also cook up some of their findings en route. Chris said “Foraging for wild food and cooking it together around an open fire is something humans have been doing in small groups for hundreds of thousands...
Tarte Noire Women's Playback Theatre Performance (WOMEN ONLY)
This is an invitation for you to come and share your experiences. The evening promises to be fun, poignant and powerful.
What is Playback Theatre?
Imagine theatre where the actors listen to the people who have come to watch, and create theatre from the stories they hear - this is Playback Theatre. Performances are facilitated by a ‘Conductor’ who asks the audience to tell something about their real life, and shapes this into a story for the actors to improvise on the spot. Audiences often find that...
Exeter venue Sandy Park has been added to the tour schedule of male entertainers, the UK Pleasure Boys.
Billed as the ‘Ultimate Girls Night Out’, the UK Pleasure Boys regularly appear across the UK and Ireland with their sexy show.
Perfect for birthdays, hen nights or just a night out with the girls, the Boys work hard in the gym and with professional choreographers to make sure that they put on the best show.
Tickets are on sale now for just £17.50, or £22.50 to include a meal on the night. Book your ticket here .
Cranbrook’s first ever town council members have been elected.
There are 12 vacancies on the new body that will be set up to manage local governance for the new community.
Nine people stepped forward for the seats on the new town council and so all nine are duly elected uncontested.
The new council is quorate (it has enough members to carry out its duties) but there will be an opportunity to co-opt three more members in the future.
A notice announcing the result of the search for new town councillors is on display at Younghayes community centre.
BBC One has announced that Claire Goose and Matt Bardock will lead the cast of a new daytime drama, The Coroner.
Claire Goose (Casualty & Waking the Dead) will play Jane, the Coroner and Matt Bardock (Casualty) will play Davey, the local Detective Sergeant. They will be joined by Grace Hogg-Robinson (Birdhouse) who will play Beth, the Coroner’s daughter, Oliver Gomm who will play Clint, the Coroner’s Officer, Beatie Edney (Poldark) who will play Judith, Jane’s Mother and Ivan Kaye (Layer Cake & Eastenders), who will play Mick, the pub landlord.
Blazing sunshine set the tone for the Exeter Tri Club Tristars Aquathlon, which took place at Dawlish Leisure Centre on Sunday, as part of the club’s aquathlon series. The record books were broken from the club’s junior representation alone – seeing a total of 14 ETC juniors competing across the Tristart to Tristars (7-13) categories, many for whom this was their debut performance.
First off in the Tristars 1 category were Austin Crow and Jacob Price. Jacob put in a strong first performance, setting the benchmark for future events, while Austin put in a magnificent run after a...
A teaching resource, to help school children learn all about coastal areas, has won an industry award.
Living with a Changing Coast (LiCCo) is a european project helping coastal communities to better understand, prepare for and adapt to the impacts of climate change, sea level rise and erosion on the natural and human environment on both sides of the channel.
Its UK partners include the Environment Agency, the Exe Estuary Management Partnership, Devon County Council and the National Trust.
LiCCO has been highly commended at the Geographical Association Publisher's...
Substance & Shadow Theatre are proud to be part of Festival @ Cygnet, Cygnet Theatre's first week long festival!
Festival season will be soon be upon us, which can mean only one thing… time to scrape the mud off your wellies and get your waterproofs on! Tribes & Tribulations takes you on a trip back to 1984, to a time before portaloos and pop-up tents when festival were really free.
Tribes and Tribulations is set against the bleak political landscape of Thatcher’s Britain and tells the story of four diverse characters, who momentarily escape the tribulations of...
