Exeter

South West Spring Quilt Festival

Event Date: 
05/04/2013 - 10:00am to 07/04/2013 - 4:00pm
Venue: 
Westpoint, Exeter

This is a great opportunity for all quilting enthusiasts.

The show features a large display of quilts from all over the world as well as patchwork and quilting suppliers stands. Quilting enthusiasts and personalities will be on hand to "show you how", and workshops are available, which can be booked at the show on a first come, first served basis.

There are good on-site facilities including a restaurant, disabled facilities, easy and instant access with free parking.

Opening times: 10am-4.30pm. Tickets: £6 in advance, £7 on the door, seniors citizens £5 in advance...

Joss Stone Presents Mica Paris

Event Date: 
24/04/2013 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Mama Stone’s, Mary Arches Street, Exeter

This is Mamma Stone's first Joss Stone presents....

Come along for a night of music from two of the greatest soul voices of our time Our very own Joss Stone and the amazing Mica Paris...Two of the biggest musical names under one roof with full band.

Tickets are now on sale for this once in a lifetime experience, so make sure you don't miss out. Tickets £35, box office 01392 848485.

BSO: Paul Lewis Plays Brahms

Event Date: 
11/04/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
The Great Hall, Exeter University

Works Performed: Schubert: Rosamunde Overture Beethoven: Symphony No.8 Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1

The overture used to accompany Chézy’s unsuccessful play Rosamunde was actually composed for an earlier play. It remains one of Schubert’s finest orchestral pieces, filled with ingratiating tunes and demonstrating his characteristic warmheartedness and good humour. Its main theme appears at once, defining a kind of restless energy, which gradually builds in momentum to its bright and triumphal conclusion.

Beethoven created the sparkling Eighth Symphony at a time when his life...

Bug Box Making at Escot

Event Date: 
09/04/2013 - 10:30am to 10/04/2013 - 4:30pm
Venue: 
Escot Estate, Ottery St Mary

Go along to Escot and make your very own garden bug box to take home with you.

Non-members £5 plus Escot admission fee; members £5. Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult. Booking via entrance kiosk.

10.30am-4,30pm both days. Please wear old clothes.

For more information visit www.escot-devon.co.uk

Feast of Fiddles - 20th Annual Tour

Event Date: 
03/04/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange

2013 sees the 20th outing of this band of friends which promises a new album launch, a booklet about the band's history as well as the usual glorious live show.

It all started in a folk club as a bit of an idea in 1993 and has developed into a UK folk-rock institution.

Six of the country's best fiddle players front a cracking band of guitars, keyboards, sax and accordion. It's all held together by the grandfather of folk-rock drumming - Dave Mattacks.

The show includes solos, original and traditional songs, a few iconic rock references and theme tunes plus mighty...

Front Room Theatre: Lie Back and Think of America

Event Date: 
18/04/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
New Theatre, Friars Gate, Exeter

1940’s London. Sarah wishes dad could meet GI Joseph. Evacuee-with-attitude, little sister Lucy, descends on Wales. Can Sarah find the courage to tell them the truth?

This engaging multi-role World War Two comedy-drama is written and performed by Natalie Wilcox and comes to the New Theatre following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Natalie’s previous work includes Mark Locke’s beautiful ‘Black Swan Song’, Shared Experience, BBC, Channel 4, Nottingham Playhouse, Watford Palace, Guildford Shakespeare Company and Fort Mark Films.

Tickets £8.

Box office...

The Image of Cliff Richard: Kytsun Wolfe and the Sounds Of The Shadows

Event Date: 
27/04/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Kytsun Wolfe and the Sounds of the Shadows are incomparable entertainers who are loved and supported all across the country, not only because of their exceptional talents, but also, because no other act can recreate the illusion with such amazing accuracy.

Their performance is so uncanny that fans all agree, the experience is truly magical and makes them feel as though they are back in their teens at an actual Cliff and the Shadows concert.

Whether you are a fan or not, it cannot be denied that Cliff Richard and The Shadows are the most iconic 'Rock 'n' Roll' act ever...

Alistair McGowan: Not Just a Pretty Voice

Event Date: 
24/04/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

The Nation’s favourite impressionist, Alistair McGowan, goes back to his stand-up roots for a new two-hour show.

Asking the big questions like: would the world be a happier place if Ed Miliband was Prime Minister? What are we really thinking while watching Shakespeare? And is Hilary Devey Jessie J’s mum? Expect to hear everyone from Andy Murray to Colin Murray, riffs on everything from Jeff Stelling to bad spelling and at least one song about butter.

Warning: May contain puns!

Tickets: £15.

Box office: 01392 270891.

www.barnfieldtheatre.com

Back Coffee Theatre presents The Seagull by Anton Chekhov

Event Date: 
20/04/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Clifford Room, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov.

The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingénue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin.

As with the rest of Chekhov's full-length plays, The Seagull relies upon an ensemble cast of diverse, fully developed characters. In contrast to the melodrama of the...

Exeter Little Theatre Company present 'Allo 'Allo

Event Date: 
16/04/2013 - 7:30pm to 20/04/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

Based on the hugely popular TV comedy series, the stage version of ‘Allo ‘Allo, by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, follows the adventures of René, the hapless (and somewhat randy) café owner in the town of Nouvien in war-torn occupied France, as he and his wife, Edith, struggle to keep for themselves a priceless portrait of the ‘Fallen Madonna with the big boobies’.

René is also hiding two British airmen and is endeavouring, with the help of the French Resistance, to repatriate them. However, communications with London through a wireless in disguise add to the many embarrassments he...

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