Your essential guide to What’s On in around Exeter this weekend (3-5 November)
THEATRE
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Friday & Saturday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter Hot Rock Productions presents ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’. Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece, and the definitive ‘Grusical’, don’t miss out on the ultimate theatrical horror experience. www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk
Medea Friday & Saturday, Beer Quarry Caves Four of Swords perform Medea in the spectacular Beer Quarry Caves. Freely adapted from the Greek masterpiece...
Your 2016 guide to fireworks displays taking place in and around Exeter:
Friday 4 November
Exmouth Round Table Annual Charity Fireworks Display Exmouth Rugby Football Club, Royal Avenue, Exmouth Raising funds in aid of Exmouth RNLI. The evening will be hosted by Radio Exe and Chris Dinnis. Creation Station are in attendance for those who would like to get arty before the fireworks start. Admission: £6 adults, £4 children. Gates open at 6pm with the fireworks from 7.30pm. https://exmouth.roundtable.co.uk
Fireworks Night a Exeter Golf & Country Club Topsham Road, Exeter...
Shakespeare Lecture 2016 Thursday 21st April 2016 at 19.00 in the Chapter House
400 years ago, in April 1616, William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes died within days of each other. In this lecture, our speaker Philip Schwyzer will explore some of the aspects of the work of these two great literary figures, and their continuing legacies.
The Cathedral Library's copy of the Second Folio Edition of Shakespeare's works (1632) will also be on display in the Chapter House.
#Shakespeare400
Ticket information Tickets £7 (plus a £1 transaction fee per booking)...
Exeter collector Heather Coleman has turned her passion for old clay tobacco pipes into a business and now supplies crafted clay pipes worldwide for television, film and theatre. Most recently a selection of her pipes appeared in the popular TV series Poldark and she has also made special pipes for many well-known people including President Obama, Johnny Depp, the late Terry Pratchett, and comedian Phil Jupitus.
Her collection of historical pipes is currently on display at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM). They date from the 1580s right through to the 1920s and include...
Shoppers are being given an early Christmas present by the City Council – a great parking offer!
Customers will be able to double the length of their stay in the Council’s Pay & Display car parks when arriving after 10.00am on Wednesdays in December.
The length of stay indicated on the purchased ticket will be doubled by officers undertaking enforcement patrols.
Councillor Rosie Denham, Lead Councillor for Economy & Culture said: “The aim is to encourage people to spend longer enjoying what Exeter has to offer and to encourage people to come into the city on...
Dogs Trust Ilfracombe will be “chewning” into the airwaves on Bonfire Night to help petrified pooches conquer their fear of fireworks and are urging Devon dog owners and radio stations to do the same. A Dogs Trust survey of 3,750 pet owners shows that two-thirds of dogs are worried by fireworks and that 93% of their owners alter their routine during fireworks celebrations to try to minimise the trauma on their pets. Many dog owners are simply unaware of the effect that firework fear can have on their dogs and each year we receive calls from pet owners who simply don’t know how to calm...
A partnership between Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) and the University of Exeter has produced the first ever dedicated display of sexually related material from the Wellcome Collection and a new way for schools to tackle difficult topics in sex education.
Intimate Worlds: Exploring Sexuality through the Wellcome Collection opened in Exeter on Saturday 5 April. The displays include an 18th-century chastity belt, Roman phallic amulets worn by soldiers and children, an Ashanti fertility doll and a Ch’ing dynasty ivory copulating couple from late 19th-...
International streetartist Mohammed Ali is displaying his unique Future Cube outside Exeter Cathedral.
The cube is an interpretation of how religious belief is expressed in new ways in contemporary times. Each side of the large cube displays a different setting, with desert and rural meeting urban landscapes.
The Arabic word ‘Al Musaqubal’ – which means the future – wraps around the cube.
The Dean of Exeter Cathedral, the Very Revd Jonathan Draper, said he was thrilled that the Cathedral Green was chosen to host the cube. “This dramatic piece of art makes an...