August PREVIEW
Circus skills in the Open Air
HONITON THE Beehive Centre at Honiton plays host to a spectacular show by Company Zid on Thursday 12th August, at 6pm in conjunction with Devon’s rural arts touring charity, Villages in Action. Routine, performed by multi-talented Moroccan artist Said Mouhssine, is an acrobatic comedy show. It tells the story of a person stuck in a room, with nothing to do. Sleeping is a fight against boredom but no matter what he does, he can’t even sleep. It’s a show about hope and pushing personal boundaries in order to bring about change. The Beehive has another event with Villages in Action on Sunday 29th August, when Assembleth Theatre performs Shodyssey. If you think you know about the Trojan Wars, think again. Forget everything you learned at school. This is Troy, sometime BC when a young bull herder accidentally eats a golden apple. Three goddesses aren’t happy ... ten years later a city burns... Originally commissioned for Outpost Festival 2014 by New Model Theatre, Assembleth has re-vamped this cult classic. Greek tragedy it definitely is not.
The Honiton Show, on Friday 6th August, has another Villages in Action event, the delightful Pirate Taxi with Pirates of the Carabina. This is a family friendly show with mechanically ingenious sets, extraordinary aerial, circus and live music performed in, on and above an oldschool London taxi. Pirate Taxi is also at Ipplepen on Wednesday 18th August.
Festival 24 ½
BEAMINSTER IT was tantalising to not quite reach their 25th Anniversary in 2020, but now with special events in August and September, organisers are thrilled to stage Beaminster Festival No. 24½ They welcome back the brilliant Rain or Shine company to the glorious grounds of Beaminster Manor performing She Stoops to Conquer, a rollicking 18th Century farce with comments on attitude to class and country/town manners still pertinent today. “A reserved lover, it is said, always makes a suspicious husband.” In the play, Kate Hardcastle is a young lady fixed up to meet the eligible Marlow with a view to
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