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  • Hedda Gabler at the Wharf is Seriously Thought-provoking

    Hedda Gabler at the Wharf is Seriously Thought-provoking

    Featured Image: Chris Watkins Media Home after previewing a dress rehearsal at The Wharf Theatre, Devizes last night, I kissed my wife goodnight. She didn’t understand the relevance, but Henrik Ibsen’s magnum opus, Hedda Gabler is one seriously thought-provoking playโ€ฆ… They didn’t have Billy Joel’s doo-wop fad in nineteenth century Norway, see, otherwise the protagonist’s Read more

  • A Baroque Blast at St Mary’s!

    Kaffeehaus Culture comes to St Mary’s, Devizes on the 1st of October, bringing you some Bach, Handel & Telemann…… The acoustically rich space of St Maryโ€™s Church, Devizes, will be filled with music from the best-known baroque masters on Saturday, 1st October. Playing on traditional instruments The Brook Street Band will transport the audience back Read more

  • The Queen, Some Footbridges and Wiltshireโ€™s Wackiest Race; Chatting to the Creator of Devizesโ€™ Boto-X

    The Queen, Some Footbridges and Wiltshireโ€™s Wackiest Race; Chatting to the Creator of Devizesโ€™ Boto-X

    โ€œWhen the Queen came to open it, the boat which was doing the ceremonial opening was on the lock below the Waterways Board yard. The approach was through there, where she met the union members, and they walked out along the bank, above the first of the top of the Boto-X lock. She met people Read more

  • Devizine 5th Birthday!

    Devizine 5th Birthday!

    Right then you lot, Devizine is five years old today, or at least it was when I begun this monumental mission of reminiscing on how, why and what the hell I was thinking when I started it in the first place. Question is, do you want the short story, or the long, drawn-out one? Oh Read more

  • Weekly Roundup of Events in Wiltshire: 8th-14th September 2022

    Slight seasonal changes, wetter but still warm, slight Prime Minister changes, dryer but still a narcissistic numpty; ah well, letโ€™s see, a day later than usual I know and apologise, whatโ€™s happening in Wiltshire over the next weekโ€ฆ… The one link you need as usual, is our event calendar, where itโ€™s all listed with ticket Read more

  • Big Events Like Confetti Battle are Great for Devizes, But Where Can the Disabled Park?

    Big Events Like Confetti Battle are Great for Devizes, But Where Can the Disabled Park?

    I believe I speak for most of us, when I say we all love that Devizes punches above its weight when it comes to hosting some grand universal events, such as yesterdayโ€™s historic, if bizarre local ritual, Confetti Battle. DOCA and others, such as the Devizes Food & Drink Festival, use the Market Place to Read more