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  • Eric Ravilious; the Downland Man

    Eric Ravilious; the Downland Man

    For the very first time Wiltshire Museum will be borrowing from major National Museums to bring an international standard art exhibition to the County. Theyโ€™ve confirmed important loans from the Tate and V&A, as well as private lenders. They are also liaising with the Imperial War Museum, British Museum, National Museum of Wales and the… Read more

  • Phil Cooper Falls at Your Feet

    Phil Cooper Falls at Your Feet

    Iโ€™m adiaphorous to Crowded House, I confess, probably due to timing. Late eighties, early nineties and like many-a-teenager I was gurning in a field, revelling developments in music technology. If I couldnโ€™t dance like a puppet on fast forward to it, well, you know, some good things pass you by. This is not meandering off… Read more

  • Mark Thomas comes to Swindon Arts Centre

    Mark Thomas comes to Swindon Arts Centre

    Images used with the kind permission of Steve Ullathorne   Iโ€™ve been a admirer of the pragmatic Mark Thomas and his satirical cutting-edge comedy since his days guesting on The Mary Whitehouse Experience at the dawn of nineties, end of this month he’s at the Swindon Arts Centre; could you ask for a more apt… Read more

  • Top Twenty Best Vids of the Vizes!

    Top Twenty Best Vids of the Vizes!

    Wet play project, canโ€™t be bothered to go out. Iโ€™ve complied the best-loved videos documenting our crazy lilโ€™ town, yet it can be updated if you know of a better one? And not one of your barbeque party where cousin Billy lost it on the trampoline; Iโ€™m not Harry flipping Hill and you wonโ€™t get… Read more

  • At This Shoebox Stage

    At This Shoebox Stage

    Have you ever loved a show so much that you wished you could kidnap the actors, keep them in your basement and get them to perform it again for you? No? Just Rupert? After a successful three week run at the Miniver Theatre, a troupe of young actors are ready and willing to let go… Read more

  • Living Together at The Wharf

    Monday 21st – Saturday 26th October sees the next Wharf Theatre production, Living Together, by Alan Ayckbourn and directed by Mervyn Harrowven.   When the Norman Conquests (named after the plays leading character, assistant librarian Norman, as opposed to the Kings William and Harold!) burst onto the theatre-going public in the early 1970s, they were… Read more