Events Around Plymouth

Matilda The Musical is the multi-award winning musical from the Royal Shakespeare Company, inspired by the beloved book by the incomparable Roald Dahl.

So it’s time to prepare yourselves for two amazing shows with Horrible Histories live on stage! Using actors and ground-breaking 3D special effects, these two astounding shows are guaranteed to thrill you and your children.

We are delighted to welcome the highly celebrated London Mozart Players to Plymouth. The UK’s longest established chamber orchestra and known for its unmistakable British roots, the London Mozart Players has developed an outstanding reputation for adventurous, ambitious programming, from Baroque works through to...

The University of Plymouth Orchestra presents a concert in the city’s main church with a selection of music for full orchestra and also for the string, woodwind and brass sections individually.

The programme presents a selection of baroque duets from the 18th century’s masters, led by Musical Director Alice Dennis BEM.

The genre of nature writing in Britain has been going through a renaissance. Birds, butterflies, streams, pastures, moors, beaches and seas around us fill many bookshop shelves and the pages of critical reviews.

Nigel Hawthorne stars as the British monarch who seemingly became mentally disturbed during his reign and had to endure barbaric ’cures’. Based on Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play, The Madness of King George takes a dark-humoured look at the mental decline of the King.

Edward Clarke reads from his latest collection ’Eighteen Psalms’, published by Periplum Press. Edward is a poet and author of two books of criticism: ’The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry’, and ’The Later Affluence of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens’.

David J. Peterson is the one of the world’s most famous language creators. He has invented languages for various films and TV programmes. David created a language for Walt Disney film Thor: The Dark World, and is the creator of the Dothraki language for HBO’s fantasy series Game of Thrones.

The BBC Singers hold a unique position in British musical life. Performing everything from Byrd to Birtwistle, Tallis to Takemitsu, their versatility is second to none.

Gala Programme Illusions (Choir) by Linas Baltas Lampedusa (Opera in three acts. Choir, Mezzo-soprano, Bass and Electronics) by Eduardo R. Miranda.

University of Oxford physicist Vlatko Vedral introduces the mesmerising world of quantum physics. A better understanding of the atomic world affords the development of new technologies.

Observables presents a collection of short films curated by Alexis Kirke on the themes of quantum multiverse. The programme includes metaphors for quantum effects - how observers effect the observed and paths we could have been taken but did not. The event culminates with The End?

Vlatko Vedral, Department of Physics, University of Oxford University of Oxford physicist Vlatko Vedral introduces the mesmerising world of Quantum Physics. A better understanding of the atomic world affords the development of new technologies.

The research concert showcases research, new ideas and technologies developed by ICCMR composers. The University of Plymouth is a leader in the development of Artificial Intelligence for music. We are pioneers in Music Neurotechnology and on using quantum computing in music.

Professor Judy Edworthy, Director of the University’s Cognition Institute, will introduce this dramatic account of Donald Crowhurst’s disastrous attempt to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe without stopping and the struggles he confronted on the journey while his family awaited his return.

Dr Peter Elmer provides an alternative approach to understanding one of the more complex and disputed aspects of witchcraft in early modern England, namely its demise.

The cultural tourism of the 18th Century is usually associated with the Grand Tour to Italy. Yet the 18th Century witnessed the rise of an alternative tour to Northern Europe, where travellers could take in the splendours of the Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish art or experience a quite different milieu to Naples or...

Rachael Allen reads from her debut poetry collection ’Kingdomland’, published with Faber and Faber.

This is a deliciously sharp comedy based on the Jane Austen novella. A tale of matchmaking and heart-breaking, centred around beautiful young widow Lady Susan Vernon who has come to Churchill, her in-laws’ estate, to wait out the colourful rumours about her dalliances circulating through polite society.

Dr Richard Noakes, lecturer in History at the University of Exeter in Falmouth, works on the history of the physical sciences.

The habit of gathering at dusk by birds – especially crows, starlings, thrushes, and gulls – shapes their lives, but the birds themselves can also radically alter the physical landscape itself. For centuries naturalists and artists have responded to this remarkable avian behaviour.

Directed by Charlotte Vincent, ‘one of the most important feminist artists working in Britain today’ (The Observer), Shut Down explores the spectrum of modern-day masculinity and investigates the pressures, contradictions and confusions of being a man.

Five-piece band, Wurlitza, will present a modern twist to this silent film accompaniment by adding music that will be arranged in a way that is novel and fresh. Their unique approach utilises their wide-ranging repertoire of original, pop, jazz, classical, indie and everything in between.