The Rocky Horror Show 2025. Yep it’s time to dig out the basque and the fishnet stockings and prepare to time warp once more. The legend that is Richard O’Brien’s musical masterpiece is in Swindon is in Swindon – one of the stops on its new world tour.
RPA Celebrates Ofsted Compliance. With great delight RPA (Revolution Performing Arts) announces that its club at St. Bartholomew’s C of E School in Royal Wootton Bassett has succeeding in meeting all Ofsted compliance criteria.
Picture You Dead is on stage at the Wyvern Theatre from Tuesday 11th Feb through to Saturday the 15th February 2025. Book your tickets here: https://trafalgartickets.com/wyvern-theatre-swindon/en-GB/event/play/picture-you-dead-tickets
Swindon Theatres is proud to announce the launch of a brand-new community initiative, the Memory Project. It’s sponsored by Arts Council England. The Memory Project will run alongside their popular Memory Cafe, Memory Cinema and Memory Sing sessions. They occur every month at both the Wyvern Theatre and Swindon Arts Centre.
Swindon Dance hosts Art Exhibition. Swindon Town Hall, home to the nationally renowned Swindon Dance, is hosting an exhibition of original art by local artist Sheryll K Fox. You’ll find her artwork displayed through-out the Grade II listed building across the next few months. All culminating in a celebration evening in July.
Festival of Tomorrow Booking Opens at www.festivaloftomorrow.com
Get ready to experience the Earth from a new perspective! Swindon’s popular Festival of Tomorrow returns with more venues, events and activities than ever before from the 12 to 23 February.
Ready to thrill you with fun and naughty moments, Richard O’Brien’s legendary rock ‘n’ roll musical, The Rocky Horror Show returns to Swindon soon. It comes as part of a new world tour, featuring Holby City star and Strictly Come Dancing winner Joe Mcfadden as the Narrator.
Transforming the Bothy Gardens. When Jules Gilleland and Mark Wheeler stumbled across a forgotten Georgian walled garden in Wiltshire during the height of the pandemic in December 2020, they were looking at more than a property. They’d discovered a wild, overgrown dream.
Lis McDermott, a Royal Wootton Bassett-based author and poet, has released her third novel, The Identity Enigma.
Following the success of her debut novel, He is Not Worthy (2022), and her second novel, Echoes of Drowning, earlier this year, Lis hasn’t sat on her laurels. Indeed she continues to delight audiences with her powerful storytelling. While each of her novels stands alone, readers will enjoy the subtle crossovers of characters and settings, creating a unique thread that connects her works.
Malmesbury is measuring the success of its Athelstan 1100 project which marked the anniversary of Athelsan becoming the first king of all England.
Cinderella at the Wyvern. Yep. It’s Panto time again. And for 2024 the Wyvern Theatre are serving up that Christmas classic, Cinderella.
Should you ever feel the urge to do a Google search on ‘famous people from Swindon’, Wikipedia helpfully presents you with an eclectic list that’s a good fifty names long. Some of them are household names, Diana Dors for instance. Also, XTC, Gilbert O’Sullivan and Billie Piper to name but a few. Pleasingly the list includes some not-quite-household-names-that-should-be. I’m thinking here of the Hammerman poet – Alfred Williams, the jazz drummer Colin Bailey and writer Ralph Bates. And, speaking of him, why the town doesn’t celebrate a man dubbed El Fantastico by the Spanish is beyond me!
