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King Creon and the Coconuts

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The Burial at Thebes

You’d be forgiven for saying ‘it’s all Greek to me’, but only just.

The Farringdon Society of Arts players’ performance of Burial at Thebes, Seamus Heaney’s translation of Sophocles’ Antigone, is filled with modern-day relevance - do you hold duty to the state or your conscience (something the burghers of London town should have spent a bit more time considering, perhaps).

It’s an exciting time for the Farringdon (the village that’s just past Crealy), the play is a celebration of the ties between Jack Yeats (brother of WB and top Irish painter) and Devon, and marks the starting point of a cultural rollercoaster for members of the Yeats Society as they trip through the Devon lanes to uncover some of the not-so-hidden cultural treasure.

The play runs from Tuesday, May 20 to Saturday May 24, at Farringdon. To book your ticket ring 01395 239181 or e-mail fsadevon@hotmail.co.uk.

Meanwhile, find out more about the play and why you should pop along with the PRSD podcast, below.

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Flipside flash points

Flipside film festival

“I’m massively excited about the Don Letts event,” says Plymouth Flipside Film Festival (May 21- 31) organiser Dan Paolantonio, over on D+CFilm.

“Although we’ve had some amazing film artists screening their works in Plymouth over the last couple of years, we’ve really had no-one with the truly global profile of Don Letts. And films are only a part of his repertoire too. He has arguably been the catalyst for some of the most creatively explosive pop-cultural collisions of the last quarter of a century, his influence extending into just about every artistic area imaginable.”

But that’s not all, there’s even home-based talent.

“I’m also really thrilled that Tony Hill has agreed to show a selection of his film work – another film artist with a truly international reputation. His films are truly incredible – presenting the world around us in unfamiliar and thought provoking ways, forcing us to truly contemplate, and look, rather than just charging through life with the dreaded white headphones plugged in.”

Check out D+CFilm for Flipside stories, or the Flipside site for more.

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May 3rd, 2008

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