Plymouth University

Performance: Give Me Your Love - Ridiculusmus

Wednesday 22 March, 19:30 The House, Plymouth University £10/£7 Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA

Running time: 60 minutes

Ex-soldier and budding rock star, Zach, has withdrawn into a cardboard box in a kitchen in West Wales. His friend Ieuan arrives offering recovery in the form of a capsule containing 3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine, with which he claims to have successfully treated his own post-traumatic stress. Theatre legends Jon Haynes and David Woods of Ridiculusmus present a funny, fragile and profound fable...

Film: Sid and Nancy (1986)

Monday 20 March, 19:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA

Dir: Alex Cox Cast: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman Running time: 114 mins Cert: 18 Gary Oldman plays Sid Vicious, bass guitarist of the Sex Pistols, with Chloe Webb as his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, in an ill-fated King and Queen of alternative rock. Their mutually destructive, heroin-fuelled relationship tests Sid's relations with the rest of the Pistols and ultimately leads to a terrible night in...

Music: Sacred Voices - University of Plymouth Choral Society and Sinfonia

Saturday 18 March, 19:30 Minster Church of St Andrew, Plymouth £15/Friends £13

Simon Ible conductor Augusta Hebbert soprano Pierre-Emmanuel Largeron violin

Haydn: Little Organ Mass Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor Vivaldi: Nulla in mundo pax sincera

This concert reveals the expressive beauty of five centuries of European sacred voices through the music by Haydn, Vivaldi, Palestrina, Bach and Bruckner.

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/sacred-voices

Music: Plymouth University Orchestra Spring Concert

Tuesday 16 March, 20:00 Minster Church of St Andrew, Plymouth Free admission, booking advised

Plymouth University Orchestra performs a programme of popular, classical music for orchestra and smaller wind, string and brass ensembles. The Orchestra rehearses on Thursday evenings at the Sherwell Centre and comprises of Plymouth University students, staff and members of the local community. For more information about the Orchestra, email jonathan.hurdle@plymouth.ac.uk .

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/plymouth-university-orchestra-spring...

Talk: Cromwell’s Trunks: Loyalty, Memory And Public Opinion In Early Modern England

Christopher Durston Memorial Lecture

Tuesday 14 March, 19:00 Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA

Edward Vallance, Professor of Early Modern British Political Culture, examines the short period when Oliver Cromwell’s son succeeded his father before the recall of Charles II and the light this sheds on loyalty, memory and the end of the Protectorate. Professor Vallance is author of many books including The Glorious Revolution (2006), and A Radical...

Film: Diva (1981)

Monday 13 March, 19:00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA

“Incredibly stylish and visually ravishing” **** Empire

Dir: Jean-Jacques Beineix Cast: Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer Running time: 117 mins Cert: 15

This atmospheric thriller is the twisted tale of two tapes; one, the illegal bootlegged recording of an American opera star, the other, evidence of a crime. The film broke all of the accepted rules of cinema at the time...

Performance: Our Carnal Hearts - Rachel Mars

Wednesday 8 March, 19:30 The House, Plymouth University £10/£7 Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA

Running time: 60 minutes

A Welcome! To you and to me and our sticky, spikey, shameful bits! This fairy comes round your house.

You, she says, are in luck. Ask for anything you want. Anything in the world and I’ll give it to you. But whatever you ask for, your neighbour gets double.

Our Carnal Hearts is a gleeful, thrilling and murky celebration of envy, competitive spirits and all the times we f*ck each other...

Talk: The Women Pirates: Image and Reality - John Appleby

Tuesday 7 March, 19:00 Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA

Running time: 90 minutes with a 15 minute interval

Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Liverpool Hope University, John Appleby, looks at the history of women pirates. He has published widely on aspects of English and Irish maritime and colonial history during the 16th and 17th century and most recently the publication Under the Bloody Flag: Pirates of the Tudor Age (Stroud, 2009...

Dance: Free Falling - Hagit Yakira

Wednesday 22 February, 19:30 The House, Plymouth University £10/£7 Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA

Running time: 90 minutes with a 15 minute interval

Award-winning Hagit Yakira dance presents Free Falling, an open-hearted double bill of down-to-earth dance that’s sensual, striking and a beautiful respite from the hustle and bustle. Based on stories gathered through years of working as a therapist, Hagit Yakira has created a powerful and atmospheric mixed bill that eloquently unravels real life experiences about the...

High-tech centre opens its doors to South West companies

Businesses in the South West are being invited to tour a Plymouth University research facility and see for themselves how it could benefit their manufacturing processes and enhance profitability.

An open day on composite failure analysis is being held at the Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre (PEMC) on Thursday 27 June.

Businesses will be able to see how the...

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