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The Plough Arts Centre in Torrington has been closed since March 2020 - Credit: Plough Arts After a year of enforced closure, The Plough Arts Centre in Torrington plans to reopen with a bang this summer and one that will reverberate across 15 open-air theatre venues as the Torrington based arts charity kicks off what must be the largest Open-Air Theatre Festival in the country. With 54 outdoor theatre performances taking place from June 11 to September 4 across North Devon (plus one in North Somerset that crept into the mix!) there are endless reasons for lovers of theatre and open spaces to be tempted into the great outdoors this summer. ....
This year’s competition was delayed from last year due to the Covid-19 lockdowns. Reflecting on a difficult 12 months, Plough’s director Richard Wolfenden-Brown said: “In all the strangeness and difficulty of the last year, we expect there was also a lot of creativity. “In amongst all the poems written during lockdown, there may well be the next Plough Prize winner.” Mr McGough added: “I am looking forward to being released from my self-inflicted lockdown, to run into a field and get behind The Plough. “I expect the ploughshares to turn up poetic gems by the sackful.” Described by former poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy as the patron saint of poetry’, Roger McGough is one of Britain’s best-loved poets for both adults and children. ....
The Plough Arts Centre in Torrington - Credit: Plough Arts The Plough Arts Centre has regretfully announced it will close again until the end of March as Covid-19 numbers continue to rise. Before Christmas the Great Torrington venue had reopened with a programme of live and streamed entertainment as well as events at its satellite St Anne’s venue in Barnstaple. But now as coronavirus cases increase again locally and across the country, it is felt closure for now is the best course. Plough director Richard Wolfenden-Brown said: “After careful consideration of the deteriorating situation nationally and locally with regard to Covid 19, and after taking advice from local health professionals, the trustees of the Plough Arts Centre have taken the decision to close the venue from January 1 to March 31. ....