What's On at Dartington Trust
Featured Events
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Exhibition: Dorothy's Gardens
The Elmhirst Heritage Centre’s spring exhibition, Dorothy’s Gardens, will open on Saturday 14th March. Featuring photographs from the archive and extracts from Dorothy Elmhirst’s own garden diaries, this display will bring to life the rapid development of the formal Victorian grounds into a thriving environment for horticulture, performance, and reflection.
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DCC: The Creation
Dartington Community Choir is delighted to present Haydn´s Creation conducted by Simon Dunbavand. They will be joined by Dartington Sinfonietta and 3 wonderful soloists to tell the inspiring story of the Creation of the Earth as it emerges from Chaos.
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Antiques Roadshow, Dartington Estate
Fiona Bruce and the Antiques Roadshow team will be back on the road this spring and summer filming series 49 which includes a visit to the beautiful and historic Dartington Estate, near Totnes.
Admission is strictly by ticket only, and applications are now open for free tickets with limited places - click below.
The team are hunting for a wide range of antiques, family heirlooms and vintage treasures. The Roadshow will feature specialists in the fields of jewellery, silver, ceramics and glass, pictures, rare books, clocks and watches, and militaria, as well as a team of experts with knowledge of all things collectable–from vintage fashion to furniture, from music and film memorabilia to collectable toys, from Art Deco to ancient antiquities.
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Dartington Gardens and Tours
Buy day tickets to Dartington's stunning formal Grade II Listed gardens, open every day. Guided Tours also available on Fridays which include fascinating insights into the heritage, beauty and history of this special place. Free with your Gardens tickets.
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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man [15]
Birmingham, 1940. Amidst the chaos of WWII, Tommy Shelby is driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet. With the future of the family and the country at stake, Tommy must face his own demons, and choose whether to confront his legacy, or burn it to the ground. By order of the Peaky Blinders…
![The Secret Agent [15]](https://system.spektrix.com/dartington/files/505d7530-656c-4d0c-a877-7836b99a8f1e.jpg)
The Secret Agent [15]
Master filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho (Neighbouring Sounds, Aquarius, Bacurau) teams up with a superb Wagner Moura (Narcos, Civil War) for this rich, arresting, novelistic political thriller that was garlanded with awards at Cannes (including Best Director and Best Actor) and has been hailed by critics as a fascinatingly unpredictable, shape-shifting epic.
Elmhirst Heritage Centre Tour
Welcome to the Elmhirst Heritage Centre, our new indoor visitor destination at Dartington Hall. The Heritage Centre was once the private residence of Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst, and you can book a guided heritage tour to get a sense of how the building looked in its 1960s heyday.
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The Tale of Silyan [12A]
Back due to audience demand.
From the Oscar-nominated director of ‘Honeyland’ comes a poignant and visually arresting story set in the heart of rural Macedonia. A down-on-his luck farmer grappling with the harsh reality of new economic policies, develops a unique bond with a wounded white stork as he nurses the bird back to health.
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EOS: Turner and Constable [12A]
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition.
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Dartington 100: All Things To All People Part 1 [U]
With unique, never before seen film archive from the 1930s & 40s Dartington Film Unit which has been restored and digitised, this tells the story of Dartington not through a guide or narration but through the words, voices and ideas of those who made Dartington what it was, what it is and what we hope it can be.
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One Battle After Another [15]
Nominated for 13 awards at the upcoming Oscars – including Best Picture, Best Director and four acting nominations for Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Benecio del Toro and Sean Penn – Paul Thomas Anderson’s (Phantom Thread, The Master) sensational One Battle After Another has been hailed a masterpiece and his most entertaining film to date.
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Mother's Pride [12A]
Martin Clunes (Doc Martin), Mark Addy (The Full Monty) and James Buckley (The Inbetweeners) star in new comedy drama Mother’s Pride, a love letter to the nation’s pubs.
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Sirāt [15]
Oliver Laxe’s unforgettable, brilliantly original Sirāt – now Oscar-nominated for Best International Feature and Best Sound – propels desert ravers into a hallucinatory vision of the future.
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Wuthering Heights [15]
Oscar-nominee Margot Robbie (Barbie) and Jacob Elordi (Priscilla) star in Oscar-winner Emerald Fennell’s (Saltburn) electric reimagining of Emily Brontë’s Gothic masterpiece.
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Zootropolis 2 [PG]
Here is the much anticipated sequel - the wildest mystery in Zootropolis hisssstory!
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Don't Be Prey [12A]
Imagine climbing Mount Everest – only more difficult, in treacherous open water, and at risk of being eaten by sharks. That’s the Oceans Seven, which Australian swimmer Mark Sowerby takes on in this gripping, edge-of-your-seat adventure.
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The Tasters [15]
Based on a story almost too compelling to be true, and on the award-winning, bestselling book At the Wolf’s Table by Rosella Postorino, The Tasters reconstructs the fascinating tale of the women coerced into testing Adolf Hitler’s food during World War II.
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The Bride! [15]
A lonely Frankenstein (Bale) travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious (five-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride (Buckley) is born.
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Royal Opera Live: Siegfried [cert TBC]
Royal Ballet & Opera Season 25-26. Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into enchanted slumber...
Farmers Market - Cider Press Centre
11am - 4pm, first Saturday of every month.
Clash/Crop are hosting a regular local market inspired by visits to the likes of London's Spitalfields market and Bristol's Tobacco Factory, where visitors can buy great produce, clothes, music and hang out with friends enjoying food, drinks and browsing through what’s on offer. 2 hours free parking.
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NT Live: All My Sons [cert TBC]
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge).
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Royal Opera Live: The Magic Flute [cert TBC]
Royal Ballet & Opera Season 25-26. Mozart’s fantastical opera glitters in David McVicar’s enchanting production, conducted by French conductor Marie Jacquot in her Covent Garden debut, and Finnegan Downie Dear.
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Met Opera: Eugene Onegin [cert TBC]
Royal Ballet & Opera Season 25-26. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, 'offers a beautifully detailed reading of… Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance' (The Telegraph).
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Rose of Nevada [15] + Q&A
Directed by Mark Jenkin (Bait, Enys Men) who joins us to introduce the film and for a Q&A. 30 years ago, the Rose of Nevada was lost at sea with all hands. When it suddenly reappears in the harbour of a rundown Cornish fishing village, it feels like a sign: if the Rose sets sail again, perhaps the village’s luck will turn.
'A Cornish modern classic. Eerie, heart-breaking, wonderful.’ - Mark Kermode.
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EOS: Frida Kahlo [12A]
Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world’s favourite female artist – beloved by young and old. Exhibition on Screen’s award-winning film – first released during covid to a restricted audience - is back by popular demand with an exciting new addition from the blockbuster transatlantic exhibition from Tate Britain and MFA Houston 'Frida Kahlo: the Making of an Icon'. Back in the cinemas in May 2026, one month before the Tate exhibition opens, allowing audiences to watch both the film and see the show.
The English Music Festival
A major international classical music festival with world-class artists comes to Dartington Hall! The English Music Festival presents four days of recitals, concerts and talks, including The London Mozart Players, University of Exeter Chapel Choir, award-winning and immersive early music group The Telling, tenor James Gilchrist and cellist Raphael Wallfisch.
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NT Live: The Playboy of the Western World [cert TBC]
Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene…
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.
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NT Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses [cert TBC]
BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin.
Othello - The Lord Chamberlain’s Men
Join The Lord Chamberlain’s Men this summer for Othello, one of the most captivating and thrilling plays ever written. See it performed how William Shakespeare first saw it, as The Lord Chamberlain’s Men – with a history stretching back to Shakespeare’s original company – present this play in the open air, with an all male cast and Elizabethan costumes, music and dance.