Culture on Scilly 2025

Our programme of events runs across the year, and we curate a series of events designed to inspire and entertain the people of Scilly and visitors to the islands.

Our work will also help to inform the arts programme for the new Isles of Scilly Cultural Centre and Museum.

Alongside our regular programme of events, we run and support projects and commissions which enable people to experience high quality arts and culture.

We work with partners on Scilly and beyond to deliver work which focuses on community participation, building new audiences, and developing skills – especially for young people on Scilly.

October 2025

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The End is the Beginning

  • Produced by Living Room Theatre

  • Thursday 23 October, 8pm

  • Old Town Inn, St Marys

A compilation and remix of 16 of Samuel Beckett's plays, prose and poems

A brush with Beckett, his characters and their words

In this intimate two-hander performance, our approach to both the comic and the tragic sides of Beckett’s work will give audiences a new way to experience his language. Whether you’re exploring this Nobel Prize winner’s writing for the first time, or building on a body of Beckett knowledge, this theatrical showcase is an encounter not to be missed. 

Expect a mystery phone call, impossible-to-remove boots, the horrors of home life, a glass of Jamesons, surreal radio broadcasts, a bevvy of bananas, a bicycle from boyhood, classic clowning, beguiling stillness, and audience up on stage. All encased within hilarious, poignant, possibly challenging but always compelling drama!

Sarah & Philip embody the endeavours of many of Beckett’s absurd and tragic characters, in their struggle to exist and to remember. Most of all, in their struggle out of silence, towards speaking. Structured as a fragmentary progression, its an entertaining celebration of the act of trying again, failing again, failing better.

The show is 85 mins long.

Thursday 23 October, 8pm at Old Town Inn, St Marys

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Season Highlights 2025

  • King Lear: Royal Shakespeare Company

  • Kevrin Out of Season

  • Twelfth Night: Miracle Theatre

  • Walk The Walk: Camp Theatre

  • Odyssey: Troubadour Arts

  • Around the World in 80 Days

  • Cinderella: IK Theatre

  • As You Like It: Festival Players

  • From the Horses Mouth: o-region