AFTER the mysterious disappearance of a world-famous magician disappears, the great Sherlock Holmes is called in to investigate in Holmes and Watson: The Curious Case of The Masked Magician comes to Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre on Saturday 7th March at 11am and 2.30pm and Dorchester Corn Exchange on Sunday 15th March at 2.30. 1t’s 1906…
TWO great artists met their deaths by gun-shot. Vincent died in 1890. John died in 1980. What might have happened had the two great artists met? Discover a possible answer in When Vincent met John at Bridport Arts Centre on Saturday 7th March. Vincent van Gogh was a 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among…
TWO popular small touring theatre companies have got together to produce a new comedy, General Medical Emergency Ward 10, which starts an Artsreach tour at Halstock on 4th March, followed by Sydling St Nicholas on Thursday 5th and Winterborne Stockland on Friday 6th. Award‑winning Dyad Productions and Company Gavin Robertson have reimagined the worlds of…
THE king of boogie-woogie piano Ben Waters is joined by his son, the brilliant saxophonist Tom, for an evening of boogie and blues at the Beehive Centre at Honiton on Saturday 7th March. From the moment he first danced his fingers across the keys, Dorset-born Ben Waters has been on a mission to capture the…
SALISBURY International Arts Festival, running from 16th to 27th June, takes two very different looks at the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet, with a community production of Shakespeare’s play, from 24th May to 7th June, and a dance version, Lost Dog’s Juliet & Romeo, which imagines this enduring tale of love turned upside down….
“WHO runs the world?” ask the fearless and brilliant dancers of the Turkish company Ceyda Tanc, when they come to Buckland Newton village hall on Sunday 1st March. Their answer ;is “Girls.” The performance, at 3.30pm, is the only Dorset date for the company, and is presented by the county’s rural touring arts charity Artsreach….
ICELANDIC cellist Geirþrúður Anna Guðmundsdóttir, with accompanist Antoine Préat, joins Concerts in the West’s for the March series, starting at 11.30am on Friday 13th March at Bridport Arts Centre, followed by Ilminster Arts Centre that evening at 7.30pm and Crewkerne Dance House on Saturday 14th at 7.30. The duo will play a programme of cello…
ONE of the reasons that Adrian Brendel has slipped so seamlessly into the charismatic shoes of the late Amelia Freedman as artistic director of Bath’s Mozart and Bach Fests, is that he, as he pointed out when introducing The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra’s splendid closing concert in the Abbey, he is fully aware what a…
THE south-west of England has a particularly rich heritage of community plays – Dorchester has mounted seven, a record number. Increasingly, large theatres are commissioning plays for a vast cast of performers, usually with a professional production team and an amateur cast keen for the chance to make friends and perform on big stages, with…
SOME music just tugs at your heartstrings, no matter how often you hear it. A couple of bars of Puccini’s La Boheme and I am transported back to my very early childhood … my mother singing, or, a bit later when we had a radiogram, to Renata Tebaldi’s voice recorded at La Scala in 1951….