TICKETS are now on sale for Dorchester Literature Festival, running from 17th to 21st October, with a fascinating line-up that includes novelist Joanna Trollope, foreign correspondent Mark Austin (who started his journalistic career on the Bournemouth Echo), Judy Murray, tennis coach, adviser and mother of Andy and Jamie, and politician Vince Cable. With other big…
DAVE Johns, the star of Ken Loach’s hugely praised I Daniel Blake, shows another of his talents when he appears at the Lyme Regis Comedy Club at the Marine Theatre on Saturday 25th August. He won a BAFTA for his role in the drama, as a man who helps a single mother trying to make…
A RARE tapestry dating from the 15th century, which usually hangs in the dining room at the National Trust’s Montacute House near Yeovil, is going to Belgium for a specialist clean. The Millefleurs tapestry, one of the few surviving from the late 15th century, was commissioned by the townspeople of Tournai in 1477 as a…
THE Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis is giving away tickets to one lucky person for the whole year. The winner will be able to go to every single show in the theatre’s packed programme of music, theatre, comedy and film. Anyone can enter – all they have to do is sign up to the venue’s…
BOAT-builder Gail McGarva, who is coming to Messums Wiltshire on Bank Holiday Monday 27th August, at 11am, for a free talk, has an extraordinary story, a journey that began in 2004 when at the age of 39 she left her career as a sign language interpreter and went to train at the Lyme Regis Boat…
SALISBURY-based History at Large teams up with the city’s Studio Theatre to perform a new show in the courtroom in the Guildhall on Friday 24th August at 7.30. Monocled Mutineer? is the simulated trial of Percy Topliss, who in fact was shot dead by Cumberland police in 1920, after he went on the run from…
CHRISTCHURCH is going Mamma Mia mad this summer, celebrating the arrival of the eagerly-awaited follow-up to the smash hit 2008 movie Mamma Mia. The Regent Centre has been showing the new film, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, since 3rd August and the jollifications come to a climax on Saturday 25th August with a Mamma…
TIM Martin brings two more Americana performances to Bristol this August, starting at The Tunnels on Wednesday 22nd Ausut with Lee Baines III and the Glory Fires. If you don’t like noisy, opinionated, angry and confrontational music, stay away, he says. The band from Alabama also make music that’s passionate, honest and thoughtful. Their new…
THIS year’s Tri.art summer school at the Merlin in Frome has something very different in store for participants and audiences. The chosen show is In the Heights, the first major work by the creator of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda. Tri.art Theatre won Best Youth Production at the Somerset Fellowship of Drama David Beach awards for its…
ARTHUR Miller’s play The Price, written in 1968 at the end of what is regarded as his greatest period, draws from his own experiences of the Depression. Two brothers, both with great student promise, have gone different ways. One is a successful doctor, the other a policeman. It’s 16 years after the death of their…