The Arts Section

The Post Office scandal on stage

IT has been impossible to ignore the story of the Post Office and the sub-postmasters, with the powerful ITV drama series and constant media reports of the hearings and the latest uncovering of lives ruined in one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in English legal history. But to hear the story first hand is…

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Regional bookshop win for Folde

A SHAFTESBURY bookshop, which specialises in nature writing, has been named as the best independent book retailer in the South West. FOLDE Dorset has won the British Book Awards Independent Bookshop of the Year competition for the South West, organised by The Bookseller magazine and judged by a prestigious panel of industry specialists, authors, journalists…

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The rambling campaigners

CAMPAIGNING theatre company Townsend Productions brings a new show with music, Behold Ye Ramblers, to Shillingstone’s Portman Hall on Saturday 23rd and Burton Bradstock village hall on Sunday 24th, both starting at 7.30pm. Behold Ye Ramblers is a new play by Neil Gore, produced in association with The Society for the Study of Labour History….

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A cracking tale

A SHOW that was first staged at Plymouth Theatre Royal and Exeter’s Northcott Theatre, comes to Dorchester Arts at the Corn Exchange on Friday 22nd March and Bridport Arts Centre on Friday 23rd, both at 7.30pm. Cracking, A Completely Made-up True Story, is a powerful dark and comic tale from the acclaimed Welsh storyteller-performer Shon…

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Broadsides and bangers

BROADSIDE ballads, the wild and gruesome “tabloids” of the 17th, 18th and 19th century, are brought to noisy and colourful life in Broadside Bangers, a new show from Cornwall’s post-ragtime punk-klezmer-swing band, Julian Gaskell and His Ragged Trousered Philanthropists coming to Dorset for three dates with Artsreach from 22nd to 24th March. Described as a…

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A Tudor tragedy

MUSICIANS and storytellers Bob Whitley (guitar, tenor guitar and mandola) and Lee MacKenzie (baroque cello) take the audience back to the dangerous Tudor court of King Henry VIII with their new show, Anne Boleyn: Wolf at the Door, which has three dates with Artsreach rural touring arts charity at Milborne St Andrew village hall on…

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The Kite Runner at Bath

AN acclaimed adaptation of the best-selling novel The Kite Runner comes to Bath Theatre Royal from Monday 18th to Saturday 23rd March as part of a new nationwide tour. Epic, exhilarating and accompanied by evocative and virtuosic live drumming by tabla player Hanif Khan, this theatrical tour de force is a faithful adaptation of a…

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Aida continues to Fascinate

THE ever-popular Fascinating Aida ­­– Dillie Keane, Adele Anderson and Liza Pulman – continues the lengthy countrywide 23/24 tour with stops across the south and west.  The trio will be at Bournemouth Pavilion on 20th March, The Playhouse at Weston-super-Mare on 21st March and Kings Theatre, Portsmouth, on 23rd March.

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