MAJOR national annual dates these days are at least as much about selling as they are about celebrating – and that’s certainly the case in Terry’s: An American Tragedy About Cars, Customers, and Selling Cars to Customers, coming to Dorchester Arts at the Corn Exchange on Thursday 13th November. Memorial Day weekend … the US-of-A….
AARON Sorkin’s acclaimed adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird comes to Bath Theatre Royal from 11th to 22nd November on its first UK and Ireland tour after its critically praised runs on Broadway and in the West End. Richard Coyle plays Atticus Finch, the role created by Gregory Peck in the 1962 film…
THE Elizabethan adventurer, explorer and some time Dorset resident, Sir Walter Raleigh, one of history’s most charismatic characters, is touring the realm, and his show comes to the Ustinov Studio at Bath Theatre Royal from 10th to 12th November. That Knave, Raleigh tells the astonishing highs and lows of his dramatic career. Andrew Margerison, who…
SINGER song-writer Louise Jordan, who specialises in telling the hidden histories of women over the past couple of centuries, takes audiences back to the dark times of occupied France and the courageous women of the Special Operations Executive in her new show, which has two more dates in the New Forest, on Saturday 15th November,…
THE recent media circus and general clamour around the former prince Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the younger brother of King Charles III, is by no means the first time that the future of the monarchy has been in question. A new play by Gavin Egan, at Dorchester Arts on Tuesday 4th November, looks at the fate…
THE magnificent setting of Athelhampton House near Puddletown, one of the finest Tudor manor houses in the country, hosts a Tudor household over this half-term. Families are invited to come and experience the sights, sounds and smells of 16th-century life in a re-enactment that takes the onlooker into the everyday life of the people who…
CRAIG Johnson’s Squashbox Theatre comes to Dorset in the October half term for four performances with Artsreach at Child Okeford village hall on Sunday 26th at 3pm, Milborne St Andrew hall on Monday 27th at 2pm, the Mowlem Theatre at Swanage on Tuesday 28th at 2.30pm and Buckland Newton hall on Wednesday 29th. Shivers &…
When two members of Living Spit are overheard bragging about how good they are, Zeus, up there on Olympus, is enraged by their hubris and decides to teach them a lesson –join them as they bring Too Many Greek Myths to Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, and find out how the king of the Greek gods…
DAPHNE du Maurier’s Don’t Look Now, a haunting story of loss and mystery, mainly set in Venice, was memorably filmed with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. Now a stage adaptation, by West Country writer Nell Leyshon, comes to Salisbury Playhouse from 29th October to 15th November. This co-production with the New Wolsey Theatre at Ipswich…
STORY Weaver Becky Burchell is inviting women (and men!) to take part in one of a series of four Dark Skies walks on Cranborne Chase, ending on 15th November. The creative arts producer originally created Women of the Dark Skies “to invite women to walk in the footsteps of the female ancestors of this land….