SPIRITS of Dorset’s Christmases past will be brought to life in Shire Hall court room in Dorchester on Thursday 13th December, in an evening of entertainment and song to raise money for Dorset Mind in West Dorset. The New Hardy Players and Dorset band Tatterdemalion will perform plays based on court cases and historical events….
SLOT Machine Theatre takes all your favourite toys on a combined adventure in Your Toys, on at the Sherling Studio at Poole’s Lighthouse from Wednesday 12th to Monday 24th December. The company’s puppetry skills bring Buzz Lightyear, Barbie, the blue Brontosaurus and more to life in a heart-warming story about friends pulling together. Full of…
THE unique atmosphere of Riding House at Wolfeton Manor near Dorchester will be a perfect setting for Lost Lore, an evening of sound, animation and storytelling from new company Lost Tail Theatre, on 21st and 22nd December. Lost Tail is director Ellis Buckley and performers Lucy Alexandre and Gill Morley, who met on Falmouth University’s…
CHRISTMAS Eve in London. Cold. A little girl struggles through the snow. Trying to stay warm, she strikes a match. The flame blazes to life, illuminating fantastic Christmas visions. So starts The Last Baguette’s magical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic winter story, which continues its tour on Saturday 15th at Corfe Castle village hall…
VERDI’S heart-wrenching opera La Traviata makes a change from Christmas carols and pop songs, and will be beamed live by satellite from the Metropolitan Opera in New York around the world on Saturday 15th December at 5.55. The MET’s new music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, launches his tenure conducting Verdi’s timeless tragedy. Diana Damrau sings Violetta…
WHEN you learn that a performer has appeared in Russian grand opera and is about to be a principal in a pantomime, your response might be “oh no, he isn’t” – but in this year’s Bath panto the actor who plays the boy who never grows up has appeared with English National Opera. Tim Edwards,…
LIVING Spit, the Bristol-based comedy acting duo Howard Coggins and Stu Mcloughlin, follow up their uniquely batty retelling of “the greatest Christmas story ever told” with what they cheekily suggest is the “second greatest … etc” You can catch them in Dorset from 7th December. They will be performing their hilarious, silly and tongue-in-cheek version…
FIRST seen two years ago, Gareth Machin and Glyn Kerslake’s adapation of The Night Before Christmas returns to the Salberg Studio at Salisbury Playhouse from 10th to 30th December. This delightful musical version of the famous story is magically staged. Adrian Grove returns as Father (the role he created in 2016) and is joined for…
THE award-winning National Theatre production of Antony and Cleopatra, starring Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo, will be beamed live by satellite around the country on Thursday 6th December. Julius Caesar and his assassins are dead. Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome, Octavian and Lepidus. He has left his wife at home…
A NEW Dorset theatre company that has already wowed audiences in Edinburgh, comes to Dorchester Arts at the atmospheric Wolfeton Riding House on Friday 21st at 7pm and Saturday 22nd at 4pm. Lost Lore, performed by Lost Tail Theatre, uses breath-taking sound design and enchanting animation, to transport the audience to a world of witches,…