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Demanding play launches Street Theatre’s big season

IF you are a fan of Paula Hawkins’ book The Girl on The Train, or perhaps of the film version that moved the action from London to New York, wipe your memory clean before you head to Strode Theatre in Street for the next Street Theatre production, on stage from 20th to 23rd March. Director…

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Bright golden haze at Westlands

YEOVIL Amateur Operatic Society members take to the stage at Westlands on 19th March in the company’s fourth production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s immortal musical Oklahoma! Set at the time when Oklahoma changed from being part of the Western Territories to become a state, it’s a sort of reverse image of America today. As the…

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The portrait, the Fuhrer, the airmen and the sausage

THE stage of Mere Lecture Hall will be transformed into the bar owned by Rene Artois in Nouvion for the next Mere Amateur Dramatic Society production, ‘Allo, ‘Allo, on from 21st to 23rd March. This rip-roaring comedy has all those famous characters you remember, know and love from the television programme of the same name,…

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Maria Marten at the Palace Court with AUB

THE first public performances by Arts University Bournemouth students at their “new” base, the Palace Court Theatre in Westover Road, will be of Beth Flintoff’s thrilling new retelling of the real life Suffolk murder story of Maria Marten, better known as Murder in the Red Barn. The Ballad of Maria Marten, with its all female…

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MPO to stage rarely performed Broadway hit

MILBORNE Port Opera has chosen a show that won five Tonys and seven Drama Desk Awards on Broadway, but is rarely performed in this country. So audiences are in for a treat when the company stages the Canadian musical, The Drowsy Chaperone, at Milborne Port village hall from 3rd to 6th April. Lisa Lambert and…

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Giant fun for the community at Salisbury Festival

EAGER participants in Salisbury Festival’s big community event,  Patch’s Parade, went along to Salisbury Playhouse for a day of free workshops early in March. The community play will be performed at Churchill Gardens, following in the sucessful footsteps of 2023’s The Tempest. The discovery day, which runs from 10.30am, also welcomes volunteers for puppeteering and…

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When the women fight the rich man’s game

DOLLY Parton’s hit song 9 to 5 was not only the theme song for the box office hit film, it also provided the big number for 9 to 5 The Musical, which is the winter 2024 choice for Bath Operatic and Dramatic Society at the Theatre Royal Bath from Tuesday 27th February to Saturday 2nd…

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Red Riding Hood returns

BUCKHORN Amateur Theatrical Society celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and the pantomime at Buckhorn Weston village hall sees a return to the story where it all started, back in 1994 – Red Riding Hood – on 16th and 17th February. The village may have seen many changes over the ensuing three decades – the…

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Panto time at the Exchange

ALADDIN, one of the oldest of the traditional English pantomimes, is the 2024 choice for SNADS, at The Exchange, Sturminster Newton, from Thursday 15th to Saturday 17th February, with matinees on Thursday and Saturday. The company has chosen the script by Ben Crocker, one of the country’s most popular and performed panto writers, well-known for…

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It’s 40 years … oh no it isn’t!

THIS year’s Honiton pantomime at the Beehive Centre from 13th to 17th February, is the 40th anniversary production by the town’s community theatre, which began as Honiton Pantomime Society. Over the years the company has grown from being just about pantomime and now produces three performances a year. This new locally-based version of the story…

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