THE summer production at Shaftesbury Arts Centre will be Mack and Mabel, on stage at the Bell Street theatre from 11th to 21st July. The musical is based on the true story of the love affair between comedy silent film maker Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand, who he discovered and transformed into a famous star….
THE 2018 New Hardy Players tour, starting at Max Gate, Dorchester, on Friday 29th June, will be Thomas Hardy’s romantic drama The Trumpet Major, in the 1908 script written by Alfred Evans, in collaboration with Hardy, who also wrote lines specially for the script. Tim says: “It’s a pretty free adaptation, and certainly comes out…
SPETISBURY Occasional Dramatic Society, known as SODS, are rehearsing Rough Plays for Coarse Actors for performances on Friday and Saturday 29th and 30th June. Michael Green and David Pearson wrote the “Three Rough Plays for Coarse Actors” by Michael Green and David Pearson (by special arrangement with Samuel French Ltd), Spetisbury Village Hall, tickets and…
THE Milborne Players summer show is Norman Robbins’s Nightmare, on stage on Friday and Saturday 29th and 30th June at Milborne St Andrew village hall, nightly at 7.30pm. For more information, telephone 01258 839085.
ILMINSTER Entertainments Society has chosen the stage version of A Bunch of Amateurs for the autumn show, and auditions continue on Tuesday 26th June at the Warehouse Theatre. The film, with its script by Ian Hislop and Nick Newton, is all about what happens when a fading Hollywood star decides to re-enliven his career with…
AMATEUR Players of Sherborne make the formal move into their new theatre with a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream from Monday 18th to Saturday 23rd June, nightly at 7.45pm. The Sherborne Studio Theatre in Marston Road has been extensively renovated, and now provides a new rehearsal and performance space. A Midsummer Night’s Dream…
SISATA, the Dorset-based theatre company, is touring a new production of Frankenstein, stopping at Poole Lighthouse Sherling Studio on Friday 15th June, at 8pm. The show is described as a radical reimagining of Mary Shelley’s clasic, set in a dystopian future. The human race is slowly becoming extinct. Desperate to save humanity, Angel [a revolutionary…
WIMBORNE’S always inventive community theatre group State of Play is heading for the woods with an innovative performance walk in a small wood at BytheWay, Colehill. The site-specific production, from 15th to 17th June, celebrates East Dorset’s first SANG (Suitable Alternative Natural Green Space). BytheWay – Sounds in a Common Wood is the result of…
THE Verwood-based Fireside Theatre has its summer meeting on Wednesday 6th June at 10 Sherwood Drive, where members will read the Paul Haines’ fantasy, Dolly Mixtures. Set in Joanna’s playroom, the cast includes one girl and nine dolls. She is studying Othello in her English Literature class, and when she’s not studying, she’s telling her…
BEATNIK Theatre makes its big-stage debut at Yeovil Octagon from 6th to 9th June at 7.30. The amateur company was formed by Alan Ferguson and Will Poulton (pictured), former members of Yeovil Youth Theatre, both of whom have performed many times on various local stages including the Octagon. They have chosen Avenue Q, the hilarious…