Gerry Parker offers some hope for those involved in amateur theatre and musicals THE Rose Bowl Awards for Amateur Theatre – there are 21 different categories ranging from Best Musical, Drama and Youth Production, Acting Awards, Adult and Youth, Technical and Best Publicity Awards – find themselves, rather like football’s Premier League, half way through…
MILBORNE Port Opera took two awards at Somerset Fellowship of Drama’s David Beach Awards for musical theatre at Taunton. The group was nominated for a total of five awards for the 2019 production of Anything Goes. The two categories MPO won were best made set and best male support actor. The set award was for…
DORCHESTER Community Play Association has announced that its seventh community play, Spinning the Moon, has been postponed until Easter 2021 in the light of the Coronavirus situation. The company was gearing up for the performances of Spinning the Moon at Thomas Hardye School in April. Rehearsals were under way with a cast of 150 enthusiastic…
This production has been postponed THE March production at Yeovil’s Swan Theatre, from Monday 16th to Saturday 21st March, is Emlyn Williams’ Night Must Fall. The director is Richard Jones. Dan is a charismatic young stranger who quickly charms his way into the household of elderly spinster Mrs Bramson. He first seduces her maid…
YEOVIL Amateur Operatic Society has chosen Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic The Sound of Music for its first 2020 production, on stage at the Octagon from Wednesday 11th to Saturday 21st March. The story of Maria, the most unsuitable nun, and her new job looking after the seven children of the widowed Capt von Trapp, is…
TREASURE Island, Robert Louis Stevenson’s swashbuckling piratical adventure, is the first 2020 show by third year acting students from Arts University Bournemouth. The adaptation by Bryony Lavery, directed by Luke Kernaghan, will be on stage at Poole’s Lighthouse from 12th to 14th March, nightly at 7.30 with a 2.30 Saturday matinee. When a mysterious old…
BATH Operatic and Dramatic Society returns to the Theatre Royal stage from Tuesday 10th to Saturday 14th March in Legally Blonde. The feel-good musical features a large cast of talented local performers, and two small dogs! Directed by Steve Blackmore the show, based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the hit 2001 film, is…
THE next production by ImpAct Theatre, on stage in April, is Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith’s Nightfall, directed by Patricia Richardson. The cast includes Bethany Harris, Matthew Ellison and Joanne Owen and performances are at Bournemouth Little Theatre in Jameson Road on 7th and 8th April, and at the Shelley Theatre in Boscome on 15th and…
TABLE Manners, one of Alan Ayckbourn’s celebrated Norman Conquests trilogy, is on stage in Sherborne from 24th to 29th February. The three plays show us dovetailed accounts of events at a rather rundown house in the country, over the course of one weekend. Table Manners is set in the dining room, with the other two…
DORSET’S last remaining Gang Show celebrates its 60th anniversary at Christchurch Regent Centre, on Friday and Saturday 21st and 22nd February. “On The Crest of a Wave” will be on stage both nights from 7.15, with a 2.15 Saturday matinee. The Regent show by Christchurch Scouts and Guides is the only major gang show between…