Prompt

You shall go to the Bridport ball!

CINDERELLA has a special New Year party at the palace – join her and Bridport Pantomime Players at the Electric Palace from Wednesday 31st January to Saturday 3rd February, at 7.30pm with a Saturday matinee at 1.30. The Players promise an unforgettable performance filled with laughter, music, and glittering fun, directed by Greg Horton, bringing…

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Flash Bang Wallop – what a show!

SHAFTESBURY Arts Centre’s music and drama group has chosen Kipps – The New Half a Sixpence Musical for the summer show, in the second and third weeks of July. There will be an interest meeting at the arts centre on Sunday 5th February at 7.30pm, and auditions will be held later in the month. The…

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Life of Pi, Bristol Hippodrome and touring

WHILE Captain Macheath in The Beggars Opera was none too pleased to have to make a choice between his two lovers, Polly Peacham and Lucy Lockit – ‘ How happy could I be with either, were t’other dear charmer away’ – the audience in the Bristol Hippodrome for the press night performance of Life of…

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A magical trip to Neverland

SHAFTESBURY Arts Centre’s music and drama group wants to whisk you away from a cold and depressing January to the excitement and colour of Neverland, with this year’s winter show, Peter Pan, The Pants, at the theatre in Bell Street from Thursday 25th January to Saturday 3rd February. All the big theatre pantomimes have packed…

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Family dynamics at the Swan

AUDIENCES at the Swan Theatre in Yeovil start their 2024 season with the local premiere of Australian Andrew Bovell’s Things I Know to be True, directed by Mark Payne. The touching, funny and bold play, by award-winning screen writer and playwright Bovell, had its British premiere in 2016, at Warwick, Chichester and the Lyric Hammersmith….

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Marrying Henry VIII at Sherborne

THE story of England’s most married monarch exerts an enduring fascination, and one of the newest plays to tackle the tale from the point of view of the six wives is Stephanie Easton’s A Wife for all Reasons. It describes the turmoil at the court of Henry VIII, as seen by each queen – “divorced,…

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Shakespearean dream for Lyme

LYME Regis continues to build on its long-standing heritage of community plays – the town hosted the first ever production of what is now known as a community play, Ann Jellicoe’s The Reckoning, in 1978. In 2024, the theme will be Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, following the success of a previous Shakespeare-at-Lyme…

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New play from Dorchester writers

TWO local playwrights will have their latest play performed at Dorchester Corn Exchange on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th December, as part of the Dorchester Arts festive programme. This Christmas, by Vince Jones and James Cuthill, is a heart-warming, feel-good, romantic comedy about love in later life, showcasing both the talents of the writers and…

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Another Civic tenor at the Swan

CIVIC Players return to the Swan Theatre in Yeovil for their traditional pre-Christmas show, this time Ken Ludwig’s A Comedy of Tenors, on until Saturday 2nd December. It is the follow up to the writers popular Lend Me a Tenor, a play performed by Civic members in November 2022. The cast includes Andrew Meadows, Lucy-Ella…

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They’re heading for Sherborne

“SHAKESPEARE has left us nothing so joyful and nothing so lovely,” says director John Crabtree of the dark comedy, Twelfth Night, which is being staged by Amateur Players at the Sherborne Studio Theatre from Monday 4th to Saturday 9th December, at 7.30pm with a Saturday matinee at 2.30. But it is a play with dark…

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