“BEECH leaves, that yellow the noon-time, Float past like specks in the eye; I set every tree in my June time, And now they obscure the sky …” … wrote Thomas Hardy in his poem, Beech Leaves. Join folk singers and actors Tim Laycock and Alastair Braidwood at Dorchester Corn Exchange on Sunday, 15th November,…
THE hugely popular Dorset folk duo Ninebarrow have a gig with Dorchester Arts at Thomas Hardye School theatre, on Saturday 14th November. The show focuses on their recent studio album, The Hour of the Blackbird, a collection of beautiful original songs. Ninebarrow – Jon Whitley and Jay La Bouchardiere – consistently delight audiences across the…
WHEN Ayub Khan Din’s play East is East first hit the stage in 1996, it surprised audiences not only with its vivid depiction of the lives of a working class immigrant family in Salford, where seven mixed-race children, all born in the UK, battled with their Pakistani father’s dictatorial insistence on Muslim traditions, but also…
A REVIVAL of TS Eliot’s theatrical masterpiece, Murder in the Cathedral, has attracted rave reviews – the Evening Standard described the production as magnificent and star Sir David Suchet’s performance as “spell-binding”, and the Daily Mail called it “hugely impressive”. The Orange Tree Theatre production at St John the Divine Church in Richmond is coming…
THE most infamously famous person in the world, Donald J Trump, arrives at the Ustinov Studio at Bath Theatre Royal on Friday 5th November, where he will be talking until Saturday 5th December. This entertaining portrait of the man behind the myth and his relentless quest to become the most winningest winner in history is…
EAST is East was a great film – now Ayub Khan-Din’s modern classic has been adapted for the stage, at Salisbury Playhouse until 14th November. Salford, 1971. The Khan family are living above a chip shop and on the fault line between two cultures. George Khan is determined the family be raised his Pakistani way. His English wife,…
WRITER and activist Siobhan Dowd died in 2007 from breast cancer, before she could complete her novel A Monster Calls. It was taken on by Patrick Ness, published in 2012, became an international best seller and was adapted for the stage by Adam Peck and Sally Cookson, opened at Bristol Old Vic and won the…
SPRINGHEAD, the sustainability and environmental charity based at Fontmell Magna, celebrates the garden’s magical waterscape on Friday 6th November with Tales of Clear Waters: an Evening of Stories, Songs and Memories inspired by Springhead. Organised by storyteller and Springhead trustee Taprisha, it will include stories and fables from across the world and through the ages…
MASS tourism is a hotly contested issue these days, with some major cities – including Barcelona – taking drastic steps to curb it, while many popular destinations in this country are looking at taxing tourist accommodation. Jack Brownridge-Kelly has another and more radical plan – find out how this imaginative performer does it in his…
IMAGINE a heady and provocative blend of Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Jacques Brel and Eartha Kitt … an Eastern European jazz club in the dark decades after the Second World War and the Cold War … That’s the aura created by the brilliant Moscow Drug Club, who have several local dates on their autumn tour,…