AS you probably know, the jealous Iago in Shakespeare’s play Othello had about as much acquaintance with truth as does the world’s currently most recognisable man. Iago’s lies drove the misled and abject Othello to murder his wife, and the plot revolved around a handkerchief. But it wouldn’t have played out that way were it…
IN recent years, Mary Anning, the remarkable fossil hunter of Lyme Regis, has been celebrated in print, on stage and on screen – even as a prototype lesbian. But the character remains both enduringly fascinating and slightly elusive. Now a new one-woman play, coming to Dorchester Arts at the Corn Exchange on Thursday 14th May…
FOR nearly 50 years, the Tannahill Weavers have brought the traditional music of their native Scotland to audiences all over the world. On the eve of releasing their 20th album, the Tannies come to Dorchester Arts at the Corn Exchange on Saturday 16th May. When they appeared at Glasgow’s famous Celtic Connections festival, a presenter…
BATH’s Party in the City, the opening night of the flour weeks of Bath Festivals, on Friday 15th May from 5pm, is the biggest free multi-venue event in the south west, attracting thousands of music lovers to enjoy live music in 50 venues, including the city’s leading music venues, as well as pubs, clubs, churches,…
THE Greenwich Trio come to Dorset and Somerset for the May series of Concerts in the West, with recitals at Bridport arts centre on Friday 15th May at 11.30am, Ilminster arts centre that evening at 7.30pm and Crewkerne Dance House on Saturday at 7.30. Formed in London in 2006, and marking their 20th anniversary this…
CANADIAN First Nation Diyet has a fascinating background which includes Japanese and Scottish roots. This multi-cultural background influence the music she sings with her band Love Soldiers, who have two dates with Artsreach, at Cranborne’s Cecil Memorial Hall on Friday 15th May at 7.30pm, and the Comrades Hall at Broadwindsor on Saturday 16th at 8pm….
FORTY years ago, actors Roger Rees and Rick Elice wrote the “romantic-thriller” Double Double, in the same year that the film Down and Out in Beverley Hills was released. Both feature a rough sleeper who comes into a family home and upends the status quo. But Double Double, revived at Cirencester’s Barn Theatre until 28th…
LAURA Wade’s 2018 play Home, I’m Darling is all about keen traditionalists Judy and Johnny and their decision to sink their savings into creating the perfect 1950s home and lifestyle – only to be confronted with the expectations of the 21st century. Often hilariously funny and cinematically romantic, played on an authentically decorated set, the…
BATH Literature Festival has announced its first event, a pre-festival evening with historian Tom Holland, co-host of the hit podcast The Rest is History, at Bath Forum on Friday 22nd May at 7pm. Travel back to the Roman Empire as Tom Holland celebrates his translation for Penguin Classics of Suetonius’s influential Lives of the Twelve Caesars….
JANET Street-Porter is on a national tour, returning to our region on Wednesday 13th May for the final date of the tour at Plough Arts Centre, Torrington. She first hit the newspaper stands, and then the airwaves and television screens, there were many who didn’t like her accent, her voice or her take-no-prisoner attitudes. Opinionated…