EMMA Rice’s musical adaptation of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers was one of the victims of COVID, opening in Bristol in autumn 2019. After a stop in Devon, the planned tour was scuppered. Now, happily, it is back on the road – refined, framed and better than ever, starting a new nine-venue tour at Bath. The…
IF you hear the name E Nesbit, you picture the cosy period charm of The Railway Children – but writing as Edith, Nesbit had a dark side, which is explored in an evening of horror story-telling at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, on Friday 15th May at 7.30pm. Following the success of The Masks of…
BATH Literature Festival has a powerful programme with thoughtful speakers tackling a vast range of subjects from the big issues of the day to characters from ancient myths. This year’s festival runs from Saturday 16th to Sunday 24th May, and brings some of today’s leading writers to the city. Along with the bestsellers and the…
PRIMARY school aged children in around the south west have a chance to experience live music, when the BSO’s Explore the Orchestra tour visits Poole Lighthouse on 19th and 20th May. With the addition of a digital concert, broadcast live from Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre in May, the project enables thousands of young people to…
WHO were the first women in the country to be paid equal wages for doing the same job as men? ATTAgirl if you know – because it was the female members of the Air Transport Auxiliary, a civilian organisation formed to ferry warplanes between factories, maintenance units and frontline squadrons. The largely unknown history of…
COMING to Swindon’s Arts Centre on 20th May, Emily Davis will be taking her audience on a journey through original songs, sharp satire and a Welsh woman’s take on everything from spreadsheets to self-discovery. Following her success at the Edinburgh Fringe, Emily sets sail with her funny, uplifting one-woman musical comedy, Blodwen Rocks the Boat,…
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,…