“ALL life is here,” as the saying goes, and probably nowhere is this more true than in a weekly art class, the setting for a new play by two Dorset writers, which gets its premiere with Dorchester Drama at Dorchester Arts on 1st to 3rd May. Life Class, by local writers Vince Jones and James…
AN Englishman’s home is his castle, the saying goes, and if your dream castle is kitted out in the colours and decor of the 1950s, so what? That is how Judy and Johnny have chosen to live, in a marriage built around a fifties fantasy of pre-tech perfection. Laura Wade’s brilliantly funny but occasionally scarily…
BRIDPORT’s unique film festival, From Page to Screen runs until 26th April, with screenings and talks at Bridport Arts Centre and the Electric Palace. The programme includes several films which share a focus on space exploration in fact and fiction, looking into the future and at the reality of space travel. This theme includes a…
HOW a play written to fill a 70-seat theatre over the Christmas period, with such a restricted budget that four actors at most could be employed, turned into the second longest continuous London presentation, (13,232 performances and only The Mousetrap can boast a longer run) is quite a story in itself. That’s the history of…
MICHAEL McIntyre, presenter of the BBC 1 Saturday night hit show The Wheel, and one of Britain’s best-loved comedians, is coming to Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre with his charity show, in aid of Julia’s House, the children’s hospice, on Sunday 10th May. Michael will be performing his greatest hits and new bits, all in aid…
SHAFTESBURY Food Festival returns over the May bank holiday weekend with a programme that ranges from a food trail visiting some of the area’s most interesting food producers and businesses to demonstrations by former MasterChef winners and finalists – appropriate timing as the competition returns with its new presenters, Grace Dent and Anna Haugh. Once…
CONSTANCE Middleton has everything – a loving family, a beautiful home, a fulfilling career and a husband as devoted to her as he is to his mistress. What could possibly go wrong? The answers may surprise you in the RSC production of The Constant Wife which comes to Poole Lighthouse from 27th April to 2nd…
WHEN Patricia Highsmith published her first Ripley story, The Talented Mr Ripley, in 1955, she created an anti-hero who would become one of her favourite characters and the star of many television and film adaptations. Ripley has now undergone another metamorphosis in a stage version, coming to Salisbury Playhouse, from Monday 27th April to Saturday…
HURN Court Opera was founded in 2017 by Lynton Atkinson, with the mission of giving emerging singers a chance of professional performances, and bringing high class opera to audiences across the region, not only at affordable prices but with the added bonus of seeing young stars in the making. And that is certainly true with…
SHERIDAN’S wonderful comedy The Rivals, origin of Mrs Malaprop and regularly described as “timeless” proves its versatile longevity in Jack Absolute Flies Again, a new Battle of Britain-set adaptation by Richard Bean, who re-wrote Goldoni as One Man, Two Guvnors, and actor Oliver Chris. It is a marvellously inventive reworking, set at Malaprop House, where…