JOIN the supper club at La Fosse, the restaurant with rooms in the centre of Cranborne, for a taste of Ireland on Thursday 17th March. You might be lucky enough to get one of the two remaining tables for the Irish Supper Club, where chef-proprietor Mark Hartstone will be serving traditional dishes including lamb, boxty,…
Mozart: Exultate Jubilate K165 Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem op. 45 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, leader Amin Merchant Bournemouth Symphony Chorus Simon Halsey conductor Sarah Tynan soprano David Soar baritone AS a choir trainer, Simon Halsey has in recent years carried all before him. Principal Conductor of Berlin Radio Choir from 2001 to 2015, he now leads…
TAUNTON Thespians’ production of Round and Round the Garden, one segment of Alan Ayckbourn’s ever-popular The Norman Conquests trilogy, is their fourth since their much-trumpeted return to the Brewhouse in November 2014, and the best of the four to date. With Ayckbourn you sometimes get the feeling that he starts by devising a technical challenge…
EVITA is one of the all-time great musicals – it has a strong (true) story, exciting music, memorable songs and two of the most demanding roles in music theatre. Yeovil Amateur Operatic Society does splendid justice to this Lloyd Webber-Rice masterpiece! It’s a cleverly constructed show, because you get both the icon of Argentina’s poverty-stricken…
DEBORAH Gearing’s new play UpBeat, on the road with Forest Forge until 9th April, should be compulsory viewing for anyone interested in climate change, and for how “alternative” lifestyles become the obvious option for those who care about their environment. It that all sounds a bit heavy, it’s not meant to, although this musical three-hander…
RICHARD Bean, creator of One Man Two Guv’nors, started his playwriting career with Toast, an imagined night shift at a Hull bread factory where he worked as a teenager. And a revival of the London production is currently touring the UK, at Bath Theatre Royal until 12th March. Bean was only 18 when he joined…
AS part of the current Artsreach season, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s contemporary music ensemble Kokoro (a Japanese word meaning “heart”) has been touring the south and south west with a series of exhilarating programmes. Friday night at the village hall at Burton Bradstock was no exception, featuring music by three 20th century greats – Stravinsky,…
THE Trojan wars have provided material for countless dramas, epic poems and books. The characters are larger than life, heroic, mythical and unknowable. It is the task of the interpreter – author, playwright, director, actor and artist – to help us to understand them. In the performances of four young Bristol Old Vic Theatre School…
THE last few years have revealed to many of us that maths and science can be exciting, interesting, even fun. Marcus du Sautoy, Brian Cox and his sidekick Robin Ince and others have brought complex ideas into our homes through the power of radio and we love it. Similarly a new generation of illusionists and…
JOHN Nicholson and Javier Marzan, two thirds of anarchic comedic theatre troupe Peepolykus, have turned their attention to Flaubert’s great tragic novel Madame Bovary, but fight as they may against its gravitas, the story shines through. Directed by Gemma Bodinetz, this co-production by Liverpool Everyman, Northampton Royal and Derngate, Bristol Old Vic and Southampton Nuffield…