DORSHI, an award-winning street food business run by friends Jollyon Carter and Radhika Mohendas, is opening as a restaurant in Bartholomew’s Hall at Bridport at the beginning of March. Jollyon and Radhika have travelled much of the UK with Dorshi, becoming firm festival favourites with their hand-made dumplings, hand-pulled noodles, salads and sauces – and…
PLAYING the world’s most famous detective is anything but elementary, but the talented members of Salisbury Studio Theatre’s youth section certainly rose to the challenge in Tim Kelly’s clever and amusing play, on at the Ashley Road theatre until 27th February. All the favourite characters are here – Holmes, Dr Watson, Prof Moriarty, Mrs Hudson,…
FRENCH-Canadian actress Catherine-Anne Toupin won awards for her play A Present, translated as Right Now and given its UK premiere at Bath’s Ustinov Studio until 19th March. Michael Boyd’s direction, closely linked with Oliver Fenwick’s lighting design on Madeline Girling’s set, increases the dreamlike – sometimes nightmarish – essence of the story. Running for 75…
BASED on the American strip cartoon Little Orphan Annie, the musical Annie has been a worldwide hit since it opened on Broadway in 1977 where it won a Tony for composer Charles Strouse. It opened the following year in London with Sheila Hancock and Stratford Johns among the cast, and this week, Cary Amateur Theatrical…
WHEN you head out for the annual Buckhorn Weston Amateur Theatrical Society pantomime you can be sure of two things – it will be energetically performed by everyone involved and it will be BATS, in the best and most inspired way. In recent years Allison Barfoot has gathered a regular team which has delighted audiences…
THE 2016 season opened at the Tobacco Factory in Bedminster with Andrew Hilton’s production of Hamlet, with young Irish actor Alan Mahon at its heart. This is the first UK appearance for the 23 year old Dubliner who graduated as a Bachelor of Acting just 18 months ago. And of course it is the biggest…
ALAN Ayckbourn is a theatrical phenomenon. This is his 79th play, yes, his 79th, and he is still only 76 years old. His last work, Roundelay, was one of his clever games with five short plays linked by common characters and performed in random order each time, the order being decided by a member of…
WHAT a treat for folk fans in the south west when Fay Hield and her Hurricane Party band blew into the Wiltshire Music Centre at Bradford-on-Avon on the night after the launch of their new album, Old Adam. Still elated by the excitement of the launch party, the band was in high spirits for a…
WHEN Strode Theatre director Liz Leyshon’s mother watched By Our Selves her reaction was a baffled “It’s bonkers.” In many ways, she was right. It is a puzzling, strange and sometimes almost incomprehensible film. But it is also beautiful and moving and somehow gets to the heart of John Clare’s remarkable poetry and of the…
PRIVATE chef Philippa Davis ended her Asian travels back in Singapore preparing a variety of meals for clients including an amazing feast … DESPITE the mass splattering of red decorations over every street in Singapore in readiness for Chinese New Year my focus for the week was on preparing a party feast for Russian New…