BRYANSTON School staged a week-long art and design showcase, Re-Imagine 2025, at the Royal Watercolour Society Gallery in London, featuring work from across the school’s past and present, with Old Bryanstonians (OBs), current pupils and staff, highlighting imagination in all its forms. Visitors moved through a space of paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints and design, while…
REPORT after report is published detailing “systemic” or “structural” racism in some of our major institutions. Fears of anyone “whose skin is a different shade” (as Hammerstein put it in South Pacific) fill some sections of our media, and fear of ultra right-wing action against them inform others. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird…
STUNNING is the only word to describe Martyn Jessop’s performance as The Creature in the Street Theatre production of Nick Dear’s riveting adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Director Adam Lanfranchi chose this play, first seen in 2011 at the National Theatre, with no thought of caution. His programme notes underline that its exploration of the…
IT is never a good idea to take over a job when the previous incumbent has been highly successful, but there is always an exception to every rule and Amelia Freedman well and truly proved that when, just over 30 years ago, she took over the role of artistic director of the Bath Mozart fest…
SHAFTESBURY Arts Centre hosts an exhibition, Droves and Downs, until 18th November, featuring work by four artists who were awarded bursaries by Dorset Visual Arts to create a body of work inspired by the Cranborne Chase National Landscape. Via an open call, artists were invited by DVA to submit proposals to explore the different facets…
WRIGHT and Grainger are two men who met at school and both became obsessed with the Greek myths and their timeless relevance, which is certainly having a moment in these days of divided nations at war, very silly people who think they are gods and mindless people who bolster those delusions. The duo has developed…
HOW many times have you commented that air travel is really no fun any more? Dutch choreographer Emma Evelein has captured the fear, tension, vulnerability and apprehension of travellers in her brilliant Gallery of Consequence, one of a double bill performed by Rambert dancers for the current tour, and on stage at Bath until Saturday…
ENGLISH Touring Opera’s visit to Bath went from the sublime, Benjamin Britten’s prickly high drama of Andre Obey’s play The Rape of Lucretia, to the “cor blimey”, with a Donald McGill seaside postcard production of Gaetano Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love. Both operas had modern settings. Lucretia drew parallels with the way in which women…
DRAGONS’ Den investor and entrepreneur Deborah Meaden will join business leaders, educators and representatives of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) at North Cadbury Court near Yeovil on Thursday 6th November for Unlocking Somerset Talent, an event dedicated to exploring how apprenticeships and partnerships with education can help businesses thrive. The event has been organised by…
THE Mowlem Theatre at Swanage has stood proudly overlooking the sea for almost 60 years, sometimes battered by winds, rain and even snow. But now the old roof is leaking and the theatre has launched an urgent crowdfunding appeal for £10,000 to stop the leaks and save the building. This much-loved community space has a…