HAVING already taken us back to the reality of the seventies in Apollo 13 and Frost/Nixon, director Ron Howard returns to the decade again to bring us the “true story” of the feud between Formula One drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Formula One fans will remember the 1976 season, covered by the BBC in short highlights programmes, usually…
ERNEST Thompson’s play On Golden Pond is best known this side of the Atlantic as an award-winning film that starred father and daughter Henry and Jane Fonda, and provided a catalyst for their exploration of their own difficult relationship. Now the original play opens Salisbury Playhouse’s autumn season, played on an atmospheric set designed by…
WE love raspberries and with a Scottish heritage we are also partial to a good malt whisky, so the latest postcard recipe from Shaftesbury-born chef Philippa Davis really hit the spot! Philippa is a private chef whose various commissions and invitations ensure she is always on the move. She now her own website, and sends…
ITALY and art have always made a perfect blend – but in a small village called Dozza, the two go together in a rather surprising way.
JULIAN Mitchell’s play Another Country, on at Bath Theatre Royal this week in an atmospheric production directed by Jeremy Herrin, is set in an English public school in the 1930s. This was a time when inter-pupil fiddling was commonplace and accepted as a rite of the normal passage towards heterosexuality. But if the love that…
IF your idea of a life on the ocean waves is looking out at the sea from the comfort of a panoramic window seat, with somebody cooking up a storm in the kitchen to satisfy your gourmet cravings, then The Lugger Hotel at Portloe could be your crock of gold at the end of the…
THOMAS Hardy’s story The Woodlanders is a classic of doomed and unrequited love, social climbing and sacrifice. The New Hardy Players, based on the group with which the writer himself was associated, chose the Emily Fearn adaptation of the story for the 2013 production, and, sadly for them, chose the late rather than hot and…
BLINDLY following my satnav along the windy B-road from Corfe Castle to Langton Matravers, I foolishly thought I’d easily spot a festival in the open countryside … I didn’t. Purbeck Folk Festival has a unique setting in the valley of the National Trust’s Wilkswood Farm, where barns and outhouses are transformed into five stages –…
FOR a generation raised on Twilight and Buffy, the idea of the eternal undead is no surprise, but Bram Stoker’s Dracula continues to weave its fascination. This week a group of 59 young performers aged between 12 and 19 are performing a new adaptation of the story by Oliver Birch as the 2013 Storm on…
THE 2013 summer season at Bath Theatre Royal ends with a hilarious bang in Lindsay Posner’s production of the farce A Little Hotel on the Side by Feydeau and Desvallieres, in a timeless adaptation by John Mortimer. Performed on Michael Taylor’s inventive set, which makes full use of the theatre’s revolve, this is the classic…