THE new exhibition at The Art Stable, at Gold Hill Organic Farm, Child Okeford, until 20th April, is a return visit by the popular printmaker Liz Somerville, with new work on the theme of Place. After some years living on her own near Crewkerne, Somerville is now married and living halfway up the dramatic Eggardon…
ADAPTING Paula Hawkins’ best selling novel The Girl on the Train for the stage is a challenge both for the actors and for the technical team, as its tension requires not only moving images of railway movement but clear depictions of messages on mobile phones and lots of often startling sound effects. All very well…
HUMAN rights and peace activist Zohar Lavie brings her first-hand experience of working for justice and peace to the next Help Our Planet (HOP) talk at Sladers Yard contemporary art and craft gallery, West Bay, on Thursday 4th April at 7pm. The devastating suffering and violence we are witnessing in Gaza, the West Bank and…
IN an average week, we do one or two theatre reviews, one of which is usually a professional show. This week we will have done four, all amateur (plus a concert). Two in Yeovil – A Splinter of Ice at the Swan and YAOS’s Oklahoma! at Westlands – and Girl on the Train in Street….
THE “old boys network” is a constant feature of British life, and no matter how many times we are told the class structure of society is a thing of the past, those old boys still reign supreme in (especially) politics, business and the law. It’s all about supporting the people with the same, often educational,…
IN recent years, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1943 musical Oklahoma has had something of a makeover, with hard-edged productions delighting critics and audiences. Now it’s the turn for Yeovil’s own remarkable musical theatre community, under the direction of Sheila Driver, to present a version that strips away the sentimentality, leaving the lush songs, poignant romance, sexual…
KABUL-born Khaled Hosseini, on whose debut book this play is based, left Afghanistan with his family and arrived in the USA, via Iran and France, unable to speak a word of English. Educated in California, he went on to practise medicine for ten years before producing his first novel, The Kite Runner. A naturalised American…
IT has been impossible to ignore the story of the Post Office and the sub-postmasters, with the powerful ITV drama series and constant media reports of the hearings and the latest uncovering of lives ruined in one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in English legal history. But to hear the story first hand is…
DURING the 1960s and 70s, if you were a music fan living in Bournemouth or Poole, or could get there easily, there was one shop that you would always make for, Jon’s Bus Stop Records, next to the Grand Cinema in Westbourne. Here you could not only find the latest chart hit you were looking…
A SHAFTESBURY bookshop, which specialises in nature writing, has been named as the best independent book retailer in the South West. FOLDE Dorset has won the British Book Awards Independent Bookshop of the Year competition for the South West, organised by The Bookseller magazine and judged by a prestigious panel of industry specialists, authors, journalists…