IT has been 12 years since the musical adaptation of The Witches of Eastwick, a show spawned by the 1987 film that followed hot on the heels of the publication of John Updike’s novel in 1984, was released for amateur performance. Now it arrives on stage in Milborne Port, providing a very different show for…
Tom Stoppard knew all about it when he wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, back in 1966 when he was still in his 20s. This is a play about two of the minor characters in Hamlet. As the murder mystery of Hamlet’s father unfolds around them, Hamlet’s two, interchangeable, childhood friends wait around until someone…
APRIL De Angelis’s Playhouse Creatures is a marvellous, funny, touching and convincing imagining of the lives and experiences of the first women to act on the public stage, during the Restoration monarchy of Charles II. A new production,starring Anna Chancellor and Katherine Kingsley, is coming to the Theatre Royal Bath from Monday 28th April to…
IF you look up “Cruel Intentions” on Wikipedia you have the choice between the film and the “franchise” … and really, that says it all. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos wrote his infamous epistolary novel back in 1782, and many adaptations have followed, on stage, film and television. Perhaps Jordan Ross, Lindsey Rosin and Roger Kumble…
CRUEL Intentions, The 90s Musical, comes to Bath Theatre Royal on its first UK tour, direct from the West End, from Wednesday 23rd to Saturday 26th April. The show is based on the film of the same name, and is inspired by Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the infamous epistolary novel about sex, social mores and cruel…
…. stow the chairs – and it’s off to the show THOSE glorious few days of warm sun before Easter were the perfect precursor to the open air theatre season, which will this year get under way in May and bring comedies, tragedies, classics and new stories to audiences across the country until mid-September. While…
DAN Brown’s 2003 mystery thriller novel The Da Vinci Code is a worldwide best seller – 80 million copies were sold in the first six years – as well as the cause of international controversy, criticised as a historically and scientifically inaccurate attack on the Catholic church. It was filmed in 2006, again delighting audiences…
ONE of the 21st century’s biggest selling thrillers, The Da Vinci Code, is on stage at Salisbury Playhouse until Saturday 3rd May in a dramatic and technically impressive production, directed by Chelsea Walker, with a script adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel from Dan Brown’s 2003 novel. Professor Robert Langdon and fellow cryptologist Sophie…
WINDROSE Rural Media Trust has a new team at the helm, fir the first time in the more than 40 years since it was founded by Trevor Bailey, who has retired but will remain as a trustee. Three women have taken over the charity, which works across Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire on educational, archival and…
A SERIES of creative workshops for young people is being run over the Easter holidays at the Neeld Community Arts Centre in Chippenham, by Rag and Bone Arts CIC and Knapsack Productions. The project is supported by funding from the National Lottery and the government’s Million Hours scheme to help young people to work with…