AARON Sorkin’s acclaimed adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird comes to Bath Theatre Royal from 11th to 22nd November on its first UK and Ireland tour after its critically praised runs on Broadway and in the West End. Richard Coyle plays Atticus Finch, the role created by Gregory Peck in the 1962 film…
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…
THE critically acclaimed Nick Dear stage adaptation of Frankenstein is the choice of Street Theatre for its production at Strode Theatre, Street, from 12th to 15th November. This version of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, had its world premiere at the Royal National Theatre in February 2011. The production was directed…
THE Elizabethan adventurer, explorer and some time Dorset resident, Sir Walter Raleigh, one of history’s most charismatic characters, is touring the realm, and his show comes to the Tacchi Morris Arts Centre at Taunton 7th November, Forest Arts at New Milton on 8th, and the Ustinov Studio at Bath Theatre Royal on 10th to 12th….
A VIRTUOSO trio of folk musicians, Jon Doran and the Northern Assembly, have a short tour with Artsreach, coming to the village halls at Shipton Gorge on Friday 7th November, Langton Matravers on Saturday 8th and Drimpton on Sunday 9th, all at 7.30pm. Shining a new light on old tunes and tales from the British…
GEOFF Norcott is that very rare thing in the UK comedy scene – he is a Conservative! But coming out as a right-winger hasn’t impeded his career too badly, and he is now on a new tour, Basic Bloke 2 – “There’s no Bloke without Fire” – coming to the Electric Palace at Bridport on…
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…
ONE of the country’s finest chamber choirs, The Tallis Scholars come to St Mary’s Church, Dorchester, on 11th November, in a programme that celebrates the 500th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest musical figures of the Renaissance, Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina. Over the past five decades, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars have…
A RISING star of the cello, 16 year-old Hugo Svedberg, joins the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra on Thursday 13th November, at Exeter University Great Hall, for a concert entitled Sunshine and Shade. He will be playing one of Tchaikovsky’s best-loved pieces, the Variations on a Rococo Theme, a work characterised by carefree charm, grace and the…