MICHAEL McIntyre, presenter of the BBC 1 Saturday night hit show The Wheel, and one of Britain’s best-loved comedians, is coming to Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre with his charity show, in aid of Julia’s House, the children’s hospice, on Sunday 10th May. Michael will be performing his greatest hits and new bits, all in aid…
CONSTANCE Middleton has everything – a loving family, a beautiful home, a fulfilling career and a husband as devoted to her as he is to his mistress. What could possibly go wrong? The answers may surprise you in the RSC production of The Constant Wife which comes to Poole Lighthouse from 27th April to 2nd…
WHEN Patricia Highsmith published her first Ripley story, The Talented Mr Ripley, in 1955, she created an anti-hero who would become one of her favourite characters and the star of many television and film adaptations. Ripley has now undergone another metamorphosis in a stage version, coming to Salisbury Playhouse, from Monday 27th April to Saturday…
HURN Court Opera was founded in 2017 by Lynton Atkinson, with the mission of giving emerging singers a chance of professional performances, and bringing high class opera to audiences across the region, not only at affordable prices but with the added bonus of seeing young stars in the making. And that is certainly true with…
SHERIDAN’S wonderful comedy The Rivals, origin of Mrs Malaprop and regularly described as “timeless” proves its versatile longevity in Jack Absolute Flies Again, a new Battle of Britain-set adaptation by Richard Bean, who re-wrote Goldoni as One Man, Two Guvnors, and actor Oliver Chris. It is a marvellously inventive reworking, set at Malaprop House, where…
GOODNESS, life is complicated these days, isn’t it? Increasing numbers of people question their identities, finding much on-line support for dual, triple or even multiple personalities. Theatre goers support horror rom coms that give that extra live edge to the oft-viewed favourite movies. And we all have to face the issues that social media and…
BRIDPORT’s atmospheric Electric Palace continues a season celebrating a centenary of cinema on Thursday 30th April, musician and film historian Neil Brand marks the centenary of Laurel and Hardy’s 1926 movie debut, 45 Minutes from Hollywood – the following year they became an official comedy partnership.
TWO popular small touring theatre companies have got together to produce a new comedy, General Medical Emergency Ward 10, which continues at Tacchi Morris Arts Centre at Taunton on 21st April. Award‑winning Dyad Productions and Company Gavin Robertson have reimagined the worlds of Holby City, Casualty, ER, Grey’s Anatomy, Doctors and many more in this…
WHEN Stephen Moffatt’s play The Unfriend opened at Chichester’s Minerva Studio in 2019, Joe Biden was the US President and Trump was a ghastly memory, subject of conversations on cruise liners between Peter and Debbie, British parents of teenage children, and Elsa, a charismatic Coloradan with a rather peculiar past. Mark Gatiss made his stage…
PERFORMANCE poet Luke Wright has taken his own story of adoption and turned it into a show that is part stand-up and part poetry. Later Life Letter, an evening of warm and honest thoughts, with poems, jokes and some music, returns to the south west from 23rd April to 25th April. Luke shares the story…