THE Dorset Monochrome Collective has its second exhibition in the community room at Dorchester’s Borough Gardens, from 14th to 20th September. Founded in 2018 by Alison Webber, the collective consists of a group of friends who share a passion for monochrome photography, whether that is digital or film. Members include the distinguished portrait and landscape…
THAT is not just an alliterative play on words – it is the underlying theme of a fascinating solo play by Anglo-German theatre company, Fish in a Dress, which finishes its Dorset dates on Sunday 20th September. Ladies and gentlemen, are you feeling a little upset? Have you tried hypnosis, psychoanalysis, smelling salts … and…
THE Marine Theatre at Lyme Regis moves from its successful summer rep season to a month packed with music, continuing on Thursday 24th September with a gig by John Bramwell, singer with I Am Kloot from 1999 to 2014; and Friday 25th with Andy Featherweather-Low and the Low Riders. I am Kloot achieved a Mercury…
POOLE’s only independent cinema at the Lighthouse arts centre, which has doubled its audience in the last two years, has entered this year’s second British Independent Film Awards’ (BIFA) Cinema of the Year award. “Lighthouse is proud to be Poole’s only independent cinema, audiences have been visiting it in record numbers, and we’d love them…
BATH Children’s Literature Festival continues until Sunday 4th October, with a packed programme that ranges from a free Party at the Holburne Museum to a chance to discover the latest How to Train your Dragon adventure. Among the leading children’s writers (and illustrators) taking part will be Katherine Rundell, Michael Rosen and MC Grammar, Dame Julia…
ROMESH Ranganathan, star of countless television comedy series and and presenter of The Weakest Link, is back on the road from November with a new show, and a massive list of dates and venues, including Yeovil’s Westlands. In this new stand-up show Romesh Ranganathan promises to “Change Your Life.” He is here to help, he…
DORSET Museum & Art Gallery is launching a fundraising campaign to enhance and expand its forthcoming Mary Anning – Fossil Hunter exhibition, which runs until 2nd May 2027. It celebrates the life and legacy of the pioneering palaeontologist 180 years after her death. This landmark exhibition, which will have a programme of talks, family activities,…
STEEL Magnolias is how Americans describe strong, gritty and indefatigable Southern women, and playwright Robert Harling knew all about them. He was born and brought up in Dothan, Alabama, and studied law in Natchitoches, Louisiana, the town in which he based his most famous play and where he still lives. His inspiration came from his…
ANTHONY Jay and Jonathan Lynn are immortalised in the television Hall of Fame as creators of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, which together ran for 37 episodes between 1980 and 1988. Jonathan Lynn took up the parliamentary quill again in 2023 for a “last hurrah” originally entitled I’m Sorry, Prime Minister, I Can’t Quite Remember,” and…
THE problem with reviewing a wholly-new interpretation of a very familiar play is comparison – what would a new audience make of a play you know, and they don’t? So it is with the extraordinarily versatile and inventive Tracy-Ann Oberman’s version of Noel Coward’s 1939 play Present Laughter, opening at Bath before an eight-venue UK tour….