JANE Austen’s millions of fans tend to have their favourites among her heroines – for many it will be Elizabeth Bennett, for some it will be Anne Elliot, but for a lot of us it is the high-spirited but often wrong-headed Emma Woodhouse. Bath Theatre Royal celebrates the Jane Austen 250th anniversary with a new…
SINCE its first performances in 1957, in French and later in English, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame has been subjected to endless debate, interpretation and controversy, by academics, students, theatre-goers and critics. Regarded by many as the greatest work by the Irish Nobel literature laureate, the play was written while the writer lived in France, where the…
LOVERS of early and baroque music are in for an absolute treat with the first Salisbury Musick early music festival, from 3rd to 5th October, at some beautiful and unusual venues, ranging from Fovant Chapel to Salisbury’s magnificent St Thomas’s Church. The new festival, which brings together many talented local musicians and some visiting professionals,…
WELSH storyteller Shon-Dale Jones is back on tour with a new show, Stories From An Invisible Town, with final dates in the area at Bath Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio on 17th and 18th November. Shôn is first and foremost a storyteller. He’s honest, inventive, and deeply human … curious, restless, wide-eyed, offbeat and resonant. His…
SOMERSET Art Weeks returns from 13th to 28th September with an enthralling range of art works by painters, printmakers, sculptors, potters, print-makers and multi-disciplinary creators. From the artists studios at Watchet’s East Quay to a music and sound-scape installation in the atmospheric grounds of Shave Farm, Brewham, there is a dazzling display of the talent…
CHARLOTTE Bronte’s Jane Eyre is one of the most famous, widely raid and critically acclaimed novels in the English language – it is also one of the most frequently adapted for stage and screen. A new play by Live Wire and Rough House theatre takes a different approach comes to the West Country on tour…
THE Sheffield-based Rheingans Sisters come to Bridport Arts Centre on Friday 19th September, with their golden voices and inventive soundworlds. In their live shows and recordings, Rowan and Anna Rheingans create an immersive and uplifting musical journey which is both steeped in tradition and fresh and contemporary. Exploring evocative influences from across Europe, the sisters’…
THE dramatic Jurassic Coast provides a unique backdrop for the annual Shute Festival, based in West Dorset and East Devon. Throughout its ten years, it has focused on celebrating the natural world, the environment and performing and literary arts. This year’s festival is based at the Marine Theatre and the Peek Chapel, in Lyme Regis…
DORSET’s famous Cerne Giant had a colourful companion for a few hours when Consequences, a huge temporary artwork was installed next to the enigmatic carving in the chalk downs above Cerne Abbas. Consequences was created by artist Becca Gill’s Radical Ritual company with the input of local community groups as part of Nature Calling, an…
WHEN actors Poppy Hardwicke and Lauren Mooney set out to tell a story about chronic fatigue, a condition they both live with, they called their performance Tired All The Time – it’s hard to think of a more appropriate name for the work they produced during a three-day R&D residency at Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre….