FORGET all the hype around The Traitors – the hottest, darkest game in town is The Witching Hour! ReBels Young Company, based at Plymouth’s Barbican Theatre, will bring this exciting and very different show to Dorchester Corn Exchange on 29th June as part of a long national tour. Black cats, broomsticks and pentagrams? It sounds…
THERE will be a second and longer season of summer rep at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, following last year’s successful inaugural season, with five popular plays on from 23rd July to 27th August. There’s something for everyone with comedies, thrillers and classic drama, including a Jane Austen adaptation, celebrating the great novelist’s 250th anniversary…
ARTSREACH, Dorset’s rural touring arts charity, has been voted Best Arts, Culture and Theatre organisation in Somerset, Dorset and Bristol in this year’s Muddy Stilettos Awards, which celebrate independent business across 35 counties throughout the UK. The various organisations and businesses are divided into multiple categories for the public top vote for their favourites. There…
SOMETIMES known as the poor relation of the classical strings section – a bit less charismatic than the violin or the deeply emotional cello – the viola has its own poignant and beautiful sound. Spanish-Belgian musician Lorena Canto shows the versatility of the instrument in her Concerts in the West recitals with pianist Yvain Calvo,…
HENRY V – Marquis of Anglesea rather than he of “once more into the breach” – is the extraordinary subject of Seiriol Davies’s show How to Win Against History, which has its first fully-staged production at Bristol’s beautiful Old Vic Theatre … made even more exotically, fantastically beautiful in Hayley Grindle’s Cabinet of Curiosities set….
ONE of the world’s leading playwrights, David Hare made a remarkable journey in 1997, visiting the Middle East, where he interviewed 33 people in Israel and Palestine – these interviews formed the basis of play, which is being staged at Bath Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th June. Via Dolorosa, a…
THRILLER writer Peter James is keen to point out that his creation Roy Grace is HMQ Camilla’s favourite detective, and it is he who leads the investigation in Picture You Dead, the seventh and latest James novel to be dramatised for the theatre, touring the UK until the end of July. Mr James, whose Brighton-based…
PETER James is of the UK’s most popular crime writers, and DSI Roy Grace is his best-known character, from the novels, television versions, starring John Simm, and stage adaptations, the latest of which, Picture You Dead, comes to Bath Theatre Royal from Tuesday 17th to Saturday 21st June. Set in Brighton, Picture You Dead sees…
THE Rude Mechanicals, that endlessly inventive commedia dell’arte touring company, first performed Pete Talbot’s play Gentle Harry’s Farm in 2011, and now the story of a green and pleasant England in the 1950s is on the road again. Performing in the open air is always a gamble, and one that didn’t quite pay off at…
THE New Hardy Players, who were founded to mark the 100th birthday of Norrie Woodall*, the last surviving member of the original Hardy Players, this year celebrate their own big birthday – their 20th anniversary. They marked it with a return to touring their summer production for the first time since the pandemic, with a…