THE Royal Bath and West show ground hosts the Bath & West Food & Drink Festival over the weekend 21st and 22nd March, as well as the 30th anniversary British & Irish Cheese Awards, on Friday 20th. Featuring talks, markets, demos, tours and more, the third annual Food & Drink Festival will be staged around…
IF you would like to be part of Yeovil Swan Theatre’s production of The Unfriend, due on stage from 18th to 23rd May, there are auditions on Sunday 8th at 2.30 and Tuesday 10th February at 7.30. Director Sarah Ambrose is hoping for a good turnout. The play is all about what happens when a…
PERENNIAL audiences favourite Felicity Kendal returns to Bath Theatre Royal in Tom Stoppard’s Indian In, from Tuesday 10th to Saturday 14th February. It is the first major revival of the play more 30 years and comes to Bath after a run at Hampstead Theatre. In the 1995 production, Felicity Kendal created the role of Flora Crewe. She…
STEPHEN King’s novella, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, inspired by Tolstoy’s 1872 story God Sees the Truth But Waits, was first published in 1982. Twelve years later the movie The Shawshank Redemption hit the screens, and, after a slow start, is now regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. Now, fans…
WHAT is the first thing you say to a taxi driver when you get in his (it usually is a man) cab? Chances are that it wouldn’t be “Do you believe in God?” So the taxi driver is immediately on the wrong foot. How on earth do you answer that? And where are you supposed…
WHILE it is a truth universally acknowledged that we all love Jane Austen (well, most of us do), we probably wouldn’t call ourselves superfans as best friends Charlotte and Ellie do, and they want you to join them at their exclusive Jane Austen Fan Club, on tour until 5th March. Hilarious and heartfelt, an evening…
AWARD-winning Welsh folk trio VRi come to Langton Matravers village Hall on Friday 6th February, at the start of a three-date tour with Artsreach, Dorset’s rural touring arts charity. Twice winners of Best Album at the Welsh Folk Awards, VRï are Jordan Price Williams (cello, voice), Aneirin Jones (violin, voice) and Patrick Rimes (viola, violin,…
CONCERTS in the West opens the 2026 series on Friday 13th February, with a welcome return for the acclaimed, young, Hungarian-born pianist Daniel Lebhardt. The recital programme follows the usual pattern of coffee concert at Bridport Arts Centre at 11.30am on Friday 13th followed by a 7.30pm performance at Ilminster Arts Centre. The third concert…
LYME Regis has two famous literary connections – Jane Austen’s Persuasion and The French Lieutenant’s Woman, the best-known novel by long-time Lyme resident John Fowles. There was a 250th anniversary production of Jane Austen’s Persuasion at the Marine Theatre last year, and this year, from 11th to 14th February, the mysterious cloaked woman returns in…
DORCHESTER Arts has got together with Sherborne Girls School to present an exciting evening of piano virtuosity, on Friday 6th February at 7pm, when two of the most gifted young pianists of our time, Martin James Bartlett and Mariam Batsashvili give a programme of piano duets at Gransden Hall in the school’s Merritt Centre. Franz…