ACTING legend Sir Derek Jacobi, a star of both the stage and screen, has a short pre-Christmas tour talking about his career, with two local dates, at Bath Theatre Royal on Friday 28th November and Bristol’s Redgrave Theatre on Sunday 30th, both at 2pm. The event will feature insights, memories of appearing in countless Shakespeare…
IF you think grand opera is all about very big voice, huge orchestras and vast opera houses, think again! Dorset’s Artsreach rural touring charity is bringing a small scale operatic entertainment to Studland on Thursday 4th December and Yetminster on Sunday 14th. Village halls may not have much in common with Covent Garden, the Met,…
A MUSICAL that was a box office hit on Broadway and in the West End comes to Bath Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio for Christmas, from Tuesday 25th November to Saturday 3rd January. The show, directed by Hal Chambers, is a co-production by Bath with Reading Rep and the Barn Theatre at Cirencester, where it delighted…
MASTER storyteller Vic Llewellyn comes to Stockland village hall, near Honiton, on Sunday 23rd November, with a wintery story to make your blood run cold, No One is Listening’(A Ghost Story), a funny and heartbreaking ride through a landscape of ghosts, forgetfulness and fading memories. How do we preserve what is beginning to fade? When…
BISCUITS are a familiar feature of most European culinary traditions and they have a special place in the heart of Croatian actress Tina Hofman, who brings her one-woman show, Pepper and Honey, to Sixpenny Handley village hall on Saturday 29th November at 7.30pm and Litton Cheney Community Hall on Sunday 30th November at 2.30pm. Tea…
MAJOR national annual dates these days are at least as much about selling as they are about celebrating – and that’s certainly the case in Terry’s: An American Tragedy About Cars, Customers, and Selling Cars to Customers, coming to Dorchester Arts at the Corn Exchange on Thursday 13th November. Memorial Day weekend … the US-of-A….
AARON Sorkin’s acclaimed adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird comes to Bath Theatre Royal from 11th to 22nd November on its first UK and Ireland tour after its critically praised runs on Broadway and in the West End. Richard Coyle plays Atticus Finch, the role created by Gregory Peck in the 1962 film…
THE Elizabethan adventurer, explorer and some time Dorset resident, Sir Walter Raleigh, one of history’s most charismatic characters, is touring the realm, and his show comes to the Ustinov Studio at Bath Theatre Royal from 10th to 12th November. That Knave, Raleigh tells the astonishing highs and lows of his dramatic career. Andrew Margerison, who…
SINGER song-writer Louise Jordan, who specialises in telling the hidden histories of women over the past couple of centuries, takes audiences back to the dark times of occupied France and the courageous women of the Special Operations Executive in her new show, which has two more dates in the New Forest, on Saturday 15th November,…
THE recent media circus and general clamour around the former prince Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the younger brother of King Charles III, is by no means the first time that the future of the monarchy has been in question. A new play by Gavin Egan, at Dorchester Arts on Tuesday 4th November, looks at the fate…