DORSET Opera celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, with performances of one of the world’s best-loved operas and the premiere of an opera adapted from a favourite Thomas Hardy, with its roots firmly in Dorset. There will be seven performances of the two works at Bryanston School’s Coade Hall, Blandford Forum, from 22nd to 27th…
JANIE Dee leads the cast in Laughing Boy, which comes to Bath Theatre Royal from Tuesday 4th to Saturday 8th June, direct from its West End premiere. Written and directed by Stephen Unwin, this powerful new play is based on a true story as first told in Justice for Laughing Boy by Sara Ryan. The…
A NEW south-west based company makes its debut in June with a magic realist play about the days of COVID. Dot Dot Dot Theatre has chosen Sally Whyte’s play Dot, the Faun and the Elfin Child for its first tour, starting on 5th June at the Rondo Theatre in Bath. It is set in the…
WHATNOT Theatre brings its recycling story Flotsam and Jetsam’s Adventure To The Great Trash Vortex to Dorchester Corn Exchange on Wednesday 29th May at 2pm inviting landlubbers to join them for bottle-top treasure, sea shanties and a giant plastic bag squid. Legendary pirates Flotsam and Jetsam are not the buccaneers of folklore, they are the…
THIS year’s Bath pantomime will be Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, once again written by panto star and writer Jon Monie, who will co-star with the theatre’s much-loved Dame, Nick Wilton, with children’s television presenter Olivia Birchenough as Snow White. The panto will run from Thursday 12th December to Sunday 12th January. When the…
YANN Martel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel, Life of Pi, was adapted as a sensational and five times Olivier Award-winning play, which is coming to Bath Theatre Royal, from 22nd to 25th May, direct from the West End, on its first ever UK tour. After conquering the West End and Broadway, Lolita Chakrabarti’s dazzling production brings…
AFTER a gap of two years, Somerset’s own resident Wassail Theatre is back on the road with a new show, Birthday Day, and it will be performed at farms and outdoor locations all around the county from 18th May to 1st September. Birthday Day is inspired by the short story A Notable Oak Tree, written…
THE energetic and inventive all-female theatre company Scratchworks continues it tour of Hags: A Magical Extravaganza, at Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre on Thursday 23rd May. The action begins in Bideford in 1682, where the last witch trial in England took place. Three women were accused of witchcraft, tried and hanged. Witches … magic … fast…
AN acclaimed West End production of Tennessee Williams’ great play, The Glass Menagerie, starring Geraldine Somerville, comes to Bath Theatre Royal from Monday 13th to Saturday 18th May, following a week at Bristol Old Vic, until Saturday 11th. Geraldine Somerville, whose distinguished career includes leading roles in Cracker, Gosford Park and the Harry Potter films,…
IT’S hard to imagine sitting in the open air on a balmy summer’s evening after the winter and spring we have had, but that clearly hasn’t deterred any of the touring theatre companies from planning a 2024 season full of delights to suit all ages and most tastes. The post-COVID doldrums have receded, and new…