THE comedian who cooks, the chef who makes you laugh … George Egg is back in Dorset with his latest show, which scoops the cream of his culinary jokes, Set Menu. After several Artsreach dates at the beginning of the year and gigging at the Glastonbury Festival, George comes to Winterborne Stickland’s Pamela Hambro Hall,…
YOU know about model villages – there is a model town in Wimborne and a world-famous model village in Bourton-on-the-Water – those miniature recreations of an idyllic rural settlement with cricket pitch, thatched cottages, roses round the door and a smart-as-paint railway station? Welcome to Model Village, the 50th anniversary production by New Perspectives, coming…
TWO of the great comic creations of the past 30 years are brought back to the stage at Bath Theatre Royal this week, 14th to 18th November, in I’m Sorry Prime Minister, I Can’t Quite Remember, a new play by Jonathan Lynn, who with the late Anthony Jay created I’m Sorry, Minister (later Prime Minister)….
RED Rope Theatre is staging a new version of Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles, in the Anglican Chapel of Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol, from 15th November to 1st December. Written by Matt Grinter and adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle’s spine-chillingest mystery, it tells the story of age-old fears. The locals whisper of…
ARTS University Bournemouth’s acting students will be performing Fiona Ross’s adaptation of Emile Zola’s 1868 novel Therese Raquin at the Wallisdown studio theatre from 16th to 18th November, nightly at 7.30 with a 2.30 Saturday matinee. Following in the footsteps of the amazing production of Spring Awakening, the second cohort of students tackles Therese, a…
MOST of us first experience live theatre with a visit to the pantomime – and if it weaves its colourful magic effectively, it will set your path for the rest of your theatre-going life. Youngsters had an unpredictably difficult time during the pandemic, and we are…
A NEW literary festival takes place this Saturday, 28th October. The Script’s the Thing, from 10am onwards at Dorchester Corn Exchange and Tom Brown’s pub, is being run in conjunction with Dorchester Arts, and offers a showcase of new writing. There are more than 70 bite-size scripts, none lasting more than 15 minutes, during the…
THE the multi award-winning musical Come From Away comes to Plymouth Theatre Royal from 9th to 13th April, to the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton from 16th to 20th April and to Bristol Hippodrome from 20th to 31st August. The show is based on the real-life story of the 7,000 air passengers from all over the…
THE 1920s masterpiece of an almost-forgotten American writer comes to Bath’s Ustinov theatre, from Friday 20th October to Saturday 18th November, as part of Deborah Warner’s new season as artistic director of the Theatre Royal’s studio. Sophie Treadwell’s extraordinary epic, Machinal, is directed by five-time Olivier Award-winning theatre and opera director Richard Jones. The 12-strong…
A MUSICAL OFFERING: One of the imposing 18th century sets for The Score, designed by Robert Jones, who also designed the costumes. The play stars Brian Cox as Johann Sebastian Bach and is set at the court of Frederick II (The Great). It runs to 28th October.