PLAYWRIGHTS Ian Hislop and Nick Newman took the script that they part-wrote for the Hollywood film A Bunch of Amateurs, starring Burt Reynolds, and turned it into a stage play, which has been chosen as the spring production for Frome Drama Club, at the Merlin Theatre from 25th to 27th April. The two hugely talented…
BATH Gilbert & Sullivan Society pays tribute to a great British tradition in its spring show, an Old Time Music Hall, at the Mission Theatre from Wednesday 24th to Friday 26th April at 7.30pm, with a Saturday matinee at 2pm. Much-loved for their regular G&S productions, the multi-award winning Bath society has also staged popular…
SHAFTESBURY Art Centre music and drama group’s spring show is The Thrill of Love, the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain. It is on at the Bell Street theatre from Wednesday 10th to Saturday 13th April at 7.30pm. Ruth Ellis is no fictional character. She was flesh-and-blood and her…
THE Verwood-based Fireside Theatre has chosen Terence Rattigan’s Separate Tables, set in the dining room of the Beauregard Hotel in Bournemouth, for its next reading, on Wednesday 3rd April. The two plays, Table by the Window and Table Number Seven, were first produced in 1954, and are regarded as some of the writer’s finest work….
ON 15th On February 1987, Graham Greene, one of the most acclaimed English novelists of the 20th century, attended a star-studded peace conference in Moscow (glasnost, remember?). This event, and a historic meeting between the novelist and a famous spy is the subject of a new play, A Splinter of Ice, being staged by Yeovil’s…
IF you are a fan of Paula Hawkins’ book The Girl on The Train, or perhaps of the film version that moved the action from London to New York, wipe your memory clean before you head to Strode Theatre in Street for the next Street Theatre production, on stage from 20th to 23rd March. Director…
YEOVIL Amateur Operatic Society members take to the stage at Westlands on 19th March in the company’s fourth production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s immortal musical Oklahoma! Set at the time when Oklahoma changed from being part of the Western Territories to become a state, it’s a sort of reverse image of America today. As the…
THE stage of Mere Lecture Hall will be transformed into the bar owned by Rene Artois in Nouvion for the next Mere Amateur Dramatic Society production, ‘Allo, ‘Allo, on from 21st to 23rd March. This rip-roaring comedy has all those famous characters you remember, know and love from the television programme of the same name,…
THE first public performances by Arts University Bournemouth students at their “new” base, the Palace Court Theatre in Westover Road, will be of Beth Flintoff’s thrilling new retelling of the real life Suffolk murder story of Maria Marten, better known as Murder in the Red Barn. The Ballad of Maria Marten, with its all female…
MILBORNE Port Opera has chosen a show that won five Tonys and seven Drama Desk Awards on Broadway, but is rarely performed in this country. So audiences are in for a treat when the company stages the Canadian musical, The Drowsy Chaperone, at Milborne Port village hall from 3rd to 6th April. Lisa Lambert and…