CIVIC Players return to the Swan Theatre in Yeovil for their traditional pre-Christmas show, this time Ken Ludwig’s A Comedy of Tenors, on until Saturday 2nd December. It is the follow up to the writers popular Lend Me a Tenor, a play performed by Civic members in November 2022. The cast includes Andrew Meadows, Lucy-Ella…
“SHAKESPEARE has left us nothing so joyful and nothing so lovely,” says director John Crabtree of the dark comedy, Twelfth Night, which is being staged by Amateur Players at the Sherborne Studio Theatre from Monday 4th to Saturday 9th December, at 7.30pm with a Saturday matinee at 2.30. But it is a play with dark…
ANYONE who has ever watched a child or a grandchild perform in the school nativity play will want to see Salisbury Studio Theatre’s Christmas offering this year. The Flint Street Nativity this Christmas, written by Tim Firth and directed by Paul Chalmers and Sally Marshall, will be on stage at the Ashley Road venue from…
IT’s murder at Shaftesbury in December! From Agatha Christie short plays to a fairy in a microwave and teenagers lost in a magical wood, the arts centre’s talented actors are putting on some surprising festive entertainment. It all starts with Murder in the Studio, from 30th November to 2nd December. This is a collection of…
MADS, aka Mere Amateur Dramatic Society, is returning to one of the most popular productions it has ever staged, Murdered to Death, in tribute to company stalwart Di Potter, who died earlier this year. Di never trod the boards of Mere’s Lecture Hall stage, but she was a skillful member of the backstage crew, a…
ONE of the classic murder mysteries is the choice of Dorchester Drama for the pre-Christmas production at the Corn Exchange, on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th November at 7.30m, with a Saturday matinee at 2.30. Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace promises the audience a murderously good time in the company of spinster sisters Abby…
IBSEN’S play A Dolls House caused a social and political storm when it first opened in 1879 and has continued to excite comment and attract numerous versions and adaptations ever since. Frome Drama Club has chosen Irish writer Frank McGuinness’s 1996 version to perform at the Merlin Theatre from 16th to 18th November Directed by…
YEOVIL’S Swan Theatre will be performing Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play Amadeus from Monday 13th to Saturday 18th November, with Ethan Meadowcroft-Taylor in the title role and Peter Carter-Brown as his rival composer, Antonio Salieri. Most people know the story from Milos Forman’s 1984 Oscar winning film, with its American stars F Murray Abraham and Tom…
IF you are interested in joining the company, on or off stage, for a production of The Thrill of Love, the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged for murder in this country, go along to Shaftesbury Aets Centre on Wednesday 15th November at 7.30pm. The story still exerts a horrible fascination…
TOAST, the comedy drama play adapted from chef and cookery writer Nigel Slater’s autobiographical memoir, comes to the stage of Strode Theatre in Street from 8th to 11th November. Directed by Jane Sayer, it features well-known Street Theatre actors Alice Cameron, Angie Lars, Dan Simmons, Hilary Quinlan and Tyler Wilson bringing to life the many…