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…
NINA Raine’s award-winning play Rabbit will make its Dorset debut from 19th to 21st October, thanks to the members of Sturminster Newton Amateur Dramatic Society. Directed by Toby Greenfield, the play will be performed nightly at 7.30 at The Exchange. It is a fiercely funny play about what it’s like to be a young woman…
THE story of an entire school that was evacuated to Frome in 1939, at the start of the Second World War, is being told in 2,000 Days, performed by local community theatre group Dramakarma at the town’s Merlin Theatre on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th October. The 350 children, from Cooper’s Company School in Bow…
THE Verwood-based Fireside Theatre has chosen JB Priestley’s first play, the now-classic 1932 Dangerous Corner, for its October reading, on Wednesday 4th at the home of Margaret and Tony Wilson. It’s the perfect play for the group, set at a social evening among friends. In the play, a chance remark opens up awkward questions, as…
IT is 43 years since Jane Chambers launched her groundbreaking play Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, and it has been performed around the globe ever since – but never before in Salisbury. Studio Theatre is filling the gap with its production at the Ashley Road venue from Monday 2nd to Saturday 7th October. Set on…
DORSET writer Devina Symes has adapted her novel, Stronghold of Happiness, set in wartime Dorset, into a play which gets its first performance by the New Hardy Players at the Corn Exchange, Dorchester, on Saturday, 30th September at 7.30pm. The book and play tell the enduring love story of a couple, Peter and Ella Samways,…