LOVE is at the heart the musical version of The Addams Family, and if the famously gruesome family has a message it is a sentimental song of family values and romance. It’s also a hilarious romp peopled by the undead forebears of the legendary Gomez and Morticia, set in their creepy mansion in central park…
Bartók: Dance Suite, Barber: Violin Concerto, Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, leader Amyn Merchant Kirill Karabits: Conductor Nemanja Radulović: Violin THIS concert of 20th-century music saw a deepening of the love affair between the Lighthouse audience and the BSO’s charismatic artist in residence, Serbian violin virtuoso Nemanja Radulović. With his huge barely-controlled afro,…
TWO of the country’s best loved comedians, Griff Rhys Jones and Lee Mack, are starring in a free – very free – adaptation of Moliere’s The Miser, at Bath, Richmond and then at the Garrick in London. And the cast of Sean Foley’s production also includes a handful of others better known for comedy than…
HARBOUR Voices, a group of 20 or so Dorset based men and women, has just concluded a short Artsreach tour with their vibrant celebration of the sea. It was a tour that was just about sold out too and if you missed it, you missed an absolute treat. With a programme of new songs and…
MATTHEW’s short tour of the South West resulted in a wonderful series of concerts, by a pianist who engages his audience by the dynamism of his playing and by his intense musicality. Not every player should open a recital with a sonata by Mozart, but Matthew, by exquisite phrasing and positive delivery was totally convincing…
ONCE upon a time … pantomime had a pretty straightforward formula – wicked fairy/demon (enter/exit stage left), good fairy (enter/exit stage right), principal boy hero, principal girl (usually our hero’s social superior), evil baron/squire, murderous step-mother, knockabout comics (usually sidekicks to the villain) and plenty of village people (no connection to well-known gay singing group)….
A BRIDPORT garden with a bit of waste land over the wall for a marquee – what better place to create an unforgettable wedding? It’s where Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall lives, so he knows all about life in West Dorset with the seashore just down the road. He made his name with his Jurassic Coast…
THERE’S little enough outright joy in the world these days, so thanks to Sir Matthew Bourne for providing a large slice with his Early Adventures. Three of the shows that set the language, style and pace for Bourne’s triumphant career have been revived for a tour that started at Bath before travelling the UK and…
THE drama students at Gillingham School pull off a coup this week, presenting the regional premiere of a recent musical about US outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Frank Wildhorn, Don Black and Ivan Menchell’s 2009 version of the story is apparently due for a West End opening this autumn, so North Dorset audiences have…
IT will be a long time before I forget the Sheriff of Nottingham’s Ming the Merciless facial hair or the wardrobe malfunction during Dame Winnie Widebottom’s strip at the 2017 Tisbury Arts Group pantomime. They were the highlights of the hilarious Ben Crocker version of Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood, directed by…