SOUTH-Korean playwright Hansol Jung’s Wild Goose Dreams has its UK premiere at the Ustinov Studio in Bath until 21st December. It’s a modern version of a legend, a love story and a look at how the internet and social media connect the world and divide the individual. Michael Boyd’s production for the Ustinov is a…
SIMON Williams is best known for his many television roles and in The Archers, but he is also a novelist and playwright, and one of his four plays, the 2001 Laying the Ghost, was chosen by Yeovil based Civic Players for their late autumn production at the Swan Theatre. Set in a retirement home for…
Eberl Symphony No.3 Beethoven Violin Romance No 2 Beethoven Violin Concerto in C (fragment) Beethoven Symphony No 2 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, leader Amyn Merchant Conductor Reinhard Goebel Tobias Feldmann, violin THE big names in the music scene in Vienna around 1800: Haydn, Beethoven and Eberl, right? If you’re anything like me, you’ll have been asking…
THE great Dolly Parton famously said: “You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!” Similarly, it takes incredible skill (and courage) to look as utterly incompetent as the Cornley Polytechnic dramatic society in their various productions.. So it’s hardly surprising that Peter Pan goes wrong when the amateur actors and their long-suffering…
MERE Amateur Dramatic Society has one criterion for its Christmas show, and that’s that it must revolve around the town, whether it’s a pantomime, a revue or an adapation. This year co-writers (and co-directors) Chris Wood and Jon Noble have turned to Charles Dickens for their inspiration, setting his familiar story of the miserly Ebenezer…
Elgar Sea Pictures Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, leader Amyn Merchant Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, director Gavin Carr David Hill: conductor Jennifer Johnson: mezzo soprano (Elgar) Emma Bell: soprano (Brahms) Gareth Brynmor John: baritone THIS week the BSO’s concert at the Lighthouse coupled two nineteenth-century works for orchestra and voices. In the first half…
TOM Stoppard’s brilliant play Arcadia is so packed full of ideas, information, coded references and wit that you have to keep your attention fully engaged not to miss vital bits of the story. It is set in Sidley Park, ancestral home of the Croom family, in two periods – 1809 and 1995. It’s a mystery,…
BRASS players are often portrayed – with some justification – as the jokers in the orchestral pack. If there is mischief to be done or pranks to be played, chances are it’s the brass players who are at the back of it. There are countless gags about brass players – mostly along the lines of…
YEOVIL Youth Theatre has taken on another big, spectacular show for its Octagon November production, and brings the jazzy sleaze of 1930s Chicago to life, in the High School edition. It’s got all the story and music of the original, with some of the stronger language and sexual references omitted, but you’d have to be…
DAPHNE du Maurier’s tense dramatic novel My Cousin Rachel has twice been filmed and staged in various adapations countless times. Now a new version by Joseph O’Connor and directed by Anthony Banks comes to Bath Theatre Royal, at the start of a national tour. Without curtains, the audience is first confronted with an atmospheric set…