NICOLA Werenowska’s powerful exploration of displacement and identity across three generations of a Polish family, Silence, reaches the end of its ten-venue tour at Salisbury, where it is on stage at the Salberg Studio until 17th November. Maria lived in Warsaw as Poland was invaded by both Germany and Russia, and she and her husband…
ENGLISH Touring Opera’s production of Handel’s 1720 opera Radamisto, loosely based on incidents in the Tacitus’ Annals of Imperial Rome, is a musical, vocal and visual triumph. This opera seria, the first written by the German composer for the Royal Academy of Music in his adopted homeland, is the story of a tyrant, King Tiridate…
THE word feast could well be substituted for ‘Fest’ which follows Mozart, the composer at the heart of this annual festival now in its 28th year, on all the publicity material for the Bath’s Mozart Fest. Once again artistic director Amelia Freedman has brought a dazzling array of musical talent to the City of Bath…
IT was a dark and stormy night … the winds whipped monsoon-like rains across the South Wessex Ridgeway downs into pools across the road and the little hall shook. Not a night to be out … But it takes more than a wintry storm to keep the people of Wootton Fitzpaine away from an Artsreach…
THE Armonico Consort brought Armistice Day 2018 to a close at in Yeovil with a concert of contemplative music interspersed by readings chosen and performed by Timothy West. Directed by Christopher Monks, the popular Consort will be starting its own youth choir at the Octagon in 2019. Music on the day that marked the centenary…
STUDENTS at Arts University Bournemouth have the unique opportunity to produce plays about Mary Shelley and her famous literary community in the building where she and her son Percy lived from 1851. Their autumn series, Shelley at the Shelley, opened with two plays about Mary – Liz Lochhead’s Blood and Ice and Helen Edmundson’s Mary…
Glière: Les Sirènes Turnage: Testament Prokofiev: War and Peace Suite Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, leader Amyn Merchant Kirill Karabits conductor Natalya Romaniw soprano EVEN by the standards that we’ve grown to expect from Karabits and the BSO, this concert really was something very special. It was also a very personal concert for the Ukranian conductor, with…
TAUNTON Thespians are marking the centenary of the end of the Great War with a production of Joan Littlewood’s anti-war musical satire Oh What a Lovely War, all this week ending on Sunday 11th November with a matinee performance. It is an extraordinary play, which, when it opened at Stratford East 55 years ago, caused…
THE Nightingales is the new play that has tempted treasured television writer and actress Ruth Jones back onto the stage after 12 years. It opens in Bath before a national tour and a hoped-for West End transfer. It is directed by the renowned Christopher Luscombe, and its credits include well-known producer Jenny Topper, working with…
SET on the first Peace Day, in July 1919, Taboo Theatre’s Armistice-marking play, is based on real people who lived in and around a North Dorset town at the end of the Great War. It will be performed twice at The Exchange at Sturminster Newton on Saturday 10th November, and the FTR had a sneak…