CRAIG Johnson’s Squashbox Theatre comes to Dorset in the October half term for four performances with Artsreach at Child Okeford village hall on Sunday 26th at 3pm, Milborne St Andrew hall on Monday 27th at 2pm, the Mowlem Theatre at Swanage on Tuesday 28th at 2.30pm and Buckland Newton hall on Wednesday 29th. Shivers &…
THERE is something new about the programme for Shaftesbury Arts Centre’s latest production. It is square and the cover names writer Charles Dickens, and, in type just a little bit smaller, adaptor Neil Bartlett and director Diana Banham. In recent years Dickens classics have been dissected and reconstructed by many theatre companies, turning their backs…
AS I entered and exited Bristol Hippodrome, there was an eerie feeling of the ghost of the clergyman who organised a protest when Gracie Fields, on a visit to Bristol, closed her show with a version of The Lords Prayer. What he would have made of Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone’s irreligious satire…
KEN Ludwig has a literary CV that most authors only dream about, and as he has already shown with his adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, he knows how to create those well- known and much-loved Agatha Christie characters on stage. In this touring production he is aided and abetted by his production team….
When two members of Living Spit are overheard bragging about how good they are, Zeus, up there on Olympus, is enraged by their hubris and decides to teach them a lesson –join them as they bring Too Many Greek Myths to Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, and find out how the king of the Greek gods…
THE first version of Candide, with a book by Lillian Helman, met with little success on Broadway and in London’s West End, but, rather like Topsy in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the show refused to die. Gradually, with a reworked book and lyrics, it has developed into a classic opera. I doubt if any production since…
TAKE three mazurkas and a polonaise by Chopin, a Neapolitan tarantella by Liszt and six Romanian folk dances – and you have a recipe for a whirlwind of fiery dancing, flying fingers and virtuoso musicianship. Italian pianist Giovanni Lonati returned to The Old Schoolhouse for two concerts that showcased his brilliant playing – and thrilled…
DAPHNE du Maurier’s Don’t Look Now, a haunting story of loss and mystery, mainly set in Venice, was memorably filmed with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. Now a stage adaptation, by West Country writer Nell Leyshon, comes to Salisbury Playhouse from 29th October to 15th November. This co-production with the New Wolsey Theatre at Ipswich…
STORY Weaver Becky Burchell is inviting women (and men!) to take part in one of a series of four Dark Skies walks on Cranborne Chase, between 25th October and 15th November. The creative arts producer originally created Women of the Dark Skies “to invite women to walk in the footsteps of the female ancestors of…
ONE of Agatha Christie’s most exotic murder mysteries – Death on the Nile – comes to Bath Theatre Royal from Tuesday 21st to Saturday 25th October in a lavish new Fiery Angel production, starring Mark Hadfield as Hercule Poirot. On board a luxurious cruise under the heat of the Egyptian sun, a couple’s idyllic honeymoon…