THE Bristol-based theatre company Roustabout Theatre is touring an imaginative new show for children, Little Red Riding Could, a playful and mischievous retelling of the original fairytale, which is coming to Front Room, Weston-Super-Mare on 26th October, The Theatre Shop, Clevedon on 27th and 1st November at Portsmouth Guildhall Studio ending the tour at Bridport…
THE brilliant and award-winning National Theatre production of War Horse, adapted from Michael Morporgo’s novel, was a massive hit at the National, in the West End, on Broadway and around the world. Now a new production of this beautiful and deeply moving story is on a national tour, on at Plymouth Theatre Royal until 7th…
BRIDPORT Lyric Theatre hosts a multi-arts event celebrating women’s lives, Hersong III, on Sunday 20th October from 6pm. Performers and artists living and working in the Bridport will be taking part in this show which celebrates women’s stories of their lived experiences about love, labour and loss, through spoken word, song, movement and theatre. Expect…
YOU know what they say about magpies … it’s three for joy when The Magpies bring their beautiful contemporary roots music to a venue near you.Catch this trio, whose music has English and American roots, at Teignmouth Pavilions on Wednesday 9th October and Forest Arts Centre at New Milton on Friday 11th. The transatlantic folk…
THREE village halls in Dorset, Wiltshire and Devon host gigs by the multi-talented Americana duo Hungrytown – Tolpuddle village hall on Friday 11th October, Semley on Friday 18th and Upottery on Saturday 19th. Based in “the green hills of Vermont,” Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson have been touring the world for years, exploring many different…
MOST people who know the name of William Barnes will think of him as the poet of the old Dorset dialect, the writer of Linden Lea, and a near-contemporary of a more famous Dorset literary star, Thomas Hardy. But who was at the real Barnes? Historian, musician and actor Tim Laycock is performing his play,…
SHERBORNE International Film Festival, over the weekend 17th to 20th October, takes film-goers on an adventurous and exciting journey from Korea to Colombia, via Japan, China and France. The programme includes rarities and favourites and opens on Thursday evening with the spectacular 2002 Chinese historical drama Hero, at the festival venue, the Powell Theatre in…
PURBECK Film Festival, the country’s largest and most diverse rural celebration of film, will be 30 years next year. The 29th festival, from 18th October to 3rd November, has the theme of Food on Film (and food with film), in venues that range from Swanage’s Mowlem Theatre, Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre and Wareham’s historic Rex…
THE Surrey-based Blackeyed Theatre celebrates its 20th anniversary with a new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s iconic epistolary novel Dracula, 100 years after it was first brought to the stage. The production, adapted and directed by Nick Lane, is on a UK tour until May next year, so if you miss it at Bath Theatre Royal, where…
IF you like chills, thrills and ghost tales, the new play at Cirencester’s Barn Theatre will really hit the spot. Room 13, by Duncan Abel and Rachel Wagstaff, is inspired by the famous ghost stories of MR James and is definitely proving a hit with audiences in the run-up to Hallowe’en. The production runs to…