SOMERSET artists James and Kate Lynch, who live on a hill overlooking the Somerset Levels, have both had work selected for The Life of the Fields, a major exhibition at St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery in Lymington, one of the most adventurous and prestigious galleries in the area. The exhibition runs to 10th January…
TORONTO-based singer-songwriter Duane Forrest will take the audience on an acoustic journey through the roots of reggae and the global influence of Bob Marley in his show, Bob Marley – How Reggae Changed the World, at two Artsreach concerts – at Chetnole village hall on Sunday 19th October and West Stafford on Monday 20th, both…
THE musical partnership between Leon Hunt and Jason Titley started way back in the early nineties, at some unforgettable late-night festival jams which, inevitably, led to the formation of a band, the ground-breaking and hugely popular ‘progressive’ bluegrass outfit, Daily Planet. Now the pair are back together, coming to Dorset for three dates with Artsreach…
ONE of the greatest films of all time, and a classic of the silent movie era, Fritz Lang’s 1927 Metropolis is being shown at Bridport Arts Centre on Friday 10th October with an exciting new live soundtrack performed by Palooka 5, playing 1960s-tinged ‘sci-fi surf music’. The film is one of the best science fiction…
THERE is apparently a powerful connection between medicine and comedy – look at the number of doctors and other medics who have combined stand-up with their work, or moved over entirely from the operating theatre to the performing theatre. Take Georgie Carroll, a nurse who has been playing to sell-out audiences for some years. Her…
PATRONS. poets, pupils, printers, performers, publishers … pirates! The roll call of women who contributed to the development and distribution of music from the Renaissance through to the Enlightenment is nothing if not surprising! The multi-instrumental female quartet Sounds Historical came to the Medieval Hall in Salisbury Cathedral Close on the opening night of the…
GREAT Expectations is a book that you could say lives up to its title – an epic story of damaged lives and shattered illusions. Despite its scale it lends itself to the intimacy of theatre as the audience will discover when Shaftesbury Arts Centre’s music and drama group stages the story, from 22nd to 25th…
TIME travel and the Scottish play … you might not think a time-travelling romantic series of novels and television adaptations, one of Scotland’s best-known actors making his Royal Shakespeare Company debut and a comedy about three school-kids have much in common. But the clue is in the heading – the Scottish play, as you have…
BY any stretch of the imagination, Dracula – or Nosferatu – is the most famous horror story of all. Bram Stoker’s 1897 gothic novel has spawned films, plays, ballets, puppet shows … even pantomimes. Now it is back on screen, coming to Dorchester Corn Exchange on Wednesday 15th October, in the FW Murnau silent film…
THREE leading local galleries all have exciting exhibitions for the autumn – The Art Stable at Gold Hill Organic Farm, Child Okeford, has a retrospective on the work of the late David Gommon. Sladers Yard at West Bay celebrates mother and daughter Marzia Colonna and Fiamma Colonna Montagu, and the Slade Centre at Gillingham looks…