ANTIC Disposition returns to Bath Abbey on 8th August with a Shakespeare’s ever-popular A Midsummer Night’s Dream, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the company creating visually striking productions in historic buildings and unusual non-theatre spaces. Building on the success of last year’s award-winning Romeo and Juliet, the production features nine professional actors – all with…
YEOVIL’S Swan Theatre welcomes a newcomer next week, when Amy McIntosh joins the talented company to play the role of Aurora (Rory to her friends) in Tatty Hennessy’s play A Hundred Words for Snow. Mark Payne directs the play, which had its premiere in London in 2018, and Amy is known to Yeovil audiences for…
SINGER-actor, chairman of the company, set mover … first-time director – John Clark certainly took on a lot of roles for Bath Opera’s summer tour of Verdi’s La Traviata. An experienced director of plays and musicals and regular performer, John has this year also tackled the challenge of directing one of the best-loved of all…
THE talented Scottish violinist Colin Scobie is the July soloist with Concerts in the West, with recitals at Bridport, Ilminster and Crewkerne on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th July, playing works by Beethoven, Elgar and Schumann, accompanied by pianist Jâms Coleman. Born in Edinburgh in 1991, Scobie (pictured) is already established as one of the…
WHILE the rest of the world was reeling and retreating in shock at the images of planes crashing into the Twin Tours and the Pentagon, the residents of Gander in Newfoundland had little time for horrified reflection. Planes from all round the world who were in US airspace were diverted to the town airport, and…
THE clock at Strode Theatre will be turning the clock back almost 70 years next week, when the Street Theatre Company brings Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood’s play 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche to the region for the first time. Set in New York State in 1956, The Susan B Anthony Society for the Sisters…
TAUNTON Thespians head out on the road on Tuesday 15th July for their summer tour, this year taking William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights’ Dream to ten venues around Somerset. Directed by Bob Corwin, the big-cast company will tell the ever-popular story of capricious young lovers and their dictatorial parents, a group of local workmen putting…
I MUST have seen Michael Frayn’s enduringly hilarious play Noises Off more than a dozen times during my reviewing life, with TV stars, leading West End actors, the Number 3 touring professional companies that it sends up, and by amateurs. I have never seen a production so wonderfully inventive and brilliantly performed as that by…
RODGERS and Hammerstein’s last musical together, The Sound of Music, was first performed only 14 years after the end of the Second World War, when memories of Nazi incursions over Europe were fresh in the minds of audiences. Now, the details of that war are unfamiliar to younger viewers, but, thanks to the powerful story…
THE first performances of David Hare’s new play Grace Pervades offer a unique opportunity to theatre lovers – to sit in one of the country’s most beautiful theatres learning fascinating facts about Victorian theatre legends Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, from a stage on which they actually performed. And, for these days of breathless star-struckery,…