WHEN, in the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Topsy is asked by Miss Ophelia “Do you know who made you”, she replies “Nobody as I knows on. I s’pect I growed”. That quotation would be a good reply to anyone who wondered how a 15-minute “pop cantata” composed for a school and telling the story of…
ALFRED Hitchcock, the master of spine-tingling tension and thrills, famously said: “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” So expect plenty of terror and nail-biting anticipation as Bath Theatre Royal stages the world premiere production of Alfred Hitchcock presents – The Musical, from Saturday 22nd March to Saturday 12th…
A TRIO of multi-instrumentalists who have played with many of the West Country’s leading theatre companies come to Dorset for three dates with Artsreach, from 14th to 16th March. Jaclarabag perform heartfelt, eclectic folk songs from across the world, with a good dose of original material thrown in. Jim Carey (accordion, trombone, guitar) and Giles…
THE Verwood-based Fireside Theatre has chosen Robert Thomas’s thriller Trap for a Lonely Man for its next reading, on at the home of Margaret and Tony Wilson on Wednesday 19th March. Set in an isolated chalet in the French alps, it starts when Daniel reports to the police that his wife has gone missing. Then…
A STORY inspired by Sir Michael Morpurgo’s own family history is brought to the stage by adapter Simon Reade and the adventurous team at Cirencester’s Barn Theatre, from Friday 28th March to Saturday 10th May. In the Mouth of the Wolf is the true story of Morpurgo’s uncles in the Second World War. That war…
FOR the majority of people, the years between the two world wars were full of financial depression and mass unemployment, and could hardly be described as times full of glamour and luxury. If you could afford it however, it was a time when sophisticated glamour and luxury travel reached a height never to be surpassed….
HISTORY, it is often said, is written by men about men. It is also said, with equal truth that history is written by the victors. A group of creative women in Dorchester and the surrounding area are confronting these sexist tropes with an exciting new community play project – Women of Dorset. The play, which…
BONFIRE Radicals, described as a “proper folk melting pot,” bring their blend of Balkan, African, French, Scandinavian, Irish and British musical influences to the Somerset Take Art circuit. coming to Roadwater village hall on Friday 28th March and Caryford Community Hall at Castle Cary on Saturday 29th. With a front line of recorders, fiddle, clarinet…
CONOR McPherson’s extraordinarily atmospheric play The Weir, set in a small bar in remote community in County Leitrim, is the next production by the Street Theatre Company, on stage at Strode Theatre from 19th to 22nd March. Directed by Dennis Barwell, it runs for around two hours without an interval – to keep the tension…
STUDENTS from Arts University Bournemouth are heading for the Palace Court Theatre from 20th to 22nd March for the first production of 2025. Director David O’Shea has chosen Friedrich Durrenmatt’s The Visit, but updated its setting from the original post War German to a post Brexit Britain drowning under the cost of living crisis. Set…