TILTED Wig theatre company comes to Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre this week with an enthralling new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein. The play is at the theatre from Tuesday 4th to Saturday 9th November. Séan Aydon’s reimagining of this classic Gothic horror, which comes to Poole as part of a six-venue tour, has an…
BRISTOL Old Vic Theatre School students return to the Redgrave Theatre in Clifton for their Christmas show, Treasure Island, on from 23rd to 30th November. Always popular in Bristol, where Robert Louis Stevenson is said to have written the original novel at the Llandogger Trow, this re-imagining by Bryony Lavery follows the adventures of the…
A MUSICAL celebration of the music of the one-and-only Dolly Parton comes to Bath Theatre Royal from Tuesday 5th to Saturday 9th November. The cast of Here You Come Again includes Tricia Paoluccio, who co-wrote the show, as Dolly, and Steven Webb as Kevin. The show includes many of Dolly’s biggest hits – Jolene, I…
THE middle of the 16th century was a turbulent time – a fevered period in the bloody history of the Reformation in England. A new play, which gets its world premiere at Exeter Northcott Theatre on Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd October, looks at the dramatic events in Devon in February 1547, soon after the…
DAME Sian Phillips comes to Bath Theatre Royal to star in one of Terence Rattigan’s one-act masterpieces, Table Number Seven, from Thursday 24th October to Saturday 2nd November. The 91 year old actress will also take part in an on-stage conversation with director Richard Digby-Day, at Bath’s Ustinov Studio, on Sunday 27th. Her co-star in…
OLIVIER Award-winning theatre company Papatango comes to Dorset with a new version of Robert Wentall’s classic ghost story, The Watch House, ending its run at the Barnfield Theatre, Exeter on 5th and 6th November. “There’s a legend about the Watch House. Scrape beneath the whitewash and you’ll find terror. You’ll find him.” Once a coastguard…
A WELSH theatre company makes its debut with Dorchester Arts at the Corn Exchange on Tuesday 22nd October. Decommissioned is the first play from Wise Ram Theatre, written by co-director playwright Molly Ann Sweeney. Wise Ram Theatre is a new neurodiverse theatre company, which aims to make theatre about the climate crisis. “Cariad, I care…
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…