WASHINGTON Irving’s famous Gothic tale about the dark goings-on at Sleepy Hollow, a Dutch settlement north of Tarrytown (later New York), has provided rich inspiration for theatre and film makers over the years since 1820 when it was written, in Birmingham. Now Tilted Wig has take up the artistic baton, commissioning an inventive new adaptation…
A PREMIERE, particularly a world premiere, is an exciting event, specially for a regional theatre, so there was a predictable buzz around Poole’s Lighthouse centre for the arts as the audience and guests arrived for the world’s first veiw of the new film, Lawrence: After Arabia. Filmed in Dorset, with many familiar views and locations…
THERE will always be discussion about which of Hardy’s Wessex novels is the greatest. Many would say Tess of the d’Urbevilles, which is unquestionably the best known, or Far From The Madding Crowd, the one that offers a happy future for the two central characters, or The Return of the Native, with its powerful evocation…
IT’s easy to see why young performers love Bugsy Malone, the Prohibition era musical first seen as a 1976 movie by Alan Parker, with an all-child cast including Jodie Foster as the singer Tallulah. It’s got catchy songs, great dance rhythms, an exciting story with speakeasies, warring bar-owners, gangsters armed with cream-shooting splurge guns and…
Bizet L’Arlesienne Suite Ravel Piano Concerto in G Prokofiev Autumnal Sketch Mussorgsky (arr. Ravel) Pictures at an Exhibition Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, leader Amyn Merchant Kirill Karabits: Conductor Louis Schwizgebel: Piano It’s great to be back! My last BSO review was posted in January 2020, so last night’s concert was an…
SAY Brooklyn to most people and they picture the dramatic bridge and a New York borough that has gone through several iterations of poverty and crime to its current uber-trendiness. What you probably don’t think about is gentility. But that is precisely what we see in the Brooklyn of Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace,…
THERE are urban dwellers (and maybe country folk) who are really scared of woods. A legendary aunt sat locked in a car in a state of high terror when the rest of the family went for a walk in the New Forest. We have laughed about it many times. But, having just seen Craig White’s…
IF you told Laura and Danny, the characters in David Eldridge’s play Beginning, about agricultural workers from Yorkshire walking over the Pennines to Lancashire every weekend to court their lasses, it would be like discussing ancient history. But, oddly, their dreams and wishes are the same, maybe proving that the more it changes, the more…
LIKE most people, I first came upon Grease when the now legendary film starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John arrived like a bursting meteor of energy in 1978. Big impression as it made, I never expected to find it gathering big audiences in the theatre, well over half of whom were not even born when…
DIRECTOR Ian White, a life-long lover of the theatre and Shakespeare’s Scottish play in particular, sees the Macbeths as a couple with “a mature and successful marriage” – indeed the only one in the canon. As such, he says, the guilt and the blame for the murderous tyranny that they unleash has to be shared….