Live events in local halls...
Welcome to Artsreach's live performance guide, the place to find up to the minute information on a range of live professional arts events in rural Dorset.
Performance Programme
April - August 2008
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Boiling Kettle Theatre Co presents
Granny getting to grips with new technology produces some surprising results.
Set in a rural community in Somerset, ÔThe Mad Woman In The Attic? is a humorous, poignant play that challenges...
Trilith presents
An Evening of Dorset Film Archive
Drawing upon their extensive stock of archive cine-film from the early 1900's to the 1960's, and using the latest in digital projection, Trilith presents images of the past that are both...
C-Scape Dance Co presents
Based on a story by Cornish writer Anna Maria Murphy, Below delves into the depths of the Cornish Mining Industry, telling tales of above and below the mine.
Using C-Scape's own unique style,...
Tim Laycock presents
A dramatic and musical celebration of the life and poetry of William Barnes from Dorset's own Tim Laycock. Why did a highly educated C19th teacher and parson choose to write poetry in a dialect few...
Tim Laycock & Sonia Ritter present
Vita SackVille West's epic poem of farming and the countryside, performed by RSC actress Sonia Ritter and Tim Laycock. The Land won the Hawthornden prize in 1926, and describes the seasonal...
Julie Dunn presents
Hot on the heels of their UK tour, vibrant westcountry-based singer Julie Dunn is joined by an illustrious band of top jazz artists - pianist John Horler, bassist Alec Dankworth and Tony Coe on...
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School presents
It is the summer of 1918, and the end of the war sees the young Laurie Lee removing to a new home in a Cotswold village. Life here is peaceful, slow and governed by the seasons. It is a child's...
Mtiebi
Traditional Georgian Male Voice Choir
A rare opportunity to see an authentic male voice choir from the heart of the Caucasian mountains with a repertoire of songs and music that stretches back over centuries. The choir of ten male...
Rude Mechanicals in
The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company presents a dark comedy with a surrealist twist that tells the story of a Jewish carver and his family trying to survive in early 1920?s London. Noah is...
Singing Out West - Black Voices, Mtiebi and Choir
World-famous a capella group Black Voices, acclaimed ambassadors for Gospel and Spirituals, Caribbean and African, jazz and blues singing styles are headlining a FREE one-off concert...
Circus Berzercus presents
From the moment the curtain goes up there is trouble. When Gerald's juggling partner walks out on him he asks the agency to find a suitable replacement. Enter Wallace, cue chaos! With Wallace...
Jolly Jumps Dance Theatre presents
No. 2 at the Train Station (Ve stanici neize)
Inspired by a scene from Tolstoy's Anna Karenina where the heroine kills herself on a railway line, this version sees Anna diverted from her fatal mission by an eccentric band of railway workers....
Miracle Theatre presents
Exploring love, death and seasickness in the Lap of the Gods, Miracle Theatre's new open air summer production will take you into the lands of Greek legend and romance as our hero battles against...