BRIDPORT PANTOMIME PLAYERS PRESENT ROBINSON CRUSOE
WEDNESDAY 1ST FEB - SATURDAY 4TH FEB
The Pantomime Players take to the high seas with their production of Robinson Crusoe. Performances take place each evening at 7.30pm and afternoon performances take place at 1.30pm on Thurs 2nd Feb and at 2pm on Sat 4th Feb.
Advance tickets are priced £7 (£6 seniors / children), with no reductions on Saturday night, are available at Groves Garden Centre, West Bay Road, Bridport or by contacting Pamela Pitcher on 01308 423366.
MOVIE MUMS PRESENT - SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (CERT U)
Wednesday 8th February
Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin...
Movie Mums are special monthly movie screenings for parents and new babies when you can watch a film and not worry about anyone shushing you! The sound will be turned down slightly and the lights dimmed to create a calming atmosphere, without taking anything away from the cinematic experience. Refreshments are available from 11am and the film starts on 12 midday. Tickets are £5 available on the door
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE - TRAVELLING LIGHT
Thursday 9th February
TRAVELLING LIGHT is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age. Antony Sher will play Jacob, an ebullient timber-merchant whose encouragement of a young man’s enthusiasm for cinematography leads to success far beyond their remote Eastern European village.
ELECTRIC COMEDY
ARTHUR SMITH & LIVE AT THE APOLLO STAR ANDI OSHO
Friday 10th February
Tickets on sale from Bridport Tourist Info Centre on 01308 424901
Unreserved seating £12.50
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A stalwart of the Edinburgh Fringe and a Radio 4 favourite, Arthur Smith is also a familiar face on TV with extensive appearances on Qi, Have I Got News For You and of course BBC1's Grumpy Old Men. He's regarded as a true living comedy legend and a compere beyond compare.
Arthur will be introducing one of the hottest names in comedy at the moment, Andi Osho. One of the most successful female comedians of recent times Andi has performed barnstorming sets at Live At The Apollo & was handpicked for Michael Mcintyre's Comedy Roadshow as well as being a regular guest on Mock The Week, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Ask Rhod Gilbert. Andi's heartwarming and hilarious comedy delights audiences as she zips from the intelligent to the downright silly with recollections of her Nigerian background and life growing up in the east end of London which has cemented her place in the premier league of stand-up.
MET OPERA LIVE - WAGNER'S GOTTERDAMMERUNG– New Production
Monday 13th February 2012
Tickets: Adults £14.50, EP Members £12.50, Child £10.00 / Doors open 4.00pm, Show starts 4.30pm
With its cataclysmic climax, the Met's new ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brunnhilde and Gary Lehman as Siegfield - the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. James Levine conducts.
BELLA HARDY
Friday 17th February
Tickets £12.50 / Doors open 7.30pm- Starts 8.30pm
Nominated Best Original Track 'The Herring Girl' - BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2012
Bella is one of the finest young folk acts around, singing unaccompanied ballads, or entwining her hypnotic voice with her own fiddle accompaniment to breathtaking effect. Three times nominated in the BBC Folk Awards, she has a voice marked as '...mesmerising' and '...faultless'. Her songs touch on both the fantastical, storytelling elements of Kate Bush and the lovelorn songwriting craft of Carole King, ranging in subject matter from fairytales to English working class history via childhood nostalgia, myths, murder and the human condition.
MET OPERA LIVE - VERDI'S ERNANI
Monday 27th February 2012
Tickets: Adults £14.50, EP Members £12.50, Child £10.00
Doors open 5.30pm, Show starts 6.00pm
Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi’s thrilling early gem. Marcello Giordani is her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast.
Wednesday 7th March
Confidence man Harold Hill arrives at staid River City intending to cheat the community with his standard scam of offering to equip and train a boy's marching band, then skip town with the money since he has no music skill anyway. Things go awry when he falls for a librarian he tries to divert from exposing him while he inadvertently enriches the town with a love of music.
Movie Mums are special monthly movie screenings for parents and new babies when you can watch a film and not worry about anyone shushing you! The sound will be turned down slightly and the lights dimmed to create a calming atmosphere, without taking anything away from the cinematic experience. Refreshments are available from 11am and the film starts on 12 midday. Tickets are £5 available on the door
CLARE TEAL
Saturday 10th March
Tickets £16.50 / Doors open 7pm
The UK's finest jazz singer and much loved performer Clare Teal makes a welcome return to song writing and recording with her tenth album HEY HO, a quote from the stunning opening track If Love Were All - a beautifully reflective song written by the grand master of song Noël Coward in 1929. Clare has twice been voted British Jazz Singer of the year and also the BBC's Jazz Singer of the year.
This is the first performance in Bridport since one of Bentley's 'Big Nite Outs' back in about 2004. The show now has lots of new material as well as some 'old favourites'
The Amazing Mr. Smith has been described as Monty Python's answer to John Williams, a sort of one-man Bonzo-Dog Doo-Dah Band. His combination of mad musical inventions and brilliant acoustic guitar playing make him one of the funniest and most original entertainers around.
MOVIE MUMS - THE MUSIC MAN (CERT U)
