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SUMMER 2018 Box Office 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk Dorchester Arts @DorchesterArts Dorchester_Arts 1
SUMMER 2018
DORCHESTER ARTS The Corn Exchange, High East Street, DT1 1HF
enquiries@dorchesterarts.org.uk 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk
STAFF BOARD
Mark Tattersall Artistic Director Tess James, Roger Jarvis, Sara Lock,
Caroline Green Programming Assistant Fiona Pearson, Louise Sheaves (Chair),
Sam Wood Administrator & Bar Manager Peter Smith (Treasurer),
Kathy Sweeting Finance Manager Penny Treadwell-Anderson,
Jacky Thorne Fundraising & Development Manager Jennie Veale, Trevor Ware, Carl Woodward
Elizabeth Evensen Marketing Manager
Ben McKey Marketing & Design Assistant HONORARY PATRONS
Megan Dunford Participation Officer
Tracy Chevalier, Jennifer Coombs,
ASSOCIATES Lord and Lady Fellowes, Graham Snow,
Jo Simons Youth Theatre Director Dame Harriet Walter, Minette Walters
Mickey Wills Youth Music Director
Mike Furse Membership Secretary
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WELCOME
Summer is always the season in which Dorchester June. We love outdoor events too, and you will find
Arts gets out and about the most, and alongside our a dozen listed in this brochure, from performances
‘home fixtures’ in this brochure you will find indoor across Dorset by New Hardy Players to our annual
and outdoor performances across a variety of venues. outdoor theatre series at Maumbury Rings. Last but
not least, join us come rain or shine for our fourth
Dorchester’s churches provide an ideal setting for Summer Sunday fundraiser in the idyllic setting of
some of our classical concerts and workshops: June Whitcombe Manor on 29 July.
sees the awesomely talented Tenebrae in concert at
St Mary’s and the return of John Rowland’s Pritchard
with a chant workshop at St Peter’s.
Our biennial collaboration with Dorset Art Weeks
takes place in the form of an exhibition by Chris
Dunseath at Duke’s Auctioneers in late May/early Mark Tattersall Artistic Director, Dorchester Arts
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Club Orchard featuring Omar with Bowjangles
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Maddy Prior George Egg – DIY Chef
in concert with Hannah James Thursday 3 May (rescheduled date)
and Giles Lewin COMEDY – Corn Exchange
8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm)
Wednesday 2 May £13 / £11 members & concessions /
FOLK MUSIC – Corn Exchange £5 Live for 5
8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm) Age guidance 14+
£17 / £15 (members & concessions)
Comedian George Egg (aka the ‘Anarchist Cook’) returns
Best known as lead vocalist with Steeleye Span, with a brand new show demonstrating more live cooking
Maddy has one of the finest folk voices this country has and laugh-out-loud comedy. This show sees George
ever produced. relocate to the garden shed where his imagination and
Over the years, she has worked with some stand-out resourcefulness lead him to build an improvised kitchen. It’s
musicians and to that noted list she now adds Hannah funny, inspiring and absurd in equal measure. Expect power
James and Giles Lewin (Bellowhead / Carnival Band). The tools, gardening equipment and office supplies to be re-
trio will be performing songs from their recent album as purposed and abused. Expect lots of laughs. Expect to learn
well as highlights from Maddy’s career – all presented something new. And you get to taste the food at the end.
in a daring acoustic style that perfectly showcases her ‘Trust us, you won’t believe how good the food tastes’
wonderful voice. The Scotsman
4 Dorchester Arts The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1HF
Tom Thumb
Lyngo Theatre
Sunday 6 May
FAMILY THEATRE – Corn Exchange
11.30am & 2.30pm
(refreshments half an hour before performance)
£8 / £6 members & concessions / £25 family ticket
(max. 2 adults). Age guidance: 3+
One night, tiny Tom overhears Mum and Dad talking -
there’s nothing left to eat so they are going to leave him
and his six brothers in the forest! Outwitting his parents
and the ogre, Tom shows everybody that even though he is
small he is still mighty: he protects his brothers, finds the
treasure and makes sure they’ll never be hungry again.
Performed entirely on and under a kitchen table, this wee
wonder of a show is full of Lyngo magic with feathery
spinning birds, a flying house and a portable forest. CBeebies
Patrick Lynch, who has been performing it for more than a
decade, brings this classic story to life in a fascinating show.
Also at Bridport Arts Centre.
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Michael Morpurgo’s Dorchestra and the
Out of the Ashes Quangle Wangle
City of Light Theatre Singers
Wednesday 9 May Sunday 13 May
FAMILY THEATRE – Corn Exchange CLASSICAL MUSIC – Corn Exchange
7pm (refreshments 6.30pm) 3.30pm (doors & refreshments 3pm)
£10 / £8 members & concessions / £32 family ticket FREE (donations welcome in aid of Dorchester Arts and
(max. 2 adults) the Dorchester Maltings project)
Age guidance: 9+ and adults
Dorchester’s Community Orchestra, Dorchestra, and
Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, Out of the Weymouth-based vocalists, the Quangle Wangle Singers
Ashes is the story of farm girl Becky’s experiences on led by Juliet Harwood, are joining forces this summer for
her family farm in Devon during the outbreak of foot and a special concert.
mouth disease across the UK. We relive these momentous
events in British rural life through the memories recorded in The concert will include a variety of pieces to set your feet
Becky’s diary. The story features the birth of her first lamb tapping and your heart singing. Pieces featuring Choir and
(Little Josh), her glorious rides with Ruby the horse, and the Orchestra will include Fantasia on British Sea Songs by
gradual spread of the disease from hundreds of miles away Henry Wood, Lewis Bridal Song, and YMCA as well as solo
to her doorstep. Becky’s diary is brought to life on stage items by Dorchestra and the Quangle Wangle Singers.
through heartfelt storytelling and beautiful staging. This promises to be an excellent Sunday afternoon’s treat,
Proud to support the complete with tea and cake after the performance.
Summer Season of Drama
6 Dorchester Arts The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1HF
The Immigrant Stacey Kent
Wednesday 16 May I Know I Dream
THEATRE – Corn Exchange Wednesday 23 May
8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm) JAZZ – Corn Exchange
£13 / £11 members & concessions / £5 Live for 5 8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm)
The Immigrant is a hilarious and heartwarming slapstick £23 / £21 members & concessions
comedy inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s film of the same Grammy-nominated vocalist Stacey Kent returns to
name. Based on hundreds of accounts of what it is Dorchester for a very special show, featuring music from
like to come to live in an unfamiliar culture, actor and her latest album I Know I Dream.
clown Chris Michael’s new show is about trying to fit in
when you stand out. It may be funny, but it also has real This beautiful collection of songs includes American
relevance to the present day: exactly one hundred years Standards, Bossa Nova classics, Chansons and original
after the release of Chaplin’s film, the US passed the songs, including numbers co-written by Nobel Prize-winning
most controversial immigration policy in recent history… author Kazuo Ishiguro, whose songwriting partnership with
Stacey has formed an essential plank of her work. Stacey’s
The show is fully accessible for deaf audiences. international touring schedule keeps her on the road for
‘Beautifully timed buffoonery…skills honed to perfection’ most of the year, so her return to Dorchester provides a rare
The Oxford Times opportunity for UK fans see her in concert.
‘She has charm to burn, a smile that could give you hope
Proud to support the in February and sings like nobody’s business’
Summer Season of Drama The Wall Street Journal
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Following Call Mr
Paul Robeson
Robeson’s – A Life
Footsteps WITH
On The SONGS
Journey To
Justice
Tayo Aluko Tayo Aluko
Wednesday 23 May Thursday 24 May
TALK – Shire Hall THEATRE / MUSIC – Corn Exchange
7.30pm 8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm)
£6 £13 / £11 / £5 Live for 5
Combined talk and Call Mr Robeson tickets £18 / £15 Combined talk and show ticket £18 / £15 members &
members & concessions concessions
Nigerian-born Tayo Aluko originally trained as an When Paul Robeson gets too radical and outspoken for the
architect, until a chance conversation led to him discover establishment’s liking, he is branded a traitor to his country,
the story of American actor, singer and civil rights is harassed and denied opportunities to perform or travel.
campaigner Paul Robeson. It was a moment that would This roller-coaster journey in words and music through
send him on a very different life path: one that has taken Robeson’s remarkable life highlights how his pioneering
him around the world with his play Call Mr Robeson, and heroic political activism led many to describe him as
including a visit to Dorchester in 2011. the forerunner of the civil rights movement. It features some
In this presentation linked to the play, Aluko seeks to famous songs (including a dramatic rendition of Ol’ Man
explain how better-known civil-rights figures are following River), speeches, and a spectacularly defiant testimony to
in Robeson’s own footsteps. With recent developments in the Senate House Un-American Activities Committee.
America and elsewhere, the journey’s end still remains Also at Bridport Arts Centre
elusive, and he asks, ‘which way now?’
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Includes songs and pictures. Summer Season of Drama
8 Dorchester Arts The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1HF
Chris Dunseath Dorchester Arts Open Prizewinner’s Solo Exhibition Wednesday 23 May – Friday 8 June VISUAL ARTS – Duke’s Gallery, Brewery Square Mon-Fri: 9am-5.30pm Sat 2nd June only: 10am-3pm Closed Monday May 28th The selectors of Dorchester Arts Open 2017 awarded sculptor Chris Dunseath the prize of a solo exhibition at the Gallery at Duke’s. The exhibition forms part of Dorset Arts Weeks 2018 (Venue 205). The show features a selection of current and earlier sculptures and drawings in a variety of materials including bronze, stone, wood and paper. Chris grew up in the West Country and studied Art at Yeovil and Cheltenham, followed by postgraduate studies at The Slade. He has recently won a number of high profile awards, including the Wilson Award in ‘The Open West’, Cheltenham. He is an Academician of the Royal West of England Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors. He has worked in various national and international collections including Arts Council England and The Royal Collection. Box Office 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk Dorchester Arts @DorchesterArts Dorchester_Arts 9
Persuasion Stones and Bones
Theatre6 Squashbox Theatre
Wednesday 30 May Thursday 31 May
THEATRE – Corn Exchange FAMILY THEATRE – Corn Exchange
8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm) 11am & 1.30pm (doors half an hour before performance)
£13 / £11 members & concessions / £5 Live for 5 £8 / £6 members & concessions / £25 family ticket
Theatre6’s world premiere of Jane Austen’s final novel (max. 2 adults). Age guidance: 5+
adapted for the stage by Stephanie Dale (known to many Squashbox delighted audiences here with their Christmassy
through her links with Dorchester’s Community Plays) and Christmas... show, and return with a marvellous mix of
directed by Theatre6’s Kate McGregor (who also directed history and mystery! Find out about archaeology and
the 2016 tour of Sue Wylie’s Kinetics). Filled with live fossils, say hello to one of your stone-age ancestors, hear
music, drama, laughter and romance from a cast of actors stories of giants and wizards, see a volcano erupting before
and musicians, Theatre6’s Persuasion is not to be missed. your eyes, and maybe even glimpse a dinosaur or two...
On previous Theatre6 shows Gabriel and The Scottsboro Boys: There’ll be thrills and spills galore, but also laughs, plenty
‘A rewarding, haunting evening’ The Telegraph of puppets, songs, slapstick, tall tales and crazy characters
‘A show that boasts a brilliant ensemble’ The Guardian – all presented in that unique Squashbox style!
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10 Dorchester Arts The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1HFCalan Thursday 31 May FOLK MUSIC – Corn Exchange 8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm) £16 / £14 / £5 Live for 5 Fiddles, guitar, accordion, bagpipes and step dancing explode into life! Introducing the world to a new generation of Welsh music, Calan are full of infectious rhythms and high energy routines. A fresh and vibrant sound with a pounding beat set against a backdrop of old traditions. ‘...a diverse ride between giddy Welsh reeling, healthy acoustic folk-pop with upfront attitude and brashness of youth.’ fROOTS ‘Folk just got a kick up of the Noughties...stunning use of instrumentation, gorgeously crafted songs, sprightly foot- tappers, verve and raw excitement’ Belfast Telegraph Box Office 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk Dorchester Arts @DorchesterArts Dorchester_Arts 11
Midsummer Madness An Evening with
Carnival Costume Workshop Sunny Ormonde
Friday 1 June Friday 1 June
JOIN IN – Corn Exchange / Town Hall ENTERTAINMENT – Corn Exchange
2pm-4pm 8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm)
In readiness for Dorchester’s Carnival, this workshop £14 / £12 members & concessions
will give participants suggestions, help and a selection Sunny has been playing the ‘outrageous and raunchy Lilian
of materials needed to put their crazy costume and cart Bellamy’ in Radio 4’s The Archers for the past 17 years.
ideas into practice. Dorchester has a long and fascinating She has become one of the listeners’ favourite characters
story to tell and this workshop is a chance to reflect on and her romantic and reckless antics have kept the nation
this story and have fun with it. gripped and entertained. Dancing in and out of Lilian’s
character with ease, Sunny serves up a delight of anecdotes,
‘Midsummer Madness is an opportunity to see the funny banter, behind the scenes secrets and favourite pieces from
side, to take the mickey, to lampoon our story. Life is too her long and distinguished acting career, including Shirley
often a serious business but, for one day at least, let’s Valentine and Under Milk Wood. PLUS a Q&A session with a
focus on its craziness, its colour, its confusion and its prize for the most original Archers question.
comic possibilities.’
Alistair Chisholm, Dorchester Town Crier You don’t have to be an Archers listener to enjoy this highly
entertaining evening: there is something for everyone!
12 Dorchester Arts The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1HFTenebrae
Spanish Glories of the 16th
Century
Saturday 2 June
CLASSICAL MUSIC – St Mary’s Church
7pm (doors and refreshments 6.30pm)
£25 / £23 members & concessions
Described as ‘phenomenal’ (The Times) and ‘devastatingly
beautiful’ (Gramophone Magazine), award-winning choir
Tenebrae, under the direction of Nigel Short, is one of the
world’s leading vocal ensembles renowned for its passion
and precision.
The concert features their BBC Music Magazine award-
winning interpretation of Victoria’s Requiem Mass,
published in 1605. This masterpiece is one of a handful
of large-scale works which enjoys mainstream appeal
in the 21st century and is, for many, the epitome of
Renaissance polyphony. The programme also features
a selection from Victoria’s Tenebrae Responsories and
Lamentations for Holy Saturday and the captivating Versa
Est in Luctum by his contemporary Alonso Lobo.
Tenebrae workshop
JOIN IN – Town Hall
12-2pm
£5
An amazing opportunity to work with Tenebrae’s Artistic
Director, Nigel Short, at a very accessible price. After the
workshop participants can observe the full ensemble in
Photo: Chris O’Donovan
rehearsal for the evening concert in St Mary’s Church.
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The HandleBards Friday 8 June
Sunday 3 June MUSIC – Corn Exchange
OUTDOOR THEATRE – Maumbury Rings 8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm)
7.30pm (refreshments from 6.30pm). Bring a chair. £12 / £10 members & concessions
£13 / £11 / £40 family ticket (max. 2 adults) This six-piece folk/punk band hail from Bournemouth
This unique cycling theatre company had us all rolling and their energetic, stout quaffing, banjo breaking, tin
with laughter during last summer’s outdoor theatre whistle-mangling live shows are the stuff of local legend,
season and they return by popular demand with their not least as a result of their rip-roaring appearances at
‘seriously silly’ production of Romeo and Juliet. As Beerex and Maumbury Rings Music Day.
usual, they will be pedaling to us by bicycle with all the With a high octane performance style and strong
necessary set, props and costume in tow. Expect riotous influences from Flogging Molly, The Rumjacks, The
amounts of energy, a fair old whack of chaos, and a great Dreadnoughts, The Pogues and The Levellers what is
deal of laughter. Join the HandleBards’ all-female troupe there to not like about Black Water County?
in the beautiful setting of Maumbury Rings for Romeo and
‘A strong dual vocal, multi-instrumentation and an almost
Juliet as you’ve never seen it before!
swashbuckling attitude to stage presence.’
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14 Dorchester Arts The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1HFDYT Juniors &
Wuthering Heights Intermediates
Thursday 14 & Friday 15 June
Hotbuckle Theatre YOUTH THEATRE – Corn Exchange
Saturday 9 June 8pm 6.30pm (doors 6pm)
£7.50 Adults / £4 Under 18s / £5 Live for 5
Sunday 10 June 3pm
THEATRE – Corn Exchange DYT Junior and Intermediate groups present a double bill.
Doors half an hour before each performance Ella by Robert Reed
£13 / £11 members & concessions Ella doesn’t want to go to the ball: she’d much rather
‘Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the attend the football trials for Fairy Tale F.C. Unfortunately,
same’. Hotbuckle Theatre brought their unique magic to her cruel stepmother, Oksana, has seen to it that poor Ella
Dorchester with Far From The Madding Crowd in 2017 and can’t leave the house that evening...
return with this powerful and emotional story. When Cathy’s Kenneth Graham’s Wind in The Willows adapted for
father brings home an orphaned Heathcliff, the effect will the stage by Mike Kenny
echo for generations. Emily Bronte’s only novel is a timeless Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad explore the Wild Wood... An
Gothic classic of passionate love, revenge and despair. amateur production in association with Nick Hern Books.
‘Perfect theatre with seemingly no effort at all’
BBC Radio Shropshire
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Gregorian
Chant
workshop
John Rowlands
Pritchard
Saturday
16 June
JOIN IN
St Peter’s Church
10am-5pm
£15, to include refreshments The Producers
Put Out Into The Deep: Chant For St Peter, Apostle Friday 22 June
And Fisherman Blues – Corn Exchange
8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm)
This workshop is a chance to experience Gregorian chant £14 / £12 members & concessions
in a friendly context. The course is open to all: women and
men, singers and non-singers. Beginners are encouraged Over more than 25 years and thirteen albums the
to join, together with experienced singers. The work will be Producers have gigged their version of the blues round
structured around the traditional Benedictine monastic hour the clubs, theatres and festival of the world and have
services recited mainly in English. become firm favourites in Dorchester.
The day will conclude with an informal performance of a The band are really something special and have
sequence of chant with readings, followed by Compline. retained their freshness and originality through their
Come along and join in an entertaining, friendly, various changes of line-up. Not content with playing
informative and enjoyable experience. predictable covers and ‘hand-me-down’ American
music, their sets effortlessly combine original songs and
seriously reinvigorated classics stamped with their own
characteristic identity.
16 Dorchester Arts The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1HFMorrish & Banham is a new modern, innovative Wine Merchant and Tasting Room located in
the vibrant Brewery Square development. We offer a comprehensive, eclectic range of hand
selected wines from the classic regions as well as the rising stars and iconic bottles from the
new wine world and fantastic Dorset wines, ales, ciders and spirits.
Come and see us to enjoy many of our wines by the glass in-store on a rotating, seasonal
basis with local artisan charcuterie and cheeses on offer to compliment your choice. We offer
regular tasting events and host private in-store tastings to suit your budget and tastes.
Join our mailing list at www.morrishandbanham.com to learn of our upcoming events for
the Summer!
Morrish & Banham
1 Pope Street, Brewery Square, Dorchester, DT1 1GW | Telephone: 01305 261 480
Email: mark@morrishandbanham.com | www.morrishandbanham.com
@morrishbanham Morrishandbanham
Opening Hours: Monday-Thursday 10.00-18.00; Friday-Saturday 10.00-20.00; Sunday - Closed
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Norwich Puppet Theatre Oddly Moving / Turtle Key Arts
Saturday 23 June Sunday 24 June
FAMILY THEATRE – Corn Exchange THEATRE / CIRCUS – Corn Exchange
11.30am & 2.30pm (doors half an hour before performance) 7.30pm (doors & bar 7pm)
£8 / £6 / £25 family ticket (max. 2 adults) £13 / £11 members & concessions
Puppet Theatre for children aged 3-7 and their families. Performer Grania Pickard tells the story of growing
Running Time: 45 mins. up with her disabled autistic brother Sean using
When the Pied Piper plays his flute the rats run, the greedy physical theatre, aerial circus, audience interaction and
mayor rubs his hands and the children dance... Norwich storytelling. Through puppetry, the audience see how
Puppet Theatre’s humorous and irresistible one person show Sean walks, talks and interacts with the world and how
combines a skillful mix of puppetry, foot-tapping music and his unique take on life has shaped and influenced Grania.
storytelling. They will have both young and old entranced. ‘An incredibly poignant and intimate portrayal of sibling
‘Every aspect of this show was of the highest quality, love. You have to see Grania in action: she is a highly
the story was well told, the actor was engaging and the skilled circus performer, storyteller and connector, lighting
puppets were wonderful’ Eve Stebbing, Eastern Daily Press up the entire stage.’ LucyLovesCircus
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18 Dorchester Arts The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1HFAdam Kay: This is Going to Hurt Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor Thursday 28 June COMEDY – Corn Exchange 8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm) £15 / £13 members & concessions Comedian Adam Kay reads from his diaries as a junior doctor in this ‘electrifying’ (Guardian) evening of stand-up and music, which was an absolute sell-out at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 & 2017 and Soho Theatre 2017. The accompanying book, This is Going to Hurt, is a Sunday Times bestseller – and copies will be available to purchase and for signature after the performance. Box Office 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk Dorchester Arts @DorchesterArts Dorchester_Arts 19
The Trumpet Major Friday 29 June
Max Gate, Dorchester, 7.30pm
by Thomas Hardy Sat 30 June
New Hardy Players Watercombe House, nr. Owermoigne, 2.30pm
Friday 6 July
Lulworth Cove, 7.30pm
Sunday 8 July
Bridehead House, Littlebredy, 2.30pm
Friday 13 July
Cerne Rectory, Cerne Abbas, 7.30pm
Sunday 15 July
Kingston Maurward College (part of the Thomas Hardy
Society Conference and Festival), 7.30pm
THEATRE
£12.50 / £6.50 U18s and low income
The New Hardy Players return with a spectacular Georgian
entertainment in evocative outdoor locations in Dorset.
Bring along a picnic and enjoy Thomas Hardy’s historical
romance ‘The Trumpet Major’ in a colourful new production
directed by Tim Laycock with Penny Levick. Featuring
Harlequinade dancers from Dorchester Ballet directed by
Lucy Bishop, newly composed music by Alastair Simpson,
and country entertainments for all to enjoy.
With a host of colourful characters, and set against the
background of the threat of invasion, the Battle of Trafalgar
and the glowering presence of Old Boney (Napoleon
Bonaparte), this is rollicking and richly comic adaptation
was first performed by the Hardy Players in 1908,
resurrected by Dorchester Drama in 1978, and is now
brought up to date by the New Hardy Players - don’t miss it!
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DYT Performance Co. presents Martin James
Forty-Five Minutes Bartlett
by Anya Reiss Thursday 5 July (rescheduled date)
CLASSICAL MUSIC – Corn Exchange
Thursday 5 July 8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm)
YOUTH THEATRE – Corn Exchange
£15 / £13 / £5 Live for 5
7.30pm (doors 7pm)
£7.50 adults / £4 under 18s / £5 Live for 5 Martin James Bartlett impressed us with his superb
This play contains strong language, suitable for Age 16+ musicianship in 2016 at the Corn Exchange. He returns
by popular demand with a new programme including
The deadline was wrong so now there’s forty-five minutes
works by Bach, Schuman, Chopin and Beethoven. Having
until the bell goes and the UCAS forms must be sent and
won BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2014, Bartlett has
futures secured. A thought provoking, funny play that
gone on to perform with major orchestras in the UK and
many parents of sixth form students can relate to!
Europe and in 2017 was a finalist at the prestigious Van
Cliburn Competition in the USA.
The concert will open with a short performance by
Hannah McFarlane, a tremendously talented young cellist
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from Dorchester.
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Friday 6 July
MUSIC – Corn Exchange
Quartet
8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm) Thursday 12 July
£13 / £11 / £5 Live for 5 CLASSICAL MUSIC – Corn Exchange
1pm (doors 12.30pm)
Moscow Drug Club inhabit a curious and wonderful Free (donations welcome)
musical place where 1930s’ Berlin Cabaret, Hot Club de
Jennifer Curiel (violin), Pasha Willis (viola), Sally Flann (cello),
France, Nuevo Tango & Gypsy Campfire meet, and where
Peter Oakes (piano) with Elizabeth Drew (clarinet)
Django Reinhardt & Tom Waits are having an after-hours
jam with the local Tziganes. Combining their original Programme:
material with songs by the likes of Jacques Brel, Leonard Bartok Contrasts (for violin, clarinet and piano)
Cohen & Bertolt Brecht, they provide an intoxicating & Mozart Piano Quartet in E flat major, K493
intimate musical experience. The Dorchester Piano Quartet return for the second of
their regular visits to Dorchester Arts. They will be joined
You are cordially invited to share a wry smile with us as for the first time by Elizabeth Drew, one of the regular
you enter the darkly comic world of Moscow Drug Club… members of Kokoro, the contemporary music ensemble
this way please & mind the stairs! of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Bartok’s Contrasts was commissioned by American
clarinettist Benny Goodman. Mozart wrote the Piano Quartet
in E flat major, K493 at the height of his powers in 1786.
22 Dorchester Arts The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1HFSummert ime Sessions
Crafty Dinosaurs!
Thursday 31 May
Town Hall
Storytelling
Through Dance
Thurdsay 26 July
Corn Exchange
Love Parks Day
Wednesday 25 July
Borough Gardens
Comic Chaos with
Arts2Educate
Tuesday 14 August
Town Hall
Go to www.dorchesterarts.org.uk for more info...
Don’t forget to look out for us this summer and come and join in with some creative sessions and workshops...
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Miracle Theatre
Friday 13 July
OUTDOOR THEATRE – Maumbury Rings
7.30pm (refreshments from 6.30pm)
Mark Thomas: £13 / £11 members & concessions
£40 family ticket (max. 2 adults). Bring a chair.
Check Up - our NHS @70 The ever-popular Miracle Theatre make a welcome return,
this time unpacking Chekhov’s bittersweet comedy about
(work in progress) a once-wealthy family, whose idleness and extravagance
Thursday 12 July have brought them to the brink of bankruptcy. They are
COMEDY – Corn Exchange deaf to the rumblings of change which surrounds them,
7.30pm (doors & bar 7pm) and unable to accept help when they need it. Will it take
£11 a revolution to destroy their cosy world of privilege and
entitlement – or will their own stupidity be enough?
Mark Thomas is 54, the NHS is 70, UK national average
life expectancy is 84. If Mark makes it to 84 the NHS will Over nearly 40 years of touring, Miracle Theatre have
be 100: what will they both look like? Based on a series developed a superb reputation for producing entertaining
of interviews with leading experts in and on the NHS and and dynamic adaptations of classic plays as well as
residencies in hospitals and surgeries and with director brilliant original work.
Nicolas Kent, Thomas uses his own demise to explore the Adapted & Directed by Bill Scott.
state we’re in. What’s going wrong in our NHS, how it can
Proud to support the
go right and what the future might hold for all of us. Summer Season of Drama
24 Dorchester Arts The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1HFGeno Washington and A Portrait of Tess /
the Ram Jam Band Mr Hardy’s War
In association with The Thomas
Saturday 14 July Hardy Society
MUSIC – Corn Exchange
8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm) Monday 16 July
£20 / £18 members & concessions THEATRE – Corn Exchange
Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band produced two 7.30pm (doors & bar 7.00pm)
of the monster Soul albums of the 1960s: Hand Clappin’ £12 / £10 members & concessions / £5 Live for 5
Foot Stompin’ Funky Butt Live and Hipsters Flipsters Thomas Hardy’s relationship with the remarkable
and Finger Poppin’ Daddies. Their supercharged live Thornycroft family in peace and war. From his friendship
performances became the stuff of legend. with the sculptor Hamo Thornycroft and his beautiful
wife Agatha, a model for Tess of the d’Urbervilles, to
Geno has continued to tour and record ever since. He has his war service in London and Dorchester, his personal
lost none of his magic, and he and his top-class band family tragedy, his poetry and his influence on the young
deliver a blistering set of Soul classics in a barnstorming Siegfried Sassoon (himself a Thornycroft). Featuring Tim
live show that never lets up in intensity or excitement. Laycock, Alistair Chisholm, Andrew and Marilyn Leah.
They deliver the goods every time! Proud to support the
Summer Season of Drama
Box Office 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk Dorchester Arts @DorchesterArts Dorchester_Arts 25Mat Ricardo v The
World
Thursday 19 July
COMEDY / ENTERTAINMENT – Corn Exchange
8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm)
£13 / £11 members & concessions
Age guidance: 10+
Cabaret star and juggler Mat Ricardo had a problem: after a
30-year career as the go-to guy for jaw-dropping dexterity,
he’d run out of new tricks. So he did something stupid. He
bet everyone in the world that he could learn any trick they
could think of. This new show is the result of that bet.
World-class juggling, magic and illusion, escapology,
sleight of hand, knife throwing, stand-up comedy, feats of
strength, demonstrations of dexterity…and the only good
trick that exists with a fidget spinner, all from a performer
at the top of his game.
★★★★★ ‘Brilliant’ The Herald
★★★★ ‘Captivating’ The Scotsman
‘Very funny’ The Guardian
26 Dorchester Arts The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1HFHosted by Dorchester Community Plays Association
(DCPA) with Dorchester Arts
Different Stages
National Community Theatre
Conference and Evening Social
Saturday 15 September
Town Hall, The Corn Exchange, Dorchester DT1 1HF
Conference 11.30am – 6pm
Social event 7.30pm – 10pm
£25 delegates day and evening
£5 evening
£15 students day and evening (limited availability)
Celebrating and challenging the craft and legacy of Ann
Jellicoe, DCPA Honorary Life President (1927-2017)
Led by Stephanie Dale, playwright for the 7th Dorchester
Community Play, Spinning the Moon
Key speakers:
David Edgar - one of the UK’s leading political playwrights
Jon Oram - Artistic Director of Claque Theatre (formerly For Registration details, expressions of interest and
Colway Theatre Trust) advance bookings please contact:
Dorchester Arts: 01305 266926 /
If you have experienced the joy and enrichment of enquires@dorchesterarts.org.uk
participating in community drama, you will enjoy Anne Jonathan: 01305 269510 /
this opportunity to come together with well known bannejonathan14@gmail.com
practitioners and explore ways to ensure the future of
community plays and theatre in the current difficult
funding climate.
Box Office 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk Dorchester Arts @DorchesterArts Dorchester_Arts 27Courtney Pine London’s Barbican in March 2017 and was followed by a
major UK tour and an album of the same name.
featuring Omar Multi-instrumentalist Courtney Pine CBE is a BBC Jazz
Black Notes From The Deep Awards and MOBO winner and Mercury Music Prize
nominee. Omar, best known for the 1992 hit single
Friday 20 July There’s Nothing Like This, has a truly unique and
JAZZ – Corn Exchange instantly recognisable ‘signature’ vocal sound and has
8pm (doors and bar 7.30pm) collaborated with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu,
£25 / £23 members & concessions Carleen Anderson and Angie Stone.
An amazing opportunity to catch British jazz legend Don’t miss this very special concert bringing together two
Courtney Pine up close and personal as he returns to of the UK’s finest jazz and soul talents.
Dorchester, this time in the company of UK soul star Omar.
‘In a Class of His Own’ The Times
The Black Notes From The Deep project, where Courtney ‘Courtney Pine was one hailed as the saviour of British
returns to the tenor saxophone for the first time in Jazz...he still is’ The Independent
a decade, was launched with a sold out concert at ‘Nothing short of breath-taking’ The Telegraph
28 Dorchester Arts The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1HFJohn Mills
with The Archaeus String Quartet
Sunday 22 July
CLASSICAL MUSIC – Corn Exchange
3pm (doors & refreshments 2.30pm) The Time Machine
£14 / £12 members & concessions Dyad Productions
Dorchester Arts’ favourite John Mills returns with the Friday 27 July
Archaeus String Quartet to play Vivaldi, Cherubini, THEATRE – Corn Exchange
Ravel and Argentinian guitar masters. John is the only 8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm)
remaining pupil of one of the greatest guitar plays of the £14 / £12 / £5 Live for 5
20th century, Segovia, to be performing in public. For
many he is ‘the guitarists’ guitarist’. Dyad Productions impressed us last autumn with Jane
Eyre: An Autobiography. They return this summer with
The Archaeus quartet have a 27 year history of appearing a radical new interpretation of the HG Wells classic
at prestige venues such as the Wigmore Hall and Purcell The Time Machine, in which a Victorian time traveller
Room, and recording the music of interesting, yet often transcends the ages from 1900 to our own far future
neglected composers such as Leonard Salzedo, York – from the fall of man to the end of the world. Can we
Bowen, Cyril Scott and Ethel Smyth. change the future? Or has the end already begun?
If you like the Four Seasons you will love the Vivaldi ★★★★★ ‘Outstanding… Amazing… Magic’
concerto being played in this concert, and the tunefulness Edinburgh Southside Advertiser
of the Guitar Quintet by Boccherini. All this comes with
the contrasting elegance of Ravel and the rhythms of the Proud to support the
Summer Season of Drama
Argentinian guitar masters De Gese, Crespo, and Morel.
Box Office 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk Dorchester Arts @DorchesterArts Dorchester_Arts 29A Summer Sunday Manor at the kind invitation of Minette and Alec Walters.
This year we welcome Bowjangles - a multi-talented
with Bowjangles musical quartet with a difference, in that they dance,
sing, leap, tumble, juggle and joke whilst they play…so
Sunday 29 July prepare to be astounded!
FUNDRAISER – Whitcombe Manor
12 noon
Your ticket includes a complimentary glass of bubbly,
£25
delicious canapes and plenty of tea and cake – a
Our summer season would not be complete without this perfectly pleasurable summer afternoon.
popular event, traditionally held at beautiful Whitcombe
30 Dorchester Arts The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1HFMuch Ado About Nothing. Set against the backdrop of November 1918, the
end of The Great War, Don Pedro and his comrades are
Nothing coming at last to Messina (a little known village on the
edge of the Cotswolds) where they are met by friends, old
Rain or Shine Theatre and new.
Thursday 9 August
OUTDOOR THEATRE – Maumbury Rings Dig out your hampers and load up your picnic bags for
7pm (refreshments from 6pm) this treat of outdoor theatre, as the people of Messina
£13 / £11 members & concessions / £40 family ticket find love, scupper mischievous plots and celebrate new
(max. 2 adults). Bring a chair. found peace across the world!
Join Rain or Shine this summer as they interpret one of Proud to support the
Shakespeare’s best loved comedies, Much Ado About Summer Season of Drama
Box Office 01305 266926 www.dorchesterarts.org.uk Dorchester Arts @DorchesterArts Dorchester_Arts 31Rustle Elles Bailey
Paddleboat Theatre Friday 31 August
Thursday 23 August (rescheduled date)
OUTDOOR THEATRE – Maumbury Rings BLUES – Corn Exchange
2pm (refreshments from 1pm) 8pm (doors & bar 7.30pm)
£8 / £6 members & concessions / £25 family ticket £15 / £13 members & concessions
(max. 2 adults)
Elles Bailey impressed Dorchester audiences so much
Age guidance 3+
when she opened for Jo Harman at the Corn Exchange
PaddleBoat Theatre Company invites you help set up in spring 2017 that she now makes a welcome return
camp so that we can tell the greatest campfire story with her own show. Elles has a talent for crafting and
ever told: where sleeping bags evolve into monsters, seamlessly weaving rootsy blues, country and soulful rock,
rucksacks become friends and torches highlight the with a contemporary edge. What’s more, fate has blessed
forest’s closest secrets. her with a ‘smoky vocal’ style that perfectly fits her music.
Join us for an interactive family adventure jam-packed Elles will be supported on the night by Lady Nade, a blues,
with puppets, songs and outdoor surprises. roots, soul and folk-influenced singer-songwriter from Bristol.
Proud to support the ‘Every song is fresh and original’
Summer Season of Drama
Maverick Magazine 5/5 ★★★★★
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Join In
Dorchestra Community
Orchestra
Dorchestra is a welcoming community orchestra for those
Pop Club who are learning an instrument or brushing up on existing
skills. Meeting once a fortnight on Sunday afternoons,
A fantastic opportunity for young people to Catherine the conductor guides players through a vast
discover and experience live music performance. Each array of notes working towards public concerts each year.
week Pop Club members get the chance to engage in If you are learning an instrument or picking up an instrument
a wide variety of musical workshops and perform using long neglected in the attic you are very welcome to come
a sound system, under the guidance of music producer along to the next rehearsal to hear more. Rehearsal times are
Mickey Wills. Pop Club also plays live at gigs and festivals 2:45 – 5pm with a tea break and the cost is £25 per term.
throughout the year.
Term dates: April 15, 29, May 13.
Saturdays at Dorchester Corn Exchange, 10:15 for a Concert: Sunday 13 May with the Quangle Wangle singers
10:30 start. at the Corn Exchange at 3.30pm (free entry, donations
May 5, 12, 19, June 2, 9, 16, 23, Jul 7, 14. welcome in aid of Dorchester Arts and the Dorchester
Gigs: June 16 (Mid Summer Madness), June 23 (Chesil Maltings project)
Rocks Festival). Dorchestra reconvenes on Sunday 2nd September.
£60 per term (sibling discount available and a limited
See p6 for details of Dorchestra and the Quangle Wangle
number of bursaries available on application)
Singers at The Corn Exchange on Sunday 13 May.
Contact Dorchester Arts on 01305 266926 or email
enquiries@dorchesterarts.org.uk for details on how Contact Catherine Oakley on
to join. catherineoakley@btinternet.com or tel. 07747 842992
34 Dorchester Arts The Corn Exchange, High East Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1HFDorchester Youth Theatre
DYT is for young people who have a passion for theatre
and are interested in performing. It is led by Youth
Theatre Director Jo Simons, using improvisation, games
and devised scenarios.
Drama and role-play help develop children’s social
and emotional well-being as well as their creative and
critical abilities. Held at Dorchester Corn Exchange.
Primary, Juniors, Intermediates and Senior Company:
Spring Term: Monday 16 April - Monday 9 July
(not including 7 May Bank Holiday & 28 May Half Term)
MT@DYT:
Parkinson’s Dance Spring Term: Wednesday 18 April - Wednesday 27 June
Corn Exchange (Not including 30 May Half Term) NO session on 13 June
£4 - Carers are invited to join in free of charge due to Junior/Intermediate show
A fun class with therapeutic benefits and movement
specifically designed for the symptoms of Parkinson’s. Performance Company:
Specially developed to be fun, stimulating, motivating and Spring Term: Thursday 19 April - Thursday 12 July (Not
challenging, these sessions support the improvement of including 31 May Half Term)
balance, coordination and suppleness. Sessions are led NO session on 14 June due to Junior/Intermediate show
by trained specialists and will be taught in a comfortable
and safe environment.
Tuesdays from 3.00-4.30pm Connect
May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, June 12, 19, 26, Connect is a series of theatre and drama skill workshops
July 3, 10, 31, August 7, 14, 21, 28 that are fully accessible and are for people that want to
explore their creativity and are perfect for those with little or
Not sure if this is for you? Let us help you decide: have
no drama experience. Tuesdays 10.15am-12.00 (from May
your first class for free.
22) and Thursdays 10.15am-12.00 and is absolutely FREE!
Booking is not essential but if you require more
information please contact Contact Dorchester Arts for more
enquiries@dorchesterarts.org.uk or 01305 266926 information and workshop dates.
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Individual Membership: £20
Members are at the heart of our organisation and
Joint Membership: £30*
make a huge contribution to our aim of bringing
arts to the whole community. Life Membership £200
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May
Wed 2 Folk Music Maddy Prior in Concert with Hannah James and Giles Lewin 8.00pm CE
Thu 3 Comedy George Egg: DIY Chef 8.00pm CE
Sun 6 Family Theatre Tom Thumb (Lyngo Theatre) 11.30am & 2.30pm CE
Wed 9 Theatre / Family Theatre Michale Morpurgo’s Out of the Ashes (City of Light Theatre) 7.00pm CE
Sun 13 Classical Music Dorchestra and The Quangle Wangle Singers 3.30pm CE
Wed 16 Theatre The Immigrant (Chris Michael) 8.00pm CE
Wed 23 Jazz Stacey Kent: I Know I Dream 8.00pm CE
Wed 23 Talk Following Paul Robeson’s Footsteps on the Journey to Justice - Tayo Aluko 7.30pm SH
Thu 24 Theatre Call Mr Robeson (Tayo Aluko) 8.00pm CE
Wed 23-Sun 10 Jun Visual arts Chris Dunseath: Dorchester Arts Open Prizewinner’s Solo Exhibition See p.9 DG
Wed 30 Theatre Persuasion (Theatre6) 8.00pm CE
Thu 31 Family Theatre Stones and Bones (Squashbox Theatre) 11.00 & 1.30pm CE
Thu 31 Join in Crafty Dinosaurs! 2.45pm TH
Thu 31 Folk Music Calan 8.00pm CE
June
Fri 1 Join in Midsummer Madness: Carnival Costume Workshop 2.00pm TH
Fri 1 Entertainment An Evening with Sunny Ormonde (Lillian Bellamy from The Archers) 8.00pm CE
Sat 2 Classical Music Tenebrae: Spanish Glories of the 16th Century workshop 12 noon TH
Sat 2 Classical Music Tenebrae: Spanish Glories of the 16th Century concert 7.00pm SM
Sun 3 Outdoor Theatre Romeo and Juliet (The HandleBards) 7.30pm MR
Fri 8 Music Black Water County 8.00pm CE
Sat 9 & Sun 10 Theatre Wuthering Heights (Hotbuckle Theatre) 8.00pm Sat / 3.00pm Sun CE
Thu 14 & Fri 15 Youth theatre DYT Juniors & Intermediates: Ella / Wind in the Willows 6.30pm CE
Sat 16 Join in Sing Gregorian Chant Workshop 10am-5pm SP
Fri 22 Blues The Producers 8.00pm CE
Sat 23 Family Theatre Pied Piper (Norwich Puppet Theatre) 11.30am & 2.30pm CE
Sun 24 Theatre / Circus He Ain’t Heavy (Oddly Moving / Turtle Key Arts) 7.30pm CE
Thu 28 Comedy Adam Kay: This is Going to Hurt 8.00pm CE
Fri 29 - Sun 15 Jul Theatre The Trumpet Major (New Hardy Players) various times and locations, see p.20
July
Thu 5 Youth theatre DYT Performance Company Forty-Five Minutess 7.30pm TH
Thu 5 Classical music Martin James Bartlett, preceded by Hannah McFarlane (cello) 8.00pm CE
Fri 6 Music Moscow Drug Club 8.00pm CE
Thu 12 Classical Music Dorchester Piano Quartet 1.00pm CE
Thu 12 Comedy Mark Thomas: Check Up - our NHS @ 70 8.00pm CE
Fri 13 Outdoor Theatre The Cherry Orchard (Miracle Theatre) 7.30pm MR
Sat 14 Music Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band 8.00pm CE
Mon 16 Theatre Portrait of Tess / Mr Hardy’s War 7.30pm CE
Thu 19 Comedy / Entertainment Mat Ricardo v The World 8.00pm CE
Fri 20 Jazz Courtney Pine feat. Omar: Black Notes From The Deep 8.00pm CE
Sun 22 Classical Music John Mills with The Archaeus String Quartet 3.00pm CE
Wed 25 Join in Love Parks Day BG
Thu 26 Join In Storytelling Through Dance 10.00am TH
Fri 27 Theatre The Time Machine (Dyad Productions) 8.00pm CE
Sun 29 Fundraiser A Summer Sun with Bowjangles 12 noon WM
August
Thu 9 Outdoor Theatre Much Ado About Nothing (Rain or Shine Theatre) 7.00pm MR
Tue 14 Join In Comic Chaos 10.00am TH
Thu 23 Outdoor Theatre Rustle (Paddleboat Theatre) 2.00pm MR
Fri 31 Blues Elles Bailey 8.00pm CE
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