Bridport Arts Centre - What's On (Feb-May 2019)

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BOOKING INFORMATION

Booking is easy on our WEBSITE

The Box Office is open: 10am – 3pm Tue to Fri, 10am – 4pm Sat and one hour before an evening performance.

ONLINE

ACCESS

Booking online is an easy and secure way of getting the tickets that you want at a time convenient to you.

Book online 24 hours a day at bridport-arts.com.

We have a level access foyer, theatre and cafe.

Please advise us when booking tickets of any special requirements. The Allsop Gallery is accessible via a platform lift.

BY PHONE Call the Box Office on 01308 424204. We accept payment by most credit and debit cards. If your call is taken by the answerphone, please leave your telephone number and we will call back.

REFUNDS Bridport Arts Centre does not refund money for tickets.

RESERVATIONS We are happy to reserve tickets for one week, after this they will be deleted from the system. Please collect no later than 30 mins before the performance.

CAR PARKING The parking bay for disabled drivers is immediately outside the venue. Other visitors are advised to use the public car park on the left hand side further down South Street, leaving town.

RESTORATION LEVY A £1 Restoration Levy is included in the price of certain live shows. This goes towards the upkeep and maintenance of the Grade II listed building.

BOOKING FEE

CONCESSIONS

A £1.50 fee applies to all bookings, members are exempt from this charge.

Our concessionary rates apply to those in receipt of disability benefit, job seekers allowance or income support. Proof may be requested.

BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE IS SUPPORTED BY:

VISITING INFORMATION

Charity Number: 1069780

Address: Bridport Arts Centre, South Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3NR Phone: 01308 424204 Email: info@bridport-arts.com

SPECIAL PRICES & OFFERS MEMBER’S DISCOUNT AVAILABLE We are pleased to offer a 10% discount for members on all events where you see this symbol. See page 45 for information on becoming a member. Members are exempt from the booking fee.

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BAC STAGE PASS If you are aged 14-25 you can become a member for FREE and get discounts to a variety of events and see films for only £3! See page 43 for more information.

A limited number of £5 tickets are also available to live shows wherever you see this logo.

OPERA & BALLET SCREENINGS You can take 10% off when you book four or more tickets to our live screening programme, including all Met Opera and Royal Opera House performances.

FROM OUR DIRECTOR Welcome to the Spring season at Bridport Arts Centre. When programming, we don’t have a Winter season we aim for Spring, Summer and Autumn – all the happy colourful months!

Curtis is going to be running to raise money for the Arts Centre! 10 Half Marathons in 10 months. Show him your support and donate what you can here www.justgiving.com/bridportartscentre The Arts Centre is a registered charity and it’s only with your kind generosity that we can keep bringing arts and culture to your doorstep. see page 6

This brochure is jam packed with things for all. We are very excited that Philip Sutton has agreed to return to the Arts Centre this season with a very special exhibition on his work on William Shakespeare, the added events for this are still being programmed – so keep your eyes peeled for ‘Bard themed events and workshops’. Philip Sutton at 90, which was his last exhibition was the best attended exhibition on record at the Arts Centre, so it seemed a no-brainer to ask him to come back.

We have two excellent festivals – the return of the popular Page to Screen Film Festival (24 – 28 April), but also a first for Bridport – a Fashion Festival (4 – 10 March) full of talks, films and workshops.

I would just like to thank everyone who has supported the Arts Centre recently by not only buying tickets, by for your generous donations.

The Sponsor a Slate campaign is half way to its target, with only £2000 more to raise to do the work. If you would like to donate, look online or pop in to the Arts Centre to find out more.

Enjoy the season, I know I will!

Curtis Fulcher, Director Marketing and Sales Officer: Emma Foulsham Marketing Manager: Lisa Wilcock Finance Officer: Barry Armstrong-Marshall Operations Manager: Dee Fenton Gallery Technician & Caretaker: Bob Dron Development Assistant: Jane Stevens Administration Assistant: Tracey Stevenson Young Film Programmer: Blake Ford Film & Digital Technician: Isaac Reynolds Project Manager: Matthew Lawrenson

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LITERARY QUIZ Friday 1 Feb, 7pm

Tickets: £8 per person to include a curry super You probably know that the Arts Centre is a multi-arts venue. You might not know that we are a registered charity. The kind generosity of supporters like you, means that we can transform lives by providing creative opportunities.

Whenever you see this BACUs Sign you know that all of your money goes directly towards our ongoing programme of work and maintaining the Arts Centre for future generations.

Public investment from Arts Council England, West Dorset County Council and Bridport Town Council equates to less than 20% of our income.

Each year, with your help, we need to raise the vital funds necessary to continue our work within the community.

Do you know what the J.K. stands for in Rowling or the A.A. in Milne? Do you know when the clocks struck thirteen or when it was the best of times and the worst of times? Then come along to our literary quiz and pit your wits against fellow lovers or all things wordy. Prizes for the winners. Teams: maximum of six people.

18% Public investment 32% Ticket sales and theatre activity 4% Grants for community workshops 2% Visual arts 8% Raising funds from trading 13% Fundraised income 23% Bridport Prize Writing

competition fundraising If you would like to make a donation or arrange a fundraiser on behalf of Bridport Arts Centre please contact our Development Assistant jane@bridport-arts.com

SPONSOR A SLATE BUSINESS SUPPORTERS

Can you help us raise the £5,000 needed to replace the slates over the Allsop Gallery? These slates have been on the roof since the building opened as an Arts Centre in the 1970s, and things don’t last forever. You help us find the money needed by awarding the following: Half a Slate: £50 • Commemorative certificate of thanks • Invite to Exhibition and gallery launches

Full Slate: £100 • Name on a wall plaque hung in the gallery and exhibition space once the work has been completed • Commemorative certificate of thanks • Invite to Exhibition and gallery launches

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CARMEN Sunday 3 Feb, 6pm Tickets: £17/£14

Opéra Comique, Paris, 1875. Bizet’s masterpiece of the gypsy seductress who lives by her own rules has had an impact far beyond the opera house.

The opera’s melodic sweep is as irresistible as the title character herself, a force of nature who has become a defining female cultural figure. Carmen was a scandal at its premiere but soon after became a triumphal success and has remained one of the most frequently staged operas in the world.

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JACQUI DANKWORTH FEATURING CHARLIE WOOD

Saturday 9 Feb, 7.30pm Tickets: £20/£18

Multi award winning vocalist, Jacqui Dankworth, is joined by acclaimed American pianist-vocalist, Charlie Wood for a unique concert of duets celebrating a century of song.

LUKE JERMAY

Inspired by some of the great musical partnerships, such as Ray Charles & Betty Carter, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn, George & Ira Gershwin and Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway – the concert will feature numbers including: Alone Together, Autumn In New York, It Don't Mean a Thing, A Foggy Day, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and You've Got a Friend.

Tuesday 12 Feb, 7.30pm

“Had I not been sitting about three feet away from the action, I would have suspected some kind of electronic trickery because the arrangement was so complex, the timing so nifty and Ms Dankworth’s vocal control so exquisite" The Observer

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INTUITION

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Tickets: £15

Intuition is a strange thing and Luke Jermay is even stranger. Building on his acclaimed debut show ‘Sixth Sense’ entertainer Luke Jermay is back and better than ever with a brand new interactive stage show.

Jam packed with phenomenal jaw dropping demonstrations of intuition, telepathy and prediction; your mind will be read, your choices will be predicted and your future will be revealed.

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JERMAY PUTS US IN A STATE WHERE WE CAN WONDER WHETHER LIFE HAS MORE POSSIBILITIES THAN WE THOUGHT IT DID AN HOUR BEFORE” THE TIMES

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This will be a unique experience that is funny, entertaining, emotional, controversial, uplifting and insightful that you will never forget!

Please note: No spirit mediumship will be presented in “Intuition” and the show is suitable for those 14 years and older.

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Thursday 14 Feb, 7.30pm Tickets: £6/Concession £5/ Film & Meal tickets £20

Pre-film food 6.30pm, Film starts at 7.30pm Starring: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus Runs for: 2h 2m Subtitled Join us at Bridport Arts Centre for a special Valentines treat!

Menu – Boeuf Bourguinon, Veg option: Ratatouille (suitable for vegans) Desert: Sweet Picnic (includes French Fancies and strawberries) Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.

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FILM SCREENING AND TALK

Classic Concert

TRIO SORA

SJ WATSON Q&A AND BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (15)

Friday 15 Feb, 11am Tickets: £10/£7

The trio Sora is now considered as an ensemble with one of the rarest artistic identity of its generation. Through performances as subtle as inventive, and nourished by the diversity of cultural heritage of every member, these three passionate musicians give a unique interpretation of chamber music, with strength and sensitivity.

Already invited on some of the greatest international stages, such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Auditorium du Louvre, or London’s Wigmore Hall and Southbank Center, or else as part of distinguished festivals such as La Folle Journée de Nantes, the Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix en Provence as well as the Verbier Festival, the trio Sora distinguishes itself with its curiosity and high artistic aims.

Thursday 21 Feb, 7pm

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LUCY PORTER PASS IT ON Tickets: £15

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A brand new stand-up show from the TV favourite Lucy Porter. As seen on QI, Room 101 and Live at the Apollo. As heard on Radio 4s News Quiz and The Now Show. Always warm, witty and thoughtprovoking, this is Lucy’s best show yet. She muses on what we receive from our ancestors and what we pass on to future generations. Lucy’s inherited dodgy knees and global warming from her parents, but can she leave a better legacy for her children?

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A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.

S J Watson’s first novel, Before I Go To Sleep, is a phenomenal international success. A bestseller around the world, it won The Crime Writers’ Association Award for the Best Debut Novel and The Galaxy National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year. The film of the book, starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong, and directed

by Rowan Joffe, was released in September 2014.

His next book, Second Life, was published in 2015 and was a critical and commercial success.

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AFTER THE FILM THERE WILL BE A RARE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OF THE FILM TO TALK ABOUT HOW HE CAME UP WITH THE STORY, AND AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE AUDIENCE TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS.

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Jazz Café

GOLDEN AGE OF JAZZ Friday 22 Feb, 8pm Tickets: £10

Join vocalist Emma Sanders with pianist Philip Clouts as she gives a sparkling rendition of songs made famous by the likes of Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller.

Preston Heyman, Kate’s drummer

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DON QUIXOTE

YOUNG PICASSO

Sunday 24 Feb, 6pm

Tuesday 26 Feb, 7.30pm

The story follows Don Quixote’s adventurous journey to do deeds in honour of his imaginary noble lady, Dulcinea. Sunny, charming, funny and touching – Don Quixote is a ballet as full of uplifting emotion as it is of astonishing ballet technique.

Pablo Picasso is one of the greatest artists of all time – and right up until his death in 1973 he was the most prolific of artists. Many films have dealt with these later years – the art, the affairs and the wide circle of friends. But where did this all begin?

What made Picasso in the first place? Too long ignored, it is time to look at the early years of Picasso; the upbringing and the learning that led to his extraordinary achievements.

Tickets: £17.50/£14.50

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Working closely with all three Picasso Museums in Malaga, Barcelona and Paris this film explains how he rose to great heights.

TURN OF THE SCREW INTRONAUTS

Saturday 23 Feb, 7.30pm Tickets: £12

“Nobody but me, till now, has ever heard. It’s beyond everything. Nothing at all that I know touches it.”

Award-winning Box Tale Soup present a new adaptation of Henry James’ disturbing story, featuring puppetry and a haunting original soundtrack.

Edinburgh Fringe 2018 sell-out show. At an isolated estate, a young governess arrives. Before long she fears there is something darker in the depths of Bly House, and battles to save the children from the mysterious figures who seek to corrupt them.

“...beautifully crafted...”

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Friday 1 Mar, 7.30pm Tickets: £12/£10

In a not-too-distant future, people can buy personal cleaners called Intronauts; miniaturized human workers injected into their bodies in order to carry out essential maintenance.

BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF YOUR CLEANER DISCOVERS YOUR DIRTY LAUNDRY?AND HOW MUCH DO YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO KNOW ABOUT WHAT GOES ON INSIDE? Green Ginger's new show will propel audiences into a microscopic journey deep within the human body. It tells a madcap story about advancing technology, big syringes and a tiny submarine. Taking its cue from classic sci-fi movies, and fuelled by absurd visual comedy and innovative puppetry, Intronauts offers an intoxicating inner body experience that is out of this world. Join us for a trip that really gets under the skin; after all, what could possibly go wrong?

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Cheap Date Dance Company

DIRTY WORDS Saturday 2 Mar, 7.30pm Tickets: £14/£12

Cheap Date with dancer, Grace Clayton (Grace Clayton Dance, Cheap Date) and multiinstrumentalist, Seamas Carey (Kneehigh, Wildworks), perform a visual monologue of movement and music. Created in collaboration with Kyla Goodey (Trifle Gathering, Kneehigh, Wildworks).

The rhythm in language, the art of an oxymoron and the humour of a cheerful pessimist. Cheap Date remind us it’s not always the words we choose but sometimes the way in which we talk. The work, through the use of subtitles and sign language, explores modes of accessibility to a deaf and hard of hearing audience.

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TUDORS AND HISTORICAL FASHION see page 6

Monday 4 Mar, 7pm Tickets: £7

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The Director of the Arts Centre Curtis will lead a talk on The Tudors, in line with the Philip Sutton exhibition: My Shakespeare’ see pages 42 & 43 for more info.

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LA FILLE DU REGIMENT Sunday 3 Mar, 6.30pm

Tickets: £17/£14

Orphaned as a small child and raised by an entire army regiment, the spirited Marie has grown up as the regiment’s ‘daughter’, raising morale and spreading joy. Tonio, a local man, falls in love with her and even joins the army for her sake. But a Full listings of MET chance encounter with a noblewoman sparks a Opera and Royal Opera sudden revelation, and a tale unfolds of secret House screenings are online: identities, long-lost family, and murky pasts. www.bridport-arts.com

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MUSEUM OF FASHION – ROYAL WOMEN Wednesday 6 Mar, 11am Tickets: £10

Royal Women is a special exhibition at the Fashion Museum for 2018/19 that explores the fashions worn by four successive generations of women in the British Royal Family.

Spanning almost 100 years of royal fashion history, the exhibition examines the sartorial lives of Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, looking at each woman’s unique style, the role they played within the monarchy and how that was reflected in their choice of dress.

Full of wit and invention, Donizetti’s comic opera is a delight.

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SEWING FOR KIDS

James Sherwood

THE LONDON CUT

Saturday 9 Mar, 11am

Wednesday 6 Mar, 7pm

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Come along to an informal sewing session for under 12s. The workshop will work with felt and string and show youngsters the initial stages of creating something wonderful with toy stuffing.

The connection with Savile Row began in 2006 when he was asked to curate the first exhibition bringing all of the Row tailoring houses together entitled The London Cut which opened at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence and toured to the British Ambassadors' Residences in Tokyo and Paris.

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He was invited to curate an archive at No 1 Savile Row for Gieves & Hawkes and for the past decade has been curator of Savile Row founding father Henry Poole's archive. His next book (2019) is Henry Poole & Co: The First Tailor of Savile Row. For eight years, James was the BBC's fashion critic at Royal Ascot and he has subsequently commented on royal and sartorial history for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and UKTV. He has co-edited and written the Louis Vuitton Guides to London for a decade including the 2018 edition.

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McQUEEN (15) Thursday 7 Mar, 7.30pm Tickets: £6/£5

Starring: Bernard Arnault, Joseph Bennett, Detmar Blow Runs For: 1h 51m The life and career of fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen: from his start as a tailor, to launching and overseeing his eponymous line, and his untimely death.

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JAMIE KEMP PATTERN DRAFTING & ADAPTING Saturday 9 Mar, 11am Tickets: £14

This workshop will introduce you to the skills needed to begin drafting your own sewing patterns. You will learn how to make a simple block pattern based on your measurements. You will then look at different methods of adjusting patterns for fit and style.

Jamie has been sewing since he was a small boy. Over the years he has increased his skills and knowledge and was a contestant on The Great British Sewing Bee. Jamie is keen to use traditional skills in sewing and tailoring and loves nothing more than finding old, forgotten sewing books to reinforce his knowledge.

Jamie specialises in bespoke tailoring from his studio in Devon, creating beautiful garments for both men and women.

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COCO BEFORE CHANEL (12) Sunday 10 Mar, 11am

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GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE Q&A WITH CONTESTANTS

Starring: Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola Runs for: 1h 45m Subtitled

Vintage Textile Sale Sunday 10 March

Anyone who loves Audrey Tautou, fashion and French films will delight in watching this biopic about the legendary fashion designer.

LOVE, CECIL (12)

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Sunday 10 Mar, 2pm Tickets: £6/£5

Starring: Rupert Everett, David Bailey, Manolo Blahnik Runs for: 1h 38m

We are looking for vintage stallholders to take part in our Maker’s Market.

Please contact

Lisa Immordino Vreeland directs this documentary about Academy Award-winning costume designer Cecil Beaton. The film features archive footage and interviews with a number of models, artists and filmmakers who worked closely with Beaton during his illustrious career.

programming@bridport-arts.com for more information

Saturday 9 Mar, 7pm Tickets: £10

Come along and hear from winner, Heather Jacks and contestant Jamie Kemp about the taking part in the popular BBC programme (which makes its return in 2019). Arts Centre Director, Curtis, will lead the discussion on what they have done since entering the programme. Both Heather and Jamie are a fountain of knowledge on sewing and tailoring, so if you have any questions you would like to ask do come prepared.

There is also an opportunity for you to bring in anything that you have made for show and sell with the previous reality TV stars.

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YVES SAINT LAURENT Sunday 10 Mar, 7pm Tickets: £6/£5

Starring: Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon Runs for: 1h 46m Subtitled A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.

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Classic Concerts

40 Years of

SARA DEBORAH TIMOSSI & FRIENDS

KATE BUSH

the kick inside

CLOUDBUSTING

Friday 15 Mar, 11am Tickets: £10/£7

Friday 15 Mar, 7.30pm

Sara Deborah Timossi violin, Lucy Scotchmer cello, Johan Lofving theorbo.

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ORLANDO Tuesday 12 Mar, 7.30pm Tickets: £15/£13

Tickets: £20/£19

Sara Deborah has many musical interests, including running her own Spirit of Music Festival in Hampshire.

She returns to Concerts in the West this season having performed for us in 2009 and 2012.Sara Deborah regularly works with early music groups including Florilegium, La Serenissima, The Sixteen, Dunedin Concert, Brandenburg Baroque Soloists and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She has won many awards including the First Prize and Audience Prize at the 2017 Premio Bonporti International Baroque Violin Competition in Rovereto, Italy.We are delighted to welcome her back with Lucy Scotchmer and Johan Lofving.

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‘If you missed Kate, Cloudbusting are the next best thing’ – Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2 It's 40 years since The Kick Inside announced to the world the genius of Kate Bush.

Since that remarkable debut, a series of groundbreaking albums has secured Kate’s place in music history. Her Before the Dawn concerts sold out in minutes and changed perceptions of what a concert could be forever. Influenced by none, influencing many, there is truly no other artist like her.

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The show will centre around a celebration of The Kick Inside, with songs like Wuthering Heights, The Saxophone Song and The Man with the Child in his Eyes staged against eye-popping visuals and projections.

The new adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking 1928 novel ORLANDO. It's premiering at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe (at Assembly Roxy Upstairs) and is then touring throughout 2019.

Orlando – Who is she? Who is he? Who are we?

Celebrating Dyad’s tenth year, performer Rebecca Vaughan and writer/director Elton Townend Jones present the comedic tale of an immortal poet, whose gender cannot be pinned down, whose spirit cannot be caged, and whose irreverent, romantic adventures across British history provide a life-affirming, magic-realist exploration of human identity: personal, sexual and national. Drawing on a decade’s worth of successful theatre-making, this introspective, but funny and uplifting voyage into the very soul of what it means to exist in the world whilst remaining true to ourselves, is the culmination of everything Dyad has so far created, toured and presented across the world.

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THE COUNTRY TEAM

“Theatre and dance that throws custard pies at convention. Outstanding”

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Saturday 16 Mar, 7.30pm

Tickets: £15

The Country Team takes place within the American Mission to a South American country during the mid-1970s. The State Department’s priorities are unequivocal: bolstering the military dictatorship and maximising commercial opportunities.

Chess and Cristina are The Hiccup Project, a comedic dancetheatre company. People commonly refer to them as ‘the lovely Hiccup girls.’ It got them thinking... After diving into the world of romance and heartbreak in critically acclaimed multi-award winning May-We-Go-Round?, Cristina and Chess explore what it means to be a young woman in brand new show Lovely Girls.

The Country Team is directed by Miles Bell who has been closely associated with amateur drama in the Bridport area over many years.

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FLASH FICTION STORY SLAM

Lovely Girls meanders through real women’s stories using The Hiccup Project’s potent blend of dance, theatre and comedy. It is an insight, a celebration and an ode to being a woman in the 21st Century. A show made by women for women and men, and everyone, regardless of gender.

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JOHN KIRKPATRICK

Wednesday 20 Mar, 7.30pm

Sunday 23 Mar, 7.30pm

BAC Café Tickets: £5

Tickets: £13/£11

Who can tell the best story in just 250 words?

Flash Fiction is the art of writing very, very short stories and is one of the categories in the Bridport Prize international writing competition. Hone your writing skills and take part by telling your own very short story or come along to enjoy an evening of other writers telling tales.

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To take part in the Slam please contact Frances Colville at frances.colville@gmail.com

PETE FIRMAN Thu 21 Mar, 8pm

LOVELY GIRLS Friday 22 Mar, 7.30pm

Tickets: £10

The play completes a trilogy written by Andrew Rutherford and follows sell-out performances of Blindspot (2014) and Counting the Birches (2015).

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John is one of the most prolific figures on the English folk scene, performing solo, in duos, acoustic groups and electric bands, and has established an enviable reputation as an instrumental virtuoso (melodeon, Anglo concertina and button accordion), as well as a leading interpreter of English folk music. He has been a member of the Albion Country Band, Magic Lantern, The Richard Thompson Band, Umps and Dumps, Steeleye Span, Brass Monkey, Trans-Europe Diatonique, and Band of Hope, as well as numerous ceilidh bands.

MET Opera Encore

DIE WALKURE

Tickets: £16

Sunday 31 Mar, 6pm

The UK's leading comedy magician is back on the road with his astonishing new show. You've seen him on television, now experience his trademark blend of laugh-out-loud comedy and jaw-dropping magic live on stage! As seen on ITV1's Tonight at the London Palladium and The Next Great Magician, BBC One's The Magicians, The John Bishop Show and The Sarah Millican Television Programme.

Featuring some of the most glorious music ever written – including, the Ride of the Valkyries – Die Walküre is the second of the four operas that comprise Wagner’s Ring Cycle, a story of monsters, gods, and humans on a superhuman scale.

Tickets: £17/£14

Full listings of MET Opera and Royal Opera House screenings are online: www. bridport-arts.com

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Fri 1 Feb

7pm

Literary Quiz

£8

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Sun 3 Feb

6pm

Carmen

£17 / £14

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Mon 1 Apr

7.30pm

The Fureys

£22

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Sat 9 Feb

7.30pm

Jacqui Dankworth

£20 / £18

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Fri 5 Apr

11am

Classic Concert: Mela Guitar Quartet

£10 / £7

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Tue 12 Feb

7.30pm

Luke Jermay: Intuition

£15

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Fri 5 Apr

8pm

Jazz Café: Charlie Sings Jazz

£10

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Thu 14 Feb

7.30pm

Amelie

£6 / £5 / £20

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Sat 6 Apr

11am

Land of Nod

£6

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Fri 15 Feb

11am

Classic Concert: Trio Sora

£10 / £7

10

Sun 7 Apr

2pm

Royal Opera House: La Forza Del Destino

£17.50 / £14.50

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Sat 16 Feb

8pm

Lucy Porter Pass it on

£15

10

Fri 12 Apr

7.30pm

Misha Glenny

£18

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Thu 21 Feb

7pm

SJ Watson Q&A and Before I Go to Sleep

£6 / £5

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Sat 13 Apr

7.30pm

Bee Gees

£20

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Fri 22 Feb

8pm

Jazz Café: Golden Age of Jazz

£10

11

Sat 23 Feb

7.30pm

Turn of the Screw

£12

12

The Bird Show

£6

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Sun 24 Feb

6pm

Don Quixote

£17.50 / £14.50

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Tue 26 Feb

7.30pm

Young Picasso

£10

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MARCH Fri 1 Mar

7.30pm

Intronauts

£12 / £10

Philip Sutton: My Shakespeare

Sat 2 Mar

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Sat 2 Mar

7.30pm

Cheap Date Dance Company: Dirty Words

£14 / £12

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Sun 3 Mar

6.30pm

MET Opera Encore: La Fille Du Regiment

£17 / £14

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Mon 4 Mar

7pm

Tudors and Historical Fashion

£7

15

Wed 6 Mar

11am

Museum of Fashion – Royal Women

£10

15

Wed 6 Mar

7pm

James Sherwood: The London Cut

£10

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Thu 7 Mar

11am

Behind the Scenes Fashion talk at the Museum

£7

16

Thu 7 Mar

7.30pm

McQueen

£6 / £5

16

Sat 9 Mar

11am

Sewing for Kids

£5

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Sat 9 Mar

2pm

Heather Jacks: Reading a Pattern

£14

17

Sat 9 Mar

11am

Jamie Kemp Pattern Drafting & Adapting

£14

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Sat 9 Mar

7pm

Great British Sewing Bee Q&A with Contestants

£10

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Sun 10 Mar 11am

Coco Before Chanel

£6 / £5

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Sun 10 Mar 2pm

Love, Cecil

£6 / £5

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Sun 10 Mar 7pm

Yves Saint Laurent

£6 / £5

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Tue 12 Mar

7.30pm

Orlando

£15 / £13

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Fri 15 Mar

8pm

Sara Deborah Timossi & Friends

£10 / £7

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Fri 15 Mar

7.30pm

Cloudbusting: 40 years of Kate Bush The Kick Inside

£20 / £19

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Sat 16 Mar

7.30pm

The Country Team

£10

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Wed 20 Mar 7.30pm

Flash Fiction Story Slam

£5

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Thu 21 Mar 8pm

Pete Firman

£16

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Hiccup Project: Lovely Girls

£15

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Sun 23 Mar 7.30pm

John Kirkpatrick

£13 / £11

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Sun 31 Mar 6pm

MET Opera Encore: Die Walkure

£17 / £15

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Fri 22 Mar

24

Theatre Music Dance Comedy Film

7.30pm

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Wed 17 Apr 11am Fri 15 Apr

8pm

Jazz Café: Oxley Meier Guitar Project

£10

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Sat 20 Apr

7.30pm

Swan Lake

£18 / £15 / £10

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Tue 23 Apr

7.30pm

Exhibition on Screen: Rembrandt

£13 / £11

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Tue 30 Apr

6.45pm

Royal Opera House: Faust

£17.50 / £14.50

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Fri 3 May

7.30pm

The Improvised Musical: Notflix

£11

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Sat 4 May

7.30pm

The Government Inspector

£14 / £17

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Tue 7 May

7.30pm

Death and the Maiden

£14 / £17

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Thu 9 May

7.30pm

Rachel Newton

£14 / £12

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Fri 10 May

7.30pm

Mercury: Queen Tribute Band

£20

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Sat 11 May 5pm

MET Opera: Dialogues des Carmelites

£17/ £14

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Sat 11 May

Drawn in Exhibition (Sat 11 May – Sat 15 Jun)

Free

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Thu 16 May 7.15pm

Royal Opera House: Christopher Wheeldon Triple Bill

£17.50 / £14.50

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Jazz Café: Pete Canter & Simon Latarche

£10

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Sat 18 May 11am

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

£6

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Sat 18 May 7.30pm

Robbie Williams & Olly Murrs

£17.50 / £16.50

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Sun 24 May 3pm

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Chamber Strings

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Fri 17 May

8pm

40

Fri 24 May

7.30pm

Ma Bessie and Her Blues Troop

£19 / £18

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Fri 31 May

7.30pm

Quentin Crisp Naked Hope

£13 / £12

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WED 24 – SUN 28 APRIL 2019 Book online www.bridport-arts.com

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THE FUREYS

LAND OF NOD FAMILY

Monday 1 Apr, 7.30pm

Saturday 6 Apr, 11am

Irish Legends the FUREYS join us for a great night of music, songs and stories. Hear them sing their timeless classics including ‘I will love you’, ‘When you were sweet 16’, ‘The Green fields of France’, ‘The old man’, ‘Red rose café’, ‘From Clare to here’, ‘Her father didn’t like me anyway’, ‘Leaving Nancy’, ‘Steal away’. Their emotive songs stir many emotions….tears and laughter, sadness and joy.

Where do we really go when we fall asleep?

Tickets: £22

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Join us as we fold into sleep and explore the Land of Nod, a dream world, created especially for you.

Meet The Sandman, keeper of dreams, as he spins his umbrella of beautiful pictures. See where it lands and discover the wonders in store when sleep takes hold.

A magical, multi-sensory production filled with laughter, audience interaction, surprises and song.

Matthew Robinson – George Tarlton – Daniel Bovey – Jiva Housden. Four masters of the guitar will make a wonderful sound in our intimate West Country venues.

The MELA Guitar Quartet have performed all over the UK and individually have worked with many different groups. They have recorded the works of Stephen Dodgson and Anthony Burgess in 2016 and 2017.

Designed especially for children aged 3+ and their families.

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Moon On A Stick blend intricate puppetry, captivating storytelling and an enchanting musical score in this star light adventure.

Tickets: £10/£7

Recently they became Park Lane Group artists and received the IGF Young Artists Award in 2016.

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CHARLIE SINGS JAZZ Friday 5 Apr, 8pm Tickets: £10

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LA FORZA DEL DESTINO Sunday 7 Apr, 2pm Tickets: £17.50/£14.50

Full listings of MET Opera and Royal Opera House screenings are online: www.bridport-arts.com

Leonora falls in love with Don Alvaro, but when her father forbids their marriage, a fatal accident triggers a drama of obsession, vengeance and tragedy.

Diva, temptress and vocal sensation Charlie Bicknell is a force to be reckoned with. She has worked with fabulous singers such as Marie Wilson and Earl Okin, and sung at major London jazz venues including Ronnie Scotts, an accolade she shares with Philip Clouts who will be accompanying her at the piano.

Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Netrebko star in Verdi’s epic La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) an opera which demands the very best of singers for its powerful music and the fullest theatrical treatment for its story of bitter revenge pursued across miles and years.

Internationally she has performed at venues in Australia (notably the basement of Sydney Opera House and a giant car park in Adelaide!) Hong Kong, Copenhagen and Dubai; but nowhere as cosmopolitan as the heady heights of Bridport, England! Expect a smoking selection of jazz favourites.

The production comes to The Royal Opera in a sensational staging from Amsterdam packed with colour and action. It is directed by Christof Loy and conducted by Antonio Pappano, Music Director of The Royal Opera.

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MISHA GLENNY

Jazz Café

OXLEY MEIER GUITAR PROJECT

Friday 12 Apr, 7.30pm Tickets: £18

Friday 15 Apr, 8pm

Described by The Guardian as ‘a world authority on global organised crime.’ Misha Glenny is an Award-winning journalist and author, his international bestselling book, McMafia, was recently turned into the hit BBC TV series of the same name.

Tickets: £10

The Colours of Time is the new double CD from Pete Oxley and Nicolas Meier, and it has been praised by American guitar legend Ralph Towner as “a feast of virtuosity, delivered with depth, wit and joy”. The two guitarists are coming to Bridport as part of a major tour of Britain, France and Germany.

Alternately very funny and very frightening, this show lifts the lid on global organized crime and its corrupt political networks. A factual illuminating talk that sheds light on corrupt intelligence agencies and takes the audience on a tour through the dark depths of world capitalism and explains what’s happening behind the headlines.

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Sat 13 Apr, 7.30pm Tickets: £20

The Bee Gees Fever show is a celebration of the music of the brothers Gibb, where they offer to take you back to 1998 for the ultimate “One Night Only” experience in the first half their Theatre Shows; and then take you back even further to 1979 and make you feel like you were actually there on the Bee Gees “Spirits Having Flown” world tour, when the Bee Gees were officially the biggest band in the world.

Book online www.bridport-arts.com

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Bee Gees Fever are not a copycat gimmick, they are six professional musicians who perform each song totally Live with no aid of backing tracks or sequencers – every instrument and vocal you hear is live, with no over dubbing or pre-recorded studio vocals – what you hear is the actual sound amplified and performing totally live allows so much energy to be extracted in each show, with natural interaction with their audiences; and total spontaneity during a show.

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Expect a dazzling display of contemporary fare, ranging from Turkish panache to soundscapes of Latin America to English pastoralism. Hear this played on nylon string, steel string, electric, 12 string, fretless, slide, guitar-synth, glissentar guitars and more!

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Wednesday 17 Apr, 11am Tickets: £6

A flap-tastic fact-filled family comedy by The Last Baguette.

With frolics and foraging, flitting, flying and two unusual feathery friends, this is a story of friendship, courage and adventure. The Bird Show uses live music, object manipulation and lots more silly bird puns in this heart-fluttering physical comedy about conservation, migration and imagination.

Written by award-winning playwright Tiffany Woodsmith, directed by international physical comedy director Susana Alcantud, with acclaimed theatre and opera designer Bronia Housman.

Suitable for the whole brood including fledglings from 4+

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SWAN LAKE Saturday 20 Apr, 7.30pm

Tickets: £18/£15/£10

Swan Lake remains as one of the most enduring, moving and irreplaceable classical ballets due to its fantastical plot filled with romance, sorcery, and betrayal. Join Ballet Theatre UK with their spectacular new production of this timeless classic.

This immortal tale tells of a princess held captive as a swan by the spell of an evil magician, a spell that can only be broken if a prince swears true love to her.

Featuring new choreography by Artistic Director Christopher Moore and over 120 new costumes and stunning sets this production promises to provide you with a new look at the classic tale and leave you with a new love for Swan Lake.

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FAUST

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Tuesday 30 Apr, 6.45pm Tickets: £17.50/£14.50

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There are many versions of the story of Faust, who trades his soul with the Devil for youth and power, but Gounod’s opera remains one of the most constantly enthralling. Michael Fabiano stars as Faust, with Diana Damrau as his beloved Marguerite and Erwin Schrott as the diabolical Méphistophélès.

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REMBRANDT Tuesday 23 Apr, 7.30pm Tickets: £13/£11

Meet the man behind the masterpieces in this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition.

The film focuses on the highlights from the final years of Rembrandt’s life, commonly thought to be his finest years.

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THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR

THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL

NOTFLIX Friday 3 May, 7.30pm

Tickets: £11

Featuring the UK's top female improvisers and a full live band, Notflix takes your favourite films and kicks away the dramatic tension with a big, glittery stiletto of uncynical joy; defying you to leave the theatre without feeling that life is a just a little bit more wonderful. ​ Notflix is a totally improvised comedy musical based on an audience suggestion of a favourite movie, then using the location, key scenes and characters as a jumping off point to create a brand new narrative. All scenes, songs and vocals are improvised spontaneously by the cast and a live band with no preparation or planning. It's improv, so every show is different; but what remains the same is a joy-filled, high camp, musical celebration of everything you wish a movie could be.

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Saturday 4 May, 7.30pm

SONGS AND 99% MORE

Tickets: £14/£11

The Mayor of the small town is in a cold sweat.

News has reached him of an imminent investigation by a high-ranking government official who is travelling incognito – The Government Inspector!

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DEATH AND THE MAIDEN Tuesday 7 May, 7.30pm

The town’s officials are thrown into a panicked frenzy.

They are all thoroughly corrupt! Matters spiral hysterically out of control when they believe that a stranger in the town is the real Government Inspector.

Shifting Sands update Gogol’s satire to present an hilarious, accessible comedy where, desperate to keep the supposed Government Inspector happy,everyone loses their moral compass.

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The award winning London smash hit play and subsequent feature film Death and the Maiden is revived in this exclusive tour by Baroque Theatre Company. Gripping high drama, with great intensity, this is a unique and first-rate thriller.

Set in an unnamed country that is emerging from a totalitarian dictatorship, the play explores the after effects of repression on hearts and souls in vivid and compelling style. Paulina Escobar's husband Gerardo is to head an investigation into past human rights abuses. Pauline is convinced that the powerful and charismatic Dr. Miranda supervised her abuse as a political prisoner.

Conflict ensues as their lives cross paths and Pauline, gun in hand, captures the Doctor and puts him on trial, Escobar doesn't know whether to believe his distraught wife or his persuasive new friend. This is an enthralling, intellectual and emotional tug of war with the human psychel aid bare.

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Thursday 9 May, 7.30pm Tickets: £14/£12

Singer and harpist Rachel Newton specialises in interpreting traditional folk songs in both English and Scottish Gaelic as well as writing and performing her own instrumental pieces.

Rachel released her fourth solo album ‘West’ on 28th September 2018 which was recorded in her late grandparents’ old croft house in Achnahaird, Wester Ross.

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Full listings of MET Opera and Royal Opera House screenings are online: www.bridport-arts.com

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Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Poulenc’s masterpiece. As the French Revolution begins, shy Blanche - sung by mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard – becomes a novice nun under an elderly prioress – Met legend Karita Mattila.

The Ultimate Queen Tribute

MERCURY Friday 10 May, 7.30pm Tickets: £20

Winners of the National Tribute Awards, Mercury have firmly established themselves as one of the world’s most authentic tributes to Queen.

The show includes fantastic and authentic performances of the most popular Queen hits, such as Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, We Are The Champions, We Will Rock You and many more.

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Royal Opera House

CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON TRIPLE BILL

Full listings of MET Opera and Royal Opera House screenings are online: www.bridport-arts.com

Thursday 16 May, 7:15pm Tickets: £17.50/£14.50

The contemporary face of The Royal Ballet is shown in works from three of today's leading choreographers with two recent works and one world premiere.

Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour is based around seven couples separating and intermingling, to music by Vivaldi and Bosso and lit with rich colours suggested by sunset.

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Crystal Pite's Flight Pattern, revived for the first time, uses a large dance ensemble and Górecki's familiar music from his Symphony of Sorrowful Songs for a poignant and passionate reflection on migration.

Between them, a new work by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, created on The Royal Ballet has its premiere to bring the contemporary truly up to date.

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Friday 17 May, 8pm Tickets: £10

Saxophonist, double bass player and composer Pete Canter played on the London jazz scene of the 1980s before moving to the Southwest in 2001 where he quickly established himself as a fine musician and band leader. He has been a regular at major U.K. jazz festivals including Teignmouth, Bude and Cheltenham, and has been described as "an inventive soloist with a distinctive sound” by jazz critic Ian Mann.

Tonight's concert brings together these two talented jazz musicians for an evening of melodic and highly enjoyable swing and Latin jazz.

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JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH Saturday 18 May, 11am Tickets: £6

An eccentric professor, a faithful nephew and their fearless guide embark upon a fantastic journey of peril and wonder, through the mouth of an Icelandic volcano and down into the unexplored regions deep below our feet... Encountering mysteries, monsters and even giant mushrooms along the way, it will take all these explorer's strength and ingenuity to find their way home again and into the history books!

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MA BESSIE AND HER BLUES TROOP Friday 24 May, 7.30pm Tickets: £19/£18

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Friday 31 May, 7.30pm Tickets: £13/£12

A narrated show about Bessie Smith “Empress of the Blues and Jazz”.

Bessie Smith (Julia Titus) and her blues troupe (drummer Sam Kelly with Paul Jobson on keyboards, Tony Qunta on guitar and Richard Sadler on upright bass, Clare Hirst on sax/clarinet and Kevin Davy on trumpet) perform to a narrated show, featuring music from the era and showcasing many (approximately 22) of Bessie's songs.

The production chronicles her life from a one-room shack in Blue Goose Hollow, through to becoming the highest-paid black entertainer of that time, to the tragic accident on Route 61 in September 1937 which resulted in her untimely death aged 43 years.

QUENTIN CRISP NAKED HOPE

Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer. Nicknamed the Empress of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and was a major influence on other jazz singers.

Written and performed by Mark Farrelly Directed by Linda Marlowe

From a conventional upbringing to global notoriety via The Naked Civil Servant, Quentin Crisp was an extraordinary raconteur and wit.

Openly gay as early as the 1930s, Quentin spent decades being beaten up on London’s streets for his refusal to be anything less than himself. His courage, and the powerful philosophy that evolved from those experiences, inspire to the present day.

This much-acclaimed solo play, following an off-West End season and recent appearance off-Broadway, shows Quentin in his beloved Chelsea flat in the 1960s, and in his final years in his adopted New York.

Naked Hope is a gloriously uplifting salute to a true one-off, and a timely reminder of the urgent necessity to live every day as your real self...no matter what they say.

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Mark Farrelly’s West End credits include Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? opposite Matthew Kelly. He is directed by EastEnders star Linda Marlowe (Berkoff’s Women).

FARRELLY’S HIS MASTERY OF AUDIENCE IS TOTAL. BRILLIANT. Time Out

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EXHIBITIONS

COMMUNITY EVENTS ROBBIE WILLIAMS & OLLY MURRS Saturday 18 May, 7.30pm Tickets: £17.50/£16.50

A stunning celebration of two of the UK’s leading artists and greatest performers of our time. This fantastic production features a sensational line-up of hit songs to get the party started for a night of fun, excitement, to get you dancing.

Featuring incredible live music performances, this hugely entertaining show with take all that attend on a journey of some of the greatest pop hits of the 90’s and 00’s such as Angels, Let me Entertain You, Rock DJ, Troublemaker, Wrapped Up, Dance With Me Tonight and many more..

Join a double bill like no other in this spectacular show for all ages.

ALLSOP GALLERY

BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHAMBER STRINGS Sunday 24 Mar, 3pm In aid of the BSO Benevolent Fund. Registered charity No. 1163778 Conductor – Marta Gardolinska (Assist. Cond. BSO) Concertmaster – Amyn Merchant (Concertmaster BSO).

Edvard Grieg – Holberg Suite – G Maj, Op 20 Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings – Bb Maj, Op 11 Gustav Holst – St. Pauls Suite – C Maj, Op. 29 (no.2) interval Joseph Haydn – Divertimento for Strings – EbMaj, Hob ll Antonin Dvorak – Serenade for Strings – Emaj Op. 22 The Benevolent Fund of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra was instituted in 1958 by the musicians of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, to offer financial assistance to players who find themselves unable to play their instruments due to injury or illness.

Cabinets of Curiosity Exhibition 20-23 May in the Marlow Theatre

DRAWN IN Saturday 11 May – Saturday 15 Jun Allsop Gallery Tickets: FREE

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Visitors to the exhibition ‘Drawn In’ will be invited to explore a range of approaches to drawing that push the boundaries of what it is conventionally considered to be. Both traditional and unorthodox approaches to the practice and use of materials will be on display and the exhibition aims to give an insight into some of the purposes and uses of drawing.

each bring their individual and creative vision exploring visual language, and sound, in an experimental, open minded and playful way. Expect to experience a broad and exciting range of approaches to the practice of drawing from children’s book illustration and carefully observed drawing using traditional materials, to sound drawing, tape drawing and sculptural construction.

Contemporary artists Penny Brice, Paul Carpenter, Caroline Chourou, Helen Dean, Jindra Jehu, Zara McQueen, Antonia Phillips, Jo Saurin and Karen Woods

During the exhibition there will be a number of artist-led workshops for children, adults and families.

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PHILLIP SUTTON MY SHAKESPEARE Saturday 2 Mar – Saturday 4 May Allsop Gallery

Bridport Arts Centre’s Honorary Patron, Philip Sutton RA, is returning in 2019 with an exhibition of his works on Shakespeare. Following the massively successful exhibition ‘Philip Sutton at 90’ which was presented for his 90th Birthday at the Arts Centre in 2018.

Philip Sutton is a strong supporter of the Globe Theatre which was established through his friendship with the architect Theo Crosby and the American actor Sam Wanamaker. Sam spent many years in the 50s trying to get the Globe Theatre off the ground.

I LOV E T H IS – THE E X H IB IT IO N SE E N E V A FI R ST I H . AM K R O W O F H IS HOOKED!

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Henry V is a strong influence for Philip’s work on Shakespeare:

“I realised that Henry V, Elizabethan England and the battle of Agincourt was a good beginning for me. It has been a great revelation to translate that particular part of English history.

One thing that struck me about Henry V marching his army through France was the 15,000 men that travelled through the countryside, farmers and people around about would have remained undisturbed”.

THREE I H AV E C O M E IP IL H P T IM E S TO AT 0 9 T A N SU T TO T N RE THE ARTS CE E – LOV E IT. M O R P LE A SE …

E R FU L H OW WO N D O R LD W E TO SE E T H IL IP H P H G THROU S E Y E ’S N O SU T T

Join us at Bridport Arts Centre for this special exhibition. To accompany the work there will be films, workshops and events happening in and around Bridport with a Shakespearean influence.

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Exclusive events

Tickets: £6/£5 Members £4 under 16s £3 BACstage Pass Members Enjoy weekly cinema screenings at BAC. We show a varied selection of films.

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Bridport Farmers Market

Saturday: 16 Feb, 16 Mar, 20 Apr, 25 May

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You help to bring arts and culture to your local community when you become a member of Bridport Arts Centre.

It’s only with the support of our members that we can deliver such a vibrant and diverse programme of events and activities throughout the year.

So become a member of Bridport Arts Centre today, and ensure that you and everyone you love can continue to enjoy world-class performances and exhibitions.

FRONT ROW MEMBERS

Saturday: 9 Feb, 9 Mar, 13 Apr, 11 May

BRIDPORT ARTISAN MARKET

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DORSET FARMERS’ MARKET

From 9am until 1pm on the second Saturday of each month Over 20 local producers selling delicious food, drink and plants, including fruit and vegetables, lamb, venison, pork and beef, fish and shellfish, bread, cheese, olives, cakes and bakes, oils and dressings, preserves, cider, apple juice and coffee, plus locally grown plants, and cut flowers.

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CINEMA AT BRIDPORT ARTS CENTRE

The Bridport Film Society offers a careful curated season of 12 films each year. The 2018/19 season started on Tuesday 25 September and full programme details and the opportunity to apply for membership will be available at the end of August.

Tuesday: 5 & 19 Feb 5 & 19 Mar

10% off ticket prices for eligible events Refer a friend and receive a pair of free tickets when they join Season programme and members newsletter sent to you Invitations to season launch events

£25 INDIVIDUAL £35 INDIVIDUAL

PLUS FRIEND

SPOTLIGHT 10% off ticket prices for eligible events Refer a friend and receive a pair of free tickets when they join Season programme and members newsletter sent to you Invitations to season launch events Invitations to previews in the Allsop Gallery Priority booking

BACSTAGE PASS Do you know anyone aged 14-25?

The BACSTAGE pass is right for them £3 cinema tickets £5 tickets to selected live events Season programme and members newsletter sent to you Invitations to season launch events

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£65 INDIVIDUAL £105 INDIVIDUAL

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