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  • Cloudscape Workshop

    Winterborne Whitechurch Village Hall Dolway Lane, Winterborne Whitechurch, Blandford Forum

    Do you help to look after someone? Join Carer Support Dorset this Carers Week for free events to celebrate Dorset's unpaid carers. Come and lie on a large cushion and listen to a story by the amazing Gobbligook Theatre. Take a bit of time out and enjoy being taken on an adventure.

    Free
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Halstock Village Hall Halstock

    As in the Bard’s day, Festival Players tour as an all-male troupe of skilled professional actors. Supported by their patron, Dame Judi Dench, the company has a growing international reputation for presenting the very best in open-air Shakespeare and are committed to providing accessible and enjoyable performances for all. This summer, Festival Players invites you […]

    £8 – £18
  • Whispering Willows by Wassail Theatre

    Springhead Gardens Mill Street, Fontmell Magna

    It's 1929. Morris has been planting, harvesting, basket making and drinking tea on his Somerset willow farm since before he can remember. Every year the same pattern repeats itself. Plant, harvest, weave. Plant, harvest, weave... One day he pulls up a particularly large piece of willow with a girl clinging to the end of it! […]

    £5 – £22
  • Whispering Willows by Wassail Theatre

    Springhead Gardens Mill Street, Fontmell Magna

    It's 1929. Morris has been planting, harvesting, basket making and drinking tea on his Somerset willow farm since before he can remember. Every year the same pattern repeats itself. Plant, harvest, weave. Plant, harvest, weave... One day he pulls up a particularly large piece of willow with a girl clinging to the end of it! […]

    £5 – £22
  • A Supermarket Love Story by John Osborne

    The Gaggle of Geese Buckland Newton

    A story about supermarkets and the people who use them... Love will bloom, lives will continue as they always have, and you'll meet two paramedics by the crisps. As staff untuck their shirts and sit on kick stools stacking shelves, we join them all for a storytelling feast and find that every aisle really does […]

    £5
  • Great Expectations by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

    Village Hall, Lytchett Matravers High Street, Lytchett Matravers

    From humble beginnings in the marshlands of Kent, young Pip is determined to make strides in the big city and get a leg-up in society. Pip is quickly caught up in a world of compelling characters - the elderly jilted bride Miss Haversham, the criminal Magwitch and alluring Estella. Can our ambitious protagonist realise his […]

    £8 – £32
  • Carmen by Regents Opera

    The Mowlem Shore Road, Swanage

    Regents Opera is a leading fringe Opera Company specialising in the larger works of the 19th & 20th centuries. The now touring company offers emerging and established singers a platform to perform major repertoire not often staged outside the major houses. Directed by Paul Higgins of Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Royal Opera House, this […]

    £8 – £18
  • Vanity Fair by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

    The Exchange, Sturminster Newton Sturminster Newton

    Bristol Old Vic Theatre School’s acting and technical cohort present a thrilling and nostalgic production Thackeray’s hilarious satire, 'Vanity Fair'. Set in the early 1980s New Romantics scene of London, follow wannabe ‘It Girl’ Becky Sharp and her sweet-natured friend, Amelia Sedley, as they scale the heady heights of society and hustle through the hazardous […]

    £8 – £34
  • ‘Wuthering Heights’ outdoor show at Sandsfoot Castle Gardens, Weymouth

    Sandsfoot Castle Gardens 39 Old Castle Rd, Weymouth

    Picnic and a show! Enjoy SISATA's new outdoor adaptation of 'Wuthering Heights'. Performing at Weymouth's stunning Sandsfoot Castle Gardens for one night only - 6.30pm on 22nd July. Upon the brooding heath, an intoxicating obsession torments the moor. Witness a passion that goes beyond the grave... Audiences can enjoy the show from their very own […]

    £12 – £15
  • The Rascally Diner by LAStheatre

    Alderholt Village Hall Alderholt

    Everybody clap your pans – it’s time for The Rascally Diner! Cook up a stink as part of Rufus Skumskins O’Parsleys’ kitchen crew or bring a pot to bang and ward off evil cakes in this fun-filled, messy performance about food which heads to Dorset through Artsreach this summer! Chef Rufus Skumskins O’Parsley is famous […]

    £5 – £20
  • The Rascally Diner by LAStheatre

    Broadmayne First School Knighton Lane, Broadmayne

    Everybody clap your pans – it’s time for The Rascally Diner! Cook up a stink as part of Rufus Skumskins O’Parsleys’ kitchen crew or bring a pot to bang and ward off evil cakes in this fun-filled, messy performance about food, which tours Dorset with Artsreach. Chef Rufus Skumskins O’Parsley is famous for creating some […]

    £5 – £20
  • ‘Wuthering Heights’ outdoor show at Maumbury Rings, Dorchester

    Maumbury Rings 17 Maumbury Rd, Dorchester

    Picnic and a show! Enjoy SISATA's new outdoor adaptation of 'Wuthering Heights'. Performing at Dorchester's historical Maumbury Ring's at 6.30pm 22nd July for one night only. Upon the brooding heath, an intoxicating obsession torments the moor. Witness a passion that goes beyond the grave... Enjoy the show from your very own picnic blanket, tucking into […]

    £12 – £14