Bridport Open Book Week is a week of events celebrating reading and writing. For all the events see https://www.bridport-arts.com/events/category/spoken-word/?doing_wp_cron=1475845073.0060050487518310546875
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Bridport Literary Festival 2016 The 12th Bridport Literary Festival welcomes all those who read books and love literature. Last year’s Festival was bigger and better than ever before and we were delighted to welcome audiences of all tastes and all ages from all over the county as well as visitors from much further afield. This
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If you’re a fan of gothic horror, and like a bit of darkness in your theatre, then you’ll enjoy ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ at Crewe Lyceum, writes Claire Faulkner. Adapted from the original by Robert Louis Stevenson, and directed by Nicholas Briggs, this production has everything you want from a Victorian classic. A haunting set with skilful
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The Battle of the Somme, one of World War One’s bloodiest battles, began on 1 July 1916, 100 years ago today. More than a million men were killed and wounded on all sides in the five month battle, with the British suffering almost 60,000 casualties on the first day alone. On 3 August 1916, Corporal
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Prepare for the fright of your life in this dramatic new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s atmospheric Gothic melodrama. Adapted and directed by Nicholas Briggs, Jekyll and Hyde stars Neil Roberts (Holby City, Emmerdale), Gary Turner (Emmerdale) and Kim Taylforth (London’s Burning, Bad Girls). Dr Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men – one good, one evil. Intent on separating the two,
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Nick’s adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde is being performed by the Green Theatre Company, an amateur youth theatre company based in Surrey, on the 17th, 18th and 19th of March. Performed inside the John Bunyan Church, Kingston, this semi site-specific production, directed by Rod Henderson (Betrayal, CornerHOUSE and Outrageous Fortune, Arts In The Park 2015), demonstrates the good
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Based on the classic ITV series, The Prisoner Volume 01 is available now from Big Finish Productions. Written and directed by Nick (Nicholas Briggs). ‘I’m not a number. I’m a free man!’ January 16th, 1967… A secret agent resigns, then wakes up to find himself imprisoned in ‘The Village’ — a bizarre community with a
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