Mack and Mabel
28th - 31st July 2010
Highcliffe Charity Players return after their incredibly sucessful pantomime with the delightful musical Mack and Mabel. The tumultuous relationship between Hollywood director Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand, who became one of his biggest stars comes to life on stage. In a series of flashbacks, Mack relates the glory days of Keystone Studios from 1911, when he discovered Mabel and cast her in dozens of his early "two-reelers", through his invention of The Bathing Beauties and the Keystone Cops
Ester's Flamenco School - End of Year Show (A)
4th September 2010
Ester’s Flamenco Academy presents An Evening of Flamenco. Ester Tal (professional Flamenco dancer, choreographer and teacher) presents her Academy in this show of Flamenco dance and music, full of exhilarating rhythmical footwork and exciting choreographies.
The Boy Friend (A)
9th - 10th September 2010
Sandy Wilson’s lavish, romantic musical is set around the premise that every young lady needs a boyfriend! The problem is that poor Polly Browne is stuck inside Mme Dubonnet’s finishing school for debutantes in Nice, where decorum demands that boyfriends are forbidden for being socially undesirable fortune hunters.
Last Night of the Proms - Bournemouth Concert Brass (A)
19th September 2010
The award winning Bournemouth Concert Brass return with a rousing rendition of all those Albert Hall favourites from Nimrod to Jerusalem and, naturally, Pomp and Circumstance. Don’t forget to bring your Union Jack hats and flags.
Princess Ida - Christchurch Gilbert & Sullivan Society (A)
22nd - 25th September 2010
Composed in 1884 between Iolanthe and The Mikado, Princess Ida is unique in the Gilbert & Sullivan repertoire for being written in three acts. Containing some of the finest music in all the Savoy Operas, it is a witty satire on the feminist movement of the day and Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Blood Brothers: The Play
29th September - 1st October 2010
Fast moving and perceptive,entertaining and thoughtprovoking,funny yet ultimatelytragic, it tells the tale of twinbrothers who are born into a largeworking-class family and whathappens when their mother decidesto have one of them adopted. BloodBrothers looks at the differencesand conflicts of their upbringings,their relationships with each otherand with their real and adoptedmothers.Tickets £10.00, Concessions £9.00
The Mayor of Casterbridge (A)
5th - 8th October 2010
Following their acclaimed successful productions of Jamaica Inn and The Crucible, Regent Rep now turn their attention to Thomas Hardy’s classic The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Metamorphosis (Studio Theatre)
19th - 21st November 2010
Inspired by Franz Kafka's renowned story - the parable of Gregor Saamsa, a humble, industrious man, who, upon waking one norning, finds himself transformed into a gigantic beetle-like insect. Hisd metamorphosis is physical and psychological, and through his harrowing and absurdly comic journey Gregor comes to represent the quintesential outsider and alien. Tickets £10, £9.00 concessions.
South Pacific
24th - 27th November 2010
Considered by most critics to be among the greatest musicals of the twentieth century the story for Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1949 musical, South Pacific, is drawn from a Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel by James A. Michener, entitled Tales of the South Pacific, which dealt largely with the issue of racism
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