The organisers of Hat Fair – the UK’s longest running festival of Outdoor Arts – are looking for volunteers for this year’s event, which takes place from Friday 5 – Sunday 7 July. The festival, which takes over the city streets and green spaces of Winchester, is visited each...
Preview: Attention All Shipping: A Celebration of the Shipping Forecast with Charlie Connelly, Theatre Royal Winchester
Followers of the shipping forecast can tune into Attention All Shipping: A Celebration of the Shipping Forecast with Charlie Connelly at Theatre Royal Winchester on Friday 7 June. This year the shipping forecast celebrates 100 years, and bestselling author Charlie Connelly presents an informative, funny, pacy and moving show...
Mayflower Theatre and MAST Mayflower Studios today announce new collaborative scheme
Mayflower Theatre and MAST Mayflower Studios announce a new collaborative scheme with resident company of MAST Mayflower Studios, Our Version Media (OVM). The scheme will bolster the existing offering of Our Version Media’s Roving Reporters and will centre around further providing global majority voices with the opportunity to upskill...
Just one month to go until Let’s Rock kick-off their summer 2024 season
The UK’s most iconic retro festival series, Let’s Rock, will be coming to seven locations across the UK this summer, including new events in Northampton and Swansea, while Let’s Rock Scotland have partnered with Party at The Palace for a two-day event in August. The season kicks off on...
Heritage: Some notable female Sotonians
By Martin Brisland. Elsie Sandell (1891–1974) was a writer of local history books and Echo articles. Her books are very readable for young people. Elsie was key in getting the D Day memorial tapestry made. It is usually to be found outside the City Archives in the Civic Centre....
Preview: The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary, Theatre Royal Winchester
Theatre fans will be swept away by The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary, which visits Theatre Royal Winchester from Tuesday 4 June. The play tells of a bored Emma Bovary – bored with her boring doctor husband, boring provincial village and boring role as a dutiful wife in nineteenth-century...
Preview: Cluedo 2: The Next Chapter, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Following the huge success of the critically acclaimed original play, and based on the classic Hasbro board game, Cluedo is back at Mayflower Theatre with a brand-new comedy mystery, from Wednesday 19 to Sunday 23 June 2024. The hilarious whodunnit returns with a new story, a new house, new...
Preview: National Theatre Live: Nye, Theatre Royal Winchester
Photo credit: Johan Persson The story of the man behind the NHS is told in new play, Nye – the next National Theatre Live screening to take place at Theatre Royal Winchester on Monday 3 June. Nye tells the story of Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan who faced with death is...
Review: Life of Pi, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, 14 May 2024
By Joy McKay. The Life of Pi is on it’s first UK tour following successful runs of the West End debuting in 2021 and Broadway in 2023 and opened at The Mayflower last night (14 May 2024). Based on the Booker Prize winning and bestselling novel of the same...
Preview: The Lion Inside, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
MAST Mayflower Studios are co-producing the production of The Lion Inside, and look forward to it entertaining young audiences in Southampton from Wednesday 29 May to Saturday 1 June 2024. Fed up of being ignored and forgotten by the other animals, Mouse wishes he could roar like Lion. But,...