Some notes on the Earthscapes exhibition at Bridport Arts Centre, curated by Sherborne House Arts
Part 1: The Project straightforwardly Described
A SCALE MODEL of a sculpture to be sited either side of the new Dorchester to Weymouth Relief Road has gone on show for the first time.
It’s on display at Bridport Arts Centre as part of Sherborne House Arts’ [...]

COMPOSER Rachel Leach has created a dramatic score to bring to life a silent film made in Bridport in the late 1930s.
Dope Under Thorncombe, a melodrama based around West Bay, was made by local people under the direction of amateur filmmaker Frank Trevett.
His daughter, Vivienne Smith, pictured with the camera that captured the story, handed [...]

TODAY is the big day to save the Trick Factory, the indoor skate park in Bridport that’s threatened with destruction by property developers.
So says the human rights lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith, who lives near Bridport and is now helping to organise the campaign against the park’s shut-down. It’s scheduled for demolition if landowners Haywards get the right at [...]

BRIDPORT Arts Centre has just released its Spring theatre programme for 2010 and Trigger’s take on Harold Pinter is officially one of the highlights.
Roger Lloyd Pack (aka Trigger) is going to be reading through Pinter’s 1995 play Ashes to Ashes. He’ll appear with Harriet Walter as part of A Pinter Celebration day on January 30.
Also [...]

I POPPED in to Bridport Old Books and Caroline said to me: “Here, try this.” So I put some headphones on and listened to what sounded like a conversation with all the interesting bits taken out. Er – pause – like – pause – ah – pause… “You can walk around,” said Caroline. “It’s all [...]

Review of The West Country: A Cultural History by John Payne, published by Signal Books, £12; part of a series called Landscapes of the Imagination
THERE are two chapters in this book on Dorset and they get off to a cracking start: “Dorset has a northern fringe that scarcely seems to belong to it at all, [...]

Review of Hotel Paradiso (1905) by George Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres, English adaptation by Peter Glenville, performed  at Bridport Arts Centre by the Encore Theatre Club�
THIS IS a play about sex. You never hear the word “sex” mentioned, but its promises and its disappointments are there right from the very start, in the long lugubrious [...]

Six weeks to go to the start of the Bridport Literary Festival and there’s no tickets left for events featuring authors Tracy Chevalier and Horatio Clare.
I suppose Chevalier was always going to be popular; her new novel Remarkable Creatures is about the great Lyme Regis fossil hunter Mary Anning.
But Clare’s a surprise, with his book A [...]