Daily Diary ~ May 2008
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Thurs 1st
Tickets now on sale for Lyme Regis 18th Jazz Festival
4th - 6th July Stroller Tickets
available for all events
from
Harvey World Travel,
5 Bridge Street,
Lyme Regis, DT7 3QA
Tel 01297 442491
RUN, FATBOY, RUN
(12A)
A chunky, clueless guy leaves his fiancée on their wedding day only to
discover -- some 10 years later -- that she is his one true love...'Silver
Screen' open to all at the
Regent Cinema 10.15am coffee or tea served
in the foyer 10.45 film starts
….TICKETS
£3.00 INC. COFFEE
Play-writing
course
with Brian Woodland (1 of 6
classes), Marine
Theatre
Skittles competition, Pool, Cards, Jenga,
bar and food 7.30 pm Whitchurch Canonicorum Village Hall in aid of the
Village Hall
Fri 2nd
Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Course 10
weeks starting Friday 2 May 2008 5.30pm - 7pm 5.00 per class* At The Town
Mill (Community Room) Mill Lane, Lyme Regis For information or to book:
Call Michelle on 01297 34710 or 07528 372453 Email:
michellestanton1@aol.com
*It is recommended to try and attend the whole course.
Sat 3rd Save the Children Flag Day
National
Low Tide Day
The
Bridgend Male Voice Choir and Woodroffe Jazz Band in Concert.
Woodroffe School Hall
Tickets £10
7.00pm
Picture of
choir
Celidh, Marine Theatre
Sun 4th
May Day
LymeRegisRadio
Sunday Morning 11.30am-1pm
New LIVE Weekly Series
THE SUNDAY
VIEW
featuring Pip Evans and Guests in the Studio.
weekly What's On In Lyme feature, plus
Beach and Tide Reports for the week ahead. All the
Local News, and a review of the Sunday Paper's.
Lyme's own Sunday Colour Supplement. Music
& Requests, send your dedications to
lymeregisradio@hotmail.com.
Join in with the show via the CHATROOM.
To access the show, go to
www.lymeregisradio.com and click the link to the
LIVE CHANNEL.
May Day Fete
Maypole Dancing, Lyme Regis
Majorettes Display, Lyme Regis Junior Band,
Stalls, Face Painting, Cream Teas from many local organisations and charities. Playing Field, Anning
Road 1:45pm All local organisations and charities
are invited to have a stall 01297 442220. email:
info@lymeregiscarnival.co.uk
The Bridgend Male
Voice Choir. 4pm
St Michaels Parish Church. Tickets £10/8 from Lyme Regis TIC.
Picture
of choir
UK Beach Boys,
Un-seasonal snow has blown away just in time
for the UK Beach Boys in the Marine Theatre on Sunday 4 May at 8.30. With a
history of 60 singles in the US music charts, and 32 singles in the UK charts,
The Beach Boys occupy a unique position in the memories of most of us when we
fondly recall the music of yesteryear. This is undeniably the world’s number
one tribute to The Beach Boys – of that you can be sure. So, if you love the
music of The Beach Boys, then don’t miss this! Come along and pick up some
“Good Vibrations” and you’ll definitely have “Fun Fun Fun”, and then go home
agreeing, “I Can Hear Music” !
Marine Theatre
Mon 5th May Day Bank
Holiday
Talbot Arms Over 40's Charity Football Match
in aid of Force Cancer Charity 3pm Uplyme
Lyme Regis Majorettes Duck Race
12 noon Windsor
Terrace
Tues 6th
Open House Christian Aid Coffee Morning St
Michaels Church Hall 10am - 11.30am All Welcome
Antiques,
Collectors, Textiles and Craft Fair
in aid of the Lyme
Arts community Trust (Marine Theatre) Variety of stalls selling Porcelain,
Pottery, Linen, lace, Glass, Metalware, Antique and Costume Jewellery, Toys,
Dolls, Decorative Arts, various Craft Wares. 9.00am. to 4.00 pm. Marine
Theatre. Enquiries
farmeradi@aol.com 442489
Robert Waldron
'Living fully in the Now'
Heritage Coast U3A Woodmead Hall
7.30pm
'FOLK AT THE
ROPE' LIVE Music
from the Ropemaker's Arms, Bridport.
8pm-11pm.
www.lymeregisradio.com
and click the link to the LIVE CHANNEL
Weds 7th
Family charity bingo organised by two upper sixth formers. Prizes
have been donated by local shops and the money is going to the Project Trust
and the Dorset expeditionary society - the two charities which Hazel Hathway
and Martyn Middleton will be undertaking activities with in their gap years.
Doors open 7pm eyes down 7:30pm at The Woodroffe School
THE LYME AGENDA
LIVE from the Council Chamber in the Guildhall.
7pm-10pm (programme
might over-run!)
www.lymeregisradio.com and click the link to the
LIVE CHANNEL
Thurs 8th
A WEEK IN LYME REGIS
Mary & Nomad in the Studio, present a random
selection of this week's video's. 8pm-9pm
www.lymeregisradio.com
Fri May 9th - Sun 11th
'Sing it with Flowers' Flower Festival at St Michaels Church
Fri 9th Viewing and
judging by Margaret Jenkins of the seasons major club competitions. Cyril Nimo
Trophy - Jubilee Cup - Cobb Trophy. Lyme Bay Photographic Club All meetings
are free to members. Visitors welcome. Entrance fee £1 The Club meets at
the small Woodmead Hall from 7.30pm to 10pm
MICKY SALBERG’S CRYSTAL BALLROOM DANCE BAND:
Watermill
Theatre Return with another wonderful play by Ade Morris!
Audiences at the Marine theatre have loved Ade Morris plays from the Watermill
Theatre, Newbury and the national press feel the same. His latest – “Micky
Salberg’s Crystal Ballroom Dance Band” has attracted rave reviews. “It
possesses an honesty and
humour other playwrights would do well to emulate”
said the Daily Telegraph and Theatre World Review wrote “This is
a feel-good show where the audience won’t leave until they’ve had at least one
encore. Ade Morris knows how to tell a tale,
and tell it well.”
This is the first time that The Watermill has taken an
actor-musician show out on the road. Audiences can expect plenty of fabulous
live music in MICKY SALBERG’S CRYSTAL BALLROOM DANCE BAND as the actors in
the production will play musical instruments whilst in character.
It’s a tough life on the farm, and the late 50’s are no exception. With
bailiffs expected at any moment the feisty no-nonsense Sam is trying to save her
father’s farm. With little prospect of earning money from the land they decide
to form a Ballroom Dance Band, with just two members. Enter the ever confident
guitar wielding Tommy. He fervently believes that rock and roll is the way
forward but Micky is unconvinced. And Sam? Well she just hates Tommy. The
conflict of musical styles and relationships brings surprising revelations and
new challenges to them all.
The Watermill in
Newbury is one of the jewels in the crown of British theatre. It is a producing
theatre which in the last ten years has seen many of its shows transferred to
London’s West End and one to Broadway in New York.
This new show, which tours to over 20 venues following a run at
The Watermill, comes to The Marine Theatre for one performance only, tickets
from Lyme’s Tourist Information
centre on 01297 442138 are £10.00 or £8.00 for
concessions.
Sat 10th
Bring and Buy Plant Sale
Uplyme Village Hall 10 - 11.30am. Uplyme
and Lyme Regis Horticultural
Society
Sing it with Flowers' Flower Festival at St Michaels Church
Garden Fair
Colyton Grammar School, Colyford 10am -4pm
Lyme Bay Chorale Spring Concert, Pergolesi and Handel, directed by Alex Davies
should be an excellent evening and will include a small
orchestra of local players to accompany the Handel and Pergolesi, Violins,
Viola including ex Woodroffe school pupil Emily Penn on Oboe and Peter Scriven
on Trumpet as well as our professional soloists Caroline and Aleks Szram
(Cello and Piano / Organ). The concert is part of the flower festival "Sing it with
Flowers"
so expect abundant floral displays and a sumptuous wine and
finger buffet supper which LBC are famous for. Tickets a bargain £8 from
Hilary Highet or at the door! St
Michael's Church 7.30pm
11th -17th May
Christian Aid Week
Sun 11th
Sing it with Flowers' Flower Festival at St Michaels Church
Mon 12th
Oklahoma! Lyme Regis Operatic Society, Marine Theatre.
Tickets from Fortnam Smith & Banwell, Broad Street
Tues 13th
Oklahoma! Lyme Regis Operatic Society,
Marine Theatre. Tickets from Fortnam
Smith & Banwell, Broad Street
Weds 14th
Uplyme WI
Uplyme Village Hall
Oklahoma! Lyme Regis Operatic Society,
Marine Theatre. Tickets from Fortnam Smith & Banwell, Broad Street
Thurs 15th
Mayor Making
Ceremony The Guildhall
Oklahoma! Lyme Regis Operatic Society,
Marine Theatre. Tickets from Fortnam Smith & Banwell, Broad Street
Fri 16th
U3A Coffee
Morning 10am -12 noon Marine Theatre Please come along, with your friends, for a relaxing cup of
coffee or tea.
Oklahoma! Lyme Regis Operatic Society,
Marine Theatre. Tickets from Fortnam Smith & Banwell, Broad Street
Sat 17th
Lyme Regis National Waterski Race hosted in
association with the Lyme Regis Powerboat Club! Length of course:
approx. 4 miles Racing timetable: 12.00pm Scrutineering; 2.00pm Briefing
- Safety briefing will follow the main briefing; 3.20 pm
Bambinos; 4.00 pm Main race; 5.15 pm Ladies / Dauphines / Open class
Oklahoma! Lyme Regis Operatic Society,
Marine Theatre. Tickets from Fortnam Smith & Banwell, Broad Street
18th
to the 31st of May.
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in Microcosm Tulips, Broad Street
11am to 5pm daily. See more right.
Sun 18th International
Museums Day
The Last South: Pursuit
of the Pole Adapted from the
journals of Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott by G. M. Calhoun Marine Theatre
Mon 19th
West
Dorset/East Devon Soil Association
local group's first meeting. 7.30 pm at Middle House,
Combpyne. All are welcome. For details call Jeff Bolam on 01297
443135.
Royal
British Legion Quiz Night: teams of 6 max. £2 per person.
Trophy and other prizes. Local organisations such as sailing club,
football club, RNLI etc etc welcome to put in teams. Woodmead Hall 7.30pm.
Play reading for the Lyme Regis
Dramatic Society's October production by Jim Pettifer: Relative
Values by Noel Coward and 'Four Plays for Coarse Actors' by Michael Green.
St Michaels Business Centre 7.30pm All welcome whether you wish to be in
the production or not.
Tuesday 20th
Lyme Regis Rotary Club Golf Day at Lyme
Regis Golf Club
Antiques,
Collectors, Textiles and Craft Fair
in aid of the Lyme
Arts community Trust (Marine Theatre) Variety of stalls selling Porcelain,
Pottery, Linen, lace, Glass, Metalware, Antique and Costume Jewellery, Toys,
Dolls, Decorative Arts, various Craft Wares. 9.00am. to 4.00 pm. Marine
Theatre. Enquiries
farmeradi@aol.com 442489
Weds 21st
Adjourned
Annual Council Meeting 7pm The Guildhall
TheatreFriends Quiz Night
Marine Theatre
(it's just
the) BOOZE TALKING
Join Lyme Regis Radio in the bar at the Angel, Mill Green for an evening of
no-holds-barred open-ended discussion! Commencing Weekly from Weds 21st May
8pm-10pm.
Thursday 22nd
‘Love’s Philosophy’
gathers songs from Faure, Strauss, Schubert, Mozart,
Liszt, Poulenc, Delibes and Karl Zeller:
Concerts in the West 2008 Anna Devin (soprano) & Aoife O'Sullivan (piano):
Anna
Devin is highly sought after on the concert platform in Ireland and
was a multiple prizewinner at the Irish Feiseanna. Last year she won the
Thelma King Award in Bath, the Audience Prize at the Handel Singing
Competition, the Acton Travel Bursary at the RIAM and third prize
at the Great Elm Awards in the Wigmore Hall. Some of her solo work
includes Monteverdi’s Vespers ,Mozart’s Requiem, Orff’s
Carmina Burana, the Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Rossini’s Petite
Messe Solennelle, Handel’s Messiah, Belinda in Purcell’s Dido
and Aeneas, Damigella and Virtue in Monteverdi's The Coronation of
Poppea. Future engagements include the Buxton Music Festival, Aldeburgh,
and the Gottigen Handel Festival in Germany.
Aoife O’Sullivan
has played for masterclasses given by Ann Murray DBE, Sir Thomas Allen, Thomas
Hampson and Anna Moffo. She holds the Geoffrey Parsons Trust award and has
appeared many times at the Wigmore Hall. Aoife presently has a full performance
diary and teaches at the National Opera Studio in London.
This concert series is a shared fund-raising venture in Lyme Regis by the Marine
Theatre and Town Mill. 7.30pm Marine Theatre
Fri 23rd
RNLI Flag Day
Silver Surfers' Day:
all about running taster
events, of any size, anywhere, to help older people to get online.
End of season
club awards followed by a Social Evening. Dave King & Regatta
Cups.
Annes Street - Apollo - Lyme 1200 & Regatta Trophies. Lyme Bay
Photographic Club. All meetings are free to members. Visitors welcome. Entrance
fee £1 The Club meets at the small Woodmead Hall from 7.30pm to 10pm
The REOFFENDERS deliver a
tribute to 30 years of Punk with all the energy of the original Punk Rock
explosion of the late 70s. Be you a former Punk re-living those great days
or a youngster, this show will take you on a rocket-ride from The Ramones,
The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Undertones, The Jam and Blondie, right up to
modern hits from Green Day and Offspring. But more than anything, a
REOFFENDERS show is about entertainment, so they'll not leave before they
poke a punk finger of fun at the likes of Elton John, Kim Wilde, Ricky
Martin, and, er, Britney Spears. The REOFFENDERS non-stop assault of punk
hits is coming Lyme - spike up your hair and be prepared for some Teenage
Kicks! As one reviewer said "if you can stand still to this lot, then you're
clinically dead".
Marine Theatre
Doors open 7.45pm (band on stage 8.30pm)
£6 Advance / £8 Door
Saturday 24 May to Sunday 8 June Dorset Art Weeks 2008
Many local artists - see right
Sat 24th
RNLI Flag Day
Christian Aid
Ploughman's Lunch Lyme Regis
Baptist Church Hall 12 noon - 2pm £4.50
Angel Exit Theatre presents The Black Curtain.
True to their “reputation for excellence in
physical theatre” (The Irish Times), Angel Exit’s new production
The Black Curtain will thrill audiences. The play conjures up a
haunting yarn of wayward spies, power-hungry politicians, a duplicitous femme
fatale and tough decisions for one man. With “vivid theatricality and
inventiveness” (The Guardian) this South West-based physical theatre
company brings the plight of one man, Frank Harmless, into sharp focus through
the lens of film noir. The Black Curtain
presents a gripping, stylish piece of theatre, at once glamorously removed and
frighteningly close to the corruption of modern society. Set in the dark
underbelly of a world where shafts of light pierce Venetian blinds and
illuminate a trench-coated chorus, this starkly contemporary tale is inspired
by topical news stories such as the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, the
death of David Kelly and the bugging of well-known politicians. Devised and
developed by the company, and with an original electro-jazz score by Tom Ball
(Headland), The Black Curtain incorporates bold movement and a
cracking hard-boiled script
Marine Theatre
8pm £7.50
Sun 25th
Rotary Mammoth Book
Sale, Marine Parade
Annual
Art Exhibition by the Lyme Regis Art Group
Woodmead Hall, Hill Road, Lyme Regis. 10 am to 5 pm
Open Garden for Lyme Regis
Action Medical Research, Lower Ware, Lower Ware Lane 2.30 - 5pm
Heaviest Flat Fish Lyme Regis Sea Angling
Club 1800 - 2200 Car Park, Charmouth
'The Railway Children'
By E Nesbit.
An original take on a much loved classic, the play
condenses the themes situations, characters and
conflicts whilst retaining the magic and charm of the original. The play is
set against a background of secrecy as a middle class family readjust to a
life of poverty in the country. Roberta (the only Railway Child on stage) must
fend for herself whilst her mother sells stories and poems to live. The question on everyone’s lips is “How can you do a
production of The Railway Children with only one child?” With
a clever mix of storytelling and drama, Mother, who is writing the story as
E. Nesbitt, and daughter, Roberta, relay the tale together with Mr. Perks
and the old gentleman in support.
This is a classic story which has stood the test of time
and will be as popular with older audiences as younger. The Railway
Children is well known for the two film versions, both starring
Jenny Agutter. Croft Production have a national reputation for excellence in
their small scale productions, local audiences will remember their
impressive production of “An Elegant Portrayal” during last year’s Jane
Austen Weekend at the Marine theatre. The evening promises to be a special
treat for all, young and old, as this classic tale unfolds.
Croft Productions, Marine Theatre
7pm £9 (£6
U16)
Mon 26th Spring Bank
Holiday
Annual
Art Exhibition by the Lyme Regis Art Group
Woodmead Hall, Hill Road, Lyme Regis. 10 am to 5 pm
Duck Race 12.00 from Windsor Terrace
Waterfall organised by the Carnival Committee
Antiques, Collectors, Textiles and Craft Fair
in aid of the Lyme
Arts community Trust (Marine Theatre) Variety of stalls selling Porcelain,
Pottery, Linen, lace, Glass, Metalware, Antique and Costume Jewellery, Toys,
Dolls, Decorative Arts, various Craft Wares. 9.00am. to 4.00 pm. Marine
Theatre. Enquiries
farmeradi@aol.com 442489
Colyton Vintage Tractor Run
Departs Colyton 10.30am ETA at Uplyme Village Hall 1.20pm
Weds 28th
Extracts
from the works of John Milton read by Oliver Ford Davies
at a
charity lunch The distinguished actor will be
the guest of honour at the Hotel Alexandra. Organised by the Friends of Lyme
Regis Museum ticket numbers are strictly limited available from the Museum
and from Martin Diplock’s office in Broad Street. £25, and all
proceeds will go to the Museum Extension Fund. See more right.
Plant Sale and Coffee Morning
- Combpyne-Rousdon Produce Association 10.30am at Peek Hall, Rousdon.
All are welcome. Information: Diana Forrest 01297 443135.
Fri 30th Beck Sian,
Marine Theatre
Sat 31st
Talking Pants! Ian
Billings stand-up comedy for Kids, Marine
Theatre
May 2009
Fossil Festival
"Lyme Regis will stage its next Fossil Festival in 2009 as part of the
Darwin200
celebrations. The Lyme Regis Development Trust are committed to delivering a Festival that exceeds
everyone’s expectations and so are going to focus their attention and use the
intervening sixteen months to plan and deliver another superb Festival in 2009." |