Electric Palace
35 South Street
Bridport, Dorset DT6 3NY
Ticket sales:
Box office 01308 428354
Bridport TIC 01308 424901
Check out our website www.electricpalace.org.uk for details and to sign up for e-alerts for new events
APRIL
Fri 3rd
A Night of Dirty Dancing
Doors open 6.30pm, start 7.30pm
£20 + £1 bf/£22 on door
Sat 4th, Weds 8th and Sat 11th
Easter Value Films for families and children
All tickets £1 on door
10.30am, 12.30pm, 2.30pm
Weds 8th to Sunday 12th
From Page to Screen, Bridport’s film festival
Tickets from Bridport Arts Centre box office 01308 424204
Open 10am to 3pm from Tues to Fri and 10am to 4pm on Sat.
Please see our website for full list of films.
Thurs 16th
Ferocious Dog
Doors 7pm / start 8pm
Tickets £10 + bf /£12 on door
Date to be arranged
National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem
Doors open 6pm start 7pm
£10 + 50p bf/ £12 on door
Fri 24th
Comedy Network
Naz Osmanoglu, Mark Smith and Steve Bugeja
Doors open 7.15pm start 8.15pm
£10 + 50p bf/£12 on door
Mon 27th
Stewart Lee ***SOLD OUT ***
Doors open 7pm, start 8pm
MAY
Fri 1st
Blade Runner: The Final Cut 1982/2007 (15)
Doors open 7pm, start 8pm
£6 + 30p bf/ £8 on door
Sat 2nd
Kara Grainger and her band, featuring Paddy Milner
Doors open 7pm, start 8pm
PRICE OF TICKETS
Thurs 14th
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
Doors open 6pm, start 7pm
£10 + 50p bf/£12 on door
Fri 15th
Stompin’ Dave and his Bluegrass Band
Doors open 7pm, start 8pm
£10 + 50p bf/£12 on door
Sat 16th
Swing Unlimited All Stars Big Band
Tribute to Count Basie
Doors open 6.30pm, start 7.30pm
Tickets £13 + 65p bf/ concessions £11 + 55p bf / door £15
Thurs 21st
Dark Horse
Doors open 6pm, start 3pm
£10 + 50p bf/£12 on door
Fri 29th
Comedy Network
Katie Mulgrew, Mark Smith, Tiff Stevenson
Doors open 7.15pm, start 8.15pm
£10 + 50p bf/£12 on door
LIVE THEATRE AND COMEDY
A Night of Dirty Dancing: The Ultimate Tribute Show
3rd April
No film has captured the hearts of a generation like Dirty Dancing.
Relive the passion, indulge in the romance and celebrate the greatest movie soundtrack of all time. Revel in the moments you loved, the memories you made and music that’s resonated throughout the years: She’s Like the Wind, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Hey Baby, Wipeout, Do You Love Me, Be My Baby, Hungry Eyes and, of course, the Oscar-winning (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.
Electric Palace Comedy Network
24th April
Naz Osmanoglu, Mark Smith and Steve Bugeja
Mark Smith comperes our monthly Comedy Network of up-and-comers fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe. Steve Bugeja was recently crowned the 2013 BBC Radio New Comedy Award winner. A prolific writer, Steve has contributed material for Mock The Week, 8 out of 10 Cats and Russell Howard’s Good News.
Naz Osmanoglu is star of BBC3’s Live at the Electric, winner of the Amused Moose Laugh-off Competition, Chortle Best Newcomer Nominee 2010 Naz Osmanoglu has hit the London comedy circuit running. Says Richard Herring: “He is a name to remember, however difficult that might be. Very confident, very original and tightly performed.”
Stewart Lee: A Room With A Stew
27th April
***SOLD OUT***
A brand new live show with fresh material in preparation for Stewart’s next BBC2 series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle.
“Remains one of the best stand-ups in the country.” **** Metro
Electric Palace Comedy Network
Fri 29th May
Katie Mulgrew, Mark Smith, Tiff Stevenson
Mark Smith comperes our monthly Comedy Network of up-and-comers fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe. According to Festmag, Kate is “smart and witty…she has an easy rapport with the audience that many more experienced comedian would sell their joke books for.” Tiff’s TV appearances include Mock The Week, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and The Apprentice: You’re Fired. Says The Guardian of Tiff: “Mouthy, cynical and sexually frank, she left us wanting more.”
MUSIC
Ferocious Dog
16th April
Creating their own take on Traditional Celtic folk, Ferocious Dog take the traditional instruments of fiddles, whistles and mandolins and mix them up with a bit of raw, buzzsaw rock n’ roll attitude. With their unique, aggressive yet feel-good music, they tear up venues across the country, often bringing their faithful Hell Hounds along for the ride.
“As someone who has played with the Levellers, Oysterband and Wonderstuff… Ferocious Dog are carrying on the tradition of folk rock the way it was meant to be done.” Dan Donnelly
Kara Grainger and her band, featuring Paddy Milner
2nd May
An internationally acclaimed musician, Kara’s sultry voice and classy slide-guitar playing invariably evokes comparisons to notable female blues guitar exponents such as Bonnie Raitt and Susan Tedeschi. But Kara Grainger has her own unique style, and her growing popularity in this part of the world has her returning again and again to perform festivals and shows, particularly in mainland Europe.
“Every now and then, I hear something from outside of my comfort zone of Country Music that just flat knocks me out. Australian-born Kara Grainger is one of those artists. She blends Pop, Jazz, and R&B in what seems to be (because it never is that easy as the great ones make it seem) an effortless manner.” Nashville Music News
Stompin’ Dave and his Bluegrass Band
15th May
Bridport-based Stompin’ Dave is “one of the world’s greatest performers” according to Maverick Magazine. He’s now teamed up with the cream of London’s vibrant bluegrass scene and will be bringing his band to his home town for the first time.
“Stompin’ Dave’s is a master of all kinds of American roots music ranging from bluegrass to blues guitar, with a nice line in self-deprecating patter between numbers. He’s partial to showbiz gimmicks, juggling with his banjo and playing his guitar behind his head like Hendrix, but there is great sincerity and feeling in his performance, too…a formidable musician and a true original.” The Daily Telegraph.
Swing Unlimited All Stars Big Band Play A Tribute to Count Basie
16th May
Following sell-out performances for three years running, Swing Unlimited All Stars Big Band come to Bridport, playing a Tribute to Count Basie, with arrangements and vocals for an evening of great entertainment and great music. Numbers include well-known favourites such as Jumping at the Woodside and One O’clock Jump. An event not to be missed – book in advance to ensure a seat.
SCREENINGS
Easter Value Films for families and children
4th 8th and 11th April
10.30am, 12.30pm, 2.30pm
All tickets £1 on door
We present a selection of our favourite Disney and family film classics from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Tales of Beatrix Potter to Toy Story and Monsters Inc. Please see our website for full details.
From Page to Screen Film Festival
8-12 April
This unique festival celebrates cinema adaptations of books. This year, we’re showing Testament of Youth, Paddington, The Imitation Game, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Theory of Everything and Suite Francaise.
Tickets for all From Page to Screen films are available from the box office of our festival partners Bridport Arts Centre. Please see our website for full details.
National Theatre Live: The Hard Problem
DATE TO BE ARRANGED
Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) returns to the National Theatre with his highly-anticipated new play The Hard Problem, directed by Nicholas Hytner (Othello, Hamlet, One Man, Two Guvnors).
Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brainscience institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness?
Blade Runner: The Final Cut 1982/2007 (15)
1st May
Adapted from Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ridley Scott’s iconic dystopian classic is unquestionably one of the greatest sci-fi films ever made.
Given complete artistic freedom to make The Final Cut in 2007, the 25th anniversary of the film’s release, director Ridley Scott created this final, definitive version, fully restored from the original negative.
National Theatre Live: Man and Superman
14th May
Academy Award® nominee Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient, Schindler’s List; Oedipus at the National Theatre) plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of Shaw’s witty, provocative classic.
A romantic comedy, an epic fairytale, a fiery philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks fundamental questions about how we live.
Dark Horse
21st May
Louise Osmond’s documentary is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club who take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse.When Jan Vokes, the barmaid at a local working men’s club, overhears a regular talking about the time he owned a share of a racehorse, she decides to breed a racehorse of her own and goes into business with the regulars and her husband.
COMING EVENTS
MUSIC
Lee Scratch Perry
The Proclaimers
SCREENINGS
Everyman
Merchant of Venice
Othello
Henry V
Hamlet
LIVE THEATRE AND COMEDY
Richard Herring
One Man Breaking Bad
Craig Campbell
Ed Byrne
Stewart Francis
