Dine out in style with your workmates then enjoy your choice of three of the best Christmas Party nights Bridport has ever seen: Rock’n’Roll Christmas, ABBA MerryChristmas or a Comedy night with local legend Bentley.
Saturday 28 Nov – Rock’n’Roll Christmas Party
A magic combination – that’s Earl Jackson and Stompin’ Dave Allen, two of the UK’s top blues and roots artists. Earl Jackson rocks out like Chuck Berry (who he played in the West End Show ‘Buddy’) so come to bop til you drop 1950’s style.
Saturday 5 Dec – ABBA Merry Christmas Party with Thank You For The Music
Dancing Queens and Super Troupers can experience the UK’s No1 concert show’s fABBAulous festive party spectacular! Prize for best ABBA outfit.
Saturday 18 Dec – Bentley’s Laughing Cabaret
Bentley, that irrepressible West Country pirate, comperes a stonking comedy line-up put together just for Bridport Electric Palace. Make a Christmas do of it with a special, pre-show meal at one of three great Bridport eateries – or come along later just for the thrill of the ride. DJ afterwards.
Dinner 5.30-7pm – The George Hotel, Olive Tree or Taj Mahal
Show Doors 6.30pm / starts 7.30pm
Tickets
Show £15 (£14 + £1 bf) advance / £18 on the door
Dinner and Show £30 (£30 + £1.50 bf) advance sales only
Tickets through Electric Palace Box Office (open Tues–Sat, 10am- 4pm)
Bridport TIC (open Mon-Sat 9am-5pm) on 01308 424901
Or online £14 + bf from Seetickets.com
LIVE THEATRE & COMEDY
Fri 23 October
Stewart Francis: Pun Gent
Doors 7pm / start 8pm
£18.50 + £1 bf advance / £22 on door / £19.98 online
The star of Mock The Week, Michael McIntyre’s Roadshow and Live At The Apollo, on a brand new stand-up tour.
“A brilliant comic brain…” Guardian
Fri 30 October
Comedy Network
Phil Wang, Kieran Boyd and Tommy Rowson
Doors 7.15pm / starts 8.15pm
£10 + 50p bf advance / £12 on the door/ £11 online
Bringing you the cream of the crop from the Edinburgh Fringe. Phil Wang’s making a name for himself as one of the UK’s funniest undergraduates.
SCREENINGS & FILM
Fri 9 October
FILM: Tangerines
Doors 6pm / starts 7pm
All tickets £4 on the door – no need to book, just turn up!
War in Georgia, Apkhazeti region in 1990. Estonian man Ivo stays behind to harvest crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind. Ivo is forced to take him in.
Thurs 15 October
NT Live: Hamlet
Doors 6pm / start 7pm
£10 + 50p bf / £12 on door / £11 online
Benedict Cumberbatch takes on the title role in Shakespeare’s great tragedy. As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart.
Mon 26 – Fri 29 October
The Best of James Bond
Doors 6pm / starts 7pm
All tickets £4 on the door – no need to book, just turn up.
As Spectre, the latest James Bond film, comes to cinemas, we go on a mission with 007 and revisit some of the world famous spy’s best known escapades.
Weds 21 October
RSC Live: Henry V
Doors 6pm / start 7pm
£10 + 50p bf advance / £12 on door / £11 online
Henry IV is dead and Hal is King. With England in a state of unrest, he must leave his rebellious youth behind, striving to gain the respect of his nobility and people.
Sat 24 October
Ant Man
Doors 6pm / starts 7pm
All tickets £4 on the door – no need to book, just turn up!
Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, cat burglar Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero.
FILM: Red Army (15)
Sat 7 November
Doors 6pm / starts 7pm
All tickets £4 on the door – no need to book, just turn up!
The story of the Soviet Union’s famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players.
SCREENING: NT LIVE
Thurs 19 November
Of Mice and Men
Doors 6pm / start 7pm
£10 + 50p bf advance / £12 on door / £11 online
Golden Globe® winner and Academy Award® nominee James Franco (127 Hours, Milk) and Tony Award® nominee Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids, Girls) star in the highly-anticipated screenings of this hit Broadway show.
FILM: Dorset Film Archive
Fri 20 November
Doors 6.30pm / start 7.30pm
£10 + 50p bf advance / £12 on door / £11 online
Historian Trevor Bailey presents a selection of local cinematic gems from the Dorset Film Archive. Proceeds for the evening go to Windrose Film Trust.
Wed 25 November
FILM: Life
Doors 6pm / starts 7pm
All tickets £4 on the door – no need to book, just turn up!
This biopic, directed by Anton Corbijn, is based on the friendship of Life magazine photographer Dennis Stock and Hollywood actor James Dean.
SCREENING: BRANAGH THEATRE LIVE
The Winter’s Tale
Thurs 26 November
Doors 6pm / start 7pm
£10 + 50p bf advance / £12 on door / £11 online
Judi Dench will play Paulina and Kenneth Branagh Leontes in this reinvention of Shakespeareʼs timeless tragic-comedy of obsession and redemption from the Garrick.
MUSIC
Fri 2 October
BLUES NIGHT: Hucklebuck featuring Ian Briggs
Doors 7pm / Starts 8pm
£10 + 50p bf advance / £12 on the door / £11 online
Hucklebuck play a mix of American west-coast blues, R&B and rockabilly. Harmonica player Ian Briggs has played with blues’ greats, including Savoy Brown, Michael Roach and the legendary Yardbirds, alongside Eric Clapton, in the 1960s.
Sat 3 October
The Christians and Andrew Roachford
Doors 7pm / Starts 8pm
£25 (£24 + £1 bf) advance / £27 on door / £26.50 online
These musical legends will each will be fronting a 70-minute set with full band, playing the hits that took them to the top of their game in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. And they’re in finer voice than ever.
Fri 6 November
Bad Influence
Doors 7pm / Starts 8pm
£10 + 50p bf advance / £12 on the door / £11 online
Led by singer/rhythm guitarist Val Cowell and lead/slide guitar player Richard Hayes, this band are considered one of the top acts in their field, delivering their sound of powerful vocals alongside classic guitar driven, rock solid blues.
Weds 18 November
L’Orchestre du Mont-Plaisant
Doors 7pm / starts 8pm
£10 + 50p bf advance / £12 on the door / £11 online
This not-to-be-missed world supergroup brings together moody cinematic moments playing blues and dance pieces, with notable influences from Congolese Soukous, African highlife, Ethiopian jazz, cumbia and a whiff of Middle-East and Turkish Psychedelia.
Sat 21 November
Dub Pistols
Doors 7pm / starts 8pm
£12 + 60p bf advance / £15 on the door
Chewing up hip-hop, dub, techno, ska & punk & spitting them out in a renegade futuristic skank, Dub Pistols have consistently defied genres and exceeded the highest of expectations.
Fri 27 November
Ben Poole
Doors 7pm / Starts 8pm
£12 + £1 bf advance / £15 on door / £13.20 online
Ben Poole is one of the most exciting young blues guitarist to come out of the UK for a long, long time. “F***ing amazing! I loved his playing…I really loved his playing!” Jeff Beck
Sat 28 November
Rock‘n’Roll Christmas Party
featuring Earl Jackson and Stompin’ Dave Allen
Doors 6.30pm / start 7.30pm
Show only £14 + £1 bf advance / £18 on door / £15 online
Dinner and Show £30 +bf advance sales only
A magic combination – two of the UK’s top blues and roots artists, who were encouraged to perform together by Blues Matters Lifetime Achievement Award recipient promoter Monica Madgwick. Be prepared for a barnstorming performance!
COMMUNITY
Sat 10 October
Skool Disco
8pm – 1am
£10 advance only
Dust off your old school uniform and dance to classics from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Organised by Bridport Round Table as a fundraiser. Over 18s only.
Sat 17 October
Democracy Day
11am – 8.30pm
Free entry, donations welcome
A day of celebrations, with the creative arts revealing new ways of looking at the state of our current democracy. Music, including Billy Bragg, dance, puppetry, film and performance.
BRIDPORT LITERARY FESTIVAL
Fri 13 November – Sun 15 November
Bridport Literary Festival events
Advance tickets from Bridport TIC
See www.bridlit.com for full details
The 11th Bridport Literary Festival welcomes all those who read books
and love literature. Tickets from Bridport TIC.
Tues 6 October
Alexander McCall-Smith
Starts 11am
£12 advance from Bridport TIC / £15 on the door
8 November James Holland
13 November James Rebanks and Fergus Byrne on Felix Dennis
14 November Satish Kumar, Dr Lewis Dartnell and Sebastian Faulks
15 November Charles Moore
MORE TO COME SOON
Ed Byrne, Terry Hall, Stackridge, 24 Pesos, monthly Blues Nights, Bridport Pantomime, Fairport Convention, Craig Campbell, Bridport Youth Theatre, Live screenings from NT and RSC, films, monthly comedy.
