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 WeekMichael 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.

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