Prophecy: Living Art As Life
until Saturday 4 July, 10am, Main Gallery
Experience the intensely vivid artwork of award-winning visionary artist Hazel Golden. Creating 66 artworks, Hazel weaves together realms of insights and beauty, symbolically reflecting her own spiritual awakening and the artist whose life became the canvas.
Jay & Joss: It’s Not a Game
Wednesday 1 July, 7.30pm, Theatre
Jay & Joss are the award-winning illusionists who stunned the judges on Britain’s Got Talent. Now they’re back with a mind-bending new show. It’s Not a Game invites you into a world where nothing is quite as it seems. With jaw-dropping stunts, breathtaking visuals and moments that defy belief, reality and illusion are about to dissolve. Can you be sure where one ends and the other begins?
NT Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Thursday 2, Friday 3 July, 7.30pm (Thu), 5pm (Fri), Cinema
BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of the classic novel.
Kimberley Nixon – Baby Brain
Thursday 2 July, 8pm, Sherling Studio
A one-person play, in 6 acts. This is a story about finding light in the darkest places and the unvarnished truth of motherhood that so often goes unspoken. The script was refined, rehearsed and performed in the Sherling Studio at Lighthouse, Poole as part of its Sanctuary scheme for supporting new work. Age guidance: 16+
John Hegley: New & Selected Potatoes
Saturday 4 July, 8pm, Sherling Studio
Poet, comic, singer, songwriter and glasses-wearer John Hegley demonstrates the breadth of his appeal with seriously funny, cleverly comic poems on everything from love, family, France, art and the sea to dogs, dads, gods, taxidermy, carrots, spectacles and – of course – potatoes. Age guidance: 8+
NT Live: All My Sons (15)
Thursday 9 July, 7pm, Cinema
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge).
Running Commentary
Thursday 9 July, 8pm, Sherling Studio
After a decade of no exercise (besides child-rearing and reaching for cake), 41-year-old poet P. Burton-Morgan finds themselves newly single and hungry to return to pre-childbirth levels of fitness. Age guidance: 16+
An Evening with David Sedaris
Friday 10 July, 7.30pm, Concert Hall
One of America’s pre-eminent humour writers, Sedaris is a master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers. Through his essays, diaries and hugely popular BBC Radio series, he has made us consider the absurdities of human nature and modern life: family, travel, relationships, aging, the pandemic, political upheavals and of course roadside trash! Age guidance: 14+
A Sea Symphony
Saturday 11 July, 7.30pm, Concert Hall
A gala evening to support the work of the RNLI featuring the massed forces of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Bath Minerva Choir, the huge Salomon Orchestra and notable soloists Sophie Bevan and Gareth Brynmor John under the baton of the ever-charismatic Gavin Carr, in a programme celebrating the sea in all its varied forms and climaxing with Vaughan Williams’s epic and magnificent Sea Symphony.
Coastal Comedy
Saturday 11 July, 8pm, Sherling Studio
Our resident and multi-award-winning comedy club, Coastal Comedy offers the very best in live stand-up talent every month in our beautifully intimate Sherling Studio. Age guidance: 18+
Nikita Kuzmin – Supernova
Friday 17 July, 7.30pm, Theatre
Strictly Come Dancing finalist and fan favourite Nikita Kuzmin takes centre stage in the explosive new dance spectacular Supernova.
Steve Steinman’s Anything For Love
Saturday 18 July, 7.30pm, Concert Hall
The highly acclaimed show producer and no. 1 recording artist Steve Steinman with his brand-new production featuring over 25 of Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman’s greatest hits. The show includes Steve’s very own chart-topping single, Everything They Said Was True, written by John Parr and Meat Loaf. For more than 30 years Steve has toured the world with his productions Anything For Love and Vampires Rock and is now also touring his own original music.
Dementia Friendly: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Thursday 23 July, 2pm, Cinema
Classic film of the Roald Dahl story about a poor but hopeful boy who seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory. Gene Wilder stars.
The Tiger Who Came To Tea
Tuesday 28 – Thursday 30 July, 2pm (11am Wed, Thu only), Theatre
A musical play adapted and directed by David Wood, based on the book by Judith Kerr. Direct from the West End, the Olivier Award nominated smash hit show, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, returns to Poole on tour. Age guidance: 3+
Tickets and information: 01202 280000
