January and February at The Electric Palace
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick 70th Birthday Celebration
Friday, 13th January (rescheduled from December)
Doors open at 7pm
Tickets: £12.50
This exceptional performance, in the year both Carthy and Swarbrick celebrate their 70th birthdays, features folk music’s finest. This is a chance to see two legends of English music!
Fiddle & Banjo Celebration Concert
Friday 20th January
Doors open at 7.15pm, performance starts at 8.00pm
Tickets: £10.00 in advance, £12.00 on the door
A special concert to celebrate one of most enduring combination of instruments, featuring a great triple bill of Stompin’ Dave & Edward Bennett, Kate Lisauer and The Gollywhoppers.
The Metropolitan Opera presents: The Enchanted Island
Monday, 23rd January
Doors open at 5.30pm, screening begins at 6pm
Tickets: £14.50, £12.50 EP members, £10 children
In one extraordinary new work, lovers of Baroque opera have it all: the world’s best singers, glorious music of the Baroque masters, and a story drawn from Shakespeare. The lovers from A Midsummer Night’s Dream are shipwrecked on his other-worldly island of The Tempest.
Bridport Pantomime Players present: Robinson Crusoe
- Wednesday, 1st February @ 7.30pm
- Thursday 2ndFebruary @ 1.30pm & 7.30pm
- Friday 3rdFebruary @ 7.30pm
- Saturday 4thFebruary @ 2.00pm and 7.30pm
Doors open an hour before the performance
Tickets: £7.00 / £6.00 Senior Citizens and Children
Tickets available from Groves Nurseries
Bridport Pantomime Players will help you shake off the winter weather and whisk you away to a tropical island with their production of Robinson Crusoe! Come and join them at the Electric Palace for plenty of ‘Oh no it isn’t’ and ‘He’s behind you!’ with a good dollop of laughs thrown in for good measure.
Wednesday, 1st February @ 7.30pm
Movie Mums: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Cert U
Wednesday, 8thFebruary
Doors open at noon
Tickets: £5.00 / £2.50 concessions / free for children
Tickets available on the door
Come and see a classic movie followed by a baby disco!
National Theatre Live: Travelling Light
Thursday 9thFebruary
Doors open at 6pm
Tickets: £12.50
Featuring Antony Sher Travelling Light is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age.
The Phil Beer Band
Saturday 11th February
Doors open at 7.00pm, performance starts at 8.00pm
Tickets: £15.00
Described as ‘where Steve Earle and Richard Thompson collide’ an evening with The Phil Beer Band is fast, frenetic, ‘feel-good’ and leavened with a good helping of humour.
The Metropolitan Opera presents: Wagner’s ‘Gotterdammerung’
Monday, 13thFebruary
Doors open at 4.00pm, screening begins at 4.30pm
Tickets: £14.50, £12.50 EP members, £10 children
With its cataclysmic climax, the Met’s new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate.
Bella Hardy
Friday 17th February
Doors open at 7.00pm, performance starts at 8.00pm
Tickets: £12.50
Acclaimed Peak District singer Bella Hardy has made a name for herself in traditional English music. Bella is one of the finest young folk acts around, singing unaccompanied ballads, or entwining her hypnotic voice with her own fiddle accompaniment to breathtaking effect. Three times nominated in the BBC Folk Awards, she has a voice marked as ‘…mesmerising’ and ‘…faultless’.
The Metropolitan Opera presents: Verdi’s ‘Ernani’
Monday, 27thFebruary
Doors open at 5.30pm, screening begins at 6.00pm
Tickets: £14.50, £12.50 EP members, £10 children
Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi’s thrilling early gem. Marcello Giordani is her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast.
Book your tickets now from Bridport Tourist Information Centre on 01308 424901
or for selected events from www.seetickets.com
