Artful Dodging
A look at what you can see in and around Dartmouth
by Max Brandt (Opinions expressed are those of the writer –
‘dressing old words new, spending what is already spent.’)
nto summer with a vengeance, then, and much to see and do in July and at the beginning of August…before we hit the insanity that is Regatta Week! For those of you who are interested, the quote in my little disclaimer is from Shakespeare’s Sonnet No.76, which I thought kind of appropriate, all things considered.
I Dartmouth Shakespeare Week 2010
will POwer August 2nd to 6th, in the open-air at Dartmouth Castle (bring a blanket and coat, it gets chilly when the sun goes down) you can see The Inn Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, for this year’s Dartmouth Shakespeare Week. After last year’s hugely successful presentation of Macbeth, the company have returned to the lighter side of The Bard’s work, presenting the play that has the famous ‘All the world’s a stage…’ speech and one of the largest female roles in the canon: that of Rosalind. This is the ninth Dartmouth Shakespeare Week presented
by the Company, but this year there is the added kudos of them being part of the Royal Shakespeare Company Open Stages project. This production presents them with the opportunity of taking next year’s (their tenth anniversary) and performing it at Stratford! The Company as a whole are immensely proud and excited to be part of this venture, as you can imagine, and this year’s production promises to be even more adventurous than ever…if such a thing were possible from a group that have had a ballet troupe performing with them and built a galleon on-stage! ‘As You Like It’ is a comedy, but, if we’re entirely honest, a Shakespearean comedy may well have had the 17th Century audiences rolling in the aisles, but a modern day audience…well. BUT, rest assured that, in the capable hands of this year’s director, Malcolm MacIntosh (who gave us the delightful ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ and the fabulous ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’) it will have you busting a button on your doublet. ‘As You Like It’ is the everyday story of girl meeting boy, falling in love,
running away, dressing up as a man, having a girl fall in love with ‘him’, helping the rustics sort out their love-lives and eventually…go and see it to find out if the course of true-love really does run smoothly! Tickets are already on sale at the Tourist Information Centre and they’re selling fast. Although extra seats have been allocated this year, you’d be well advised to book yours as soon as you can. For further information about this year’s production, and the company, you can visit them at their website: www.
theinntheatrecompany.co.uk
Art FOr Art’S SAKe DAN has an exhibition! That would be the Devon
Artist’s Network, a collective of twenty-plus artists who get together to exchange ideas and show their work to the general public. A stunning plethora of colour and imagination that will be on show at The Flavel from 4th to 25th July.
At the beginning of August, the Dartmouth Art Society will be holding their annual summer exhibition at the Flavel Church. It runs from 1st to 13th (excluding Sunday 7th) and this year’s theme is ‘Seasons’. One of the highlights of the show last year was a composite painting by fourteen Society artists and a similar project has been undertaken for this year’s show. Monday 25th July (running until 8th August) at The
Flavel sees the opening of an exhibition by the artist Louise Bourgard. A delightful collection of seascapes and landscapes that capture the magic and beauty of the place where we live.
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