| When: Wednesday 20th Nov 2024 @ 2.30pm |
| Where: Electric Palace |
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WAYNE SLEEP is undoubtedly one of our nation’s treasures – a legendary dancer and entertainer. In his memoire: JUST DIFFERENT, Wayne looks back on the extraordinary times he has lived through. In spite of dancing with ballet legends Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, partying with Freddie Mercury and dancing with Princess Diana, who became a close friend, Wayne Sleep has always felt like an outsider. Behind the glitz and glamour, he reveals the difficulties for a working-class, gay man in handling the prejudices of his generation and living through the Aids epidemic. In conversation with writer and broadcaster, Natalie Wheen Wayne Sleep will convey the many moving and laugh-out-loud stories and gossip on his way to success, fulfilment and love. Become a friend. -
John Lewis-Stempel - England - A Major Natural History in 12 Habitats
John Lewis-Stempel’s magnum opus is a five year project that offers an intimate account of the landscapes that define England. Described by The Times as ‘Britain’s finest living nature writer’ he weaves a tapestry of distinctive habitats which together create a country unique for its rich diversity of flora and fauna. Immersing himself in twelve quintessential places, he explores each for their singular atmosphere: the feel of the winter wind; the sounds of daybreak; the solace of twilight. In beautiful prose, and detailed wildlife observation, Lewis-Stempel captures the essence of England. an illustrated talk Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901When: Sunday 3rd November 2024 @ 4.00 pm Where: Electric Palace Sponsored by: Rob and Alex Appleby -
Dame Harriet Walter - She Speaks - Shakespeare’s Women
Dame Harriet Walter is celebrated as a stage and film actress as well as more recently for her television portrayals in Succession and Killing Eve. Having played most of Shakespeare’s female characters, in her new book She Speaks, Harriet audaciously reads between the lines and lets these female characters speak their minds. Sometimes playfully and sometimes searchingly, and with brilliant insight, she imagines what Lady Macbeth, Gertrude, Cleopatra, Juliet and Ophelia were really thinking and reveals that Shakespeare is very much a man for all times as well as his time. in conversation with Sophy Roberts Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901When: Sunday 3rd November 2024 @ 6.00 pm Where: Electric Palace Sponsored by: Robert and Diana Clarke | Symonds & Sampson Estate Agents -
SOLD OUT - Rose Boyt - Naked Portrait - A Memoir of Lucian Freud
At the back of a cupboard not long after the death of her father, Rose Boyt came across a box containing hundreds of typed pages, immediately recognisable as her half-forgotten diary of 1989/1990. Naked Portrait is a searing memoir of her relationship with her renowned father, Lucian, and explores her experience sitting for him from childhood until after her marriage. It is a viscerally honest account of a complicated father/ daughter relationship, of its power imbalance and her adulation of him.
in conversation with Annie Freud and Caroline Montagu
When: Wednesday 6th November 2024 @ 4.00 pm Where: The Bull Ballroom -
Catherine Coldstream - Cloistered - My Years as a Nun
After the shock of her father’s death, and with her family scattered, 24 year old Catherine Coldstream was left grieving and alone. A search for meaning led her to Roman Catholicism and the nuns of Akenside Priory. Cloistered takes us beyond the grille of an enclosed monastic world with its tight-knit community of dedicated women. Catherine describes her journey as a nun through the 1990s and the dramatic events which led to her flight from the monastery to a wider world of freedom.
in conversation with Deirdre Coates
Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901When: Thursday 7th November 2024 @ 12 noon Where: The Bridport Arts Centre -
Andrew Pierce - Finding Margaret - Solving the Mystery of my Birth Mother
Approaching fifty, journalist and broadcaster, Andrew Pierce, tells the moving story about his search for his birth mother. He had lived in an orphanage in Cheltenham for more than two years until his adoption by a loving family who nurtured him. As his career flourished and despite feeling a sense of betrayal to his adoptive parents, Pierce tentatively began to search for his biological mother, only to find that she had done everything she could to ensure he would never find her. Finding Margaret is a heartwarming and candid tale of both heartbreak and reconciliation. in conversation with Gill Pyrah Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901When: Saturday 9th November 2024 @ 10.00 am Where: Electric Palace -
Simon Russell Beale - A Piece of Work - Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories
One of the nation’s finest and most beloved actors, Simon Russell Beale relates his life through a career playing Shakespeare. Ever since his appearance at school as a glamorous Desdemona, complete with false eyelashes, he has been captivated by the Bard. In A Piece of Work, Beale tries to get under the skin of the playwright and find out what interested him. Was Shakespeare an instinctive ‘conservative’ or, rather, gently subversive? Funny and touching about his own family and early life, Beale writes about the parallels with some Shakespeare characters as well as sharing his thoughts about the creative people he counts as friends. in conversation with Jo Willett Priority booking - Become a Friend - Contact TIC Bridport to book tickets - 01308 424901When: Saturday 9th November 2024 @ 6.00 pm Where: Electric Palace Sponsored by: Liz and Richard Strang