Exhibition of drawings and paintings, mostly of the Dorset landscape.

A choral society’s male members enlist in World War I, leaving the demanding Dr. Guthrie to recruit teenagers. Together, they experience the joy of singing while the young boys grapple with their impending conscription into the army.

Director: Nicholas Hytner
Featuring: Ralph Fiennes, Roger Allam, Mark Addy, Lyndsey Marshal, Emily Fairn.
Details: UK | Language: English | 2025 | 1h 53m

Housed in a state-run shelter, five poor teenage mothers or mothers-to-be hope for a better life, and learn how to look after themselves and babies.A poignant and compassionate study of unforced social realism.

The Dardenne brothers excel at socially conscious cinema: moving, heartrending and hopeful.

Best screenplay at Cannes 2025

Dirs: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 2025 Belgium/France.

Starring: Babette Verbeek, Elsa Houben, Janaïna Halloy Fokan, Lucie Laruelle, Samia Hilmi

1h 44m

Subtitled

Tickets
£7.50
SAC members & friends: £6.50
U18s: £5.50
Film Society members: Free

On the eve of retirement, a middle-class, judgmental snob discovers that her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.

Director: Richard Loncraine
Featuring: Imelda Staunton, Celia Imrie, Joanna Lumley, Timothy Spall, Josie Lawrence.
Details: UK | Language: English | 2017 | 1h 51m

A unique collection of wildlife paintings created by Susi Gardner, captured using traditional oils.

‘Wild and Free’ is a celebration of some of the most beautiful animals we share this world with. With each painting Susi strives to evoke, in realism, their beauty, character and the uniqueness that sets them apart in the natural world.

Now demonized as the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba lives in exile in the Ozian forest, while Glinda resides at the palace in Emerald City, reveling in the perks of fame and popularity. As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, she’ll need to reunite with Glinda to transform herself, and all of Oz, for good.

Director: Jon M. Chu
Featuring: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum.
Details: US | Language: English | 2025 | 2h 17m

A choral society’s male members enlist in World War I, leaving the demanding Dr. Guthrie to recruit teenagers. Together, they experience the joy of singing while the young boys grapple with their impending conscription into the army.

Director: Nicholas Hytner
Featuring: Ralph Fiennes, Roger Allam, Mark Addy, Lyndsey Marshal, Emily Fairn.
Details: UK | Language: English | 2025 | 1h 53m

From the makers of Pot licker …

Zara is in deep trouble. She’s involved with shady, unscrupulous characters motivated only by greed and pursuit of power. Well, it was her choice to take that job in school senior management. Now she must find her way out to salvage what’s left of her teaching career. But a County Lines gang and a group of irate sheep farmers won’t easily forget the bag that Zara is so desperate to be rid of. Why can’t her teaching colleagues Rich and Kris learn how to torch a BMW properly? And wasn’t the plan always to be rock stars rather than teachers?

“A thoroughly engaging blend of caustic humour, suspense and frail humanity” Bath Echo

“Perfect for thriller lovers and devious teachers” Bath Echo

“It’s like Shallow Grave in a school. With added staple gun” Bath Echo

Writer/Director – Ed Viney

Produced by Dorchester Arts in association with Lighthouse Poole

Tickets:
Adults: £16
Members & Friends: £14
U18s: £12.50

Age Restriction: 15+

Presented by Shaftesbury Arts Centre Youth Theatre in association with Limelight Theatre. Create a fantastic performance in just five days, ready to present to an audience on Saturday morning.

Programme:

• Monday 30 Mar to Friday 3rd April – 9.30am to 4.30pm. Musical Theatre course.
• Saturday 4th April – 9.30am rehearsal then final show performance at 11am. The course will finish after the show at approximately noon.

Cost: £150 (£100 each additional sibling). This includes 38 hours of coaching and performance and two free tickets to the final show. Age 7 to 17 years.

The Final Show from our week-long Easter Musical Theatre Course – presented by Shaftesbury Arts Centre Youth Theatre.

Come and see the hard work of all those on our Easter Musical Theatre Course.

Tickets: £5.

After the death of her best friend’s husband from cancer, spirited Yorkshire housewife Chris Harper (Helen Mirren) hatches a scheme to raise money for a memorial to him. Utilizing a tradition from the hidebound Woman’s Institute association, Chris encourages Annie (Julie Walters) and their friends to create a calendar — with the novel detail of using the middle-aged women of their village as nude models. The idea stuns the husbands and a wary young photographer (Philip Glenister).

Director: Nigel Cole
Featuring: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton, Philip Glenister.
Details: UK | Language: English | 2003 | 1h 48m

Solo exhibition by Matthew Dean, a Salisbury based artist who looks at the landscape from different angles, shape and undulations. Inspired by texture, colour and marks in the land Matthew produces high colour artworks in oil and pencil from the surrounding areas.

On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother’s Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman), are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul (Josh O’Connor) is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane’s long-term love despite the fact that he’s engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents’ friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane’s life forever.

Director: Eva Husson
Featuring: Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor, Olivia Colman, Colin Firth.
Details: UK | Language: English | 2021 | 1h 50m

Elsa becomes acquainted with Peter and Debbie on holiday and after agreeing to keep in touch, because no one ever really does, do they?

Elsa plans a visit, oh dear, a search on the internet finds that they are allowing someone into their home that could put them and their family in mortal danger.

“It’s ok, we’ll cancel her visit”.
Too late she arrives early.

Written by Steven Moffat, The Unfriend takes a hilarious and satirical look at middle-class England’s disastrous instinct always to appear nice.

Tickets: £16
Friends, Members & U18s: £14

Elsa becomes acquainted with Peter and Debbie on holiday and after agreeing to keep in touch, because no one ever really does, do they?

Elsa plans a visit, oh dear, a search on the internet finds that they are allowing someone into their home that could put them and their family in mortal danger.

“It’s ok, we’ll cancel her visit”.
Too late she arrives early.

Written by Steven Moffat, The Unfriend takes a hilarious and satirical look at middle-class England’s disastrous instinct always to appear nice.

Tickets: £16
Friends, Members & U18s: £14

Elsa becomes acquainted with Peter and Debbie on holiday and after agreeing to keep in touch, because no one ever really does, do they?

Elsa plans a visit, oh dear, a search on the internet finds that they are allowing someone into their home that could put them and their family in mortal danger.

“It’s ok, we’ll cancel her visit”.
Too late she arrives early.

Written by Steven Moffat, The Unfriend takes a hilarious and satirical look at middle-class England’s disastrous instinct always to appear nice.

Tickets: £16
Friends, Members & U18s: £14

Elsa becomes acquainted with Peter and Debbie on holiday and after agreeing to keep in touch, because no one ever really does, do they?

Elsa plans a visit, oh dear, a search on the internet finds that they are allowing someone into their home that could put them and their family in mortal danger.

“It’s ok, we’ll cancel her visit”.
Too late she arrives early.

Written by Steven Moffat, The Unfriend takes a hilarious and satirical look at middle-class England’s disastrous instinct always to appear nice.

Tickets: £16
Friends, Members & U18s: £14

A Feast for the Eyes: An exhibition of art with food at its heart.

The Kitchen Table Dorset proudly presents A Feast for the Eyes, a vibrant new art exhibition bringing together painting, ceramics, and three-dimensional creations—all inspired by the universal language of food.

This unique exhibition explores food not just as sustenance, but as culture, memory, ritual, and visual delight. From richly detailed still-life paintings and expressive contemporary canvases to handcrafted ceramics and imaginative sculptural installations, A Feast for the Eyes invites visitors to experience food in an entirely new way.

Featuring a diverse group of artists, the exhibition celebrates the textures, colours, and connections created by food and ties in with Shaftesbury Food Festival on May 3rd 2026.

“Food brings people together, sparks conversation, and tells stories across generations,” says Sarah Rudder, founder of The Kitchen Table Dorset. “With A Feast for the Eyes, we wanted to create an exhibition that captures that same sense of warmth, creativity, and connection—only through art.”

As sponsor of the exhibition, The Kitchen Table Dorset continues its commitment to creating experiences with food at their heart. Known for its dedication to quality, innovation, and a love of food culture, the shop provides the perfect partner for an exhibition that blends culinary inspiration with artistic expression.

Featured Artists:
Maja Barker @maja.barker.art
Joanne Rutter https://www.joannerutterceramics.co.uk
Kate Toms www.katetoms.co.uk @katetoms.mixedmedia
Alison Turner @alisonjaneturner99
Becca Perl https://www.beccaperl.com @becca_perl_illustration.
Lucy Bentley @bentleybluestudio
Charlotte Lorimer @charlottelorimerart

An engaging, quirky tale set in Norfolk which tells of bonding and reconciliation across the generations.A relationship develops when two school friends help a granddad, who is a keen gardener, fence his shed – in which he has grown marijuana by accident!

Dir: Richard Bracewell, 2025, UK.
Starring: Ramy Ben Fredj, Hugo Carter, Michael Dalton
1h 30m

Tickets
£7.50
SAC members & friends: £6.50
U18s: £5.50
Film Society members: Free

Join our Music and Drama Group’s Youth Theatre in their variety show ‘Time to Shine’.

See their passion and creativity – a feast of song, dance, sketches and music, along with their visible love and passion of all things theatrical.

It is their ‘Time to Shine’.

Tickets won’t hang around for long, so grab your now to share the joy.

Join our Music and Drama Group’s Youth Theatre in their variety show ‘Time to Shine’.

See their passion and creativity – a feast of song, dance, sketches and music, along with their visible love and passion of all things theatrical.

It is their ‘Time to Shine’.

Tickets won’t hang around for long, so grab your now to share the joy.

Join our Music and Drama Group’s Youth Theatre in their variety show ‘Time to Shine’.

See their passion and creativity – a feast of song, dance, sketches and music, along with their visible love and passion of all things theatrical.

It is their ‘Time to Shine’.

Tickets won’t hang around for long, so grab your now to share the joy.

Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin.

Baritone Igor Golovatenko reprises his portrayal of the urbane Onegin, who realises his affection for her all too late.

The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph).

Sung in Russian with English subtitles | Duration: 4h 5m with two intervals (to be confirmed)

Cast:
Tatiana ASMIK GRIGORIAN
Olga MARIA BARAKOVA
Filippyevna STEPHANIE BLYTHE
Lenski STANISLAS DE BARBEYRAC
Eugene Onegin IGOR GOLOVATENKO
Prince Gremin ALEXANDER TSYMBALYUK

Creatives:
Music PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Conductor TIMUR ZANGIEV
Director DEBORAH WARNER
Set Designer TOM PYE
Costume Designer CHLOE OBOLENSKY
Lighting Designer JEAN KALMAN
Projection Designer IAN WILLIAM GALLOWAY and FINN ROSS
Choreographer KIM BRANDSTRUP

Tickets: £15. Members, Friends and under 18s £12.50.

Join ‘The Magical Mr West’ on an incredible adventure into the world of science!Aided by his corvid companion Crowbert and a collection of curious contraptions, Mr West demonstrates the fundamental principles of scientific enquiry, exploring everything from supersonic speediness to malicious misinformation.

Best known as one half of magic duo ‘Morgan & West’, ‘The Magical Mr West’ has travelled around the world performing to audiences of all ages with spectacular shows that include magic, science and a good deal of tomfoolery. Now he presents his most amazing show yet, with the help (or possibly hindrance…) of a wisecracking cartoon crow.

Expect skills, silliness and the studious application of logic as you embark upon ‘Adventures in Science!’

Tickets:

Adults: £12.50

Members & Friends: £11.50

Under 18s: £10.50

Let’s play Bingo!

Come along to our technicolour Bingo – a fundraiser for our Music & Drama Group’s summer show ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’.

6 pages of main Bingo games with a prize for 1 line and Full House plus a Special game with a prize every line!

Raffle on the night for £1 per strip

Booking your space is essential as space is limited!

Never played before? Don’t worry, all will be explained on the night! Perfect for beginners and seasoned players.

Nibbles included in the price of your ticket and the bar will be open for the evening.

Tickets: £7.50
Booking coming soon.

A wild ride of a film, mixing violence and humour, with an incredible score.DiCaprio plays a drug-befuddled and paranoid ex-revolutionary, forced back into combat when a corrupt military officer starts to pursue him and his daughter. A fast-moving intricate plot, with plenty of allusions to Trump’s America, and a huge box-office success, likely (at the time of writing) to be an Oscar-winner.

Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025, US.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro
2h 42m

Three women artists join together to present vibrant dynamic work. Shay Parsons brings contemporary abstract artwork bridging the space between painting and photography. Joanne Rutter brings timeless stoneware rooted in craftmanship and Carole Waller brings handpainted art to wear – painted and printed scarves.

Instagram:
@shay_parsons_photos
@carolewaller
@joannerutterceramics

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery.

Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero and begins to win hearts, that is until a second man unexpectedly arrives on the scene…

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin directs this darkly funny tale full to the brim with secrets.

The Playboy of the Western World
By John Millington Synge
Directed by Caitríona McLaughlin

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, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin.
Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path.

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott (Angels in America) directs this thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
By Christopher Hampton
Based on the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Directed by Marianne Elliott