Wednesday 20 December

Time: 1030-1230

All tickets: £10

This is a drop and leave session with a small snack provided

Come along to enjoy some Christmassy children’s workshops arranged by local experts Marvellous Makers. Led by local artist Jessame Coulson, children can enjoy a mixture of expressive, messy based artwork and craft activities like printing wrapping paper, making Christmas cards and Christmas tree decorations.

Jessame will also lead some yuletide games.

Ticket includes materials. Parents will be asked to fill out an emergency contact form when dropping off with any allergies or special needs specified.

Suitable for children aged 4 to 9.

Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman and Father Christmas; a special double-bill of two heartwarming family classics, with mulled wine and mince pies available. There will be an interval.

Tickets are only £2.50 on the door or advance online below or the Tourist Information Centre.

2:30pm

About the films

The Snowman (cert. U)

Introduced by David Bowie, this is a wordless – save for the song “Walking in the Air” – animated adventure about a young English boy who makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, only for it to come to life that night and take him on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.

Father Christmas (cert. U)

Starring Mel Smith, after a hard night’s work, Father Christmas decides to go on a “blooming vacation”, builds his sledge into a caravan and holidays in France, Scotland and Las Vegas before coming home and settling down. With a bit of grumbling, he has to answer the mail, get the gifts ready, deliver them and get to the Snowmens’ party on time – only he’s forgotten something.

Father Christmas Trailer: 

This Is The Kit will play the Marine Theatre as the first date of an international tour, with support from Tobias Ben Jacob.

The playful indie folk band, led by Paris-based songwriter Kate Stables, has earned the adoration of peers including Guy Garvey, The National and Sharon van Etten. In the last year This is the Kit have performed live in session on BBC 6music and at festivals including Glastonbury.

Their new album is on Rough Trade records, home to The Strokes and Jarvis Cocker; ‘Moonshine Freeze’ is undoubtedly their best to date, and is produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, M Ward).

Sonically, Moonshine Freeze is a beguiling mixture of great musical sophistication and something more guileless — children’s games, incantations and snatches of nursery rhymes.

“All of it is good” – ★★★★ Mojo Magazine.

Support comes from Exeter’s Tobias Ben Jacob, playing his own blend of alt-folk ~ his first show of the year. The 21st Century troubadour spinning tales of love, loss, beauty,  and a unique form of soul cartography.

‘Definitely one to watch out for’ – BBC Radio 3, Late Junction.

This is the Kit

+ Support from Tobias Ben Jacob

VERY LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR £18

10% Booking fee from Tourist Information Box Office

All ages show

Doors 1930

Standing

Singer Leigh Coleman and pianist Matt Carter, return to Lyme Regis with a high-energy Jazz Jurassica debut at the Marine Theatre.

Leigh Coleman is developing a national reputation for combining both jazz and funk in a style reminiscent of Stevie Wonder, Gregory Porter and George Benson. He’s worked with the legendary soul diva Betty Wright in the States, and the region’s own Joss Stone.

Matt Carter is a prodigious pianist, who brings dynamism and drive to jazz standards, soul and blues. Already a bandleader in his own right, Matt’s developing a growing reputation for his Matt Carter Trio.

This strong double bill delivers soulful jazz classics, from swing to ballads, for a lively evening of jazz you won’t forget.

Matt Carter

Leigh Coleman (vocals), Matt Carter (keyboard), Gary Evans (drums) and Tom Drewett (bass).

Tickets: £22 + booking fee includes 2- course supper courtesy of Dottie Kitchen

Advance booking is essential to secure your table from 01297 442138 or online below.

Timings

Doors: 6.30

Supper: 7-8pm

Music: 8pm

Ends: 10pm

For more information please visit here

Lyme Regis Comedy Club moves to the Marine from  The Pilot Boat Inn.

Local comedian Tom Glover is the regular compere, alongside three other acts performing on rotation in a comedy club style

This month Angela Barnes headlines with support from Jake Lambert  and Matt Rees.

Angela Barnes – Angela Barnes has been catapulted onto every television and radio show worth speaking about, including Stand Up For The Week, BBC 2’s Mock The Week,  BBC Three’s Russell Howard’s Good News and Radio 4’s The News Quiz. Angela is one of the hardest working acts in comedy and packs her set full of brilliantly crafted jokes bringing non stop laughs from start to finish.

“Brilliantly funny’ – Sarah Millican

“Angela Barnes is the best mainstream female comedian I’ve seen… I can’t be any clearer than that can I?” –  The Evening Standard

Jake Lambert – An online sensation on Twitter (@littlelostlad), Jake now has a live set to rival his online output. There are witty stories filled with clever one liners, and snappy asides. Jake is ascending the comedy ladder, with recent tour support slots for both Seann Walsh and Rob Beckett.

“Brilliant one-liners” Chortle.

Matt Rees – Multi-award winning Welsh comedian Matt Rees has a unique brand of well-crafted gags and laconic delivery that have established him as a circuit favourite since bursting onto the UK scene in 2011.

The rising star has won a whole host of awards including Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, Welsh Unsigned Stand-Up Award, and the Chortle Best Newcomer award in 2012. Matt has supported Welsh comedy superstar Elis James on tour and also performed as part of the prestigious Pleasance Reserve at the Edinburgh Fringe.

“a properly original comedy mind” The Guardian



“A gem in the form of a laconic youngster with an instinctive comedic talent” Metro


COMEDY: Lyme Regis Comedy Club with Angela Barnes and guests

£8 advance, £10 on the door

Doors open at 1930

Seated

Seating is unallocated

Tickets are available online above or from Lyme Regis and Bridport Tourist Information centres in person or on the phone

Booking Hotline: 01297 442138

Booking Fee may apply

Lyme Literary presents a special event to coincide with Radio 4’s Book of the Week.

This is a talk by Fiona Sampson on her new book ‘In Search of Mary Shelley’, which marks the bicentenary of the publication of Frankenstein. In January, the publication is Radio 4’s Book of the Week.

Mary Shelley’s dramatic life story is well known. But who was the woman who lived it? In this event Fiona Sampson sifts through the evidence, followed by audience questions.

Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain and Europe. She coped with debt, infidelity and the deaths of three children, before early widowhood changed her life forever. Most astonishingly, it was while she was still a teenager that Mary composed her canonical novel Frankenstein, creating two of our most enduring archetypes.

Fiona Sampson uncovers a complex, generous character – friend, intellectual, lover and mother – trying to fulfil her own passionate commitment to writing at a time when to be a woman writer was an extraordinary and costly anomaly.

About Fiona

Fiona Sampson is a prize-winning poet and writer. She has been published in more than thirty languages and received an MBE for services to literature. A Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature, and the recipient of a number of national and international honours for her poetry, she has worked as an editor, translator, and university professor as well as a violinist.

Praise for Fiona Sampson:

“Vigorous and valuable … encouraging, enthusiastic, knowledgeable” Spectator

“Engaging … invites readers to read more, and to read carefully” Independent

“This lovely, hopeful book is a celebration of the richness and variety in British Poetry right now” Glasgow Herald

TALK: Lyme Literary presents In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

£4 advance, £6 on the door

Doors open at 1900

Seated

Seating is unallocated

Tickets are available online above or from Lyme Regis and Bridport Tourist Information centres in person or on the phone

Booking Hotline: 01297 442138

Booking Fee may apply

Nationally acclaimed musicians celebrate the great blues singer Bessie Smith in a narrated music show.

Bessie Smith (1894 –  1937) was an American blues singer. Known as the Empress of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. In this show, Bessie Smith (played by Julia Titus) and her band, perform alongside narration. It features authentic music from the era, including many of Bessie’s songs.

Bessie’s Blues troupe is made up from internationally acclaimed drummer, Sam Kelly with Paul Jobson on keyboards, Tony Qunta on guitar, Richard Sadler on upright bass, with a special horn section.  The production chronicles her life from a one-room shack in Blue Goose Hollow, through to becoming the highest-paid black entertainer of that time, to the tragic accident on Route 61 in September 1937 which resulted in her untimely death aged 43 years.

Bessie Smith is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and was a major influence on other jazz singers.

MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE: Ma Bessie and Her Blues Troupe

£6 advance, £8 on the door

Doors open at 1930

Seated

Seating is unallocated

Tickets are available online above or from Lyme Regis and Bridport Tourist Information centres in person or on the phone

Booking Hotline: 01297 442138

Booking Fee may apply

Jazz pianist Philip Clouts presents the next in his series of intimate gigs in our atmospheric bar.

Saxophonist Andy Williamson is known for his repertoire of somewhat risqué old blues songs. He’s played with the Big Buzzard Boogie Band on BBC Radio 2, 3, and 4. He has also performed with Tom Robinson, Suggs, and Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, and even at Buckingham Palace.

For tickets call our Box Office 01297 442138 between 10am & 3pm

MUSIC: Jazz In The Bar – Andy Williamson and Philip Clouts

£8 advance, £12 on the door

Doors open at 19:00

Seating and Standing

Seating is unallocated

Tickets are available online above or from Lyme Regis and Bridport Tourist Information centres in person or on the phone

Booking Hotline: 01297 442138

Booking Fee may apply

Teddy Thompson is an acclaimed singer-songwriter with a career that has consistently attracted critical praise. His music is part folk and part pop. The New York Times calls his work “beautifully finessed.” Teddy released his first, self-titled album in 2000.

In 2002, Thompson played a key role in drawing his mother out of a 17-year musical retirement to record her landmark disc Fashionably Late, which he played on and co-produced.

In 2008, Thompson released the upbeat and highly acclaimed, A Piece of What You Need, which was declared “one of this year’s best” by The Guardian and debuted at #9 in the UK’s pop charts. A fifth album, Bella, was released February 2011 to much acclaim and led to touring the world with Elton John.

In 2014 Thompson gathered his musical clan to release Family, one of the folk records of the year which garnered a multi page, in depth piece from The New York Times.

This is an unusual opportunity to hear Teddy Thompson perform in a small venue. 

Support comes from Jess McAllister who plays free-spirited, nostalgic folk, rock and pop. Switching between electric guitar, banjo and piano, her vocals “leap from fragility to soaring strength that will send all your hairs heavenwards” (FRUK)

SOLD OUT!

Teddy Thompson

Wednesday 31 January 2018, doors open at 7:30 P.M.

£15 advance / £17 on the door (TF discount applies)

Tickets are available online above or from Lyme Regis and Bridport Tourist Information centres in person or on the phone

Booking Hotline: 01297 442138

Booking Fee may apply