Tuesday, 8 October 2019

NEWS: There really is something for everyone this December in Poole!


EVENT LISTINGS: DECEMBER 2019

Please find below details and images for October 2019’s shows and events at Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts.

Wessex Youth Orchestra
Sunday 1 December, Concert Hall, 3pm
Wessex Youth Orchestra return to the Concert Hall stage with their friends from the Centre for Wessex Young Musicians.

Dangerous Obsession
Monday 2, Tuesday 3 December, Theatre, 7.45pm

NJ Crisp’s deftly plotted psycho-thriller in which an unexpected call disrupts what at first appears to be a normal sunny afternoon in suburbia.

NT Encore: Hansard
Tuesday 3 December, Cinema, 1.30pmTwo-time Olivier Award winners Lindsay Duncan and Alex Jennings in a new play by Simon Woods about a Tory politician and his wife tearing each other apart in the Costwolds – a witty and devastating portrait of the governing class.

BSO: Tchaikovsky Magic
Wednesday 4 December, Concert Hall, 7.30pm

Kirill Karabits conducts the Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, Shchedrin’s Naughty Limericks Ccncerto and Mozart’s Piano Concert No 24 with soloist Gabriela Montero.

Live and Unheard: Lo-Fi Rebels, The Emma Hardy Band, Savage Underdogs
Wednesday 4 December, Sherling Studio, 8pm

The popular monthly showcase for local unsigned music talent continues in the company of gritty R&B outfit Lo-Fi Rebels, emerging alt-folk talent Emma Hardy with full band and Americana punks Savage Underdogs.

NT Encore: Fleabag
Thursday 5 December, Cinema, 6pm, 8.15pmMore opportunities to enjoy Phoebe Waller-Bridge in her one-woman show that inspired the hit BBC TV phenomenon.

Espen Eriken Trio with Andy Sheppard
Friday 6 December, The Sherling Studio, 8pm

One of Britain’s leading saxophonists joins the one of Scandanavia’s leading trios in a perfect musical marriage that has resulted in the critically-lauded album Perfectly Unhappy.

Carl Hutchinson
Saturday 7 December, The Sherling Studio, 8pm

As seen on The Chris Ramsay Show, Geordie comedian Carl Hutchinson is back with a new show – I Know I Shouldn’t Behave Like This… in which he turns his uniquely adolescent observations on everything from buying a house to having kids.

Can’t Wait For Christmas
Tuesday 10 – Tuesday 24 December, The Sherling Studio, various times

Festive fun for three- to ten-year-olds and their families as Jessie’s Dad lays a secret advent trail for her to follow to an intriguing Christmas present.

NT Encore: Present Laughter
Tuesday 10 December, Cinema, 1.30pmMatthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy at the Old Vic.

BSO: Fearless Youth
Wednesday 11 December, Concert Hall, 7.30pm

With conductor Ion Marin at the helm, the Orchestra plays Mahler’s daring first symphony, Titan, Rachmaninov’s exuberant, passionate second piano concerto.

Jack and the Beanstalk
Thursday 12 December – Sunday 5 January, Theatre, various times

Poole’s family pantomime stars former Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan, playing his first ever Dame, with ex-Sugababes singer Amelle Berrabah and Connor Byrne from the Tracy Beaker TV series.

Jimmy Carr – Terribly Funny
Thursday 12 December, Concert Hall, 7.30pm

Jimmy’s brand-new show is packed with jokes about all kinds of terrible things. You have been warned.

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Friday 13 December, Concert Hall, 7.30pm

They made the uke cool, now they’re out to make it a uke Yule by turning their attentions to a wealth of seasonal music and everything from Wagner to Nirvana.

Moscow Drug Club
Friday 13 December, The Sherling Studio, 8pm

Drawing on Weimer cabaret of the 1930s, Hot Club de France, Nuevo Tango and Gypsy Jazz, Moscow Drug Club blend their own music with songs by Jacques Brel, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Bertolt Brecht among others.

BSO: Christmas Starts Here
Saturday 14 December, Concert Hall, 3pm

A family-friendly concert of Christmas music to get us all into the holiday mood.

Rick Wakeman: The Grumpy Old Christmas Show
Sunday 15 December, Concert Hall, 7.30pm

With hilarious anecdotes from his lengthy career, the legendary former Yes keyboards king shares some of their music as well as his own solo epics, arrangement of Beatles classics and the early David  Bowie his he played on.

Dead Man’s Eyes
Wednesday 18, Thursday 19 December, The Sherling Studio, 7pm

Two chilling and thrilling tales by MR James, the master of the English ghost story – A View from a Hill and The Treasure of Abbot Thomas.

BSO: Handel’s Messiah 2019
Wednesday 18 December, Concert Hall, 7.30pm

Nicholas McGegan conducts Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Handel’s ever-popular retelling of the Nativity story.

Fastlove – A Tribute to George Michael
Friday 20 December, Concert Hall, 7.30pm

From the hits of Wham!, through the chart topping success of the Faith album, to the awesome hits of the nineties and noughties, this show is guaranteed to put the Boom Boom into your heart!

BSO: Last Night of the Christmas Proms
Saturday 21 December, Concert Hall, 7.30pm

Pete Harrison takes the rostrum to conduct Christmas classics old and new including Roy Wood’s ‘I I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day’ and Irving Berlin’s ‘White Christmas’.

Coastal Comedy with Tom Lucy, Jake Lambert and compere Adrienne Coles
Saturday 21 December, The Sherling Studio, 8pm

A Christmas Special for the monthly stand-up showcase with rising star Tom Lucy.

BSO: Celebration of Christmas Carols 2019
Monday 23 December, Concert Hall, 7.30pm

Join the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with conductor Gavin Carr directing the traditional Christmas sing-along.

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