Stephen Daldry’s multi award-winning National Theatre production of J B Priestley’s classic thriller, An Inspector Calls, returns to Mayflower Theatre from 1 to 5 November 2022. Written at the end of the Second World War and set before the First, An Inspector Calls is a compelling and haunting thriller....
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Southampton listings, October 11 – 17
This weekend sees Southampton’s first ever Transgender Pride come to the city. For more information about the event on October 15, click here. Black History Month continues throughout October. This week’s highlights include Chelsea Carmichael at the Turner Sims and Black in Focus British Film Night at MAST Mayflower...
Hampshire’s Blue Apple Theatre takes Frankenstein to Rome for Keats-Shelley 200 bicentenary celebrations
The #Keats-Shelley 200 campaign marks the 200th anniversary of the deaths of the Romantic poets, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, and focuses on the final years of the lives of both poets with events both in the UK and in Italy. Events celebrate the poets’ extraordinary legacies as...
Business directory 10 – 16 October
In Common has launched a new paid listings section. This is it! Please get in touch if you have an event or local business to promote. As a small, not for profit organisation, we rely on donations and low cost adverts like these and are very grateful to organisations...
Preview: La Voix, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
Move over hanging gardens of Babylon, Egypt’s pyramids step aside, because there’s a new wonder of the world in town – La Voix! Officially the UK’s Funniest Red Head, La Voix is heading to the MAST Mayflower Studios on Saturday 22 October, with her live band, in a brand...
Preview: X-treme Magic, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Prepare to be dazzled, petrified and astounded: the world’s most dangerous magic show, X-treme Magic, is coming to Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, on 18 October 2022. Produced by Shone Productions, this is a modern-day spectacle of magic and illusion like no other – no rabbits are being pulled out of hats...
October events at October Books
October is here, and that means independent bookshop October Books in Portswood, Southampton, has another month’s worth of events, from author talks to a cookery demonstration, to choose from, with events both in person and online. author talk: BLACK by Tobias Taitt TODAY Saturday 8th October at 2pm...
Preview: Bunker Cabaret, The Point, Eastleigh
The Point has programmed a special last-minute performance by the Hooligan Art Community from Ukraine, Bunker Cabaret, to The Point on Friday 14 October. Combining music, poetry, dance and film, the show is named because much of it was literally devised in a bunker by the company’s performers Sam...
Preview: Don’t Stop Believin’ End of Night Anthems, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of the biggest hit singles of the 80s, Eye of the Tiger, the brand-new stage show, Don’t Stop Believin’, will roar onto the MAST Mayflower Studios’ stage on Thursday 20 October. Created by Entertainers – the same company that has entertained theatregoers...
Preview: The Color Purple at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Leicester’s Curve theatre and Birmingham Hippodrome are bringing their critically acclaimed, award-winning co-production of The Color Purple to Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 25 to Saturday 29 October. Based on the Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Alice Walker and adapted for the stage by Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winner, Marsha Norman, The Color...