A SIZZLING programme of music, comedy and theatre is in store for the Electric Palace in Bridport next month.

Baroque super group L’Orchestre du Mont-Plaisant come to the venue on Wednesday, July 15 at 8pm.

The group brings together world rhythms and moody cinematic moments, playing blues and dance pieces, with notable influences from Congolese soukous, African highlife, Ethiopian jazz, cumbia, and a whiff of Middle-East and Turkish psychedelia.

On Thursday July 16, the Palace will play host to a National Theatre screening of Everyman at 7pm.

BAFTA winner and Academy Award® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) takes the title role in this dynamic new production of one of English drama’s oldest plays.

On Friday July 17, enjoy the film Slow West. At once hilarious and brutal, this off-kilter revisionist western follows Jay (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a naive young man stumbling across late 1800s America in search of his sweetheart.

The following week, the Royal Shakespeare Company will come to the Palace on Wednesday July 22.

RSC Live presents The Merchant of Venice from 7pm.

And on Friday July 31 there will be laughs aplenty when the Comedy Network introduces Mark Cooper-Jones, Mark Smith (MC) and Hayley Ellis.

As seen on Russell Howard's Good News, Mark Cooper-Jones is an exciting emerging stand-up comedian, a Chortle Best Newcomer Nominee, as well as one third of the highly acclaimed sketch group WitTank.

Doors open at 7.15pm and the laughs start at 8.15pm.

Contact the Bridport Electric Palace for tickets.

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