We popped down to Bridport to pick up our tickets today. The show is sold out. The building is a former chapel (Baptist, I guess) but it's been a small theatre for something like 40 years apparently. It'll be the smallest venue most people will have seen MK in - barring Ronnie Scott's perhaps. It is a fairly simple setting (rows of seats on the flat) downstairs, with a wraparound balcony upstairs. The balcony is supported by metal uprights but they're not too thick, so I doubt they'll obstruct the view. I don't know if the balcony will be used for seating.
The town is not large but it has a good lot of shops, many of them independents with a slightly quirky selection. Even those that look quite small from the front can go back a long, long way. It was market day today but, by the time we'd collected the tickets and had our lunch, many of the stallholders were packing up already. All of this is by way of saying that it may be worth getting there early just to have a good look round.
Bridport itself is not by the sea. For that, ou have to go about a mile down the road to West Bay. We did but, being the holiday season, it was packed. We moved on but it looked quite pleasant. I read that this was the setting of the TV drama "Broadchurch" (the one with David Tennant as the all-but-washed-up detective) but. in a flying visit, I didn't really recognise any of the buildings. Again, if you have the time, it may be worth a visit if you're going to the MK appearance.
