DON’T miss a chance to get a glimpse of what life was like in Bridport in the 60s and 80s.

A new display of photographs will be on display as part of Page to Screen Film Festival in Bridport.

All the photos have been taken by renowned street photographer, Roger Mayne, who has a major retrospective currently at The Photographer’s Gallery, London, a show at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton and is part of an exhibition at Four Corners Gallery, London.

The photographs show the original stage play of ‘The Knack’, by Ann Jellicoe, and they will go on display from Wednesday, April 19, to Sunday, April 23, at Bridport Arts Centre to accompany the classic 60’s film ‘The Knack, and How to Get It’, being show as part of Page to Screen Film Festival.

Also on display are photographs of the first Bridport Community Play in 1981, directed by Jellicoe. They feature many local characters, including Flea! writer Andrew Dixon, who was musical director on The Poor Man’s Friend.

Mr Mayne and Mrs Jellicoe first met at the Royal Court Theatre, where he photographed many productions and writers and where she wrote and directed a number of plays. They subsequently married and moved to Lyme Regis in 1974.

A fascination with local history, aided by Lyme writer John Fowles, a desire to experiment with promenade production and the hope of building audiences through inclusion, brought Mrs Jellicoe to invent what was later to become the Community Play Movement in 1979.

Now retired in West Bay, Mrs Jellicoe’s work is being celebrated as she approaches her 90yth birthday.