FORTHCOMING
PRODUCTIONS
SOUTHERN ENGLAND
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Theatres featured on this page:-
OXFORD
THEATRES: The Playhouse, The Apollo/New Theatre, The Old Fire Station Theatre
Chichester
Festival Theatre
The
Watermill Theatre, Bagnor (Near Newbury)
The Theatre
Royal, Brighton
New
Victoria Theatre, Woking
Salisbury
Playhouse [occasional news]
Southampton
- Mayflower
The
Nuffield, Southampton
Mountbatten
Centre, Portsmouth
Mercury
Theatre, Colchester
BRISTOL
THEATRES: Old Vic; Hippodrome; Tobacco Factory
Everyman
Theatre, Cheltenham
Bury
St. Edmunds, Theatre Royal
Yvonne
Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
Theatre
Royal, Windsor
Plymouth
- Theatre Royal and The Drum (Studio Theatre)
Exeter – Northcott Theatre
The
Hawth - Crawley, Surrey
Connaught
Theatre, Worthing
The
Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
The
Mill at Sonning Theatre
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OXFORD PLAYHOUSE
Beaumont Street,
Oxford,
OX1 2LW
BOX OFFICE: 01865
305305
website: www.oxfordplayhouse.com
THE NEW THEATRE
George Street
Oxford,
OX1 2AG
Ticketmaster: 0870 606
3500
Groups Hotline: 01865
723834
OLD FIRE STATION STUDIO
THEATRE
40 George Street,
Oxford
OX1 2AQ
BOX
OFFICE - 0844 847 2360
CHICHESTER festival
THEATRE
Oaklands Park
Chichester
West Sussex
PO19 6AP
BOX OFFICE: 01243
781312
Website: www.cft.org.uk
CHICHESTER FESTIVAL THEATRE ANNOUNCES
FESTIVAL 2010
With the possibility
of the country emerging from the shadow of the recession, a sense of optimism
is reflected in
BINGO by Edward Bond
15 April – 22 May, Minerva Theatre
(Press Night: Friday 23 April 7pm)
Director: Angus Jackson
Designer:
Robert Innes Hopkins
Lighting
Designer: Tim Mitchell
Music:
Stephen Warbeck
Sound
Designer: Jonathan Suffolk
Patrick Stewart makes a welcome
return to
Patrick
Stewart was last at
The
cast also includes Catherine Cusack, Ellie Haddington, Kieron Jecchinis,
Richard McCabe, John McEnery, Alex Price, Michelle Tate and Jason Watkins.
-1-
Edward
Bond’s plays include Lear, The Sea, Restoration and War Plays.
The
play will be directed by Chichester Festival Theatre Associate Director Angus
Jackson. His previous work at
YES,
PRIME MINISTER
by
13 May – 5 June, Festival Theatre
(Press Night: Thursday 20 May 7pm)
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Designer:
Simon Higlett
Lighting
Designer: Tim Mitchell
The
original writers of the classic television series reunite for this brand new
play. Prime Minister Jim Hacker,
Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby and his Principal Private Secretary
Bernard Woolley face a country in financial meltdown, with the only prospect of
salvation coming from morally dubious allies – leading to deliciously
comic consequences.
Sir
Humphrey Appleby will be played by Henry
Goodman whose recent credits include Duet
for One, Fiddler on the Roof and Feelgood. Jim Hacker will be portrayed by David Haig who recently featured in the
latest series of the award-winning BBC political comedy The Thick of It. His
other credits include the
The
production will be directed by co-writer Jonathan Lynn. His directing credits include the
LOVE
STORY by
Erich Segal – WORLD PREMIERE
Music
composed by Howard Goodall
Book
by Stephen Clark
Lyrics
by Stephen Clark and Howard Goodall
29 May – 26 June, Minerva Theatre
(Press Night: Monday 7 June 7pm)
Director: Rachel Kavanaugh
Designer:
Peter McKintosh
Musical
Director: Stephen Ridley
Sound
Designer: Matt McKenzie
Choreographer:
Nick Winston
Inspired by Erich Segal’s best-selling iconic novel, this is a
brand new musical version of Love Story, also
one of the most romantic films of all time.
Howard
Goodall is one of the
The
musical is directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, Artistic Director of Birmingham
Repertory Theatre. Her credits
include the hugely popular production of The
Music Man starring Brian Conley (Festival 08). Her other work includes The Merry Wives of Windsor and Alice in
Wonderland for the RSC, Hilda
(Hampstead Theatre) and The Rivals
(Bristol Old Vic).
Lyrics
by Al Dubin
Book
by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble
21 June – 28 August, Festival Theatre
(Press Night: Thursday 1 July 7pm)
Director: Paul Kerryson
Set Designer: Ashley Martin-Davis
Choreographer:
Andrew Wright
Lighting Designer: Chris Ellis
Musical
Director: Julian Kelly
Sound
Designer: Matt McKenzie
Broadway
comes to
Paul
Kerryson is Artistic Director of Leicester Curve where his credits include the
acclaimed European premiere of The Light
in the Piazza. He is a renowned
director of Stephen Sondheim’s work, including Merrily We Roll Along, Pacific
Overtures, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Sunday in the
Park with George and A Little Night Music.
THE CRITIC by Richard Brinsley
Sheridan
THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND by Tom Stoppard
A double bill
2 July – 28 August, Minerva Theatre
(Press Night: Friday 9 July 7pm)
Director:
Designer:
Ruari Murchison
Lighting
Designer: Tim Mitchell
Music:
Matthew Scott
Sound
Designer: Jonathan Suffolk
The
razor-sharp humour of two of
In
The Real Inspector Hound, two critics
blunder out of the auditorium and into the whodunit they have come to review.
The
plays are directed by Chichester Festival Theatre’s Artistic Director
PYGMALION by George Bernard
Shaw
9 July – 27 August, Festival Theatre
(Press Night: Monday 19 July 7pm)
Director and Designer: Philip Prowse
Lighting
Designer: Gerry Jenkinson
Rupert Everett plays Professor
Henry Higgins, the egocentric Professor of Phonetics, who transforms the
speech, manners and life of humble flower girl Eliza Doolittle.
This
role marks a return to the stage for
He
is joined by Stephanie Cole as his
mother Mrs Higgins, making a welcome return to
This
promises to be a dazzling production of one of theatre’s most
entertaining and provocative explorations of sexual politics and class
restrictions. Bernard Shaw’s
plays include Mrs Warren’s
Profession (staged at
Philip Prowse was a Co-Director, and then Artistic
Collaborator, of the Citizens' Theatre in
THE
RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS by Robert Tressell, a new adaptation by
Howard Brenton – WORLD PREMIERE
15 July – 26 August, Minerva Theatre (Press
Night: Monday 19 July 2pm)
Director: Christopher Morahan
Designer:
Simon Higlett
Music:
Ilona Sekacz
Howard
Brenton’s new adaptation of the famous political novel about the life and
times of a group of Edwardian working men promises to be colourful, funny and
thought-provoking. This exploration
of the harsh realities of economic survival for the working-classes remains as
relevant today as when the novel was first written.
Brenton’s
plays include Pravda, co-written with
David Hare, performed during Festival 06, Weapons
of Happiness, The Romans in
Christopher
Morahan’s credits include the recent production of The Caretaker (Liverpool Everyman and the West End), and his work
as Associate Director at the National Theatre which includes the award-winning
National Theatre and Broadway production of Wild
Honey. He is also a notable
television director whose work includes A
Dance to the Music of Time, The Jewel in the Crown and The Glittering Prizes.
The Ragged Trousered
Philanthropists
is a co-production with Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse.
THE
MASTER BUILDER
by Henrik Ibsen, a new adaptation by David Edgar – WORLD PREMIERE
9
September – 9 October, Minerva Theatre (Press Night: Wednesday 15
September 7pm)
Director: Philip Franks
Designer:
Stephen Brimson Lewis
Lighting
Designer: Tim Mitchell
Music:
Matthew Scott
David
Edgar has written a new adaptation of Ibsen’s enthralling depiction of
betrayal, guilt and sexual passion.
Following his roles in the acclaimed productions of Taking Sides and Collaboration
(Festivals 08 and 09) which transferred to the West End last year, Michael Pennington returns to
Chichester as Halvard Solness, the leading architect of his age, who is
inspired by a beautiful young woman to create one final masterpiece – but
at what cost?
Edgar’s
adaptations include The Life and
Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Festivals 06 and 07). His plays include Destiny, Maydays, Pentecost and Playing with Fire.
The Master Builder is directed by
Philip Franks. His credits for
ENRON by Lucy Prebble
10
– 18 September, Festival Theatre
Director: Rupert Goold
Designer:
Anthony Ward
Lighting
Designer: Mark Henderson
Composer
and Sound Designer: Adam Cork
Video
and Projection Designer: Jon Driscoll
Choreographer:
Scott Ambler
ENRON returns to
This
compelling study of one of the most infamous financial scandals in recent years
is an audacious theatrical epic which fuses a multitude of styles and uses
music, movement and video.
Rupert
Goold, winner of the London Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Best
Director Awards for ENRON, has also
directed Macbeth and Six Characters in Search of an Author at
Lucy
Prebble received the TMA Best New Play award for ENRON in 2009. She also
won the George Devine and the Critics’ Circle Awards for her debut play The Sugar Syndrome.
ENRON was recently
nominated for six Olivier Awards for Best Director, Best New Play, Best Actor,
Best Supporting Actor, Best Lighting Design and Best Design.
The play is a co-production with Headlong and
the
A MONTH
IN THE COUNTRY
by Ivan Turgenev, adapted by Brian Friel
24
September – 16 October, Festival Theatre (Press Night: Thursday 30
September 7pm)
Director: Jonathan Kent
Designer:
Paul Brown
Lighting
Designer: Mark Henderson
Brian
Friel, one of
estate
as Natalya struggles to recover after being consumed by a hopeless love for her
young son’s tutor.
Friel’s
plays include Dancing at Lughnasa, Translations,
Jonathan
Kent’s recent work includes the National Theatre production of Oepidus starring Ralph Fiennes, and The Fairy Queen at Glyndebourne.
Chichester Festival
Youth Theatre
presents
THE
FIREWORK-MAKER’S DAUGHTER by Philip Pullman, adapted by Stephen Russell
30
July – 12 August, Promenade Performances (Regional Press Night: Tuesday 3
August 7pm)
Director: Dale Rooks
Designer:
Amy Jackson
Chichester
Festival Youth Theatre recreates the magical story of a fleet-footed
heroine’s perilous quest to reach the terrifying Fire-Fiend. This is an
adaptation from a story by award-winning children’s writer Philip
Pullman, author of His Dark Materials
trilogy and the ‘Sally Lockhart’ series.
This
enchanting tale will be brought to life by the award-winning Chichester
Festival Youth Theatre in a promenade production in the grounds of the Weald
and
Dale Rooks is Youth Theatre Director at
Chichester Festival Theatre where her previous credits include A Christmas Carol, Toad of Toad Hall, James and
the Giant Peach, Peter Pan, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Oliver! and Pinocchio.
Priority Booking for
Friends of Chichester Festival Theatre opens on Thursday 18 February. To become a Friend of the Theatre and
benefit from priority booking and discounted tickets, call 01243 781312 or join
online at www.cft.org.uk/friends
Online public booking
opens for everyone on Monday 1 March.
Telephone and counter booking opens for everyone on Thursday 4
March. Tickets £12 -
£37 available from the Box Office on 01243 718312 or online at www.cft.org.uk
Chichester Festival
Theatre is working in partnership with Spirit FM to offer reduced ticket prices
for the first three performances of each production in the Festival
Theatre. To book for the Spirit FM
Previews, call the Box Office on 01243 781312 or go online at www.cft.org.uk
WATERMILL THEATRE
Bagnor,
Nr. Newbury,
Berkshire
RG20 8AE
BOX
OFFICE: 01635 46044 or
online at www.watermill.org.uk
Tuesday 26 January to Saturday 6 February
NEW YEAR SEASONAL SAUCE
Devised, compiled and
directed by Miss Helen Watson
Miss Helen Watson, now
in her 23rd year at The Watermill, is a favourite with Newbury
theatregoers. Her smorgasbord of delights includes songs, sketches and
colourful repartee all guaranteed to make an audience happy!
FEBRUARY – JULY 2010
It has been a good year for The Watermill,
with very successful international tours of Propeller’s A MIDSUMMER
NIGHT’S DREAM and THE MERCHANT OF VENICE and Craig Revel
Horwood’s production of HOT MIKADO which won the venue many new music
theatre fans around the country. The theatre’s Artistic Director, Hedda
Beeby’s premier 2010 season, is a good mixture of old and new, comedy
and drama to delight its audiences and continue the theatre’s ongoing
drive to find, and support new theatrical talent.
HEROES
By Gerald Sibleyras
Translated by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Paul Hart
Designed by Andrew D Edwards,
Lighting by Richard Howell
Music by Simon Slater
Thursday 11 February –
Saturday 20 March
The
first drama of 2010 at The Watermill is HEROES, a gentle comedy from Gerald Sibleyras, translated by Tom Stoppard, one of the UK’s most gifted playwrights. The three-hander
can be seen at Thursday 11 February – Saturday 20 March.
Three
veterans sit day after day yearning for one last dash to freedom. They
know they aren’t able to go far but the poplars on a distant hill seem
possible. However they have a few difficulties to overcome; there’s a
gammy leg, a propensity to feint and agoraphobia to conquer. These they
believe they can overcome but the formidable Sister Madeleine, now she’s
a real obstacle.
Paul Hart directs. Paul was
Associate Director at the Donmar Warehouse last year and was the Assistant
Director on The Watermill’s production of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE for Ed Hall’s all male Shakespeare company, Propeller.
The
vastly experienced cast comprises of Christopher Ettridge (Philippe) whose most
recent stage appearance was in HIS DARK MATERIALS. He is probably best
known for his television role as PC Deadman in GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART, David Fielder (Henri), last seen at The Watermill in
BROKEN GLASS, is a multi-award winning actor who has worked extensively with
Shared Experience, the RSC and the National Theatre, Michael Hadley (Gustav) has recently worked extensively at the Donmar Warehouse
and the RSC and appeared with Jude Law in HAMLET on Broadway.
Press
Performance: Monday 15th February at 7.30pm
Venue: The
Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, Newbury, RG20 8AE
Dates:
Thursday 11 February – Saturday 20 March 2010
Eves: 7.30pm
– Thu & Sat mats 2.30pm except 20 March - shows start one hour
earlier
Tickets:
£13 - £24
Box Office:
01635 46044 or online www.watermill.org.uk
Tom Stoppard’s comedy hit of 2005 was his translation of HEROES, which
follows three WW1 veterans Henri, Guatave and Phillippe’s preparations
for escaping a French military hospital. There are a few things that
stand in their way including poor health and Sister Madeleine. The play,
a huge success on both sides of the Channel, will be directed by Paul Hart
who was Assistant Director to Edward Hall on Propeller’s THE
MERCHANT OF VENICE.
RAISING VOICES
A festival of
new writing
Monday 29 to
Wednesday 31 March
Raising
Voices, a festival of new writing, invites writers of all cultures and
backgrounds to submit a new play for the Watermill which, celebrates the
diversity of the English language and the visual and emotional dynamics of live
theatre. Started by Jill
Fraser in 2003, RAISING VOICES will see a short list of plays performed in
staged readings by professional actors over 3 days at the theatre.
The Watermill
Senior Youth Theatre
presents
The Three
Musketeers
By Alexandre
Dumas
Adapted and
directed by Beth Flintoff
Wednesday 7 to
Saturday 10 April
Beth Flintoff, The Watermill Learning and Participation
Director, adapts and directs her first show for The Watermill Senior Youth
Theatre. There are now 150 young people participating in Watermill Youth
Theatre activities every week.
Thursday 15th
April – Saturday 22 May
BRONTE
By Polly Teale
Directed by
Nancy Meckler
Presented in
association with Shared Experience
A new
collaboration between The Watermill and Shared Experience, one of the
Tuesday 25 to
Saturday 29 May
Gulliver’s Travels
By Jonathan
Swift
In a new
adaptation by Toby Hulse
Directed by
Ade Morris
The Watermill’s rural touring scheme
goes from strength to strength. This new adaptation of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
by the South West dramatist Toby Hulse uses
only three actors, a dinner table and a mountain of books, in a tour de force
of theatrical storytelling. The Spitting Image of its time, GULLIVER’S
TRAVELS remains as viciously funny and as outrageously truthful as the day
that it was first published.
Thursday 3
June to Saturday 10 July
Daisy Pulls It
Off
By Denise
Deegan
Directed by
Orla O’Loughlin
Orla O’Loughlin has become a favourite director
with Watermill audiences. Her two previous shows, BLACK COMEDY and BLITHE
SPIRIT, showed a confident comic touch. Her new challenge is the Olivier
award winning DAISY PULLS IT OFF, a mad-cap look at the jolly hockey classes of
a 1920’s girl’s public school.
WATERMILL OTHER EVENTS
15 February: Adult Play Reading - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are
Dead by Tom Stoppard
19 February: Watermill Book Club - Sara Paretsky
27 February: David Wood’s Magic and Music Show
3 March: Acting Skills Workshop
4 March: Back Stage Tour – Heroes
12 March: Watermill Book Club – William Fiennes
23 – 27 March: Box Theatre Company and Newbury Dramatic
Society present CONFUSED LOVE
19th April: Adult Play
29 April: Back Stage Tour – Bronte
15 May: Shemi’s Tall Tales told by author Mary Medlicott
19 May: Play Writing workshop
26 June: Back Stage Tour – Daisy Pulls it Off
Box Office: 01635 46044 www.watermill.org.uk
DIRECTIONS TO THE WATERMILL FROM THE M4
Leave Motorway at Junction 13 and head south on the A34 towards Newbury. Take first exit off A34, signposted to Donnington, then turn right to cross over the dual carriageway. Turn left following signs to Donnington, straight over first mini roundabout. Turn right at second mini roundabout into Grove Road. Follow Grove Road for approximately ½ a mile and then turn right following signs to the Watermill Theatre and Bagnor. Pass through the village of Bagnor and fork left down small drive leading to Theatre car park.
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This Theatre is probably the most unusually beautifully situated theatre in the country. Winter, Spring, Summer or Autumn - the setting is delightful. The Watermill has full facilities for car parking, a first-class restaurant and bar and the most delightful little Theatre producing excellent shows. I can heartily recommend a visit to the WATERMILL !!!! (Editor).
THEATRE ROYAL
BRIGHTON
New Road,
Brighton
Sussex
Box
Office 08448 717 650 (bkg fee)
Groups
Hotline 08448 717 617
Access
Bookings 08448 717 677 (bkg fee)
Website: www.ambassadortickets.com/brighton
The Theatre Royal, Brighton is one of the most elegant of playhouses. Whilst so many of our old theatre have ripped out wooden panels in favour of Formica and replaced chandeliers with florescent lighting, the Theatre Royal skillfully manages to retain its charm and character whilst presenting an eclectic programme of drama, dance, musicals and comedy. Perfectly situated in the heart of Brighton, opposite the Prince Regent's Royal Pavilion, it is also wonderfully convenient for late night trains (thus easily accessible from London), an array of good restaurants and, if you desire, a thoughtful late night stroll along the beach to savour the evening's theatre fare.
Brighton Theatre Royal has many concessions, family tickets and special offers - why not join their mailing list and reap those rewards - contact the Box Office 08700 606 650 for full details.
NEW VICTORIA THEATRE
WOKING
The Ambassadors
Peacocks Centre,
Woking
Surrey, GU21 1GQ
BOX OFFICE 01483 761144
Website: www.theambassadors.com/woking
The New Victoria Theatre is within easy reach of most of Surrey and Exit 11 of the M25. The main line railway connection with Waterloo takes less than half an hour.
SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE
Malthouse Lane
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP2 7RA
BOX OFFICE: 01722
320333
Website: www.salisburyplayhouse.com
THE MAYFLOWER THEATRE
SOUTHAMPTON
Commercial Road
Southampton
SO15 1GE
BOX OFFICE: 02380 711811
Website: www.the-mayflower.com
NUFFIELD THEATRE
University Road
Southampton
Hampshire
SO17 1TR
BOX OFFICE: 023 8067
1771
website - www.nuffieldtheatre.co.uk
MOUNTBATTEN CENTRE
Portsmouth
BOX OFFICE: 023 9266
5122
THE ANVIL
Basingstoke
BOX OFFICE: 01256 844244
MERCURY THEATRE
COLCHESTER
Balkerne Gate,
Colchester,
CO1 1PT.
BOX OFFICE: 01206 573948
BRISTOL - OLD VIC
King Street
Bristol
BS1 4ED
BOX OFFICE 0117 987 7877
THEATRE ROYAL
BRISTOL
Information provided by by Richard Jones for Theatreworld Internet Magazine
BRISTOL HIPPODROME
St Augustine's Parade
Bristol
Avon
BS1 4UZ
BOX OFFICE: 0870 6077500
Website: www.bristol-hippodrome.co.uk
TOBACCO FACTORY
Raleigh Road
Southville
Bristol
BS3 1TF
BOX OFFICE:
0117-902-0344
WYVERN THEATRE
Theatre Square
Swindon
Wiltshire
BOX OFFICE: 01793
524481
EVERYMAN THEATRE
Regent Street
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
BOX OFFICE: 01242 572573
All productions are staged in the
Everyman Theatre Main House, unless otherwise stated
ROSES THEATRE
Sun Street
Tewkesbury
Gloucestershire
BOX OFFICE: 01684 295074
THEATRE ROYAL
BURY ST EDMUNDS
Westgate Street,
Bury St Edmunds.
Suffolk
IP33 1QR
BOX OFFICE: 01284 76905
Website: www.theatreroyal.org
Summer Season, 2010
Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmunds
Please find full
details below of the Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmunds Summer Season 2010.
Box Office details:
Tel: 01284 769505
All performance times
are 7:30pm unless stated otherwise. Any additional performances at other times,
including matinee performances will be indicated in the listings.
The venue is the
Theatre Royal Bury St. Edmunds unless stated otherwise.
April
Thursday 29 April
– Saturday 1 May
Nicholas Hennegan Limited and Maverick Theatre present
HANCOCK’S
FINEST HOUR
a comedy drama by Colin Bennett
directed by Chris Hayes
designed by Douglas Heap.
Hancock’s
Finest Hour is set in a BBC dressing room, just before and after Tony
Hancock’s famous TV interview with John Freeman, the man who famously
made Tony cry and seem to reappraise his life and times. Bouncing between the
lows of alcoholism and the highs of being a national treasure, Tony begins to
reminisce – and is visited by a procession of memories from his life,
both tragic and comedic, with a surprise ending! Recently voted Britain’s
Favourite Comedian, modern-day creations such as Alan Partridge and David Brent
owe much of their success to Tony Hancock. Paul and the cast will ensure a
night to remember for Hancock fans and lovers of comedy alike. Starring Paul
Henry (best-known as Benny in Crossroads) as Tony
Hancock.
‘A
triumphant piece of writing… likes Hancock it is both very funny and very
sad. An evening I shall remember.’ BBC
Radio
Tickets:
£8.50-£24.50
May
Monday 3 May
Theatre Royal Theatre
Makers
WONDERFUL
WORLDS AND MYTHICAL MONSTERS
Every culture throughout
history has had its monsters. From the gorgon to the dragon, from the serpent
to the mermaid, tales have been told about these mythical creatures. Join the
8–12 year old members of the Theatre Makers as they journey through time and
meet these fantastical beasts of legend.
6.30pm, Tickets:
£5.00 adults, £3.00 children
Tuesday 4 May
Opera della Luna
HMS
PINAFORE
Set sail for a brilliantly fast
and hilarious production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s famous comic opera. Packed
to the brim with toe-tapping tunes, the wit and verve of this production are
proof of Opera della Luna’s 15 years as the country’s
leading exponent of operetta and comic music theatre.
Tickets: £8.50-£25.50
Wednesday 5 –
Sunday 9 May
Cider with Rosie
by Laurie Lee.
In a new adaptation by Daniel
O’Brien
directed by Abigail Anderson
designed by Dora Schweitzer
original music composed by TJ
Holmes
As part of its ten week
national tour, Cider with Rosie returns to the Theatre Royal
Bury St Edmunds to once more recreate the charming world of rural
Gloucestershire, 1917. Horses pulling ploughs. Charabanc outings to Weston-super-Mare.
The frozen white winters and blazing orange summers of
memory. Heroic fourteen-year-old giant Spadge Hopkins. Tyrannical teacher Old
Crabby. The warring ancient rival Grannies Trill and Wallon. And of course that
first, unforgettable, cider-fuelled encounter in the harvest fields. Laurie
Lee’s story puts on record the England that we have traded for the petrol
engine in an evocative prose poem that sparkles, winks and wryly smiles.
‘I
belonged to a generation which saw, by chance, the end of a thousand
years’ life.’ Laurie Lee
1st
NIGHT SPECIAL!
Get 3 tickets for the
price of 2 on Wednesday 5 May (cheapest ticket free)
Tickets:
£8.50-£24.50
Sunday 9 May
THE
LARKRISE BAND
Ashley Hutchings, legendary
Guv’nor of English folk music and founder member of Fairport Convention,
leads a stellar line-up to celebrate the music, words, dance and song of Flora
Thompson’s Larkrise To Candleford. Originally produced for the
National Theatre’s 1981 adaptation of the novel, these stirring tunes
from a lost age have regained prominence with the popularity of the BBC’s
recent television series.
3pm, Tickets
£8.50-£20.50
Workshop
Bring the world of
Larkrise to Candleford to life! Work with all five
members of the band in a relaxed, friendly workshop
where you will try the dances, taste the food and hear,
play and sing the music. Suitable for families and people of
all ages, you can be hands on or simply observe – and bring instruments
if you wish!
11am
– 12.30pm, at The Guildhall.
Tickets:
£8.00
Monday 10 –
Tuesday 11 May
European Arts return
following 2009’s great success with The Pickwick Papers.
THE
STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE
Come, if you dare, on a trip
down the smoggy, gaslit alleyways of Victorian London to witness a chilling,
thrilling and highly entertaining reinvention of this classic tale. Set in a
Whitechapel tavern, circa 1888, a versatile ensemble cast will use only the
things you find in a pub – barrels, tankards, bar stools, billiard cues
and yards of ale – to recreate the gruesome story with great imagination
and horror.
Tickets: £8.50-£22.50.
Wednesday 12 May
THE
JOHNNY CASH STORY
Following their sold-out
performance in 2009, Roger Dean and The Lazy Boys return with their
spellbinding tribute to The Man in Black. Combining biographical excerts of his
remarkable rise from poverty in rural Arkansas, with classic numbers such as Ring Of
Fire and I Walk The Line, this is a fitting eulogy to
one of music’s true legends. ‘Tenderness and fun, style
and verve…and oh, what songs!’ Financial
Times
Tickets:
£8.50-£20.50
Thursday 13 May
Lunchtime Concert
TRINITY
COLLEGE OF MUSIC PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
Toe-tapping jazz, Latin and
original compositions, featuring marimba, drums and other percussion
instruments. Lively and loud or quiet in a crowd!
£1.10pm, Tickets:
£7.00
Restoring the Repertoire
Thursday 13 May
A rehearsed reading of
Mrs T.P. Cooke’s
THE
FORCED MARRIAGE
The wife of the famous and
much-loved actor T.P. Cooke (he of Black Eyed Susan and Frankenstein
fame) penned this sweet little piece, so it’s no surprise
that T.P. was first to play the role of the dashing sledge-driver, Ivan
Daniloff, who does the honourable thing.
7:00pm, Tickets: £7.00
Friday 14 May
ACTORS’
LIVES AND BACKSTAGE STORIES
Join us on our exciting new
guided tour through the Theatre Royal’s plays and performers, from 1819
to the present day. Learn fascinating facts and even a bit of backstage gossip.
Our Greene Room bar will be open for dinner, snacks and Georgian cocktails.
Dinner reservations recommended 5.30pm-11pm.Guided
tours at 7:00pm, 8:15pm & 9:30pm.
Tickets: £6
adults / £4 children (£1 discount for National Trust
members and concessions) Tours last approximately 80 minutes. Please
note that the tours involve several flights of stairs.
Saturday 15 –
Sunday 16 May
SHAKESPEARE
ON THE STREETS
Discover the romantic side of Bury St Edmunds, with
Shakespeare’s Sonnets as your inspiration. Already a hit
on the streets of New York, London and Liverpool, this new show has been
created especially for the Bury Festival by a host of local professional
actors, artists and musicians. It’s Shakespeare – and Bury –
as you’ve never seen it before, with a few surprises along the way. This
outdoor guided tour starts at The Guildhall on Guildhall Street. First
tour at 12.30pm, then at 15 minute intervals.
Tickets:
£8.00-£18.00
Saturday 15 May
AL
MURRAY – THE PUB LANDLORD
Catch Al Murray’s
scabrous alter-ego in a rare intimate show, as he tries out new material. 2009
saw ‘The Guv’ play to over 230,000 people, including two nights at
London’s O2 Arena, on his sold-out Beautiful British Tour.
Monday 17 May
EDUARDO
NIEBLA
‘A display of supernatural
talent and a spellbinding mixture of flamenco and modern jazz, bursting with
obvious passion and verve.’ The
Spectator
A formidable flamenco-jazz
guitar virtuoso, Eduardo Niebla is a master of today’s generation. His
brilliant and passionate flamenco music is infused with a myriad of Eastern
colours and a Gypsy-jazz edge.
Tickets:
£8.50-£18.00
Tuesday 18 May
BALLET
CENTRAL
The stars of the future from
the Central School of Ballet present a new programme combining ballet,
contemporary and jazz dance from some of the world’s leading
choreographers. The tour will include pieces from David Nixon, Christopher
Bruce, Michael Pink and Phillip Aiden, as well as three newly created works.
Tickets: £8.50-£22.50
Wednesday 19 May
BLACK
UMFOLOSI 5
Zimbabwe’s greatest
ambassadors present a show packed with spectacular songs and dances that has
been thrilling audiences worldwide. Their trademark harmonies mixed with
intricate rhythms, clicking and clapping are highlighted during their
brilliantly choreographed performances.
Tickets:
£8.50-£18.00
Thursday 20 May
Lunchtime Reading
GABRIEL
GARCIA MARQUEZ
Escape into the magical world
of this Nobel Prize-winning author, where fairy tales meet everyday life in
surprising, touching and humorous ways.
1.10pm, Tickets:
£5.00
Friday 21 –
Sunday 23 May
The Gruffalo - Live on Stage!
Kenny Wax Ltd & Nick Brooke Ltd
Tall Stories productions
Based on the
award-winning picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, this magical,
musical adaptation of the award winning picture book
has been a sold-out smash-hit in the West
End and around the world. Join Mouse on his
adventure through the deep dark wood as he scares hungry animals away with tall
stories of his friend, the terrifying Gruffalo. But what happens when he comes
face-to-face with the very creature he imagined? Meet a wheeler-dealer Fox, an
eccentric old Owl, a maraca-shaking, party-mad Snake… and, of course, The
Gruffalo! Songs, laughs and scary fun for children aged 3 to 300! ‘Monstrous
fun!’ Daily Mail.
Running time approx: 1
hour. The performance at 1.30pm on
Friday 21 May will be British Sign Language interpreted
Tickets: £7.00-£12.50
(Save 25% on tickets for a family of 4 (must include at least one adult and one
child).
Monday 24 –
Sunday 29 May
The Playhouse
Entertainment Group
WIFE
BEGINS AT 40
directed by Brian Godfrey
designed by Julie Godfrey
lighting designed by Graham Mclusky
It seems that, for some people,
forty is a rather traumatic age. For Linda Harper it certainly appears to be,
as she starts worrying three years before her fortieth birthday. She is
dissatisfied spiritually and physically with her seventeen-year marriage to the
slightly staid George. However, following a drunken night during which George
recounts passionate stories involving a flamenco dancer from the top of a grand
piano, Linda decides to leave. Yet it is George who moves out, giving Linda a
chance to “find herself” through a variety of courses, including
aerobics and sculpting. When, a few weeks later, George returns to the family
home without his ‘crown jewels’, to sort out maintenance
arrangements with the help of neighbours Roger and Betty, he and Linda discover
that the flames of passion are not quite dead, albeit in need of a little
fanning! Accompanied by the Central Band of the Royal Air
Force, Linda helps George to put the ex back into sex. The
25th anniversary production of this delightful comedy is directed by Brian
Godfrey,Ray Cooney’s Associate Director of 25 years, and stars Vicki
Michelle (‘Allo ‘Allo),Trevor Bannister (Are You Being Served? and
Last of the Summer Wine) and Mark Curry (Blue Peter).
Tickets:
£8.50-£24.50
Monday 31 May –
Wednesday 2 June
Guess On Stage Ltd
Guess how much I love you?
based on the books by Sam
McBratney
Hop along to the Theatre Royal
as Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare take you on a magical journey
through Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Full of song, games and laughter,
these classic tales are adapted by David Wood OBE, the UK’s leading
writer and director of children’s theatre, whose previous successes include
The Tiger That Came To Tea, Fantastic
Mr. Fox, The Gingerbread Man, The
Witches and Babe The Sheep Pig.
Suitable for children
aged from 3 years.
Running time: approx 55
minutes.
Tickets: £7.00-£12.50 (Save
25% on tickets for a family of 4 (must include at least one adult and one
child).
June
Thursday 3 –
Friday 4 June
Independent Ballet
Wales
GISELLE
‘A charming and gifted
company’ Daily Telegraph
Independent Ballet Wales return
to Bury St. Edmunds with a breathtaking version of one of the most famous
ballets of all time. Featuring Adolphe Adam’s stunning score, Giselle
is the passionate story of a peasant girl resurrected from her
grave to protect the man who had originally broken her heart.
‘A charming and gifted company’ Daily Telegraph
Tickets: £8.50- £24.50
Saturday 5 June
THE
CHRIS BARBER BIG BAND
Influential trombonist Chris
Barber leads his 11-piece band in an exciting night of jazz, blues and soul.
From the New Orleans style of signature tune Bourbon Street Parade to Duke
Ellington, Bob Crosby, Sonny Terry, Joe Zawinul and Miles Davis, Barber provides
the perfect soundtrack to a summer party.
Tickets:
£8.50-£25.00
Restoring the Repertoire
Monday 7 –
Thursday 10 June
Experience the world of Georgian Theatre
Travel with us back
into the Theatre’s past and enjoy an exciting programme packed full of
Georgian-themed activities! Running daily from Monday to Thursday, it
provides a very special opportunity to find out more what makes the Theatre Royal such a special
and fascinating place, including a Georgian stage fitted with wind and wave
machines and actors in full period costume. Our Greene Room
restaurant and bar is open for refreshments.
10am – 1pm Schools
programme Tickets: £8/£6
2pm – 5pm Open
for general public Tickets: £8/£6
Wednesday 9 June
TAP
AND CHAT WITH LIONEL BLAIR
Join the legendary Lionel Blair
for a fleet-footed journey through a uniquely colourful career. Amidst
beautifully choreographed songs such as Me And My Shadow and They Can’t Take That Away From Me, Lionel
captivates his audience with spellbinding anecdotes, from tea at Number 10 to personal engagements
with Liza Minnelli and his performances with Sammy Davis Jnr.
Tickets:
£8.50-£25.00
Tuesday 8 June
Lunchtime Lecture
JANE
AUSTEN
A rare opportunity to discover
her hilarious early work and unfinished novels.
1.10pm, £7
Thursday 10 June
Lunchtime Concert
REBECCA
WALKER cello & double bass
MICHAEL
SALMON piano
This experienced recital duo present a programme including music
by Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff and Rebecca Walker’s original compositions.
This experienced recital duo
present a programme including music by Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff and Rebecca
Walker’s original compositions.
1:10pm, Tickets: £7.00
Restoring the Repertoire
Friday 11 June
A rehearsed reading of
A DAY
IN TURKEY
A comedy in five acts
by Hannah Cowley, first performed on 3 Dec 1791 at the Theatre Royal Covent
Garden. Linking perfectly with Staging The East (see below), this comedy
by another successful woman playwright of the Georgian era has it all:
beautiful Russian slaves, a cheeky French servant with his own ideas about
liberty, and a Turkish Bassa in love.
7:00pm, Tickets: £5.00
Restoring the Repertoire
Friday 11 –
Saturday 12 June
STAGING
THE EAST:Oriental
Masking in the British Theatre, 1660 – 1830
A conference organised
by Marina Warner and the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies
(LiFTS), University of Essex, and Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds. With
generous support from the British Academy. Join us for two days of talks,
performances, and demonstrations exploring the
theatre’s captivation with the idea of the East throughout the long 18th
century, featuring an international group of speakers including authors Daniel
O’Quinn, Mita Choudhury and Bridget Orr, and theatre director Tim Supple.
Fri 11 from 3pm; Sat
12 9am – 6pm Tickets: £35 (£25 concs) includes
lunch and ticket to the rehearsed reading of A Day in Turkey.
Monday 14 June
Young Talent Week
THE
SPIKE
Theatre Royal Youth Theatre
Written and directed by Sally Waters
For those who had fallen on
hard times during the Georgian and Victorian periods there was little or no
place to go except the workhouse door. The 13-15 year old members of the Youth
Theatre look into the history of young people in Bury St Edmunds during this
time.
7.30pm, Tickets:
£7.00 (£3.50 concs)
Tuesday 15 June
PICK
‘N MIX
West Suffolk College,
E0.45 Theatre, E0.45 Dance E0.45 Productions is thrilled to be showcasing
another year of the best work performed by the hottest
talent in the area. It promises to be an exciting evening
of dramatic theatre and sizzling dance numbers. In addition to numbers by
current and graduating students there will be another action packed
presentation of street dance by applicants to the 2010 courses.
7:00pm, Tickets:
£10.00 (concs available)
Wednesday 16 June
Young Talent Week
NATIONAL
YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA
World renowned as a glittering showcase for the country’s best
young musicians, a NYJO concert can be enjoyed by non-jazz as well as jazz
aficionados alike.
Tickets: £8.50-£22.50
Thursday 17 –
Friday 18 June
Arbor Preparatory
School
THE
ISLE OF BENDITH
by Joyce Amtower
When Brianna and her school
friends visit The Isle Of Bendith to study Celtic history, her
grandmother gives a special talisman which must be returned
to the island. Bendith gradually reveals the mystery of the talisman and Brianna discovers the
story of her ancestors.
6.30pm, Tickets:
£15.00 adults/£5.00 children
Saturday 19 &
Sunday 20 June
Suffolk’s Big
Weekend
FAMILY
FUN AT THE THEATRE ROYAL
Join us for a weekend of
heritage activities for children and young people
of all ages! Engage in some
Regency recreational entertainment like silhouette-making, blind man’s
buff and quoits. Listen to our story teller or join us for some taster-tours
round the theatre. You can also dress up and have your photo taken with one of
our colourful Regency characters or take up the camera yourself for our photo
exhibition with artist Tessa Farmer.
Saturday: 10am
– 1pm, Taster tours 10.15am & 11.30am
Sun 10:00am,-4:30pm, Taster
tours 2.15pm & 3.30pm
Tickets: £5.00
/ £4.00
Saturday 19 June
JAMES
CAMPBELL’S COMEDY & SONGS 4 KIDS
James Campbell’s brand
new stand-up comedy show is now mixed with funny songs about life, sausages and
how superheroes go to the toilet. ‘My seven-year-old
howled with laughter and so did I.’ Daily Mail
2:00pm, Tickets:
£7.00-£9.00
Sunday 20 June
Lunchtime Reading
E.
NESBIT
A special lunchtime reading for
the whole family, featuring excerpts of some of E. Nesbit’s best known stories.
1.10pm, Tickets:
£5.00
Saturday 19 June
The Greene Room
BAND
NIGHT
The Theatre Royal rocks! A
feast of new music in our Greene Room featuring several up and coming local
bands, including Not Until Tomorrow. ‘Giving an
energy-filled performance of insanely fast guitar riffs and bass lines that
will stick in your head for days, Not Until Tomorrow won over the
audience’s hearts.’ BBC Suffolk
8:00pm Tickets:
£3.00 advance, £6.00 on the door
Tuesday 22 June
Celebrating JANE
AUSTEN
Theatre Tours International
co-written & performed by Rebecca Vaughan
co-written & directed by Guy Masterson
Join us in celebrating
one of the greatest female novelists of all time! AUSTEN’S
WOMEN in a double bill with harpist Danielle Perrett. Thirteen of
Austen’s beautifully-observed women are assembled in one glorious
distillation of 19th century feminism. From high comedy to profound pathos,
Vaughan takes us on a rich journey into Austen’s ‘two inches of
ivory’ featuring Lizzy Bennet, Emma Woodhouse, the Dashwood Sisters and
many more, as they fall in and out of love, make friends with some, alienate
others and commit notorious improprieties! “Vaughan’s
performance was unfaultable...this is a thoroughly enjoyable exploration of
women & is thoroughly recommended.’ Edinburgh
Guide. From Buckingham Palace to major international
concert halls, Danielle’
Perretts’s solo recital career spans the globe. Tonight, she will be
taking you on a beautiful journey to the Regency period.
Tickets:
£8.50-£20.50
Why not make a day of it
with a guided tour and Lunchtime Lecture?
LOVERS’ VOWS AND
OTHER STORIES: Guided tours
at 10.30am and 11.30am
Tickets: £6.00
adults/£4.00 children (£1 discount for National Trust members
and concessions) Tours last approximately 80 minutes.
COMMEMORATING JANE: Austen celebrations and
re-enactments with Dr Gillian Dow, lecturer in English at Southampton University and
Research Fellow at Chawton House Library, celebrates the life and continuing
appeal of Jane Austen. 1.10pm Tickets: £5.00
Wednesday 23 June
BLAZIN’
FIDDLES
With a reputation as one of the
most exciting fiddle ensembles ever to take to the stage, Blazin’ Fiddles
continue to capture perfectly the passion and sensitivity of Scottish music.
Their fiery blend of highland tunes and tales from the islands has delighted
audiences from remote village halls to London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Tickets: £8.50-£22.50
Friday 25 –
Saturday 26 June
Culford Preparatory
School
THE
BATTLE FOR SINGE HILL
by Hilary McPherson and St.
John Weyers
An exciting new musical set in
the American Wild West. The year is 1869 and at the Smoking Cactus Saloon, in
the forgotten town of Singe Hill, the miners and the Mexicans, the cowboys and
the saloon girls, the gamblers and the bank robbers, discover the threat to the
future of their town.
Tickets:
£5.00-£12.00 (Friday 25th all tickets £5.00)
Restoring the Repertoire
Tuesday 29 June – Saturday 3 July
THE
POOR SOLDIER
directed by Colin Blumenau
a musical comedy in one act by John O’Keefe
music by William Shield
first performed on 4 November 1783 at the Theatre Royal Covent
Garde.n
Join us and rediscover the
original Broadway musical! Following the American Revolution our hero returns
home to Ireland with love in his heart and a song on his lips.
But alas! His sweetheart is
being wooed by English officer.
(The Hero sings a
heartfelt musical number on love, fear and emasculation)
To add insult to injury a ludicrous
French servant is also trying to bed her!
(The
Sweetheart sings about love and being far too gorgeous for her own good) Meanwhile
her beautiful friend is being courted by two local peasants!
(Absolutely
everyone sings a big musical number on cows, and of course, love.)
Full of comedy, confusion and
lots of songs, The Poor Soldier was President George Washington’s favourite
play. It was a hit over here (London 1783) and a hit over there (New York
1783). This glorious musical comedy combines the talents of playwright
John O’Keefe (known for the play Wild Oats) and
renowned 18th century composer William Shield. What’s more, it inspired
the very first American professional play (The Contrast by Royall
Tyler 1787) which included two characters watching a performance of The
Poor Soldier.
Tickets:
£8.50-£24.50
TalkOut
Thursday 1 July. Where you see the Audio Description logo next to
a performance, there will be a live verbal commentary capturing the key visual
elements of the performance.
Friday 2 July-
Lunchtime Lecture
THE
POOR SOLDIER:
The stage history of a 1780s
hit musical with typical lightness of touch, this Lunchtime
Lecture will look at the history of George Washington’s favourite
piece of theatre – a play he had performed at his inauguration
ceremony!
1:10pm, Tickets: £5.00
July
Monday 5 July
Theatre Royal Theatre
Makers
FANTABULOUS
FABLES
Join the 5-7 year old members
of the Theatre Makers as they explore some of Aesop’s forgotten fables.
You may know the story of The Boy who cried Wolf and The
Tortoise and the Hare, but come along and discover the more unusual tales from
history’s best loved story-teller.
6.30pm Tickets:
£5 adults, £3 children
Tuesday 6 –
Sunday 11 July
Shakespeare’s
Globe
A
MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
by William Shakespeare
Hermia loves Lysander and
Helena loves Demetrius – but Demetrius is supposed to be marrying Hermia.
When the Duke of Athens tries to enforce the marriage, the lovers take refuge
in the woods outside the city, and walk into the midst of a dispute between the
king and queen of the fairies. But they are not alone. So, too, does a group of
amateur actors rehearsing a play. Between the angry fairies, the bumbling
players and the dazed lovers, flies Puck, armed with a love juice capable of
making anyone fall for the first person they set eyes upon – no matter
how unsuitable. Performed on an Elizabethan-inspired stage, a small troupe of
travelling players breathe new life into this amazingly inventive play.
Dreamlike, funny and beautiful, eight talented actors reinvent renaissance
touring theatre for the 21st century with Shakespeare’s greatest comedy.
‘Summer
is all the sweeter for a Shakespeare road trip.’ Daily Telegraph
Tickets:
£8.50-£24.50
TalkOut
Thursday 8 July
Thursday 8 July
Lunchtime Concert
THE
DECIBELL DUO
Trumpeter Ellie Lovegrove and
pianist Lyn Carter perform a varied programme of classical and jazz numbers.
1:10pm, Tickets: £7.00
Friday 9 July
Lunchtime Reading
SHAKESPEARE’S
LOVERS
Complementing The Globe’s
production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, we’ll be reading a
selection of Shakespeare’s most passionate love scenes.
1.10pm, Tickets:
£5.00
Monday 12 July
WEST
SUFFOLK YOUNG MUSICIAN 2010
Come and hear the cream of West
Suffolk’s young musicians in the Final of this year’s competition.
Strings, woodwind, brass, voice and piano finalists will compete in two
classes, whilst younger heats winners will showcase their talents, too. Trophies
will be presented by the panel of adjudicators on the night and the West
Suffolk Young Musician 2010 will be announced.
7:00pm £7.00
(£4.00 concs)
Restoring the Repertoire
Thursday 15 July
A rehearsed reading of
ALL
ON A SUMMER’S DAY
a comedy in five acts by Elizabeth Inchbald
first performed on 15 Dec 1787 at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden.
Lady Carrol is wilful,
outspoken and likes to flirt. Exchanging love-letters with young Mooneye and
passing her husband off as her father, however, takes things one step too far!
Another rediscovery from the pen of our very own Bury playwright, Elizabeth
Inchbald.
7:00pm, Tickets:
£7.00
Friday 16 July
Concert
Deja Vu Productions
Ltd
TODAY’S
TEARDROPS
A tribute to Roy Orbison &
Gene Pitney, starring Paul Hopkins & his musicians
Two legends captured in
intimate detail by one performer. Paul Hopkins sings all the classic hits,
including; 24 Hours from Tulsa, Pretty
Woman, I Drove All Night, Backstage
and In Dreams.
Tickets:
£8.50-£24.50
Tuesday 20 July
An Evening with
JONATHON
PORRITT
One of the UK’s leading
authorities on globalisation and the environment, Jonathon Porritt CBE is a
zealous campaigner and forthright government advisor. A former Director of
Friends of the Earth and founder of the UK’s largest sustainable
development charity, Forum for the Future, Porritt is a central figure of our
times.
Tickets:
£8.50-£22.50
Wednesday 21 July
BUDDY
HOLLY AND THE CRICKETERS
Enjoy timeless hits such as That’ll
Be The Day and Peggy Sue with Britain’s greatest and longest running
Buddy Holly tribute act in a fast, furious and funny rock ‘n’
roller-coaster of a show.
Tickets:
£8.50-£24.50
Thursday 22 –
Saturday 24 July
Lip Service
DESPERATE
TO BE DORIS
An outrageous homage to musical
icon Doris Day, featuring a selection of the diva of the duster’s
greatest hits like you’ve never heard them before. Nominated for a Manchester
Evening News Theatre Award, Desperate to be Doris tells the
story of Dean, who works as a buyer for a mail order nightwear firm called The
Pyjama Game. At home he is a legend in his own living room and sings like
Doris Day, but will he dare to share his Calamity Jane with an
unsuspecting world? When his local operatic society, Out of My Range, decides
to stage the hit musical, Dean is suddenly thrown in the limelight. IT ALL DEPENDS ON
YOU…All good musicals traditionally need a cast of thousands, so our
leading ladies will be backed by a flamboyant Bury St Edmunds chorus specially
recruited for this production. If you are interested in joining the community choir, please
contact Lynn Whitehead via lynn@theatreroyal.org. No previous singing experience
required!
Tickets: £8.50- £24.50
TalkOut
Thursday 22 July
Monday 26 July
– Friday 6 August
DRAMA
EXTRAVAGANZA
For the first
time, the Theatre Royal is offering two drama extravaganzas at the start of the
summer holidays! 5-12 year olds can come along to either the first OR second
week where the children will experience drama and creative activities with
theatre professionals. This year we will be having an adventure to the depths
of the sea and the crags and crevices of the coastline. Each place costs
£62 for the week, but bring a sibling for only £45. For further
information, contact Amy Wyllie or Sally Waters at the Theatre Royal on 01284
829933 or 829935 or email amyw@theatreroyal.org or sally@theatreroyal.org. Book
your place now, as tickets sell faster than crabby patties!
Monday 26 –
Friday 30 July, Monday 2 – Friday 6 August
10am-3pm each day
Wednesday 28 July
AN
EVENING WITH…RABBI LIONEL BLUE
Loved by millions for his
offbeat sense of humour, Rabbi Lionel Blue mixes compassion and common sense
with a delicious sense of the ridiculous.
Tickets:
£8.50-£22.50
Thursday 29 July
ROLL
OUT THE BARREL
Now in its 10th year, this
hugely popular and uplifting show is a wonderful mix of music and memories.
Join Terry Bradford and Sussie Arvesen on a joyous journey of non-stop
nostalgia with over 60 songs that you will know and love. Including We’ll
Meet Again, Down At The Old Bull And Bush, Underneath
The Arches and Pennies From Heaven, you’ll be singing all
the way home.
Tickets:
£8.50-£12.50
Friday 30 July
COMEDY
STORE PLAYERS
London’s legendary Comedy
Store comes to Bury St Edmunds! Some of the most innovative and
hilarious comedians of the last
30 years honed their skills on the Comedy Store’s stage and became
household names on Whose Line Is It Anyway? – now join the likes of
Josie Lawrence and Richard Vranch on the piano for some improvised chaos.
Tickets:
£8.50-£20.50
August
Tuesday 3 –
Saturday 7 August
KISS
ME KATE
Suffolk Young People’s Theatre
music and lyrics by Cole Porter
book by Bella and Samuel Spewack
by arrangement with MusicScope
Combine Shakespeare’s The
Taming of the Shrew with Cole Porter’s music and lyrics, and you get Kiss Me
Kate, which remains an enduring success with audiences all over the
world. This is a play-within-a-play where each cast member’s on-stage
life is complicated by what is happening offstage. Musical numbers include Brush
Up Your Shakespeare, So In
Love Am I, I Hate Men, Another
Op’nin’, Another Show and many well-known songs.
Tickets:
£7.00-£17.00
16 August
SUMMER
SCHOOL 2010 (age 13 – 21)
Audition for the Theatre
Royal’s renowned Summer School, and if you’re successful you could
be performing on our stage in the last two weeks of August. Working with
theatre professionals, the Summer School Company will rehearse and perform a
play that will be a show for all the family to enjoy. It’s the nearest
thing to real work experience as an actor – hard work and tremendous fun.
COST: £115
(assisted places available).
YVONNE ARNAUD THEATRE
Millbrook
Guildford
Surrey
GU1 9UX
BOX OFFICE:
(01483) 44 00 00
Website: www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk
THEATRE ROYAL
WINDSOR
Thames Street
Windsor
Berkshire
SL4 1PS
BOX OFFICE: (01753)
85 38 88
Website: www.theatreroyalwindsor.co.uk
PLYMOUTH
THEATRE ROYAL
Royal Parade,
Plymouth
Devon
PL1 2TR
BOX OFFICE: 01752 267222
Group Sales 01752 260960 / Minicom
booking (for hard of hearing) 01752 600290
website: www.theatreroyal.com
THE DRUM (STUDIO
THEATRE)
EXETER NORTHCOTT THEATRE
Stocker
Road, Exeter, EX4 4QB
Box Office telephone number 01392 493493
Admin
telephone number 01392 223999
Email info@exeternorthcott.co.uk
Information kindly provided by Suze Gardner
Harvey
By Mary Chase
Directed by Isolde
Godfrey and Nick Cassen
An Exeter University
Theatre Company production
Tuesday 2 - Saturday 6
February at 7.30pm, Saturday Matinee 2.30pm
The adventures of Elwood
and his lovable 6 foot tall white rabbit Harvey. An feast for the
imagination. Suitable for all ages.l
The Fever Chart
By Naomi Wallace
Directed by Hatie Posner
and Marcus Romer
A Production by Pilot
Theatre in association with York Theatre Royal
Tuesday 9 - Saturday 13
February at 7.30pm, Wednesday Student mMatinee at 1.30pm, Saturday Matinee at
2.30pm
Three emotional stories
about life, love and politics in the war torn middle East. The
stories unfolding in Palestine, Tel Aviv and Iraq are contemporary and
thought provoking.
Eschara and Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat
By Phillip Whiteman and
Mark Ravenhill
Directed by Dan Ayling
A Cheekish Production
Wednesday 17 - Saturday
20 February at 8pm
An exciting, and moving
series of short plays examining the after effects of terrorism and
the ways people deal with the emotional turmoil such activities create.
The Rainbow Fish
Based on a story by
Marcus Pfister
A Blunderbus Theatre
Company production
Friday 19 - Saturday 20
Februaty at 1pm and 3.30pm
A fun tale of underwater
rivalry and vanity with clever puppetry. The rainbow fish is beautiful,
but not very nice. Can she change her ways and make friends with the
other underwater creatures? Suitable for children aged 4 - 7 and adults
who enjoy a good tale.
The Ministry of Fear
By Graham Greene
Adapted by Daniel
Jamieson
A Theatre Alibi with
Exeter Northcott and Oxford Playhouse production
Friday 26 February -
Saturday 6 March at 7.30pm. Wednesday 3 March Student Matinee at
1.30pm. Saturday 6 March Matinee at 2,30pm.
Set in World War II,
Arthur Rowe unwittingly finds himself embrioled in Corruption and espionage in
this thrilling story.
The Colour of Nonesense
A Forkbeard Fantasy
Comic Theatre and Film Production
Monday 22- Saturday 27
March at 7.30pm. Thursday 25 Student Matinee at 1.30pm
A zany Edward Lear-like
comedy featuring art theft, rebellious cartoon characters and chaos. An
exploration of the concept of sense and nonesense using optical illusion and
film within the story.
How the Koala Learnt to
Hug
Adapted from stories by
Steven Lee
A People's Theatre
Company Production
Friday 9 April at 2.30pm
A heart warming story
about family life and hugs! Features Natascha the Witch and Karen
the Koala with songs and game for audience participation. A lovely
occasion for parents and children to enjoy. Suitable for those aged 4 years +.
James and the Giant
Peach
By Roald Dahl
Adapted by David Wood
Directed by Polly
Agg-Manning
An Exeter Northcott
Young Company Production
Thursday 15 - Saturday
17 April at 7.30pm. Saturday Matinee at 2.30pm
James' aunts are not
very nice and as he has to live with them, this is a problem! Then, James
is given a bag magic and embarks on a series of wonderful adventures
incorporating colourful creatures and travel to exciting locations.
Suitable for all ages.
Whipping it Up
By Steve Thompson
Directed by Rebecca
Manson Jones
An Exeter Northcott
Production
Wednesday 21 April -
Saturday 1 May (times to be confirmed)
A very funny political
satire about the machinations of MP's attempting to cling to power against the
odds. Everyone in parliament is looking to protect their own back and
stick the knife in while the PM is away. What will happen on his return?
THEATRE ROYAL
Sawclose,
Bath
BOX OFFICE: 01225 448844
THE
HAWTH
Hawth Avenue
Crawley
RH10 6YZ
BOX OFFICE: 01293 553636
Website - www.hawth.co.uk
The
Hawth is a very attractive, modern theatre - opened in 1988 - on a 30 acre
wooded site and with abundant free parking. The Theatre seats 855 on well raked
seating afording a full view of the stage from any angle.
Also
many exciting shows in the adjacent studio….apply to the Box Office for
details.
THE MILL AT SONNING
THEATRE
Sonning Eye
Oxfordshire
BOX OFFICE: 01189 698000
Website: www.millatsonning.com
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