Norfolk Voices Festival

Celebrating Norfolk Voices At Norwich’s Maddermarket Theatre this Autumn…

This November, head to the Maddermarket Theatre to celebrate all that makes Norfolk such a wonderful hub of creativity and talent. The inaugural Norfolk Voices Festival sees the city-based theatre raising much-needed funds before their temporary closure until August next year.

Molly Naylor

Opening on November 14th, the festival’s aim is to tell important stories through this diverse wealth of Norfolk Voices. Celebrating writers, poets, actors and musicians, this exciting line-up of art forms even includes a live link-up with an audio theatre company in Washington DC.

West End and Broadway star, Sam Clemmett will be starring in the Festival. The Norfolk-born actor, who starred as Albus Potter in The Cursed Child in London and New York, appears in this week-long line-up celebrating Norfolk arts talent.

Clemmett, who will appear in the discussion-based session ‘Sam Clemmett In Conversation’ said; ’I am honoured and excited to be a part of this incredibly special festival at the

Photo: Joseph Sinclair Sam Clemmett

Luke Wright

Maddermarket Theatre. Norfolk is my home county and will forever hold a special place in my heart. To get the opportunity to support local theatre, focusing on the youth, to give them creative hope and an outlet during the pandemic is vital for the community. I hope the week’s variety of work inspires the next generation of artists Norfolk has to offer.’

Norfolk-based actor and TV presenter Stephen Fry is also supporting the new festival by allowing the Maddermarket to stage a specially commissioned monologue of his first memoir Moab Is My Washpot, performed by MOCO Theatre.

Other Festival highlights include an original comedy by local playwright and author Antoinette Moses, a monologue by

Photo: Elliott Spencer

Stephen Fry

acclaimed playwright Steve Waters, a production of the popular play Rubber Ring by James McDermott, new poems from Molly Naylor and Luke Wright, a reading and conversation with award-winning authors Tessa McWatt and Rebecca Stott plus a chilling encounter with Edgar Allan Poe. There will also be two music events from up-and-coming acoustic sing songwriters Tom Cox and duo Tommy Lynwood and Harry Lake.

‘Norfolk Voices’ runs from November 14th-21st.

www.maddermarket.co.uk