Quarry Theatre Spring 2023

Finding Us

The Quarry Theatre at St. Luke’s 26 St. Peter’s Street, Bedford MK40 2NN

The entrance to The Quarry Theatre is on St. Peter’s Street. If you are travelling by car, please use MK40 2NN for Sat Nav systems.

Parking

Apart from a limited amount of disabled parking (please call ahead to book) there is no on-site parking. Nearby car parks are indicated on the map above. Please note the Lurke Street Car Park (MK40 3HZ) is open 24 hours and is free after 6pm. St Peter’s Street Car Park is also open 24 hours and is free after 6pm. Parking on De Parys Avenue is free after 6pm. All car parks are free on Sunday.

Tickets

You can order tickets online at boxoffice@quarrytheatre.org.uk or over the 01234 362337

Box office

You can also buy tickets in person at our box office, which is just inside the main entrance on St. Peter’s Street. The box office is only open on show nights (usually one hour before curtain up until 20 minutes after). However, during the Creative Arts Festival the box office will be open for two hours each day. Please visit quarrytheatre.org.uk for details.

School group bookings

To enquire about our special discounts for school groups and to book tickets, please call 01234 362337 or email boxoffice@quarrytheatre.org.uk

Family Tickets

Family tickets are available on shows featuring this symbol.

Contact us

Note that the programme is subject to change. Visit our website for the latest shows and news. quarrytheatre.org.uk

We are always happy to hear from you with comments, suggestions and enquiries. You can call us on 01234 362269 or email quarrytheatre@bedfordschool.org.uk

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SPRING Highlights

Something funny . . .

Zoe Lyons Bald Ambition Tour

Zoe Lyons has kept herself busy in the last couple of years by having what can best be described as a monumental midlife crisis. Along the way her hair decided the best thing to do was abandon ship.

Something for the kids . . .

Pinocchio

Puppetry, shadows, illusion and especially composed music combine to create a show with something for all ages; it’s inventive, visually and verbally witty with a big heart.

Something different . . .

The Thinking Drinkers Pub Quiz Fancy five free drinks? Two of the world’s leading alcohol experts return with a hilarious quiz show that gets the rounds in – in more ways than one.

Something special . . .

Swinging at The Cotton Club

Take a step back into 1920s & ’30s New York City and through the doors of Harlem’s hottest nightclub, ‘The Cotton Club’! This action-packed show celebrates the music and dance of the Cotton Club – New York’s most celebrated nightclub of the 1920s and ‘30s.

Happy New Year and welcome to our 2023 spring season!

Last year, we visited The Edinburgh Festival Fringe once again (after a two-year break!) so we are delighted to see the return of shows found here into our programme. These include Buffy Revamped, Fanboy and Sold. All, of course, come highly recommended!

From our comedy programme we see the return of Simon Brodkin with his brand-new show Screwed Up. His last show so was so popular we had to put on a second performance! Other comedy highlights include Zoe Lyons and Jack Carroll.

One exciting event in our spring programme is Life After The Navigator. Those of a certain age will remember the 80s movie Flight of The Navigator. Well, this is a specially licensed screening of this documentary telling the story of Joey Cramer (David Freeman in the film) and what happened next. The director Lisa Downs will be in the room with a live Zoom call to the man himself for a post screening Q&A!

Many thanks for your continued support.

We have signed up to the Family Arts Standards. We welcome families and to help you enjoy your experience we are committed to ensuring we meet these Standards. As we continue to improve our service for families your views are very important to us – so please let us know if you have a good experience with us or tell us what you’d like us to improve.

James Pharaoh MBE Director of Theatre

The Quarry Theatre is part of Bedford School, which is part of the Harpur Trust

“Friday the 13th isn’t an academically praised piece of art it’s still the ‘classic’ original most other summer camp slashers are measured against.”  FRAME RATED

Saturday 7 January, 2.00pm

Join us at the theatre to help us launch our 2023 spring programme. During your visit you can enjoy discounts at the bar, a flash sale on selected events, a presentation about how the theatre came to be and explore areas of the theatre that most people don’t get to see! The theatre presentation will start at 2.30pm The Quarry Theatre presents

Buffy

Join us for a screening of this 1980’s horror classic on a very significant date! They were warned...they are doomed...and on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them.

A group of camp counsellors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which was the site of a child’s drowning and a grisly double murder years before. Fridays will never be the same again… IMDB Rating: 6.5

Seventy minutes. Seven seasons. One Spike. Fresh from a smash-hit run at Edinburgh Fringe, this fast-paced new production brings you the entire 144 episodes of the hit 90s TV show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as told through the eyes of the one person who knows it inside out… Spike.

Funny, satirical and bursting with 90s pop-culture references, it’s the perfect parody for Buffy aficionados and those who never enrolled at Sunnydale High alike.

Created by comedian Brendan Murphy whose last show, Friend: The One with Gunther, recently won the award for Best Play in the Worldwide Comedy Awards.

“Brendan is brilliant, the show was brilliant, and if you want to have a brilliant time then Buffy Revamped is where you need to be.” 

VOICE

“Do yourself a favour, go see Buffy: Revamped! This show slays!”



NORTH WEST END

“An exceptional performance.” 

DARK CHAT

“Comedy theatre at its finest; well worth a look.”

Seabright Productions Ltd presents

“Absolutely Brilliant!

That really put me in a good mood"

SIMON COWELL

“True Showmanship!” DAILY TELEGRAPH

STRADA MUSIC PRESENTS

The Jive Aces

Friday 20 January, 7.30pm

Where Main auditorium

Ticket price

£24.00 (£22.00 concessions

Running time 90minutes (+15min interval)

Age suitability 13yrs+

Back by popular demand!

Renowned worldwide for their high-energy spectacular showmanship, their viral video Bring Me Sunshine and for being the first live band to reach the final rounds of Britain’s Got Talent, The Jive Aces have firmly established themselves the UK’s No.1 Jive and Swing band.

The in-demand sextet has worked with Van Morrison, Keely Smith and performed for Her Majesty the Queen. They headlined and sold-out the Royal Albert Hall and thousands of festivals, theatres, dance halls, etc, in 35 countries, including Buckingham Palace for the Coronation Festival, Trafalgar Square for the Olympics and major theatre tours in the USA.

National Theatre Live presents

The Seagull

Saturday 21 January, 7.00pm

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price

£14.50 (£12.50 concessions)

Running time 180 minutes (+15min interval)

Age suitability 12A

The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars present

The Ronnie Scott’s Soho Songbook

Saturday 28 January, 7.30pm

Where Main Auditorium

Running time 90 minutes (+15min interval)

Age suitability All ages

“Outstanding players. For poise, balance and swing they’re a joy to listen to”

Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) makes her West End debut in this 21st century retelling of Anton Chekhov’s tale of love and loneliness.

A young woman is desperate for fame and a way out. A young man is pining after the woman of his dreams. A successful writer longs for a sense of achievement. An actress wants to fight the changing of the times. In an isolated home in the countryside, dreams lie in tatters, hopes are dashed, and hearts broken. With nowhere left to turn, the only option is to turn on each other.

Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club return to The Quarry Theatre with a brand-new collection of music, narration and projected archive images and footage, celebrating Ronnie Scott’s ‘Soho Songbook’.

Since it’s humble beginnings as a basement music bar where musicians would jam, through to the internationally acclaimed music venue it is today, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club has showcased the music of some of the world’s greatest and most influential Artists. Hosting landmark performances from the likes of Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck and Michael Bublé – and not forgetting surprise appearances by the likes of Jamie Cullum, Stevie Wonder and Prince!

Featuring classic music from the jazz greats who have performed at Ronnie Scott’s, alongside narration and projected archive images and rare footage from the club, ‘The Ronnie Scott’s Songbook’ is a glimpse into this unique world and its incredible history. Hosted and performed by the award-winning Ronnie Scott’s All Stars, led by the Club’s Musical Director, this is a unique evening celebrating the music and history of Ronnie Scott’s and is a must for any music fan.

“Complex and very moving” 

THE SCOTSMAN

Worklight Theatre presents

Fanboy

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price

£14.50 (£12.50 concessions)

Running time 65 minutes Age suitability 13yrs+ (some strong language; themes of grief and brief mention of suicide ideation)

Wednesday 1 February, 7.30pm

“we’ve seen many ‘geek inspired’ stage shows, but this is the finest we’ve seen” 

STARBURST MAGAZINE

“An emotionally charged, joyful yet heart-rending piece of theatre”  BROADWAY

BABY

Winner: Best Director, Dark Chat Award 2022

Nominated: Holden Street Theatre Award 2022

Joe has always been a nerd. In his teens, he hid it. In his twenties, he owned it. Now in his thirties, Joe’s started to sense something: a great disturbance in the fandom... Alone, sorting through his old things, Joe finds an old video tape, in an old VCR, long forgotten. He presses play – and something amazing starts to happen...

In this love-hate letter to pop culture and nostalgia, Joe Sellman-Leava (Fringe First, Labels) explores our relationship to our past and future selves and asks why his generation is so obsessed with its childhood.

Combining epic storytelling, razor-sharp impressions and a dose of theatrical magic, Fanboy comes to The Quarry Theatre following critically acclaimed performances at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Soho Theatre.

National Theatre Live Presents

The Crucible

Friday 3 February, 7.00pm

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price

£14.50 (£12.50 concessions)

Running time 180 minutes Age suitability 12A

By Arthur Miler Directed by Lyndsey Turner

A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller’s captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma).

Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of fear, vendetta and accusation spreads through the community, no one is safe from trial.

Lyndsey Turner (Hamlet) directs this contemporary new staging, designed by Tony Award-winner Es Devlin (The Lehman Trilogy). Captured live from the Olivier stage at the National Theatre.

“The perfect way to entertain the whole family"

THREE WEEKS

“The ethos is just right"

THE DAILY

TELEGRAPH

Makin projects ltd present

Comedy Club 4 Kids

Saturday 4 February, 2.00pm

Where Main auditorium

Ticket price

£10.00 (£8.00 concessions) Kids £5.00

Running time 60 minutes Age suitability 6yrs+

Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4

Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children and their families… but without the rude bits! It’s just like a normal comedy club, but it’s on in the day, kids are allowed in, and thus there is a higher than usual chance of heckles like “why is that your face!?”

Babes in arms don’t need to buy a ticket for this show.

“The funniest comedian I have ever seen in person. She left me breathless with laughter." 

SCOTSGAY

Castle Comedy presents

Castle Comedy Valentine Special

Thursday 9 February, 8.00pm

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price

£15.00

Running time 135 minutes (+ two 15-minute intervals)

Age suitability 16yrs+

See The Show presents

The Ultimate Commitments & Blues Brothers Experience

Saturday 11 February, 7.30pm

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price

£18.00 (£16.00 concessions)

Running time 90 minutes (+20-minute interval)

Age suitability 13yrs+

Castle Comedy is back at The Quarry Theatre for an early Valentine treat. The show will feature star names, Roses chocolates and loads of laughs!

SUZI RUFFEL is a suited and booted comedy dynamo. She has had five sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and her show Dance Like Everyone’s Watching was nominated for Best Stand Up Show in the National Comedy Awards 2021.

Back by popular demand!

In a show that has been described as “absolutely amazing” and “truly authentic”, take a trip down memory lane as you hear the best songs from The Commitments and The Blues Brothers in a full live-band experience.

Get your dancing shoes on, as Jake and Elwood meet Deco and Jimmy in a fantastic experience where Chicago Blues meets Dublin Soul.

The stage show includes state of the art audio visual effects as well as iconic scenes from both cult-classic films.

Expect top quality musical performance from the professional 12-piece Big Soul Band, along with authentic performances including songs from favourites such as Aretha Franklin, The Blues Brothers and Andrew Strong.

Songs including ‘Everybody (needs somebody)’, ‘Try a Little Tenderness’, ‘R.E.S.P.E.C.T’ and ‘Jailhouse Rock’ can be heard in the repertoire in a night to truly remember.

Definitely a show not to be missed.

“The Blues Brothers Set is a show in itself, the highlights of which are Ritchie Hicks and Rich Alcock’s superbly energetic performances in the title roles.”

Where Main auditorium

Ticket price

£14.00 (£12.00 concessions)

Family £48.00

Running time 60 minutes

Age suitability 5yrs+

Half A String Theatre Company present

Breathe

Sunday 12 February, 1.30pm and 3.30pm

Find the epic in the tiny from the perspective of an acorn.

An extraordinary journey from the perspective of an acorn; the hectic forest floor, thrumming underworlds, and dazzling heights of icy branches.

Beautifully realised through puppetry, live camera work, and live ethereal folk songs. Discover bizarre larger than life fungi, connecting creaking tree roots, and majestic guardians watching over a delicate cycle.

Join three storytellers as they lead you through an enchanting experience like no other.

National Theatre Live Presents Othello

Thursday 23 February, 7.00pm

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price £14.50 (£12.50 concessions)

Running time 180 minutes (inc 15-minute interval)

Age suitability 12A

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price

£14.00 (£12.00 concessions)

Family £48.00

Running time 60 minutes

Age suitability 4yrs+

Indefinite Articles present Pinocchio

Saturday 18, 1.30pm and 4.00pm, Sunday 19 Feb, 11.00am and 1.30pm

Acclaimed puppet director Steve Tiplady as Geppetto, uses the objects of a carpenter’s workshop to tell the tale of the puppet that wants to be a real boy, and the puppetmaker who wants to be a real father.

Pinocchio is carved on stage, brushes become a fox and the shadow of two saws transforms into a giant shark. An element of improvisation makes each performance unique to its audience.

An extraordinary new production of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera (Hamilton), Rosy McEwean (The Alienist) and Paul Hilton (The Inheritance).

She’s a bright, headstrong daughter of a senator; elevated by her status but stifled by its expectations. He’s refugee of slavery; having risen to the top of a white world, he finds love across racial lines has a cost.

Wed in secret, Desdemona and Othello crave a new life together. But as unseen forces conspire against them, they find their future is not theirs to decide.

Othello was filmed live on the Lyttleton stage of the National Theatre.

““Jacqui Dankworth, one of the classiest acts in British jazz singing"

Jacqui Dankworth & Charlie Wood: “Just You, Just Me”

The Mythological Theatre & Phil McIntyre Live Ltd present

Mythos: Ragnarök

Thursday 2 March, 7.30pm

Where Main auditorium

Ticket price

£18.00

Running time 90 minutes (+ 15-minute interval)

Age suitability All ages

Friday 24 February, 7.30pm

A Concert of Duets, Celebrating a Century of Song

Multi award winning vocalist, Jacqui Dankworth, is joined by acclaimed American pianist-vocalist, Charlie Wood for a unique concert of duets celebrating a century of song.

“Screwed Up is a fullon rat-a-tat gag-fest”  MAIL ON SUNDAY

THE GUARDIAN “No show has made me laugh more"

Saturday 25 February, 5.00pm and 8.00pm

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price

£22.50

Running time 90 minutes (+ 15-minute interval)

Age suitability 14yrs+

“An exceptional show. One that takes professional wrestling and shows you just how valuable it can be in telling a story, especially one of such magnitude  BROADWAY WORLD

Join Odin and Loki in their struggle to overcome primeval giants, rival Gods, Goddesses, and each another’s ambitions in this dark comic adaption of Norse mythology.

Weaving ancient myths, legends, and folk tales into original pieces of theatre, Mythos utilises a cast of actors who specialise in professional wrestling to create some of the most intense and thrilling fight scenes in the history of theatre. Named a “Must See Show” of Edinburgh Fringe 2022, the show earned more positive public reviews than any other show of the festival and was nominated for the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence.

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price

£20.00 (£18.00 concessions)

Running time 90 minutes (+ 15-minute interval) Age suitability 14yrs+ (Contains: strobe lighting, scenes of violence, references to death, indirect sexual references, and occasional bad language)

Stipe Presents R.E.M. by Stipe

Saturday 4 March, 7.30pm

Fresh from his sold-out, critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run and becoming the most viewed British comedian of all time on TikTok, world-famous prankster and Lee Nelson creator Simon Brodkin is back with an outrageous new stand-up show.

In ‘Screwed Up’ Simon rips into celebrity culture, social media, the police, Putin, Prince Andrew and Jesus. Nothing is off limits in this hilarious show, including his own mental health, his family, his five arrests and how he once found himself at an underground sex party.

MICHAEL STIPE, R.E.M.

The definitive R.E.M. tribute is back after popular demand!

R.E.M. remain one of the world’s most enigmatic bands. With a string of peerless albums; one eye on the underground and one eye on the soaring chorus; it’s safe to say we will never see their like again. From The One I Love through to The End of the World and more besides.

Whether it’s playing major festivals or appearing on the One Show, performing for Michael Stipe himself, Stipe are the definitive R.E.M. tribute – a complete band, and encyclopaedic knowledge of the back catalogue.

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price

£15.00

Running time 90 minutes (+ 15 minute interval) Age suitability 15yrs+

Jacqui Dankworth & Charlie Wood Present

“These guys are awesome”

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price

£14.00 (£12.00 concessions)

Running time 60 minutes (+ 20 Q&A post show)

Age suitability 11yrs+ (descriptions of beatings and punishments, and a visual image of a noose on set)

Kuumba Nia Arts presents

Sold

Friday 10 March, 7.30pm

“To be free is very sweet”

When one woman tells of her extraordinary journey to overcome the brutality of slavery, she becomes a beacon for the British anti-slavery movement.

Born into slavery in the British colony of Bermuda, Mary Prince went on to become an auto biographer and champion of freedom. Her book had an electrifying effect on the abolitionist movement helping to free many Africans in bondage.

Through theatre, song, music, drumming and dance, this masterpiece of Black British theatre is inspired by the storytelling traditions of the West African griot.

The Highland Joker presents

The Bubble Show

Saturday 11 March, 2.00pm

Join Mr. Bubbles with his extraordinary soap bubbles in all shapes and sizes!

The Bubble Show is a unique blend of magic, storytelling, and bubble art! Enjoy bouncy bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, smoke bubbles, square bubbles, giant bubbles, and even fire bubbles!

Actor, storyteller, and Guinness World Record holder, The Highland Joker, is one of the top bubble artists in the world, bringing you an interactive, fun, international award-winning bubble extravaganza!

Ingenious Fools Presents Eugene

Friday 17 March, 7.30pm

Celebrating British Science Week 2023

In the not-too-distant future, millionaire and inventor (think Elon Musk with a further attitude problem) ‘Hugh’ from Hu-Bris industries is launching the first superhuman artificial intelligence at a press conference. And you’re invited.

‘Eugene’ is a show about what happens when we give technology the power over us, with an anthropomorphic power point. Think The Terminator does a Ted Talk with Steve Jobs.

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price £13.00 (£11.00 concessions)

Running time 60 minutes Age suitability 3-12yrs

“The Bubble Show: flawlessly simple and full of wonder”  DEADLINE NEWS, EDINBURGH “Delightfully monstrous” 

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price £14.00 (£12.00 concessions) Running time 70 minutes Age suitability 13yrs+

“Lyons is on top of her game, in command of her material, her audience and her stage” 

CHORTL

Where

Main auditorium

Ticket price

£16.00

Running time 80 minutes (+ 15 minute interval)

Age suitability 16yrs+

Impatient Productions presents

Zoe Lyons: Bald Ambition Tour

Saturday 18 March, 7.30pm

Zoe Lyons has kept herself busy in the last couple of years by having what can best be described as a monumental midlife crisis.

It involved buying a sports car, having a brief marital separation and running a 100k ultra marathon which really didn’t end well. Along the way her hair decided the best thing to do was abandon ship. It ain’t easy being a middle-aged woman: try doing it with a combover.

Theatre of Widdershins Present

Rapunzel and The Tower

of

Doom

Saturday 25 March, 11.00am and

1.30pm

Tangles? Split Ends? Frizzy? Flyaway? It’s bad enough having a bad hair day but pity poor Rapunzel spending her life in a tower with some strange woman using her captive’s locks as a step ladder! What sort of damage is that going to do to your hair?

Theatre of Widdershins have taken this traditional tale right back to its roots, teased out the tangles and styled it into a beautifully coiffured hair piece! This enchanting show promises plenty of body, volume and loads of highlights. Make an appointment to see the show today – because you’re worth it!!!

The Thinking Drinkers Pub Quiz

Friday 24 March. 7.30pm

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price

£16.00

Running time 80 minutes (+ 15 minute interval)

Age suitability 18yrs+

“Meticulous and imaginative design... wonderfully grotesque... cleverly conceived and beautifully realised. He had the rapt audience squealing with delights” 

THE SCOTSMAN

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price £12.50 (£10.50 concessions)

Running time 60 minutes Age suitability 4yrs+

Fancy five free drinks? Two of the world’s leading alcohol experts return with a hilarious quiz show that gets the rounds in – in more ways than one. With a pen and question sheet in one hand and several world-class drinks in the other, join them on a uniquely absurd, fact-filled journey through time. You will learn and laugh a lot as the answers to life’s most important and unusual questions appear at the bottom of your glass. And did we mention the five free discerning drinks?

National Theatre Live Presents LIFE OF PI

Thursday 30 March, 7.00pm

Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel.

After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?

Filmed live in London’s West End and featuring state-of-the-art visuals, the epic journey of endurance and hope is bought to life in a breath-taking new way for cinemas screens.

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price £14.50 (£12.50 concessions) Running time 150 minutes Age suitability PG

Lee Martin for Gag Reflex Presents

Yippee Ki Yay

Saturday 8 April, 7.30pm

Acclaimed retelling of classic film

Die Hard from Richard MarshFringe First-winner, London poetry slam champion, BBC Audio Drama Best Scripted Comedy Drama award-winner and New York cop (one of these is untrue). This joyfully funny show heads out on tour following rave reviews for its premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe, which also won it a London transfer.

Content warning: divorce, foot trauma, German terrorists.

Castle Comedy presents Castle

Comedy Birthday

Special

Thursday 12 April, 8.00pm

Castle Comedy celebrates its 11th birthday with an all-star line up!

Paul Zerdin is the UK’s number one comedy ventriloquist and winner of series ten of America’s Got Talent! Zerdin and his sidekicks have since gone viral on YouTube, receiving millions of views from around the world. He has appeared on countless TV shows including Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford (ITV1), Michael McIntyre’s Big Christmas Show (BBC1) and three appearances at The Royal Variety Performance!

“Whether you’re a Die Hard fan or not, it guarantees happy trails.”



THE GUARDIAN

Where Main Auditorium Ticket price £15.00 (£13.00 concessions Running time 60 minutes Age suitability 14yrs+ Where Main Auditorium Ticket price £15.00 Running time 135mins (+ 2 15min intervals) Age suitability 16yrs+

James Seabright presents

there is nobody that wouldn’t enjoy your performances”

DAVID WALLIAMS

ON PAUL ZERDIN

Jack Carroll: Walking Funny

Friday 14 April, 7.30pm

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price

£12.00

Running time 80 minutes (+ 20 minute interval)

Age suitability 16yrs+ (Contains strong language and adult themes)

Life After Movies present

“Hilarious”

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price

£10.00

Running time 90 minutes (+ 30 Q&A)

Age suitability 14yrs+

National Theatre Live presents

Good

Thursday 20 April, 7.00pm

“David Tennant is riveting, witty and intensely human” 

FINANCIAL TIMES

“Stunning”  METRO

THE DAILY

MAIL “A comedy genius”

DAVID WALLIAMS

Jack Carroll, Britain’s Got Talent Runner-Up, Star of BBC’s Live at the Apollo and QI and Sky sitcom Trollied, as well as award winning movie Eaten by Lions returns to the stage with his new stand up comedy show, Walking Funny.

Life After the Navigator (with

Saturday 15 April, 7.30pm

Q&A)

Join us for a very special screening of this 2020 released documentary including a post event Q&A with Joey Cramer (via Zoom) and director Lisa Downs (in person).

In 1986, Joey Cramer was cast as 12-year old David Freeman in Disney’s Flight Of The Navigator and his life would never be the same.

Directed by Randal Kleiser, Flight Of The Navigator found its way into the hearts of children all over the world. The story of a young boy who goes out with his dog and returns eight years later is today still regarded as a classic.

IMDB Rating: 7.5

David Tennant (Doctor Who) makes a much-anticipated return to the West End in a blistering reimagining of one of Britain’s most powerful, political plays.

As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.

Olivier Award-winner Dominic Cooke (Follies) directs C.P. Taylor’s timely tale, with a cast that also features Elliot Levey (Coriolanus) and Sharon Small (The Bay). Filmed live at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London.

Smokescreen Productions presents

Watson: The Final Problem

Friday 21 April, 7.30pm

1894. Watson is alone. His beloved wife Mary and the great Sherlock Holmes are both gone. But London seethes with false reports and rumour. It is time to set the record straight. So Watson tells his tale... a tale of long buried secrets, betrayal and death. For there is a shadow in the gutters of London. A spider’s web of poisonous intrigue lies across the city. Someone is playing a long game and Holmes and Watson face their greatest ever challenge. But as Watson unravels the story, is the game really over?

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price

£14.50 (£12.50 concessions)

Running time 160 minutes (+ 15 minute interval)

Age suitability 15yrs+

Where Main Auditorium Ticket price £15.00 (£13.00 concessions)

Running time 80 minutes (+ 15 minute interval) Age suitability 13yrs+

“A delight, funny, charming, poignant”

SUNDAY TIMES

“Very, very funny, touching and terrifyingly relatable”

MARK GATISS

Obsessive Entertainment presents

Eastendless

Friday 28 April, 7.30pm

Where Main auditorium

Ticket price £14.50 (£12.50 concessions)

Running time 60 minutes

Age suitability 16yrs+

JBA Concerts presents

Swinging at The Cotton Club

Saturday 29 April, 7.30pm

Finally – the scandalous truth behind EastEnders revealed!

Gasp as walk-on actor Tony Coventry lifts the lid and spills his beans!

Obsessed fan Tony Coventry has every EastEnders episode on video, but when he lands a bit part on the show, his dream job soon turns into a nightmare. Tim Fountain’s hilarious play is a blackly comic look behind the scenes of Britain’s favourite soap.

Take a step back into 1920s & ’30s New York City and through the doors of Harlem’s hottest nightclub, ‘The Cotton Club’!

‘Swinging at The Cotton Club’ is the action-packed show celebrating the music and dance of the Cotton Club – New York’s most celebrated nightclub of the 1920s and ‘30s.

Performances by Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Fats Waller would have had the club swinging - whilst dancers such as Bojangles Robinson and the Nicholas Brothers lit-up the stage with their breathtaking routines.

In the show the exhilarating dance and music of the Cotton Club is recreated by the fabulous Lindy Hop Dance Company, alongside The Harry Strutters Hot Rhythm Orchestra, featuring American vocalist Marlene Hill and compere/ vocalist Megs Etherington.

Where Main Auditorium

Ticket price £24.00

Running time 90 minutes (+ 15 minute interval)

Age suitability 14yrs+

Featuring The Lindy Hop Dance Company & The Harry Strutters Hot Rhythm Orchestra

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Box office opening times

The Box Office is open on show dates one hour before curtain up (and 20 minutes after curtain up). If you would like to take a look around the theatre outside of these times please do get in contact with us.

Payments

Cash: The theatre box office takes payments of cash on the door (during performances).

Cards: We accept Credit and Debit card payments at the theatre box office and bar.

Reservations

We are happy to reserve tickets for you. These will be held for five working days, or until 15 minutes before the performance. Unpaid reservations may be cancelled without prior notice after this time.

Returns, Exchanges & Refunds

Tickets once purchased are non-refundable or exchangeable. Only in the event of a show being cancelled or rescheduled will we refund your ticket.

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Concessions

Concessionary tickets are available to students (NUS or similar ID required), under 18s, unemployed, disabled, senior citizens and for some selected shows, employees of Bedford School.

Late Arrivals

If you arrive late to a performance you may not be able to enter the auditorium until the interval or a convenient break in the performance. With some shows, a performance relay will be set up on the bar TV.

Photography

The unauthorised use of cameras/video photography or any other sort of recording equipment is strictly forbidden.

Disabled Access

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The Quarry Theatre aims to make all its facilities accessible to all members of the community. Both the main auditorium and studio theatre have wheel chair access. The main auditorium is also installed with an induction loop. The theatre forecourt has provision for disabled parking. We advise you call ahead of your visit to book a space.

Restricted view

Suitable for wheel chair users Please call to book