THEATRE PROGRAMME Spring/ Summer 2014
For full shows listings visit our new website:
platform.ccn.ac.uk
THEATRE PROGRAMME Spring/Summer 2014
Tickets You can now book tickets for all of our shows online. Visit our new ticket site platform.ticketline.co.uk, click on Buy Tickets, pick your seats and then follow the instructions to pay.
the show and how many full price and concession tickets you want, with contact name and telephone number. Alternatively you can buy tickets on the door (cash only) subject to availability.
You can also reserve your tickets by emailing platform@ccn.ac.uk stating title and date of
Large group bookings and school group discounts are available – please email us for more information.
Welcome Platform is a venue, a hive of creativity, a company of performers and technicians and a hub for learning and skills development. Although most of all Platform is for creative and aspiring young artists eager to embrace the world of performing arts. Housed within the City College Norwich main Ipswich Road
campus, Platform has been running accredited courses for the last 15 years. Platform aims to embrace vocationalism and offers a realistic working environment to emerging performing arts practitioners whilst studying on their industry relevant courses. The Platform Company produces and tours
work in a range of performance mediums including music, dance, musicals, straight plays, site specific performances and outreach work. The company’s creative ethos explores and adapts existing works as well as devising exciting and original performances. To find out more about Platform and for most uptodate show listings visit platform.ccn.ac.uk
Presented by Level 3 Acting Students
Presented by Level 3 Musical Theatre Students
For One Singular Spectacular Evening
Our Country’s
28th March 7.30pm Australia, 1789. ..
24th and 25th March - 7.30pm Join us for a night of classic musical theatre featuring work based on the stunning choreography of Bob Fosse. Buy your tickets from our new ticket site: platform.ticketline.co.uk reserve tickets by email: platform@ccn.ac.uk or buy tickets on the door
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An ambitious young lieutenant, Ralph Clark, is set the task of directing newly arrived convicts in the restoration comedy, ‘The Recruiting Officer’, in celebration of the King’s birthday. But with a dispirited cast, just two copies of the script, opposition from sadistic officers, a leading lady who faces being hanged, and Ralph’s uncontrollable passion for one of his convict players, Australia’s first theatre production is in trouble from the start. Our Country’s Good is an extraordinary play about the value of the theatre and the redemptive power of art.
£5.50 – FULL PRICE
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£3.50 – CONCESSIONS
By Timberlake Wertenbaker Based on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally An amateur production presented by special arrangement with Samuel French LTD Buy your tickets from our new ticket site: platform.ticketline.co.uk reserve tickets by email: platform@ccn.ac.uk or buy tickets on the door
£5.50 – FULL PRICE £3.50 – CONCESSIONS
Terrorism. Level 3 Acting presents
by THE PRESNYAKOV BROTHERS (translated by SASHA DUGDALE) at the StartUp Lounge, City College Norwich
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Delayed passengers grumble about a bomb scare at the airport. A man and a woman commit adultery. Office workers bicker while one of their number quietly hangs herself. Two elderly women in a playground complain about their menfolk and make fun of a man seated on the next bench. The army in their barracks fight amongst themselves. The passengers on the plane finally take off....
Only 35 tickets per performance Buy your tickets from our new ticket site: platform.ticketline.co.uk reserve tickets by email: platform@ccn.ac.uk or buy tickets on the door
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Level 2 Acting presents
In Damon Runyon’s well-loved classic ‘Guys and Dolls’, all the hot gamblers are in town and they’re all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week’s incarnation of “The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York”. The only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place.
Throw in Sarah Brown, who’s short on sinners at the mission she runs, Sky Masterson, who accepts Nathan’s $1000 bet that he can’t get Sarah Brown to go with him to Havana, Miss Adelaide, who wants Nathan to marry her, Police Lieutenant Brannigan, who always seems to appear at the wrong time and with the music/lyrics of Frank Loesser you’ve got quite a musical. Includes the songs: “Luck Be a Lady”, “Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat” and “Guys and Dolls”.
20th, 21st and 22nd may 2014
7.30pm
matinee 21st May
2pm
A musical fable of Broadway based on a story and characters of Damon Runyon. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. An amateur production by arrangement with Josef Weinberger. Buy your tickets from our new ticket site: platform.ticketline.co.uk reserve tickets by email: platform@ccn.ac.uk or buy tickets on the door
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£8.50 – FULL PRICE £5.50 – CONCESSIONS
THANK YOU TO ALL BTEC LEVEL 2 AND LEVEL 3 TECHNICAL THEATRE STUDENTS
L2 and L3 Dance presents
F E I L T IME A N O N CE I Level 2 and Level 3 Dance presents:
4th, 5th and 6th June – 7.30PM MATINEE ON 5TH JUNE – 2PM Let this Magical show transport you back to a bygone era.
A time when glamour reigned supreme and the whole world was your stage. Buy your tickets from our new ticket site: platform.ticketline.co.uk reserve tickets by email: platform@ccn.ac.uk or buy tickets on the door
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£8.50 – FULL PRICE
Platform would also like to thank all the fantastic BTEC Level 2 and Level 3 Technical Theatre students for their hard work and long hours in the organisation, design and ultimate installation of all technical resources within Platform Theatre. As well as their professionalism in the operation, personnel management and support of Front of House for all productions.
£5.50 – CONCESSIONS
To find out more about our Technical Theatre courses visit our website www.ccn.ac.uk
LEVEL 3 ACTING PRESENTS
12TH, 13TH,
Matinee 14th June – 2pm
14 TH June
7.30pm
The story of The Railway Children sees three children move to Yorkshire following the mysterious calling away of their father. Living in a cottage on the moors with their worried mother, they discover the joys of the railway and spark up an unlikely friendship with an old gentleman who travels on the 9.15 to London.
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The Railway Children is an enchanting production full of laughs, tears, spectacle and wonder.
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£8.50 – FULL PRICE £5.50 – CONCESSIONS Story by E. Nesbit. Adapted by Mike Kenny. An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books. Buy your tickets from our new ticket site: platform.ticketline.co.uk or reserve tickets by email: platform@ccn.ac.uk or buy tickets on the door
A musical reconstruction of incidents relating to the East End murders which took place between Friday 31st August and Friday 9th November 1888.
LEVEL 3 MUSICAL THEATRE PRESENTS
JACK the
Matinee 25th June 2pm
An atmospheric commentary rather than an historical re-enactment, the show shifts between reality and artificiality, with characters representing “real” people as well as members of a music hall audience.
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12 years
24th, 25th and 26th June 2014 7.30pm
and over
Book and lyrics by Ron Pember and Denis de Marne. Music by Ron Pember. An amateur production presented by special arrangement with Samuel French LTD.
Buy your tickets from our new ticket site: platform.ticketline.co.uk or reserve tickets by email: platform@ccn.ac.uk or buy tickets on the door
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£8.50 – FULL PRICE £5.50 – CONCESSIONS
FOR ONE SINGULAR SPECTACLUAR EVENING Level 3 Musical Theatre 24th and 25th March – 7.30pm Tickets: £5.50 full price & £3.50 concessions
OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD
Level 3 Acting 28th March – 7.30pm Tickets: £5.50 full price & £3.50 concessions
TERRORISM
Level 3 Acting 2nd, 3rd and 4th April –7.30pm Tickets: £5.50 – ONLY 35 tickets per performance
GUYS AND DOLLS
Level 2 Acting – 20th, 21st and 22nd May – 7.30pm Matinee – 21st May – 2pm Tickets: £8.50 full price & £5.50 concessions
ONCE IN A LIFETIME
Level 2 and Level 3 Dance – 4th, 5th & 6th June – 7.30pm Matinee – 5th June – 2pm Tickets: £8.50 full price & £5.50 concessions
THE RAILWAY CHILDREN
Level 3 Acting – 12th, 13th & 14th June – 7.30pm Matinee – 14th June – 2pm Ticket Prices: £8.50 full price & £5.50 concessions
JACK THE RIPPER
Level 3 Musical Theatre – 24th, 25th & 26th June – 7.30pm Matinee – 25th June – 2pm Ticket: £8.50 full price & £5.50 concessions
AT A GLANCE SPRING/SUMMER 2014