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Welcome to The Arts Centre. As you look through your brochure you’ll find lots of great offers only available to you as an Edge Hill student including free tickets, special events and a student membership scheme. As well as hosting an exciting programme of film, music, performance, visual art, theatre, dance, spoken word and comedy, The Arts Centre is home to The Red Bar and Games Café where you can socialise, eat, drink and relax after a day of studying. There are also many ways that you can get involved. We have regular Open Mic and Talent Nights which everyone is welcome to take part in. If you prefer to work behind the scenes you can organise events for the Games Café, and get involved in performances in the theatres and The Red Bar. There’s more information about these and other opportunities, including getting involved with arts and music through working with Sound City music festival and Tate, a national gallery in Liverpool. Find out more in The Arts Centre.
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MUSIC 08 10
Saturday 8th October 8.00pm
God Unknown Records Presents
Tickets £10 / £8 / £5 EHU Students
Strange Collective and Cavalier Song with DJ set by Jason Stoll and Ross Lloyd God Unknown Records is DIY record label run by Jason Stoll (Mugstar, Bonnacons of Doom, Sex Swing) with Sam Wiehl (Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, Bonnacons of Doom) who crafts the label’s distinct aesthetic. Renowned for its limited issue subscription series of split 7” records, echoing the seminal Sub Pop singles club and involving leading psych, experimental and noise bands alongside championing new artists from the UK and beyond, the series is now part of the British Library Sound Archive and stocked exclusively by Rough Trade. Cavalier Song present a range of sonic works that meditate on the human condition, stirring memory and desire, a series of lush, yet darkly affective songs. Musical influences include Philip Glass, Swans, Grouper, John Coltrane and King Crimson, each echoing a fascination for repetition, duration and modal improvisation. Blezard is a triumph of imagination – a wide-eyed stare at the skies, in love with sound and possibility **** The Skinny Strange Collective are the best party band you never knew about, what Thee Oh Sees crossed with King Khan would sound like if they came from the Mersey Delta. The riffs, pummelling percussion, excitable vocal yelps produce a set of songs tailormade to whip up a storm. Specialising in psyched-up garage jams that feel like they’ve been frazzled in the San Fran sun, this shady Liverpool quartet are a fearsome package.
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The Label Recordings is Edge Hill’s record label which promotes existing new music. As a student you can be involved with The Label and get experience in aspects of the music industry including music production, video production, releasing tracks and organising live events.
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Edge Hill has an exclusive partnership with Sound City music festival and there are lots of opportunities for you to get involved.
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For more information about The Label and Sound City drop me an email at: cathy.butterworth@edgehill.ac.uk
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Thursday 10th November 8.00pm
Lady Maisery in Concert
Tickets £5 EHU Students
Vocal trio Lady Maisery shine brightly with distinctive harmonies that are lush and rich, dark and invigorating. Skilful explorers of the power, beauty and vitality of song the trio have toured widely, performing sell-out shows across the UK and Europe. With their unique approach to harmony singing and thoughtful and striking arrangements Hazel Askew, Hannah James and Rowan Rheingans harness and celebrate their united voice. With feminist twists hidden in traditional tales, poignant anti-war ballads and immense multi-instrumental talents Lady Maisery draw on a myriad of musical influences.
06 12
Tuesday 6th December 8.00pm
St Agnes Fountain in Concert
Tickets £5 EHU Students
Sparkling musicianship, humour and heartful renditions of your favourite Christmas tunes. Rhythmed-up carols and Christmas music, interspersed with laughter and spoken word. Founder member, David Hughes, and Chris Leslie originally released Acoustic Christmas in 1998. It sold out in three months! Together with their friends, Chris While and Julie Matthews, they produced their first album, St Agnes Fountain in 2001. It is the season their legion of fans have been waiting for because, as they say, ‘Christmas starts with St Agnes Fountain’.
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Theatre & Performance
27 09
Tuesday 29th September 7.30pm
Frank Wurzinger presents
Tickets £10 / £8 / £5 EHU Students
Goodbye Günther When Günther Obermaier finds out that he has not long left to live, he starts to live life to the full. This is a funny, moving and life affirming one man show about death and grief. Wurzinger is a gentle clown with a warm and engaging stage presence. Total Theatre
06 10
Thursday 6th October 7.30pm
Immersion Theatre presents
Tickets £5 EHU Students
Journey’s End March 1918. “The war to end all wars”. Anxiety builds in Captain Stanhope’s claustrophobic dugout as the threat of an imminent German attack looms over the battalion. As final orders are received, Stanhope must stir his men to overcome the uncertainty of the unknown, make the ultimate sacrifice and prepare to “go over the top” in a truly heart wrenching climax. Journey’s End is a harrowing insight into the humanity of the First World War based on R. C. Sherriff’s own experiences in the trenches. Utterly compelling, this award-winning classic masterfully brings the courage, valour, humour and inescapable tragedy of warfare to the stage.
13 10
Thursday 13th October 7.30pm Tickets £5 EHU Students
Call Mr. Robeson - A life, with songs Written and Performed by Tayo Aluko, With Live Piano Accompaniment
This roller-coaster journey through Paul Robeson’s remarkable life highlights how his pioneering and heroic political activism led many to describe him as the forerunner of the civil rights movement. It features some famous songs (including a dramatic rendition of Ol’ Man River), speeches, and a spectacularly defiant testimony to the Senate House Un-American Activities Committee. Simply told but immensely powerful. The Scotsman
18 10
Tuesday 18th October 7.30pm
Tmesis Theatre presents
Tickets £5 EHU Students
Happy Hour The workers on Level 3 are racing against the clock to reach their quota of Smiley Faces, but are they really happy enough? A poignant, fast paced comedy, exploring our 21st century obsession with happiness and success. Can we learn to be happy? And can our emotions be bought and sold? The ‘happiness industry’ would have us think so... Like a Richard Curtis romcom reworked by DV8, glorious and full of heart. The Guardian (for That’s Amore)
Theatre and Performance
Companies in Residence
We’re delighted to welcome One Hour Theatre and Naughty Corner Productions as The Arts Centre’s resident companies presenting cutting-edge theatre, providing opportunities for Edge Hill University students and graduates, and telling the stories of our strange, charged times.
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Wednesday 19th October 7.00pm Tickets £5 EHU Students
One Hour Theatre Company Launch and Premier of
Half Measures by Tim Prentki
Dedicated to excellence in new work and adaptations of great plays we produce works with Edge Hill University graduates, students, staff and invited guests. Half Measures sets the Vienna of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure against life in Liverpool today. Suddenly at the mercy of Angelo – ‘Mr Austerity’ – Isabella must negotiate a labyrinth of lust, corruption and football. What price a body? What price a life? What would you do to live free in the city of your dreams – to never have to walk alone again?
20 10
Thursday 20th October 7.30pm
Naughty Corner Productions presents
Tickets £5 EHU Students
Dirty Glitter Award-Winning Naughty Corner Productions return with Dirty Glitter. A comedy-thriller from the outrageous minds behind The Bastard Queen! and Not the Horse, this neon-noir follows Murphy and Valmont, private investigators hired to find a missing girl during the height of disco, 1979. Filled with the usual razor sharp wit and unbearable tension, Murphy and Valmont find themselves in a world of blood, betrayal and glitter.
Theatre and Performance 27 10
Thursday 27th October 7.30pm
Clout Theatre Company present
Tickets £5 EHU Students
Feast Feast is an hour of virtuosic anarchy the like of which you are unlikely to have seen before. From primitive struggle, through the baroque excess to technological perversion, how has our relationship with nourishment changed throughout history? Wordless and grotesque this show brings together physical theatre, clowning and multimedia to delve into the evolution of humanity, exposing consumerism's excesses and extremes. [Hieronymous] Bosch would applaud... brilliantly disturbing, not least because of the belly laughs that it serves up ★★★★ The Herald
08 11
Tuesday 8th November 7.30pm
Nimble Fish presents
Tickets £5 EHU Students
Lost in Blue Written and performed by Debs Newbold
Lost in Blue is a funny, uplifting, poignant and at times wonderfully bizarre one-woman show. This is Verbal Cinema; Debs Newbold's powerful storytelling fuelled by innovative sound technology.
I thought it was amazing. You’re an extraordinary storyteller... I was immersed in it straight away. Rachel Nelken, Senior Producer, Roundhouse London
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Tuesday 15th November 7.30pm Tickets ÂŁ5 EHU Students
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads By Adrian Berry. Performed by Alex Walton
Martin is a boy with an illness no-one understands and a head full of sound and vision. When an unexpected gift arrives on his birthday, Martin embarks on a thrilling journey in the footsteps of his obsession, leading him to discover some longhidden truths about himself. What follows will change his life forever... Powerful and touching, music and magic realism collide in this darkly funny performance. Including the voice of comedian Rob Newman as Bowie himself, this is an astonishing physical piece of solo theatre and visual storytelling and is a must for any Bowie or theatre fans.
Theatre and Performance 17 11
Thursday 17th November 7.30pm
LipService Theatre presents
Tickets £5 EHU Students
Mr Darcy Loses the Plot Award-winning comedy duo LipService, makers of Withering Looks and Inspector Norse celebrate Jane Austen’s life 200 years on. A door squeaks, a visitor approaches, and Jane Austen hastily hides her work. Left to his own devices, Darcy embroiders his own storyline whilst his creator stitches her quilt. Jane returns to find the plot has moved on and Darcy is dancing to a rather different tune. LipService explore the world of women writers, scribbling in secret or under pseudonyms, squeezing in their writing amongst the hustle and bustle of taking tea, choosing chintz and the odd attack of the vapours.. The Laurel and Hardy of literary deconstruction The Guardian
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Thursday 24th November 7.30pm Tickets £5 EHU Students
Richard Darbourne Ltd in association with Preston Guildhall presents the Two Bit Classics production of
Pride and Prejudice Fun, fast and romantic – this chance to catch the five Bennett sisters and the whole world of Austen brought to life by just two actors is a treat not to be missed. A sparkling interpretation of one of the most loved stories of all time, a must for Austen fans. Every moment is pure joy.
Two Bit Classics’ adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is simply the most entertaining and intellectually stimulating evening spent in the theatre Hexham Courant A uniquely theatrical experience...an acting tour de force ★★★★★ Oxford Times
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Tuesday 29th November 7.30pm
Dyad Productions presents
Tickets £5 EHU Students
Christmas Gothic Christmas: a time to remember the past, celebrate the present, and look to the future; a time of feasts and festivities; of holly and mistletoe; a time of visits and visitations. A time of ghosts. Come in from the cold and enter into the Christmas spirit as a dark and spectral woman tells haunting tales of the festive season, lighting a candle to the frailties of human nature and illuminating the cold and chilling depths of the bleak, wintry dark… A macabre masterpiece. Ghostly, grisly and gorgeous. Don’t miss it ★★★★★ Three Weeks
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Thursday 8th December 7.30pm
European Arts Company presents
Tickets £5 EHU Students
A Christmas Carol read by Mr Charles Dickens "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A Happy New Year to all the world!" The first public performance of his work that Charles Dickens gave was also his last. A Christmas Carol. Performed over 150 times the effect on the public was phenomenal. European Arts Company faithfully recreates Dickens’s famous performance of his best-loved and most heart-warming story. Come and enjoy a seasonal treat in the spirit of Christmas past, present and future.
DANCE
25 10
Tuesday 25th October 7.30pm Tickets ÂŁ5 EHU Students
Company Chameleon presents
Witness Intimate solos, emotive duets and group work combine to reveal the impact of mental health on relationships, and the crucial role of support and understanding on the road to recovery. A melting pot of dance styles and a rich mix of movement techniques, Witness presents a totally original view on the different layers of mental illness, delving deep into an issue which effects one in four of us each year. Touching, sad, funny and absurd, this is relevant and up-to-the-minute dance theatre.
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VISUAL ARTS
As well as hosting a number of exhibitions every year The Arts Centre and Edge Hill University have a unique partnership with Tate Liverpool which allows Edge Hill University students to see all Tate exhibitions for free. This is a fantastic opportunity to see world class painting, photography, sculpture, installation and other visual arts. Call in to The Arts Centre Box Office to pick up your Tate Card which allows you free access when shown with your Edge Hill Unicard.
Tate Liverpool Exhibitions 16 September 2016 – 3 September 2017 21 October 2016 – 5 March 2017 21 October 2016 – 5 March 2017
Tracey Emin and William Blake in Focus Yves Klein Edward Krasinski
There are also opportunities to develop your own Visual Arts projects. We’ll announce these opportunities on our Facebook page and on the Arts Centre website.
Harry Shunk and János Kender, Yves Klein’s “Leap Into the Void,” Fontenay-aux Roses, France, 1960 October 23
CREATIVE WRITING 12 10
Wednesday 12th October 6.30pm FREE – Booking required
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Book Launch Professor Geoff Beattie Professor Geoff Beattie will launch his newest book, Rethinking Body Language at Edge Hill University’s Arts Centre. Challenging all of our old assumptions about the subject, his book builds on cutting-edge research to offer a new theoretical perspective which will transform the way we look at other people. In contrast to the traditional view that body language is primarily concerned with the expression of emotions and the negotiation of social relationships, Professor Beattie argues instead that gestures reflect aspects of our thinking but in a different way to verbal language. Critically, the spontaneous hand movements that we make when we talk often communicate a good deal more than we intend.
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Wednesday 26th October 7.30pm
The Creative Writing Programme at Edge Hill University present
Tickets £5
Andrew Michael Hurley Andrew Michael Hurley’s first novel, The Loney, has been greeted as a gothic masterpiece. First published in a limited edition by a small independent press, it has gone on to win the Costa First Novel Award and be named Book of the Year for 2016. Set on the shifting sands of the wild Lancashire coastline, The Loney explores faith, delusion and desire in a tradition that recalls the ghost stories of M.R. James and the pagan rituals of The Wicker Man, but is made entirely his own.
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Wednesday 16th November 7.30pm
The Creative Writing Programme at Edge Hill University present
Tickets £5
Simon Perril Simon Perril’s poetry collections include Nitrate (Salt) and Archilochus on the Moon and the sequel Beneath (Shearsman). He has written widely on contemporary poetry and poetics, and edited The Salt Companion to John James (Salt). He teaches at De Montfort University, Leicester, and loves silent movies, and noisy music. And cats. "My poetry roots go back to discovering the New American Poetry of the 50s and 60s and the "British Poetry Revival" of the 60s and 70s pretty much simultaneously, thanks to local book dealers in Cambridge, and the alternative academy that was Compendium bookshop in Camden, London.” Simon Perril
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Tuesday 22nd November 7.30pm FREE
Head Land: Edge Hill University Press book launch Head Land presents an array of stories from writers nominated for the Edge Hill University Short Story Prize, in celebration of ten years of this unique and prestigious award. The stories explore the domestic and the fantastic, the past and the present in writing that is sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always brilliant. This dazzling assortment features outstanding work by some of the very best writers in the field of contemporary fiction. These masters of the craft often re-define what the genre can do. A hugely impressive collection of stories. Paul McVeigh, Co-Founder of The London Short Story Festival and author of The Good Son
Social and Open mics 04 10
Monday 4th October 7.00pm
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Talent Night
FREE
A night where you can take over the stage! The Arts Centre is proud to have so much talent in its students at Edge Hill University and our Talent Night is a show all about celebrating that. Come to this free performance to support those performing, or to show us what you have got. Expect anything! Interested in showing your talent? Contact Alex at messenga@edgehill.ac.uk, or speak to Celia or Gemma at the box office to secure your slot.
10 10
Monday 10th October 7.00pm
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Monday 14th November 7.00pm
Open Mic Night
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Open Mic is an opportunity for anyone to come along and show off whatever talent they may have. Edge Hill University is bursting with students who can sing or dance, recite poetry, play an instrument or surprise us with a hidden talent we haven’t yet come across. Bring your friends along for support. Or just come along to be a part of the audience. A great night on campus, guaranteed. Admission is FREE. No tickets required, just turn up! Book your slot with Celia or Gemma in the Arts Centre Box Office.
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COMEDY
23 11
Wednesday 23rd November 8.00pm Tickets ÂŁ5 EHU Students
Headline
Sam Avery Sam Avery wanted to be a rock star. It nearly happened. Despite being signed by BMG Records at the age of 17 and tours with Motorhead and Ice T the story soon took a familiar turn. Contracts were annulled, money was stolen and before he knew it he was back at the paper shop asking for his fluorescent bag back. Subsequent jobs (including a brief stint as a stockbroker) failed to excite him the way the smell of sweat and snakebite had and it wasn’t long before he turned to stand-up. Sam has gained a reputation for being able to spark the dullest of rooms into life with his infectious humour and quick wit! Support
Chris Washington, The Discount Comedy Checkout
MA PERFORMANCES Edge Hill Performing Arts Department present
MAking PerforMAnce Season 2016
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All Tickets FREE to Performing Arts Staff and Students Public: £6/£3 Season ticket for all MA performances £18/£9
The MA Making Performance at Edge Hill offers a creative space for emerging artists to spend a year exploring exciting new approaches to creating new work for the stage and beyond. In its seventh year we can present the largest season of work ever: a strong dose of horror, a double helping of comedy, radical drama and experimental approaches to creating dance make the season ticket a must have.
04 + 10
Tuesday 4th October 7.30pm & Monday 10th October 7.30pm
Vexed Theatre presents
Nexus: Whispers a new play written and directed by Seamus O’Riordan-Fox
Six friends on an annual camping trip are telling ghost stories in the woods, all the while a malevolent entity stalks its prey. Nexus: Whispers, explores the familiar conventions of Terror in film live on stage. The first play of a trilogy, the production uses multimedia devices to bridge the gap between cinema and theatre. A cinematic prologue introduces a claustrophobic stage play in which long buried regrets, fears and supernatural forces combine to test these friendships.
19 10
Wednesday 19th October 7.30pm
The Playing Ground devised by Lee Kenny
Leave the theatre behind and step into a whole new world: one free from the mundane restrictions and inhibitions of life. The Playing Ground is a world created by clowns. These very clowns will transport you and your companions to a place where joy rules supreme and the only work is play. So if you are ready to take a break from the stresses and boring adultness of life…welcome to The Playing Ground!
26 10
Wednesday 26th October 7.30pm
Working Class Idiots devised by Callum Forbes
Dropping in on the lives of newly graduated working class kids this topical new play light-heartedly and satirically examines social division in our communities. Riddled with debt and burdened with a useless degree our heroes go back to everyday jobs and binge culture while watching their country fall apart around them.
02 11
Wednesday 2nd November 7.30pm
Vexed Theatre presents
perfinis devised by Calen Griffin
The smell of morphine burning in his nostrils. The taste of rage as her vision fades to red. The touch of a fist in a room full of himself. The sound of a countdown that he never ceases. Prison is a hell for the self, and the cleaning crew are no exception. Privacy is a thing of the past and sooner or later, things take their toll. Exploring the edges of a stable mind, working with a collage of styles, enter an inner world in this radical new play.
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Thursday 3rd November 7.30pm
Dance Double Bill: Reflections & Light new works by Natalie Deen and Paul B.Taylor
The double bill opens with an exploration of the dance technique created by Elroy Josephz: a dialogue of classical and contemporary styles fused with Caribbean dance. Elroy was a distinguished dancer and choreographer of Afro-Caribbean Jazz Dance until his death in 1997. Reflections, choreographed by Natalie Deen, builds on Elroy’s principles: joyful and free spirited movement, music and drumming captures the spirit and rhythms unite in a contemporary Afro-Caribbean fusion. Paul Taylor is a lighting designer. Light is an exploration through contemporary dance of the possibilities and inspirations of contemporary stage lighting. The creative process begins with the lighting design, as the dancers take inspiration for a journey through light and dark to a place beyond the shadows.
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Third Year PERFORMANCES Edge Hill Third Year Performing Arts Students Present
Limits of the Enlightenment
All Tickets FREE EHU Students Public: £9/£5/£3 2 for 1 ticket offer on 1st night of season
A season of work looking back to this cultural paradigm shift to ask ‘where are we now? “Enlightenment is mankind’s exit from his self-incurred immaturity” Emmanuel Kant
12 + 13
Monday 12th December 7.30pm & Tuesday 13th December 7.30pm
Philosophy in the Bedroom A Dance Theatre Extravaganza inspired by the works of Marquis de Sade
The Marquis dedicated his work to "voluptuaries of all ages, of every sex". Men should be cynics. "Lewd women… be heedless of all that contradicts pleasure's divine laws, by which (you are) enchained." "Young maidens…spurn all those ridiculous precepts inculcated in you by imbecile parents". De Sade’s Ideology is “if it feels good do it”, and from the internet to Carnage NightsTM to the excoriations of religious fundamentalists, we are his heirs.
13 + 14
Tuesday 13th December 7.30pm & Wednesday 14th December 7.30pm
The Possibilities by Howard Barker
Barker divides audiences and demands an end to catharsis by polarising individual audience response. In this extraordinary series of 10 short plays Barker offers a Theatre of Catastrophe which speaks directly to the post-enlightenment dilemma: “I would like to propose that the value of works of art, in social circumstances such as the present, lies not in their entertainment value, nor in their ability to ‘change perceptions’ in pursuit of some common purpose, but in their power to devastate the received wisdom of the collective, which conspires to diminish individual experience at all levels” Howard Barker
14 + 15
Wednesday 14th December 7.30pm & Thursday 15th December 7.30pm
The Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss English version by Geoffrey Skelton - Verse Adaptation by Adrian Mitchell
The Persecution and the Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. Peter Brook’s infamous 1964 production introduced a wider world to the Theatre of Cruelty, but Weiss' playtext draws its power from the exchanges between the libertine, individualist Sade and the dedicated revolutionary Marat. A dialogue we are still bound into, as De Sade says towards the end of the play On the one hand the urge with axes and knives to change the whole world and improve people's lives On the other hand the individual lost in thought caught in the throes of the calamity he's wrought Thus the question formulated in the play remains open in the light of things today
16 + 17
Friday 16th December 7.30pm & Saturday 17th December 2.30pm
Candide Music by Leonard Bernstein Book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler Lyrics by Richard Wilbur
It is Voltaire’s artistic works which place him at the heart of the enlightenment project rather than his philosophy, and Candide is his masterpiece. Bernstein and his many collaborators saw contemporary relevance in this satire on puritanical snobbery, phony moralism and inquisitional attacks on the individual. This sprawling picaresque musical brings us full circle to a place of unwarranted but unwavering optimism. This amateur production is presented by arrangement with JOSEF WEINBERGER LTD on behalf of MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL of New York
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LIVE THEATRE SCREENINGS 28 09
Wednesday 28th September 7.00pm
Royal Shakespeare Company Live presents
Tickets £5 EHU Students
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare Cymbeline is a ruler of a divided Britain. When Imogen, the only living heir, marries her sweetheart in secret, an enraged Cymbeline banishes him. But a powerful figure behind the throne is plotting to seize power and murder them both. Imogen embarks on a dangerous journey that will reunite Cymbeline with a lost heir and reconcile the young lovers. Melly Still directs Shakespeare’s rarely performed romance. Join us for this cinema screening on 28th September, broadcast live from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Feel part of the action from your seat. Cert: As live 12A Running Time: 210 mins
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Saturday 1st October 7.00pm
National Theatre Live, Encore presents
Tickets £5 EHU Students
The Deep Blue Sea Helen McCrory (Medea and The Last of the Haussmans at the National Theatre, Penny Dreadful, Peaky Blinders) returns to the National Theatre in Terence Rattigan’s devastating masterpiece, playing one of the greatest female roles in contemporary drama. Tom Burke (War and Peace, The Musketeers) also features in Carrie Cracknell’s critically acclaimed new production. A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge. With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion. Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing. Cert: TBC Running time: TBC
12 10
Wednesday 12th October 7.00pm
Royal Shakespeare Company Live presents
Tickets £5 EHU Students
King Lear by William Shakespeare King Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom amongst his children, living out his days without the burden of power. Misjudging his children’s loyalty and finding himself alone in the wilderness, he is left to confront the mistakes of a life that has brought him to this point. RSC Associate Artist Antony Sher plays King Lear, one of the greatest parts written by Shakespeare in this, one of Shakespeare’s most epic and powerful plays, directed by RSC Artist Director Gregory Doran. Cert: As live 12A Running Time: 210 mins
17 10
Monday 17th October 7.00pm
National Theatre Live, Encore presents
Tickets £5 EHU Students
The Threepenny Opera Mack the Knife is back in town. A darkly comic new take on Brecht and Weill’s raucous musical broadcast live from the stage of the National Theatre. With Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (Hamlet, Othello, James Bond), as Macheath alongside Rosalie Craig (As You Like It, My Family and other Animals) as Polly Peachum this bold, anarchic production is brought to you by a creative powerhouse; adapted by Simon Stephens, (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime), and directed by Rufus Norris, (Everyman, London Road). Contains scenes of a sexual nature, violence and filthy language. Cert: 15 Running time: TBC
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Thursday 27th October 7.00pm
Branagh Theatre Live presents
Tickets £5 EHU Students
The Entertainer Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborne’s modern classic conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment. Rob Ashford directs Kenneth Branagh as the Archie Rice in the final production for Plays at the Garrick season.
Cert: As Live 12A Running Time: 160 mns TBC
FILM
LIST Mid-week Cinema with Short-Cuts film programme Cinema’s most recent releases on your doorstep most Wednesday evenings. These films are open to the public so make sure you book your tickets in advance All tickets for Wednesday night films are £2 for Edge Hill University Students
05 10
Wednesday 5th October 7:30pm
19 10
Wednesday 19th October 7:30pm
02 11
Wednesday 2nd November 7:30pm
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Wednesday 9th November 7:30pm
Florence Foster Jenkins Director Stephen Frears 2016
Cert 12 TBC
Run time 110 minutes
Florence Foster Jenkins is the inspirational true story of the eponymous New York heiress and socialite who obsessively pursued her dream of becoming a great singer. The voice Florence (Meryl Streep) heard in her head was divine, but to the rest of the world it was hilariously awful. At private recitals, her devoted husband and manager, St Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant), managed to protect Florence from the truth. But when Florence decided to give her first public concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall, St Clair realised he had perhaps bitten off more than he could chew.
Me Before You Director Thea Sharrock 2016 Cert TBC Run time 110 minutes
Louisa ‘Lou’ Clark (Clarke) lives in a quaint town in the English countryside. With no clear direction in her life, the quirky and creative 26-year-old goes from one job to the next in order to help her tight-knit family make ends meet. Her normally cheery outlook is put to the test, however, when she faces her newest career challenge. Taking a job at the local “castle”, she becomes caregiver and companion to Will Traynor (Claflin), a wealthy young banker who became wheelchair bound in an accident two years prior, and whose whole world changed dramatically in the blink of an eye.
I Saw The Light Director Dexter Fletcher 2016 Cert TBC Run time 124 minutes
Saw the Light is the story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams (Tom Hiddleston), who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life.
Love & Friendship Director Whit Stillman 2016 Cert U (check) Run time 93 minutes
Kate Beckinsale stars as Lady Susan, a high-class widow whose waning finances threaten her status and lifestyle. Accompanied by her American confidante Mrs. Alicia Johnson, who is waiting for her elderly husband (Stephen Fry) to pass on, the sharp-tongued Lady Susan sets her sights on charming Reginald de Courcy in the hope of a marriage and financial security. Her plans are disrupted with the arrival of her daughter Frederica upon whom Lady Susan thrusts the dull, but extremely wealthy, Sir James Martin.
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Wednesday 16th November 7:30pm
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Wednesday 23rd November 7:30pm
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Wednesday 30th November 7:30pm
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Wednesday 7th December 7:30pm
Eddie The Eagle Director Marc Abraham 2016 Cert PG (check) Run time 106 minutes
Starring Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) comes Eddie The Eagle, a story following Michael Edwards (a.k.a Eddie), and his unflinching determination to become Great Britain’s first Olympic ski-jumper. Reluctantly aided by former ski-jumper Bronson Peary as his coach, Eddie is unwavering in his quest to reach the 1988 Calgary Winter Games. Eddie the Eagle is an uplifting, inspirational story that celebrates human spirit, passion, and one man’s refusal to accept defeat.
Room Director Lenny Abrahamson 2016 Cert 15 Run time 118 minutes
Ma has created a whole universe in ‘Room’ for five-year-old Jack, where they have both lived for Jack’s whole life. But when Ma decides they have to escape, she risks everything to give Jack the chance to make a thrilling discovery: the world. Featuring an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning performance from Brie Larson.
Elvis & Nixon Director Liza Johnson 2016 Cert TBC Run time 86 minutes
On the morning of December 21st 1970 the world’s biggest star, Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon) arrived on the White House lawn to request a meeting with the most powerful man in the world, President Richard Nixon (Kevin Spacey). Elvis & Nixon tells the astounding true story of this meeting between two men at the height of their powers.
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Director Mandie Fletcher 2016 Cert TBC Run time 91 minutes
Causing mayhem and havoc wherever they go, Edina and Patsy continue to enjoy their booze-soaked, glamorous lifestyle when they find themselves taking the blame for a major faux pas at a trendy London launch party. Consequently hounded by the media and paparazzi, the pair flee to the south of France where they immediately settle in to the ways of lavish living. Despite being broke, the duo conspire a way to prolong their stay.
How to find us The Arts Centre is at the front of the Edge Hill University campus, next to the Student Information Centre. The closest halls of residence are Founders Court and Lady Margaret.
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How to book By phone: 01695 584480 Online: secure online booking at edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre In person: at our Box Office Monday-Friday 12.00pm – 5.30pm (Open until 8pm on performance nights) At weekends the Box Office is open when there is a performance.
Arts Centre Membership As an Edge Hill University Student you get free membership to The Arts Centre. There are lots of special offers on tickets and freebies on offer to you throughout the year. Pop into the box office to pick up your Arts Centre membership card.
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