Edge Hill Arts Centre - Spring/Summer 2015

Thursday 23rd April 2015

Dalloway

Spring/Summer 2015

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Council House Movie Star Once Upon a Time in Ormskirk The Maze Runner Stand-up Comedy: Bill Woolland Hansel and Gretel Light Pride …in the middle with you

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The Angry Roads Rachel Trezise 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour A Journey Round My Skull That’s Amoré Love’s Labour’s Lost Open Mic Night Stand-up Comedy: Tony Burgess Near Gone What We Did On Our Holiday The Yellow Wallpaper When Trolls Try to Eat Your Goldfish Dracula A Most Wanted Man The Various Lives of Infinite Nullity

March

Tuesday Wednesday Friday Saturday

7.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 2.30pm & 4.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 7.00pm

Urashima Taro Love’s Labour’s Won In Search of Duende Where Caterpillars Go

January

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Open Mic Night So It Goes Ian Seed The Hundred-Foot Journey Behind the Beautiful Forevers Mapdance 2015 Treasure Island

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Jekyll and Hyde Stand-up Comedy: Noel James Maps to the Stars Le Vent du Nord Maxine Peake as Hamlet Don Juan Comes Back From the War Don Juan Comes Back From the War JV2 Triple Bill The Silver Tassie Flight Flight The Silver Tassie

April

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The Simon and Garfunkel Story Maxine Peake as Hamlet Gone Girl The Hard Problem The Picture of Dorian Gray Horns Dalloway Ugly Duckling The Bastard Queen Open Mic Night Mr Turner

Wednesday

10.30am & 12.30pm 7.00pm 8.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm

Rapunzel

Man and Superman Jackie Oates Band The New Forresters Peter Knight’s Gigspanner

3.30pm 7.00pm

The Taming of the Shrew The Merchant of Venice

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Film Exhibition Live Screening 3

Welcome to the Arts Centre Our 2015 Spring programme is stuffed with quality, depth and variety, befitting the University of the Year’s Arts Centre. Fans of innovative drama will enjoy Light, an Orwellian contemplation of state surveillance, or A Journey Round My Skull. Shivers and frights can be found in Dracula and Jekyll and Hyde, while the very real horrors of war are addressed in Aftermath: A European War, a series of rarely-performed plays.

Jackie Oates and Steeleye Span’s fiddle playing legend Peter Knight are sure to receive a warm welcome, while live screenings of National Theatre and RSC productions bring thespian heavyweights Ralph Fiennes, Meera Syal and Maxine Peake to The Arts Centre. We host another exclusive appearance of the Ann Arbor film festival, and our traditional outdoor production – The Taming of the Shrew - will bring both the house and the curtain down on another exciting season.

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The (fabulous) Lancashire Revels present:

Once Upon a Time in Ormskirk Tickets £5 / FREE Edge Hill University students

“The finest actors in all the world for Comedie, Tragedie, Tragedie-Comedie, Pastoral, Sitcom, Tragi-comical Pastoral Sitcom” perform for brave-hearted folks of all ages.

Edge Hill’s undergraduate Commedia dell’arte Company, under the leadership of the legendary Olly Crick, presents an evening of bold, thigh-slapping storytelling in the aforementioned traditions.

Thursday 22nd January 8.00pm

Stand-up Comedy

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Wednesday 21st January 7.30pm

Tickets £7 / £4 concessions / £2 Edge Hill University students

Headliner: Bill Woolland A naturally funny man whose relaxed, warm, friendly style is complemented by excellent, fresh and highly original material making his comedy accessible to all audiences. He has plenty of experiences to draw from, creating fabulous tales mined from his varied and colourful life.

Support: Peter Brush, Brennan Reece Compere: Ormskirk’s own Phil Chapman

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Performances

Saturday 24th January 2.30pm Horse + Bamboo present:

Hansel and Gretel Tickets £5 / £18 family ticket (Three children and one adult, or two children and two adults)

Hunger. Gnaws at the stomach like a dog on a bone.

If only, if only there were a cake, a cake as big as a house! Sometimes, if you want something badly enough, it might just happen. But getting what you want isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be.

With succulent music and film, puppets and masks, Horse + Bamboo have baked up a delicious treat of a show - dark, chewy and delicious at heart, yet coated with a sprinkle of something light, sweet and zesty.

Suitable for children aged five years plus, and their families.

Tuesday 27th January 7.30pm Theatre Ad Infinitum present:

Light

© Alex Brenner

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Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 of more

Inspired by Edward Snowden’s revelations and the ensuing debate on state surveillance, Theatre Ad Infinitum conjures an Orwellian future where a totalitarian regime monitors the thoughts of its citizens through implants. Charged with hunting down ‘terrorists’ who seek illegal disconnection, a young government agent encounters an enigmatic figure from his shadowy past.

Blending anime-style storytelling and a pulsating soundscape to draw audiences into its sci-fi realm, this is a nightmarish tale of love, betrayal and technological power. LED strip and torchlight innovatively illuminate the wordless production, set atmospherically in darkness.

Hagit Dance present:

…in the middle with you

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Thursday 29th January 7.30pm

Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 of more

At times light and playful, at times stark and entrancing, the choreography moves us in very personal ways.

Live music and a cast of five dancers, lure the audience in with personal stories of love, friendship, loss and life, energy and physicality. An abstract experience that is highly intimate and also uplifting and inspiring - in the middle with you is an emotional poem of everyday life.

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Performances

Monday 2nd February 7.30pm

Big Brum Theatre Company present:

by Edward Bond

The Angry Roads Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

Evening in the city. In a flat a teenage boy is sorting through play things from his childhood. He is sorting through his past in search of the truth about an accident that destroyed his family. The father remains silent, is he refusing or unable to speak about it? The son struggles to know the truth and take control of his future.

Bond’s 10th play for Big Brum is an extraordinary and compelling drama by one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

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Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Tuesday 3rd February 7.30pm

The Creative Writing Department at Edge Hill University present:

Rachel Trezise

Tickets £4.50 all

Rachel Trezise was born in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. Her debut novel In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl won a place on the Orange Futures List in 2001, and her debut collection of short stories, Fresh Apples won the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2006.

Rachel’s most recent collection of short stories, Cosmic Latte, won the 2014 Edge Hill Short Story Prize Reader's Award. She also writes non-fiction and drama and her first full length play, Tonypandemonium, was staged by National Theatre Wales in 2013, winning the Theatre Critics of Wales Award for Best Production in 2014. The script will be published by Bloomsbury in 2015.

Thursday 5th February 7.30pm KILN Ensemble present:

A Journey Round My Skull A Bristol Old Vic Ferment commission

Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

A Journey Round My Skull is a beguiling and beautiful love story put under the surgeon’s knife.

Told by a neurosurgeon who casts the audience as her silent patient, this show gently and playfully transports you to the streets of continental Europe, to a scrap over profiteroles, into neurosurgery and onto the tracks of a ghost train. With poetic storytelling and an extraordinary binaural sound design, A Journey Round My Skull operates on the ears as well as the heart to dissect our most intimate relationships.

© Jonathan Blackford

Inspired by the auditory hallucinations experienced by satirist Frigyes Karinthy, as described in his extraordinary 1938 medical memoir.

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Performances

Tuesday 10th February 7.30pm Tmesis Theatre present:

That’s Amoré Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

That’s Amoré is a hilarious, fast-paced, passionate and poignant piece of physical theatre which explores the vast world and culture of romantic love: from chance encounters to hidden desires, and emotional extremes to the science of romance, the piece discovers the flesh and philosophy behind what makes our hearts beat faster.

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Open Mic Night In the Arts Centre Red Bar

Free admission

It’s time to strut your stuff once again in front of a warm and welcoming audience in the Arts Centre Red Bar. You may be an experienced entertainer or you may be just discovering a new talent. There are no judges and no winners or losers, but you will certainly have a good night and so will your friends.

Book your slot with Celia or Gemma in the Arts Centre Box Office.

Monday 16th February 8.00pm

Stand-up Comedy

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Thursday 12th February 7.30pm

Tickets £7 / £4 concessions / £2 Edge Hill University students

Headliner: Tony Burgess Award winning stand-up comic and writer Tony Burgess has written for a wide range of shows, from the BBC 3 comedy Ideal (where he also played Troy, a mad DJ who lived in Moz’s cupboard) to the play Doorway, which premiered at The Royal Exchange Studio Theatre in Manchester, to the film Wallace and Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit. Tony has also written for a wide variety of comedians, including Lily Savage, Brian Conley, Steve Coogan and Johnny Vegas.

Support: Steve Bugeja, Callum Oakley Compere: Lou Conran

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Performances

Tuesday 17th February 7.30pm

Two Destinations Language present:

Near Gone

Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

Two performers have a difficult story to tell and they tell it on a bare stage with 400 flowers. The woman tells the heart-wrenching story of her sister almost dying. She speaks in Bulgarian. The man struggles to translate. The story becomes too much for her, the woman stops and dances to pounding Eastern European gypsy music. Over the course of an hour, we learn their heartfelt story and we discover the relationship between the couple on stage.  BroadwayBaby

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© Alma Haser

by Victoria Harrocks

The Yellow Wallpaper

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Friday 20th February 7.30pm

Admission is free but please reserve your ticket at the Box Office.

This dance theatre production by Edge Hill University MA student Victoria Horrocks is based on The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and tells the story of a woman suffering from a mild hysteria (post-natal depression). Sent by her doctor husband to convalesce in the yellow room of a country home during the summer of 1894, she feels incarcerated without any outlet for her creative mind and begins to imagine, then believe, there is a woman living in the yellow wallpaper.

This performance will take place in the Studio Theatre

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Performances

Saturday 21st February 2.30pm Dominic Berry presents:

When Trolls Try to Eat Your Goldfish Tickets £5 / £18 family ticket (Three children and one adult, or two children and two adults)

In the middle of the night there is a noise - a snuffling and a shuffling and a splintering of wood. A line of troll-prints lead out the door, across the lawn and into the deep, dark forest.

When a grotesque gang of greedy trolls steal all the village’s pets (including Nikki's favourite goldfish, Great Bumbleduke the Third), who is going to come to the poor animals’ rescue?

A high energy comedy adventure show by performance poet Dommy B.

Suitable for children aged five years plus, and their families.

Tuesday 24th February 7.30pm Rabbit Theatre present:

Dracula

Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 of more

"Listen to them... the children of the night. What music they make!"

Be warned: this monstrous, disturbing and completely batty tale of dark deeds and the undead will thrill and seduce you.

The outrageously versatile performer, David Mynne, brings you his one-man performance of... Dracula!

Actor, designer, comedian, artist and first class idiot - anything Dave touches promises to turn to glorious fool’s gold! He turns the pages of this epic novel in a masterful fashion to produce a piece of intimate theatre that is both ingenious and mesmerising.

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Clout Theatre present:

The Various Lives of Infinite Nullity

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Thursday 26th February 7.30pm

Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 of more

A post-suicide support group meet to reflect upon their lives.

Ignoring symptoms of their own deaths, three characters guide us through the strange and disquieting landscape they now inhabit. A plastic wasteland where domestic disputes last thousands of years, death doesn't work and milk-drinking children make the rules. A place of bloodbaths, shopping lists, premature burials and polite tea drinking.

Absurdism and dark clowning abound in this physically bold, visually arresting and fiercely ironic piece about human frailty and the essential futility of our lives.

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Performances

Tuesday 3rd March 7.30pm Rogue28 Theatre present:

Urashima Taro Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

Urashima Taro is a tragic and dreamlike fairytale for adults. Inspired by Japanese mythology, it tells the story of a young fisherman seduced by the charms of a mysterious and cruel turtle-woman. Urashima Taro is a highly visual piece about power, seduction and death, with an underlying sense of humour. Aya Nakamura creates a mesmerising performance with the skilful and seamless meeting of actor and puppet.

Video projection, shadow play, puppetry and actor merge to create a fascinating story of lust, betrayal and loss.

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© Monika Kita

Travelled Companions present:

Where Caterpillars Go Tickets £5 / £18 family ticket (Three children and one adult, or two children and two adults)

Where Caterpillars Go is a thoughtful look at the cycle of life, explored within a garden where almost everything is made from paper. Watch seeds fly, fall and sprout, and shoots spiral and uncurl. Chase leaves and butterflies as they flutter by in this lively garden that pops up before your eyes. Together we explore life, growth, wonder and loss through live music and playful movement in this fun and visually striking show.

Suitable for children under the age of five and their families.

Limited capacity

Monday 9th March 7.30pm

Open Mic Night In the Arts Centre Red Bar

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Saturday 7th March 2.30pm & 4.00pm

Free admission

It’s time to strut your stuff once again in front of a warm and welcoming audience, in the Arts Centre Bar. You may be an experienced entertainer or you may be just discovering a new talent. There are no judges, and no winners or losers, but you will certainly have a good night and so will your friends.

Book your slot with Celia or Gemma in the Arts Centre Box Office.

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Performances

Tuesday 10th March 7.30pm On the Run present:

So it Goes Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

A true story about love and loss.

Hannah has always wanted to talk about her dad.

But in the seven years since he died, she hasn’t quite managed it. Not one to be defeated, she’s enlisted her friend David to help her on a journey through memory, laughter and sorrow. So It Goes explores the light and dark sides of grief, in a playful and deeply personal show.

“I’ve never seen a depiction of grief that is quite as deft, daring, amusing and moving as this one.” ★★★★★ The Times

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The Creative Writing Department at Edge Hill University present:

Ian Seed

Tickets £4.50 all

Ian Seed teaches Creative Writing at the University of Chester. He has lived and worked in different countries, including Italy, France and Poland. His poetry, prose poetry, fiction, reviews and translations have appeared in such journals as Blackbox Manifold, Free Verse, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, The North, PN Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Wales, Shearsman, Stride and Tears in the Fence.

Seed’s first full-length collection, Anonymous Intruder, was published by Shearsman in 2009. Shearsman have also published his collections Shifting Registers (2011) and Makers of Empty Dreams (2014).

Thursday 12th March 7.30pm Mapdance present:

Mapdance 2015

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Wednesday 11th March 7.30pm

Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

The University of Chichester’s MA performance company, Mapdance is an established company of young, dynamic dancers recruited nationally and internationally. Performing a diverse repertoire by renowned and upcoming contemporary choreographers, this year’s commissions include new works by Jonathan Burrows (UK), Ofra Idel (Israel), Rick Nodine (USA/UK), and Lîla Dance (UK). The company is also re-staging Kerry Nicholls’ work from the 2014 tour. The mixed repertory offers a refreshing mixture of dance theatre, intricate and questioning choreography, fast-paced athleticism, and wry humour.

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Performances

Monday 16th March 7.30pm Sell a Door present:

Jekyll and Hyde Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

Robert Louis Stevenson’s cult classic Jekyll and Hyde is reinterpreted in this modern adaptation set in an alternative London of the future. A devoted man of science, Dr Henry Jekyll is a high-profile cancer specialist, determined to find the chemical breakthrough that will solve mankind’s most challenging medical uncertainties. Instead, Jekyll’s controversial research leads him to accidentally unleash his ultimate inner demon: the infamous Mr Hyde.

“If Sell a Door continue to produce work of this quality they will be around for a long time.”

The Scotsman

Tuesday 17th March 8.00pm

Stand-up Comedy Tickets £7 / £4 concessions / £2 Edge Hill University students

Headliner: Noel James Noel Jones has been performing for fifteen years, at all the major clubs throughout the UK and also at festivals such as Glastonbury, Reading, and Edinburgh. Before entering showbiz, Noel tried his hand at teaching. He taught English as a foreign language, and he taught Welsh, without success at either! His act is gag, gag, gag all the way - though some of it consists of non-baby-talk.

Support: Chris Washington, Tony Jameson Compere: Freddy Quinne

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Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Thursday 19th March 8.00pm

Le Vent du Nord

Tickets £15 / £14 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students

Combining a great stage presence with an energetic, dynamic flair, Le Vent du Nord are one of the leading names in Québecois folk music, performing original songs inspired from their tradition - a truly fabulous sound!

Following on from their knockout success at festivals over the summer of 2014 the Québec-based quartet continue to delight crowds with their mix of fiddle, guitar, accordion and hurdy-gurdy. They perform original songs many of which are taken from their traditional Canadian repertoire and are sung in native French.

Tuesday 25th March 7.30pm

Jasmin Vardimon Company presents:

JV2 2015

Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

With the mission to develop, encourage and cultivate young talent and young audiences, Jasmin Vardimon Company has formed JV2 delivering a Professional Development Certificate. This year's JV2 are a vibrant and fresh new group of 14 young international dancers, hand-picked by artistic director Jasmin Vardimon and course leader Marilena Dara.

Showcasing the performing talent of tomorrow, this triple bill stages three works. Former JVC dancer Mafalda Deville’s work Silence is athletic and gutsy, dealing with loss and longing and punches with a strong visual style. JVC dancer Athanasia Kanellopoulou has created powerful new works specifically for this year’s company tour.

This performance will take place in the Studio Theatre

© Alastair Muir

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Performances

Edge Hill University Second Year Performing Arts students present:

Aftermath: A European War

Tickets £9 / £5 concessions / £3 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more.

Combined Ticket: See all three shows for £12

A season of rarely performed plays which examine the First World War and its aftermath from a European perspective. The centenary has brought us productions of Journey’s End and Oh What a Lovely War, but here we offer the view from elsewhere.

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Tuesday 24th & Wednesday 25th March 7.30pm

Don Juan Comes Back From the War (1936)

By Odon Von Horváth translated by Christopher Hampton

A startling tale of dislocation in the aftermath of the first war. The old lothario is back and he has some catching up to do. But this is now the modern world and everything is changed…even the women. By turns grotesque and magisterial, the play is, according to The Daily Telegraph, “a requiem for man's better nature.”

Friday 27th March 7.30pm & Saturday 28th March 2.30pm

The Silver Tassie (1928)

Flight (1927)

by Sean O’Casey

by Mikhail Bulgakov in a new adaptation by Ron Hutchinson

With extraordinary shifts of tone and refusal to offer up easy answers, this play was reviled when it first appeared: WB Yeats attacked the play for what he called "a series of almost unrelated scenes." But theatrical sensibilities have changed, and now that we have experienced ‘…A Lovely War’ we can allow ourselves the space to enjoy a rich mixture of the panoramic, the realistic and the expressionistic.

“One leaves the theatre convinced that Yeats failed to recognise a drama of exceptional power and originality.”

The Daily Telegraph

This rich and poetic satire presents a world in flux, chaos and hysteria. Written by the author of The Master and Margarita, it was banned in the Soviet Union until 1957, unsurprising since it is a picaresque account of the flight of White Army Russians from the Crimea to the Ottoman Empire, where the old world crumbles and the Bolsheviks take power. Although not directly a WW1 play, it captures a proximate moment in history.

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Thursday 26th & Saturday 28th March 7.30pm

“Somewhere or other, some nation is always tearing itself apart and putting its citizens to flight…Flight is the masterpiece on the émigré experience.”

The Independent

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Performances

Wednesday 8th April 8.00pm (50th Anniversary Tour)

The Simon and Garfunkel Story Tickets £18 / £17 concessions / £5 Edge Hill students

Direct from its success in London’s West End, a sold out UK tour and standing ovations at every performance, The Simon and Garfunkel Story is back on the road! Using huge projection photos and original film footage, this 50th Anniversary Celebration also features a full live band performing all the hits including Mrs Robinson, Cecilia, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound and many more.

Get your tickets fast as this is an evening not to be missed!

"Authentic and Exciting” - The Stage

Tuesday 21st April 7.30pm

European Arts Company present:

The Picture of Dorian Gray Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

Fresh from a West End run of The Trials of Oscar Wilde, European Arts Company returns with a thrilling adaptation of Wilde’s only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Set in the decadent world of Victorian London, a beautiful, narcissistic young man called Dorian Gray becomes infatuated by the exquisite portrait that Basil Hallward has painted of him. He makes a Faustian pact that he will remain forever young while the picture grows old.

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Combining drawing room comedy and Gothic horror, this is a gripping and hugely entertaining theatrical event.

Dyad Productions present:

Dalloway

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Thursday 23rd April 7.30pm

Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

From the creators of The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe, Female Gothic, I, Elizabeth and Austen's Women...

1923: the war is over. While Clarissa Dalloway prepares a party in Westminster, Septimus Smith is diagnosed with shell-shock, and their memories and dreams magically intertwine with those of fifteen other disparate souls, this hot blue day in June.

Conjuring the hopes and regrets of middle and upper-class London, this adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s celebrated map of hearts, minds and memories offers a compellingly feminine response to the aftermath of the First World War.

"Intelligently adapted, beautifully performed... Dalloway is entrancing." ★★★★★ British Theatre Guide

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Performances

Saturday 25th April 2.30pm

Thingumajig Theatre present:

based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen

Ugly Duckling

Tickets £5 / £18 family ticket (Three children and one adult, or two children and two adults)

Life isn’t much fun in the farmyard for the misfit ‘duckling’. Teased and tormented, he dreams of kindlier places beyond the farm gates. But will he survive out there?

Join in the adventures of this famous underdog in Hans Christian Andersen’s much-loved tale of transformation, brought to you in Thingumajig’s house style - beautiful puppet characters, live music, captivating story-telling, and a generous sprinkling of theatre magic.

Suitable for children aged five years plus and their families.

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Naughty Corner Productions present:

The Bastard Queen

Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students

The Bastard Queen is a wonderful new piece of theatre showing a boiled down society on the brink of destruction. The Beckett-like conversational humour wraps you up in a warm feeling of familiarity, and for a while at least it seems to be shaping up as a heartwarming tale of people overcoming extraordinary adversity.

Devised, directed and performed by graduates of Edge Hill University, not only was it performed at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in 2014, it finished top of the pile, joint winner of the Sunday Times National Students Drama Festival Award.

Contains strong language and adult themes that some people may find offensive. Recommended 18 plus

Wednesday 29th April 7.30pm

Open Mic Night In the Arts Centre Red Bar

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Tuesday 28th April 7.30pm

Free admission

It’s time to strut your stuff once again in front of a warm and welcoming audience, in the Arts Centre Red Bar. You may be an experienced entertainer or you may be just discovering a new talent. There are no judges and no winners or losers, but you will certainly have a good night and so will your friends.

Book your slot with Celia or Gemma in the Arts Centre Box Office.

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Performances

Wednesday 3rd June 10.30am & 12.30pm

tutti frutti and York Theatre Royal present:

Rapunzel

Tickets £5 / £18 family ticket (Three children and one adult, or two children and two adults)

Rapunzel: a story about a girl who is taken away from what she knows and protected from all the things that she loves.

Placed high-up in a tower above the world and faced with the challenge of growing-up, she is found alone, dreaming….

With fantastic music, beautiful movement and magical design Rapunzel is a delightful new production for children about the curiosity and joys of growing up, risk-taking and discovering who you are.

Suitable for children aged three years plus and their families.

Thursday 4th June 8.00pm

Jackie Oates Band Tickets £14 / £12 / £5 Edge Hill University students

Winner of BBC Folk Awards for best newcomer and best traditional track, Jackie Oates is a name synonymous with the reinvigoration of English folk music, beguiling audiences with a delicate balance of tradition and reinvention.

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Her mellifluous voice and imaginatively plaintive fiddle style has won her many plaudits during a 10year recording career that began as a member of the nascent Unthanks and has continued with five acclaimed solo albums. Collaborations with Alasdair Roberts, Belinda O’Hooley and her brother Jim Moray on material that’s ranged from traditional ballads to eerie lullabies and rich contemporary songs, Jackie has earned fans beyond the folk scene she grew up in.

The New Forresters

Free admission

As part of his MA studies Edge Hill University student Dave Praties will present a snapshot of a radio ballad produced using techniques developed in the 1950s by Charles Parker and Ewan MacColl.

Recorded voices, woven with newly written songs and traditional music, tell the story of the newcomers to the Cumbrian forest who have moved in to fill the gap left by the old dynasties of rural craft workers.

This event will take place in the Arts Centre Red Bar.

Thursday 18th June 8.00pm

Peter Knight’s Gigspanner present: Historical Dust Album Launch Tour

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Thursday 18th June 7.30pm

Tickets £15 / £14 / £5 Edge Hill University students

Peter Knight’s Gigspanner has been hailed by Songlines magazine as "another milestone in folk’s rebirth of cool", although to classify these three virtuoso performers purely as folk musicians is to undersell them by a long chalk.

A bedrock of British traditional music is to be expected from Steeleye Span’s erstwhile legendary fiddle player. But, Gigspanner’s musical reach flirts with Eastern European, French, Cajun, African and even Aboriginal influences.

Peter’s musicianship is further enhanced by the flawless playing of Roger Flack on Guitar and Vincent Salzfaas on Congas and Djembe.

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Performances

Sunday 12th July 3.30pm

Illyria Theatre Company present:

by William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew Tickets £15 / £13 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students

Everyone wants to marry mild-mannered Bianca.

No-one wants to marry her acid-tongued older sister Kate. Their father won’t let anyone marry Bianca until a husband can be found for Kate – but no-one knows anyone mad enough to take on Kate. Until Petruchio comes to town. What happens when a woman who suffers no fools meets a loud-mouthed braggart when neither is ever lost for words? Sparks are guaranteed to fly in Shakespeare’s rumbustious battle-of-the-sexes comedy, where nobody is exactly who they appear to be!

If you’re looking for a rip-roaring performance of an Elizabethan comedy to tickle you on a summer’s evening, look no further. And bring a second pair of socks - you’ll laugh the first ones off.

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An outdoor performance, please dress for both sun and rain.

theatrescreen

The experience of live theatre, especially ‘event’ productions featuring household names, is very special, but live screenings can be the next best thing.

Live screenings of National Theatre productions launched in 2009 with a broadcast of Phèdre with Helen Mirren.

Since then they’ve broadcast over twenty productions live.

National Theatre Live broadcasts have now been seen by over 3.5 million people in more than 1,100 venues around the world.

Past broadcasts have included Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and Sam Mendes’ King Lear with Simon Russell Beale.

Following suit, Live from Stratford-upon-Avon began screening productions live from Shakespeare's home town in November 2013. Their first broadcast, Richard II, was seen by more than 60,000 people.

The success of Richard II has been followed up by live broadcasts of Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II and The Two Gentlemen of Verona in 2014.

The Arts Centre will be showing the RSC’s Love's Labour's Lost and Love's Labour's Won (better known as Much Ado About Nothing) this season.

Live broadcasts take world class productions and performances to the widest possible audience, including school and university students.

Wednesday 11th February 7.00pm

Wednesday 4th March 7.00pm

Love’s Labour’s Lost William Shakespeare

Love’s Labour’s Won

Running time: 165 mins

Tickets £12 / £10 concessions

Running time: 170 mins

Tickets £12 / £10 concessions

Royal Shakespeare Company Live presents:

Summer 1914. Dedicating themselves to a life of study, the King and his friends take an oath to avoid the company of women for three years – but then the Princess of France and her ladies-inwaiting arrive.

Shakespeare’s sparkling comedy mischievously suggests that the highest of all academic endeavours is the study of the opposite sex.

Only at the end of the play is the merriment curtailed as the lovers agree to spend time apart, unaware that the world around them is about to be transformed by the war to end all wars.

Royal Shakespeare Company Live presents: William Shakespeare

Autumn 1918. A group of soldiers return from the trenches. The world-weary Benedick and his friend Claudio find themselves reacquainted with Beatrice and Hero. As memories of conflict give way to a life of parties and masked balls, Claudio and Hero fall madly, deeply in love, while Benedick and Beatrice reignite their own altogether more combative courtship.

Christopher Luscombe directs the second of Shakespeare’s matching pair of comedies that rejoice in our capacity to find love in the most unlikely places.

Better known as Much Ado About Nothing, the play is performed under the title Love’s Labour’s Won, a name possibly given to it during Shakespeare’s

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Live Screening

Thursday 12th March 7.00pm

Saturday 14th March 7.00pm

Monday 23rd March, 7.00pm Thursday 9th April, 7.00pm

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Treasure Island

Maxine Peake as Hamlet

National Theatre Live presents:

David Hare

Running time: 180 mins

Tickets £12 / £10 concessions

Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo’s uncompromising book, winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2012, David Hare has fashioned a tumultuous play on an epic scale.

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India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of their own.

Zehrunisa and her son Abdul aim to recycle enough rubbish to fund a proper house. Sunil, twelve and stunted, wants to eat until he’s as tall as Kalu the thief.

Asha seeks to steal government anti-poverty funds to turn herself into a ‘first-class person’, while her daughter Manju intends to become the slum’s first female graduate.

National Theatre Live, Encore presents: Robert Louis Stevenson Cert: As live 12A TBC Running time: 180 mins

Tickets £12 / £10 concessions

Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life in a thrilling new stage adaptation

by Bryony Lavery, broadcast live from the National Theatre.

It’s a dark, stormy night.

The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins.

Suitable for 10 years plus

From the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester: William Shakespeare

Cert: As live 15 Running Time: 195 mins

Tickets £12 / £10 concessions

From its sell-out run at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre comes this unique and critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s tragic Hamlet.

In this stripped-back, fresh and fast-paced version, BAFTA nominee Maxine Peake creates a Hamlet for now.

Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most iconic work and is the ultimate story of loyalty, love, betrayal, murder and madness. Hamlet’s father is dead and Denmark has crowned a new king.

Consumed by grief, Hamlet struggles to exact revenge, with devastating consequences. This ground-breaking stage production, directed by Sarah Frankcom, was the Royal Exchange’s fastest-selling show in a decade.

National Theatre Live presents:

The Hard Problem Tom Stoppard

Running time: 180 mins

Tickets £12 / £10 concessions

Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain science institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet.

If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? This is ‘the hard problem’ which puts Hilary at odds with her colleagues who include her first mentor Spike, her boss Leo and the billionaire founder of the institute, Jerry.

Is the day coming when the computer and the fMRI scanner will answer all the questions psychology can ask? Meanwhile Hilary needs a miracle, and she is prepared to pray for one.

Wednesday 3rd June 7.00pm

Wednesday 22nd July 7.00pm

Man and Superman

The Merchant of Venice

National Theatre Live, Encore presents: George Bernard Shaw

Cert: As Live 12A TBC Running time: 240 mins

Tickets £12 / £10 concessions

Ralph Fiennes plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of Shaw’s witty, provocative classic.

A romantic comedy, an epic fairy tale, a fiery philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks fundamental questions about how we live.

Jack Tanner, celebrated radical thinker and rich bachelor, seems an unlikely choice as guardian to the alluring heiress, Ann. But she takes it in her assured stride and, despite the love of a poet, she decides to marry and tame this dazzling revolutionary. Tanner, appalled by the whiff of domesticity, is tipped off by his chauffeur and flees to Spain, where he is captured by bandits and meets The Devil. An extraordinary dream-debate, heaven versus hell, ensues.

Royal Shakespeare Company Live presents:

William Shakespeare

Running time: 180 mins

Tickets £12 / £10 concessions

In the melting pot of Venice, trade is God. With its ships plying the globe, the city opens its arms to all, as long as they come prepared to do business and there is profit to be made.

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Thursday 16th April 7.00pm

With the gold flowing all is well, but when a contract between Bassanio and Shylock is broken, simmering racial tensions boil over. A wronged father, and despised outsider, Shylock looks to exact the ultimate price for a deal sealed in blood.

Polly Findlay (Arden of Faversham 2014) directs Shakespeare's uncompromising tragedy.

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Season Premiere Wednesday 21st January 7.30pm FREE Screening

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At a Glance Wednesday 21st January The Maze Runner

Wednesday 28th January Pride Wednesday 4th February 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour

Wednesday 18th February What We Did on Our Holiday

Wednesday 25th February A Most Wanted Man

Short Cuts brings the cinema to Ormskirk showing a season of recent releases on the big screen for a bargain price.

Tickets cost: £3.50 £3.00 for concessions £2.00 for EHU students

All films are screened in The Studio Theatre at 7.30pm.

please visit: edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre or call the Box Office on: 01695 584480

Wednesday 11th March The Hundred-Foot Journey Wednesday 18th March Maps to the Stars

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Wednesday 15th April Gone Girl

Wednesday 22nd April Horns Wednesday 29th April Mr Turner

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Wednesday 28th January 7.30pm

Wednesday 18th February 7.30pm

The Maze Runner

Pride

Cert: 12A Running time: 114 mins

Cert: 12A Running time: 120 mins

What We Did on Our Holiday

Dir: Wes Ball, 2014

When Thomas wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organisation known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past, with clues he discovers in the maze, can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape. Based upon the best-selling novel by James Dashner. Starring Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario and Will Poulter.

Free for everyone

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Dir: Matthew Warchus, 2014

Set in the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decide to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.

Undeterred, the activists go direct to the miners. And so begins the extraordinary story of two seemingly alien communities who form a surprising and ultimately triumphant partnership.

Starring Bill Nighy, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton and Paddy Considine.

Dir: Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin, 2014 Cert: 12A Running time: 95 mins

Doug and Abi are taking their three children on a trip to Scotland for a big family gathering. They are in the midst of a difficult divorce, and have asked the kids to keep it a secret from their extended family. But as the inevitable feuds kick in, a completely unexpected turn of events involving the children causes further tensions to rise to the surface. The ensuing repercussions force the family to put aside their differences. Starring Rosamond Pike, David Tennant and Billy Connolly.

Wednesday 11th March 7.30pm

Wednesday 18th March 7.30pm

A Most Wanted Man

The Hundred-Foot Journey

Maps to the Stars

Dir: Anton Corbijn, 2014 Cert: 15 Running time: 121 mins

When a half-Chechen, halfRussian, brutally tortured immigrant turns up in Hamburg's Islamic community laying claim to his father's ill-gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest. As the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man's true identity oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist?

Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams and Daniel Brühl.

Pre-film prize quiz in the Arts Centre Red Bar – 6.30pm start

Dir: Lasse Hallstrom, 2014 Cert: PG Running time: 122 mins

An American comedy-drama adapted from Richard C. Morais' 2010 novel The Hundred-Foot Journey, the film takes place in a small French town where almost everyone gets along. Starring Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal and Charlotte Le Bon it tells the story of a feud between two adjacent restaurants; one operated by a recently-relocated Indian family and the other managed by a Michelin-starred French chef. A little bit of romance blended with a lot of food.

Dir: David Cronenberg, 2014 Cert: 18 Running time: 112 mins

Led by the loathsome yet funny and touching child star Benjie (Evan Bird), we witness the convoluted world of shallow, selfish celebrities and their minions, all of whom are about to be manipulated and destroyed

by Agatha (Mia Wasikowska), Benjie’s tormented, apparently psychotic sister who represents the fruit of their own twisted machinations. As much as it is a sharp, comic look at a vacant and corrupt world, Maps to the Stars is also a haunting ghost story.

Julianne Moore’s performance won her the Best Actress award at Cannes Film Festival 2014.

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Wednesday 25th February 7.30pm

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Wednesday 15th April 7.30pm

Wednesday 22nd April 7.30pm

Wednesday 29th April 7.30pm

Gone Girl

Dir: David Fincher, 2014

Horns

Mr Turner

Cert: 18 Running time: 149 mins

Dir: Alexandre Aja, 2013 Cert: 15 Running time: 120 mins

Cert: 12A Running time: 150 mins

From the novel by Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl tells the story of how Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck), on the day of his fifth wedding anniversary, returns home to find that his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) is missing. Her disappearance receives heavy press coverage, as Amy was the inspiration for her parents' popular Amazing Amy children's books. In the ensuing media frenzy, suspicions arise that Nick murdered her, and his awkward behaviour is interpreted as characteristic of a sociopath.

Based on the novel by Joe Hill, Horns is a supernatural thriller driven by fantasy, mystery and romance. The film follows Ig Perrish (Daniel Radcliffe), the number one suspect for the violent rape and murder of his girlfriend, Merrin (Juno Temple). Ig awakens one morning to find horns growing from his head and soon realises their power drives people to confess their sins and give in to their most selfish and unspeakable impulses - an effective tool in his quest to discover the true circumstances of his late girlfriend's tragedy.

A look at the great British painter JMW Turner (Timothy Spall). Profoundly affected by the death of his esteemed father, loved by his housekeeper, Hannah (Dorothy Atkinson), whom he exploited sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, until his death.

Throughout all this, Turner travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and royalty.

Dir: Mike Leigh, 2014

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Wednesday 4th February 7.30pm

52nd Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour Free admission, booking advisable

Ann Arbor is America’s longest-running independent film festival and celebrated its 50th anniversary in March 2012. It has pioneered the concept of the travelling film festival tour, bringing films to venues that represent the only means for new and challenging filmmakers to have their work seen by appreciative audiences.

We are proud to be hosting the tour for the third year running, the only UK host.

The 52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival presented more than 200 films, videos and live performances over six days, including more than 30 premieres of new work.

Featuring filmmakers from Spain, Germany, Poland and the USA, this selection of nine short films from 2014’s festival includes three prize-winning films, such as Jury Award-winner Fe26 by Kevin Jerome Everson, about two men scrapping copper in Cleveland, and Gowanus Canal, Sarah Christman’s beautifully abstracted depiction of one of the most contaminated urban waterways in the United States.

As ever, the short films collected here, ranging from the experimental to animation and documentary, demonstrate Ann Arbor’s promotion of young and talented filmmakers from across the world.

Running time: 81mins

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Exhibitions

20th January – 6th February 2014

Council House Movie Star: a photographic exhibition of practice based research Mark Edward FREE

Council House Movie Star: a photographic exploration of practice based research consists of a series of photographic gallery images of the working class drag queen Gale Force and her 'family' on the periphery of society. These photographs were taken over a period of two years and reflect the creative process of the renowned film and immersive installation work Council House Movie Star (2012).

This exhibition will display the body as it really is with the greying of hair, bad wigs and makeup, and no glamorous Photoshop trickery, no pretend muscles and no removal of fatty skin.

The work seeks to encapsulate the immortalised fat and ageing drag body on canvas, laid bare for public scrutiny.

In addition to the display of photographs printed onto canvas, accompanying texts will give greater insights into the working process and behind-the-scenes action of the research and methods used. These shall include: filming scenes, rehearsals, performances, the 'dragging up' and 'dragging down' in the changing rooms, and projection of documented interviews with performers. The documentation of the process of performance making is, in itself, as essential as the performance for practice-led artists.

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In Search of Duende Sandra Philip FREE

The duende….Where is the duende?

“Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search of new landscapes and unknown accents: a wind with the odour of a child’s saliva, crushed grass, and medusa’s veil, announcing the endless baptism of freshly created things.” Theory and Play of The Duende, Lorca, 1922

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Friday 6th March, 7.30pm

This exhibition will take place in the Arts Centre Red Bar and the Rose Theatre.

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Working with Schools and Young People Schools Programme School parties may be able to further explore some areas of study related to the plays, performances and films being staged at the Arts Centre this spring and summer.

Date

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7.30pm 7.30pm

Light …in the middle with you

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February 2 5 10 11 17 24 26

Monday Thursday Tuesday Wednesday Tuesday Tuesday Thursday

7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

The Angry Roads A Journey Round My Skull That’s Amoré Love’s Labour’s Lost Near Gone Dracula The Various Lives of Infinite Nullity

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March

Tuesday Wednesday Tuesday Thursday Thursday Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Saturday

7.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm

Urashima Taro Love’s Labour’s Won So It Goes Behind the Beautiful Forevers Mapdance 2015 Jekyll and Hyde Maxine Peake as Hamlet Don Juan Comes Back From the War Don Juan Comes Back From the War JV2 2015 The Silver Tassie Flight Flight The Silver Tassie

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7.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

The Hard Problem The Picture of Dorian Gray Dalloway

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January

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April

16 Thursday 21 Tuesday 23 Thursday

June

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These events may include a tour of Edge Hill University campus, specific related lectures and workshops.

Please contact the Box Office for further information about our schools programme.

T: 01695 584480 E: artscentre@edgehill.ac.uk

Tickets for school parties of 10 or more - £5 per person.

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Experience the thrill of live performance Build confidence Challenge yourself and reveal hidden talents Friendly, nurturing leaders Weekly performing arts workshops during term time Try out the first session FREE Arts award accreditation for over-12s

The Rose Youth Theatre is for all young people who want to experience something new.

Working with arts professionals you will learn new skills, meet new friends and generally have a good time. Come along and give it a go – your first session is FREE, and you may surprise yourself.

Age 8 – 11 years: Saturdays 10th January – 28th March

Age 12 – 25 years: Wednesdays 7th January – 25th March

Fees: £5 per session paid in half termly instalments

Call 01695 584480 for further information or to make a booking.

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Edge Hill University is the Times Higher Education University of the Year.

This prestigious award acknowledges the University’s exceptional performance including high rates of student satisfaction and graduate employment, the strengthening of our research profile, growth in applications and our contribution to transforming lives in the region.

“Edge Hill University is a great success story” John Gill, Editor, Times Higher Education

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Relax in The Red Bar and enjoy a drink or a bite to eat (subject to availability) before a performance or film in the Rose Theatre or the Studio Theatre.

Opening Times Monday to Friday 11.00am - 7.00pm Food served 11.45am – 6.30pm

On performance nights the bar will be open throughout the performance. Last orders for hot food is an hour before the start of the performance.

Weekend Performances The bar opens an hour before the start of the performance with limited food available.

Look out for promotions and special offers

Sample Menu includes: Selection of paninis (made in-house) Selection of sandwiches (made in-house) Soup of the day with a roll Bowl of nachos baked with cheddar and mozzarella cheese, jalapeno peppers and served with sour cream, tomato salsa and guacamole Greek salad bowl with cucumber, tomato, olives, red onion, baby gem lettuce and feta cheese Warm pulled meat sandwich (pork or beef as available) served on a soft barm with small salad, coleslaw and vegetable crisps Bruschetta topped with tomato salsa, tapenade and goat’s cheese and served with wild rocket and parmesan shavings Selection of pizzas including: margherita, pepperoni, spiced chicken, mushroom, red onion and goat’s cheese sweet chilli chicken, sliced ham, garlic bread (12” thin and crispy or deep pan)

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Group/School Bookings One free ticket is available with every ten tickets bought. Contact the Box Office for further details.

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Concessions Under-16s, students, over-60s, ES40 holders and registered disabled may be eligible for concessionary tickets.

Ticket Exchange Tickets may be exchanged for another performance at the discretion of the Box Office. It is only possible to resell tickets via the Box Office once a performance is sold out.

Car Parking 24-hour security-patrolled, free parking is available.

Disabled Access The Arts Centre is fully accessible, with parking available close by, and allocated wheelchair spaces within. We also offer an induction loop linked to a PA system for the hearing impaired.

Guide dogs are welcome in the Centre.

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How to find us

edgehill.ac.uk/location

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)

The Arts Centre, Edge Hill University, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire L39 4QP At weekends the Box Office is only open when there is a performance.

Tickets can also be purchased from:

Main Reception at Edge Hill University

In association with:

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