Cs 1251 arts centre autumn winter 2013

Friday 18th October 2013

Justin Moorhouse: Justin Time

Autumn/Winter 2013

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5.30pm 8.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Installation: Robyn Woolston Fast and Furious 6 Stand-up Comedy: Duncan Oakley Star Trek Into Darkness Michelle Man and friends: l i g h t o u c h 12° North Dance Company, Emma Lansley & EdgeFWD

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Sept - 6 Dec Monday Monday Wednesday Thursday Monday

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Edge Hill Ormskirk 80th Anniversary: Mark Flinn Teechers Hitchcock Failure (and other opportunities for non-linear success) Landscapes Landscapes Landscapes Landscapes Iron Man 3 Maddy Prior: In Concert Eddie and the Gold Tops Boo Hewerdine Translunar Paradise Dying Swans and Dragged Up Dames: Mark Edward & Helen Newall Sculptured Trance Open Mic Night Corporalis Justin Moorhouse Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir You and Me The Place Beyond the Pines No Big Deal Haunted and Haunting: A Night of Ghost Stories The War of the Buttons Evil Dead A Double Bill: Joss Arnott Dance Stand-up Comedy: Steve Harris

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Nov - 29 Nov Wednesday Thursday Monday Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday Saturday Saturday Monday Nov - 13 Dec Nov - 13 Dec Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Saturday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday

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The Unforgotten Coat: Carl Hunter & Clare Heney The Paperboy Macbeth Devices and Desires Devices and Desires A Mouthful of Birds A Mouthful of Birds This Party and Flight This Party and Flight Into the Woods Tales From The Night Circus Into the Woods Tales From The Night Circus Two Peas Without a Pod The Big Society: Si Barber Here, again: Andrew Conroy Allen Fisher Six Impossible Things Stoker Open Mic Night The Urban Folk Quartet Stand-up Comedy: Andy White Song for Marion Woyzeck

7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Alan Bissett Epic The Lost Present... A Christmas Adventure The Mice Who Ate Christmas I’m So Excited Open Mic Night

7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

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Welcome to the Arts Centre The autumn season promises to be even more exciting than the last with a programme bursting with activities for all our visitors. During the cooler months of autumn and winter, the Arts Centre offers an enriching experience with all manner of Performance, Film and Art Exhibitions.

The Red Bar bistro offers food and drink throughout the evening. As a heads–up you may want to make a note of two shows that will definitely sell out – Translunar Paradise, making a welcome return, and stand-up comedy from Justin Moorhouse. Book your tickets early to avoid disappointment.

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Stand-up Comedy

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Monday 23rd September 8.00pm

Tickets £7 / £4 concessions / £2 Edge Hill University students Free for Edge Hill University Freshers

Headliner: Duncan Oakley A world travelled comedian, musician, actor, oneman band, with musical skills that would easily fit into many rock bands. An eye and ear for the silly, rude, playful and downright irritating occurrences of life, Duncan musters up songs that don't just make you laugh, they burrow into the recesses of your mind and find you humming a tune with a smile on your face three days later, confused and wondering where it’s come from.

Support: Dave Williams, Meir Frank Compere: Lewis Charlesworth

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Performances

Thursday 26th September 7.30pm Michelle Man and Friends present:

lightouch

Tickets: £6 / £4 concessions / £2 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more Free for Edge Hill University Freshers This performance will take place in the Studio Theatre

... dancing bodies intertwining through light ... blurring and merging ... touching on the deep folds of their shadow ... the vibrancy of this dance lingers ... leaving traces ... dissolving where you begin and I gaze ... my eyes touching on you...

After more than two decades of parallel lives in dance l i g h t o u c h brings together, for the first time, performers James Hewison and Michelle Man in a duet crafted through a textural response to light. l i g h t o u c h - promises to be a sensuous experience.

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12° North Dance Company & Guests, Emma Lansley and dancers

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Monday 30th September 7.30pm

Tickets £9 / £7 concessions / £4 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

12° North, the fresh and dynamic North West Graduate Dance Company, premieres a new work by award winning choreographer, James Wilton. His dance is daring, physical, accessible and infectious with energy. Emma Lansley presents her trio Talking to Mia and Butch, a quirky piece with a light twist, focussing on the complex lives of three socially awkward individuals. Edge FWD, the male dance company from Edge Hill, perform Vida (life) choreographed by Stuart Waters (Motion House) which delves into the hopes, fears and dreams of 10 young men at the start of their journey into manhood.

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Performances

Wednesday 2nd October 7.30pm The John Godber Company and Theatre Royal Wakefield present:

Teechers by John Godber

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

A biting, witty modern comedy Teechers puts the education system under a microscope and examines the themes and issues that are still relevant today.

Gail, Hobby and Salty, three fifth form students tell the hilarious story of an idealistic new teacher in his perilous first days inside a local comprehensive school through their end of term play.

The cast members transform into a vast array of other characters including teachers, dinner ladies, students, an obstructive caretaker and of course, the school bully.

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Mary Pearson presents:

Failure (and other opportunities for non-linear success) Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

Mary Pearson is wrestling with FAILURE Fashion victim, aspiring pop diva, and chronic underachiever is consumed by delusional fantasies of commercial success. Watch with amusement, outrage, empathy, embarrassment and relief as pedestal becomes soapbox and FAILURE turns into freedom.

A new solo performance bringing together visual absurdity with contemporary dance, comedy and social commentary.

"If you can imagine a live, feminist version of a Tarantino movie – simultaneously grotesque, exciting and uncomfortable" Broadway Baby

Saturday 5th October 11.00am, 12.30pm, 2.00pm, 3.30pm

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Thursday 3rd October 7.30pm

Mimika Theatre Company present:

Landscapes Tickets £5 / £18 family ticket (3 children and 1 adult or 2 children and 2 adults)

The sun rises over a buzzing desert, a chick hatches. The eagle leaves the nest in search of food.

Below, the Meerkats are alert. The Journey begins...

Performed inside a white canvas dome this unique and intimate show takes children on a journey to four lovingly realised landscapes from desert to rainforest, from beneath the sea to Antarctica.

Suitable for 4 – 11 year olds and their families Limited Capacity

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Performances

Wednesday 9th October 8.00pm

Maddy Prior in concert with Giles Lewin and Hannah James Tickets £15 / £14 concessions / £5 Edge Hill students

A true legend of British music, Maddy Prior’s latest album 3 For Joy is an exploration of the tradition that she loves. Together with musical partners Giles Lewin (Carnival Band) and accordion player Hannah James, Maddy returns to perform the music of England, the British Isles and Eastern Europe, all delivered in her own unique style.

Thursday 10th October 7.30pm Badapple Theatre On Your Doorstep present:

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

Eddie inherited the family milk round from his father, and has fulfilled his deathbed promise to never miss a delivery for the good people of the village. But suddenly things are on the up! His songs are heading up the charts and if he can get there by tonight he’ll be on Top of The Pops…

Eddie is heading for the high life, with the fabulous Gold Tops behind him! ‘catchy songs....extremely funny!’ The Stage

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Boo Hewerdine

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Saturday 12th October 8.00pm

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

Boo Hewerdine is widely regarded as a song writing legend, an artist with a musical CV of international collaborations and hit songs that stretch over two decades. In the 80s and 90s he fronted cult group The Bible (Honey Be Good, Graceland) and then went on to write and work with a wide range of artists including Eddi Reader, KD Lang, Natalie Imbruglia, and The Corrs. Boo's solo live shows are a mix of fantastic music, great stories and beautiful lyrics.

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Performances

Monday 14th October 7.30pm Ad Infinitum Theatre Company present:

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

Translunar Paradise takes you on a journey of life, death, and enduring love. After his wife passes away, William escapes to a paradise of fantasy and past memories, far from the reality of his grief.

Returning from beyond the grave, Rose revisits her widowed companion to perform one last act of love: to help him let go.

Using a live accordion accompaniment, this exquisite piece of mask and movement theatre was a multiaward winning, critically acclaimed sellout at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011 and 2012.

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The Creative Writing Department at Edge Hill University presents:

Sculpted Tickets £4.50 all

How is a region created and defined? How does it shape us and how do we, in turn, shape a region?

Sculpted is a definitive, ground-breaking anthology of poems by 62 of the North West’s best contemporary poets. As diverse as the area that inspired them, the poems dig beneath the skin of the region: its towns and cities, countryside, industries, history, geology, and above all, its people.

‘The poems are gritty, witty, wise, anarchic and tender when needed’. Mike Harding

Wednesday 16th October 7.30pm

Open Mic Night

In the Arts Centre Red Bar

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Tuesday 15th October 7.30pm

Free admission

It’s Open Mic time again!

Come along and see what it’s all about. And if you would like to join in and perform, sing a song, play an instrument, tell us some jokes, you are more than welcome. Just register your interest with Celia or Gemma in the Box Office.

With regular MC, Codie Austin, from Vibe Radio at Edge Hill University.

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Photo: David Severn

Performances

Thursday 17th October 7.30pm Retina Dance Company present:

Corporalis

Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more This performance will take place in the Studio Theatre

Corporalis explores the relationship between personal space, architectural space and threedimensional space; the exchange between the inside and the outside; the awareness of our body and its relationship to the environment.

Retina has worked with Belgian architectural collective Ruimtevaarders to create an environment for one, two and four dancers. Colour, texture and sound builds a world that both contains Retina’s trademark physicality while constantly evolving, creating a ‘performance meets installation’ experience for the audience.

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Justin Moorhouse: Justin Time - Extended UK tour due to popular demand

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Friday 18th October 8.00pm

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

Why should you come and see my show?

Well firstly because it’ll be funny, and to be honest that’s the only reason. I’m not going to pretend my comedy can change the world. I'm not promising nudity or fire breathing. That can be arranged on request though. It'll just be me telling you stories and jokes to make you laugh.

You might have seen me doing stand-up on your TV, it'll be a lot like that, but more of it and in 3D. “Easily my favourite comedian” Jimmy Carr

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Performances

Saturday 19th October 7.00pm

Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir

Admission is free, with voluntary donations welcome, but please ensure you book a ticket in advance.

An evocative mix of traditional Ugandan song and dance, with high octane music, dance and drumming containing infectious rhythms, enthusiastic vocals and dynamic dramatisation.

These orphaned or destitute children are ambassadors for hundreds of similar children back home in Uganda. They visit the UK to raise awareness and the desperately needed funds to help sustain and improve the standard of education, healthcare and living standards in their schools.

Monday 21st October 7.30pm Little Soldier Productions present:

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

Two elderly Spanish sisters live against the backdrop of a battered rug and a mountain of mysterious boxes. They share the intimacy of a life lived together. The pair shift between hilarious defamation, tender reminiscing and pure madness.

But amidst an ever-changing reality, is this behaviour just eccentricity or something more destructive?

You and Me is a touching story with sparkling dialogue and witty observations, that explores old age with humour, imagination and tenderness.

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La Petite Mort present:

No Big Deal

A double bill of work created by Ellen Turner and George Adams

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

Solitaire - George Adams Emcee to his own vaudeville style show, Adams struts about the stage quaffing alcohol, mocking modern culture whilst throwing in the occasional jab to the dance world.

Car Door Moment - Ellen Turner Ever suddenly have the urge to jump off a train platform? To hit at a random stranger? Or open a car door on the motorway? A mischievous “tongue in cheek” physical dance work that celebrates our most instinctive and impulsive reactions to life.

Friday 25th October 7.30pm

Haunted and Haunting: A Night of Ghost Stories

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Thursday 24th October 7.30pm

Tickets £4.00 all

“I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.”

M.R. James, ‘Count Magnus’, from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 1904.

Gather around for a night of terrifying tales and creepy chronicles read by staff and students of Edge Hill University. Each story has been written or chosen by students and staff, selected especially to help you prepare for Halloween!

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Performances

Saturday 26th October 2.30pm Compagnie Animotion present:

The War of the Buttons Tickets £5 / £18 family ticket (3 children and 1 adult or 2 children and 2 adults)

Welcome to a tale of squabbles, scuffles... and buttons!

George grows grapes. Bessie grows cabbages. One loves the sun. One loves the rain. A petty squabble grows and grows into... the war of the buttons!

In a silly and wonderful tale, buttons and friendships are lost and won, games are played, and audiences young and old can rediscover their inner child!

Suitable for 3 – 11 year olds and their families

Wednesday 30th October 7.30pm Joss Arnott Dance presents:

A Double bill Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more Image: Francois Verbeek & Sammi Fang

Be mesmerised by a cast of alpha females.

Choreographed to perfection, taking inspiration from Classical Ballet, Commercial Dance, Pop Culture, Fashion and Film.

Record of Events (mentored by Jasmin Vardimon) Exploring a darker side to femininity, this hypnotising dance, combines Joss's trademark athletic choreography with theatrical flair.

Threshold Dancers invade each other’s territory in this exploration of the human body. Follow vigorous dashes across the stage and a relay of connections and disconnections, as performers contort themselves

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Stand-up Comedy

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

Headliner: Steve Harris A finalist of the BBC new comedy awards and Channel 4’s So you think you’re funny, Steve went on to headline all of the top comedy clubs in the UK and venues in Hong Kong and Australia. With support slots with Johnny Vegas, Peter Kay and Lee Evans, Steve comes highly recommended from the heavy weights of comedy themselves.

Guaranteed to have you breathless with laughter, you’ll be hit so hard by a punch line you won’t know where it’s come from.

Support: Mary Unfaithful, Chris Washington Compere: Sam Avery

Thursday 7th November 7.30pm

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Thursday 31st October 8.00pm

CM Poductions and Troop Theatre Company present:

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

Punctuated by thrilling stage combat, Troop's performance strips bare the text and takes you to the heart of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy.

The production initially toured in 2012, winning praise and critical acclaim across the North West.

Directed by the twice M.E.N. Theatre Award winning Wyllie Longmore and with puppetry devised in collaboration with Thingumajig Theatre; this 90 minute, one act production, is a gripping journey to the darkest reaches of the human psyche.

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Performances

Edge Hill University Third Year Performing Arts Students present:

Gods and Monsters: A Season of Performance

Monday 11th November & Tuesday 12th November 7.30pm

Wednesday 13th November & Thursday 14th November 7.30pm

Devices and Desires

This Party and Flight

A collaboration between 3rd year students from across the Department of Performing Arts, this immersive environmental piece will incorporate striking physical choreography with live performance and video mash-ups.

Don’t forget your overcoats.

A site-specific performance: location to be announced.

Tuesday 12th November & Wednesday 13th November 7.30pm

A Mouthful of Birds

by Caryl Churchill and David Lan

What if Dionysus descended on a modern housing estate? Euripides' The Bacchae, Ancient Greece’s most darkly anarchic and sexually disturbing play, is re-invented as a contemporary drama of startling intensity combining drama and dance.

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This performance will take place in the Rose Theatre.

In collaboration with Levantes Dance Theatre

Levantes' witty, warm and award-winning performances inspire two dance theatre productions. This Party: a fantastical and rather indulgent celebration of the absurd and the familiar. Flight: combines tricking, parkour and contemporary floorwork as dancers face their fears playing with impact and flight.

Both performances will take place in the Studio Theatre.

Friday 15th November 7.30pm & Saturday 16th November 2.30pm

Friday 15th November & Saturday 16th November 7.30pm

Into the Woods

Tales From The Night Circus

Complicated lives, modern dilemmas: but in fairy-tale form.

Dark clown, puppetry and the personal combine in this visual theatre performance which takes us to another place. This is life…but not as we know it.

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by James Lapine

Contemporary Music Theatre’s most exciting and innovative artist offers us an adventure of “deep political purpose and non-stop pleasure” Time Magazine.

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

All Tickets £8/£4.50 concessions Book more than one show at the same time and receive £1 off for each show booked

This performance will take place in the Studio Theatre.

Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine.

Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick. This amateur production is presented by arrangement with JOSEF WEINBERGER LIMITED on behalf of MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL of New York.

This performance will take place in the Rose Theatre.

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Performances

Monday 18th November 7.30pm Levantes Dance Theatre presents:

Two Peas Without a Pod Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

Levantes Dance Theatre’s performances have attracted attention and affection from audiences. Their bold, imaginative choreography has won them a number of awards.

In Two Peas Without a Pod, they look at our human partnerships. Our journey through life is often a peculiar duet – who do we take on that journey with us, how does the partnership work and why do we need it?

Mixing the absurd and the familiar with set and flamboyant costume to take you on a fantastical and indulgent trip.

Tuesday 19th November 7.30pm The Creative Writing Department at Edge Hill University presents:

Allen Fisher Tickets £4.50 all

Most writers only achieve one major project in their lives. Allen Fisher has at least two: Place, written in the 1970s, and Gravity, finished in 2005. He has many other experimental, conceptual and innovative works, and he is artist and theorist. He will be celebrating the publication of A Portable Allen Fisher, a collection of his various works.

Plus, Robert Sheppard will be launching his new book, A Translated Man, a volume of poems supposedly by a Belgian bi-lingual writer.

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Artizani/Avanti Display present:

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

In this new show, two seasoned entertainers reflect on life on the road, with feats of impossibility and tales of the night it all started to go wrong.

Six Impossible Things plays with fact and fiction, magic and science but things are never quite what they seem. Physical comedy, conjuring, music and film animation tell of lives lived delivering the impossible. If you’ve seen them before you know what to expect: if not come and see six impossible things and one you’ll rather wish you hadn’t!

Thursday 21st November 7.30pm

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Wednesday 20th November 7.30pm

Open Mic Night

In the Arts Centre Red Bar

Free admission

Do you have a talent that you would like to share with us? Can you sing, dance, play an instrument, make us laugh? Whatever your skill the audience is always friendly and supportive and you are sure to have a good time.

With regular MC, Codie Austin, from Vibe Radio at Edge Hill University.

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

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Performances

Saturday 23rd November 8.00pm

The Urban Folk Quartet

Tickets £11 / £9 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students

Four highly accomplished musicians, a dozen instruments and four voices coming together to craft a knockout show of globally influenced, electrifying acoustic music that has been taking the international folk scene by storm.

UFQ will be launching their new album, recorded earlier in the year, on the first leg of their European tour which took their heady brew of infectious cutting edge folk to audiences across Italy, Switzerland, France and the UK.

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Stand-up Comedy

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Wednesday 27th November 8.00pm

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

Headliner: Andy White Andy is a Brummie who escaped from a call centre to become a stand-up comic. He combines silly voices and a mad afro to devastating comic effect.

Andy's humour embraces silly voices, funny faces, observational humour, topical humour and his mixed race background. His performance can shift from deadpan to loud and physical. Andy has played to a wide variety of audiences, both at home and abroad.

Support: Mickey Sharma, Steve Bugeja Compere: Rob Coleman

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Performances

Thursday 28th November 7.30pm Scene Productions present:

Woyzeck

A brand new adaptation based on the play by Georg Buchner Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

Set amidst the backdrop of WW1, Woyzeck depicts a lowly soldier plagued by visions of the apocalypse, and plunged into homicidal lunacy by the world around him.

The agonising effects of war trauma and the devastation of the downtrodden man still resonate 200 years after the play was written. As we approach the centenary of WW1, this production takes the audience into a world that is disturbingly atmospheric, darkly comic and heartbreakingly poignant.

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The Creative Writing Department at Edge Hill University presents:

Alan Bissett Tickets £4.50 all

Alan Bissett has written four widely acclaimed novels, he's won several prizes for his fiction and also his drama, having written half a dozen plays, some of which he performs as a one man show. The Red Hourglass was recently performed at The Royal Exchange in Manchester.

Sunday 8th December 2.30pm Topsy Turvy Theatre present::

The Lost Present... a Christmas Adventure

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

Wednesday 4th December 7.30pm

Tickets £5 / £18 family ticket (3 children and 1 adult or 2 children and 2 adults)

It’s Christmas Eve, and having tumbled to earth through the night sky, Elva sets out on a journey to find her best friend – a little girl she hasn’t even met yet. Has the lost present got what it takes to find her way through the cold winter night? Will she arrive in time for Christmas morning? Will Elva be everything the little girl wished for? Brought to life using handmade puppets, original music and delightful storytelling, Suitable for 3 – 7 year olds and their families

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Performances

Wednesday 11th December 7.30pm Badapple Theatre Company presents:

The Mice Who Ate Christmas

An original comedy by Kate Bramley with music by Jez Lowe Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

Edna and Wilbur, two hungry village mice are having trouble getting into the Christmas spirit. Seduced by an advert at the bus-stop for ‘Switzerland: Land of Cheese’ they set sail for the country where the streets are paved with cheese, where the rivers run brimful of chocolate and the mountains are made of Toblerone.

Sheltering in a village church, they eat through the church organ bellows by mistake, forcing a poor young curate to present his Christmas song on the guitar.

A show for adults but also suitable for everyone aged 8 years plus Thursday 12th December 7.30pm

Open Mic Night In the Arts Centre Red Bar

Free admission

Your last opportunity, for 2013, to take centre stage and perform for your friends in the Arts Centre Red Bar. Do you have a hidden talent? We don’t mind what it is providing it’s entertaining. The audience is always kind and supportive and you will have a great time.

With regular MC, Codie Austin, from Vibe Radio at Edge Hill University.

See Celia or Gemma in the Box Office to book your slot.

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At a Glance Monday 23rd September Fast and Furious 6 Wednesday 25th September Star Trek Into Darkness Wednesday 2nd October Hitchcock Wednesday 9th October Iron Man 3 Wednesday 16th October Trance

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 (except where listed).

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

Wednesday 23rd October The Place Beyond the Pines

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

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Wednesday 30th October Evil Dead Wednesday 6th November The Paperboy Wednesday 20th November Stoker Wednesday 27th November Song for Marion Wednesday 4th December Epic Wednesday 11th December I’m So Excited

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Flim Monday 23rd September *5.30pm

Wednesday 25th September 7.30pm

Wednesday 2nd October 7.30pm

Fast and Furious 6

Star Trek Into Darkness

Hitchcock

Dir: Justin Lin, 2013

Cert: 12A Running time: 130 mins

Hobbs has Dom and Brian reassemble their crew in order to take down a mastermind who commands an organisation of mercenary drivers across 12 countries.

Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.

Free for Edge Hill University Freshers

Dir: J.J. Abrams, 2013

Cert: 12A Running time: 132mins

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organisation has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction.

Free for Edge Hill University Freshers. Pre-film prize quiz in the Arts Centre Red Bar – 6.30pm start

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Dir: Sacha Gervasi, 2012 Cert: 12A Running time: 98 mins

Hitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville. The film takes place during the making of Psycho, a controversial horror film that became one of the most acclaimed and influential works in the filmmaker's career.

Wednesday 16th October 7.30pm

Wednesday 23rd October 7.30pm

Iron Man 3

Trance

The Place Beyond the Pines

Cert: PG Running time: 130mins

Cert: 15 Running time: 101mins

Iron Man 3 pits brash, but brilliant, industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle.

Simon, a fine art auctioneer, teams up with a criminal gang to steal a Goya painting worth millions of dollars, but after suffering a blow to the head during the heist he awakens to discover he has no memory of where he hid the painting.

Dir: Shane Black, 2013

Dir: Danny Boyle, 2013

Dir: Derek Cianfrance, 2012 Cert: 15 Running time: 140mins

A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their new-born child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective.

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Wednesday 9th October 7.30pm

Free for everyone

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Flim Wednesday 30th October 7.30pm

Wednesday 6th November 7.30pm

Wednesday 20th November 7.30pm

Evil Dead

The Paperboy

Stoker

Cert: 18 Running time: 91mins

Cert: 15 Running time: 107mins

Cert: 18 Running time: 99mins

Five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods. The evil presence possesses them until only one is left to fight for survival.

An idealistic reporter and his brother, investigate the events surrounding a murder in an effort to exonerate a man on death row, Hillary van Wetter has been jailed for the murder of an unscrupulous local sheriff, who had previously stomped van Wetter's handcuffed cousin to death. Van Wetter is now on death row and awaiting execution.

After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.

Dir: Fede Alvarez, 2013

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

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Dir: Lee Daniels, 2012

Dir: Chan-wook Park, 2013

Wednesday 4th December 7.30pm

Wednesday 11th December 7.30pm

Song for Marion

Epic

I’m So Excited

Cert: PG Running time: 93mins

Cert: U Running time: 102 mins

Cert: 15 Running time: 90mins

Arthur is the grumpy husband of Marion who is terminally ill yet continues to participate with enthusiasm at her local seniors' choir. As Marion’s health deteriorates, Arthur is keen to please his dying wife and even agrees to take her place in the choir. Arthur's experience in this new social environment will take him on a journey of self-discovery and thaw his bitterness.

Epic tells the story of an on-going battle, deep in the forest, between the forces of good, who keep the natural world alive, and the forces of evil who wish to destroy it.

When a teenage girl finds herself magically transported into this secret universe, she must band together with a rag-tag team of fun and whimsical characters in order to save their world... and ours.

When it appears as though the end is in sight, the pilots, flight crew, and passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment and face the greatest danger, which we carry within ourselves.

Dir: Paul Andrew Williams, 2012

Dir: Chris Wedge, 2013

Dir: Pedro Almodóvar, 2013

All films are screened in the The Studio Theatre at 7.30pm (except where listed).

Tickets are priced as follows, unless indicated: £3.50 / £3.00 concessions / £2.00 Edge Hill University students

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Wednesday 27th November 7.30pm

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Exhibitions

23rd September – 6th December 2013

Installation Robyn Woolston FREE

Robyn Woolston, a Liverpool Art Prize winner, will create a temporary artwork that will explore the interior architecture and the exterior landscape of the University grounds. Robyn is an artist and filmmaker who works in a site responsive way, often using waste materials to question environmental concerns and human behaviours. Her previous materials have included 132,000 pieces of plastic cutlery, an ash tree and 45,000 plastic bags. For Edge Hill University she has embarked upon a series of workshops to garner greater insights into the history of the institution and its architectural fabric.

Image: Field of Dreams, 2011

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80 Years at Ormskirk: The University Archives Mark Flinn FREE

80 years ago, on October 2nd, a purpose-built college campus was opened in Ormskirk on a flat, treeless field. In the following decades the campus and the institution have grown and evolved to become an outstanding University. Material from our extensive archives will give a unique insight into the lives and times of Edge Hill, its staff, friends and students, from the 1930s to the present day.

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

2nd October – 18th October 2013

*On Saturday 12th October a Community Open Day will be running from 3pm, including talks and tours of the grounds.

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Exhibitions

14th October – 31st October 2013

Dying Swans and Dragged Up Dames A photographic exhibition of the ageing dancer Mark Edward and Helen Newall FREE

Dying Swans is an irreverent and fun series of 20 black and white and colour photographic images parodying performance photography of iconic male and female dancers, played by Mark Edward and photographed and Photoshopped by Helen Newall. The images are accompanied by visually presented information detailing the background to the images.

These are tragi-comedy images. The tragedy lies in knowing that the dancers we watch will eventually become too past it to dance, the comedy from the bombastic contrast between athletic dance bodies and aged, overweight ones attempting and achieving (thank you Photoshop!) the same balletic feats.

This exhibition fondly foregrounds cultural obsessions with youth and Photoshop, and the erasure of age in both live performance – ballet, drag or otherwise – and the digital dark room, where ability and beauty can be airbrushed and ‘improved’. These are images of old drag ballet queens, flamboyant in the performance of being clapped out and over the hill but still dancing.

Highlights include: Angina Pavlova’s Dying Swan; the gravity defying leaps of Rudolf Neuroyev; and Marko Fonteyn’s The Fired Bird.

This project has been funded by Edge Hill University.

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The Unforgotten Coat Photography exhibition Carl Hunter and Clare Heney FREE

The Unforgotten Coat is an award-winning children's book created by Frank Cottrell Boyce, Carl Hunter and Clare Heney. "Two refugee brothers from Mongolia are determined to fit in with their Liverpool schoolmates, but bring so much of Mongolia to Bootle that their new friend and guide, Julie, is hard-pressed to know truth from fantasy as she recollects a wonderful friendship." The exhibition features the 'stunning and atmospheric' photography from the book, transforming Liverpool into a version of Mongolia through the medium of Polaroids. We hope to organise a Q&A with author Frank Cottrell Boyce – check our website for details.

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

4th November – 29th November 2013

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Exhibitions

18th November – 13th December 2013

The Big Society Photography exhibition Si Barber FREE

A provocative and unflinching view of contemporary Britain, The Big Society is documentary photographer Si Barber’s riposte to the Conservative government’s controversial flagship policy of the same name that aimed to ‘take power away from politicians and give it to people’. As the government seems to have quietly retired – or at least moved away from overtly using – the term, Si’s investigation has continued, resulting in an extensive (and ongoing) account of a Britain still struggling to come to terms with the effects of the financial crisis.

At once confrontational, compassionate, witty and warm, Si’s photographs not only capture the everyday realities of the ravages of economic decline, but also depict a very British resilience in the face of struggle and hardship.

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Here, again Photography exhibition Angelina Ayers, Andrew Conroy and Thomas Mann FREE

Text and image come together in this collaboration between Angelina Ayers, Andrew Conroy and Thomas Mann. Featuring five poems that were written in response to a series of black and white minimalist photographs, Here, again plays with the relationship between visual art and text, how one might inform the other. The photographs, text and their presentation combine to create a sequence of fragments, a partial narrative glimpsed from the corner of the eye.

Box Office 01695 584480 edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre

18th November – 13th December 2013

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Working with Schools and Young People Schools Programme There are opportunities for school parties to explore areas of study with a series of plays and films held throughout October and November.

These are: lightouch 12 North Dance Company and guests, Emma Lansley and Edge FWD Teechers by John Godber Failure Eddie and the Gold Tops Translunar Paradise Corporalis You and Me No Big Deal A Double Bill Macbeth Gods and Monsters: A Season of Performance Two Peas Without a Pod Six Impossible Things Woyzeck The Mice Who Ate Christmas

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

Open to all. Tickets for school parties of 10 or more £5 – please contact the Box Office for information of the full school programme.

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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 for FREE Arts award accreditation for over 12’s

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RoseYouthTheatre

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 14th September – 14th December Age 12 – 25 years: Wednesdays 11th September – 11th December Fees: 13 sessions at £5 per session, which can be paid in two instalments of £35 and £30 Call 01695 584480 for further information or to make a booking.

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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 – 7.00pm 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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What did you think of our shows? We really want to know!

Any students who are looking to document how art can break down social and cultural barriers, or how live arts theatre can cut through layers of mundane reality to expose the tender essence of being alive, how the power of dance has inspired you or if you just want to tell us what you laughed at, and why – we’d like to hear from you.

Whether it’s theatre, dance, musicals, art, films or music – your opinions count and you can help shape future shows in The Arts Centre.

So, come along and bring a metaphorical pen and paper, and unleash your deepest thoughts and ideas about life, the universe and everything. Preferably in about 200 words.

We will print the best reviews on our Tumblr site and in our magazine for prospective students, Degree.

Send your reviews to: degree@edgehill.ac.uk

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

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

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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 lined to a PA system for the hearing impaired.

Guide dogs are welcome in the Centre.

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How to find us

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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) 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 Ormskirk County Information Centre, Ormskirk Bus Station, Moor Street: 01695 579062

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