Arts Centre Brochure A/W 2015

Thursday 22nd October 2015

I Loved you and I Loved You

Autumn/Winter 2015

At a Glance Date

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The Beaux’ Stratagem The Battle Of Britain At 75 Coriolanus Beauty of WuShu & Dance, China Kaleidoscope Stand-up Comedy: Karen Bayley Fast & Furious 7

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The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha A Translation of Shadows Ex-Machina John Spiers The Canterbury Tales Testament of Youth Hamlet Tales of the Tides Nosferatu Henry V Open Mic Night I Loved You and I Loved You Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir Stand-up Comedy: Steve Shanyaski What We Do in the Shadows Manpower Little Frankenstein

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Dark Horse The Sand Dog Cometh This is Not a Cartoon: Programme 3 Holly Pester The Urban Folk Quartet Open Mic Night Waiting for Godot Set Fire to the Stars Tessa Hadley The Picture of Doreen Gray Beauty Of The Beast

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7.30pm 8.00pm

Far From the Madding Crowd Justin Moorhouse: Destiny Calling

7.30pm 7.30pm 1.30pm & 4.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm

Open Mic Night Woman in Gold Sorry, Christmas is Cancelled‌Katie Saves the Day!

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A Christmas Carol Wild 13 Objects The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 13 Objects e-p-i-c: Survival e-p-i-c: Survival Dance Theatre: Double Bill Dance Theatre: Double Bill Urinetown: The Musical Urinetown: The Musical

Performances Films Live Theatre Screenings

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Capital University of Physical Education and Sports Art Troupe presents:

2015 Confucius Institute Performance Tour

Admission is free, but please ensure you book a ticket at the Box Office in advance.

Immerse yourself into traditional ancient Chinese culture and history expressed through movement and dance. Allow the professional art troupe, all the way from China, to lead you through Chinese historical events through the avenue of dance.

Tuesday 29th September 8.00pm

Stand-up Comedy

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This performance combines the unique charm of graceful ancient Chinese dance with the unique skill of Martial Arts, whilst incorporating weapons such as swords, long sleeve, traditional Chinese boxing, the fan and heart stopping aerobatic manoeuvres.

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Beauty of WuShu and Dance, China Kaleidoscope

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Tuesday 29th September 5.00pm

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

Headliner: Karen Bayley Karen was the first ever female winner of the prestigious Comedy Store King Gong award when launching onto the UK comedy circuit in 2003.

Karen has quickly picked up a whole host of rave reviews, comedy awards, and references from her peers. Her material surprises with inspired and sparkling punchlines, and comic timing that is rarely less than brilliant. She has appeared on The Last Word, Take The Mike, Sex on the Job, The Fred MacAulay Show and is a regular on Radio 5 Live.

Support: Mike Newall, Tom Little Compere: Fran Garrity

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Performances

Thursday 1st October 7.30pm Little Soldier Productions present:

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha Tickets £10 / £8 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

Inspired by Don Quixote’s wanderings, two feisty señoritas and a downtrodden Englishman embark on a journey through Spain taking on one of the most accomplished works of fiction ever written.

Accompanied only by an otherworldly virtuoso guitarist whose presence there makes no sense whatsoever, they will lead you to joy, pain and ultimate wisdom.

Little Soldier presents a hilariously inventive adventure of immense proportions, to be taken with a pinch of salt and a handlebar moustache.

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Stan's Cafe presents a Warwick Arts Centre Commission:

A Translation of Shadows

Have you ever fallen in love with someone in a film?

In Japan, in the era of the silent movie, audiences benefited from a live narrator, the Benshi, who explained what was happening on the screen. The Benshi were the stars of the show, until 'the talkies' killed them off, never to be seen again...

Thursday 8th October 8.00pm

John Spiers

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Globally acclaimed Stan's Cafe have shot a silent film with Japanese actors in and around Tokyo. The Benshi will prove that theatre is more powerful than film and that you should never fall in love with a movie star.

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

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Tuesday 6th October 7.30pm

Tickets £12 / £10 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students

John Spiers is a melodeon and concertina player and also a composer with a passion for traditional music. As part of a duo with Jon Boden they saw their popularity rise from folk clubs to festival crowdpleasers. This partnership was eventually expanded for a project that became known as Bellowhead. Up until 2014, Spiers and Boden also continued to tour successfully and have produced 6 studio albums.

Mixing infectious dance tunes with incredibly sensitive and moving slow airs, John’s solo shows are a mixture of traditional material and his own compositions, interspersed with humorous and informative banter.

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Performances

Tuesday 13th October 7.30pm Impulse Collective Theatre Company present:

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

A contemporary take on a 14th century classic, join the five performers as they deliver their own anarchic twist on stories such as The Miller’s Tale, The Knight’s Tale, The Wife of Bath and many more.

The Canterbury Tales switch seamlessly between moments of laugh-out-loud silliness and serious questions about the extent to which society has really moved on since the time of Chaucer’s writing.

Impulse Collective have adapted the text to suit a modern audience, but fans of Chaucer’s writing will find much to love in a whistle-stop tour through the stories.

Thursday 15th October 7.30pm Ori Dance present:

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

Tales of the Tides transports the audience to the streets of Brazil, where music and dance spring up unannounced among the close communities gathered together to share a drink and the latest gossip. Settle down with a cocktail as Tales of the Tides brings the myths and stories of the Brazilian seas alive through capoeira, dance and music. Explosive physicality, enchanting live music and captivating stories will immerse you in the world within the waves; the kingdom of Iemanjá...

Supported by Arts Council England, Chester University, Cheshire Dance, Cheshire Rural Touring and Edge Hill University.

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Proper Job Theatre Company present:

Nosferatu

It's one hour before dawn. On the blood dark sea the ship is barely moving. There's a sail as torn as a shattered shirt. Something is aboard the ship…

Wednesday 21st October 7.30pm

Open Mic Night In the Arts Centre Red Bar

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With a mixture of breath-taking illusions and trickery, an original musical score and a libretto from the acclaimed poet Ian McMillan, this production, from award winning Proper Job Theatre, promises to live long in the memory. Nosferatu tells the dark and mysterious tale of the sailors in Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, as they journey from Varna to Whitby with an unknown cargo.

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

Box Office

Tuesday 20th October 7.30pm

Free admission

Open Mic is an opportunity for anyone to come along and show off whatever talent they may have.

Edge Hill University is bursting with talented students who can sing or dance, recite poetry, play an instrument or surprise us with a hidden talent we haven’t yet come across. Bring your friends along for support. Or just come along to be a part of the audience. A great night on campus, guaranteed.

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

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Performances

Thursday 22nd October 7.30pm Sweetshop Revolution present:

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

I loved you and I loved you is the true story of a young welsh composer called Morfydd Owen, who lived almost 100 years ago. In this piece, half way between a dance and a play, we tell her extraordinary story; from humble beginnings to her meteoric rise as composer and pianist; looking too at her relationship with the man she longed to love, and searching for answers to her mysterious death at the age of just twenty-six.

Featuring three incredible dancers, a pianist and an opera singer.

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Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir

The Internationally acclaimed Pearl of Africa Children's Choir return to our shores to complete another amazing UK Tour.

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.

Tuesday 27th October 8.00pm

Stand-up Comedy

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

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

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Saturday 24th October 7.00pm

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

Headliner: Steve Shanyaski In 2003, Steve stood up, unchained himself from his desk and walked out of a mind-numbing logistics job in order to pursue a career in comedy and he has never looked back.

Within months of his comedic birth he made it through to the semi-finals of the BBC New Comedian of the Year, the North West Comedian of the Year Final, and had the honour of appearing on the BBC7 Radio Showcase Spanking New. Support: Chris Purchase, Marvyn Dickinson Compere: Harriet Dyer

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Performances

Thursday 29th October 7.30pm Two Destination Language present:

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

A man working. A man playing. A man playing at being a man. A celebration of everyday maleness.

Total Theatre Award winners Two Destination Language have been thinking about men and power: Bruce, Clint, sheds and tea, heavy responsibility and mouth-watering barbecues. Prepare to laugh, wince and find yourself thinking of men you've known, loved, hated and wanted to be as Alister and Kat play with what it means to be a man.

Manpower is a show about aspirations and expectations, determination and discovery, vulnerability and sheer hard work.

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Lempen Puppet Theatre Company present:

Little Frankenstein

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Saturday 31st October 2.30pm

a gentle, little horror for little horrors!

Tickets ÂŁ5 / ÂŁ18 family ticket (Three children and one adult, or two children and two adults)

Frank Stein is busy rehearsing his new show George the Dragon Slayer but he's finding it really difficult because his badly made puppets keep falling apart! Taking inspiration from the scientist Dr Frankenstein, he creates a new real live puppet that is destined to change this life forever!

Creature George emerges from the workshop, but Frank is so intent on the planned rehearsal of his new show that he neglects to look after his new child.

Little Frankenstein will tickle the imagination of everyone from 5 to 105 years old.

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Performances

Tuesday 10th November 7.30pm Mary Pearson presents:

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

Inspired by 'high' and 'low' culture, the 70’s, unintelligible academic language, classic crooners, Rihanna, Scouse female fashions, dereliction and shopping centres, The Sand Dog Cometh offers: Virtuosity? Intellectual stimulation? Distraction?

Provocation? Catharsis?

"Entertainment wants to give you what you want. Art wants to give you what you don't know you want.”

David Cronenberg “I want to give you something that you don’t know that I didn’t know that you wanted. Without knowing you, I want to give you what I want you to want.”

Mary Pearson Wednesday 11th November 7.30pm The Creative Writing Department at Edge Hill University present:

Holly Pester

Tickets £4.50 all

Holly Pester is a poet, critic and practice-based researcher. Her doctoral research at Birkbeck, University of London examined the poetics of noise and sound media-driven poetry. Her current research seeks to develop innovative practice-led research methodologies in relation to feminist archive theory. Her book on gossip and anecdote as forms of archive enquiry was published by Book Works, 2015 and was developed through a residency at the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths College’s Special Collections with Arts Council England support. She currently teaches on Oulipo and the Avant-Garde and Poetic Practice at the University of Essex.

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The Urban Folk Quartet

Joe Broughton, Paloma Trigás, Tom Chapman and Dan Walsh are The Urban Folk Quartet. Since forming in 2009, their genre-defying, all-embracing approach to folk music has captivated audiences with high-energy performances across the world.

"Up there with the best of them - amazing musicians." - BBC Radio 2 Folk Show

Monday 16th November 7.30pm

Open Mic Night

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The Quartet’s approach to the folk ethos is to embrace any and every influence that genuinely makes sense of their time and place and makes sense in their music; from funk grooves to middleeastern melodies, afrobeat to north Indian rhythms.

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

Box Office

Thursday 12th November 8.00pm

In the Arts Centre Red Bar

Free admission

Open Mic is an opportunity for anyone to come along and show off whatever talent they may have.

Edge Hill University is bursting with talented students who can sing or dance, recite poetry, play an instrument or surprise us with a hidden talent we haven’t yet come across. Bring your friends along for support. Or just come along to be a part of the audience. A great night on campus, guaranteed.

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

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Performances

Tuesday 17th November 7.30pm London Classic Theatre present:

Waiting for Godot

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

Vladimir and Estragon meet as dusk approaches.

Estragon tries to remove his boot. Vladimir examines his hat. A conversation begins, a joke is interrupted.

A carrot is eaten. The two men quarrel, then embrace.

Unannounced, two eccentric travellers arrive.

Seemingly master and servant, one stands weighed down at the end of a long rope, the other carries a whip.

So begins Samuel Beckett’s 60-year-old masterpiece Waiting for Godot, a ground-breaking, anarchic meditation on the meaning of life and death. Part allegory, part burlesque, Beckett’s unique, timeless play moves seamlessly between absurdist comic sketch and captivating philosophical drama.

Wednesday 18th November 7.30pm The Creative Writing Department at Edge Hill University present:

Tessa Hadley Tickets £4.50 all

Widely praised for the wit and compassion of her writing, Tessa Hadley is the author of five novels, and two short story collections, including Accidents in the Home, Clever Girl and Married Love. Married Love was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize in 2012. Her stories appear regularly in the New Yorker and she has also been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Tessa Hadley is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University; her advice to fellow writers is “What you're writing should hurt and make you feel slightly anxious, and almost ashamed.”

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LipService Theatre and Oldham Coliseum present:

The Picture of Doreen Gray

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Thursday 19th November 7.30pm

by Maggie Fox & Sue Ryding Tickets £15 / £13 concessions / £5 Edge Hill University students and school parties of 10 or more

Be careful what you wish for! Celebrity presenter Doreen Gray has it all, a drive time radio show, a high ratings lifestyle programme on Even More 4, but hitting 50, Doreen finds her face no longer fits the bill. At a school reunion she stumbles across a youthful self-portrait and makes a dark and dreadful pact with the picture that will come back to haunt her.

Featuring film, fun and LipService's own unique blend of the surreal and downright silly!

“The Laurel and Hardy of literary deconstruction.”

The Independent

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Performances

Tuesday 24th November 7.30pm Company Chameleon present:

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

Choreographed by Anthony Missen, Beauty Of The Beast is a funny, moving and subversive look at male groups, peeling back the unwritten codes of camaraderie and compliance that glue the gang together.

With an all-male cast of six, Beauty Of The Beast showcases the Company’s highly physical style, combining dance, theatre and music to hold up a mirror to our times.

“The athleticism and gymnastic ability on display is exhilarating… I can't ever remember laughing so much during contemporary dance.”

What’s On Stage

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Justin Moorhouse presents:

Destiny Calling

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Thursday 26th November 8.00pm

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

Justin is back on the road with his brand new standup show for 2015, doing what he does best, making people laugh up and down the country.

Fresh from the 15 date Manchester Arena Phoenix Nights LIVE reunion in aid of Comic Relief (reprising his much loved role of Young Kenny), Justin is ready to hit the road and he’s heading for the Arts Centre.

“Comedic Tour-de-force…brought a tear to a critical eye.” The Herald

“Moorhouse charms the pants off the crowd.”

Sunday Times

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Performances

Tuesday 1st December 7.30pm

Open Mic Night In the Arts Centre Red Bar

Free admission

Open Mic is an opportunity for anyone to come along and show off whatever talent they may have. Edge Hill University is bursting with talented students who can sing or dance, recite poetry, play an instrument or surprise us with a hidden talent we haven’t yet come across. Bring your friends along for support.

Or just come along to be a part of the audience. A great night on campus, guaranteed.

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

Sunday 6th December 1.30pm & 4.30pm Topsy Turvy Theatre present:

Sorry, Christmas is Cancelled…

Katie Saves the Day! Tickets £5 / £18 family ticket (Three children and one adult, or two children and two adults)

Katie and all of the other children around the world have just received the news that every child fears…

Christmas is…CANCELLED! Thieves have broken into Father Christmas’ grotto and stolen all of the presents, and with only a few sleeps left until the big day, there is no time to make any more. All seems lost until Katie hitches a ride on a magical bird to The North Pole, determined to help Father Christmas save the day!

Suitable for children aged 2 years – 7 years and their families.

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Box Clever Theatre Company present:

A Christmas Carol

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Tuesday 8th December 7.30pm

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

A brand-new dynamic adaptation of Dickens’ atmospheric Ghost Story of Christmas is brought to life through Box Clever’s characteristic cocktail of textual accuracy, fun, lively action, music and busking carol singers, along with a smattering of audience participation.

Scrooge is brought to life squeezing, wrenching, grasping, hard and sharp as flint, as he is forced to make the journey through his past, present and future, until laughter and goodness finally replace the ice in his heart.

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Performances

Edge Hill University 3rd year Performing Arts students present:

Epic

Tickets £10 / £6 / £3.50 Edge Hill University students.

Buy two or more shows at the same time and get £1 off each.

Epic has evolved to mean many things: at its simplest it means telling a story about a hero.

But we also expect breadth, scope and a giant canvas; or we may recall Brecht’s demand for rational and critical reflection rather than mere emotional identification. Here is a season of work examining the possibilities of the Epic in the 21st Century.

Tuesday & Wednesday 15th & 16th December 7.30pm

13 Objects

By Howard Barker

In a linked series of short plays Barker movingly explores the investment we make in things. This is a history of humanity in thirteen objects. “Whether they are relics of the dead, symbols of sacrifice or pathetic items imbued with love, they carry immense significance and serve as a pretext by which the world is judged. We are enslaved by our hopes.” Howard Barker.

Suitable for 18 years and above.

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Wednesday & Thursday 16th & 17th December 7.30pm

e-p-i-c: Survival A devised work using physical and visual theatre languages to explore the stories that make us who we are now. Bold, filmic, fragmentary, emotional, thought-provoking: a cast drawn from across the degree programmes in the department offer a 21st century response to what it is to be human in the dimensions of an ever-changing world.

This will be a promenade performance with limited capacity

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Dance Theatre: Double Bill From Ballet to the German Tanztheater, dance can tell us stories too and offer us insight into the human condition. Poignant intimate, epic and all-embracing, this double bill of new works by choreographers Bettina Carpi, Michelle Man and June Gersten-Roberts brings young people’s lives into focus through a vibrant physical aesthetic. “Dance like no one’s watching…”

This performance will take place in the Studio Theatre.

Friday 18th 7.30pm & Saturday 19th December 2.30pm

Urinetown: The Musical Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann.

Book and lyrics by Greg Kotis

In a world where all toilets are controlled by a single malevolent corporation and it costs you an arm and a leg to spend a penny - this play for our times will have you wetting yourself. Winner of three Tony Awards, this 21st century Epic is a mischievous love letter to Brecht and his musical collaborators.

While playing fast and loose with the conventions of musical theatre, Urinetown still makes you think as it depicts a world wracked by ecological disaster and caught in the throes of corporate greed.

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Thursday & Friday 17th & 18th December 7.30pm

“A declaration of the power of theatre!” New York Observer “Fresh, unique, impudent, colourful, irreverent, exciting and wonderful!”

New York Times

“For this relief, much thanks.” ★★★★ Financial Times

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Live Theatre Screenings

Thursday 3rd September 7.00pm

Friday 18th September 7.30pm

Thursday 24th September 7.00pm

National Theatre Live presents:

Picturehouse Entertainment, the BBC and the Producers behind last year’s Award winning, D-Day 70 Years On present:

National Theatre Live, Encore presents:

The Battle of Britain at 75

William Shakespeare

The Beaux’ Stratagem George Farquhar Cert: As live 12A Running time: 180 mins Tickets £12 / £10 concessions

Cert: As live 12A TBC Running time: 150 mins

Coriolanus Cert: As live 12A TBC Running Time: TBC Tickets £12 / £10 concessions

Tickets £12 / £10 concessions

Simon Godwin (Man and Superman) directs George Farquhar’s wild comedy of love and cash.

The Beaux: Mr Aimwell and Mr Archer, two charming, dissolute young men who have blown their fortunes in giddy London. Shamed and debt-ridden, they flee to provincial Lichfield. Their Stratagem: to marry for money.

Lodged at the local inn, posing as master and servant, they encounter a teeming variety of human obstacles.

But their greatest obstacle is love. When the Beaux meet their match in Dorinda and Mrs Sullen they are most at risk, for in love they might be truly discovered.

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Retelling the story of the biggest aerial conflict of the Second World War, this two and a half hour cinema experience comes live from Biggin Hill in south-east London, the most famous of Britain’s fighter stations.

BBC Radio 2’s Dermot O’Leary, Jeremy Vine and Louise Minchin will be joined by the BBC Concert Orchestra and musicians from across the armed forces as they share rare and untold stories from the Battle. Unseen archive footage from the conflict, modern day RAF personnel, guest singers and a cast of actors will bring those stories to life as we remember the men and women who lost their lives 75 years ago.

National Theatre Live’s 2013 broadcast of the Donmar Warehouse’s production of Coriolanus returns to cinemas.

Shakespeare’s searing tragedy of political manipulation and revenge, Coriolanus features an Evening Standard Awardwinning performance from Tom Hiddleston.

When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too.

Famine threatens the city, the citizens’ hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people.

Box Office

Wednesday 21st October 7.00pm

National Theatre Live presents:

Royal Shakespeare Company Live presents:

Hamlet William Shakespeare

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Thursday 15th October 7:00pm

Henry V

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William Shakespeare Cert: As live 12A TBC Running Time: 240 mins Tickets £12 / £10 concessions

Cert: As live TBC Running Time: 210 mins Tickets £12 / £10 concessions

Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game, Frankenstein at the National Theatre) takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.

Directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica) and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, National Theatre Live will broadcast this eagerly awaited production live to cinemas.

As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart.

Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.

Henry IV is dead and Hal is King. With England in a state of unrest, he must leave his rebellious youth behind, striving to gain the respect of his nobility and people. Laying claim to parts of France and following an insult from the French Dauphin, Henry gathers his troops and prepares for a war that he hopes will unite his country.

Following his performance as Hal in Henry IV Parts I & II Alex Hassell returns as Henry V. Henry V will be broadcast Live from Stratford-uponAvon by the Royal Shakespeare Company in the same week as the anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt.

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theatrescreenings Please note there will be more Live Theatre Screenings added to the programme throughout the season. Ring the Box Office or check the website for updates.

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Film

Season Premiere Wednesday 30th September 7.30pm FREE Screening

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Wednesday 28th October What We Do in the Shadows Wednesday 4th November Dark Horse

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.

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

Wednesday 11th November International Animation Festival: This Is Not A Cartoon - Programme 3

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Wednesday 14th October Testament of Youth

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Wednesday 18th November Set Fire to the Stars Wednesday 25th November Far From the Madding Crowd Wednesday 2nd December Woman in Gold Wednesday 9th December Wild Wednesday 16th December The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel SHORT

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Film Wednesday 30th September 7.30pm

Wednesday 7th October 7.30pm

Wednesday 14th October 7.30pm

Fast & Furious 7

Ex-Machina

Testament of Youth

Dir: James Wan, 2015

Dir: Alex Garland, 2015

Dir: James Kent, 2014

Cert: 12A Running time: 137 mins

Cert: 15 Running time: 108 mins

Cert: 12A Running time: 129 mins

Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company's brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac).

Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test, charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan's latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated, and more deceptive, than the two men could have imagined.

In 1914, Vera Brittain (Alicia Vikander) overcomes the restraints on women of the time to become a student at Somerville College, Oxford.

When World War I breaks out, her brother Edward (Taron Egerton), her fiancĂŠ Roland Leighton (Kit Harington), and their friends Victor (Colin Morgan), and Geoffrey (Jonathan Bailey), are sent to serve at the front lines. Brittain follows their sacrifice, leaving college to join the Voluntary Aid Detachment as a nurse tending the wounded and dying in London, Malta and France.

Fast & Furious 7 is the seventh instalment in The Fast and the Furious franchise. Following Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) and the rest of their team, who have returned to the United States to live normal lives after securing amnesty for their past crimes in Fast & Furious 6 (2013), until Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), a rogue special forces assassin seeking to avenge his comatose younger brother, puts them in danger once again.

Free for everyone Free film prize quiz in the Red Bar at 6.30pm

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Box Office Wednesday 18th November 7.30pm

What We Do in the Shadows

Dark Horse

Set Fire to the Stars

Dir: Louise Osmond, 2015

Dir: Andy Goddard, 2014

Cert: PG Running time: 84 mins

Cert: 15 Running time: 97 mins

The incredible true story of Dream Alliance. An inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men's club who decide to take on the elite sport of kings and breed themselves a racehorse.

Dark Horse is a goodhumoured, no-frills story of a Welsh working-class community that clubbed together to invest in a thoroughbred, and ended up with the winner of the Welsh Grand National. The tale is also very political, revealing the snobbery directed not just at the owners but at the horse itself.

Dylan Thomas battles his demons in 1950s New York.

Celebrating Dylan Thomas' centenary, this intriguing semi-biographical drama, beautifully shot in black-andwhite, focusses on a week in the life of the great poet as he prepares for a series of performed readings in the US. Featuring stellar performances from co-writer Celyn Jones as Thomas and Elijah Wood as John Malcolm Brinnin.

Dir: Jermaine Clements & Taika Waititi, 2014 Cert: 15 Running time: 86 mins

The adventures of four vampire roommates trying to get by in a modern world that's not always hospitable to the undead. Clement and Waititi, co-star in this hilarious send-up in which an endearingly unhip quartet of friends reveal to us, the details of their daily (make that nightly) routine. Ranging in age from 183 to 8,000, they squabble over household chores, struggle to keep up with the latest trends in technology and fashion, antagonize the local werewolves, and deal with the rigors of living on a very, very strict diet.

Wirral based actor and screenwriter Celyn Jones will visit Short Cuts Cinema to talk about his highly regarded film. The audience will have the chance to ask him questions about the script and his stunning performance.

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Wednesday 4th November 7.30pm

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Wednesday 28th October 7.30pm

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Film Wednesday 25th November 7.30pm

Wednesday 2nd December 7.30pm

Wednesday 9th December 7.30pm

Far From the Madding Crowd

Woman in Gold

Wild

Dir: Simon Curtis, 2015

Dir: Jean-Marc Vallee, 2015

Cert: PG Running time: 109 mins

Cert: 15 Running time: 111 mins

The remarkable true story of one woman's journey to reclaim her heritage and seek justice for what happened to her family.

Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds), she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the United States Supreme Court.

With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behaviour, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, alone. Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddens, strengthens, and ultimately heals her.

Dir: Thomas Vinterburg, 2015 Cert: 12A Running time: 119 mins

Based on the literary classic

by Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan), who attracts three very different suitors.

This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love, as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.

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Free film prize quiz in the Red Bar at 6.30pm

Box Office 01695 584480

Wednesday 16th December 7.30pm

Dir: John Madden, 2015 Cert: PG Running time: 122 mins

Now that The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is full up with its long-term residents, co-managers Muriel Donnelly (Maggie Smith) and Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel) have a dream of expansion, and they've found just the place: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. With plans underway, Evelyn and Douglas (Judi Dench and Bill Nighy) venture into the Jaipur workforce, wondering where their regular breakfast dates will lead. Meanwhile, Norman and Carol (Ronald Pickup and Diana Hardcastle) navigate the swirling waters of an exclusive relationship, as Madge (Celia Imrie) juggles two very eligible suitors.

Wednesday 11th November 7.30pm

International Animation Festival This Is Not A Cartoon: Programme 3

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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Dir: Various Cert: N/A Running time: 60 mins

This programme of shorts brings you the very best international animated shorts rarely seen outside of festivals. Your heart might race, your spine might shiver, your sides might split and tears might flow. The films on show present both the technical brilliance and superb storytelling that animation has to offer.

This is fun, this is drama, this is excitement, this is action – but remember, This Is Not A Cartoon.

We hope to be joined by one of the filmmakers for a Q&A following this screening.

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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 autumn.

Date

Time

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Page

7.00pm 7.30pm 7.00pm 5.00pm

The Beaux’ Stratagem The Battle Of Britain At 75 Coriolanus Beauty of WuShu & Dance, China Kaleidoscope

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

The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha A Translation of Shadows The Canterbury Tales Testament of Youth Hamlet Tales of the Tides Nosferatu Henry V I Loved You and I Loved You Manpower

6 7 8 28 25 8 9 25 10 12

7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

The Sand Dog Cometh This is Not a Cartoon: Programme 3 Waiting for Godot Set Fire to the Stars Beauty Of The Beast Far From the Madding Crowd

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7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm

Woman in Gold A Christmas Carol Urinetown: The Musical Urinetown: The Musical

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September 3 18 24 29

Thursday Friday Thursday Tuesday

October 1 6 13 14 15 15 20 21 22 29

Thursday Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Thursday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Thursday

November 10 11 17 18 24 25

Tuesday Wednesday Tuesday Wednesday Tuesday Wednesday

December 2 8 18 19

Wednesday Tuesday Friday Saturday

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 and an 11th ticket free.

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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 12th September – 12th December Age 12 – 25 years: Wednesdays 9th September – 9th December Fees: £5 per session paid in half termly instalments Call 01695 584480 for further information or to make a booking.

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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

Box Office

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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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Box Office 01695 584480 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 The Arts Centre, Edge Hill University, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire L39 4QP

How to book By phone: 01695 584480 Online: secure online booking at edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre In person: at our Box Office Monday - Friday 12.00pm - 5.30pm (open until 8pm on performance nights) At weekends the Box Office is only open when there is a performance.

Tickets can also be purchased from: Main Reception at Edge Hill University

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