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SEPTEMBER2013 - JANUARY2014 EVENTS GUIDE
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NOT JUST FOR LAUGHS! British Poet Lord Byron said “always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine” so consider Jersey Opera House a cure for all this Autumn Season with our fantastic comedy line-up. We have a whole host of star-studded stand-up starting in September with Ardal O’Hanlon and then Canadian comics Stewart Francis, Craig Campbell and Glenn Wool are... The Lumberjacks. Milton Jones, Reginald D Hunter, Ed Byrne and Lee Hurst finish off 2013 and then Stephen K Amos takes us into 2014 - when we have plenty more laughs in store for you! Keeping with comedy, we see the return of Monkey Poet in our Studio with Love (Hurts) Actually, David Dale performs his semiautobiographical Pink For A Boy, and Nikki McCretton touches down in her Tin Rocket, while local artists taking off are Jooj duQuemin and the Plays Rough playwrights and performers. For me, the highlight of the season is the return of global phenomenon Motionhouse. Following the worldwide success of Scattered, the dance company is bringing us its latest work, Broken by Kevin Finnan, who choreographed and directed Movement for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympics. 2
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Other shows to look out for are The Johnny Cash Roadshow and tribute band UK Pink Floyd Experience, plus the return of our increasingly popular screenings from the National Theatre Live (Richard II with David Tennant, Frankenstein, Othello, Hamlet) and The Met Opera (Eugene Onegin, The Nose, Tosca, Falstaff). So whether you need a laugh or fancy something completely different, Jersey Opera House should be just the ticket to take you into 2014!
Jasmine Hendry Theatre Director
FEED YOUR CREATIVITY Local artists and photographers are certainly keen to get in on the act at OH! Cafébar. Exhibitions, which are for a minimum of one month and free of charge, are booked up right until May 2014. Every month brings a new look to the theatre’s eatery and fresh comments from customers. A great meeting place complemented by a great talking point. Stephen Davies Jooj duQuemin Julia Renault Jools Holt
6th Sept - 10th Oct 2013 11th Oct - 14th Nov 2013 15th Nov - 19th Dec 2013 20th Dec - 20th Feb 2014
If you’re interested in exhibiting your work at OH! Cafébar please contact admin@jerseyoperahouse.co.uk
CHEF’S CHOICE Our OH! Cafébar Head Chef Peter O’Neill and Chef Andrei Bejan cook up a storm on a daily basis for breakfast, lunchtime and pre-show supper customers. They’re pretty talented so we wanted to showcase their skills with a Chefs’ Night. Starting on Friday 20th September, we will host a regular evening, when there isn’t a show on, for the Catering Team to demonstrate its culinary excellence. To give you a taster, dishes will include pan-seared Jersey scallops, beef wellington, and Peter’s signature dessert, Jersey black butter crème brulée. Sign up to our e-newsletter at www.jerseyoperahouse.co.uk to receive notification of forthcoming Chefs’ Nights.
RETURN OF THE FEST OH! Cafébar is taking part in Tennerfest once again this year and we’re delighted to be offering the same great prices but even better value. We’re also once again running the menu for a longer period this year, from 1st October until the end of November. Choose any two courses for £12.50 or three for £15 from a wonderful selection of dishes. Check out our Tennerfest Menu at www.jerseyoperahouse.co.uk/oh-cafebar/menus/
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SHOW LISTINGS
SEPTEMBER
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Sat 7
Original Works Programme - Bedell Creative Arts Programme
P7 The Glenn Miller Orchestra - with strings Thu 12 & Fri 13 p8 Ardal O’Hanlon Sat 14 p9 WABBA Bodybuilding Sun 15 Championships 2013
P10 Plays Rough p11 Stewart Francis, Craig Campbell
Tue 24 Thu 26
& Glenn Wool are...The Lumberjacks
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National Theatre Live: Othello (Encore Screening)
Fri 27
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Hats Off To Led Zeppelin
Sat 28
OCTOBER
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Thu 3 & Fri 4 Sat 5 Sun 6
P17 P18 P19 P20
Mostly Mozart Met Opera: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (Encore Screening) / Pink For A Boy (In The Studio) An Audience with Jenni Murray Broken by Motionhouse Electric Blues Band - Tribute Concert Love (Hurts) Actually - Monkey Poet (In The Studio)
Thu 10 - Sat 12 Fri 11 Thu 17 Sat 19 Sat 19
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Reginald D Hunter: In The Midst Of Crackers
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet Tue 22 (Encore Screening)
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An Evening with Michael Portillo
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Milton Jones: On The Road
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
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Wed 23 Thu 24 - Sat 26
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Met Opera: Shostakovich’s The Nose (Encore Screening)
Sun 27
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Ed Byrne: Roaring Forties
Mon 28 & Tue 29 Tue 29 & Wed 30 Thu 31
Pinocchio
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (Encore Screening) Merrily We Roll Along (Encore Screening) Sat 2 Nov
P29 Jersey Eisteddfod P30 The Colour of White (In The Studio) /
Tin Rocket (In The Studio)
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Met Opera: Puccini’s Tosca (Encore Screening)/ Richard II (RSC Encore Screening)
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The Early World - Plays Rough (In The Studio)
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The Johnny Cash Roadshow
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november Tue 5 - Sat 16 Thu 7 - Sat 9 Sat 16 Sun 17 Wed 20 Thu 21 - Sat 23
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art (Encore Screening) / National Theatre Connections - Drama Lab (In The Studio)
Sat 23 Tue 26 Tue 26 - Sat 7 Dec
Lee Hurst: Things That Make Me Go Aaarggh!!!
Sat 30
DECEMber
UK Pink Floyd Experience
Sat 7 Sing-a-long-a Rocky Horror Picture Show Fri 13 Met Opera: Verdi’s Falstaff (Live Screening) Sat 14 JGRC Panto: Snow White & The 7 Dwarfs (A) Fri 20 - Sat 4 Jan JANUARY Stephen K Amos is The Spokesman / Sat 25 National Theatre Live: Coriolanus Thu 30 (Live Screening)
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How to Book & How to Find Us
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Seating Plan
All information correct at time of going to print
(A) = Amateur Production
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SEPTEMBER
SAT 7
Original Works Concert BEDELL CREATIVE ARTS PROGRAMME
JERSEY OPERA HOUSE
In September 2012 the Bedell Creative Arts Programme set out to find promising new voices in the fields of music, dance and multi-media. Over a period of 12 months, the programme has engaged leading industry professionals to guide and nurture these artists to collaborate with each other, generating exciting original work.
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Expect dazzling new music of all genres, with live dance, film and moving image. Contemporary to classical; abstract to conventional all tastes will be catered for in this feast of local creativity. www.arts.je
Tickets Adults: ÂŁ12 Concessions: ÂŁ8 Performance Time 8pm
The Glenn Miller Orchestra – with Strings!
Swinging into the island with a brand new show, this is a rare chance to see and hear the Glenn Miller Orchestra with its AAF lineup including its String Section! Under the dynamic direction of band-leader Ray McVay, the Glenn Miller Orchestra continues to thrill and delight audiences around the world. In addition to the line-up loved by UK audiences during Glenn Miller’s wartime years, this is your opportunity to enjoy the Glenn Miller Strings! Feel an extra mellowness to timeless classics with fabulous harmonies of
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the Moonlight Serenaders and the swinging jazz band, The Uptown Hall Gang. With classics like Pennsylvania 65000, Tuxedo Junction, American Patrol and the iconic In the Mood, your date with the Glenn Miller Orchestra promises to be a night you will never forget! www.glennmillerorchestra.co.uk
Tickets Stalls: £25-£27 Dress: £26-£28 Upper: £19-£21 Concessions: £2 off Performance Time 8pm BOX OFFICE (01534) 511115
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SEPTEMBER
SAT 14
mick perrin worldwide presents:
Ardal O’Hanlon
Father Ted star, Ardal O‘Hanlon, is delighted to present his latest stand-up show for 2013. The style is observational, the subject matter Life itself, and the default expression is one of utter disbelief!
Charm, “intelligence
and fabulous phrase-making
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The Times
Lurking beneath Ardal’s mildmannered demeanour resides a sharp and probing comic brain. Sometimes thoughtful, sometimes silly, but always punchy, he has tickled audiences all over the world. In a comprehensive set, he talks about not just the things that matter but also about the things that don’t matter at all - which covers pretty much everything. 8
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Suitable for 14 years +
Tickets Adults: £20 Concessions: £18 Performance Time 8pm
WABBA BODYBUILDING
SEPTEMBER
Sun 15
Tickets Stalls: £19 Dress: £20 Upper: £17 Pre-Judging 2pm Evening Show 6pm Jersey Opera House once again plays host to the bodybuilding championships. Categories this year include: • • • • •
Bodybuilding Physique Fitness Figure & Bikini Classes Overall Mr & Mrs Channel Islands Champion
Guest stars making an appearance on the day are The Harrison Twins, Wendy McCready and Joel Corry from Geordie Shore. Prejudging starts at 2pm and the evening show starts at 6pm.
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SEPTEMBER
TUE 24
plays rough in the studio Tickets Stalls: £5 Performance Time 8pm
JERSEY OPERA HOUSE
We know what you’re looking for. You, with your wandering eyes…
has been working on over the last month or two.
And we’re going to give it to you. We’re going to give it to you Rough, on the last Tuesday of the month, for a crumpled fiver stuffed into our sweaty palms.
Plays Rough is a regular showcase for Jersey’s writing community, presenting new plays as performed readings in a lively and informal studio setting. Adding in a dash of music and other stuff, it makes for an inspiring (and cheap) taster of the creative talent on offer in the Island.
You don’t even have to talk to us afterwards. We don’t dress up much. No set. We’ll do this script in hand too, if it suits us. What do you get? A fistful of short plays, some music and some poetry maybe. Just the cream of what the island’s creative best
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Autumn / Winter Dates: 24th September 29th October 21st, 22nd & 23rd November (performances of The Early World) 17th December
STEWART FRANCIS, craig CAMPBELL & GLENN wool ARE...
THE LUMBERJACKS
Three top Canadian comedians for the price of one! Stewart Francis, Craig Campbell and Glenn Wool – the UK’S favourite Canadian comedians will each perform a solo show as a rotating triple bill, as part of the hugely successful stand-up comedy tour, The Lumberjacks. These Canadian comedians are at the top of their comedy game right now. Each with their refreshingly contrasting styles, they come together to perform their own uniquely individual material. With something for everyone guaranteed, the audience is in for an eclectic and exciting show. Suitable for 16 years +
Francis “isStewart ‘a miracle of
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comic technique’
The Times
Craig Campbell “‘masters the art’ ” Dagbladet (Oslo)
Glenn Wool is “‘effortlessly funny with an affability other comics can only dream of’
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september
fri 27
NT LIVE: OTHELLO encore screening
The National Theatre presents a major new production of William Shakespeare’s celebrated play about the destructive power of jealousy.
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Man, Two Guvnors) following their acclaimed collaboration on the National Theatre’s production of Hamlet.
Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Lester (BBC’s Hustle) takes the title role in this contemporary interpretation of this classic which shifts from London to a British military base in Cyprus.
Othello, newly married to Desdemona – who is half his age – is appointed leader of a major military operation. Iago, passed over for promotion by Othello in favour of the young Cassio, persuades Othello that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair.
Playing opposite him as the duplicitous Iago is fellow Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (James Bond: Skyfall), who is reunited with director Nicholas Hytner (One
“A breath-taking show of emotional firepower” The Times
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BANDWAGON PRODUCTIONS & WARREN GRANT PRESENT
HATS OFF TO LED ZEPPELIN
The Official UK No. 1 Tribute to the greatest rock band ever is coming back to Jersey Opera House by popular demand. This sell-out show had audiences dancing in the aisles as these four top class musicians recreated Led Zeppelin’s magical concerts. The only tribute act to be officially endorsed by Marshall Amplifiers, the group is proud to be comanaged by Warren Grant, son of legendary Led Zeppelin manager, Peter Grant, who said after seeing the group live: ‘you guys really did the band justice!’ Winner of the National Tribute Awards 2013, Hats Off to Led Zeppelin features lead singer Peter Eldridge from the West End production of We Will Rock You,
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Jack Tanner and Kevin Oliver Jones from the world tours of Thriller Live and Dancing in the Streets, and Simon Wicker as Bonzo incarnate. ‘Shut your eyes and you would think you were listening to the real thing!’ Enjoy Hats Off To Led Zeppelin and put a hat on for Headway Jersey. All audience members are once again invited to wear hats to raise money for the local brain injury charity. www.hatsofftoledzeppelin.co.uk
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LIM ITE DS Phil McIntyre Entertainments EAT proudly presents: S
october
thu 3 & fri 4
MILTON JONES: ON THE ROAD Milton Jones is back on the road with another tour, this time imaginatively entitled On The Road. If you like the stuff he’s done on Mock the Week and Live at the Apollo, or any of the nine radio series he’s done for Radio 4 then this is the show for you, with hundreds of his celebrated oneliners plus pictures he has drawn. Clever, surreal but mainly just stupid, stupid, stupid…he’s won awards don’t you know!
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He’s fast, absurd and very funny Radio Times
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No-one can touch Jones when he hits his stride The Guardian
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Milton Jones will be supported by Chris Martin. www.miltonjones.com
Tickets £20 Performance Time 8pm
MOSTLY MOZART ROYAL OPERA HOUSE SOLOISTS JERSEY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
october
sat 5
International stars perform much loved Mozart arias and duets from the master’s great operas including the Magic Flute, the Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. Royal Opera House stars featuring in the concert are soprano Victoria Simmonds and bass Graeme Danby. The concert also includes Mozart’s Overture to the Marriage of Figaro and his last symphony “Jupiter” with the Jersey Chamber Orchestra. Programme: • Marriage of Figaro Overture • Arias from: - Magic Flute - Don Giovanni - The Marriage of Figaro • Symphony No 41 “Jupiter” www.musicjersey.com
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october
sun 6 - SAT 12 SUN 6 OCT
TCHAIKOVSKY’S EUGENE ONEGIN THE MET OPERA: ENCORE SCREENING
Anna Netrebko and Mariusz Kwiecien star as the love-struck Tatiana and the imperious Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s fateful romance. British Director Deborah Warner’s new production, set in the late 19th Century, moves episodically from farmhouse to ballroom, with a powerful snowstorm providing the dramatic setting for the finale. Russian maestro Valery Gergiev conducts.
Tickets Adults: £17.50 Concessions: £15 Students: £10 Schools: £8 Performance Time 7pm www.metoperafamily.org
Eugene Onegin is a co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and English National Opera.
THU 10 - SAT 12
Pink for a boy IN THE STUDIO
Mae West once said “keep a diary and someday it will keep you” which is why drag diva David Dale decided to bring his diaries to life in this semiautobiographical show. Chez Maurice Club International is the Las Vegas of the North. On this month’s bill is The Divalicious Monique del Monte, the stunning Angel Delight, and the well-oiled Rita Ryvita! Will ostrich feathers fly when Monique and Rita work together for the first time in ten years after an explosive fallout? Will Angel’s partner Ian ever accept his rise 16
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from backline chorus boy to drag star? Will Rita’s love for hunky doorman Jason ever see the light of day....and what of the mysterious Linda? All will be revealed in this all singing all dancing extravaganza...you couldn’t write it could you?
Tickets Adults: £12 Concessions: £10 Performance Time 8pm
AN AUDIENCE WITH JENNI MURRAY DBE
Jenni Murray discusses her long career in broadcasting, particularly her 22 years at the helm of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.
interviewees from Barbara Castle to Kaffe Fassett, Monica Lewinsky to Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson to Margaret Thatcher, through to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
She talks about the programme’s 64 year history and her most engaging and most terrifying
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october
fri 11
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THU 17
Broken MOTIONHOUSE
Tickets Stalls: £14-16 Dress: £17-£19 Upper: £11-£13 Schools: £8 Concessions: £2 off Performance Time 8pm
Visually thrilling and full of trickery, Motionhouse’s brand new production Broken builds on the success of international hit Scattered. Broken examines our precarious relationship with the earth, luring the audience into a world of shifting perspectives. Hanging in suspense, diving for support and scrambling to safety, the dancers negotiate the cracks and craters of this world of illusions where nothing is quite as it seems. This powerful company submerges highly athletic dance within intricate digital imagery and original music in an unashamedly visual and adrenaline fuelled spectacle. Created by Artistic Director Kevin Finnan MBE, who choreographed & directed Movement for the London 2012 Paralympics Opening Ceremony. www.motionhouse.co.uk
This is a company “that has long
cornered the highimpact end of the dance market.
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School Workshops
can be pre-arranged for Wednesday 16th October by contacting marketing@jerseyoperahouse.co.uk
Public Workshop
A Public Workshop will be held in the Jersey Opera House Studio on Wednesday 16th October at 6pm. Book a place by calling Box Office (01534) 511 115. Combined ticket and public workshop is £19
october
sat 19
Tickets Adults: £15 Students: £10 Performance Time 8.30pm
Electric Blues Band TRIBUTE CONCERT
After the success of last year’s sell-out charity concert, The Electric Blues Band is back! Expect a great night of music and a well-polished performance from one of Jersey’s longest running bands; Electric Blues at its best!
Natalie Moss to help raise funds for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity, Jersey Hospice Care and Jersey Cancer Relief. Sound engineer services kindly sponsored by Pentera Trust
This concert has been arranged by the families of Roy Pitcher and
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october
sat 19
Love (Hurts) Actually Monkey Poet in the studio
hurts
LOVE ACTUALLY
Tickets Adults: £10 Concessions: £8 Performance Time 8pm
Furious, filthy, “funny. ” Jersey Evening Post
The funniest “thing you’ll ever see. ” Broadway Baby The unofficial sequel to the hit film.What would really happen if the Prime Minister told America the “special relationship” was over and was then caught in flagrente delicto with the maid? Featuring Monkey Poet’s Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson & Sir John Geilgud. Award-winning Monkey Poet returns in this new play (NOT written by Richard Curtis.)Directed by Andy McQuade (Fringe report, Best Director 2012) www.monkeypoet.co.uk 20
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barrages “ofWicked humour ” The Stage, Must See Show
BONUS SHOW – After the interval Monkey Poet performs his comedy stand-up poetry.
Topical, “original and
delivered with style. The audience were in stitches
Three Weeks
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october
sun 20
mick perrin worldwide presents:
Reginald D Hunter: In The Midst Of Crackers
Tickets Adults: £23 Concessions: £21 Performance Time 8pm
sold
out
Suitable for 16 years + Following two previous sell-out tours of the UK, a total sell-out season at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the release of his debut stand-up DVD, Reginald is bringing his own unique blend of humour to Jersey Opera House with his brand new show. In just over a decade since he began performing, Reginald D Hunter has become one of the UK Comedy industry’s best-known and most distinctive performers. His work is often brutally honest, frequently controversial but always meticulously measured and thought out. www.reginalddhunter.com
Reginald is a well-known face on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, QI, and Have I Got News For You.
A comedian going for “broke...this is comedy of a rare scope ” His presence and “intelligence make The Times
him one of the most brilliantly unpredictable comics in the country
The Sunday Times
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tue 22
NT Live: HAMLET
ENCORE SCREENING The 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to our screen as part of the National Theatre’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Following his celebrated performances in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, Olivier Award-winning actor Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s complex and profound play about the human condition, directed by Nicholas Hytner. Kinnear is joined by Clare Higgins (Gertrude), Patrick Malahide (Claudius), David Calder (Polonius), James Laurenson (Ghost/Player King) and Ruth Negga (Ophelia). www.ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk
Tickets Adults: £12.50 Concessions: £11 Performance Time 8pm
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An Evening With Michael Portillo
october
wed 23
Tickets Stalls: £20 Dress: £25 Upper: £20 Performance Time 8pm
Colourful and controversial, with strong views on the question of British integration into European political and monetary union, Michael Portillo is probably one of the best-known Conservative figures of recent years. An accomplished and powerful speaker, he is frequently invited to address a wide variety of audiences, where his humour and wit are appreciated. Since leaving Parliament at the 2005 general election, he has devoted himself to writing and
broadcasting. He writes for the Sunday Times and is a regular on both BBC 1’s This Week and Radio 4’s Moral Maze. He has made documentaries on subjects as diverse as Richard Wagner and the death penalty, and in 2011 he presented the first in what has become a highlyacclaimed three part series – “Great British Railway Journeys”. Michael Portillo is presented by The Sporting & Dining Club, and the event is kindly sponsored by Lloyds TSB. www.sportinganddiningclub.com
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october
thu 24 - sat 26
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Starring DARREN DAY & NIKI EVANS
Join us for this Tony Awardwinning Broadway hit musical. Only those blessed with an extraordinary spelling ability can qualify for the Putnam County Spelling Bee, but there can only be one winner and, with a place in the national final at stake, emotions are running high. Prepare for the spelling challenge of a lifetime in this hilarious and riotous musical comedy; the story of six adolescent oddballs, overseen by adults barely managing to escape childhood themselves. It’s a lesson that winning isn’t everything and losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. www.spellingbeeuktour.com
executed with “skill, passion and
overwhelming amounts of talent
Broadway Baby
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Music & Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Directed by Alex Howarth Musical Direction by Lee Freeman Choreography by Kenn Oldfield
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Shostakovich’s The Nose The Met Opera: Encore Screening
William Kentridge stormed the Met Opera with his inventive production of Shostakovich’s The Nose, which dazzled opera and art lovers alike in its inaugural run in 2010. Now Paulo Szot reprises his acclaimed performance of a bureaucrat, whose satirical misadventures in search of his missing nose, are based on Gogol’s comic story. Pavel Smelkov conducts.
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sun 27
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AN AMATEUR PRODUCTION
Phil McIntyre Entertainments proudly presents:
d Byrne: E Roaring Forties A self-confessed “miserable old git” since the age of 23, Ed Byrne is now in his forties. While for others this might result in a crisis that prompts the purchase of a sports car, Ed embraces middle age with open arms. Come join him, as he truly comes of age and gives out his clarion cry: “I am in my forties. HEAR ME ROAR!” www.edbyrne.com
holy grail... “GoComedy’s see! ” The Sunday Times
is at the top “ofByrne his game ” The Sunday Telegraph
Jokes come so fast “that hecklers don’t have a chance to get a word in edgeways ” The Times
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october
TUE 29 & Wed 30
PINOCCHIO
Riverbank Productions proudly presents Carlo Collodi’s classic Italian tale about the puppet who wanted to become a real boy. Woodcarver Geppetto decides to make a marionette from a magical piece of wood which he calls Pinocchio. To Geppetto’s dismay, Pinocchio turns out to be a mischievous, naughty puppet who is easily distracted by a fox and a cat and soon forgets the Blue Haired Fairy’s good advice. Following Collodi’s original tale, after Pinocchio is turned into a donkey and then swallowed by a
shark, he finally achieves his greatest wish - to become a real boy. With four versatile actors, puppets, catchy, original music, and lots of interaction, this show is guaranteed to please family audiences. Particularly suitable for children aged 4 to 9 years. www.riverbankproductions.co.uk
Tickets Adults: £10.50 Children: £8.50 Family Ticket: £33
(2 adults & 2 children or 1 adult & 3 children)
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oct \ nov
thu 31 & Sat 2
THU 31 OCT
NT LIVE: Frankenstein
Tickets Adults: £12.50 Concessions: £11 Performance Time 8pm
ENCORE SCREENING Frankenstein returns to our Jersey Opera House HD screen.
This NT production enjoyed a sellout run in 2011 and won awards including the 2012 Olivier Award for Best Actor for both Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller. Directed by Oscar-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire).
In this production Benedict Cumberbatch plays The Creature. Don’t miss our alternate screening on 10th December with Jonny Lee Miller in the role.
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SAT 2 NOV
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
WEST END THEATRE SERIES ENCORE SCREENING
“Pure pleasure.”
Triple Olivier Award-winner Maria Friedman makes her directorial debut with this vibrant, full-scale The Daily Telegraph production with exceptional cast. An emotionally charged journey, Merrily We Roll Along winds back in time exploring how the choices we make in life can Tickets Adults: £12.50 change everything and everyone we love. More 5 stars than any other musical in West End history Tickets on sale from 27th August www.cinemalive.com 28
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Concessions: £11 Performance Time 8pm
JERSEY EISTEDDFOD
The Deutsche Bank Festival of the Performing Arts
november
tue 5 - sat 16
Performances will range from solos for the very young to Bands, Choirs, Kit Drumming, Electric Guitar and the ever-popular ‘Signing Choirs’ Come and enjoy the Music Section of the Jersey Eisteddfod. Whilst classes in various disciplines take place throughout the island during November, the Jersey Opera House will host the Music Section. www.jerseyeisteddfod.org.je
Tickets
Daily Tickets available at the door: £3 No charge for children or students in full-time education.
Gala/Finals Evening
Saturday 16th November Tickets bookable through the Box Office. Adults: £10 Children and students in full-time education: £5
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november
thu 7 - sat 16 What is colour? How do we see it? What influences the way we perceive it? Is my blue the same as yours? And is white a colour? Local artist and photographer Jooj duQuemin explores these questions in the form of a quest for the colour of white.
Thu 7 - Sat 9
Through a marriage of art and science, experience colour, shadow and 3D illusions. Is what you see real? What are the factors influencing your vision?
IN THE STUDIO Created & presented by Jooj duQuemin
Performance, interaction and humour combine to create a truly unique evening of entertainment.
The Colour of White Supported by Jersey Opera House
Tickets £8 Performance Time 8pm
sat 16
Tin Rocket IN THE STUDIO makin projects proudly presents awardwinning performer Niki McCretton in an evening of comedy, stand-up, space travel and scones. Niki delivers honest, ludicrous, touching, varied, unexpected, visual and very silly stand-up.
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While serenading you on her guitar, Niki will let you hide in the dark, eat sweets and believe that you can create a new world somewhere out there in the universe. Niki McCretton has been performing and devising theatre for more than 20 years to sell-out shows across the globe. www.nikimccretton.com
“A great comic talent” HRH The Prince of Wales Kindly supported by Shopmobility Jersey
Tickets Adults: £12 Concessions: £10 Performance Time 8pm
november
sun 17 & WED 20 SUN 17
Puccini’s Tosca
MET OPERA: ENCORE SCREENING
Puccini’s timeless verismo score is well served by an exceptional cast, led by Patricia Racette in the title role of the jealous diva, opposite Roberto Alagna as her lover, Cavaradossi. George Gagnidze is the villainous Scarpia. www.metoperafamily.org
Tickets Adults: £17.50 Concessions: £15 Students: £10 Schools: £8 Performance Time 7pm
WED 20
RICHARD II Royal Shakespeare Company ENCORE SCREENING Jersey Opera House is thrilled to be screening the first ever broadcast from the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company. The sell-out production of Richard II, the fastest selling show in the RSC’s history, stars David Tennant in the title role. Richard is King, ordained by God to lead his people. However, he is also a man of very human weakness; a man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war which will last 100 years. www.rsc.org.uk/whats-on/richard-ii/
Tickets Adults: £12.50 Concessions: £11 Performance Time 8pm BOX OFFICE (01534) 511115
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november
thu 21 - sat 23
THE EARLY WORLD A Play By Ben Evans In Association with Plays Rough IN THE STUDIO
JERSEY OPERA HOUSE
This is more than you think it will be. You will have to live with this. And it will break you.
Do you mind not crying when I’m ...? Just not crying so much. It’s awkward.
From the depths of their monthly writing workshops, the Plays Rough team goes Plays Buff for this full-scale performance of a new play by Ben Evans.
The Early World is showing in the Studio for three nights from 21st to 23rd November
This is a story of a man and a woman who meet in a strange house before dawn. An assault on golf, an attack on Twitter and a statue sculpted from bodily leavings - This is The Early World; a road to joy. 32
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Tickets £6.50 Performance Time 8pm
november
sat 23
The Johnny Cash RoadShow The only show to be endorsed by the Cash family, The Johnny Cash Roadshow shouldn’t be missed by any avid fan or casual listener. This musical adventure is unrivalled by any other show and truly celebrates the career of the music legend. The UK’s No1 Tribute, fronted by respected singer/songwriter Clive John and accompanied by The Spirit Band, re-creates with astounding accuracy Cash’s unique style. Truly capturing the essence of what it was like to be at a real Cash show, this Roadshow also features the best ‘June Carter’ in the business. Set to an amazing video backdrop, the show takes the audience from the 1950’s right up to 2002 with all the greatest hits: Ring of Fire, Walk the Line as well as Johnny and June duets Jackson, Long Legged Guitar Pickin’ Man and so many more.
Clive’s “resemblance is uncanny. ” Rosanne Cash (Daughter)
captures “myClive Grandfather
JUST as he was; absolutely authentic to the point where it felt as if it wasn’t a tribute.
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Caitlin Crowell (Granddaughter) www.johnnycashroadshow.com
Tickets £20 Performance Time 8pm BOX OFFICE (01534) 511115
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nov/dec
tue 26 - sat 7 dec
Tickets Adults: £12.50 Concessions: £11 Performance Time 8pm
Tue 26 NOV
THE HABIT OF ART ENCORE SCREENING
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed play The Habit of Art, with the late Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings and Frances de la Tour, is being screened as part of the National Theatre’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for 25 years, they are observed and interrupted by, amongst others, their future biographer and a young man from
the local bus station. Alan Bennett’s play looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, creativity and inspiration, and persisting when all passion is spent: ultimately, the habit of art. www.ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/
Tue 26 Nov - sat 7 dec
NATIONAL THEATRE CONNECTIONS Drama Lab in the studio
Four One Act plays will be produced over a two week period, which will then be performed by students on various dates as follows: Drama Lab is proud to present a number of One Act plays from the National Theatre Connections festivals. The plays were specially commissioned to create new, exciting and thought-provoking theatre to be performed by young people. 34
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Play 1: 26th & 27th Nov Play 2: 29th & 30th Nov Play 3: 3rd & 4th Dec Play 4: 6th & 7th Dec
Tickets £5 Performance Time 7.30pm
LIVE NATION presents:
Lee Hurst: Things That Make You Go Aaarggh!!!
november
sat 30
Stand-up comic Lee Hurst is travelling around Britain to find out what really winds you up. Mostly people get on with living their lives, but everyone has at least one thing that pushes their buttons and sends them over the edge. What’s yours? Come along for a night of laughing and letting off steam. Lee is known throughout the comedy business as someone who can pull laughs out of thin air with his razor sharp ability to improvise and ad lib comedy on the spot. He became best known to television viewers as the quirky and quick-witted panellist on BBC1’s popular sporting quiz, They Think It’s All Over. He’s also regularly starred on Have I Got News For You and Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff. Lee has also been out to entertain the troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Suitable for 16 years +
Tickets Adults: £16 Concessions: £14 Performance Time 8pm
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december
sat 7
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DON’T FORGET NATIONAL THEATRE SCREENING
UK Pink Floyd Experience The 60s & 70s Show
Tickets £20 Performance Time 8pm
Pink Floyd fans are in for a treat with one of the UK’s top tribute bands, UK Pink Floyd Experience. Featuring top class musicians, the band aims to perfect the atmosphere of the legendary British rock band live in concert.
We’re always “pleased with the
The 60s and 70s Show selects songs from Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Saucer Full Of Secrets, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, The Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall.
Bass Player David Power
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positive reaction we get from our audiences; we leave them on a Pink Floyd high!
www.ukpfe.com www.facebook.com/ukpfe
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SING-A-LONG-A
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
december
G OF FRANKENSTEIN on TUES 10TH DECEMBER
The 1975 Rocky Horror Picture Show is the campest cult classic of all time crammed full of terrific numbers including ‘The Timewarp’, ‘Sweet Transvestite’, ‘There’s a Light’, ‘I’m Going Home’, ‘Whatever Happened To Saturday Night?’ and ‘Science Fiction Double Feature’. Now at long last the film has been given the full Sing-A-Long-A treatment. Dress up and sing along to this cult classic film which we are aptly screening on Friday 13th!! An outrageous, riotous, kitsch, wonderful romp – you won’t have a better chance to let your hair down this year! Fancy dress is not obligatory but highly recommended! From the producers of the smash hit “Sing-A-Long-A Sound of Music” www.singalonga.net
Tickets Stalls: £15.50 Dress: £15.50 Upper: £13.50 Concessions: £13.50 Performance Time 8pm
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Audience interaction Outrageous dressing-up Goody bag Crazy lyrics on-screen
This is a screening of the iconic cult movie
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december
sat 14
Verdi’s Falstaff
MET OPERA: LIVE SCREENING
An undisputed master of Falstaff, Music Director James Levine conducts Verdi’s opera for the first time at the Met since 2005. Robert Carsen’s production—the first new Met Falstaff since 1964— is set in the mid-20th Century. Ambrogio Maestri sings the title role of the blustery Sir John Falstaff, opposite a marvellous ensemble that includes Angela Meade, Stephanie Blythe, Lisette Oropesa, and Franco Vassallo. www.metoperafamily.org
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Tickets Adults: £17.50 Concessions: £15 Students: £10 Schools: £8 Performance Time 6pm
The Jersey Green Room Club presents
Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs
dec/jan
20 dec - 4 jan
AN AMATEUR PRODUCTION
Mirror Mirror on the wall, which is the best panto of all? It has to be Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Jersey Opera House. Snow White has skin as white as snow and lips as red as rubies. No wonder a magic mirror declares her to be ‘the fairest of them all’. But not in the view of her wicked stepmother, who flies into a jealous rage and demands her death. The beautiful princess is forced to flee to safety at the home of the seven dwarfs. But who is the curious old crone selling apples door to door? And can true love’s kiss really save the day?
Christmas isn’t Christmas without a visit to the Jersey Green Room Club’s Panto!
Tickets Stalls: £15-£17 Dress: £15-£17 Upper: £13-£15 Matinee Family Ticket: £55 (2 adults & 2 children / 1 adult & 3 children) Dates Evening: 7:30pm Dec: Fri 20th Sat 21st, Mon 23rd, Fri 27th, Sat 28th, Mon 30th Jan: Thu 2nd, Fri 3rd Matinee: 2:30pm Dec: Sat 21st, Sun 22nd, Thu 26th, Sat 28th, Sun 29th Jan: Wed 1st, Sat 4th BOX OFFICE (01534) 511115
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january
sat 25 & THU 30 SAT 25
Stephen K Amos is The Spokesman Fresh from the Edinburgh Festival, Amos is hitting the road with a brand new UK show. Expect an evening of fun, warmth, big laughs and audience interaction from the master of feel-good comedy.
If laughter is the “best medicine, then Amos should be prescribed by the NHS.
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London Evening Standard www.stephenkamos.com
Tickets £18 Performance Time 8pm
THU 30
NT LIVE: CORIOLANUS LIVE SCREENING
National Theatre Live broadcasts the Donmar Warehouse’s production of Shakespeare’s searing tragedy of political manipulation and revenge. Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers, War Horse (film)), stars in the title role and Mark Gatiss (Season’s Greetings, BBC’s Sherlock) as Menenius. When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on 40
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her hero and defender: Coriolanus. However, he has enemies at home too. www.ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/
Tickets Adults: £12.50 Concessions: £11 Performance Time 7pm
how to book
Online Choose your preferred seats and buy your tickets online at www.jerseyoperahouse.co.uk Please note that there is a nonrefundable transactional fee per ticket for booking online.
• For a fee of £1 per ticket, tickets may be exchanged for another performance of the same show, subject to availability and with at least 24 hours’ notice prior to the show. • Concessions are for children under 12, students, senior citizens and HIE recipients, unless otherwise stated. • Reservations are held for up to one week prior to the performance before being automatically released for sale. • We reserve the right to change the cast without prior notification. • We reserve the right to refuse admission. • Latecomers may not be allowed access to the auditorium until a suitable point in the performance.
Snail Mail Tickets can be posted for an extra charge of 70p.
For a full list of our terms and conditions, please contact Box Office.
Booking Terms & Conditions • Jersey Opera House does not offer refunds unless in exceptional circumstances.
how to find us
Box Office Call, email or come into the Box Office to get your tickets. We are open Monday to Saturday 9:30am – 5:30pm, and on show days we’re open until the curtain goes up! Tel: (01534) 511 115 boxoffice@jerseyoperahouse.co.uk
CONTACT US Jersey Opera House, Gloucester Street, St Helier, Jersey, JE2 3QR www.jerseyoperahouse.co.uk Facebook.com/jerseyoperahouse Twitter - @JerOperaHouse Box Office Tel: (01534) 511 115 boxoffice@jerseyoperahouse.co.uk Administration Tel: (01534) 511 110 admin@jerseyoperahouse.co.uk
By Foot… You’ll find us in Gloucester Street in St Helier, opposite the General Hospital. We’re a 5 minute walk from the main town shopping area and the bus terminus, Liberation Station. By Car… Patriotic Street and Sand Street car parks are both 150 metres from the theatre. Parking is free from 5pm to 8am. By Bus… Buses coming from the west will bypass Gloucester Street. The closest stop to the theatre is on the Esplanade and about a 200 metre walk. Other routes will stop at Liberation Station which is a 5 minute walk or taxis are available at the terminus. BOX OFFICE (01534) 511115
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The Swan Lake Nutcracker 19th-21st Feb 2014
22nd & 23rd Feb 2014
TICKETS: £29.50 - £47.50 Concessions: £2 Off FRIENDS OFFER - £5 Off Opening Night of Swan Lake
& The Moscow City Ballet Orchestra BOX OFFICE (01534) 511115
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