September to December 2015 Box office: 0333 666 3366
Welcome to The RONDO – Summer 2015
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…to Autumn at The Rondo Theatre – and our brand new Ticketing System.
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The Rondo is pleased to announce that we have a new and improved Box Office service for our shows. We’ve teamed up with the lovely people from Ticket Source to provide a modern booking facility that’s more convenient for audiences.
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You can book directly online via www.ticketsource.co.uk/ rondotheatre. And once you’ve made your booking, Ticket Source gives you a variety of options to receive your tickets: Ticket Source can email you an ‘e-ticket’ to print at home - all you have to do is bring your printout with you to the theatre. Mobile tickets can be sent to your smartphone and include the unique booking reference and barcode for us to validate or scan at the theatre. And TicketSource also offers a Physical Ticket printing option so you can have the tickets posted to you for that ‘Retro’ Experience – handy if you don’t have access to a printer or mobile phone, or if you’d like to gift tickets to someone else. And if you’re ‘Old Skool’, you can still book your tickets over the phone, if that is your preference: our new booking line is: 0333 666 3366. Happy Booking! Please note that Booking Fees apply – but we’ve kept these as low as possible! Ian McGlynn Theatre Director
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
MERRIMAN PRODUCTIONS
Acorn Antiques! The Musical By Victoria Wood Wed 16 – Sat 19 Sep • 7.30pm • Full £10 Community/Musical Theatre Following the success of Sweeney Todd and Lucky Stiff, Merriman Productions return to the Rondo with Acorn Antiques, Victoria Wood’s hilarious, all-singing, all-dancing and fully-overalled stage version of her beloved spoof soap opera, featuring her most famous character, Mrs Overall. The lives and loves of the staff of an antiques shop in the fictional town of Manchesterford - a frantic (and frankly ridiculous) tale of love triangles, amnesiac shopkeepers, hidden wills, siblings reunited and at least one song about macaroons…
LE NAVET BETE
Dick Tracy By Le Navet Bete and John Nicholson Thu 24 Sep • 7.30pm • Full £14 Concs £12 Professional Theatre / Physical Comedy Newsflash! There’s been a series of highprofile crimes right across the city - but fear not...The police chief’s put his best man on the job - Dick Tracy. Will Tracy be able to save the day, get the girl and get to the bottom of who’s causing the mayhem? Or perhaps the truth is closer than he thinks... Having wowed audiences across the globe since 2006, Le Navet Bete’s Dick Tracy is a physical comedy influenced by the worldfamous detective incorporating fooling, original live music and plenty of audience interaction. Directed by one of the UK’s most exciting comedy directors John Nicholson (Peepolykus) and supported by Arts Council England in a co-production with the Exeter Phoenix, Dick Tracy promises to have the bad guys in handcuffs and the audience in stitches!
Box office 0333 666 3366
ALEXAKI PRODUCTIONS LTD
Iain Lee Vs Radio Sat 26 Sep • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Comedy Award-winning radio and TV presenter Iain Lee picks some of the most hilarious moments from the history of the wireless. Why did Nicky Campbell drop himself in it when talking about foxes? What do callers to local radio REALLY think about Mayor Boris Johnson and surely old lady professors know what you can and what you most definitely can’t say on the radio?
LIVE WIRE THEATRE
Hands Up For Jonny Wilkinson’s Right Boot! By Dougie Blaxland Wed 30 Sep – Fri 2 Oct • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Professional Theatre Sat 3 Oct (inc England vs Australia) • 5pm It’s one of those moments that no-one will forget – a time when everyone can remember exactly where they were and what they were doing: The Rugby World Cup Final 2003 - November 22nd 2003, to be precise; England versus Australia in Sydney and with just 26 seconds to the final whistle and the score standing at a tantalising 17-17, Jonny Wilkinson makes history as under huge pressure he drops a goal with his right boot to win the World Cup for England! As we anticipate the inevitable dramas of the impending Rugby World Cup of 2015, Live Wire Theatre is preparing to re-enact the history and drama not just of Jonny Wilkinson’s historic moment but of other celebrated rugby memories in their hilarious and fast moving production of Hands Up for Jonny Wilkinson’s Right Boot. From the first British Lions tour to New Zealand in 1908 to Jonny Wilkinson’s 2003 drop goal via Nelson Mandela’s presentation of the first ever Rugby World Cup trophy to South African captain Francois Pienaar, Live Wire Theatre will transport audiences through time on an astonishing round- the-world-rugby-tour complete with songs, stories and physical reenactments of matches and rugby rituals including the All-Blacks’ legendary Haka. After the performance on Saturday 3rd October, we will be showing England vs Australia - audience members are invited to stay to watch the game on the big screen.
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
BATH DRAMA
Enchanted April By Matthew Barber Wed 7 – Sat 10 Oct • 7.30pm Full £10 Concs £8 • Community Theatre Enchanted April. “A play that leaves you positively glowing” It is 1922. Two middle class English ladies decide to rent a castle in Italy, in order to escape the winter gloom and husbands who are neglecting them. Unable to find the full cost, they advertise for two other, very different, ladies to join them. One is a young socialite and the other a dowager with an interesting past. Sparks follow! The ladies fall under the spell of their sun-drenched surroundings and discover laughter and new truths about themselves. They find the romance they need, though perhaps not the romance that they - or we - expect them to find.
RF MEDIA PRESENTS
Frank Sinatra - His Way! By Musical Director: Trevor Brown Sat 17 Oct • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Music The songs and remarkable true story of Frank Sinatra - his rise and fall... and rise. From band singer with Tommy Dorsey, to 1940’s ‘pop idol’; from his fall from popularity in the late forties, swinging his way through the 1950’s; recording some of the world’s most famous songs and albums and building his own record label “Reprise”. Award winning singer Robert Habermann tells the whole unexpurgated story, singing many of Sinatra’s wonderful songs including: Come Fly With Me; Fly Me To The Moon; Witchcraft; You Make Me Feel So Young; Strangers In The Night; My Way; New York, New York ...and many more.
Box office 0333 666 3366
THEATRE WEST
Kingdom of the Icebear By Martin Malcolm Tue 20 – Sat 24 Oct • 8pm Full £12 Concs £8 • Professional Theatre A November night in a sleepy Somerset town and in a shed a monster stirs. A switch is flicked, a generator thuds and suddenly the freezing dark is ablaze. Welcome to Carnival Night. The night when small towns get to have it large, when tinsel leviathans lumber down the narrow streets and when wanderers return. On this, the shiniest night of the year, at the heart of one family something dark is lurking. Kingdom of the Icebear is part of Theatre West’s season of plays all kick-started by the notion of Moving On and will be preceded by Lazarus, a ten minute play by Marietta Kirkbride. Martin lives in Taunton and his plays include Grave Expectations (Endpaper Theatre), Icarus (Southwark Playhouse), Diggers (Theatre 503), Fake Fur Coat (Tristan Bates), Ink (Simulacra Studios), Drifters (Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter) and NightFlyer (Burdall’s Yard).
“Brimming with a strange, gritty tenderness that draws you right in…” – Everything Theatre on Ink by Martin Malcolm.
EXIT STAGE LEFT & SPARE ROOM THEATRE
Heart and Music Tues 27 – Sat 31 Oct • 7.30 pm Matinee: Sat 31 Oct • 2.30pm Full £10 Concs £8 • Community Theatre/Musical After their hugely successful productions at the Rondo this summer the award winning Exit Stage Left and Spare Room Theatre have joined forces to bring you a fabulous evening of Musical Theatre. With a talented cast of some of Bath’s finest performers, they will bring you songs from their sell out shows such as A New Brain, Spring Awakening and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – as well as a tantalising glimpse at songs from shows they are hoping to put on in the future…
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
PLAYING UP
The 39 Steps By Patrick Barlow Wed 4 – Sat 7 Nov • 7:30pm • Full £10 Concs £8 Community / Comedy Theatre Enjoy the thrilling adventures of the handsome and heroic Richard Hannnay, who, complete with British stiff-upper-lip, obligatory pencil moustache and a dash of derring-do, encounters dastardly murders, doublecrossing secret agents, beautiful women and an evil mastermind as he tries to solve the mystery of what, exactly, are The 39 Steps? This wonderfully inventive and gripping comedy thriller features just four actors who play 139 roles in 100 minutes of fast-paced fun and thrilling action. The play won the Olivier Award and the What’s On Stage Award for Best Comedy in 2007.
“A joyous version of the Hitchcock classic” – Sunday Times
PHIL MCINTYRE ENTERTAINMENTS
Nish Kumar: ‘Longword, Longword, blah blah blah.... I’m so clever’ Wed 11 Nov • 8pm • Full £10 • Stand-Up Comedy Nominated for Best Show, Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2015 This is a stand-up comedy show for people who like stand-up comedy shows by a man that does stand-up comedy. Depending on your opinion, that man is either “a comedian on the up” (The Times), “a comedian I’ve never heard of” (Audience Member) or “a very clever boy” (Nish Kumar). This is Nish’s first solo tour. You may have watched him support Milton Jones or David O’Doherty, or seen him on Comedy Central’s The Alternative Comedy Experience curated by Stewart Lee, Live at the Comedy Store and Stand up Central. Or BBC 3’s Live at the Edinburgh Festival and Sweat the Small Stuff. Alternatively you could have just sat next to him at Nandos.
“If you like your comedy to be intelligent, inventive, thoughtprovoking and delivered with a passion, urgency and enthusiasm that makes an hour feel like a fantastic ten minutes, then you’re going to love Nish Kumar’s show….a truly impressive piece of stand-up from a comic in full control of his material and onstage persona” Time Out
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BEYOND ETERNITY PROMOTIONS
An Evening with Anita Harris Thu 12 Nov • 7.30pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Music Anita Harris has had a breath-taking career spanning over fifty years. She has been a film star, a television star, graced the top of the pop charts, become a pantomime legend as Peter Pan, starred in Cats in the West End and featured in no less than seven Royal Command Performances. She has never stopped performing and has worked alongside legendary names in the world of entertainment such as Harry Secombe, Phil Silvers, Morecambe and Wise, Tommy Cooper, magician David Nixon and Clive Dunn. Join her and her pianist Peter Gill in an intimate evening as she sings her favourite songs and regales you with stories from her fascinating and amazing life.
PIG’S WHISKER MUSIC
Robin & Bina Williamson Fri 13 Nov • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Music Robin and Bina Williamson work together so well because they create a perfect balance of voices. They draw on a wide variety of original and traditional songs, stories and music from Celtic, English, Indian and Old Timey roots; celebrating the turning year and the mystery of being alive. Robin is legendary worldwide as musician, storyteller and writer. He has forefronted many genres over his 50 year career. Bina is an inspired and gifted singer-songwriter and multi instrumentalist in her own right. She has a hauntingly sweet melodious voice. Both artists are synonymous with The Incredible String Band. Their performances together feature their East West vocal harmonies with harp, bowed psaltery dulcimer and diverse other instruments.
“Enthralling musicianship” – Glasgow Herald
“Pure beauty through simplicity” – Robert Plant
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre ASONE THEATRE COMPANY
tinderbox Play by Jacqueline Avery, Music by Joe Butcher Sat 14 Nov • 3pm & 7.30pm • Full £11 Concs £8 Professional Theatre Putting the magic back into family theatre. A war-torn soldier and an obstinate princess - aided by three unearthly dogs, a strange, wizened woman and a magic tinderbox - discover the unbreakable bonds of true love. Award winning AsOne Theatre Company presents its talented AsCend ensemble in a new play giving Hans Christian Andersen’s wonderfully dark tale an illuminating, Jurassic Coast twist. From deep under the roots of a magical tree, to a locked room in a royal tower; a story with huge heart and soul dusted with humour. An audio-visual treat to thrill all the family, ‘tinderbox’ is a feast of physical storytelling, puppetry, shadow-play, animated image, lyrical music and song - creating a spellbinding experience whatever your age.
SECOND FACE THEATRE CO
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde By Alexandra Ricou, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson Wed 18 – Sat 21 Nov • 8pm Full £14 Concs £10 • Professional Theatre Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde has fascinated readers and audiences of stage, screen and radio for over a hundred years. To this day, the tale in which a scientist creates a serum to transform himself into a darker alter-ego holds much attraction and interpretation. We live in a technological age where medical science performs miracles in treatments for conditions which previously plagued and ruined the lives of thousands, yet our understanding of the human mind and its emotional recesses is still a relatively new and enigmatic science. Join Second Face as they draw you into this spine tingling and provocative mystery, with a brand new adaptation of a much loved classic.
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
RONDO THEATRE COMPANY
Still Life By Noël Coward Wed 25 – Sat 28 Nov • 8pm Full £10 Concs £8 • Community Theatre One of Coward’s Tonight at 8:30 series, Still Life is the play the movie Brief Encounter is based on. In a suburban rail station, Dr Harvey removes a cinder from Laura’s eye and they fall in love. Subsequent meetings over tea, scenes debating respectability or love, and some sentimental moments transpire before they decide they must part forever. He is accepting a faraway post and she must return to a circumspect life. But will their final meeting provide one last chance for happiness…?
PHIL MCINTYRE ENTERTAINMENTS
James Acaster: Represent Wed 2 & Thu 3 Dec • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 Stand-Up Comedy Nominated for Best Show, Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2015
“Love is the absence of judgment” Dalai Lama XIV. Running his mouth off about a bunch of stuff nobody even cares about – it’s James Acaster. Nifty. Snazzy. 30 years old. Doing his best to improve his imposture. Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Nominee 2014, 2013 and 2012. As seen on Nevermind the Buzzcocks, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Russell Howard’s Good News. As Heard on James Acaster’s Findings (Radio 4) and The Josh Widdicombe Show (XFM).
“This is stand-up of the highest, most playful order” – Guardian
Box office 0333 666 3366
NUNKIE THEATRE COMPANY
Oh, Whistle… Two Ghost Stories By M R James Fri 4 Dec • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 Professional Theatre M R James is acknowledged as the master of the English Ghost Story. He first performed his supernatural tales to friends at Christmas in King’s College, Cambridge. Now Nunkie Theatre Company have brought two of these unforgettable spine chillers back to life. Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad – a tale of nocturnal horror on the Suffolk coast – is considered by many to be James’s masterpiece. It is beautifully complemented here by The Ash Tree, a story of witchcraft and vengeance down the generations.
“Lloyd Parry catches the sense of dread that gives James his originality” The Times
An Intimate Christmas Evening with Cindy Stratton and Marius Frank Sat 5 Dec • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Music Join us here at The Rondo for an intimate Christmas evening with Cindy Stratton and Marius Frank - as well as some very special guests. Cindy and Marius will be showcasing some fantastic new original material, alongside some Seasonal specials to give you that magical Yuletide tingle. Be prepared for a terrific evening of wonderful music with fabulous harmonies and excellent jazz-tinged musicianship from multi-instrumentalist Marius and award winning singer-songwriter Cindy. There are sure to be some fantastic vocal harmonies, some musical surprises and much, much more!
Box office 0333 666 3366 BUTTERFLY PSYCHE THEATRE
By Alison Farina Wed 9 – Sat 19 Dec (not Sun or Mon) • 7pm • Professional Theatre Matinee Schedule: Fri 11 & 18 Dec • 4pm Sat 12 & 19 Dec • 2.30pm Sun 13 & 20 Dec • 11am & 2.30pm Thur 17 Dec • 11am
Mainstream Performances: Full £14 Cons £10 Specialised Performances: Full £10 Cons £6
After every performance there is a ‘Stay and Play’ session with performers on the interactive, multi-sensory set. Children, their big people and the young at heart are all welcome. There are a number of specialised inclusive performances at reduced rates (£10/£6) as follows: Relaxed Performances
BSL Interpreted
Big Scream
Sun 13th • 11am Tue 15th • 7pm Sun 20th • 2.30pm
Fri 11th • 4pm Wed 16th • 7pm Sat 19th • 2.30pm
Thu 17th • 11am
FREE downloadable pre-show story packs are available for families with Special Needs. Touch-Tours will be available for the visually impaired and show transcripts will be available (in your preferred format) upon request. Family Tickets (2 adults and 2 children) are available for this show. Carers go free. This show is suitable for all ages.
This performance will operate a ‘Babes in Arms’ policy which means that a child of 18 months or younger does not need a ticket providing they can be held by a parent/guardian.
Praise for The Blue Bird:
“One of the best Christmas productions I’ve seen in years, it is definitely the one you should catch this year. A delight” – Bath Chronicle “One of the most thought provoking, visually stunning festive shows in recent years… a triumph” – What’s On Stage “It’s a true joy to see a genuine, magical tale on stage” – Theatre Bath
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
What does it mean to love? From the company that brought you The Blue Bird comes Butterfly Psyche Theatre’s newest family production, exclusively for The Rondo Theatre this Christmas. Once upon a time, in the land of ice and snow, people believed the stars were openings to heaven. Every sixteen years, under the Nights’ Rainbow, all the love and blessings from our ancestors falls to earth as snow. And that snow is magic… One night, a childless couple sculpts their hearts’ desire out of snow under the Nights Rainbow, and their lives are changed forever! Based on the Russian Fairy-tale, The Snow Maiden, Butterfly Psyche’s distinct magical style offers a very special treat for everyone this Holiday season.
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Rondo Drama Club create, develop, perform
Autumn Term Ages 7 – 16 4.45pm – 6pm £75 Rondo Drama Club is a unique experience where your children are encouraged to share their creative ideas and work together to use the best of them to devise a totally original play. They then get the chance to improvise, rehearse and, finally, perform it under the lights on the famous Rondo Stage. The sessions are run by Paulo Baigent, an experienced theatre director, educator and drama workshop leader. Rondo Drama Club’s weekly sessions take place at St. Stephen’s School, Lansdown with dress rehearsals and end of term performances at the Rondo Theatre itself. At Rondo Drama Club we are committed to raising confidence and self-esteem in a fun and nurturing environment. So if your children are into drama, love to have fun, are full of ideas and eager to share them, then book them in for our next term at The Rondo Drama Club. Please note: participants must be available for the final rehearsal on Sunday 29 November and for the end of term show on Monday 30th November. For more information, please email Paulo at: speaktomegabriel@gmail.com or book via www. ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
The Rondo Scriptwriting Group Mondays at 8pm from September to December & January - April Age 18 upwards. 7.30pm. £50 per term. The Rondo hosts a playwriting forum for anyone who writes scripts, at any level. The perfect opportunity to share ideas, identify problems and work through some of the tricks of the trade. There will also be visits from theatre professionals to give advice on getting your work shown. Led by Shane Morgan. For information, email rondowriters@gmail.com or book via www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
Become A Rondo Volunteer Acting as a Rondo Theatre volunteer is a great way of getting closer to the theatre, music, comedy and other fantastic events on offer at this fantastic venue. In return, you get to see the shows for free, as well as to make new friends and socialise. Our volunteers work mainly as bar staff or on front of house and are an essential part of the success of The Rondo. Volunteering normally means working on two or three shows a month. It’s great fun – and you get to see a huge variety of performances for free! If you’d like to volunteer, please contact the Theatre Director, Ian McGlynn: ian@rondotheatre.co.uk / 01225 444003
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
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INFO Box Office: Ticket Agent - TicketSource www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre Booking Line: 0333 666 3366
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Please note: booking fees apply - but we’ve kept these as low as we can! Concessions: Concession prices are available to children under 18, full-time students, Equity Members, unemployed benefit claimants, disabled people and those whose sole source of income is a DSS state retirement pension. Groups: Buy ten tickets and get an additional ticket free. Door Sales: Doors open 30 minutes before the show. Tickets are available to buy on the door for all events at The Rondo. Latecomers: For security reasons, it may not be possible to admit latecomers. So please be prompt! Access: The main entrance to The Rondo has excellent disabled access. We have a disabled toilet and the front row is available for wheelchairs. Pre-booking recommended.
Charity No: 1000051 Parking: On street after 6pm and, by kind permission, Co-Op car park. The Rondo Theatre Company is our resident community theatre company. If you want to get involved in performing or backstage work, visit www.rondotheatrecompany.org Theatre Director: Ian McGlynn. Tel. 01225 444003 email: director@rondotheatre.co.uk Marketing Coordinator: Alison Farina. email: marketing@rondotheatre.co.uk Intern Director: Jazz Hazelwood email: admin@rondotheatre.co.uk Associate Directors: Hannah Drake, Shane Morgan, Alison Farina, Jazz Hazelwood Programme Design: GAS Design. Tel. 01249 712657 www.gas-design.co.uk
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RONDO DIARY
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DATE
SHOW
GENRE
16 – 19 Sep
Acorn Antiques: The Musical
Community
24 Sep
Dick Tracy
Comedy Theatre
26 Sep
Iain Lee
Comedy
30 Sep – 3 Oct
Hands Up for Jonny Wilkinson’s Right Boot!
Theatre
7 – 10 Oct
Enchanted April
Community
17 Oct
His Way! The Frank Sinatra Story
Music
20 – 21 Oct
Kingdom of the Icebear
Theatre
27 – 31 Oct
Heart & Music
Community
4 – 7 Nov
The 39 Steps
Community
11 Nov
Nish Kumar
Comedy
12 Nov
Anita Harris
Music
13 Nov
Robin & Bina Williamson
Music
14 Nov
Tinderbox
Theatre
18 – 21 Nov
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Theatre
25 – 28 Nov
Still Life
Community
2 & 3 Dec
James Acaster
Comedy
4 Dec
Oh Whistle…
Theatre
5 Dec
Cindy Stratton & Marius Frank
Music
9 – 20 Dec
The Snow Child
Theatre