January to April 2016 Box office: 0333 666 3366
Welcome to The RONDO – Spring 2016
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Welcome… …to Spring at The Rondo Theatre – and our fab new Ticketing System. 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. 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!
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
Bath Drama
Mother Goose and the Babes of Toyland By Bonnie Rose Aherin Wed 13 – Sat 16 Jan • 7.30pm Matinee: Sat 16 & Sun 17 Jan • 2.30pm Full £10 Concs £8pm • Community Theatre Bath Drama invites you to see Mother Goose as you’ve never see her before - in a musical extravaganza based on the 1903 American operetta with music by Victor Herbert. Mother Goose is on the loose. Little Bo-Beep has lost her sheep. Barnaby Barnacle is racking the rent and if someone doesn’t do something quickly, the Town of Storyville will surely be ruined and there’ll be none of the romance, the laughter and the seasonal fun for all the family that we all associate year by year with the Bath Drama panto at the Rondo.
City of Bristol Performing Arts Department
DNA & Braver, Stronger, Smarter By Dennis Kelly / Devised Wed 20 Jan • 7.30 • Full £5 Community Theatre - Student City of Bristol Performing Arts Department presents and explosive double bill of Dennis Kelly’s contemporary classic DNA and a new piece of writing Braver, Stronger, Smarter. DNA is about a group of teenagers who have done something bad. Very bad. Panic, cover ups and waffles follow. Lyn Gardner from the Guardian called Dennis Kelly’s play, “a short, sharp shocker… a jet black comedy.” Braver, Stronger, Smarter is a new piece of work devised using transcripts of real life conversations, memories and favourite songs and its title is inspired by the work of AA Milne. The Performing Arts Department of City of Bristol College produces two public performances per year for both years of their BTEC Performing Arts course. This is the first of the academic year and it is directed and produced by Roughhouse Theatre and Rondo Theatre Associate Director Shane Morgan.
Box office 0333 666 3366 The Poetry Army
Poetry Can F*ck Off An extraordinary work from the writer Heathcote Williams Fri 22 Jan • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Performance Poetry Here’s a chance to celebrate the fearless voices past and present that have stood up against tyranny and offered lasting hope and vision. Poetry Can F*Ck Off is a performance of Heathcote Williams’ latest epic poem - the history of poetry’s involvement with, and influence on, revolution and radical dissent – from Gandhi reciting Shelley at mass independence rallies in India to hip-hop crews on the streets at G8 summits. Featuring the lyrics and verse of Jim Morrison, Billie Holiday, Sophie Scholl, Martin Luther King, William Blake, Arundhati Roy, Victor Jara, Gil Scott-Heron, Lupe Fiasco and many others, this is a celebration of those who have spoken out against tyranny while making our hearts pound.
“Great fun joining in with Poetry Can F*ck Off – see it” Mark Thomas
Guy/Harandon Entertainment Presents
Dickens Evening Sat 23 Jan • 7.30 • Full £10 Concs £5 • Theatre John Guy and Mark Harandon bring their acclaimed celebration of Dickens from Cornwall to Bath and appear with Larkhall’s own Jude Wisdom who will sing The Boy I Love is up in the Gallery, K-K-Katy and London Pride. The show embraces the antics of Mr Winkle and his gun from Pickwick Papers and the terrors of Oliver Twist in the night time burglary with Bill Sykes, Bleak House’s Mrs Jellyby working tirelessly for the betterment of an obscure African tribe while neglecting her children at home, the comedy of David Copperfield ordering a meal only the waiter eats, and the aristocratic French prisoners of A Tale of Two Cities who are apprehended as ghosts just days before their journey to the guillotine. Please join us for an evening of Dickensian laughter and drama.
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
Waiting for Guffman Fri 29 Jan • 8pm • Full £8 Concs £5 • Film Join us for a special fundraising screening of this classic comedy, which takes a hugely tongue-in-cheek and yet affectionate swipe at the world of *ahem* small-scale, small-town theatre... The film will be introduced by Bath’s own comedy superstar, Jon Monie. When the town of Blaine, Mo., approaches its sesquicentennial, there’s only one way to celebrate: with a musical revue called “Red, White and Blaine.” Hoping the show will be his ticket back to Broadway, impresario Corky St. Clair (Christopher Guest) rounds up a cast of enthusiastic but untalented locals (Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O’Hara) to perform his masterwork. But, when Corky reveals that theatre agent Mort Guffman will attend the opening, things really kick into high gear.
MHA Presents
Sean McLoughlin: Whatever It Takes Sat 30 Jan • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Stand-Up Comedy After finally clawing his career out of the toilet and towards the stars, Sean McLoughlin should be at his happiest, right? Unfortunately, this long-awaited improvement in career has coincided with an astonishing collapse in his personal life (floods, divorce, cats etc.). Sean has beaten the system and yet finds himself at the mercy of it. From these two conflicting circumstances a question has emerged: can a man rise AND fall at the same time? The bastards may be pulling him apart but Sean McLoughlin is back with his sharpest and most hilarious stand-up yet. Hold onto your hats, this one could be spectacular. Following his hit debut, Backbone (named one of the top 5 free shows of 2013 Fringe by The List), Sean’s second show I Will Prevail was met with tremendous underground success at the Edinburgh Festival. Playing to packed houses and gaining critical acclaim, culminating in a nomination by fellow comedians for the ‘Best Performer’ Barry Award, and the show has since been performed throughout London and across the UK. Another calamitous year has led to another hour of blisteringly funny stand-up from Sean, who is heading out on tour fresh from supporting Katherine Ryan and Doc Brown on their national tours, and making a breakthrough appearance on Russell Howard’s Stand-Up Central.
“The best comedian you haven’t heard of yet” - Mark Watson “What a genuinely fresh and powerful voice… it is wonderful” Scotsman
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Old Bag Theatre Company
Quartette By Nancy Jones, Judith Howard, Elaine Miles and Clare Reddaway Wed 3 – Sat 6 Feb • 7.30 • Full £10 Concs £8 Community Theatre Four new plays written by women, about women highlighting how women have often been underestimated and misrepresented throughout history. Reginacide Women on the Verge of By Judith Howard Extraordinary Recognition By Nancy Jones – On the eve of their executions the personal stories of three English Queens unfold.
– Virginia Woolf’s asked to write a play for the WI village fete. Desperate for inspiration she gets more than she bargained for when four women turn up all with extraordinary life stories to tell.
In the Line of Fire By Elaine Miles – A war correspondent and her sister are locked in conflict as they struggle to balance professional and family responsibilities.
ProAct Theatre Company
Ben Stock: …And There Was Music Sun 7 Feb • 4pm & 7.30 • Full £14 Concs £12 • Music Following sell out performances in London, West End and UK theatre actor Ben Stock brings his acclaimed cabaret ...And There Was Music to his home territory. A career that encompasses everything from Panto to Pinter and from Wolverhampton to the West End, Ben’s show includes music and tales that have influenced his life and work.....so far! Songs by composers including Jerry Herman, Noel Coward, Tom Lehrer, and Cole Porter. Ben Stock’s own career has included roles in productions such as Beauty & The Beast, Grease, Joseph… and Hello Dolly as well as annual jaunts in major pantomimes.
“Ben Stock… sparkling and charming…” The Stage
The Angel of Peckham By Clare Reddaway – The collapse of Kids Company was one of the great scandals of 2015 but who exactly was Camila Batmanghelidjh? Her charismatic life is dynamically retold drawn from media interviews.
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
Lakin McCarthy presents
Tim Fitzhigham: The Gambler A show about the 10 greatest bets in history Thu 11 Feb • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 Comedy Multi award-winning comedian, adventurer and world record holder Tim FitzHigham has lots of bad ideas (he rowed the English Channel in a bathtub). Now, inspired by centuries-old bets, recorded in the betting books of revered gentlemen’s clubs, Tim attempts: Pushing a wheelbarrow 25 miles, in a bet with Top Gear’s Richard Hammond (as first attempted by Goliath Shadbolt in 1789); Standing on one leg for 12 hours (a bet from the year 1815); Cycling from London to Dover before his friend can draw a million dots; Racing a racehorse over 100 yards (yes, he races a racehorse); Walking backwards for 30 miles and other death-defying feats…. The Gambler SOLD OUT at the Edinburgh Festival in 2011, Melbourne International Festival (Australia) in 2012, Adelaide Festival (Australia) in 2013 and the New Zealand International Comedy Festival in 2014 Age 14+
“Gut Bustingly funny” The Scotsman
Worcester Repertory Company
The Second Best Bed By Avril Rowlands Fri 12 February • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 Professional Theatre When Shakespeare died, he famously left his wife Anne only one thing – the second best bed. This superb one-woman play, full of both humour and pathos, has received great critical acclaim since its premier at the Swan Theatre Worcester in 2012. Liz Grand stars as Anne Hathaway on the night of Shakespeare’s funeral. The wake has finished, the mourners have all gone home, leaving Anne to remember her life with the most talented playwright the world has ever seen. Or was he? Did he write the plays? His widow would know if anybody did. Wouldn’t she?
“Lifts the lid on a Tudor can of worms… a showcase for the towering acting skills of Liz Grand” Worcester News Starring Liz Grand and directed by Chris Jaeger.
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Sassparella Sat 13 Feb • 8pm • Full £14 or £28 with workshop option. Concs £12 or £24 with workshop option • Music Sassparella is one of Bath’s most vibrant and engaging choral outfits. Formed four years ago, and gradually growing to over forty female voices, the choir specialises in four-, five- and sometimes six-part arrangements of songs from the 20th and 21st century songbook. From Tuxedo Junction to James Bond themes, from The Carpenters to Motown classics, “Oh What a Night” is in store! The concert comes with a unique performance opportunity: a 2-hour afternoon vocal workshop with Sassparella’s Musical Directors Marius Frank and Cindy Stratton. They will choose two songs from the evening performance, lead a fun and engaging session of warm-ups and part-singing exercises, so that you will have an opportunity (male or female!) to “Sing with Sassparella”! Afternoon workshop times: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Playing Up
Knives in Hens By David Harrower Wed 17 – Sat 20 Feb • 8pm • Full £10 Concs £8pm • Community Theatre Best known for his play Blackbird, this is David Harrower’s astonishing debut. Set in a God-fearing, pre-industrial rural community, a young woman comes to terms with old grudges and factions, an unexpected betrayal and a growing awareness of her place in the world. It’s about how a young peasant woman meets a miller who offers her the opportunity to awaken and learn. It’s about giving one woman the power of the written word, a power that we take for granted but which, once discovered, endowed humans with the ability to learn, to remember, to teach and to endure.
“Brilliant…mesmerising play” The Guardian “A serious, haunting, provocative play” Sunday Independent
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre Blast from the Past
A Brief History of Music Thu 25 Feb • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Music/Comedy A Brief History of Music takes in 600 years of musical history in 90 minutes! Beginning in the Middle Ages and ending up in the 20th century (and incorporating everything in between!) this fun and fast-moving show is a whistle-stop tour of Western musical history. Featuring long forgotten songs and tunes (not to mention jokes!) Blast from the Past paint a vibrant and vivid picture of our musical DNA, mixing the familiar and the obscure, the raucous and the reflective and the courtly and the commonplace. The show combines the vigour of the medieval period, the musical intricacy of the Renaissance, the grandeur of the Baroque and the pomp and bombast of Victoriana. Add to that the wit of Blackadder and 1066 And All That and the stage is set for a veritable musical feast! Complete with a bewildering array of instruments such as virginal, rauschpfeife and lute (and that’s just the first 100 years!) A Brief History of Music uses tunes, songs and humour to take you on a musical journey from which you won’t want to return!
Classworks Theatre in association with Cambridge Devised Theatre presents
Lady Connie and the Suffragettes By Ros Connelly Fri 26 Feb • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Professional Theatre This new play explores Lady Constance Lytton’s unique role in the Suffragette Movement, her privileged background and her development into one of the suffragettes’ heroic icons. The nuances and drama of a life torn between the private and the public, love and duty, family and cause are drawn from Constance Lytton’s own writings in her letters, diaries and her book Prisons and Prisoners. Constance Lytton struggles with the frustrations and constrictions of life as “an upper-class, financially dependent, useless, congenitally shy spinster” and the fluctuations of an achingly sad love affair. Determined to expose the double standards and barbaric treatment committed against the suffragettes, she put herself at immense personal risk with devastating consequences.
“The applause rang out long and loud as actress Emma Spearing took her bows at Knebworth House” Stevenage Comet Praise for previous productions: “engaging energy … dramatically it convinces” Libby Purves
“a powerful influence on modern audiences” Eastern Daily Press
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London Philharmonic Skiffle Orchestra Sat 27 Feb • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Music/Comedy FUN, MADNESS, ENERGY and GREAT MUSIC. A welcome return visit of the inimitable LPSO, bringing zany madcappery and faultless musicianship with lots of comic props, costumes, audience participation and surprises! They have entertained audiences in theatres and festivals in Germany, Norway, Denmark, Finland and throughout Britain.
“An amazing show ... outrageous antics on stage, silly costumes, musical versatility and ability to read the audience. A night of fun, frivolity, energy and hilarity together with amazing musical dexterity.” wrote H Fletcher (Mylor Bridge, Nov 2011). “I love your band. Great fun!” said Rick Wakeman, (Water Rats Ball, London, Nov 2014).
The Rondo Theatre Presents
Glitter Knickers By Gill Kirk Wed 2 – Sat 5 Mar • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 Professional Theatre You haven’t yet cured cancer, climbed Everest, invented eternal ice-cream or bought that duck-filled farmyard for your ten children you never tell off. You haven’t starred in a James Bond film or shagged and dumped a pop star. And people - well, people die. This is the merry tale of the kind of wild adventure and insane insight found only in the milli-silli-seconds between life and death. When you can do anything and be anyone. Like a Sindy™ doll who encounters a murderous goddess and changes the world. Because it’s never too late - right? Laugh a lot, cry a bit, maybe wee a bit: Gill Kirk’s new show is a must-see gem for anyone staring (early!) middle-age in the hairy eyebrow. Because who knows what’s round the corner? Only for big girls and boys.
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
RONDO The Rondo Theatre Presents
Love the Rondo! Wed 9 – Sat 12 Mar • 7.30 Full £10 Concs £8pm Community Theatre Love The Rondo? Of course you do! Join us for an evening of scenes from shows produced by many of the wonderful companies who have filled The Rondo with life over the past few years. There’ll be excerpts from shows past, present and future as we celebrate the people who have created such magic in Bath’s best-loved theatre, with a surprise or two along the way! All the income from this cornucopia of delights will go towards keeping The Rondo up and running to present you with more fabulous adventures in drama, music and comedy in the future – so come along, have a laugh and a cry, and contribute to the future of a Bath institution!
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Andrew O’Neill is Trapped Down a Well Thu 17 Mar • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 Stand-Up Comedy Andrew O’Neill has had a lot of time to think. He is trapped down a well. This is not a metaphor. Expect meditations on politics, philosophy, culture and once a day a bucket comes down. The funniest show yet by the country’s most genuinely alternative comedian. Who is trapped down a well. I cannot over-emphasise, this is not a metaphor. Andrew has been performing his clever and off-kilter comedy around the world for over a decade. He has appeared on TV comedy favourites including Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle and Steve Coogan’s acclaimed sit-com Saxondale. Don’t miss this brand new show from one of the funniest comedians in the UK!
“An increasingly distinctive, imaginative act... brilliant, genuinely unexpected lines are added to the mix” Chortle
Dave Sharp Fri 18 Mar • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Music 1989 saw the US release coast-to-coast hit album, Change, and #1 AOR single, ‘Sold Me Down the River’, from British rock band, The Alarm. Sadly, 1991 saw the surprise departure of the band’s lead singer… Dave Sharp, co-founder of The Alarm had that previous year enlisted the help of legendary maverick record producer Bob Johnston (Dylan, Willie Nelson & Leonard Cohen) to help cut his first solo record, and in under a week Sharp’s album Hard Travlin’ had been recorded, mixed and delivered for release to IRS Records. A relentless two-year period of Stateside touring followed including appearances at Farm Aid concerts and Earth Day celebrations before Sharp once again teamed up with producer Bob Johnston to record his second solo album, Downtown America. Two underground hits followed, ‘The Ghost of Preacher Casey’ and ‘Give Me Back My Job’, which both received healthy rotation across the board at American radio and led to television appearances on country music’s Nashville Network. Dave Sharp’s solo albums have received positive critical recognition on both sides of the Atlantic and over the past decade and a half Sharp has been fortunate to work alongside many of the artists he has long respected. Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash have appeared on his recordings. He has performed alongside Kris Kristofferson, Bill Munroe and Porter Wagoner. His music has been described as everything from folk and blues to rock, country and punk; his performances as legendary. Dave Sharp has embraced mainstream popular culture whilst at the same time remaining one step away from its grasp – and he likes it that way! Dave Sharp writes it, sings it and lives it.
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
The Ornate Johnsons and The Foundry Group present
Those Magnificent Men By Brian Mitchell & Joseph Nixon Sat 19 Mar • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Comedy Theatre It’s back! The thrilling true story of the first ever non-stop transatlantic flight as told by acclaimed writing duo Mitchell and Nixon returns in this side-splitting new production. Award-winning theatre company The Foundry Group (Big Daddy Vs. Giant Haystacks) and BBC4 sketch group The Ornate Johnsons have joined forces for this brand new staging of the hit play about British pioneering aviators Capt. John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Whitten Brown and their daredevil dash across the Atlantic in the tiny open cockpit of a converted Vickers biplane. In this glorified kite they flew from Newfoundland through dense fog, sleet, snow and hail – sometimes upside down – to Ireland and worldwide celebrity. What made them do it? Why have they been forgotten? And how on earth can a couple of actors tell it all with just cardboard, two chairs and some left-over props? A top-hole cast, including Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show and This Is Jinsy regular David Mounfield, guarantees the show takes flight. So strap yourself in and cry “Chocks away!” for a night of thrills, spills and uproarious comedy.
“Wonderfully entertaining.... has the makings of a West-End hit” The Times
Rondo Theatre Company
The Homeless Panda Thu 24 – Sat 26 Mar • 7pm Matinee: Fri 25 – Sun 27 Mar • 3pm Full £10 Concs £8 - adults £5 - for under 16s Community Theatre This Easter the RTC presents an exciting new piece of theatre for all the family! Xióngmāo (pronounced ‘Sha-Mow’) the Giant Panda has lost his home – where will he go? Exploring the Min Mountains of China for a new home, Xióngmāo encounters monkeys, snakes and more – but not all of them are willing to open their doors to our lumbering hero. Too big, too hungry, too scary! All valid reasons not to let a Giant Panda move into your neck of the jungle. So it’s up to Xióngmāo, and a couple of new friends, to convince the world that every Panda needs a home!
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Sylvia Hunt Presents
Dog Show By Sylvia Hunt Wed 30 Mar • 8pm • Full £8 Concs £5 • Comedy Theatre - Puppetry Coiffed and teased to perfection, clipped and trimmed in all the right places Sylvia Hunt’s Dog Show is a fabulous 60 minutes of canine high jinks and biscuit slobbering joy! Comedienne and puppeteer Sylvia Hunt explores the complex co-dependant relationship we share with our canine companions via a series of doggy vignettes. Humorous, hilarious and painfully poignant Dog Show will prove once and for all that it is impossible not to smile at a four legged sausage as it scampers down the road! Dog Show is an evening of tail wagging comedy and ingenuity featuring animated creatures and stage trickery by puppet maestro Mr Marc Parrett. Beware of low flying squirrels!
“Keep your beady eye on this seriously funny and talented performer!” Chris Pirie – Green Ginger
Phil McIntyre Entertainments
John Robins: Speakeasy Thu 31 Mar • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Stand-Up Comedy All new show from comedian, firebrand, sometime DJ and alltime vibe magnet. A Fringe, Circuit and Radio favourite brings his critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe 2015 show round the UK. One half of The Elis James and John Robins Show on Radio X. As heard on ‘The News Quiz’ (Radio 4) As seen on Russell Howard’s Stand-Up Central (Comedy Central), Alan Davis: As Yet untitled (Dave). Praise for John Robins previous shows:
“Humane, interesting and consistently funny” The Independent “Comedy in its rawest form: one man, one microphone, one fantastically funny show” Threeweeks “Funny, joyous and charmingly self-deprecating… An exemplary slice of comic rage” Chortle
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre MHA Presents
James Veitch: Dot Con Fri 1 Apr • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Comedy Suspicious emails: un-claimed insurance bonds, diamondencrusted safety deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop-up in our inbox and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply? James Veitch has spent the past year responding to as many scam emails as he can. Packed full of Nigerian princes, can’t miss investment opportunities and eligible Russian brides, the correspondence leads to surprising, bizarre and usually hilarious results. Through a blend of traditional stand-up, interactive projections and music, he takes the audience on a journey through the schemes, investigates the nature of scamming, examines its role in our connected world; and explores his own psyche as he tries to understand why he finds pushing these cyber con artists to their limits so very satisfying. Quirky, fast-paced and relatable, It’s theatre for the modern world, a show for anyone with a dream…and an email account.
Lakin McCarthy presents
George Egg - Anarchist Cook One man… one show… three courses Sat 2 Apr • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Comedy Total Sell Out – Edinburgh Fringe 2015 Total Sell Out – Brighton Fringe 2014 & 2015 If you like food and cooking, then you’ll like this. A cocktail of stand-up comedy, striking innovation and extreme multi-tasking. George Egg spends a lot of time staying in hotels and some years ago, unimpressed with room service, he took matters into his own hands. Whilst performing a mind-bendingly original show of comedy-cum-illustrated-lecture George prepares a three-course meal on the equipment hotels unwittingly provide - iron, kettle, trouser press etc. And, if you want to, you can taste it at the end.
“a genius… He is the friendly face of anarchy, the anarchic face of food and the foodie face of comedy” Scotland On Sunday “It’s an hilarious show, with surprisingly good food” The Times
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The Card Ninja Wed 6 Apr • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Comedy After a standing-room only season at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Javier Jarquin brings award-winning show Card Ninja to a theatre near you! The Card Ninja possesses extraordinary skills which are more than just sleight of hand; these ‘tricks’ are on another level, and unlike anything you’ve seen before. Watch as Javier uses ordinary playing cards as weapons, with unfathomable precision, speed and power, in a unique, hilarious performance that you’ll never forget. Following his journey from mild mannered card player to silent assassin, Card Ninja is a one-man comedy show with upbeat humour, impressive stunts and smooth audience interaction for anyone who’s ever wanted to be a little bit Ninja... Family friendly (Suitable for ages 12 and above.)
“Excelled at ninja standard card-trickery” Evening Standard
Lakin McCarthy Presents
Tony Jameson: Football Manager Ruined My Life Thu 7 Apr • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Stand-Up Comedy Tony Jameson feels he’s now at the mid-point of his life. He believes he’s achieved some good things in his life, but there’s still the nagging voice in the back of his head that wonders, ‘Could he have achieved more had he not spent the last 20 years playing video games?’ Join one of the north-east’s hottest talents for silly stories and references to players you may / may not remember. NB It’s not all about Football Manager don’t worry.
“Terrific…Wonderful…Life affirming stuff…” The Skinny Age: 14+
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre By kind permission of the Stanshall family, Guilty Dog Productions and UK Touring present
Vivian Stanshall’s Sir Henry At Rawlinson End By with Mike Livesley and The Austerity Orchestra Fri 8 Apr • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Comedy ‘There were conceits that just had you shrieking with laughter … one of Viv’s better thoughts would probably blow my brains out’ John Peel Liverpool’s Mike Livesley & his cobwebbed musicians re-create legendary Bonzo Viv Stanshall’s manic, classic, surreal but fond masterpiece of quintessential English comedy. Sir Henry’s world is brought to life for our entertainment, enchantment & elucidation some 20 years after Viv’s untimely passing.
“…one of the richest texts in the English comic language. But to witness it on stage is a joy” MOJO Recommended lower age limit: 16
Otway And Barrett: The Final Straw Tour 2016 Sat 9 Apr • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Comedy/Music This may be the last Otway and Barrett tour – according to Willy. Otway remains unconvinced. The first place Otway and Barrett did not work together was their first gig - John was heckled off stage during his solo number and both Willy and the audience decided that it would be better if they did not do the rest of the show as a duo. After an appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test - during which John landed on his testicles whilst leaping astride Willy’s amplifier - an amused punk audience bought enough copies of the single “Really Free” to give them their first Hit. When times got tough they did re-unite for short periods of time, but any sustained partnership was usually curtailed by unreasonable behaviour by one of the parties. Barrett writing a song called “Give It Headbutts” which required him to bang John’s head against the microphone in time to the music and Otway recording a solo album called “All Balls and no Willy” are typical examples of this. In the past few years Otway and Barrett have reunited for a few short tours, if only to prove that nothing much has changed. Both John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett remain enigmas to the vast majority of the British public, but for those who know they are amongst the top ten of favourite artists to see live. The show is a wonderful eclectic mix of bizarre humour, superb visual effects, fine guitar playing and the best use of a Theremin anywhere.
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Rondo Drama Club create, develop, perform
Spring Term Ages 8 – 15 4.45pm – 6pm £80 Special Offer! New sign-ups can try their first term at half price! Only £40! 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 13 March and for the end of term show on Monday 14th March. For more information, please email Paulo at: speaktomegabriel@gmail.com or book via www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
The Rondo Scriptwriting Group Monday evenings from January - April Age 18 upwards. £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. The Spring term leads into the Rondo Scriptwriting Group show at the theatre in early May. Led by Gill Kirk. 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
Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
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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. email: director@rondotheatre.co.uk Marketing Coordinator: Alison Farina. email: marketing@rondotheatre.co.uk Intern Director: Philippa Howard 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
With support from
RONDO DIARY
Box office 0333 666 3366 Web bookings: www.ticketsource.co.uk/rondotheatre
DATE
SHOW
GENRE
13 – 17 Jan
Mother Goose and the Babes of Toyland
Community
20 Jan
D N A
Community
22 Jan
Poetry Can F*ck Off
Performance Poetry
23 Jan
Dickens Evening
Theatre
29 Jan
Waiting for Guffman
Film
30 Jan
Sean McLoughlin
Comedy
3 – 6 Feb
Quartette
Community
7 Feb
Ben Stock
Music
11 Feb
Tim Fitzhigham: The Gambler
Comedy
12 Feb
The Second Best Bed
Theatre
13 Feb
Sassparella
Music
17 – 20 Feb
Knives in Hens
Community
25 Feb
A Brief History of Music
Music/Comedy
26 Feb
Lady Connie and the Suffragettes
Theatre
27 Feb
London Philharmonic Skiffle Orchestra
Music/Comedy
2 – 5 Mar
Glitter Knickers
Theatre
9 – 12 Mar
Love the Rondo!
Community
17 Mar
Andrew O’Neill is Trapped Down a Well
Comedy
18 Mar
Dave Sharp
Music
19 Mar
Those Magnificent Men
Theatre
24 – 27 Mar
The Homeless Panda
Community
30 Mar
Dog Show
Comedy/Theatre
31 Mar
John Robins
Comedy
1 Apr
James Veitch: Dot Con
Comedy
2 Apr
George Egg – Anarchist Cook
Comedy
6 Apr
The Card Ninja
Comedy
7 Apr
Tony Jameson: Football Manager Ruined My Life
Comedy
8 Apr
Vivian Stanshall’s Sir Henry At Rawlinson End
Comedy
9 Apr
Otway And Barrett: The Final Straw
Comedy/Music