Ruddygore Or

The Witch’s Curse

Northampton Gilbert & Sullivan Group are thrilled to return to Royal & Derngate with their 69th Anniversary production, Ruddygore

Ruddygore is Gilbert & Sullivan’s well-loved satirical take on Victorian Melodrama, with a plot that has everything; ghosts, witches, curses, disguises, a wicked villain who tries to make off with the fair maiden, and of course, love.

Ruddygore follows the spooky goings-on in a peaceful Cornish fishing village, a painfully shy farmer, Robin Oakapple, trying to work up the courage to ask the beautiful Rose Maybud for her hand, a family secret that has the potential to change everything, and an ancient picture gallery brought to life to haunt its owner, much to the annoyance of the ancestral ghosts!

Under the direction of Leon Berger and musical direction of David Chambers, join us as ‘the night wind howls’ to cheer the hero, weep with the heroine and boo the villain as we head to the peaceful village of Rederring, and Gilbert & Sullivan’s supernatural opera Ruddygore, presented in its original version.

Mon 27 March – Sat 1 April

Eves 7.30pm

Sat Matinee 2.30pm

ROYAL

Tickets from £17

Concessions, Groups and Stage & Screen Members discounts

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“A LOT OF GIDDY FUN”

Daily Telegraph

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“A SWEET AND SLIGHTLY NUTTY CONFECTION”

Mail on Sunday

From the writer of Peter Pan, this delicious farce was such a sensation in its day that it gave its name to the UK’s most loved chocolates.

Phoebe Throssel runs a school for unruly children on Quality Street. Ten years since a tearful goodbye, an old flame returns from fighting Napoleon. But the look of disappointment on Captain Valentine’s face when he greets an older, less glamorous Phoebe spurs our determined heroine to action.

She becomes the wild and sparkling Miss Livvy, a younger alter-ego who soon beguiles the clueless Captain. As their romance is rekindled, can she juggle both personas? Or will the deception scandalise the town and wreck any future with the man she loves?

Northern Broadsides revive their hit regency comedy directed by Laurie Sansom (former Artistic Director at Royal & Derngate), stirring in a good helping of Yorkshire wit from the retired workers of the Halifax factory where Quality Street have been proudly made since 1936. Think Bridgerton meets Inside the Factory

Tue 4 – Sat 8 April

Eves 7.30pm

Thu & Sat Matinees 2.30pm

ROYAL

Tickets from £22

Concessions, Groups and Stage & Screen Members discounts

Sign Language Interpreted

Audio Described

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Dare to experience the dangers and delights of Dinosaur World Live in this roarsome interactive show for all the family.

Grab your compass and join our intrepid explorer across uncharted territories to discover a pre-historic world of astonishing (and remarkably life-like) dinosaurs. Meet a host of impressive creatures, including every child’s favourite flesh-eating giant, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, a Triceratops, Giraffatitan, Microraptor and Segnosaurus!

A special meet and greet after the show offers all our brave explorers the chance to make a new dinosaur friend.

Don’t miss this entertaining and mind-expanding jurassic adventure, live on stage. Book now before tickets become extinct!

Thu 6 – Sat 8 April

Thu 2pm, Fri & Sat 11am & 2pm

DERNGATE

Tickets from £15

Recommended for ages 3+

The National Theatre Connections Festival is a celebration of young people, theatre and the importance of access to the arts. Each year the National Theatre commissions a collection of new plays for young people to perform, bringing together some of the UK’s most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow.

Royal & Derngate hosts the largest and most diverse of the regional festivals that take place across the country, and we are delighted to welcome hundreds of young people to Northampton again this April. Groups from across the region will perform a host of exciting new plays, including Is My Microphone On? by Jordan Tannahill, Model Behaviour by Jon Brittain, Old Times by Molly Taylor, Strangers Like Me by Ed Harris, The Heights by Lisa McGee and Tuesday by Alison Carr.

Royal & Derngate’s own Young Company: Acting group will be taking part in the festival performing (Circle Dreams Around) The Terrible, Terrible Past by Simon Longman.

Tue 11 - Sun 16 April

Times vary, see website for details

ROYAL & UNDERGROUND

Tickets from £6