Theatre Royal Winchester Summer 2013

SUMMER April – August 2013 01962 840 440 theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk

DATE

7 April 26 April 28 April 30 April – 4 May 5 May 9 May 11 May 14 – 18 May 19 May 21 – 23 May 24 May 30 May 2 June 7 – 8 June 11 – 15 June 17 – 18 June 20 – 22 June 24 June 26 – 27 June 29 – 30 June 3 July 28 June – 6 July 4 July 7 July 11 – 13 July 5 – 7 July 14 July 15 July 19 – 20 July 22 July 24 July 28 – 31 August

SHOW

Stage Fright/Winchester Film Festival Barb Jungr The Treecreepers and the Hunt for the Goblin King Rutherford & Son The Girl with the Iron Claws Marilyn Gets Up Being Tommy Cooper Winchester Operatic Society – Billy Greg Davies: The Back of my Mum’s Head SOLD OUT Teechers Andy Parsons: I’ve Got a Shed SOLD OUT The Articulate Hand The Waving Cat of Japan Integr8 Dance Off 2013 Two Gentlemen of Verona Don Pasquale Trash Cuisine A Year and A Day Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom A Big City Night’s Dream The Witches Memory Point(s) Waiting for Godot Winchester District Showcase The Hotel Hat Fair Winchester Festival Winnall Rock School Persuasion (Chicago Chamber Opera) Back to the 80s Wessex Dance Academy Anything Goes

TIMES

8.00pm 8.00pm 11.00am, 1.00pm and 3.00pm 1.30pm (Thurs), 2.30pm (Sat) and 8.00pm 2.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 2.30pm (Sat) and 7.30pm 8.00pm 1.30pm (Wed) and 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 11.00am and 2.00pm 5.00pm (Sun) and 7.00pm (Fri and Sat) 1.30pm (Thurs), 2.30pm (Sat) and 8.00pm 7.30pm 1.30pm (Fri) and 8.00pm 6.30pm, 7.45pm and 9.00pm 10.00am, 1.00pm and 4.00pm 3.00pm (Sat) and 7.00pm (Fri) 7.30pm Times vary 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm All day 7.00pm TBC 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm

ARTFORM

Film Music Children’s Drama Children’s Theatre Comedy Drama Community Performance Comedy Drama Comedy Theatrical Lecture Children’s Community Dance Drama Opera Drama Young Theatre Royal Children’s Community Dance Young Theatre Royal Dance/Drama/Music/Visual Arts Hire Young Theatre Royal Farce Street Festival Music Community Music Hire Young Theatre Royal Community Dance Hire

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Here comes Summer!

Probably the most exciting news for this season is that Theatre Royal Winchester has joined forces with the Hat Fair in a collaboration which will allow independent artistic control and funding, whilst sharing resources.

For more information on this year’s Hat Fair festival please turn to pages 18 and 19 or visit www.hatfair.co.uk

Our Back Garden Café is the ideal place to meet with friends or colleagues. We serve a wonderful and varied vegetarian menu using all locally sourced ingredients. Why not drop in for morning coffee or lunch when you book your theatre tickets at the Box Office? What’s more, the Café offers a 10% discount to all Theatre ticket holders on performance days (terms and conditions apply).

And don’t forget to keep abreast of all the Theatre Royal news and views and a look behind the scenes, on Facebook (TRWinchester), Twitter (@TRWinchester) and YouTube.

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Theatre Royal Winchester is delighted to bring you the new jam-packed Summer 2013 programme filled with fabulous shows and entertainment for all ages to enjoy.

SUNDAY 7 APRIL DOORS OPEN

7.30PM

SCREENING

8.00PM

Winchester Film Festival 2013 presents

STAGE FRIGHT

As part of the 2013 Winchester Film Festival, we are proud to present Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery thriller Stage Fright at Theatre Royal Winchester. With plenty of surprises in store, you will need to book early for this!

Tickets are £5.00 each and are available from www.winchesterfilmfest.com All proceeds will be donated to Winchester Youth Counselling.

Film running time: 110 minutes www.winchesterfilmfest.com

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‘Barb Jungr continues to justify her reputation as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of song with her latest album, Stockport to Memphis.’ ★★★★ Indie London FRIDAY 26 APRIL

8.00PM

BARB JUNGR Long acknowledged as a unique interpreter of popular song and one of Britain’s top singers, award-winning performer Barb Jungr has brought her own writing and interpretation of great songs together in this fabulous new collection featuring some of her favourite songwriters.

This is Barb Jungr like you’ve never heard her before in a deeply soulful, richly groove-laden show which explores 4

Jungr’s trajectory from the roots of her European upbringing in the Northwest of England to her international cult status as one of the great song stylists through a musical prism of soul, blues and jazz. www.barbjungr.com

Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £16.00 Concessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £14.50 Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £14.00

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SUNDAY 28 APRIL

11.00AM, 1.00PM AND 3.00PM

THE TREECREEPERS AND THE HUNT FOR THE GOBLIN KING Through the bushes and the trees, the tawny owls and the leaves the TreeCreepers have received a message.

A message that has led them to uncover an ancient prophecy that predicts a Goblin King is on his way to Winchester. It is said that he plans to enchant the Theatre Royal on 28 April 2013! But do not panic… the TreeCreepers have the skills to save it but they cannot do it alone. They are recruiting valiant and courageous kin to help them on their quest.

The TreeCreepers believe that with your help, through making and creating,

tasks and challenges, dancing and riddles, excitement and thrills they will be able to save the Theatre Royal. So book now and join them.

Step inside this fun interactive adventure and become part of the expedition to help the TreeCreepers to banish the Goblin King and teach him a lesson!

Parents are included.

Age recommendation: 5+ www.tree-creeper.co.uk Tickets

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‘Rutherford & Son is again a must-see, worth-debating event.’

TUESDAY 30 APRIL – SATURDAY 4 MAY

8.00PM

MATINÉE (SATURDAY)

2.30PM

PRE-SHOW LECTURE 2 MAY

6.15PM

MATINÉE (THURSDAY)

1.30PM

POST-SHOW DISCUSSION 2 MAY AFTER 1.30PM MATINÉE

★★★★ The Daily Telegraph

Free but please reserve a place when booking your ticket as places are limited

★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★ The Times ★★★★ The Sunday Times

Northern Broadsides presents

Rutherford & Son

by Githa Sowerby edited for Northern Broadsides

by Blake Morrison

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Your father is a control freak The family business is a millstone round your neck Home feels like a prison And yet you have dreams…

This powerful drama written and set in the North of England, 1912, is an unflinching portrayal of an industrial Edwardian family on the brink of collapse.

John Rutherford is a tyrannical patriarch, blind to the hopes and feelings of his family. The success of the family-owned glassworks, Rutherford & Son, takes precedence over everything… even happiness.

In a household run on fear, cracks begin to appear. The emotional pitch builds up like a pressure cooker. The dramatic voltage intensifies as Rutherford’s absolute authority is challenged and a catastrophic family mutiny begins to unfold, threatening to destroy his world and his factory.

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Directed by Jonathan Miller and designed by Isabella Bywater

‘Imaginative, haunting and at times darkly comic.’

‘A fantastical world that has all the fresh, unusual and sinister appeal of wandering into a fairy-tale for the first time.’

ThreeWeeks

The Scotsman

THURSDAY 9 MAY

8.00PM

MARILYN GETS UP SUNDAY 5 MAY

2.00PM

THE GIRL WITH THE IRON CLAWS Showing at Winchester Discovery Centre Growing up isn’t easy, especially when you’re in love with a bear.

Following a sell-out success at Edinburgh 2011 and a critically-acclaimed tour of the UK and Ireland during 2012, comes this dark fairytale about a wayward girl who dares to follow her longing. Stunning puppetry, enchanting music and deft humour combine in this fierce coming-of-age story. www.wrongcrowdtheatre.co.uk Age recommendation: not suitable for under 8s Tickets 6

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by ShadyJane A re-imagining of the most imagined woman on earth, fifty years on from her death.

It is with an unashamed wink that Total Theatre Award winning company ShadyJane take a good hard look at the legacy of the 20th century’s most iconic female. With their imaginative blend of old and new, they bring a nod to classic movie star glamour with just the right amount of tackiness to sink your teeth into. Combining visual storytelling, stunning projection with a vintage twist

and an original score fit for the big screen, this might be a story you know, but definitely not one you have seen before.

Pucker up for this dark and dazzling tale of Marilyn Monroe: the woman that we have gazed at for so long, her image has burned into the back of our eyelids.

A show with lights, cameras and plenty of action. www.shadyjane.co.uk Twitter/shadyjanetweets Facebook/shadyjanespeaks Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .£12.00 Schools/Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £10.00

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‘Fresh and captivating.’

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SATURDAY 11 MAY

8.00PM

BEING

COOPER Las Vegas, 1954. In a small hotel room the up-and-coming Tommy Cooper faces the prospect of his first big failure. With the show closing and a warring relationship with his manager, Tommy finds an offer on the table and a drink in his hand.

Powerful, provocative, painfully funny and true, Green’s astonishing play finds both the brilliance in Britain’s most famous comic and explores the pressures and loneliness of fame. The man who could make you laugh just by walking on to stage comes vividly alive in this confrontational new play.

The play also tells the story of three other people in Tommy’s life. There’s his dour Scottish manager Miff Ferrie, with whom Tommy is locked in what he calls ‘a hate-hate relationship’. We meet Billy

Glason, a one-time vaudeville act who has set himself the almost impossible task of selling Cooper a huge collection of jokes. And, finally, there is Mary Kay – the woman who Tommy fell in love with and came to rely on. There was only one woman she couldn’t compete with: Tommy’s wife. This excellent cast brings the Tommy Cooper legend vividly to life in this award-nominated production.

Being Tommy Cooper by Tom Green, stars Damian Williams as Tommy Cooper.

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TUESDAY 14 – SATURDAY 18 MAY MATINÉE (SATURDAY)

7.30PM

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2.30PM

Winchester Operatic Society presents

BILLY (A musical based on Billy Liar) Winchester Operatic Society continues its centenary year with the musical Billy – based on the novel Billy Liar.

Life is very complicated for our Billy!

He is desperate to break out from his mundane life as an undertaker’s clerk in sixties Yorkshire – where he is courting at least two, possibly three, eligible young ladies who each have their eye on an elusive engagement ring! He escapes to various extravagant fantasies in his wonderfully vivid imagination – one minute he’s a glamorous Oscar-winning Hollywood movie star, the next he’s a famous Rock’n’Roll songster and sometimes even President of his own invented country – where only he gets to make up all the rules! But when will his tangled web of outrageous lies come crashing down around his ankles, and what will become of Billy Liar…?!

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With an amusing and witty script by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (The Likely Lads and Auf Wiedersehen Pet) Billy has outstanding songs, hilarious dialogue and big musical routines!

This show contains some mildly offensive language.

A musical based on the novel ‘Billy Liar’

by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall Music by John Barry Lyrics by Don Black Book by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £14.50 Concessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £13.50 Groups (of 15 or over) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .£12.00 Opening night offer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Two tickets for £24.00

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SUNDAY 19 MAY

8.00PM

GREG DAVIES: THE BACK OF MY MUM’S HEAD Star of BAFTA award-winning The Inbetweeners and BBC Three’s Cuckoo, muchloved towering beacon of comedy Greg Davies is one of the most successful standups in the UK. Following a sold-out 2012 tour and due to popular demand, Greg’s critically-acclaimed and riotously funny show, The Back of My Mum’s Head, comes to Theatre Royal Winchester.

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‘One of the most innovative, audacious companies working in contemporary English theatre.’

The Stage

TUESDAY 21 – Kindly sponsored by

Blackeyed Theatre, in association with South Hill Park, presents

THURSDAY 23 MAY

MATINÉE (WEDNESDAY)

8.00PM

PRE-SHOW LECTURE 22 MAY POST-SHOW DISCUSSION

1.30PM 6.15PM

22 MAY AFTER 1.30PM MATINÉE

TEECHERS

Free but please reserve a place when booking your ticket as places are limited

by John Godber

breathtaking ensemble performances, Teechers paints a very funny, and at times touching, picture of school life. A hilarious, feelgood classroom classic that remains as relevant as ever!

Teechers is John Godber’s brilliant take on life at a modern Comprehensive.

Through their hilarious end-of-term play, three Year 11s exuberantly tell the story of their inspirational new drama teacher, Mr Nixon, and the life-changing effect he has on his pupils. When he departs, disillusioned, for the safe waters of a private school, their youthful irreverence gives way to despair.

Brought to the stage by highly acclaimed Blackeyed Theatre with high energy, break-neck comedy and

Age Recommendation: 12+ Running time: 100 minutes approx.

Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £16.00 Concessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £14.50 Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £14.00 Matinée . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .£12.00 Schools/Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £11.00 Friends opening night offer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Two full tickets for the price of one

‘Andy Parsons’ lethal mixture of anger and ridicule leaves the Big Society in tatters.’

The Times

FRIDAY 24 MAY

8.00PM

ANDY PARSONS: I’VE GOT A SHED To date Andy has done three sell-out National tours and in 2009 released his debut DVD ‘Britain’s Got Idiots’, which was followed up by ‘Gruntled’ in 2011. Andy started in TV on Spitting Image becoming one of the main writers before embarking on a stand-up career which has led to such shows as Mock the Week and Live at the Apollo. This, his fourth show, is his favourite yet. Come and get your dopamine fix.

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THURSDAY 30 MAY

8.00PM

PRE-SHOW LECTURE

6.15PM

POST-SHOW DISCUSSION

Free but please reserve a place when booking your ticket as places are limited

THE ARTICULATE HAND Performed by Andrew Dawson Our hands are more than just tools; they are a vital part of our personalities. Andrew Dawson presents the human hand in all its subtlety and complexity. With insight and humour, he conveys what miraculous and expressive devices our hands really are.

With a mix of live performance, interviews, old movie clips and music, Andrew Dawson works with neuroscientist and author Jonathan Cole to uncover the grace, beauty and psychological consequences of impairments of the hand. The Articulate Hand is the perfect bridge between the layperson and the scientist.

For the former it provides a fascinating insight into neurology; for the latter it puts flesh on the dry bones of theory. www.thearticulatehand.com Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £17.00 Concessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £15.50 Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £15.00 Schools/Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.00 10

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SUNDAY 2 JUNE

11.00AM AND 2.00PM

The Krazy Kat Theatre Company (Sign Language Arts) present

THE WAVING CAT OF JAPAN Showing at Winchester Discovery Centre Maneki Neko ‘The Waving Cat’, of whom there are many folk tales and legends, is the Japanese catshaped figurine that is said to bring good luck.

In this visually exciting new Sign Language Arts creation, Krazy Kat celebrate their thirtieth year by presenting a spectacular traditional Japanese puppetstyle theatrical fantasy. A tropical storm, a wicked Sorceress, a not so smart Prince and three tricky tasks to perform before midnight? Yikes! Luckily, Maneki Neko the Waving Cat is on hand, or paw, to help…

Age recommendation: children aged 3–7 years and their families Running time: 55 minutes Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £6.00

FRIDAY 7 JUNE AND SATURDAY 8 JUNE SUNDAY 9 JUNE

7.00PM

5.00PM

INTEGR8 DANCE OFF 2013 Join Integr8 Dance for three nights of entertaining street dance.

Covering all styles from locking to popping and house to breaking, groups from all over Hampshire come together to share their talents.

Featuring groups from local schools as well as our street dance academies, this is a great community show, giving children and young people in the south, the chance to demonstrate what they can do.

Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £10.00 Concessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £8.00

TUESDAY 11 – SATURDAY 15 JUNE

8.00PM

MATINÉE (SATURDAY)

2.30PM

PRE-SHOW LECTURE 13 JUNE

6.15PM

MATINÉE (THURSDAY)

POST-SHOW DISCUSSION 13 JUNE AFTER 1.30PM MATINÉE

1.30PM

‘If you’ve never found Shakespeare’s comedies funny, do try this.’ ★★★★The Guardian

Free but please reserve a place when booking your ticket as places are limited

Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory Directed by Andrew Hilton Bristol’s nationally renowned company makes its first visit to Theatre Royal Winchester with this darkly comic early romance in which friendship and love, and loyalty and betrayal are the real players.

Two lifelong friends – the two young gentlemen of the title – are parted first by circumstance, and then by rivalry in love. Can their loyalty to each other survive the test, or will new loyalties drive out the old? How deep into perfidy can one be driven by sexual obsession?

And what do even the most adored of women count for in a profoundly masculine world? Shakespeare’s vision is both comic and shocking – and extraordinarily modern.

In 2001 SATTF won a National award – the Empty Space/Peter Brook Award – and the company’s reputation spread throughout the UK and beyond. www.sattf.org.uk Running time: approx. 2 hrs 30 mins (including interval)

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Two Gentlemen of Verona William Shakespeare

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MONDAY 17 – TUESDAY 18 JUNE

7.30PM

PRE-SHOW LECTURE 18 JUNE

6.00PM

Free but please reserve a place when booking your ticket as places are limited

Don Pasquale Swansea City Opera makes a welcome return with a production of Donizetti’s popular and uproarious comic opera, Don Pasquale.

Beautifully staged in English with elegant 1840s costumes, and performed by some of the finest singers and orchestral players in the country, Don Pasquale contains some of Donizetti’s most beautiful music and makes for an enchanting and hilarious evening’s entertainment – a feast for the eyes and ears.

There will be a pre-performance talk about the opera and production at 6.15pm, given by the Artistic Director of Swansea City Opera, Brendan Wheatley.

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THURSDAY 20 – SATURDAY 22 JUNE

8.00PM

MATINÉE (FRIDAY)

Belarus Free Theatre presents

1.30PM

PRE-SHOW LECTURE 21 JUNE

6.15PM

POST-SHOW DISCUSSION 21 JUNE AFTER 1.30PM MATINÉE

Trash Cuisine Free but please reserve a place when booking your ticket as places are limited

Written by Nicolai Khalezin and Natalia Kaliada Directed by Nicolai Khalezin Original Score by Arkadiy Yushin

PENDING FUNDING

Trash Cuisine is a dynamic, affecting and innovative piece of theatre devised and developed from first degree research collected in Asia, Africa, the USA and Europe by Belarus Free Theatre with the support of Amnesty International.

Using live music, choreography, acting talent from Belarus, the USA, UK and Australia and stunning visual imagery, BFT have created an inventive and moving drama where food becomes a multi-faceted metaphor for life, death, morality and human endurance…

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience a provocative and heartbreaking show from the bravest theatre company in the world.

Trash Cuisine was researched and developed with support from Amnesty International and the European Cultural Foundation.

Age recommendation: 14+ due to full male/female nudity and strong content Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) is a company of 25 people – some in Minsk, some in London – who are one of the very few hopes for the intellectual and artistic freedom of the 10 million people of Belarus.

As well as the work they do to promote freedom of expression within Belarus, they seek to effect change for others around the world. The founders of the company sought political asylum in the UK in 2011 and created a new part of the company in London, while continuing their work with the permanent ensemble left behind in Minsk who perform and tour around the world as Belarus Free Theatre.

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WEDNESDAY 26 – THURSDAY 27 JUNE

10.00AM, 1.00PM AND 4.00PM

MONDAY 24 JUNE

6.30PM, 7.45PM AND 9.00PM

Faded Image Theatre (Young Theatre Royal) presents

A YEAR AND A DAY

by Christina Reid Listen to a terrifying tale of love and loss.

In an ancient garden, hear the story of the two tribes who fought long ago, and of the two ghosts who still haunt the earth.

This fully immersive performance holds the nature of humanity to the light, and questions its desire to fight and separate.

What? You’re not scared of the dark, are you? Big boys and girls like you?

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Faded Image Theatre is a Young Theatre Royal company. For more information call Ryan on 01962 844 600 ext 208 or visit www.theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk/ participation/young Age recommendation: Under 12s must be accompanied by an adult Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £6.00 (unreserved standing)

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BEN AND HOLLY’S LITTLE KINGDOM ‘Somewhere, hidden amongst the thorny brambles is a little kingdom where everyone is very very small…’

From the makers of Peppa Pig comes this BAFTA award-winning television animation for the first time ever live on stage!

Holly is a young Fairy Princess, who is still learning how to fly and her magic doesn’t always go quite according to plan. Her best friend, Ben the Elf, doesn’t have wings and he doesn’t do magic, but he runs very fast and flies on the back of Gaston the Ladybird. They live in the Little Kingdom, a tiny land where flowers and grass rise high above

them and every day is an adventure.

Join Ben and Holly, and their friends on this exciting musical adventure packed full of games, songs and laughter on an enchanting journey through the Magical Kingdom. With actors, masks and colourful costumes, this beautiful story of elves, princesses and childhood innocence will delight the whole family. www.benandhollylive.com

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FRIDAY 29 JUNE

SATURDAY 30 JUNE

7.00PM

3.00PM

A BIG CITY NIGHT’S DREAM Presented by Integr8 Dance

WEDNESDAY 3 JULY

In the penthouse suite of an apartment in New York a group of friends are planning for an important party. Young Hermia, daughter of a wealthy politician, and Lysander are helping with the preparations, but Hermia’s father is unhappy with their blossoming friendship and has a better suited partner in mind… Demetrius.

Demetrius is every girl’s dream and has a flock of young girls following him wherever he goes. One girl in particular who is besotted with him is Helena and she will do anything to win his affection.

As the story develops, all four lovers flee into the night finding themselves in a dark and more sinister part of the city. Here mischievous fairies decide to meddle with the lovers’ lives and chaos ensues.

Will all be restored before the party day arrives…?

Join Integr8 Dance school for a night of street dance and cheerleading. Young performers will keep you entertained and amazed, while they lead you on a journey through their own hip hop adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Acting Up (Young Theatre Royal) presents

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7.30PM

THE WITCHES

by Roald Dahl

Adapted for the stage by David Wood Witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. There’s nothing they hate so much as children, and they’ll try anything to get rid of them, however they can.

When an orphaned girl and her grandmother take a holiday to the seaside they stumble upon the Annual Witches Convention and discover their

evil plan to turn all the children of the world into mice.

Dahl’s trademark cleverness and sense of the grotesque is loud and clear in this hugely comical adventure to stop the gruesome cronies in their evil aims.

Acting Up is a Young Theatre Royal company. For more information call Ryan on 01962 844 600 ext 208 or visit www.theatreroyalwinchester. co.uk/participation/young Tickets

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‘I’d really been part of something unique and was charmed and enriched in equal measures.’

Total Theatre

FRIDAY 28 JUNE – SATURDAY 6 JULY

Platform4 presents

MEMORY POINT(S) We invite you to explore the unseen spaces of Theatre Royal Winchester.

Wearing headphones, you will be guided by a unique soundtrack; along corridors, up and down stairs, looping around and about, retracing footsteps, whilst encountering beautiful miniinstallations using film, shadow, light, and costume.

Become part of the performance yourself and experience a musical mystery tour, a reflection on memory, and a chance to lose yourself behind the scenes.

‘Platform 4’s strong visual approach creates rough magic.’

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Winchester has been Platform 4’s home for 15 years but this is the first time they have premiered at the Theatre Royal.

Memory Point(s) extends their work with the Alzheimer’s Society and has been inspired by the people they met along the way. Catch this very special sitespecific piece. www.platform4.org/memorypoint.htm Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £12.50 Concessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £10.00 FRI 28 JUNE MON 1 JULY THU 4 JULY

3.00PM, 4.30PM, 6.30PM

7.45PM AND 9.00PM 11.00AM, 5.00PM

6.45PM, 8.00PM, 9.15PM 11.00AM AND 12.15PM

FRI 5 JULY

5.00PM, 6.15PM, 7.30PM

SAT 6 JULY

5.30PM, 6.45PM, 8.00PM

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8.45PM AND 10.00PM 9.15PM AND 10.30PM

THURSDAY 4 JULY

7.30PM

PRE-SHOW LECTURE 4 JULY

5.00PM

Free but please reserve a place when booking your ticket as places are limited

WAITING FOR GODOT This charity fundraiser in aid of Age UK Winchester unites the themes of memory and growing older brought to the Theatre Royal by Platform 4’s Memory Point(s), formed from work with the Alzheimer’s Society (see left).

All are welcome to the pre-show talk on Memory and Theatre at 5.00pm on 4 July.

Performed by the Miracle Theatre Company Directed by Bill Scott Once famously described as a play in which nothing happens – twice!

Miracle Theatre proves that Waiting for Godot is actually one of the most profound, moving and funny plays ever

written. Both deadly serious and seriously funny, Beckett’s timeless masterpiece explores what makes us tick with clarity, dramatic force and genuine humour. What better way to enjoy this perfect remedy for disillusion?

Age recommendation: 10+ Children must be accompanied by an adult Sponsored by: Barclays and Talk Design and Print Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £16.00 Concessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £14.50 Friends and members of Age UK Winchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £13.50 Students/children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £11.00

‘An extraordinary triumph.’

The Stage on Blue Apple’s Hamlet (2012)

SUNDAY 7 JULY

THURSDAY 11 – SATURDAY 13 JULY

7.30PM

Bishop’s Waltham Drama Group, Bishop’s Waltham Youth Theatre, Denmead Drama Group, Denmead Youth Theatre, West Meon Juniors, West Meon Seniors, Whitchurch Drama Group (Young Theatre Royal) present

WINCHESTER DISTRICT SHOWCASE Join us for an evening of adventure, mystery and fun as young people from throughout the Winchester District take to the stage to showcase their creativity and imagination.

Developed by the participants and their Directors, every performance is different but each ensures that fun and enjoyment is at the heart of the show.

All the groups performing are part of Young Theatre Royal. For more information call Ryan on 01962 844 600 ext 208 or visit www. theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk/ participation/young

Tickets

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£8.00

7.30PM

Presented by Blue Apple Theatre

THE HOTEL

An uproarious new farce inspired by the comedic genius of Georges Feydeau.

Featuring improbable situations, mistaken identity, comic disaster, general pandemonium…

In The Hotel, love is tested, confusion reigns and the most unlikely partners find themselves thrown together in a night of intrigue and chaos.

Blue Apple Theatre showcases the talents of actors and dancers with learning disabilities. Formed 8 years

ago, the company has now grown to a membership of over 70 and in 2012–13 performed to over 3,500 people. www.blueappletheatre.com Written by William Jessop Choreographed by Jo Harris Directed by Peter Clerke Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £11.00 Concessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £9.00 Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £8.50

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FRIDAY 5 – SUNDAY 7 JULY ALL AROUND THE CITY OF WINCHESTER

Across the city Mercurial Wrest

ler

Hatters, dancers, musicians and street artists are just round the next corner.

There are pitches around the city where all kinds of dare devilry and out-of-theordinary performance are taking place.

Prepare to laugh, gasp and be amazed!

Sit back and enjoy the best that street theatre can offer. And don’t forget to put some money in the hat.

Commotion dance

A New Collaboration Now in its 39th year, Hat Fair, the UK’s longest running street festival and one of Winchester’s leading cultural events, has joined forces with Theatre Royal Winchester to build a strong future for the arts in the region. The collaboration will allow the internationally renowned street festival to build on its successes as well as explore new avenues, bringing the very best of global street arts and performance to the city and its summer visitors.

Come and celebrate with the whole city as Winchester leads the way in the finest outdoor festival to hit the streets.

Most events take place all around the city for free.

Just put some money in the hat, which is how Hat Fair got its name. On Sunday 7 July Hat Fair moves to Oram’s Arbour for a day of relaxed picnicing and more wonderful shows.

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I Do

Some of the fabulous events and performers already heading for Hat Fair 2013 are:

Ponydance

Mercurial W restler

Collectif Malunés, Whalley Range Allstars, Bad Taste Cru, Etta Ermini, Ramshacklicious, Wet Picnic, Derek Mcalister, Fraser Hooper, Cie Scopitone, Motionhouse, Lords of Strut, Frolicked, Pif Paf, Leapin Louie, Les Enfants Terribles and Rag and Bone Many more exciting performers and acts will be confirmed in the leadup to Hat Fair weekend. For more information visit www.hatfair.co.uk

BUY TICKETS FOR:

I Do

For young families (5–6 July)

For the very young (5–6 July)

If you want your toddlers and pre-school In the High Tea Theatre Tent, primary children to have a share of the Hat Fair school children and their families can fun, look no further than Small Wonders! enjoy more Hat Fair madness away This collaboration between Hat Fair, the from the crush. There will be plenty of Theatre Royal and Winchester Discovery interactive comedy walkabout and lots Centre, presents a programme of activities, of scrummy cake, so enjoy the sweetness entertainment and performance for preof your youngsters being endlessly schoolers and their families. Look for the entertained and let Hat Fair take the grassy piazza outside the Discovery Centre for strain. Theatre has never been more make-and-do activities, sandpits and yummy enjoyable for parents and children as we things to eat. Commotion Dance will invite serve up some fine performance from your little ones to dance and paint and Plunge the tea trollies of life and a good oldBoom will introduce them to a little family of fashioned cuppa. Tickets £13.00. cute baby vegetables who need cuddling. Book Family ticket: £36.00 including high tea. your two hour slot. Tickets £11.00.

Hidden Hat Fair Sometimes Hat Fair ventures to unexpected places, so that the familiar suddenly takes on a whole new perspective. See right for details of these ticketed events which include Small Wonders, I Do presented by Dante or Die, Memory Point(s) presented

by Platform 4, Where Did It All Go Right? by Ponydance, Mercurial Wrestler by Magna Mysteria and the High Tea Theatre Tent.

Presented by Dante or Die. Six rooms in a local hotel provide the setting for pre-wedding turmoil. The ceremony begins in ten minutes. The Best Man is practising his speech, considering whether or not to tell the truth. The Bridesmaids are squeezing the bride into her dress. Mum and Dad are filling envelopes with cash, whilst the groom’s brother is getting frisky with the maid of honour. Meanwhile, the Groom is frozen.

Tickets £16.00. Concessions £11.00.

Memory Point(s) Presented by Platform 4. This magical mystery tour based on memories too precious to lose will lead you backstage and all around the Theatre Royal to unseen spaces. The beautifully crafted interactive piece allows you to lose yourself in an intriguing journey punctuated by soundtrack, music, light, costume, installation and film. For ticket prices see page 16.

Where did it all go right?

Presented by Ponydance. In a pre-club performance on a local dance floor, Irish comedy dance troupe Ponydance bring their high octane, high energy moving, grooving comedy to Hat Fair for the first time. Tickets £13.00. Concessions £11.00.

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Mercurial Wrestler

For ticketed events call the Theatre Royal Winchester box office on 01962 840440 or visit theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk

Presented by Magna Mysteria. This unique piece of immersive audience-led performance plays on the desire to be mistaken about how the world works and is inspired by the ability to make the impossible, possible. It is a world where Victorian-style magic mixes with digital technology. The audience holds the key to The Magician’s whereabouts. Be enchanted!

Tickets £16.00. Concessions £11.00.

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FRIDAY 19 AND SATURDAY 20 JULY 7.30PM PRE-SHOW LECTURE 19 JULY

6.15PM

Free but please reserve a place when booking your ticket as places are limited Jane Austen’s

PERSUASION SUNDAY 14 JULY

A new musical drama presented by the Chicago Chamber Opera

7.00PM

Winchester Festival

A new musical adaptation of one of Jane Austen’s most admired novels – the story of a woman who has loved and minor Piano Quartet, before expanding lost and gets a second chance. to five for Schubert's beautifully melodic Persuasion focuses on the regret and ‘Trout Quintet’. A dream loneliness of the heroine, Anne Elliot, programme of who has rejected NEWS FLASH music for a Summer a proposal of Sunday, this is marriage from bound to be a the one man she popular concert. truly loved. Anne had allowed Booking for this herself to be concert will open on persuaded by her Monday 13 May snobbish family’s convictions FOR DETAILS CONTACT Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . that Captain THE BOX OFFICE 01962 840 440 . . . . . . . £22.00/£20.00 Wentworth was

THE NASH ENSEMBLE Haydn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Piano Trio in G HXV 25 ‘Gipsy Rondo’ Brahms . . . . . . . . . . . Piano Quartet in G minor Schubert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Piano Quintet in A major ‘The Trout’ For the final event of this year’s Winchester Festival, the Theatre Royal will be hosting ‘chamber music royalty’ in the form of the Nash Ensemble, a group that is as flexible in line-up as it is masterly in performance. Starting with three players in Haydn’s carefree Trio that concludes with the ‘Gypsy Rondo’, they progress to four in Brahms’ ebullient G 20

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WINNALL ROCK SCHOOL… return

on 15 July for their spectacular end of year show!

unworthy, but after a separation of eight years, the tables have turned. Anne is nearly an old maid and her once rich family is on the verge of bankruptcy, and Captain Wentworth returns from sea with both rank and fortune. Can he forgive her for being persuaded to break off their engagement rather than following her heart? And can their lost love be rekindled? One of the most powerful love stories ever written, it will leave you breathless!

Original adaptation by Barbara Landis Featuring songs from Jane Austen’s manuscripts and music of the period Fully staged with chamber orchestra and beautiful Regency costumes Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £14.00 Concessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £10.00

WEDNESDAY 28 – SATURDAY 31 AUGUST

7.30 PM

Presented by RicNic Hampshire

MONDAY 22 JULY

ANYTHING GOES

7.30PM

All aboard for RicNic’s tenth sensational show!

Spicy Penguin Theatre, Acting for Stage (Young Theatre Royal) present

BACK TO THE 80s A musical by Neil Gooding Additional material by Stuart Smith Revised orchestrations and arrangements by Brett Foster Original musical adaptation by Scott Copeman This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited Back to the 80s, set in the era that is most remembered for its dodgy hair styles and cheesy tunes, tells the story that is the adventure of heartbreak and growing up.

With a track list of Walking on Sunshine, Video Killed the Radio Star and You Give Love a Bad Name, throw in a Star Wars dream sequence, blue eyeshadow and twenty cans of hairspray, and you have a musical that will delight and amuse.

Spicy Penguin Theatre and Acting for Stage are Young Theatre Royal companies.

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WEDNESDAY 24 JULY

7.00PM

WESSEX DANCE ACADEMY Wessex Dance Academy returns to celebrate the achievements of its latest cohort. Performing three new pieces of Contemporary dance along with new work from the Wessex Boys : Wessex Girls.

Wessex Dance Academy uses intensive professional contemporary dance training to transform the lives of our most vulnerable young people and this special evening is their graduation performance.

Award-winning youth theatre company RicNic presents Anything Goes, one of the finest and most adored musicals ever to hit the stage or the ocean!

The S.S. American, sailing from New York to England, is filled with a strange mix of passengers, from criminals to aristocrats, debutantes to businessmen, night-club singers to hopeless romantics – and of course a rowdy crew and a stowaway or two for good measure! Cole Porter’s inimitable score brings their trials and tribulations to life as they cross the sea – and each other. With a host of fantastic songs including Easy to Love, I Get A Kick Out Of You, Friendship, Blow Gabriel Blow and of course the famous title number, Anything Goes is the ultimate family musical.

RicNic Hampshire is a genuine youth theatre group – a unique social enterprise where young people really do get to run the show.

For information, please visit www.ricnic.org.uk or e-mail contact@ricnic.org.uk.

This is an amateur production produced by arrangement with Music Scope and Stage Musical LTD of New York Music and lyrics by Cole Porter Original book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton New Book by Timothy Crouse & John Weidman and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse Originally produced by Lincoln Centre Theatre, New York Ticket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £14.00 Concessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £10.00

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‘Wonderful. Moving.

Imaginative. Energetic.

Inspirational.’

Audience feedback on a previous performance

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Lectures and discussions To enhance your enjoyment of productions in the Summer season, academics and researchers from the University of Winchester will deliver a series of pre-show discussions. All are welcome.

Please reserve your free place by calling the box office as places are limited.

PERFORMANCE

PRE-SHOW

TITLE

HOST

POST-SHOW

Rutherford & Son

by Northern Broadsides

6.15pm on 2 May

The New Woman in Githa Sowerby’s Rutherford & Son

Dr Gary Farnell

2 May after the matinee

Teechers by John Godber

6.15pm on 22 May

Lost Hair or Lost Hope

Dr Peter Billingham

22 May after the matinee

The Articulate Hand (Andrew Dawson)

6.15pm on 30 May

The Facts of a Gesture : Presence and Meaning in Performance

Philip Stanier

30 May

Two Gentlemen of Verona

6.15pm on 13 June

Incontinent Dogs and Outlaws

Steve Hall

13 June after the matinee

Don Pasquale

6.00pm on 18 June

Meet the Director

Brendan Wheatley

No post show

Trash Cuisine

by Belarus Free Theatre

6.15pm on 21 June

Defying Oppression: theatre, citizenship and the return of totalitarianism

Dr Philip Hager

21 June after the matinee

Memory Point(s)

by Platform 4

5.00pm on 4 July

Memory and Theatre

Dr Helen Grime and Dr Richard Cuming

No post show

Persuasion

by Chicago Chamber Opera

6.15pm on 19 July

Meet the Director

Nick Sandys

No post show

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Coming this Autumn AUTUMN 2013 COMEDY FESTIVAL THURSDAY 3 –

SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER

Back by popular demand, we have commissioned for your delectation a delicious spread of some of the sharpest, wittiest comedians on the circuit, including: Doc Brown, the rapper turned comedian from The Inbetweeners, Rev and Miranda; Isy Suttie, star of Channel 4 hit Peep Show and BBC’s Whites, and Nina Conti who brings us the award-winning and unique blend of stand-up and ventriloquism that has carved her a niche on the international and the domestic comedy circuit – and others to be announced…

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE MONDAY 7 – SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER

The breathtaking all-male version of Anthony Burgess’s literary masterpiece comes to Winchester following its successful season in London’s Soho Theatre.

MOTIONHOUSE – BROKEN FRIDAY 25 – SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER

Motionhouse is renowned for spectacular dance theatre. Rooted in dance, this stunning performance of Broken draws on theatre, circus, acrobatics and film. The company is second to none for its ambitious experimentation with the performance environment and developing large scale spectacles in which setting, action and context collide.

THE BLUES BAND WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER

The Blues Band, featuring Paul Jones, Tom McGuinness, Dave Kelly, Gary Fletcher and Rob Townsend, is held in admiration by generations of rhythm and blues fans and this show features hits from the band’s new album Few Short Lines.

FRANKO B – BECAUSE OF LOVE VOLUME 1 THURSDAY 31 OCTOBER

Franko B presents his new multi-disciplinary performance. Central to the work is the idea of the sentimentality of memory – the emotional charge and romanticism often applied to our experience of remembering culture.

PANTOMIME 2013!!!

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES

WEDNESDAY 11 DECEMBER – SUNDAY 5 JANUARY 2014

Our popular family pantomime brings this timeless fairytale classic to glorious and colourful life. With an original script and music, some astonishing technical wizardry, plenty of lively audience participation and laughs.

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Family Sundays Looking for exciting stuff to do on boring Sundays with your family? Theatre Royal Winchester in association with Winchester Discovery Centre is offering fantastic events and workshops for children, families and young people… designed for all ages to brighten your weekend!

DATE

TIMES

SHOW

VENUE

Sunday 21 April

1.30pm and 4.30pm

Storylounge

Winchester Discovery Centre

Sunday 21 April

1.30pm and 4.30pm

The Gruffalo’s Child

Theatre Royal Winchester

Sunday 28 April

11.00am, 1.00pm and 3.00pm

Treecreepers and the Hunt for the Goblin King

Theatre Royal Winchester

Sunday 5 May

2.00pm

The Girl with the Iron Claws

Winchester Discovery Centre

Sunday 12 May

11.30am

Storylounge

Winchester Discovery Centre

Sunday 2 June

11.00am and 2.00pm

The Waving Cat of Japan

Winchester Discovery Centre

Sunday 9 June

11.30am

Storylounge

Winchester Discovery Centre

Sunday 23 June

11.30am

Magic Dan's Magic show

Winchester Discovery Centre

Sunday 7 July

All day

The Hat Fair

Oram’s Arbour

Sunday 14 July

11.30am

Storylounge

Winchester Discovery Centre

April 2013

May 2013

June 2013

July 2013

To book your tickets for Winchester Discovery Centre events please call 01962 873603 or visit www.hants.gov.uk/wdc or for Theatre Royal Winchester events please call 01962 840440 or visit www.theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk Check websites for age recommendations.

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Summer Schools Ages 8–11 and 12–16

Ages 8–11 and 12–16

MUSICAL MASH UP

SLAYING SHAKESPEARE

If you like musicals you’ll love this one. Come with us on a week long journey as we create an entirely new musical… from scratch.

Working together, we’ll decide on the songs, make up the story and all (hopefully) before our time runs out at the end of the week!

At the end of the week, you’ll perform to an invited audience on the Theatre Royal stage complete with lights, music and a couple of surprises thrown in for good measure.

The whole world is a stage and we want you on it.

Do you know your Hamlet from your Horatio? Your Richards from you Henrys? Your Bottom from your Puck?

Who cares…?

This is a weeklong acting school for young performers looking to explore the world of theatre and Shakespeare.

Think battles, death, fairies, and of course a big show at the end of the week to bring them altogether.

MONDAY 29 JULY – FRIDAY 2 AUGUST

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To book for either of the Summer Schools workshops please call the box office on 01962 840440

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Exhibitions

MONDAY 3 – FRIDAY 28 JUNE

KITES: NATURALLY INSPIRED

by John Browning This stunning exhibition of kites made from leaves, petals and natural materials marries form, material, colour and texture in the most intricate and delicate structures.

The materials themselves suggest arrangement and balance, brought together to display the nature of the materials, to achieve unity, to please the eye – to fly !

John Browning, now retired from his profession as a chemist, has been making kites for over 40 years. His favourite media have always been natural materials – paper, silk and bamboo.

Inspired by Claude Lea Comallonga in France, he took up papermaking and the use of plant materials to create his kites. Living things are collected, cooked and arranged into structures which capture their beautiful patterns. Leaves, petals, plants and trees are incorporated into the many different kite creations.

Then, when the wind is kind, these creations are put into the sky. They find their element – the air, the place where they belong – where they are free and they become… kites! Commissions accepted. www.johnbrowningkites.org 26

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EACH A GLIMPSE AND GONE FOR EVER!

by Caroline Hall Caroline Hall’s paintings are inspired by the Robert Louis Stevenson poem From a Railway Carriage. A Masters graduate from Winchester School of Art, Caroline uses digital video shot from train and car windows as the springboard for her abstract depictions of the fleeting moment. This exhibition brings together work from the last five years; landscapes glimpsed at speed and translated into streaks of brilliant colour on the surface of aluminium; pixel freeze frames layered up as fragments of light and form. Bluebells, autumn trees in the Itchen Valley, the train journey to Waterloo, the souk in Marrakech, and most recently a series of

paintings based on London tube journeys which have been seen by thousands of commuters on a giant billboard at South Kensington tube station.

Caroline’s previous profession as a BBC TV reporter remains a key influence on her work. She has held several solo exhibitions in London and won awards here and in New York. Her paintings are in private and public collections throughout the UK and abroad. She lives and works in Winchester, and her new studio The Winchester Studio and Gallery is open to the public weekdays and weekends. www.thewinchesterstudio.co.uk www.carolinehall.net

Winchester Theatre Trust acknowledgements Patrons Lady Bland – Principal Patron Lord Ashburton KG Colin Firth CBE Sir Christopher Ondaatje CBE, OC Richard Steel Janet Suzman DBE Alan Titchmarsh MBE

Major sponsors, donors and supporters Charitable Trusts & Foundations 29th May Charitable Trust de Laszlo Foundation Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Equity Trust Fund Foundation for Sports & The Arts Garfield Weston Foundation Headley Trust Linbury Trust Manifold Trust Monument Trust Thornton Foundation Trusthouse Charitable Trust Vivian Duffield Foundation Walter Guinness Charitable Trust Wolfson Foundation

With special thanks to Sir Christopher & Lady Bland Viscount & Viscountess Bridgeman of Leigh Richard Chisnell Russell Fairchild Richard & Corin Cotton Lord & Lady Gavron Brenda Johnson and the late Eric Johnson Malcolm & Sarah Le May Tom Lynch Richard Morse Sir Christopher Ondaatje CBE, OC The Earl & Countess of Portsmouth Lord & Lady Sainsbury of Preston Candover Peter & Jan Scott Richard Steel Simon Ward Principal Corporate Sponsor Arqiva Grateful thanks also to Cazenove John Lewis Partnership Mackarness & Lunt Solicitors Stefan Lipa Consultancy Ltd Wessex Insurance Workhouse Ltd

HOW TO MAKE YOUR BOOKING Online Visit our website at www.theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk for details.

Additional charges apply for online bookings.

In Person During the box office opening hours. Monday – Friday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Saturday: 10.00am – 5.00pm Box Office is also open two hours before Sunday performances (or until 15 minutes after ‘curtain up’ on performance days).

Telephone Call the box office on 01962 840440. An answerphone is available outside opening hours or during busy periods. Telephone bookings can be paid for by debit or credit card.

We accept payment by card. Please note that all card transactions over the telephone or in person incur a £1.50 card charge per transaction. (This service is free to Ovation and Lifetime members). We also accept payment by theatre tokens.

A £1.00 restoration levy is added to each ticket sold in order to maintain our listed building, meet running costs and improve the services we offer. This is included in the published price.

… and with thanks to everyone who buys a ticket.

Theatre Royal Winchester is supported by Winchester Theatre Trust registered charity no 1099252.

Registered in England 03696681. Live Theatre Winchester Trust registered charity no 1077139. VAT no 744 8764 89.

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Choose your seats at the box office or online

Reservations Reservations can be held for three working days. However, reservations cannot be made one week or less before a show. If payment is not received within this time, reservations will be released for general sale.

Exchanges and Resales The exchange of tickets to a different performance of the same show is subject to a charge of £1.00 per ticket. If you are unable to attend a performance for which you have booked, the box office will try to re-sell your tickets, although the selling of any unsold seats must take priority. There is a service charge of £1.00 for each ticket resold. Exchanges and refunds are free of charge to Friends. We regret that refunds cannot be made.

Concessions Reductions are usually available for students, under 16s, benefit claimants and senior citizens. Concessionary customers receive £2.00 reduction on most tickets.

All relevant vouchers must be presented and concessions requested at the time of booking and discounts may not be applied to tickets already purchased.

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Groups For groups of eight or more a 10% discount is available on most performances.

Schools and Colleges School ticket prices are listed in the brochure for selected performances.

Where no group price is shown the standard concession applies. A maximum of one free teacher ticket for every eight tickets purchased is available on any school or college booking. Payment must be made four weeks prior to the performance. If reservations are cancelled or reduced less than four

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weeks prior to the performance/event booked, a charge of 50% of the total value will be made.

For packages including workshops, please discuss your requirements with Participation & Learning on 01962 844 600.

Family Tickets On selected shows, family tickets are available at a reduced price for groups of four, of which at least one must be an adult and one a child.

Data Protection When processing your booking the box office will ask for your name, address, telephone number and email. This information is required for administration purposes and may be used to keep you informed of forthcoming events. We may pass your details on to carefully selected arts organisations. Live Theatre Royal Winchester Trust Limited is a registered charity and we occasionally contact our audiences as part of our fundraising activities. Please let us know if you don’t want your details to be used.

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Car Parking Parking in the city centre is free after 6:00pm. Travelling on the M3 from Southampton, take Exit 11, travelling from Basingstoke and London, take Exit 9 and follow signs to the city centre.

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Please Note The information contained in this brochure is correct at time of going to press. However, Theatre Royal Winchester reserves the right to vary the advertised programme and facilities if deemed necessary and apologises for any inconvenience this may cause. Please contact box office to confirm details.

By Coach Passengers may be dropped off outside the theatre. Parking for coaches is available at the coach park, Worthy Lane.

This coach park is Pay and Display.

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Lift Access There is lift access to all levels.

Toilet Facilities Adapted facilities are available on the ground floor in the atrium.

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Hearing Impaired Theatre Royal Winchester has an induction loop system in the auditorium, please ask at the box office either when booking or before the performance. We offer sign language interpreted performances for BSL users whenever possible. Please contact the box office on 01962 840 440 for information on selected performances.

Parking There is limited parking at the Discovery Centre. Use Tower Street for alternative parking.

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By Train Theatre Royal Winchester is a short walk from Winchester station along City Road.

Trains run directly from London Waterloo (55 mins) Basingstoke (20 mins) and Southampton (15 mins) and many other main line stations. Train information 08457 48 49 50.

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Latecomers Latecomers will be admitted during a suitable break in the performance.

Assistance Dogs Assistance dogs are welcome in all areas of the building. Please talk to box office staff about any special requirements when booking. No other animals are permitted beyond the entrance foyer.

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Please call the box office to discuss booking for larger groups and we will do our utmost to help with any requests.

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Theatre Royal Winchester Arts Angels. Protecting the cultural heritage of Winchester for future generations.

Help us to protect your cultural heritage by pledging support to Theatre Royal Winchester and become an Arts Angel today.

Arts Angels pledge at least £150 per year to the theatre enabling us to continue playing an active role in developing quality of life in this area, keep ticket prices affordable and the theatre accessible to all.

For further information: contact Katelin Prince, Development Manager on 01962 844 600 * 206 or katelin.prince@theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk

With thanks to our Arts Angels: Mohamed and Marie Anne Bakhaty Anonymous Donor Anonymous Donor Russell and Angela Fairchild Graham Hill Brenda Johnson John Massy Anonymous Donor Brian and D Orange Gerald Symes Professor Christopher Turner Richard and Caroline York

To donate: cheque, cash or card payments can be left with your contact details at the box office.

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