autumn 2011

autumn 2011

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One of the many ways to extend and enrich your evening out is a visit to the Mead Gallery. The Mead Gallery is free to visit and showcases extraordinary international contemporary art. A lively programme of talks and debates connects you to some of the great thinkers at the University and beyond.

This season’s exhibitions at the Mead Gallery can be found on pages 24-25.

In addition you can browse the bookshop or enjoy refreshments at our bar, café or restaurant — make a night of it!

Eat, laugh and live life with Gusto Gusto Oven & Bar is the new dining experience at Warwick Arts Centre.

Come and be part of the Gusto family. We love what we do, but above all else we want you to have a great time.

We’re new around here, but our warm atmosphere and friendly staff will make you feel right at home. Come in, and you will see our passion for life is entwined with our passion for food in the theatrestyle kitchen. If you haven’t the appetite for a meal, just pop in and say hello with a drink and nibbles in the bar area.

The place to dine at for celebrations, weekly lunches or dinners and those ‘just because’ occasions. We look forward to welcoming you.

Find out more: www.gustoovenandbar.co.uk Reservations: 024 7652 2900 Open 12pm – 11pm Mon – Sat

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christmas The Tiger Who Came To Tea based on the picture book written and illustrated by Judith Kerr adapted for the stage with songs and lyrics

by David Wood Wed 30 Nov – Sat 31 Dec Theatre £11.75, Under 16s £9.75 Age: 3+ 55mins (no interval) The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea.

Who could it possibly be? What they certainly don’t expect to see at the door is a big, stripy tiger!

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

The tea-guzzling tiger returns to Warwick Arts Centre this Christmas in this delightful family show; packed with oodles of magic, sing-a-long songs and clumsy chaos! A stunning stage adaptation of this classic tale of teatime mayhem… expect to be surprised!

“We just wanted to say thank you for such a wonderful show yesterday. My 3 year old son and I thought The Tiger Who Came To Tea was brilliant.”

Audience comment via website (May/June performances) “With catchy songs and gentle humour, this adaptation of the children’s classic offers the perfect treat for kids.”

Birmingham Mail

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Visit our website to see the special trailer that the Tiger made on his last visit to Warwick Arts Centre…

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Woyzeck on the Highveld

UK Arts International and Quaternaire present

Handspring Puppet Company’s

Woyzeck on the Highveld in association with The Barbican, Warwick Arts Centre and the Puppet Centre Trust Tue 11 – Sat 15 Oct 7.30pm Theatre £18 (£16), £20 (£18), £22 (£20), Under 26s £10 1hr 30mins (no interval) The creators and puppeteers of the highly acclaimed, Tony Award-winning War Horse bring us this new piece of theatre; magical, wondrous and darkly poetic in equal parts.

The first landmark collaboration between celebrated artist William Kentridge and internationally renowned Handspring Puppet Company, Woyzeck on the Highveld transposes Büchner’s timeless tale to 1950s South Africa. A migrant worker struggles to survive in a callous, inhospitable, urban landscape, vividly portrayed in this multi-media work featuring hand-carved puppets, animated film and haunting music.

Founded in Cape Town in 1985, with a desire to develop puppet theatre for adults, Handspring has delighted audiences on both sides of the Atlantic with the Tony Award-winning War Horse.

“One of the most evocative experiences I have ever had in the theatre.”

The Sunday Times (South Africa) “… an ample display of the power of puppetry… a captivating show… Woyzeck is clearly alive in South Africa. And so is the high art of puppetry.”

New York Times (1994)

T. Post Show Talk Wed 12 Oct Visit our website to see a beautiful trailer of these incredible puppets in action…

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Where you see this symbol on the variety of appealing Theatre events this autumn, you can use our package ticket offer and save money!

This offer is also available if you book online – the discount will automatically apply at the payment stage.

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Capsule

Theatre Package Buy tickets for any 3 Theatre events in the autumn season – get 20% off each ticket Buy tickets for any 4 Theatre events in the autumn season – get 25% off each ticket

My Last Car

Talking Birds supported by Warwick Arts Centre

Capsule

a short chamber show for an audience of six Thu 20 – Sat 22 Oct Thu 7.30pm, 7.45pm, 8pm, 8.15pm Fri 6.30pm, 6.45pm, 7pm, 7.15pm Sat 4pm, 4.15pm, 4.30pm, 4.45pm and 6.30pm, 6.45pm, 7pm, 7.15pm Helen Martin Studio £6 (£5), Under 26s £5 30mins (no interval) 509 Arts

My Last Car commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre Tue 4 - Sat 8 Oct 7.45pm Wed & Thu matinee 1.30pm, Sat matinee 2pm Helen Martin Studio £9.50 (£7.50) Installation open Sat 1 - Sat 8 Oct 11am - 6.30pm FREE Do you remember your first car?

How about your last? What if your current car was your last? Climate change and oil depletion make this a real possibility as we approach the end of the road for car ownership. Is there a future for the internal combustion engine in the 21st Century?

My Last Car explores our love affair with the motor car through human stories of near misses, breakdowns, green lights and giving way. Featuring commissioned video and a motor-soundscape, the star of this performance installation is a soft-top Rover 216 Cabriolet broken down into its component parts leaving just the shell of a ‘ghost car’. Things of beauty that are rarely seen, the washers, cogs, pistons and curios are presented to the audience as if treasures from a bygone age.

What will the world look like without the automobile? … and where do we go from here?

My Last Car is both gallery installation – open most afternoons – and theatre event performed daily, it will take you on a telling journey of discovery, memory and love.

My Last Car is a 509 Arts production in partnership with Warwick Arts Centre, imove - the Cultural Olympiad in Yorkshire, Tipping Point - a leading arts and climate change organisation, Pioneer Projects and Ryedale Folk Museum.

Tipping Point Event – Sat 8 Oct, £15 – see website for more details.

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· float · sink · hide · find · blast off · touchdown · sabotage · freefall · land · dock · start over Take your seat inside the Capsule – a theatre auditorium which seats just 6 people – and experience, through sounds heard and actions glimpsed, the performance happening on the outside, all around you. It’s often dark, and you’ll need to rely on your senses as the Capsule takes you on a journey through air, space and sea. Oh, and halfway through there’s a twist, but we can’t say too much about that…

“Glowing from the most enjoyable theatre for years… the biggest theatrical surprise I’ve had… and that is only half way in!”

Audience comment Development of Capsule supported by the FarGo Space Programme and Warwick Arts Centre.

Frantic Assembly and Drum Theatre Plymouth in association with Chichester Festival Theatre

Lovesong

by Abi Morgan directed and choreographed by Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett Tue 18 – Sat 22 Oct 7.30pm, Thu matinee 1.30pm Theatre £15 (£13), £17 (£15), Under 26s £10 Thu matinee £14 (£12), Under 26s £10 1hr 30mins (no interval) “That is the story of our beginning.

And this is the story of… the end.”

Lovesong intertwines a couple in their 20s with the same man and woman a lifetime later. Their past and present selves collide in this haunting and beautiful tale of togetherness. All relationships have their ups and downs; the optimism of youth becomes the wisdom of experience.

Love is a leap of faith.

Acclaimed writer Abi Morgan, whose film and television credits include the forthcoming Iron Lady (starring Meryl Streep), The Hour and Sex Traffic, is reunited with awardwinning company Frantic Assembly (Beautiful Burnout, Stockholm) with whom she worked on the acclaimed and beguiling Tiny Dynamite.

“14 years of producing superb physical theatre.”

The Guardian (on Frantic Assembly) “At the end you want to rush out of the theatre into the sunshine, raise your arms to the heavens and wait for lightening to strike you, just to relieve the ache in your heart.”

The Guardian (on Tiny Dynamite)

T. Post Show Talk Wed 19 Oct

Image: Perou

Lovesong

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Fuel presents

Going Dark

Void Story

Sound&Fury’s

written by Hattie Naylor in collaboration with Sound&Fury commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre Thu 27 – Sat 29 Oct 7.45pm Studio £10.50 (£8.50), Under 26s £8.50 The company who brought us the remarkable Kursk return with their new one-man show.

Using the company’s innovative style of immersive surround sound design, total darkness and imaginative lighting, it reawakens our wonder at the cosmos and reveals how one man’s vision becomes illuminated by darkness.

Forced Entertainment

How far can you see? A mile? A hundred miles? Or to the furthest shores of the universe to a far away galaxy?

It’s Max’s job to ask the cosmic questions. Passionate about astronomy, he works as the narrator at the city’s Planetarium where he challenges his dwindling audiences with the mysteries of the stars and science.

But in a society polluting the night sky with light and happier to explore the stars in a waxworks museum he seems increasingly out of place.

Tue 1 & Wed 2 Nov 7.30pm Theatre £12 (£10), £15 (£13), Under 26s £9.50 1hr 20mins (no interval) Ages: 16+

Void Story

When his own life takes an unexpected turn, Max discovers that seeing doesn’t necessarily bring insight and that understanding the universe requires a different kind of vision…

Void Story follows a beleaguered pair of protagonists on a rollercoaster ride through the decimated remains of contemporary culture.

“… the most brilliantly immersive piece of theatre I’ve seen all year…”

The Daily Telegraph (on Kursk)

Kim and Jackson navigate one terrible cityscape after another, mugged, shot at and bitten by insects; stowed away in refrigerated transport, shacked up in haunted hotels and lost in backstreets and bewildering funfairs.

Developed as part of Fuel at the Roundhouse and the Jerwood residencies at Cove Park which is supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Funded

by Arts Council England, the Wellcome Trust, the Institute of Physics and the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

International innovators Forced Entertainment perform this bleak and comical modern fable as if it were a radio play, reading from the script and adding in voice distortion and sound effects. Simultaneously the stage is dominated by a series of projected images, almost a graphic novel to accompany Tim Etchells’ unsettling text. Somewhere between the live dialogue, the recorded sound effects and the collaged images is where Void Story actually takes place.

“Shockingly brilliant.” The Guardian “Theatre turned inside out.” The Times T. Post Show Talk Tue 1 Nov Void Story is a Forced Entertainment project made for SPILL Festival 2009 with support from Tanzquartier, Vienna and Tate Media. Forced Entertainment is regularly funded by Arts Council England and this project was supported by Sheffield City Council.

Going Dark

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Kneehigh Theatre

The Wild Bride directed and adapted by Emma Rice Tue 25 – Sat 29 Oct 7.30pm Theatre £19 (£17), £22 (£20), Under 26s £12 2hrs (incl interval)

Everyone’s favourite theatre company is back with a new show, The Wild Bride.

In a stunning elemental world of dust, clay and fire, here is a red hot story with a brutal edge and a beating heart… The story of what happens when your father accidentally sells you to the Devil.

Betrayed by her silly father, our heroine has those cross-road blues. She chooses to walk into the wilderness, rejecting not only the Devil, but her home as well. In the wild she meets a Prince and becomes pregnant, but when he is called to war, her heart breaks. She finds herself at those pesky cross-roads again.

In the cool green of the forest, she brings up her child, and – wonder of wonders – her broken heart grows back. Perhaps this is ‘happily ever after’, perhaps there is even more joy to come…

This epic and poetic Wonder Tale is classic Kneehigh stuff. Charting a life, from girlhood to womanhood. Expect instinctive storytelling and a heady mix of live Blues music and devilish humour.

The Wild Bride is a grown-up, spring bud, dustball of a romance for brave children and adults alike.

T. Post Show Talk Wed 26 Oct

Visit our website to see The Wild Bride trailer.

The Wild Bride

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Reckless Sleepers

Schrödinger Mon 14 – Wed 16 Nov 7.45pm Studio £10.50 (£8.50), Under 26s £8.50 1hr (no interval) Age: 16+ Operation Greenfield

Little Bulb Theatre

Operation Greenfield

In 1933 Erwin Schrödinger won the Nobel Prize for his contribution to Quantum Mechanics. He theorised a box in which a cat exists as living and dead at the same time.

In 1998 Reckless Sleepers built that box – and now, over a decade later, they are climbing back inside it. This experimental chamber is populated by a group of experimenters / artists, trying to conduct research into immeasurable theories.

Schrödinger is about thought, experiments, cats, René Magritte, love, time, mathematics, observations, truth, lies and alcohol.

In one of the company’s most celebrated performance pieces the impossible is probable: truth and illusion are inseparable.

Laws are made, bent, then broken.

It’s a visually mesmerising performance that sways between question and answer, chaos and order, what we can measure and what we can’t.

Reckless Sleepers are regularly funded by Arts Council England. Schrödinger is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

produced by Farnham Maltings Fri 11 & Sat 12 Nov 7.45pm Studio £10.50 (£8.50), Under 26s £8.50 1hr 20mins (no interval) An exploration of music, faith and friendship.

Somewhere in middle England four unlikely teenagers are preparing for judgement day with ladders, Elvis and Forest Fruits squash – Stokely’s annual talent competition is nigh.

With a stage full of instruments and an eclectic mix of recorded music, Little Bulb Theatre captures the confusing, awkward and beautifully naïve time of adolescence. The time when the once simple beliefs you held dear need re-adjusting to face the complexities of adulthood.

A bizarre and visually fantastical exploration of music, faith and friendship from Total Theatre, Fringe First, Arches Brick (Crocosmia 2008) and Herald Angel Award Winners (Operation Greenfield 2010).

“Recklessly talented… insanely brave.” HHHH Lyn Gardner, The Guardian “…abundant sparks of originality and moments when the audience were left beaming.” HHHHH Fringe Review Visit our website to see the trailer…

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Schrödinger

A Rifco Arts production in co-production with Watford Palace Theatre and Warwick Arts Centre

Britain’s Got Bhangra conceived, written and directed

by Pravesh Kumar Tue 15 – Sun 27 Nov (NB. no performance Mon 21 Nov) Tue – Sat eves 7.30pm, Sat matinee 2.30pm, Sun 4pm Theatre Sun – Wed eve and Sat matinee £18.50 (£16.50), £20.50 (£18.50), £22.50 (£20.50), Under 26s £14 Thu – Sat eve £20.50 (£18.50), £22.50 (£20.50), £24.50 (£22.50), Under 26s £14 Groups Deal: Tue eve and Sat matinee performances only: Buy 4 or more tickets at the same time and get the best available seats for £18.50 each

Britain’s Got Bhangra is back!

Remixed and remastered!

Guaranteed to lift you from the Dhol Drums, the five star hit Bhangra musical charting the rise of British Bhangra music from the sequin clad 80s through to the RnB fusion of the current charts.

Rifco Arts, the company behind The Deranged Marriage and There’s Something About Simmy returns for the second time with the award-winning musical Britain’s Got Bhangra, which played to packed houses at Warwick Arts Centre in 2010.

If you saw it last time, come again and bring some friends! If you didn’t, make sure you don’t miss out this time around. Bring the family and move to the rhythm and bhangra. Shake your shoulders, twist that lightbulb; this is the story of how Britain got bhangra.

Featuring award-winning performer Shin, the lead singer and driving force behind legendary Birmingham bhangra band and double platinum disk winners DCS. “…a delight that brings the audience to its feet and introduces a new sound into the stale world of the British musical.”

HHHH The Guardian

T. Post Show Talk Wed 23 Nov Visit our website to see the trailer…

Britain’s Got Bhangra

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National Theatre Live The best of British Theatre broadcast live via satellite to screens at Warwick Arts Centre

The Kitchen

by Arnold Wesker

One Man, Two Guvnors

Thu 6 Oct 6.45pm Theatre £15, £10 (restricted view)

One Man, Two Guvnors

1950s London. In the kitchen of an enormous West End restaurant, the orders are piling up: a post-war feast of soup, fish, cutlets, omelettes and fruit flans.

Fifteen hundred customers an’ half of them eating fish. I had to start work on a Friday.

Thrown together by their work, chefs, waitresses and porters from across Europe – English, Irish, German, Jewish – argue and flirt as they race to keep up. Peter, a high-spirited young cook, seems to thrive on the pressure. In between preparing dishes, he manages to strike up an affair with married waitress Monique, the whole time dreaming of a better life. But in the all-consuming clamour of the kitchen, nothing is far from the brink of collapse.

Arnold Wesker’s extraordinary play premiered at the Royal Court in 1959 and has since been performed in over 30 countries. The Kitchen puts the workplace centre stage in a blackly funny and furious examination of life lived at breakneck speed, when work threatens to define who we are.

Collaborators a new play by John Hodge

by Richard Bean based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni with songs by Grant Olding Thu 15 Sep 6.45pm Cinema £15, £10 (restricted view) Sun 18 Sep 7pm Encore screening (repeat of live screening) Theatre £15, £10 (restricted view)

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In Richard Bean’s English version of Goldoni’s classic Italian comedy, sex, food and money are high on the agenda. James Corden returns to the National Theatre for the first time since The History Boys.

“An evening of riotous delight…

I found myself physically incapable with laughter.”

The Daily Telegraph “Slapstick, satire and gags galore: a classic comedy hilariously updated.” The Times

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Thu 1 Dec 6.45pm Theatre £15, £10 (restricted view) Collaborators is a new play by John Hodge (screenwriter of Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, The Beach) directed by National Theatre Director Nicholas Hytner. The play centres on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (best known for his novel The Master and Margarita); Alex Jennings (The Habit of Art) will play Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale (London Assurance) will play Stalin.

Macbeth, The Abuse of Power

A brand new commissioning and artist development programme.

See tomorrow’s theatre today!

Triggered at Warwick Arts Centre supports selected artists with: time to develop creative ideas; physical space to work in; an audience to reflect on the work; dramaturgical and producing support and a commissioning fee.

Contender Charlie

Macbeth, The Abuse of Power [work in progress] Wed 7 Dec 7.45pm

Studio £5 (£4)

Following the successful Take A Deep Breath in the summer, this is the second of our Triggered at Warwick Arts Centre projects.

This time, working with Ben Walden and Contender Charlie, we will be creating an immersive theatre experience based on Macbeth for young people (and intrepid adults).

A macabre porter guides us through Macbeth’s castle, taking us right into the dark heart of Shakespeare’s play to offer audiences a glimpse of life under Scotland’s tyrant King.

Ben will spend ten days at Warwick Arts Centre taking the first steps in putting the production together – join us for another exciting early glimpse at a new piece of work as it is made and help us shape it.

First Bite Festival at mac birmingham

Sat 24 Sep Afternoon Showcase, 2.30pm Evening Showcase, 7.30pm Both showcases £10 (£8) Single Showcase £6 (£5) mac birmingham 0121 446 3232 www.macarts.co.uk

Following the huge success of the 2009 festival, First Bite is back! mac birmingham hosts a celebration of new ideas from some the region’s brightest theatre talents. Over the course of the day see 12 different theatre companies show extracts from new work they are making and help shape the way it develops. Alongside this will be numerous opportunities to meet the artists taking part, as well as key industry figures who will be on hand all day to answer any questions you might have about working in theatre or how to make work of your own.

Just like last time, two of the pieces seen at First Bite will be guaranteed commissions by mac birmingham and Warwick Arts Centre, and developed by China Plate for Bite Size next spring at Warwick Arts Centre.

Produced by China Plate Commissioned by mac birmingham and Warwick Arts Centre

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student drama Warwick University Drama Society

The Real Thing

Two great productions for 2012, on sale Nov 2011

by Tom Stoppard

Tpo Girls

Top Girls (image from Chichester and West End Production)

Out of Joint and Chichester Festival Theatre present

Top Girls

by Caryl Churchill directed by Max Stafford-Clark Wed 18 - Sat 21 Jan It’s Thatcher’s England and hard-nosed, go-getting businesswoman Marlene is hosting a dinner party to celebrate her promotion to MD of the Top Girls Employment Agency. Her guests, all powerful women from myth and mystery, make for an extraordinary gathering.

Top Girls is a moving and muscular study of success and what happens to those left behind.

“Splendidly funny and inventive…

Witty, deeply felt and theatrically daring.” HHHH Daily Telegraph

Wed 19 – Sat 22 Oct 7.45pm Studio £7 (£6) Love, music, art etcetera… it’s all very exciting.

One way or another, we all fall in love. With a partner or an ideal, with stability or passion, with possession or freedom, or with the act of falling in love itself. In 1980s London, the lives of a group of actors and playwrights, struggling against each others’ different views on music, writing and love, become entangled as they find art imitating life and reality carrying on with fantasy. Yet we find that they all have one thing in common: like us, they’re all looking for The Real Thing…

Cheek by Jowl

‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore

Warwick University Drama Society

Faustus

Wed 2 – Sat 5 Nov 7.45pm Studio £7 (£6) 2hrs 20mins (incl. interval)

Wed 1 - Sat 4 Feb

Oh, what a world of profit and delight.

Following their triumphant productions of The Changeling (2006) and The Duchess of Malfi (1995), Donnellan and Ormerod return to Jacobean tragedy with a new production of John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore.

It’s 2007 and the City of London is alive with the sound of money.

But not for long. Soon, bankers will risk more than they can afford, all for the sake of a few extra pounds.

Faustus is one of these people.

In this violent and bloody drama, we watch a brother and sister’s passionate descent into hell. Incest, morality, religion and corruption all make this play as shocking and controversial today as it was almost four hundred years ago.

This exciting and innovative new production from award-winning Warwick University Drama Society mixes Marlowe’s four-hundred year old verse with music, dance and animation to highlight the excesses of modern life and create a new and original staging of this classic text.

Faustus

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The Real Thing

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dance

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Dance Touring Partnership presents Shaun Parker & Company

Happy as Larry

Tue 4 & Wed 5 Oct 7.30pm Theatre £16 (£14), £19 (£17), £22 (£20), Under 26s £12 1hr 20mins (no interval) What makes us happy? Happy as Larry is a funny, playful and poignant new dance show which investigates the elusive nature of human happiness. Created by awardwinning Australian choreographer Shaun Parker, this powerful performance combines an intoxicating mix of ballet, break-dance, roller-skating and highly physical contemporary dance.

The cast of characters is developed from the Enneagram, a psychological system that maps nine personality types: the Perfectionist; the Giver; the Performer; the Tragic Romantic; the Observer; the Devil’s Advocate; the Optimist; the Boss; and the Mediator – all rich inspiration for Shaun Parker’s creativity. Set to a vibrant electroacoustic score, the performers bring fun and danger to the fore in this innovative and moving dance work.

“Happy as Larry is brilliantly choreographed, flawlessly and joyously performed, and thoroughly entertaining from start to finish. I literally sat on the edge of my seat.”

Australian Stage “It’s smiles all round – on stage and in the audience. You have to welcome a dance piece about happiness… delightful.”

Sydney Morning Herald T. Post Show Talk Tue 4 Oct Visit our website to see the trailer…

UK tour supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its art funding and advisory body.

Credit Happy as Larry

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Time Gentlemen Please!

Roden and Shenton’s New Art Club

Big Bag of Boom Wed 12 & Thu 13 Oct 7.45pm Studio £10.50 (£8.50) 1hr (no interval) The world’s funniest dance duo, Tom Roden and Pete Shenton, (aka New Art Club) are back with their latest piece of genre-defining, dance-up comedy.

Big Bag of Boom brings together the most explosive moments from a decade of award-winning shows. All the clever tricks, hilarious set pieces and brilliant dances that make up Roden and Shenton’s unique world get teased out of their original holes and smashed together into this combustible new show.

Time Gentlemen Please!

Relive some classic moments including inappropriate country dancing to Heaven 17, a wonderfully twisted ensemble game of peek-a-boo, and the hilarious Various Monsters. Or, if you’ve never seen New Art Club before, be introduced to their extraordinary way of seeing the world. “… intelligently idiotic and unwaveringly entertaining.”

HHHHH The Big Issue “Seriously Funny.”

HHHH Metro

featuring The Demon Barber Roadshow Sat 8 Oct 7.30pm Theatre £16.50 (£14.50) Forget every preconception you’ve ever had about English folk dance and come along to see what happens when you bring together the best in young folk music and dance and a team of the best street dancers in the country.

Clog, Rapper and Morris meet B-boying, Popping and Krump in this humorous and unmissable visual feast. Think Riverdance with a false moustache, Stomp with bells on and both sitting in the front seat of a Bugatti!

“Check them out for proof that England’s exciting, phwoar-inducing, evolving dance, song and instrumental traditions are thriving, live and very kicking.” f’Roots See page 18 for further details…

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Blake

DV8 Physical Theatre

Can We Talk About This? conceived and directed by Lloyd Newson Wed 9 – Fri 11 Nov 7.30pm Theatre £17, £20, £23, Under 26s £12 Please note: DV8 have a strict NO LATECOMERS policy and always begin their shows exactly on time

Fleur Darkin Company

Blake

[work in progress] Thu 17 & Fri 18 Nov 7.15pm Helen Martin Studio £5 (£4) 1hr 30 mins (no interval) Following 2010’s tour of DisGo, Fleur Darkin Company returns to Warwick Arts Centre for two special evenings where the audience has the opportunity to see a brand new piece of work, still in development.

Blake centres on one of the greatest artists England has ever produced: William Blake. The company explore a childhood beset by artistic visions so bold that his own father threatened to beat him for lying. An artist who saw the human imagination as the “body of God”, Blake is an enquiry into the mystery of being – and asks how we parent, how we experience childhood and how we define God in a secular world.

A new production by DV8 Physical Theatre exploring freedom of speech, censorship and Islam.

From the 1989 book burnings of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, to the murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh and the controversy of the ‘Muhammad cartoons’ in 2005, DV8’s production will examine how these events have reflected and influenced multicultural policies, press freedom and censorship.

In the follow up to the critically acclaimed To Be Straight With You, this documentary-style dance-theatre production will use real-life interviews and archive footage. Contributors include a number of high profile writers, campaigners and politicians.

“It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book.

You just have to shut it.”

Salman Rushdie “Charged, passionate, eloquent and poignantly portrayed... Downright brilliant” Dagens Nyheter “Ground-breaking… pulsates with intensity” Swedish Aftonbladet

Renowned for producing works of artistic singularity, Fleur Darkin is considered “One of the most overtly theatrical choreographers of the British new wave” (The Observer).

For the first time, this company of world-class collaborators will be opening the rehearsal doors allowing audiences into the private artistic process.

Can We Talk About This?

Following each performance China Plate will host an Exchange with the director and members of the company where you can help shape the future of this exciting new work. It will be unfinished and untested, raw and wild. Be there at the beginning of a new artistic journey.

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music

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Submotion Orchestra

Time Gentlemen Please!

Tommy Smith’s Karma

Submotion Orchestra

Thu 6 Oct 7.45pm Studio £14 Tommy Smith’s Karma sees the brilliant Scottish saxophonist lead a band of virtuosic musicians on a deeply grooving acid jazz adventure that draws on influences from around the world.

Fri 7 Oct 7.30pm Theatre £12.50 (£10.50)

Featuring Tommy Smith (saxes, shakuhatchi, synth), Kevin Glasgow (electric bass), Steve Hamilton (piano, synth) and Alyn Cosker (drums).

Tommy Smith’s Karma

“Smith’s saxophone playing bristles with invention and a majestic sonority.”

HHHH The Scotsman

Leeds-based seven piece Submotion Orchestra is one of the most intriguing ensembles to surface in the last twelve months.

With a focus on live musicality and originality, their take on dubstep has won respect from cutting-edge bass bods and discerning fans of quality dance music, to soul and jazz heads.

Submotion Orchestra is the brainchild of Leeds music heavyweights Tommy Evans (also the drummer in Gentleman’s Dub Club) and international DJ/producer/ orchestral player Dom Howard, aka Ruckspin.

featuring The Demon Barber Roadshow Sat 8 Oct 7.30pm Theatre £16.50 (£14.50) Forget every preconception you’ve ever had about English folk dance and come along to see what happens when you bring together the best in young folk music and dance and a team of the best street dancers in the country.

Backed by the multi award-winning Demon Barber Roadshow (Best Live Act, BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2009), Time Gentlemen Please! is an energetic show featuring traditional English dance including rapper, long sword, molly and clogging and of course, morris at its very best, merged with modern street dance.

The result is a show that is fast and fun.

“One of the best live bands I’ve ever seen. If you get the chance to see them – don’t miss it – they are brilliant.”

Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2

“It blew me away. Somewhere between Cinematic Orchestra and dubstep – just right.”

Gilles Peterson

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The Overtones Sat 8 Oct 8pm Butterworth Hall £19.50, £23.50 Tickets Selling Fast The all male quintet, The Overtones, are back on the road with their combination of classic repertoire and smooth vocal harmonies.

Since releasing Good Ol’ Fashioned Love in November last year the five-part vocal harmony group has delighted audiences with inspired interpretations of hits from yesteryear including The Darts’ Come Back My Love and The Chords’ SH-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream). “…honest-to-Sinatra, 100% cool.”

The New York Times

Soweto Gospel Choir African Grace Thu 13 Oct 8pm Butterworth Hall £22.50, £25, £27.50 Heralded as the most exciting group to emerge in World Music in recent years, two-time Grammy Award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir returns to Warwick Arts Centre with a brand new show African Grace.

The songs in African Grace all refer to beauty, love and the strength of the human spirit. They include the Mirriam Makeba classic Pata Pata, as well as popular international songs such as Bridge Over Troubled Waters and Many Rivers to Cross, all sung in Soweto Gospel Choir’s individual African style.

Add to this the energetic dance movements and the foot-stomping drumming, for this kaleidoscope of colour and movement that can only be experienced at a Soweto Gospel Choir concert.

“These absolutely thrilling singers need nothing but their voices to make dazzling music.”

Billboard

Georgie Fame Fri 14 Oct 8pm Butterworth Hall £23, £25 Georgie, with his much loved blend of Jazz and Rhythm & Blues, has consistently worked in the highest musical circles and become an icon of the British music scene.

So far there have been more than twenty albums and fourteen hit singles, including the Number 1s, Yeh Yeh, Getaway and The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde. Add to this a long list of collaborations with some of music’s most famous names: Muddy Waters, Bill Wyman, Eric Clapton and Van Morrison, and in Georgie Fame you have one bona fide musical legend.

“Sends us home happy to have been in the presence of genuine cool.”

The Guardian

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The World’s Greatest Drummer

KT Tunstall Tue 1 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £20 Tickets Selling Fast KT Tunstall will be performing a variety of songs from her extensive back catalogue, as well as a handful of tracks from recently released EP The Scarlet Tulip, with the help of her trusted loop pedals, drum machines, tambourines, keyboards and any other instruments that come to hand along the way.

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Tindersticks a night of music and film performing Claire Denis film scores 1996-2009

Sun 6 Nov 7.30pm Butterworth Hall £25, £20 (choir stalls)

American drum legend Steve Smith, Steve Barney, Pete Ray Biggin, Darrin Mooney, Jake Brown, Steve White, Pete Cater and Ian Palmer all perform.

Hosted by ELO’s Bev Bevan, each drummer will take to the stage and perform a couple of arrangements with the Big Band.

Tindersticks

The World’s Greatest Drummer charity concert is a special evening of internationally renowned drummers demonstrating their versatility and talent performing classic big band arrangements with the Pete Cater Big Band.

Sat 22 Oct 8pm Butterworth Hall £18.50 suitable for those aged 18+ For lovers of intensely beautiful and thought-provoking films and music, this collaboration between world-renowned French filmmaker Claire Denis and Tindersticks front-man Stuart Staples is a match made in heaven.

Tindersticks are one of the most original and distinctive British acts. Claire Denis

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is a Paris-based filmmaker and one of the major artistic voices of contemporary French cinema. For the past 15 years they have engaged in an inspired and fruitful partnership.

The first part of the show combines visionary cinema with Tindersticks’ unique sound where the archive has been scoured to assemble strikingly sensual and alternately meditative and shocking clips from Nénette et Boni, Trouble Every Day, Friday Night, The Intruder, 35 Shots of Rum and White Material. Viewed – and heard – anew, Denis’s singular images will soar on screen as the band’s live music envelops the venue. The second part of the show will be a concert performance set

by Tindersticks.

The Legendary John Mayall Fri 11 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £26, £28

John helped launch the careers of former Bluesbreakers band members Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Peter Green and Mick Taylor. With over 45 albums and an OBE to his credit, John Mayall remains as compelling and original artist as ever.

The legendary John Mayall and the hottest young guitarist in British blues, Oli Brown, join forces in an electrifying bill that promises blues at its very finest – it just doesn’t get better than this.

Oli Brown, dubbed “the hottest young pistol in British Blues” by Mojo has taken the blues world by storm since his debut in 2008 and with his second release riding high, he is certainly one to watch.

with Rocky Athas, Greg Rzab and Jay Davenport plus special guest Oli Brown

The Legendary John Mayall

Since forming the groundbreaking Bluesbreakers in 1963, John Mayall has been regarded as one of the most influential UK blues artists ever and is known by many as the Godfather of British blues.

Brubecks play Brubeck

Thu 17 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £19.50, £22.50 The Brubeck family is unique in the world of music. Join Brubeck sons Darius, Chris and Dan and guest saxophonist Dave O’Higgins for an evening of famous Brubeck originals.

Darius Brubeck, the eldest Brubeck son, is a jazz pianist, composer, educator and band-leader. Chris Brubeck is a multi-instrumentalist and award-winning composer, and Dan Brubeck is a renowned Grammy-nominated percussionist acclaimed for his exciting drum solos.

With special guest saxophonist Dave O’Higgins, Brubecks Play Brubeck includes famous Brubeck originals as well as standard tunes associated with Dave and a few of their own popular compositions.

Sat 19 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £23.50, £27.50 Imelda May toured with Jeff Beck during 2010 performing at the Grammy Awards, the Royal Albert Hall and venues all over the world. Her latest tour is the largest headlining tour she has ever embarked upon.

Imelda May

Brubecks play Brubeck

Imelda May

“A whipcracker of a voice… Songs describing rumpuses, stalkers and sexual predators are delivered with oodles of energy… dangerously rocking” HHHH The Guardian Her latest album Mayhem was released in 2010 and was well received by audiences and critics alike. If her previous UK shows are anything to go by, she is not someone to be missed.

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Traveller Wed 23 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £19.50, £22.50

An evening of Raga-Flamenco music Traveller brings together the passionate and diverse music of Spain with the vibrant sounds of the Indian tradition. Anoushka Shankar and her specially selected group of all-star Indian and flamenco musicians re-forge the thousand year-old link between Spanish and Indian music.

Vocal and instrumental lines packed with emotion, driving rhythms and subtle musical colours will transport you on this magical journey.

Anoushka Shankar is one of the world’s great sitar players and the only artist to be trained solely by her father, the unsurpassed Ravi Shankar.

Her latest project carries forward to a new generation the sense of exciting and open-eared musical exploration that has marked both their careers.

Anoushka will be accompanied by Indian and Flamenco musicians on percussion, flute, shehnai and vocals.

Zappa Plays Zappa includes a ‘Grave to Stage’ set with Frank himself performing with the band Sat 26 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £28.50 “Close your eyes for a second and you could be at a gig at the height of Frank’s fame in the Seventies.”

The Independent This spellbinding performance will see Zappa’s eldest son Dweezil and his band ‘Zappa Plays Zappa’ performing the classic 1974 album Apostrophe in sequence and in its unmitigated entirety, alongside a career-spanning selection of Zappa’s classic material.

In a final twist, the performance will also feature a section – from grave to stage – in which Frank himself will perform with the band via synchronised audio/video technology using unreleased video footage.

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Sun 27 Nov 7.45pm Studio £12, Under 26s £10 Dave Stapleton - piano Jonny Bruce - trumpet Ben Waghorn - saxes Paula Gardiner - bass Elliott Bennett - drums A return visit from Dave Stapleton after a thrilling performance here in 2009.

He studied piano and composition under Keith Tippett and has received rave reviews from the national

press. He already has four albums as leader and draws upon a formidable grasp of jazz, classical and world styles. Dave’s music is as approachable as Jarrett or EST but with an energy of the Messengers or Cannonball Adderley.

“As always with Stapleton’s band everybody plays as if they couldn’t think of anything they’d rather be doing.”

John Fordham, The Guardian

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Thu 1 Dec 8pm Butterworth Hall £19.50 (£17.50) The Ukulele Orchestra has seen over 9,000 days of ukulele actions. It has been playing for one 40th of a millennium. The oldest and the best, it unites fans across the globe in celebration of “one plucking thing after another” on “instruments bought for loose change”. They have sixteen-handedly turned the world on to the ukulele.

The Ukes appear on stage with one ukulele each, no gimmicks, no tricks, no vocal enhancers or overproduced wizardry, then proceed to tear the house down.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll never think about music in the same way, once you’ve seen and heard The Ukulele Orchestra.

John Law Trio featuring Yuri Goloubev and Asaf Sirkis Sat 10 Dec 7.45pm Studio £12, Under 26s £10 John Law - piano Yuri Goloubev - bass Asaf Sirkis - drums John Law is back, this time with his Opt Trio where they perform Other People’s Tunes (these include Monk and Miles jazz standards as well

as further afield tunes from Sting and Nick Drake). John Law is a classically trained British pianist and moves from Brad Mehldau’s hypnotically grooving lyricism to the rugged funkiness of EST. “World class pianist John Law’s new trio is as melodic, accessible and catchy as anyone in the crowded piano trio sector.”

Phil Johnson, Independent on Sunday

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Beneva & The Fallows

Coming in 2012

Joan Armatrading plus special guest Chris Wood (BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Singer of the Year 2011)

Tue 23 Oct 2012 8pm Butterworth Hall £25, £27.50 Joan Armatrading is recognised as one of the World’s leading singer-songwriters and guitarists. Don’t miss the opportunity to see one of the most truly gifted performers of our time.

Sun 9 Oct 7.45pm Studio £7 (£5.50) Beneva create contagious melodies with harmonies galore. They can switch from heart-felt epics to quirky radio-friendly songs with ease.

With Nathan Bennett on piano/vocals/percussion and Malc Evans on guitar/vocals, their voices blend together so well that reviewers have compared their overall sound to Simon and Garfunkel, The Beautiful South, Supertramp and even elements of The Beatles.

The Fallows are a four piece folk/rock/celtic band from Coventry.

This is real music from real life. Every lyric and note is carefully crafted from pieces of stories, past feelings and the hope of new experiences. Bags of great songs and energy promise a gig that is buzzing with passion.

The Ripps & Jake Morley Fri 18 Nov 7.45pm Studio £7 (£5.50) Coventry’s own 6 piece indie/powerpop/punk band, The Ripps, have more than tipped their hat to the sound of the city’s iconic 2 tone movement. This was brought to prominence when they supported The Specials on their 2009 UK tour.

Jake Morley is a remarkable guitar player and singer-songwriter.

He plays guitar across his lap and slaps, plucks and picks the instrument to produce a sound like no-one else. His instrumental skill is combined with masterly writing, crafting songs that are instantly memorable. Add to that his ability to deliver them to his audience in an engaging manner and it’s no surprise that people return to his gigs time after time.

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

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Rod Dickinson & Tom McCarthy: Greenwich Degree Zero (Image courtesy of Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London)

This is Performance Art Mel Brimfield’s meticulously drawn and painted posters and programmes for fictional interdisciplinary cabarets, together with costumes and props, are produced alongside documentary-style films and live works that playfully associate performance art with most significant cultural developments of the last 100 years, from Gilbert and George to Morecambe and Wise. Her complex practice takes a skewed and tangled romp through the development of performance art, simultaneously revealing and inventing a rich history of collaboration between artists, dancers, theatre makers, political activists and comedians.

This project is a result of Brimfield’s residency at Camden Arts Centre and is toured by Yorkshire Sculpture Park in association with Ceri Hand Gallery.

Mel Brimfield: Bodiesthrowingthings2010 (Image courtesy of the artist and Ceri Hand Gallery)

Mel Brimfield

Rod Dickinson & Tom McCarthy Greenwich Degree Zero On 15 February 1894 a French anarchist named Martial Bourdin was killed in London when the bomb he was carrying detonated.

It was generally assumed that his intention had been to blow up the Greenwich Observatory - the place from which all time throughout the British Empire and the world was measured and regulated.

In Greenwich Degree Zero, artist Rod Dickinson and writer Tom McCarthy re-imagine Bourdin’s act as a successful attack on the Observatory, reworking newspaper reports to fit their version of events. They also present a film made with a hand-cranked Victorian cinematic camera that captures the moment of the Observatory’s destruction and photographic images that depict the building’s ruin. Audiences are invited to piece together this episode and to participate in the making of a history through the processes, institutions and technologies that authenticate the narrative of time.

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Events Opening Party Sat 1 Oct 6.30pm – 9.30pm Everyone very welcome

Artists talking about artists: Chris Bucklow on Philip Guston Tom Hunter: Anchor and Hope

Wed 12 Oct 2pm Mead Gallery, FREE Artist Chris Bucklow and Editorin-Chief of Art Bulletin Karen Lang discuss the work of the American artist Philip Guston.

Tom Hunter

Monograph Launch This is Performance Art: Mel Brimfield

Unheralded Stories

Unheralded Stories is the latest series of photographs by Tom Hunter that continue his undertaking to explore his neighbourhood in Hackney through the imagery of iconic paintings. He weaves the epic narrative tableaux of artists like Delacroix and Géricault into the east London landscape, to describe the local myths, covert struggles and secret dreams of its inhabitants which are typical of any community, the world over.

Tue 1 Nov 6pm Mead Gallery, FREE Black Dog Publishing launch their new monograph This is Performance Art: Mel Brimfield alongside the Mead’s current exhibition.

Tom Hunter in Conversation

Photographs are presented in pairs; the calm serenity of the smaller images is a counterpoint to the drama of the larger works. By evoking the gestures and mannerisms of old masters, Hunter commemorates local stories, known only to the people of Hackney but which resonate in communities across the world.

Date tbc, Time Tbc Mead Gallery, FREE Tom Hunter in conversation with Pete James, Head of Photographs, Birmingham Central Library, discuss the social, historical and constructed narratives explored in Hunter’s photography.

This exhibition has been organised in collaboration with Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.

Artist’s Talk Thu 10 Nov 6pm Mead Gallery, FREE Artist Rod Dickinson talks about his exhibition Greenwich Degree Zero.

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classical music Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

Czech National Symphony Orchestra

Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

Czech National Symphony Orchestra

Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

Sat 1 Oct 8pm

Wed 19 Oct 8pm

Thu 24 Nov 8pm

Glazunov - Suite from ballet Raymonda Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition

Dvorák ˇ – Two Slavonic Dances Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending Mozart – Violin Concerto No.5 K219 Dvorák ˇ – Symphony No.8

Panufnik – Sinfonia Rustica Bruch – Violin Concerto No.1 Tchaikovsky – Symphony No.2 (Little Russian)

Conductor Yuri Botnari Violin Nikita Boriso-Glebsky Maybe it’s the unique sound of their instruments; maybe it’s the raw passion that pumps through everything they play.

But everyone agrees: when a real Russian orchestra plays Russian music, something very special happens.

Glazunov’s sumptuous ballet-suite from Raymonda launches proceedings whilst the young Russian virtuoso Nikita Boriso-Glebsky gets right to the heart of Tchaikovsky’s gloriously tuneful Violin Concerto. To finish is Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition – played with soul, it’s a roof-raising tribute to the unbreakable Russian spirit.

Conductor Libor Pesek Violin Nicola Benedetti Dvořák wasn’t just about grand emotions and powerful drama, he loved birdsong, folk dances and the village bands of his native Bohemia – and he poured them all into his sunlit Eighth Symphony. It might just be the happiest symphony ever written.

Conductor Antoni Wit Violin Kuba Jakowicz There’s a good reason why Bruch’s First Violin Concerto has never been out of the top ten of the Classic FM Hall of Fame - it has some of the best tunes ever written. This is the deeply romantic heart of this exuberant concert from Poland’s most famous orchestra under Antoni Wit.

First though, the nation’s favourite violinist Nicola Benedetti plays Vaughan Williams’ haunting English idyll, and then puts her tongue firmly in her cheek for Mozart’s most entertaining violin concerto, the “Turkish”. No violinist could carry it off with more spirit and flair than Benedetti.

There’s a rare treat from the Anglo-Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik – his spirited Rustic Symphony – and then Tchaikovsky brings the house down with his Little Russian symphony.

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T. 6.45pm Pre-Concert Talk £2

Brian Midgley, lecturer in Music at the University of Warwick, talks about the works in tonight’s programme.

Brian Midgley, lecturer in Music at the University of Warwick, talks about the works in tonight’s programme.

Brian Midgley, lecturer in Music at the University of Warwick, talks about the works in tonight’s programme.

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Coull Quartet

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The University of Warwick’s resident quartet now performs in their new home, the Helen Martin Studio.

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EAST MEETS WEST Thu 3 Nov 7.30pm

Philharmonia Orchestra

Wed 7 Dec 8pm

Beethoven – Quartet in F Op.18 No.1 Shostakovich – Quartet No.13 in B flat minor Op.138 Schubert – Quartettsatz in C minor D.703 Dvorák ˇ – Quartet in F Op.96 The American

Berlioz – Overture, Béatrice et Bénédict Beethoven – Violin Concerto Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy Violin Valery Sokolov Philharmonia Orchestra

Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, a delirious psychedelic extravaganza composed by an obsessive young genius in opium-fuelled overdrive, is performed by London’s crack Philharmonia Orchestra, whipped to a frenzy by the incomparable Vladimir Ashkenazy. That’s the mindblowing climax to this spectacular concert, and it’s a heck of a ride, especially coming after Beethoven’s serene Violin Concerto.

One concert; a lifetime of emotion. Beethoven’s first string quartet was inspired by Romeo and Juliet. Antonín Dvořák, wrote his ‘American’ quartet amidst the spirituals and birdsong of the American mid-west. Both let their imagination soar, and the result was two of the most joyously tuneful string quartets ever written. As for Schubert’s one-off Quartettsatz, we don’t know why he wrote it. We just know that it’s one of the most poignant mini-masterpieces ever created.

T. 6.30pm Pre-Concert Talk £1 INTIMATE LETTERS Thu 1 Dec 7.30pm Seabourne – Accept these Few Roses Janacek – Quartet No.2 Intimate Letters Dvorák ˇˇ – Quartet in E flat Op.51 He was 73; she was 35. Both were married. But Leoš Janácek wasn’t going to let that stop him expressing his love – and the energy, the freshness and the raw, hotblooded passion of his Intimate Letters quartet has been leaving audiences gasping for breath ever since. That’s the pounding heart of this adults-only concert which opens with a “full-blooded” homage to Janácek and ends in the glowing Czech countryside of Dvořák’s very loveliest string quartet. Bring someone special.

T. 6.45pm Pre-Concert Talk £2 Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy in conversation with Paul McGrath, Director of Music, University of Warwick.

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Coull Quartet

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Mozart

New York’s Metropolitan Opera Live in HD Warwick Arts Centre’s screenings of the best opera broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York Anna Bolena

Don Giovanni

Siegfried

Anna Bolena

Don Giovanni

Siegfried

Donizetti

Mozart

Wagner

Sat 15 Oct 6pm Cinema £25.50 (£20.50), restricted view £10 4hrs 15mins (one interval)

Sat 29 Oct 6pm Cinema £25.50 (£20.50), restricted view £10 3hrs 55mins (one interval)

Sat 5 Nov 4pm Theatre £25.50 (£20.50), restricted view £10 5hrs 56mins (two intervals)

Conductor Marco Armiliato Director David McVicar With Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Ildar Abdrazakov

Conductor James Levine Director Michael Grandage With Marina Rebeka, Mariusz Kwiecien, Barbara Frittoli, Luca Pisaroni

Conductor James Levine Director Robert Lepage With Deborah Voigt, Patricia Bardon, Bryn Terfel, Gary Lehman

Anna Netrebko opens the latest Met Opera Live season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king.

She sings one of opera’s greatest mad scenes in this Met premiere production by David McVicar.

Mariusz Kwiecien brings his youthful and sensual interpretation of Mozart’s timeless anti-hero to the Met for the first time, under the direction of Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage.

In part three of the Ring, Wagner’s cosmic vision focuses on his hero’s early conquests, while Robert Lepage’s revolutionary stage machine transforms itself from bewitched forest to mountaintop love nest.

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Satyagraha

Rodelinda

Satyagraha Rodelinda Philip Glass

Handel

Sat 19 Nov 6pm Cinema £25.50 (£20.50), restricted view £10 4hrs 8mins (two intervals)

Sat 3 Dec 5.30pm Cinema £25.50 (£20.50), restricted view £10 4hrs 15mins (two intervals)

Conductor Dante Anzolini Director Phelim McDermott With Rachelle Durkin, Richard Croft, Kim Josephson

Conductor Harry Bicket Director Stephen Wadsworth With Renée Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl

Richard Croft is Gandhi in Philip Glass’s unforgettable opera which the Washington Post calls “a profound and beautiful work of theatre.”

Sensational in the 2004 Met premiere of Stephen Wadsworth’s much-heralded production, Renée Fleming reprises the title role. She’s joined by Stephanie Blythe and countertenor Andreas Scholl, and Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts.

Faust Sat 10 Dec 6pm Cinema £25.50 (£20.50), restricted view £10 4hrs 20mins (two intervals) Conductor Yannick NézetSéguin Director Des McAnuff With Marina Poplavskaya, Michele Losier, Jonas Kauffman

With Jonas Kauffman in the title role, René Pape as the devil and Marina Poplavskaya as Marguerite, Gounod’s classic retelling of the Faust legend couldn’t be better served. Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff updates the story to the first half of the 20th century with a production that won praise in London last season.

Coming up in 2012 The Enchanted Island Handel, Rameau, Vivaldi & others World Premiere Production Sat 21 Jan 6pm Cinema £25.50 (£20.50), restricted view £10 3hrs 35mins (one interval)

Manon Massenet Sat 7 Apr 5pm Cinema £25.50 (£20.50), restricted view £10 4hrs 8mins (two intervals)

La Traviata Verdi

Götterdämmerung Wagner Sun 12 Feb 3pm Theatre £25.50 (£20.50), restricted view £10 6hrs 24mins (two intervals) NB. This is a recorded screening screened a day after the live event

Sat 14 Apr 6pm Cinema £25.50 (£20.50), restricted view £10 3hrs 7mins (one interval)

La Traviata

Gounod

Faust

Ernani Verdi Sat 25 Feb 6pm Cinema £25.50 (£20.50), restricted view £10 3hrs 49mins (two intervals)

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Madama Butterfly

La Traviata

Ellen Kent Opera

La Traviata Verdi Sung in Italian with English surtitles Tue 21 Feb 8pm Butterworth Hall £25 (£23), £30 (£28), £25 (£33) The love story that gripped Paris…

Ellen Kent Opera

Madama Butterfly Puccini Sung in Italian with English surtitles Tue 15 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £25 (£23), £30 (£28), £25 (£33) Ellen Kent’s award-winning opera returns to the Butterworth Hall stage, with handpicked soloists, a highly-praised chorus, full orchestra, exquisite sets and spectacular costumes.

One of the world’s most popular operas, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly tells the heart-breaking story of the beautiful young Japanese girl who falls in love with an American naval lieutenant.

Highlights include the melodic Humming Chorus, the moving aria One Fine Day and the unforgettable Love Duet.

“This is a Butterfly to cherish.” Manchester Evening News

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A tragic tale of searing passion and memorable music, La Traviata is Verdi’s outstanding interpretation of one of the most popular love stories of the 19th century, La Dame aux Camelias.

Based on a true story, it focuses on the passionate Violetta. There are many echoes of Verdi’s own life in Traviata and he threw himself into the music.

This magnificent production boasts sumptuous sets and costumes.

“Uplifting, charming, heroic and finally tear-jerking.”

Liverpool Echo

Hansel & Gretel

Opera Warwick

Hansel & Gretel Engelbert Humperdinck New English translation by Kit Hesketh-Harvey Thu 12 – Sat 14 Jan 7.15pm, Sat matinee 2.15pm Theatre £10 (£8), £12 (£10), £14 (£12) Family ticket (2 adults and 2 children) £32, £39, £46 Hansel & Gretel is the perfect fairy-tale treat for all the family - a musical masterpiece and an ideal way to introduce both young and old to the world of opera.

Sharply updated with a new English translation written by Opera Warwick with Vicar of Dibley screenwriter Kit HeskethHarvey, this magical story about poverty and greed is ever applicable to our own era.

music centre Music Theatre Warwick, Wind Orchestra, Brass Band, University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra

A Night At The Movies FREE Concert Tue 11 Oct 7pm Butterworth Hall Conductors Lucy Griffiths, Simon Hogg, Paul McGrath, Alexander Parker, James Owen and Winston Yap

Wind Orchestra, Brass Band, Chorus, Chamber Choir

Christmas Spectacular!

Thu 8 Dec 6.30pm Butterworth Hall £7 (£5), Under 16s £3 Sing along with classic carols, have fun with all the family and be filled with Christmas cheer at this dazzling celebration of all things Christmassy, with all the trimmings! Father Christmas will be here to kick off the festivities with his famous sidekick Rudolph and a troop of dancing elves.

Music Centre ensembles kick off the new academic year with a glitzy and glamorous night at the movies. Don your glad-rags and enjoy an evening of musical favourites as we take you on a journey through some of cinema’s classic soundtracks including: Slumdog Millionaire, Pirates of the Caribbean, Chicken Run, Flight to Neverland, Bridge on the River Kwai, Star Wars, Toy Story and The Incredibles.

Da Capo

Wind Orchestra & Brass Band

Improvisation Workshop

Dance!

Wed 16 Nov 7pm Butterworth Hall £6 (£4) Programme to include: Four Cornish Dances, Op. 91 - Malcolm Arnold Four Norfolk Dances - Philip Sparke Conductors Simon Hogg, Paul McGrath and James Owen Get your toes tapping as Wind and Brass players dance the night away!

Philip Sparke was inspired by the music of Malcolm Arnold to write his own suite of Dance music and both composers feature in the concert.

The Music Centre presents an exciting new series of free talks, workshops, lectures and masterclasses, pondering some of the issues surrounding music making in the 21st century.

Fri 28 Oct 2pm Ensemble Room FREE (but tickets must be booked via Box Office) Run by Warwick’s own jazz piano teacher Tom Lindsay, this session will introduce you to improvisation in an enjoyable and accessible way.

Feel free to bring along your instrument or just come along and listen.

Does Music have Meaning?

Fri 25 Nov 2pm Ensemble Room FREE (but tickets must be booked via Box Office)

Elijah

Does music have a precise purpose or is musical meaning created within our social, cultural, psychological and spiritual life? In this illustrated talk, violinist and broadcaster Paul Robertson explores the science and psychology of the musical mind.

Sun 4 Dec 4pm Butterworth Hall £7 (£5)

FREE Lunchtime Concerts

Mendelssohn – Elijah Conductor – Paul McGrath

Thursdays 1.10pm Ensemble Room, Music Centre, Warwick Arts Centre

University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

Following his thrilling performance as Amonasro in Aida last year, Craig Smith returns to Warwick Arts Centre in the title role of Elijah.

Since its 1846 premiere in Birmingham Town Hall, Elijah has been a popular work and is considered to be one of the greatest of all choral masterpieces.

University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

As well as supporting the student ensembles of the University, the Music Centre also runs a programme of professional lunchtime concerts.

6 Oct 13 Oct 20 Oct 27 Oct 3 Nov 10 Nov 17 Nov 24 Nov 1 Dec 8 Dec

Marylebone Trio Anna Wagstaff, cello and Tanya Ursova, piano Warren Mailley-Smith, piano Emma Peaurt, soprano and Andrew Dunlop, piano Dave Gordon Trio National Opera Studio Angela Brownridge, piano Hepplewhite Piano Trio Kudos Percussion Duo Gaudeamus 50p per ticket booking fee applies

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Some comedians use very strong language and express controversial opinions. Please come prepared.

comedy The Boy With Tape On His Face

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Russell Kane

Big Bag of Boom

The Boy With Tape On His Face performed by Sam Wills Sun 2 Oct 7.45pm Studio £12 (£10) Jack Whitehall

Roden and Shenton’s New Art Club

The silent show that is creating a lot of talk. Mime with noise, standup with no talking, drama with no acting. You’ll laugh, you’ll scream and ultimately you’ll end up like The Boy – lost for words.

Big Bag of Boom

“Endlessly inventive, hysterically funny. Fight for a ticket.”

HHHHH Time Out

Jimmy Carr Russell Kane Laughter Therapy

Manscaping

Let’s Not Speak of This Again

Sun 9 Oct 8pm Butterworth Hall £25 Tickets Selling Fast

Sun 9 Oct 7.30pm Theatre £17.50

Sun 2 Oct 8pm Butterworth Hall £15 “He’ll soon be graduating with first class comedy honours.”

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The Warwick Arts Centre stalwart returns with his hugely popular show Laughter Therapy.

50p per ticket booking fee applies

Jimmy Carr

Jack Whitehall

Join Fosters Comedy Award Winner and star of loads of stuff on telly, Russell Kane as he mercilessly explores the ridiculous state of masculinity in the modern world. He shaves his chest fur; you watch and laugh.

“A seriously good comedian.”

HHHHH The Times

Wed 12 & Thu 13 Oct 7.45pm Studio £10.50 (£8.50) 1hr (no interval) Winner of the Edinburgh Spotlight Best Comedy Award 2010 The world’s funniest dance duo, Tom Roden and Pete Shenton, (aka New Art Club) are back with their latest piece of genre-defining, dance-up comedy.

“Intelligently idiotic and unwaveringly entertaining.”

The Big Issue “Laughs are prioritised in this original, charming and very funny show.” The List See page 16 for more information

Tom Stade

Milton Jones Lion Whisperer Sat 15 Oct 8pm Butterworth Hall £17.50 Milton Jones – you know, the weird bloke with the shirts from Mock the Week, as well as star of Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, the voice of 8 series for Radio 4 and all sorts of other radio and telly as well. Awards too. Well, it’s his show. YouTube him or something…

“Sultan of the surreal.”

The Guardian

Reginald D Hunter

Tom Stade Sun 16 Oct 7.45pm Theatre £13.50 (£11.50) Tom’s magnetic stage presence, irrepressible charm and first-class story-telling have established him as one of the most sought after performers on the UK and international circuit. Join Tom’s inimitable, offbeat world for a truly unforgettable night of comedy.

“Wonderfully imaginative, original and hilarious” Rhod Gilbert

Rob Brydon

Reginald D Hunter Sometimes Even The Devil Tells The Truth Sat 29 Oct 8pm Butterworth Hall £20 In just over a decade Reginald D Hunter has become one of the UK comedy scene’s best-known and most distinctive performers.

His work is often brutally honest, frequently controversial but always meticulously measured.

An Evening With Rob Brydon ‘Small Man in a Book’ book tour Sun 30 Oct 7.30pm Theatre £14 SOLD OUT Rob Brydon talks about his new book Small Man in a Book, a funny, heartfelt, honest memoir of how a young man from Wales very slowly became an overnight success.

“Magic… his is a perfect set.”

The Guardian

Jimeoin Lovely Sun 23 Oct 7.45pm Studio £14 (£12) Stunning stand-up comedy from star of TV’s Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and Jason Manford’s Comedy Rocks.

No gimmicks, just pure-andsimple great craic.

Jimeoin

Milton Jones

“Brilliant… it gets no better than this… hilarious!” Time Out 50p per ticket booking fee applies

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Barry Cryer

Jason Byrne

Joe Wilkinson

Barry Cryer: Jason Byrne Joe Wilkinson Butterfly Brain

Cirque Du Byrne

with Colin Sell at the piano Fri 4 Nov 7.30pm Theatre £18.50 (£16.50) A stream of unconsciousness and sit down comedy!

Join old Baz on an alphabetical, hypothetical journey from A to Z. Have you noticed that all the letters in the alphabet are in the right order?

Come with him as he embarks on an odyssey of oddities from Aardvark to Zulu… For the first time, he can claim to be a man of letters, even including X. Bear with him, or Winnie the Pooh and Tigger as they were known. Next to Baz you will spot Colin Sell at the P&O!

Sat 5 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £15 Roll up, roll up as Jason Byrne takes to the road to hotwire your comedy funny bones with his latest show, Cirque Du Byrne!

This promises to be an anarchy packed show of acrobatic proportions. Encounter deviously constructed comic spectacle, be tamed by on-stage farce and audience interaction and gasp in awe at daring comic stunts as the definitive clown of comedy pushes his riotous show to the edge.

My Mum’s called Stella and my Dad’s called Brian Sun 6 Nov 7.45pm

Critically acclaimed stand-up and star of hit BBC3 sitcom Him & Her, Joe Wilkinson comes to Warwick Arts Centre with his signature lo-fi delivery, knowingly-shabby stage presence and hilarious self-deprecating material, fast proving himself one of the funniest comedians around.

“A natural gagsmith who looks so comfortable behind a mic stand you’d be forgiven for thinking he’d been doing stand-up for a decade.”

The Guardian

“Full-on, doubled-up, gasping-for-oxygen hilarious.”

Chortle

Stephen Merchant Hello Ladies…

Tue 8 & Wed 9 Nov 8pm

Butterworth Hall £30

Stephen says: “Most people don’t realise that I was a stand-up comedian before I met Ricky Gervais and his coat-tails. Life can be lonely as a TV writer so this tour is a great opportunity for me to get out there and meet my fans. And make at least one of them my wife.”

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Stephen Merchant

Globally known for his acclaimed collaborative work with partner Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant has at last decided to take his considerable stand-up talents on the road.

Studio £12.50

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Omid Djalili

Omid Djalili Tour Of Duty Sat 12 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £19 Multi award-winning stand-up, television and film star, Omid Djalili is back on tour with his brand new comedy show.

“Right now, the Iranian Djalili is probably one of the most subversive, let alone funniest, comedians around.”

The Guardian

Daniel Sloss Joker

Daniel Sloss

Andrew Lawrence

Richard Herring

Dave Gorman’s

Sarah Millican

Powerpoint Presentation

Thoroughly Modern Millican

Fri 25 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £20

Fri 2 Dec & Wed 7 Mar 8pm Butterworth Hall £20 SOLD OUT

Always one of comedy’s most innovative thinkers, this genrestretching performer is back… and for this brand new show he’s formed a double act… with a projector screen. And they’d like to show you their powerpoint presentation. Cast your powerpoint prejudice* aside, it’s not just for business meetings. *Some bullet points will be used.

Andrew Lawrence

The Best Kept Secret in Comedy Tour

Richard Herring

What is Love, Anyway?

Sun 4 Mar 2012 7.30pm Theatre £15 Having sorted out religion (Christ on a Bike), politics (Hitler Moustache) and penises (Talking Cock), AIOTM star seeks to define and destroy love. Before love destroys him. Again.

“Stimulating, Exhilarating…

Utterly Hilarious.”

HHHHH Chortle

Sun 26 Feb 2012 7.45pm Studio £12 (£10)

Sat 19 Nov 7.45pm Studio £13.50 (£10) Scotland’s half-man-half-Xbox, hormone-ridden comic prodigy started stand-up aged 16, starred on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Comedy Rocks, Mock the Week and his own BBC show… all before he started shaving.

“Charming, self-deprecating and genuinely funny.”

Time Out Dave Gorman

Maybe you’ve caught one of his rare TV appearances. Maybe you’ve heard his Radio 4 series What To Do If You’re Not Like Everybody Else. Probably you’ve never heard of Andrew Lawrence at all. How remiss of you. Join him as he embarks on his latest tour.

“Lawrence, should he so wish, could be the defining stand-up comic of his generation.”

The Guardian

Sarah Millican

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Joan Bakewell

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Dame Harriet Walter

An Audience with Joan Bakewell Sun 9 Oct 3pm Theatre £15 (£13) Broadcaster and writer Joan Bakewell talks about her life and times and the many controversial programmes she has presented on sex, nudity and religion including: Heart of the Matter, My Generation and Taboo for BBC1; Something Understood for Radio 4; and Belief for Radio 3. Joan Bakewell writes a regular column in The Guardian – Just 70 – reflecting on life in her seventies.

Joan Bakewell has been Chair of the British Film Institute and of the National Campaign for the Arts. She is currently Chair of the theatre company Shared Experience and patron of Y Touring.

Her first novel All the Nice Girls was published in 2009 and is being adapted for television. Her next, She’s Leaving Home, will be published in November 2011. She was made a Dame in 2008 and entered the House of Lords in January 2011.

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Dame Harriet Walter Sun 30 Oct 2pm Theatre £10 (£8) Following on from her nationally touring exhibition, Infinite Variety, which visited the University of Warwick’s CAPITAL Centre in 2007, Dame Harriet Walter now joins us to talk about her new book. Facing It: Reflections on Images of Older Women, collects a series of beautiful portraits of inspirational older women, including faces from the limelight, such as Judi Dench, Bianca Jagger, Mary Quant and Pina Bausch, but also friends, friends of friends and members of the public, all of whom are celebrated in the collection.

The images are interspersed with moving and insightful autobiographical essays and apt quotations from literary texts.

Dame Harriet will talk about the exhibition and how, as she approached her sixties, she wanted to find “a role model for how to project myself into the future.”

“This is a beautiful book. Its message is one of joy and celebration. It holds the fear of ageing at bay and shows us beauty where we rarely look for it.”

Joan Bakewell

Barry Cryer

Barry Cryer: Butterfly Brain with Colin Sell at the piano Fri 4 Nov 7.30pm Theatre £18.50 (£16.50) Barry Cryer is back with a new show, Butterfly Brain.

A stream of unconsciousness and sit down comedy!

Join old Baz on an alphabetical, hypothetical journey from A to Z. Come with him as he embarks on an odyssey of oddities from Aardvark to Zulu… Flabbergasted means appalled at how much weight you’ve gained! For the first time, he can claim to be a man of letters, even including X. Bear with him, or Winnie the Pooh and Tigger as they were known. Next to Baz you will spot Colin Sell at the P & O!

A L Kennedy

Halloween Horror Night Mon 31 Oct 7.15pm Conference Room £8 (£6) This event is suitable for mature audiences only.

An evening of terror, with three of Britain’s best contemporary horror writers, to celebrate Halloween, featuring literary horrorist Gary McMahon, self-publishing zombie-writer phenomenon David Moody and spiritual terrifier Adam L G Nevill. Each writer will share a terrifying story and talk about their writing and careers.

Gary McMahon is the author of Hungry Hearts, Pretty Little Dead Things, Dead Bad Things and The Concrete Grove.

“Firmly in the front ranks of the new wave of British horror.”

The Guardian

David Moody has an unhealthy fascination with the end of the world. Autumn, the first of his Last of the Living Zombie series, was an early internet breakthrough phenomenon, garnering half a million downloads.

Adam L G Nevill is a writer of supernatural horror. His books include The Ritual, Apartment 16 and Banquet of the Damned.

“A demonstration of what the field of horror is capable of at its very best.”

Black Static The event will be chaired by Warwick Writing Programme graduate and up-and-coming horror critic and writer, Michael D Wilson.

A L Kennedy Wed 30 Nov 7.15pm Conference Room £8 (£6) Stand up genius and award-winning novelist A L Kennedy will read from her new novel, The Blue Book, a love story somehow involving a fake medium. She’ll also talk about life, writing, love, comedy and magicians, all in her slightly darkedged, humorous way.

A L Kennedy won the Costa Best Book Award for her 2007 novel Day and in the same year was a recipient of a Lannan Foundation Award. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing for the Warwick Writing Programme, where she sometimes hosts antiworkshops involving birds of prey, to great delight.

“There is something of the night about A L Kennedy.”

Glasgow Herald 50p per ticket booking fee applies

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Dynamic New Animation

Chicken Licken Sat 8 Oct 11am & 2pm Studio £9.25 (£6.25) 45mins Age: 3 – 6

50p per ticket booking fee applies

This delightful and imaginative mixture of puppetry, storytelling, music and breadmaking is all played out on a kitchen table.

A baby chick hatches from an egg and grows up to become the star of the well-loved stories of Chicken Licken and The Little Red Hen. Will she be able to outwit Foxy Loxy? Don’t count your chickens…

It’s baking day and an inexperienced baker needs all the help he can get.

Chicken Licken

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Drums in a Day

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Visiting Katt and Fredda

Drums in a Day with Dave Barrett Tue 25 Oct 10am – 7pm rehearsals Helen Martin Studio £25 (limited availability) 7pm – performance FREE, but please book your tickets at Box Office Age: 11 – 15

This one is going to be really loud!

You’ll spend all day working together to become one of the slickest (and loudest) samba bands around. We’ll borrow the drum collection from the Warwick Arts Centre Music Centre and by 7pm you’ll be ready to play for an audience that won’t be able to sit still.

Your beats and rhythms will have them on their feet without them thinking about it.

Sun 30 Oct 3pm (show) & 4pm (workshop) Studio £9.25 (£6.25), workshop FREE, but book your place at the same time as booking tickets Show 50mins, workshop 1hr Age: 6 – 10 Visiting Katt and Fredda is a funny family play with live music about…

2 friends living side by side in harmony with

2 spoons 2 plates 2 chairs Katt daydreams about a visitor, Fredda wants things to stay just the 2 of them. Then along comes noisy, bossy, thinks she’s the Queen, Miranda (then that’s 3) and upsets everything – or does she?

Both children and adults will see the funny side of the frustrations of friendship and the ups and downs of 2 becoming 3.

2 of everything

Dave Barrett is a drum master and has taught thousands of young people to play – stressing the fun but not forgetting the discipline and skill.

Dave has also been leading Drumestra – the University of Warwick student samba band.

The Unlikely Tales of Molly Moonshine

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The Unlikely Tales of Molly Moonshine Sun 13 Nov 2.30pm & 4.30pm Studio £9.25 (£6.25) 45mins Age: 4+ Meet Molly Moonshine, lady traveller and unreliable raconteuse. You’ll never believe some of the tales she’ll tell you. And with good reason: they’re some of the tallest stories you’ll ever hear, drawn from her long life and dubious journeying. But never worry about that: just sit back and enjoy the fun as she waxes lyrical about everything and nothing and plenty in between.

An interactive story-telling experience that will have you joining in with a song (and even perhaps a dance), shaking your head in disbelief, wiping away a tear and smiling like a cat who’s got the cream.

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christmas The Tiger Who Came To Tea based on the picture book written and illustrated by Judith Kerr adapted for the stage with songs and lyrics

by David Wood Wed 30 Nov – Sat 31 Dec Theatre £11.75, Under 16s £9.75 Age: 3+ 55mins (no interval) The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea.

Who could it possibly be? What they certainly don’t expect to see at the door is a big, stripy tiger!

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

The tea-guzzling tiger returns to Warwick Arts Centre this Christmas in this delightful family show; packed with oodles of magic, sing-a-long songs and clumsy chaos! A stunning stage adaptation of this classic tale of teatime mayhem… expect to be surprised!

“We just wanted to day thank you for such a wonderful show yesterday. My 3 year old son and I thought The Tiger Who Came To Tea was brilliant.”

Audience comment via website (May/June performances) “With catchy songs and gentle humour, this adaptation of the children’s classic offers the perfect treat for kids.”

Birmingham Mail

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Visit our website to see the special trailer that the Tiger made on his last visit to Warwick Arts Centre…

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film Christmas Spectacular!

Raymond Briggs’ Winter Wonderland U Sat 17 Dec 1.30pm, Cinema £4.50 (£2.50)

The Snowman Father Christmas Dir: Dianne Jackson UK 1982 26mins

Dir: Dave Unwin UK 1991 25mins Voice: Mel Smith

Raymond Briggs’ classic Christmas tales promise to fill you with cheer this festive season. Go “walking in the air” with the Snowman in the timeless adventure and join the cantankerous Father Christmas as he goes on his “blooming” holidays.

A guaranteed delight for young and old alike.

Wind Orchestra, Brass Band, Chorus, Chamber Choir

Christmas Spectacular!

Thu 8 Dec 6.30pm Butterworth Hall £7 (£5), Under 16s £3 Sing along with classic carols, have fun with all the family and be filled with Christmas cheer at this dazzling celebration of all things Christmassy, with all the trimmings! Father Christmas will be here to kick off the festivities with his famous sidekick Rudolph and a troop of dancing elves.

Butterworth Hall will be transformed into a winter wonderland for one night only – come and join in the fun.

Raymond Briggs’ Winter Wonderland

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films Mead Gallery Family Art Workshops £3.50 per child (accompanying adult free) Tickets available in advance or on the day from Box Office on 024 7652 4524. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

For further details phone the Mead Gallery assistants on 024 7652 2589 (12noon – 9pm, Mon – Sat).

Pop Up Collage Sat 15 Oct 1pm – 2.30pm Mead Gallery Age: 6+ Use collage to design your imaginary pop up scenes of Coventry City Centre. Where can you imagine something spectacular happening?

Feel free to bring along your own photos and pictures.

Here & Now Sat 22 Oct 1pm – 2.30pm Mead Gallery Age: 6+ Use the headlines of the day to create paintings that catch your eye and make visual statements.

Experiment with styles, colours and textures to add power and punch to your picture.

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Everyday Twist Re-create Sat 12 Nov 1pm – 2.30pm Old Masters Mead Gallery Age: 6+ Weave together an assortment of materials to create art that represents a day in your life. Bring along bits of rubbish you have used, items you have collected and textiles you would like to transform into something creative.

Poster Prints – Somewhere Else Sat 19 Nov 1pm – 2.30pm Mead Gallery Age: 6+ Imagine the perfect destination to escape to and design posters that entice people to visit. Use printmaking techniques to create a number of posters to give to your friends and family.

50p per ticket booking fee applies

Sat 26 Nov 1pm – 2.30pm Mead Gallery Age: 6+ Have a go at re-enacting scenes from famous old master paintings, then paint them in your very own style. Feel free to bring along costumes, fabric and props.

Journalist Art Sat 3 Dec 1pm – 2.30pm Mead Gallery Age: 6+ Add your own version of events to factual stories using photography, props, playfulness and print.

You can re-create anything from newspaper articles, adverts, tickets, programmes to staged photos to make your story realistic.

Kes PG Sat 15 Oct 1.30pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50) Dir: Ken Loach UK 1969 110mins Cast: David Bradley, Brian Glover, Freddie Fletcher Introduce the young people in your life to Ken Loach’s classic on the big screen as it should be seen.

Billy (Bradley) is an awkward teenager with a miserable home life and a school life that’s equally bad. This all changes when he finds a baby kestrel which he names Kes. It becomes the focus of his life, an all consuming relationship as he finally finds a vocation. Then tragedy strikes.

cinema As the region’s top independent cinema we offer a unique experience: we show the best films from around the world and often hold special events to complement the film programme.

For full details pick up a Cinema Diary from Box Office or visit our website which also has links to film trailers and where you can also sign up to receive weekly film email updates.

Strictly Ballroom

Jane Eyre

Strictly Ballroom PG

Battle of Billy’s Pond U

Millions 12A

Sat 29 Oct 1.30pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50)

Sat 19 Nov 1.30pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50)

Dir: Baz Luhrman Australia 1992 94mins Cast: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter

Dir: Harley Cokliss UK 1976 56mins Cast: Ben Buckton, Andrew Ashby, Talfryn Thomas

Dir: Danny Boyle UK 2004 98mins Cast: Alex Etel, James Nesbitt, Daisy Donovan

The flamboyant Baz Luhrman (Moulin Rouge!, Romeo + Juliet) takes on ballroom dance in this wildly offbeat comedy. Scott is a champion calibre dancer who dreams of winning the Australian title, but he is shunned by the ballroom world for his insistence on dancing new steps. When his long term partner leaves him, tired of his obsession, he meets the shy Fran who has two left feet but longs to learn how to dance. So they pair up in an attempt to take the ballroom world by force.

Two young fisherman find their favourite pond full of dead fish when a huge chemical corporation dumps its waste into the pond. When the local authorities do nothing to help; the boys take matters into their own hands.

A hard hitting film from the Children’s Film Foundation with a pertinent and prescient message.

Sat 10 Dec 1.30pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50)

A heart-warming story of two little boys, faith, miracles… and lots of money. Starting anew after the death of their mother, 9 year-old Anthony is ever practical, while his 7 year-old brother Damian uses imagination, fantasy and faith to make sense of his confusing world. When a suitcase full of money falls out of the sky at Damian’s feet, it sets the boys on the adventure of a lifetime that leads them to realise that true wealth has nothing to do with money.

Accompanied by an episode of The Animals of Farthing Wood.

“A family film of limitless imagination and surprising joy.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Batlle of Billy’s Pond

Millions

A simple story told well makes this uplifting film perfect for a family afternoon out.

Kes

Raymond Briggs’ Winter Wonderland U Sat 17 Dec 1.30pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50)

The Snowman U Dir: Dianne Jackson UK 1982 26mins AND

Father Christmas U Dir: Dave Unwin UK 1991 25mins Voice: Mel Smith Raymond Briggs’ classic Christmas tales promise to fill you with cheer this festive season. Go “walking in the air” with the Snowman in the timeless adventure and join the cantankerous Father Christmas as he goes on his “blooming” holidays. A guaranteed delight for young and old alike.

Raymond Briggs’ Winter Wonderland

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We add a 50p booking fee to all tickets sold at Warwick Arts Centre. By levying this small fee we are able to retain a greater share of the ticket income than by simply raising our ticket prices. The sum raised is invested directly back into the organisation, helping to maintain the unique, wide-ranging, contemporary programme that is enjoyed year-round.

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Theatre Package The Theatre Package is a discount offer available for purchasers of 3 or more Theatre events between 1 October and 15 December. The offer is available both online and offline.

Theatre Package Terms & Conditions The Theatre Package ticket is available for full price and standard concession rate tickets on events where stated.

Standard booking fee applies.

Offer not applicable retrospectively and is subject to availability Exchanges within the package are available, but standard Terms & Conditions apply and the ticket must be returned to Box Office 24 hours before the event.

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Groups

We accept Visa, Mastercard, Delta, Maestro, Amex cards. There is a 50p per ticket booking fee added to all tickets sold at Warwick Arts Centre, whether by phone, online or over the counter (excluding schools and groups of 9+).

On selected events we offer a discounted rate for groups (price shown in brackets plus every 10th ticket FREE). No booking fee. Check Box Office for availability.

reservations: Pay within 4 days, or 30 minutes before, whichever is sooner.

exchanging tickets: Tickets are not normally refundable.

Tickets can be exchanged for another performance or for a credit voucher valid for 180 days. However, you must return your original tickets to the Box Office at least 24 hours before the performance (14 days for groups of 10+).

There is an administration fee of 50p per ticket. Tickets purchased as part of a subscription or package deal cannot be exchanged for credit vouchers. The booking fee is not refunded. Any credit not used after 180 days have elapsed will go to the Warwick Arts Centre Development Fund.

postage We charge 75p for posting your tickets to you at a UK billing address (if booked one week in advance otherwise we will hold them for collection at the Box Office on the day of performance).

pricing Warwick Arts Centre is committed to accessibility and aims to remain competitive with ticket prices. Please note that, on occasions, ticket prices are set by external promoters and we have no control over their value. Where we can, we offer a range of discounts. We are especially committed to access for young people.

Under 26s Tickets As part of our access policy of introducing theatre to young people a limited number of tickets for under 26s is available on Theatre performances. This ticket price is not available to groups or as part of the Theatre Package. ID may be required.

terms and conditions: All tickets are sold according to our terms and conditions. Full terms and conditions and privacy policy can be found at www.warwickartscentre.co.uk or ask for a copy from Box Office.

All tickets, discounts and offers subject to availability.

Unless otherwise stated, discounts and concessions cannot be combined or used in conjunction with any other offers. Warwick Arts Centre reserves the right to make occasional special ticket offers in addition to those listed here. Warwick Arts Centre reserves the right to change programmes and artists without notice. Please contact the Box Office or check website for updated information, especially if travelling some distance.

DATA PROTECTION Warwick Arts Centre is committed to upholding the Data Protection principles of good practice.

When processing your booking (whether over the phone, in person or online) we will ask you for your name, address, email and telephone number. This is essential for non-cash bookings. We will also ask you if you would like to be kept informed about forthcoming events and campaigns at Warwick Arts Centre or other arts organisations. You can update your account online at any time at www.warwickartscentre.co.uk

All information correct at time of going to press August 2011.

CP = Car Park For Sat Nav our postcode is CV4 7AL

how to find us by car: On approaches to Coventry, simply follow the brown signs to Warwick Arts Centre.

We are situated in the centre of the main campus of the University of Warwick.

Parking is FREE after 6pm.

Car Park 7 (multi-storey, 3 mins walk, directly opposite us).

Car Park 15 (multi-storey, 10 mins walk).

A token system is used to exit.

Car Park 8 (multi-storey, 7 mins walk).

Car Park 4 – (open car park, directly opposite us).

Pay and display. NO exit barrier so faster to exit at the end of the night.

Please note that the multi-storey car parks do not have lifts.

by bus: Regular bus services from Coventry, Leamington Spa and Kenilworth stop outside the Arts Centre. Centro Hotline: 024 7655 9559.

by train: Services run regularly from Birmingham, Leicester and London to Coventry from where we are a short taxi or bus ride away.

discounts: Discounted tickets, where they are available, are shown in brackets and available to over 60s in full time retirement, recipients of job seekers allowance, full time students, Coventry Passport to Leisure holders and Rugby Leisure Pass holders.

schools: For selected events, tickets can be purchased at reduced prices for teacherled school/college groups. No booking fee. See our brochure or call the Box Office for details.

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Spaces reserved in Car Park 7.

Wheelchair access at ground level to Hall, Studio Theatre, CafĂŠ Bar, Box Office, Cinema, Conference Room, Music Centre and Bookshop.

Lift access to Theatre, Theatre Bar, National Grid Room and Mead Gallery.

50p per ticket booking fee applies

Guide dogs are welcomed and can be cared for during performances, by arrangement.

Receivers for our Sennheiser infra-red facility are freely available from Box Office.

Toilet facilities accessible on all levels.

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quick guide

Sun 23

7.45pm

Jimeoin: Lovely

p33

Tue 25

10am

Drums in a Day

p39

7.30pm

The Wild Bride

p09

Wed 26 7.30pm

The Wild Bride T.

p09

Thu 27

1.10pm

FREE Lunchtime Concert

p31

7.30pm

The Wild Bride

p09

7.45pm

Going Dark

p08

2pm

Da Capo: Improvisation Workshop

p31

7.30pm

The Wild Bride

p09

7.45pm

Going Dark

p08

1.30pm

Family Film: Strictly Ballroom

p43

6pm

Met Opera Live: Don Giovanni

p28

7.30pm

The Wild Bride

p09

7.45pm

Going Dark

p08

8pm

Reginald D Hunter

p33

2pm

Dame Harriet Walter

p36

3pm

Visiting Katt and Fredda

p39

7.30pm

An Evening With Rob Brydon

p33

Halloween Horror Night

p37

6pm

Mead Gallery: Monograph Launch

p25

7.30pm

Void Story T.

p08

8pm

KT Tunstall

p20

7.30pm

Void Story

p08

7.45pm

Faustus

p14

1.10pm

FREE Lunchtime Concert

p31

6.30pm

Pre-Concert Talk: East Meets West

p27

7.30pm

Coull Quartet: East Meets West

p27

7.45pm

Faustus

p14

7.30pm

Barry Cryer: Butterfly Brain

p37

7.45pm

Faustus

p14

4pm

Met Opera Live: Siegfried

p28

7.45pm

Faustus

p14

8pm

Jason Byrne: Cirque Du Byrne

p34

7.30pm

The World's Greatest Drummer

p20

7.45pm

Joe Wilkinson

p34

Tue 8

8pm

Stephen Merchant: Hello Ladies…

p34

Wed 9

7.30pm

Can We Talk About This?

p17

8pm

Stephen Merchant: Hello Ladies…

p34

1.10pm

FREE Lunchtime Concert

p31

6pm

Mead Gallery: Artist's Talk

p25

7.30pm

Can We Talk About This?

p17

7.30pm

Can We Talk About This?

p17

7.45pm

Operation Greenfield

p10

8pm

The Legendary John Mayall

p21

1pm

Family Art Workshop

p42

7.45pm

Operation Greenfield

p10

8pm

Omid Djalili

p35

2.30pm

The Unlikely Tales of Molly Moonshine

p39

4.30pm

The Unlikely Tales of Molly Moonshine

p39

Mon 14 7.45pm

Schrödinger

p10

Tue 15

7.30pm

Britain's Got Bhangra

p11

7.45pm

Schrödinger

p10

Fri 28

September Thu 15 Sun 18

6.45pm 7pm

NT Live: One Man, Two Guvnors NT Live: One Man, Two Guvnors (encore screening)

p12

7.30pm

Woyzeck on the Highveld

p05

p12

7.45pm

Big Bag of Boom

p16

8pm

Soweto Gospel Choir: African Grace

p19

7.30pm

Woyzeck on the Highveld

p05

8pm

Georgie Fame

p19

1pm

Family Art Workshop

p42

p26

1.30pm

Family Film: Kes

p42

Met Opera Live: Anna Bolena

p28

Fri 14

October Sat 1

Sun 2

Tue 4

Wed 5

Thu 6

6.30pm

Pre-Concert Talk: Moscow Philharmonic p26

8pm

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

Tue 11

The Boy With Tape On His Face

p32

8pm

p32

7.30pm

Woyzeck on the Highveld

p05

8pm

Milton Jones: Lion Whisperer

p33

11am

Jack Whitehall: Let's Not Speak of This Again My Last Car: Installation

p06

Sun 16

7.45pm

Tom Stade

p33

7.30pm

Happy as Larry T.

p15

November

Tue 18

7.30pm

Lovesong

p07

7.45pm

My Last Car: Performance

p06

Tue 1

Wed 19 6.45pm

p26

11am

My Last Car: Installation

p06

1.30pm

My Last Car: Performance

p06

7.30pm

Pre-Concert Talk: Czech National Symphony Orchestra Lovesong T.

7.45pm

The Real Thing

p14

8pm

Czech National Symphony Orchestra

p26

1.10pm

FREE Lunchtime Concert

p31

7.30pm

Happy as Larry

p15

7.45pm

My Last Car: Performance

p06

My Last Car: Installation

p06

1.10pm

FREE Lunchtime Concert

p31

1.30pm

Lovesong

p07

p06

7.30pm

Capsule

p06

p12

7.30pm

Lovesong

p07

p18

7.45pm

Capsule

p06

The Real Thing

p14

My Last Car: Performance NT Live: The Kitchen Tommy Smith's Karma

7.45pm

My Last Car: Performance

p06

7.45pm

11am

My Last Car: Installation

p06

8pm

Capsule

p06

8.15pm

Capsule

p06

6.30pm

Capsule

p06

Capsule

p06

7.30pm

Submotion Orchestra

p18

7.45pm

My Last Car: Performance

p06

Fri 21

11am

My Last Car: Installation

p06

6.45pm

11am

Chicken Licken

p38

7pm

Capsule

p06

Capsule

p06

2pm

My Last Car: Performance

p06

7.15pm

2pm 7.30pm

Chicken Licken Time Gentlemen Please!

p38 p18

7.30pm

Lovesong

p07

7.45pm

The Real Thing

p14

7.45pm

My Last Car: Perfomance

p06

1pm

Family Art Workshop

p42

Capsule

p06

Sat 22

8pm

The Overtones

p19

4pm

3pm

An Audience with Joan Bakewell

p36

4.15pm

Capsule

p06

Capsule

p06

7.30pm

Russell Kane: Manscaping

p32

4.30pm

7.45pm

Under the Radar: Beneva & The Fallows p23

4.45pm

Capsule

p06

8pm

Jimmy Carr: Laughter Therapy

p32

6.30pm

Capsule

p06

7pm

Music Centre: A Night at the Movies

p31

6.45pm

Capsule

p06

7pm

Capsule

p06

7.15pm

Capsule

p06

7.30pm

Lovesong

p07

Woyzeck on the Highveld

p05 p25

7.30pm

Mead Gallery: Artists talking about artists Woyzeck on the Highveld T.

p05

7.45pm

The Real Thing

p14

7.45pm

Big Bag of Boom

p16

8pm

Tindersticks

p20

1.10pm

FREE Lunchtime Concert

p31

Wed 12 2pm

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Thu 20

p07

11am

7.30pm

Thu 13

Sun 30

7.45pm

7.45pm

Sun 9

Sat 15

6pm

6.45pm

Sat 8

p25

6.45pm

1.30pm

Fri 7

Mead Gallery: Opening Party

Sat 29

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50p per ticket booking fee applies

Mon 31 7.15pm

Wed 2 Thu 3

Fri 4 Sat 5

Sun 6

Thu 10

Fri 11

Sat 12

Sun 13

8pm

Madama Butterfly

p30

2pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

Music Centre: Dance!

p31

5.30pm

Met Opera Live: Rodelinda

p29

7.30pm

Britain's Got Bhangra

p11

7.45pm

Schrรถdinger

p10

1.10pm

FREE Lunchtime Concert

7.15pm

Blake (work in progress)

7.30pm

Britain's Got Bhangra

p11

8pm

Brubecks Play Brubeck

p21

7.15pm

Blake (work in progress)

p17

7.30pm

Britain's Got Bhangra

7.45pm 1pm

Under the Radar: The Ripps & Jake Morley Family Art Workshop

1.30pm

Family Film: Battle of Billy's Pond

p43

2.30pm

Britain's Got Bhangra

p11

6pm

Met Opera Live: Satyagraha

p29

7.30pm

Britain's Got Bhangra

p11

7.45pm

Daniel Sloss: Joker

p35

8pm

Imelda May

p21

Sun 20

4pm

Britain's Got Bhangra

p11

Tue 22

7.30pm

Britain's Got Bhangra

p11

Britain's Got Bhangra T.

p11

8pm

Anoushka Shankar: Traveller

p22

1.10pm

FREE Lunchtime Concert

p31

Wed 16 7pm

Thu 17

Fri 18

Sat 19

Wed 23 7.30pm Thu 24

Fri 25

Sat 26

Sun 27

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The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

p31

2.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

p17

4pm

Music Centre: Elijah

p31

10am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

1.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

10am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

p11

1.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

p23

6.45pm

Pre-Concert Talk: Philharmonia Orchestra p27

7.45pm

Macbeth, The Abuse of Power

p13

8pm

Philharmonia Orchestra

p27

10am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

1.10pm

FREE Lunchtime Concert

p31

February

1.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

Sun 12

3pm

6.30pm

Music Centre: Christmas Spectacular!

p31

Tue 21

10am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

Sat 25

1.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

Sun 26

11am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

1.30pm

Family Film: Millions

p43

2.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

March

6pm

Met Opera Live: Faust

p29

7.45pm

John Law Trio

p23

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

1.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

10am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

1.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

Fri 2

Sat 3

Tue 6 Wed 7

p42

7.30pm 8pm

Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

p26

2pm

Da Capo: Does Music have Meaning?

p31

7.30pm

Britain's Got Bhangra

p11

8pm

Dave Gorman's Powerpoint Presentation p35

1pm

Family Art Workshop

p42

2.30pm

Britain's Got Bhangra

p11

7.30pm

Britain's Got Bhangra

p11

Thu 8

Fri 9 Sat 10

Mon 12 10am

p11

8pm

Zappa Plays Zappa

p22

4pm

Britain's Got Bhangra

p11

7.45pm

Dave Stapleton Quintet

p22

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

1.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

7.15pm

A L Kennedy

p37

December Thu 1

p04 p04

It's Christmas Time

p26

Wed 30 10am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea The Tiger Who Came To Tea

7.30pm Sun 4

Tue 13

Wed 14 10am Thu 15 Sat 17

Sun 18 Tue 20

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

1.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

10am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

1.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

11am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

1.30pm

p43

2.30pm

Family Film: Raymond Briggs' Winter Wonderland The Tiger Who Came To Tea

11am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

2.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

11am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

2.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

2.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

11am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

2.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

11am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

2.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

11am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

Wed 21 11am The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

1.10pm

FREE Lunchtime Concert

p31

1.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

6.30pm

Pre-Concert Talk: Intimate Letters

p27

6.45pm

NT Live: Collaborators

p12

7.30pm

Coull Quartet: Intimate Letters

p27

Sat 24

8pm

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

p22

Sun 25

10am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

Mon 26 2.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

1.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

Tue 27

11am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

8pm

p35

2.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

11am

Sarah Millican: Thoroughly Modern Millican The Tiger Who Came To Tea

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

1pm

Family Art Workshop

p42

Fri 23

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Wed 28 11am p04

2.30pm

Sat 31

11am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

2.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

11am

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

2.30pm

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

p04

January Thu 12

7.15pm

Hansel & Gretel

p30

Fri 13

7.15pm

Hansel & Gretel

p30

Sat 14

2.15pm

Hansel & Gretel

p30

7.15pm

Hansel & Gretel

p30

6pm

Met Opera Live: The Enchanted Island

p29

p29

8pm

Met Opera Live: Gotterdammerung La Traviata

6pm

Met Opera Live: Ernani

p29

7.45pm

Andrew Lawrence: The Best Kept Secret in Comedy Tour

p35

Sun 4

7.30pm 8pm

Richard Herring: What is Love, Anyway?

Sarah Millican: Thoroughly Modern Millican

p35

Wed 7

Sat 21

p30

p35

April Sat 7

5pm

Met Opera Live: Manon

p29

Sat 14

6pm

Met Opera Live: La Traviata

p29

T. Post Show talk The Tiger Who Came To Tea - Schools Performances General Admission: Call Box Office 024 7652 4524

p04

10am

Thu 22

Fri 30

11am 2.30pm

11am

Pre-Concert Talk: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Britain's Got Bhangra

6.45pm

Thu 29

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