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Autumn 2009 Tim Minchin All’s Well That Ends Well Scattered Alan Barnes/Ken Peplowski Quartet Russell Kane We All Fall Down Soweto Gospel Choir Iris Brunette Philharmonia Orchestra Mari Me Archie The Bays & Run Lola Run It Came From PILOT Jimmy Carr Tosca Beginning with Blobs Tango Fire Alun Cochrane A Duck for Mr Darwin Deep Cut UofW Symphony Orchestra & Wind Orchestra Kings of Convenience St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra The Legendary Gypsy Queens & Kings Newton Faulkner Stewart Francis Mark Lockheart Quintet Watch Me Fall Sean Hughes Carousel: The Songs of Jacques Brel Stewart Lee Aida The Proclaimers Reginald D Hunter The Treehorns & Shackletons Moby Dick The Unthanks By the Bog of Cats Tinariwen Julian Clary A Tempest Insane in the Brain Actors v Spectators Turandot Jason Manford Coull Quartet Southern Softies The Idiot Colony Tomasz Stanko Quartet Kellerman Staff Benda Bilili Jos Houben Kristy Gallacher plus Ben Calvert Daniel Kitson The Night Keeper Al Murray UoW Wind Orchestra & Brass Band Concert Milton Jones The Black Album Make-believe Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Naturally 7 Jiggery Pokery Alison Moyet Adam Hills Madeleine Peyroux Pictures of John Gray Ed Byrne Ojos de Brujo Cinderella UoW Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Concert Alistair McGowan Zoe Rahman Trio Rob Brydon The Saw Doctors The Snow Dragon Aurelio Martinez Marcus Brigstocke Soul Noel Paul Weller London Symphony Orchestra Kate Rusby Steeleye Span Der Rosenkavalier
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National Theatre broadcast live to cinema screens around the world.
All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare directed by Marianne Elliott
Thu 1 Oct 6.45pm Cinema £10 3hrs 25mins (incl. 25 min interval) The feisty but lowly Helena falls in love with Bertram, a haughty count. To gain his hand she is set a string of impossible tasks. Even if accomplished, they can hardly guarantee his love. He refuses to bed her and yet says he’ll only be hers if she bears his child; and he lusts after another. Nevertheless, our heroine, whether wisely or no, refuses to give him up.
Evening Standard, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Metro, Sunday Express, thelondonpaper, The Times
“Marianne Elliott’s wondrous revival… a fairytale for grown ups.” The Guardian
Nation
based on a novel by Terry Pratchett adapted by Mark Ravenhill directed by Melly Still Sat matinee 30 Jan 2010 1.45pm Theatre £10 Oh I think you think I want to eat you but – no no no – I am offering you afternoon tea – over there – in one hour. A parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau’s village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other’s language; somehow they must learn to survive. As starving refugees gather, Daphne delivers a baby, milks a pig, brews beer and does battle with a mutineer. Mau fights cannibal Raiders, discovers
NT Live’s Nation is supported by The Michael Marks Charitable Trust
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Set against a background of sexism, snobbery and a battle between the generations, All’s Well That Ends Well turns fairytale logic on its head. A wondrous, bittersweet story.
the world is round and questions the reality of his tribe’s fiercely patriarchal gods. Together they come of age, overseen by a foulmouthed parrot, as they discard old doctrine to forge a new Nation. Following His Dark Materials, Coram Boy and War Horse, the National stages Mark Ravenhill’s exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s latest witty and challenging adventure story. There’s no demons, no gods. Just me. And the waves and the sun and birth and death. And there’s no reason for anything. I’m sorry: that’s just the way it seems to me.
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Deep Cut by Philip Ralph
Tue 13 – Sat 17 Oct 7.30pm, Sat matinee 2.30pm Theatre £19.50 (£17.50), £21.50 (£19.50), £23.50 (£21.50) Sat matinee £19.50 (£17.50) 1hr 15mins contains adult themes “Passing Out. Fantastic. Best day. Nothing’s ever come close. All your mates around you and you’re looking forward to your next step and our next step was Deepcut.” 18 year old Private Cheryl James from Llangollen was one of four young soldiers who died from gunshot wounds at Deepcut Barracks between 1995 and 2002.
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Cheryl’s parents wanted answers from the people responsible for their daughter’s care. But how do you begin to grieve when no-one seems to have a proper explanation? What would give you the determination to continue asking awkward, demanding questions?
Taken from original source material and powerful first hand testimonies, the multi award-winning Deep Cut is a bold and compelling account of one family’s journey through a time they thought they’d never experience, to places they hoped they’d never be. “Don’t embellish. Don’t exaggerate. Tell the truth. Stick to it.” “Plenty of questions remain unanswered. That’s the point. All the Jameses want is openness and honesty, qualities they themselves radiate under Mick Gordon’s unfussy direction.” Time Out T. Post-Show Talk Wed 14 Oct
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Mari Me Archie
Melanie Wilson and Fuel present
Iris Brunette
by Melanie Wilson
Tue 6 & Wed 7 Oct Tue 8.15pm, Wed 7pm & 9pm Studio £10.50 (£8.50) 50mins
Tue 6 & Wed 7 Oct 12noon – 9pm (in 45 minute bookable slots) Foyer Area £3 (+ returnable deposit for headsets) 25mins
A sortie into a curious cityscape of the future past, featuring Iris Brunette: part time travelling refugee, part compassionate voyeur. Using starkly elegant imagery, tender camaraderie and a dense and elegiac sound score, Iris delicately uncoils the remembrance of a friendship destroyed by the outbreak of war and the unfathomable demise of lost kinship and love.
A warmly mournful and disarmingly engaging piece, inspired by the film La Jetee by Chris Marker. Melanie’s show Simple Girl was an Edinburgh success in 2007 and is touring both nationally and internationally. She has made work with Patter, Rotozaza, The Clod Ensemble and Chris Goode amongst others.
A bewitching performance for just two people at a time. Experienced through headphones, Mari Me Archie is part adventure, part audio guide and part folk-tale opening into a world both exotic and startlingly familiar. Mari Me Archie is a companion piece to Iris Brunette but can be enjoyed on its own.
Commissioned and developed at BAC. Presented in association with Fierce.
A BAC Scratch Commission.
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Headsets available from the Box Office on the day of the performance between 12noon and 9pm, but must be booked as only 2 headsets available for each 45 minute slot.
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It Came From PILOT Taking a poignant look at the relationships between a father and son and a mother and daughter, It Came From PILOT is a chance to see more from two of the best shows seen at PILOT over the last twelve months.
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Father and son duo Kings of England will bring the latest version of their work Where We Live and What We Live For to the stage. In 2001, 75 year old Peter Bowes had a stroke. He fell from his bicycle and lost all memory for one hour. Live on stage he and his son attempt to reclaim this hour performing a number of small acts remembering this man and his former glories. A gentle and moving work currently attracting national acclaim.
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The Other Way Works’ latest work Avon Calling explores the eternal triangle of mother, daughter and… Avon cosmetics. Drawing vividly on personal source material Louise Platt reveals to the audience her mother’s world of shiny new products and multicoloured bottles gathering dust on cupboard tops. An intimate and comic portrait of a woman, a mother, an Ex-Avon Lady. As with all PILOT events the evening is a showcase for work in development and as such the audience are invited to stick around after the show to let the artists know exactly what they thought. PILOT is supported by ACE and Warwick Arts Centre. Presented in association with Fierce.
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a double bill of exciting new work
Action Hero
Fluxx - Without Planning Permission
see p44 for details Tue 20 & Wed 21 Oct 7.45pm Studio £8.50 (£7.50) 55mins There are no seats at this performance, the audience will be standing.
see p44 for details Wed 4 Nov Studio £8.50 (£6.50) Admission 7.30pm - 9.30pm, concludes 10.30pm
I’m going over in a barrel. I’m leaving the cannon, hitting the ramp at 90mph and clearing ten double decker buses. I might fall. I might break my body into several pieces, but then I’ll pick myself up, dust myself off and do it all over again. This time, I’m going higher, further and faster. Tonight, I will attempt the impossible.
20 tables. 20 improvisers. 20 encounters. A unique impro event presented by Fluxx, created and directed by Chris Johnston.
Watch Me Fall Action Hero have measured it out, done a few calculations and they’re confident. It could go either way. Come along to cheer for them, pull for them, pray for them and watch them fall. Watch Me Fall is for the daredevils. It's about our obsession with those who attempt the impossible, the futility of their attempts and inevitable fall from grace. Set on a DIY runway with a standing audience, Action Hero push the limit in the name of entertainment.
Audience members move between the tables to explore a range of individual encounters – each one a meeting, a journey, a disclosure. Every table is a different location; the House of Commons, the deck of a ship, a priest’s front room, a café, a desert, a war zone.
Across the table; a scandal-hit MP, a laughing stowaway, an accused priest, a girl in flight from her own wedding, a journalist in trouble or a soldier gone AWOL from Afghanistan. For the spectator, the choice is always there: to be passive and simply observe, or to engage, interact and influence. “Ambitious, original and very now.” Time Out (on Fluxx’s Night, London)
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An Arnolfini We Live Here commission. Funded by Arts Council England. Presented in association with Fierce.
A co-production with the Royal & Derngate Northampton
Spymonkey’s Moby Dick
see p44 for details directed by Jos Houben Mon 26 – Wed 28 Oct 7.30pm Theatre £15.50 (£13.50), £17.50 (£15.50) 1hr 20mins
A glorious mis-telling of Melville’s epic novel. Four whalers find themselves trapped in the belly of a literary monster. As they ponder the irony of their fate they recount a story of Moby Dick, sparkling with their own fantastical flourishes. The novel’s epic examination of good, evil, fate and obsession is lost on them. And then, mysteriously, found on them again.
Can a mermaid figurehead get pregnant? And what does a cannibal harpoonist from Bavaria eat?
Will Ahab’s thirst for revenge be unhinged by the well-meaning but staggeringly inept attentions of his crew? Now that he has found true love, is Ishmael still fated to be the sole survivor of the Pequod?
“One of the funniest pieces of theatre you will ever see... a beautifully crafted melodrama packed with physical humour, silliness and exquisite performances. If there's any justice in the world, these guys will be given their own TV series.” Time Out on Cooped
Spymonkey’s award-winning brand of comedy is a 21st Century mix of Fawlty Towers, Marx Brothers and Mel Brooks, overflowing with brilliant characters, visual humour, slapstick comedy and outrageous naughtiness.
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The Idiot Colony
Mon 9 & Tue 10 Nov 7.45pm Studio £10.50 (£8.50) 1hr 10mins The Idiot Colony is an award-winning and visually stunning play based on real life accounts of the treatment and incarceration of “moral defectives” in 1940s England. Genuinely funny and incredibly moving. Forgotten for decades inside a mental hospital, three women escape their present by remembering their past. In the asylum’s hair salon, to the strains of Rick Astley and Glenn Miller they relive wartime affairs, illicit trysts and childhood secrets. Scotsman Fringe First Winner 2008 Total Theatre Award for Best Visual Theatre “…endlessly inventive, thoroughly disquieting. It’s stunning.” Metro
“A delicate work of damaged poetry and slow-moving grace.” The Herald see p44 for details
Kellerman by imitating the dog and Pete Brooks
Wed 11 & Thu 12 Nov 7.30pm Theatre £15.50 (£13.50), £17.50 (£15.50) Diagnosed as delusional, Harry is in a hospital where he’s struggling to come to terms with a tragedy that nobody believes has taken place. His notebooks are filled with calculations that attempt to show the past can be manipulated and the future predicted. Can he prove everyone wrong by changing the order of events that led to the disappearance of everything he loved?
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Kellerman is supported by Arts Council England and has been commissioned by ICIA, Bath, Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster and Cochrane Theatre, London. It has also been supported by Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery and Studio Theatre, Lantern House and Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts.
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Kellerman is a gothic tale of obsessive desire, demonic doctors and monstrous nurses, a story that explores how meddling with the past can have tragic consequences and how the search for origins can lead to the mind’s disintegration. Combining film, animation and live action on a two-storey set, it is a moving new performance by the creators of the critically acclaimed Hotel Methuselah.
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The Art of Laughter: Jos Houben
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Fri 13 Nov 7.30pm Theatre £12.50 (£10) 55mins Jos Houben’s brilliant analysis of physical comedy was a Total Theatre Award winner at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival. This witty and engaging performance/lecture explains and illustrates what makes audiences laugh.
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As well as being one of the original members of Complicité and involved in many of its greatest early hits, Jos’ twenty year career includes writing and directing for groups such as The Right Size, involving him in some of the most successful physical comedy creations of recent times. He was last here in Fragments, a production directed by Peter Brook to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Samuel Beckett’s birth. He teaches at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. “If there’s a more inspired contemporary physical comedian – I don’t know of him.” The New Yorker
Make-believe Tue 17 & Wed 18 Nov 7.45pm Studio £10.50 (£8.50) What do you believe in? Following the outstanding impact of their last visit to Warwick Arts Centre with Susan & Darren, Quarantine return with their latest creation, Make-believe. Performed by an extraordinary cast including a 2 year old boy, Make-believe asks those tricky questions that life throws at us. How do we manage to live together when we disagree so wildly with each other? How do we separate the real from the made-up in a piece of theatre? Make-believe is a dark and joyous piece of theatre. Like all of Quarantine’s work, this is not a show in black and white. “There is no company in the UK working quite in the area of Quarantine, a truly wonderful company that uses the lives and experiences of real people as the starting point for all their shows and who put their subjects centre stage and let them speak for themselves.” The Guardian
Jiggery Pokery A Homage to Charles Hawtrey: A true English Eccentric Thu 19 - Sat 21 Nov 7.45pm Studio £12.50 (£10) 1hr A provocative, funny and moving show inspired by the life and lonely death of Charles Hawtrey, one of Britain’s best loved comedy actors – famous for his many appearances in the Carry On films and for his individual physicality and distinctive voice. Interweaving episodes from his life – child star in Peter Pan, filming at Pinewood Studios and in his local on the Kent coast – Amanda Lawrence captures the spirit of Hawtrey and the relationships that affected his life. Amanda, well known for her roles with Kneehigh, is directed by Paul Hunter (Told by an Idiot, Young Vic and RSC) in this intimate exploration of a true English eccentric. “Amanda Lawrence is a fabulously funny clown.” Independent on Sunday Commissioned by homotopia; BAC and The Corn Exchange, Newbury
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Tue 17 – Sat 21 Nov 7.30pm, Sat mat 2.30pm Theatre £21 (£19), £23 (£21), £25 (£23) Sat mat £21 (£19)
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A National Theatre and Tara Arts co-production
An Asian kid from Kent goes to college in London and teams up with a sympathetic group of anti-racists. But it’s 1989, the year of the fatwa, and as Shahid begins a hedonistic affair with his lecturer, his radical Muslim friends want to steer him away from the decadence of the West. We’re not blasted Christians. We don’t turn the other buttock. We will fight for our people who are being tortured anywhere – in Palestine, Afghanistan, Kashmir, East End.
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Hanif Kureishi’s witty stage adaptation of his strikingly prescient and acclaimed novel, The Black Album, humorously considers how the events of 1989 have shaped today’s world, where fundamentalism battles liberalism.
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Religion is for the benefit of the masses, not for brain-box types like you. Those simpletons require strict rules for living, otherwise they would still think the earth sits on three fishes. But you mind-wallahs must know it’s a lot of balls.
The Black Album Pre-Show Talk with Hanif Kureishi and Jatinder Verma Wed 18 Nov 6pm Conference Room FREE but places are limited – please book your ticket at the Box Office. (Tickets only available to those with a ticket for the show.) A chance to meet both Hanif Kureishi and Jatinder Verma to talk about how the original novel was adapted for stage and what it has to say about fundamentalism and liberalism.
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Cinderella
by Ben Power and Melly Still, directed by Melly Still Sat 28 Nov – Sun 3 Jan For everyone aged 7+ Theatre £14.95 (£12.95), £16.95 (£14.95), Under 16s £12.50
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“Melly Still… is an enchantress when it comes to storytelling.” Daily Telegraph
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Cinderella won’t be going to the Ball – unless she manages to complete the impossible tasks her sisters have set her. Cinderella is determined. Maybe her friends from the forest can help her?
Melly Still, the acclaimed director of Coram Boy and Watership Down says goodbye to Buttons and the Fairy Godmother and returns to the original story.
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It’s winter. The King has declared that there will be a glittering festival of music, magic and dancing so that his son can find the girl of his dreams. Everyone is invited to his enchanted palace, BUT…
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Wed 25 Nov – Sat 28 Nov 7.45pm Studio £7 (£6) Dorian had the perfect face to cover any crime, but John’s face kept changing as he wrestled with art, desire, deception, life and God. Inspired by Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and by the emotions of 2009, Pictures of John Gray is a brave exploration of decadence, struggle and artifice, using voices and bodies to paint numerous portraits. Codpiece and Freshblood present a co-production of devising and new writing, assessing our modern obsession with surveillance, self-publication and eternal youth. Doors open at 7.30pm for the audience to view artwork created by the company.
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By the Bog of Cats Wed 28 – Sat 31 Oct 7.45pm, Sat mat 2.30pm Studio £7 (£5.50)
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Scattered premiere
Fri 2 & Sat 3 Oct 7.30pm Theatre £15.50 (£13.50), £17.50 (£15.50), £19.50 (£17.50) Scattered combines Motionhouse’s trademark highly physical dance theatre and mesmerising aerial imagery in a unique interaction between film and live performance, created in collaboration with Logela Multimedia from the Basque region of Spain. Scattered explores our relationship with water and how it surrounds us in different forms throughout our lives: in birth water ties us to life and on a more elemental scale, in ice, floods and tides, it can sweep our lives away. Scattered delves into the majesty and savagery of water, a fundamental force in our lives as seven dancers plunge into an ocean, wrestle a raging tide and slide on an avalanche to a frozen landscape of arctic beauty.
With Scattered Motionhouse is again exploring new artistic dimensions. Performed on a huge curved floor which disappears skywards, Scattered uses projection technology, daring dancing plus aerial harnesses and bungees to create an extraordinary world in which the dancers move seamlessly in, on and through the image. Scattered. Moments frozen in ice. T. Post-Show Talk Fri 2 Oct Scattered is commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre and created with support from Playbox Theatre, Warwick.
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Sun 11 Oct 7.30pm Butterworth Hall £18, £21, £24 1hr 50mins (incl. interval) Argentina’s hottest dance show, Tango Fire features ten sensational dancers, one of Argentina’s finest singers and a quartet of brilliant young musicians, Quatrotango.
modern choreography is edged with the sharpness and sophistication of contemporary Argentina. As one of the most popular dance forms worldwide, Tango Fire combines the rawness and sophistication, sexy yet sensual side of tango, in a true dance spectacular.
This really is tango at its fiery best – an irresistible journey through this most seductive of dance forms. Period duets evoke the glitter and danger of the barrios where the dance was born and the heady nostalgia of the early dance halls where it was popularised, while the group’s
Dance Touring Partnership present
A street dance version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Tue 3 & Wed 4 Nov 7.30pm Theatre £18 (£16), £20 (£18) 1hr 20mins contains adult themes and some violence
The classic story of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is injected with a large dose of hip hop energy by Bounce. This exciting company is known for creating high energy, imaginative street dance theatre, enjoying hit runs at both the Peacock Theatre and the Roundhouse.
The show features a fantastic soundtrack including hits from stars like Missy Elliott, Dizzee Rascal, Gotan Project, David Holmes and Cypress Hill. Inventive set design (including bungee-jumping breakdancers), film and choreography are mixed to produce a fast-paced show that is at times funny, at times moving and always packed to the rafters with high-octane dance moves. “Insane in the Brain makes Ken Kesey’s classic story seem designed for a hip hop makeover. Hip hop’s skewed poses, crazy angles and zombie walks lend themselves to the subject; but Bounce transform the style into real theatre.” The Guardian
In the confines of a psychiatric hospital, breakdance becomes a way of expressing freedom and rebelling against the iron rule of Nurse Ratched – who happens to be a ballet fan…
T. Post-Show Talk Tue 3 Nov Based on the play by Dale Wasserman and the novel by Ken Kesey.
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“High energy and sensual sophistication will induce beads of sweat across the brow of even the most unflappable spectator.” Scotland on Sunday
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Sat 3 Oct 7.45pm Studio £12.50 (£10.50) Alan Barnes – Saxophones & Clarinet Ken Peplowski – Saxophones & Clarinet John Pearce – Piano Alec Dankworth – Bass Martin Drew – Drums
Tue 6 Oct 8pm Butterworth Hall £19, £22, £25 Tickets Selling Fast
An evening of mainstream jazz at its best with a quintet led by Britain’s Alan Barnes and American visitor, Ken Peplowski. Ken Peplowski is one of the leading artists of America’s Concord label. The New York Times called him ‘a clarinettist with a Benny Goodman tone and a Buddy de Franco style’. He was a member of Goodman’s last working orchestra and has recorded with artists as diverse as Mel Torme, George Shearing and Ruby Braff. Barnes is well known as one of our most popular musicians and has appeared at Warwick Arts Centre on numerous occasions, most recently with his Duke Ellington project and in Arnie Somogyi’s Mingus tribute band.
Two time Grammy Award winners, Soweto Gospel Choir return to the UK with a programme featuring choir and audience favourites from the past six years. Expect earthy rhythms, rich harmonies, energetic percussion and a touch of humour. Add to this dynamic dancing and vibrant, colourful costumes, and the mix is explosive. The choir is made up of diverse cultures and faiths, and as such, will be performing in several different languages – Xhosa, Sotho, Zulu and English. It is this diversity which makes South Africa, and its music and dance, so exciting.
The Bays & Run Lola Run 15 Fri 9 Oct 7.30pm Theatre £15.50 (£12.50) UK band The Bays make exhilarating live electronic music. Their seamless segues from hip hop and drum ‘n’ bass to ambient grooves and dubby basslines challenge every old-school notion of a live band. A band with no recordings, no rehearsals and no set-list, The Bays live in the moment, giving an unrepeatable, completely improvised performance every single time. Here, the band takes Tom Twyker’s iconic 1998 film Run Lola Run as inspiration. A punchy play on fate and choices with a three-way plot that careens through cartoon sequences, bank heists and the urban jungle, it is the perfect fit for The Bays’ fast, loud, dazzling music.
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The Norwegian duo of Erland Øye and Eirik Glambæk Bøe specialise in nuanced lyrics and delicate acoustic arrangements; their debut album Quiet Is The New Loud (2001) not only attracted a dedicated audience, it was almost a manifesto for a new era of finely-crafted, emotionally subtle songwriting. Since then they have made only one subsequent record (Riot On An Empty Street in 2004). Autumn 2009, though, sees a welcome burst of activity – as well as releasing a new album – as yet untitled – Kings of Convenience will play just 2 UK gigs, one here and one at the Barbican. It’s a rare chance to see two of the most distinctive singer-songwriters of their generation.
Featuring Esma Redzepova (Macedonia), Jony Iliev (Bulgaria), Kaloome (France), Florentina Sandu (Romania), Mahala Rai Banda (Romania) and members of Fanfare Ciocarlia (Romania).
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The Legendary Gypsy Queens & Kings is a magical celebration of Romany Gypsy music and dance with twenty of Europe’s greatest Gypsy artists performing together on the same stage. Get ready for Romanian brass band Mahala Rai Banda pumping out sizzling Eastern funk while singers from Macedonia, Bulgaria and Romania perform compelling Balkan Gypsy songs. Discover the mesmerising voice of Esma Redzepova, the 'Queen of the Gypsies' - a legend in her own country. Added to the mix
are the explosive rumba flamenco guitars of Kaloome (French Gitan Trio). And throughout the evening the sensual moves of Romanian Gypsy and flamenco dancers will conjure up the excitement of dancing around the campfire... be prepared for a night of wild dancing and musical passion! A magnificent musical and visual feast that is unforgettable, The Legendary Gypsy Queens & Kings offers a unique opportunity to experience the soul of Gypsy culture. Since its launch in Bucharest, Romania, in 2006, The Legendary Gypsy Queens & Kings has enjoyed exceptional success, fast becoming a huge international hit, turning every concert hall around the world into the best Gypsy party ever! This will be the most entertaining musical spectacular to tour the UK this year… without a doubt!
Sun 18 Oct 7.30pm Butterworth Hall £16 Newton Faulkner’s beautiful voice ranges from bluesy croon to falsetto howl and it hasn’t sounded better. The acoustic-guitar virtuoso returns with his eagerly anticipated second album Rebuilt By Humans and a UK tour to go alongside it. Expect a blend of beautifully crafted songs, new and old delivered with warmth and his usual charm. The first single from the album If This Is It - a euphoric hymn to the joys of gigging – was written in a basement flat behind Harrods in Knightsbridge, a location chosen precisely because he knew no one who lived round there. He applied this limiting logic to the recording of Rebuilt By Humans – recorded in a tiny room under the stairs at London’s Miloco studio, there was just enough room for Faulkner and Mike Spencer, and no distractions. And the results are phenomenal.
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Music Beyond Mainstream presents
Mark Lockheart Quintet Carousel: The Songs Mon 19 Oct 7.45pm of Jacques Brel Studio £10.50 (£8.50) Mark Lockheart – Tenor Saxophone Dave Priseman - Trumpet Liam Noble - Piano Jasper Holby – Bass Dave Smith – Drums Mark Lockheart came on the scene with Loose Tubes and soon started leading his own bands. He was a founder member of Polar Bear, almost a veteran among his young colleagues, and is firmly established as one of Britain’s finest contemporary jazz musicians.
plus special guests from The Wonder Stuff, Miles Hunt and Erica Nockalls
Fri 23 Oct 8pm Butterworth Hall £23.50 (£21.50), £25.50 (£23.50), £27.50 (£25.50)
Sat 24 Oct 8pm Butterworth Hall £22.50 Tickets Selling Fast part standing
Featuring Arno, Diamanda Galás, Arthur H, Momus, Camille O’Sullivan and more.
Strikingly individual, twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid have, over the years, enjoyed huge success across the globe as the emotional honesty, political fire, wit and sing-along raucousness of their songs and their extensive touring has enlightened and entertained fans new and old.
The legendary Belgian singer and songwriter Jacques Brel would have been 80 in 2009. To celebrate Brel’s unique songbook – and his continuing influence on generations of musicians and musical performers – a stellar cast of singers from both sides of the Channel, and further afield, has been assembled. “It’s not hard to see Brel as a father figure to some of our greatest, most emotionally expressive songwriters.” The Guardian
The Proclaimers have carved out a niche for themselves in the netherworld where pop, folk, new wave and punk collide. In the process they have enjoyed Gold and Platinum singles and albums in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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Having established themselves as the most innovative and critically acclaimed English folk band in modern history, with admirers as disparate as members of Radiohead, Portishead, Robert Wyatt, Ben Folds, Nic Jones, Ewan McGregor and Nick Hornby, The Unthanks are ready to risk it all with another audacious step sideways. Known for their timeless, unsentimental and quietly subversive tales of loss, fear, booze, brawls, abuse and sorrow, their new album Here's The Tender Coming, as the name suggests, is a calmer,
melancholic, warmer colour of sad than the intense bleakness of its predecessor; The Bairns, nominated for the Uncut Music Prize and Mercury Music Prize as one of the top ten British albums of the year. Forging links between folk worlds old, new and other, The Unthanks are the inheritors, curators and distorters of Tyneside’s traditions. Don't miss the next chapter.
Tinariwen are guitar-poets from the southern Sahara desert. Icons of freedom and resistance among their own people, (the nomadic Touareg of the Sahara) Tinariwen’s music teaches the world about the beauty of their desert home, the strength and dignity of the nomad and his way of life, the problems of poverty and oppression and the lack of development which continues to hamper their progress.
“Music as tough as it is gentle, as ancient as it is modern, and as coldly desolate as it is achingly intimate... a sensationally graceful sound that can be epic and subdued, dreamy and specific, as well as supernaturally ancient and defiantly modern.” Observer Music Magazine
Tinariwen’s music captured the rigours of every day life in the desert and became the soundtrack for an entire generation of exiled Touareg youth. The traditional melodies of the Touareg are transposed onto the electric guitar and mixed with blues, rock, pop, berber and Arabic influences to create a modern desert rock sound.
“Intimate, epic, overflowing with feeling and musical intelligence.” The Independent
“The guitars, along with simple but perfect clapping, clacking percussion, rough male voices and ululating female ones, and the fierce, hypnotic quality of the traditional melodies combine into one of the most devastatingly mean and lowdown sounds to have come out of Africa…” Songlines “Nurtured in exile, raised in conflict, and driven underground where they achieved legendary status, Tinariwen are the kind of band that generations of western rebel rockers could only dream of being.” The Guardian
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The Autumn of 2009 represents an exciting and adventurous time for the Mercury nominated Geordie band formerly known as Rachel Unthank & The Winterset.
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Tomasz Stanko Quintet: Dark Eyes
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Mon 9 Nov 7.30pm Theatre £17.50 (£15.50) Tomasz Stanko – Trumpet Alexi Tuomarila - Piano Jakob Bro - Guitar Anders Christensen – Bass Olavi Louhivuori – Drums Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko has forged a distinguished international career, through work with Krystof Komeda, Cecil Taylor, Jack DeJohnette and David Murray and as a celebrated solo artist. His obliquely beautiful tone encapsulates a spacious approach to everything from folk to free jazz, best heard on his many fine albums for prestigious German label ECM. Here he presents his new Scandinavian Quintet that adds electric bass and guitar to create a tougher, edgier sound palette for Stanko to explore. Performing darkly cinematic music from Swedish playwright Lars Noren’s play Terminal 7, alongside other mysterious and evocative new music, this marks a new creative chapter for one of Europe’s most compelling jazz artists.
Thu 12 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £12.50 Staff Benda Bilili are like nothing you have ever seen or heard before. Their name translates as "look beyond the appearances" or literally to “put forward what is hidden.” They make music of astonishing power and beauty. The mesmerising rumba-rooted grooves, overlaid with vibrant vocals, remind you at times of Cuban nonchalance, at other times of the Godfather of Soul himself. The band’s core members are disabled street-musicians, who drive custom-built motorised tricycles, and live in the grounds of Kinshasa Zoo in the Congo. They are backed by a younger, all acoustic rhythm section pounding out tight beats. Over the top of this are infectious guitar-like solos performed by a 17 year-old prodigy on a one-string electric lute he designed and built himself out of a tin can. Staff Benda Bilili have a strong following on YouTube and have performed alongside Massive Attack and Damon Albarn. Their acclaimed debut album Très Très Fort was recorded out in the open using a dozen microphones, a MacBook laptop and a mains cable connected to a deserted refreshment bar nearby. “Heart-tugging melodies ride on sweetly ragged vocal harmonies; the rhythm section and guitar work sway between rumba, soul, funk and blues. Extraordinary story, extraordinary music.” The Independent Supported by Arts Council England
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Naturally 7 Wed 18 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £10, £15, £20 Naturally 7 bring together gospel, doo-wop, beatboxing and soulful R&B, and call the results ‘vocal play’ – their astonishingly versatile voices provide not just the lyrics, melodies and harmonies, but every musical instrument in every spectacular performance. YouTube has been their main stage so far – their exuberant vocal display on the Paris Metro has already been seen by over seven million people, but it’s the live experience that really makes this New York group stand out. “Dazzling.” The Guardian
“Jaw-droppingly impressive.” The Independent
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Thu 19 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £25 (£22.50) From contemporary reworkings of the multi-million selling hits from Alf to her critically-praised recent works of Hometime, Voice and The Turn, you cannot miss this chance to see Alison live, performing songs she loves!
Fri 27 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £18 (£16.50) “If the mark of a great band is that they make excellent albums but sound even better live, then Ojos de Brujo are indeed a great band.” The Guardian One of the reasons that Ojos de Brujo are the most visible and successful of Barcelona’s acclaimed mestizo (fusion) scene is that they embody it; taking the sound and look of Barcelona’s more culturally mixed neighbourhoods and bringing them to life courtesy of their own great musicianship and spicing the whole mix with acute social commentary, vividly presented on a bed of cajon, tabla and sabor-filled flamenco guitars, with a tasty side order of scratchismo. But never forgetting that they have an audience to entertain, which they do with
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To coincide with the release of a career-spanning retrospective album, Alison revisits some of the musical highlights from her 25 years as a solo performer in a much-anticipated UK tour.
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gusto with their live show featuring projections, live flamenco dancers and at least 10 musicians. Ojos de Brujo are joined by Mexican Institute of Sound, the one-man band of DJ and producer Camilo Lara from Mexico City. His music goes from Dub, Cha-Cha-Cha and Electronica to other musical surprises. He has already collaborated on remixes for bands and friends like Placebo, Perez Prado, Mazarin, Quantic Soul Orchestra and more. “The peachiest combination of Latin sounds and electronica since the Gotan Project first appeared on the radar.” Observer Music Magazine
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Madeleine Peyroux Tue 24 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £22.50, £25 Madeleine Peyroux has spent 2009 making a documentary and releasing and touring her critically acclaimed third album, Bare Bones. This new album is both an extension of her previous work and a bold step into previously unexplored psychological terrain; creating a deeply personal piece of work that gives listeners a window into her fascinating life story - moving from the US to Paris as a child, dropping out of high school to busk on the streets, and rising up to critical acclaim and commercial success. "Classy, lovely voice, warmth and presence." The Observer
Zoe Rahman Trio
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Sun 29 Nov 7.45pm Studio £10.50 (£8.50) Zoe Rahman - Piano Ollie Mayhurst – Bass Gene Calderazzo – Drums
Wed 2 Dec 8pm Butterworth Hall £20 part standing
Mercury-nominated pianist Zoe Rahman and her vibrant jazz trio play music by the likes of Abdullah Ibrahim, Thelonious Monk, Joanne Brackeen and Rabindranath Tagore alongside her own compositions.
A funny thing happened to The Saw Doctors last Autumn. After a gap of 17 years, the West of Ireland rockers topped the Irish Music Singles Chart with their punked up version of the Sugababes song About You Now, beating off international artists such as Pink and Kings of Leon.
Described in The Observer as ‘one of the finest young pianists in Europe’, Zoe Rahman has firmly established herself as one of the brightest stars on the contemporary jazz scene. Her second album Melting Pot was shortlisted for the 2006 Nationwide Mercury Prize and was voted Jazz Album of the Year at the 2006 Parliamentary Jazz Awards.
The Saw Doctors are powered by the song writing partnership of Leo Moran (guitar) and Davy Carton (vocals). Their songs range from the plight of Ireland's unmarried mothers to the effect of strong religion on a nation's youth; from playing gaelic football against a neighbouring village to loving the prettiest girl in town but lacking the courage to tell her.
Over the years, The Saw Doctors have built up a reputation as a great live band. They have toured in Australia, Canada, USA, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Norway and the UK. Paul Sexton of The Times in London observed that "if they could bottle the sort of bonhomie that can make an entire concert hall feel better, The Saw Doctors would have the medicine show to end them all". "The Saw Doctors sing earnest folk-rocking anthems of small-town life." The New York Times “One of the Great Live Bands." Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2
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Aurelio Martinez Thu 3 Dec 7.30pm The New Space £8 Singer, guitarist, composer and percussionist, Aurelio Martínez, is one of Central America’s most gifted performers. The Honduras-born musician, recognised for his powerfully evocative voice, is a major tradition-bearer of the threatened Garifuna culture that fuses African and Caribbean-Indian roots. Carrying on his family’s musical tradition, Martínez played the drums in public at age six, and in his late teens formed the Garifuna ensemble, Lita Ariran. In 2004, he was named Newcomer of the Year by AfroPop Worldwide for his acclaimed first solo album, Garifuna Soul. Both a cultural and political spokesperson, he is the first Afrodescendent elected to the Honduran National Congress from the marginalised Atlántida region and is president of the Commission of Ethnic Peoples. “There is so much I would like to learn from Youssou N’Dour and from Senegal’s musical culture,” he says. “It is my dream to reconnect Garifuna music with our ancestral homeland.”
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Paul Weller Fri 11 Dec 7.30pm Butterworth Hall £32.50 SOLD OUT A master class in Indie, Rock and acoustic musings from this living legend.
With a shot of Africa and a twist of the Caribbean, Soul Noël brings you the best Christmas party in town. South Africa's finest singer Sibongile Khumalo will come together with great British soul star Ola Onabule, fronting a hand-picked choir and a great soul band led by musical director Kevin Robinson, known for this work with Simply Red and Incognito. Massed voices will raise the roof with soulful melodies and soaring harmonies - a great night out to stir the Christmas spirit.
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40th Anniversary World Tour The Songs of Nick Drake
Sat 19 Dec 8pm Butterworth Hall £18.50 (£16.50)
Sun 20 Dec 7.30pm Butterworth Hall £18.50 (£16.50)
Kate Rusby has become one of Britain’s foremost music artists, whether performing songs from the country’s rich music tradition or her own intuitive self-penned material.
In a world where bands come and go in the blink of an eye, the enduring success of Steeleye Span is one of the great stories in rock music. This year they celebrate an incredible forty years together, an achievement made all the more remarkable by the fact that the band has seldom been more active in its career. The current line-up of Maddy Prior, Peter Knight, Liam Genockey, Ken Nicol and Pete Zorn (replacing Rick Kemp due to illness), will come to the stage for this very exciting year in the history of Steeleye.
This unmissable evening will range from Rusby classics and old favourites to a showcase of South Yorkshire Village Carols, complete with brass quintet; a rousing Christmas celebration. Come along to hear new variations of familiar carols mostly unheard outside her area. South Yorkshire has a very strong tradition of carol singing starting early November. Sunday lunchtimes see 100s of carollers cram into various pubs in the locality to join in the unashamedly joyous singing – standing room only! At its heart, it represents an oral tradition, constantly evolving, passed down from generation to generation, with roots dating back over 200 years. “Humanity and intelligence shine from her voice, an instrument of quiet and subtle strength.” The Guardian
At a period in their career when most bands are happy to settle down to rehashing past glories, Steeleye Span have pushed on with a succession of acclaimed albums, each seeing them re-define their classic sound.
Way To Blue Sat 23 Jan 8pm Butterworth Hall £25 (£20), £27.50 (£25) Kate St John - MD/Winds Martyn Barker - Drums Danny Thompson - Bass Leo Abrahams - Guitar Neill McColl - Guitar Zoe Rahman - Piano Undoubtedly one of the most influential English singersongwriters of the last 50 years, Nick Drake found little mainstream success during his lifetime; however, since his untimely death at the age of 26, his fragile acoustic, autumnal music has touched the hearts of millions of people. This very special evening, curated by his producer Joe Boyd, features original orchestrations arranged and conducted by Robert Kirby. Danny Thompson, the legendary bassist who played on many of Drake’s recordings, anchors the house band along with special guest artists who will celebrate the music through modern reinterpretations of his songs.
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The Treehorns plus Shackletons Sun 25 Oct 7.45pm Studio £6 (£5) The Treehorns deliver a sound that reflects a love for honest, traditional song-writing. Influenced by artists such as Tom Waits, Gomez and The Waterboys, the band infuse sounds of blues, folk-rock and country to provide a modern projection of traditional music in an indie setting. With songs that contain themes including localised observations, disillusionment with modern life and characters that pursue a travelling life-style, The Treehorns have been compared to artists such as Bright Eyes and Neil Young. "A sound I've not heard coming out of the UK in a long time." Steve Lamacq BBC Radio 2
Shackletons are a young Coventry quintet who have rolled up a variety of musical influences and squeezed them into 5 years of playing experience. With harmonies and The Band esque songs, Shackletons have made quite a mark on the local scene winning G Factor in 2007 and also supporting many bigger bands such as Super Furry Animals and John Martyn. As a band they give all they can and attempt to deliver the song which has come straight from the broken heart of a struggling young man in search of the lost chord.
Kristy Gallacher plus Ben Calvert Fri 13 Nov 7.45pm Studio £6 (£5) Kristy Gallacher, a singer/songwriter from Coventry, has supported Scott Matthews, Glynn Tilbrook (of Squeeze), Nerina Pallot, Nate James, Polly Paulusma, Ben Arthur and Nizlopi. With acoustic songs of life, Kristy continues to play…
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"Her songs all tell an evocative and heartfelt story with great wit, ingenuity and rhythm." Hobo - Coventry Music On-Line music magazine "Kristy Gallacher has a fantastic voice and a fantastic collection of songs… Singing in a voice like crushed petals she managed to do what the very best songwriters do - let you glimpse her soul and see yourself reflected in its surface." The Bomb Factory
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Ben writes and plays what he describes as ‘LoFi Post-Folk musings’. He grew up on a diet of folk, 60s Psychedelia and Brit-pop which makes for a sound that appeals to those that own and treasure 7 inch records. Ben’s song Leeds For The Winter was played by John Peel on his Radio 1 show, and songs from his autumnal debut The Leafy Underground have been play-listed and played on national and independent radio stations on all continents. "Finely crafted songwriting." Metro "Resurrects the mad ghosts of Nico and Nick Drake." Virtual Festivals
University of Warwick Students’ Union Events Dreadzone Thu 8 Oct 8pm Warwick Students’ Union Copper Rooms £10 adv (+ £1 booking fee) (age 14+) Dreadzone features ex Big Audio Dynamite members Greg Dread and Leo Williams, plus legendary reggae vocalist Earl 16, guitarist Christ Compton, technologist Chris Oldfield and the unmistakeable MC Spee. The band’s unique soundclash fuses dub bass with dance beats, live guitar and bubbling electronics, all united by energetic MC-ing and sweet reggae vocals.
Seth Lakeman Tue 10 Nov 7.30pm Warwick Students’ Union Copper Rooms £16 adv (+ £1 booking fee) (age 14+) Seth Lakeman is a phenomenon. Across four superb albums, he has garnered widespread acclaim from critics and audiences alike, and is widely acknowledged as one of the leading lights of the contemporary British Folk scene. The multi-instrumentalist’s strength lies in his ability to imbue folk traditions with a radio-friendly modern sensibility. An immensely popular draw at festivals as diverse as Glastonbury, WOMAD, South by Southwest and V, Lakeman’s live show is a rousing celebration of roots music in its purest form.
studen t musi c University of Warwick University of Warwick Christmas Music Symphony Orchestra Wind Orchestra & Spectacular! Sun 6 Dec 3.30pm and Wind Orchestra Brass Band Concert Free Concert Tue 13 Oct 7.45pm Butterworth Hall FREE Conductors Lucy Griffiths, Paul McGrath and Alex Blandford Enjoy this celebratory free event which this year presents some great British classics written for Symphony Orchestra and Wind Orchestra. A popular programme of music will include:
Edward Elgar: Nimrod from the Enigma Variations, Pomp and Circumstance Marches No.1 & No. 4
Howard Skempton: Lento
Eric Coates: The Dambusters March
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Greensleeves
Ron Goodwin 633 Squadron
Mon 16 Nov 7.30pm Butterworth Hall £6 (£4) Conductors Alex Blandford, Paul McGrath and Simon Hogg Portrait of a City, Year of the Dragon and Sunrise at Angels Gate by Philip Sparke topped off with a wonderful selection of well-known pieces from Wicked, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.
University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Concert Sun 29 Nov 3.30pm Butterworth Hall £7 (£5) Conductors Lucy Griffiths and Paul McGrath Soprano Paula Sides Baritone Wyn Pencarreg Hector Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14 Johannes Brahms – Ein deutches Requiem, Op.45
Butterworth Hall £7 (£5), Under 12s £3 Conductors Lucy Griffiths, Paul McGrath and Father Christmas Join us on a festive musical adventure as we transform the Butterworth Hall into a magical winter wonderland this Christmas! We look forward to welcoming children and adults of all ages as we celebrate in style with your favourite Christmas music, carols to sing along to, dancing elves and good cheer. Wind Orchestra, Brass Band, Chorus and Chamber Choir will be there to lead the family festivities, and who knows, maybe even Father Christmas himself will pop in for a mince pie or two... Programme will include: Out of your sleep – Richard Rodney Bennett, Christmas Time is Here from A Charlie Brown Christmas, arr. Michele Weir, Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson, Torches & There is No Rose – John Joubert, Rejoice, Rejoice – Howard Skempton, Shepherds’ Farewell – Hector Berlioz PLUS Sing-Along Carols – O Come All Ye Faithful, Hark the Herald, Winter Wonderland, Jingle Bells and many more...
FREE Lunchtime Concerts Thursday 1.10pm Ensemble Room Music Centre in Warwick Arts Centre. As well as supporting the student ensembles of the university, the Music Centre also runs a programme of professional lunchtime concerts. Oct 8 Peter Wilman, tenor and Phil Collin, piano Oct 15 Diana Mathews, viola and Jonathan Beatty, piano Oct 22 Liz Larner and Gordon Dunn, guitars Oct 29 Florian Kitt, cello and Rita Medjimorec, piano Nov 5 Opera Warwick Nov 12 National Opera Studio Nov 19 Royal Northern College of Music Nov 26 Peter Hewitt, piano and Peter Fisher, violin Dec 3 Ivan Honduran, piano Dec 10 Gaudeamus
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Gala Opening Concert
Philharmonia Orchestra Wed 7 Oct 8pm Hall £11 (Choir), £18 (£17), £24 (£23), £28 (£27), £32 (£30), £35 (£33) Howard Skempton - Rosette: Opening Fanfare (world premiere) Mussorgsky - Night on a Bare Mountain Sibelius - Violin Concerto Debussy - La Mer Janácek - Sinfonietta Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen Violin Sergey Khachatryan Opening the 09/10 Concert Series in the new Butterworth Hall are our old friends, the Philharmonia Orchestra, under their recently-appointed Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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The concert opens with Rosette, a special fanfare composed by Howard Skempton and performed by students of the University of Warwick alongside the Orchestra. Within the programme the talented young violinist Sergey Khachatryan performs Sibelius’ ethereal Violin Concerto.
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The evening is completed by a rare opportunity to hear Janácek’s epic Sinfonietta, which is scored for a colossal orchestra containing 24 brass musicians, testing the acoustic of the Butterworth Hall to the full. T. 6.45pm Pre-Concert Talk Tickets £2 David Whelton, Managing Director, Philharmonia, in conversation with Alan Rivett, Director, Warwick Arts Centre.
St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra Fri 16 Oct 8pm Hall £11 (Choir), £18 (£17), £24 (£23), £28 (£27), £32 (£30), £35 (£33) Mussorgsky - Prelude and Persian Dance from Khovanchina* Saint-Saens - Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.6 Pathetique Conductor Alexander Dmitriev Cello Guy Johnston Our first international orchestra of the season is the distinguished St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, one of Russia’s leading ensembles. This concert opens with two orchestral pieces from Mussorgsky’s opera Khovanschina - the atmospheric Prelude, depicting dawn over the Moskva River, and the exotic Persian Dance. This is followed by Guy Johnston’s interpretation of Saint-Saens’ delightful yet seldom heard First Cello Concerto. Guy, who is a past winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition, is now regarded as one of this country’s most exceptional cellists and has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras. In the second half the orchestra will perform Tchaikovsky’s greatest symphonic masterpiece, commonly known as the Pathétique. T. 6.45pm Pre-Concert Talk Tickets £2 Brian Midgley, lecturer in Music at the University of Warwick, talks about the works in tonight's programme. * N.B. This is a change to the previously published programme.
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Tue 17 Nov 8pm Hall £11 (Choir), £18 (£17), £24 (£23), £28 (£27), £32 (£30), £35 (£33) Elgar - In The South Chopin - Piano Concerto No.1 Rachmaninov - Symphony No.2 Conductor Jacek Kaspszyk Piano Mikhail Rudy The distinguished Russian pianist, Mikhail Rudy joins the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra under its new Music Director Jacek Kaspszyk in a programme that includes Elgar's In The South and Chopin’s romantic First Piano Concerto. This piece by Chopin is rarely performed so Mikhail Rudy’s playing will be a treat. Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony, which expresses the composer’s great melodic gift and his extraordinary talent for rich orchestration. This heartfelt, passionate symphony is now regarded by many as the culmination of the great romantic Russian symphonic tradition of the Nineteenth Century, before the works of Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich transformed Russian music into something altogether different.
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London Symphony Orchestra Hall Sat 12 Dec 8pm £20 (Choir), £28, £34, £38, £42, £45 Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte Debussy - Jeux Strauss - Oboe Concerto Stravinsky - Jeu de cartes Ravel - Bolero Conductor Valery Gergiev Oboe Emanuel Abbühl One of the highlights of the season must surely be this concert by the London Symphony Orchestra under their charismatic Music Director, Valery Gergiev. Chosen as one of the top five orchestras in the world by a recent Gramophone Magazine poll of critics, the London Symphony Orchestra have maintained a level of excellence which is rarely matched. Two years ago they appointed Gergiev as their Music Director, which has resulted in one of the great musical partnerships of recent years. In a programme of Russian and French orchestra showpieces, Gergiev will give Warwick Arts Centre music-lovers a wonderful opportunity to hear why this orchestra is regarded so highly.
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Brian Midgley, lecturer in Music at the University of Warwick, talks about the works in tonight's programme.
Valery Gergiev in conversation with a member of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Coull Quartet Concerts 2009 The motif of the University of Warwick's Quartet-in-Residence five concerts this year is for each to include a string quartet by Haydn. It is exactly 200 years since the great man's death, but his remarkable originality and wit continue to entertain and inspire musicians and audiences alike.
Sun 8 Nov 3pm Hall £15 (£12.50) With Martin Roscoe, piano Haydn - Quartet in C Op.20 no.2 Schubert - Quartet in D minor D.810 'Death and the Maiden' Dvorak - Piano Quintet in A Op.81 T. 2pm Pre-Concert Talk Tickets £2
Sun 17 Jan 3pm Theatre £15 (£12.50) Mozart - Quartet in D minor K.421 Ravel - Quartet in F Haydn - Quartet in C Op.76 no.3 'The Emperor' T. 2pm Pre-Concert Talk Tickets £2
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RP Fighting Blindness presents
The British Police Symphony Orchestra with Simon Callaghan and Denise Leigh Fri 30 Oct 7.30pm Hall £28, Choir £23 The British Police Symphony Orchestra come together with Operatunity winner Denise Leigh for a very special event. From the romance of Rachmaninoff to the magic of Harry Potter, the drama of Prokofiev to the heartache of Verdi and the fun of Bernstein, the concert has something for everyone. RP Fighting Blindness is a charity working to find a cure for various forms of inherited blindness; profits from the event will be donated to the charity’s medical research fund.
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New York’s Metropolitan Opera Live in HD The Met Opera bring a selection from their award-winning series of live, high-definition performance transmissions to Warwick Arts Centre.
Tosca Giacomo Puccini
Turandot Giacomo Puccini
Sat 10 Oct 6pm Theatre £25 (£20) 3hrs 30mins approximately (including 2 intervals)
Sat 7 Nov 6pm Theatre £25 (£20) 3hrs 30mins approximately (including 2 intervals)
“Tosca combines Puccini’s glorious musical inspiration with the melodramatic vitality of one of the great Hitchcock films,” says Met Music Director James Levine, who conducts this new production.
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s breathtaking production of Puccini’s last opera is a favourite of the Met repertoire and is conducted by Andris Nelsons. Maria Guleghina plays the ruthless Chinese princess of the title, whose hatred of men is so strong that she has all suitors who can’t solve her riddles beheaded. Marcello Giordani sings Calàf, the unknown prince who eventually wins her love and whose solos include the famous Nessun Dorma.
The opera tells the story of three people – a famous opera singer, a freethinking painter, and a sadistic chief of police – caught in a net of love and politics. Soprano Karita Mattila sings the title role for the first time outside her native Finland. Luc Bondy, acclaimed for his imaginative theatre and opera productions, directs. The cast also includes Marcelo Álvarez as Cavaradossi and Juha Uusitalo as Scarpia.
Aida Giuseppe Verdi Sat 24 Oct 6pm Theatre £25 (£20) 4hrs approximately (including 2 intervals)
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Set in ancient Egypt, Aida is both a heartbreaking love story and an epic drama full of spectacular crowd scenes. A cast of powerful voices and a grand production bring the story to life on the Met stage (and on the HD screen). Violeta Urmna stars in the title role of the enslaved Ethiopian princess, with Dolora Zajick as her rival. Johan Botha plays Radamès, commander of the Egyptian army, and Daniele Gatti conducts. Among the score’s highlights is the celebrated Triumphal March.
Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss Sat 9 Jan 6pm Cinema £25 (£20) 3hrs approximately (including 2 intervals) Strauss’s comic masterpiece of love and intrigue in 18th Century Vienna stars Renée Fleming as the aristocratic Marschallin and Susan Graham in the trouser role of her young lover. Music Director James Levine conducts a cast that also includes Kristin Sigmundsson and Thomas Allen.
Carmen Georges Bizet Sat 16 Jan 6pm Theatre £25 (£20) 4hrs approximately (including 2 intervals) One of the most popular operas of all time, Carmen “is about sex, violence and racism – and its corollary: freedom,” says Olivier Award-winning director Richard Eyre about his new production of Bizet’s drama. Angela Gheorghio plays the seductive gypsy of the title in her role debut, opposite Roberto Alagna as the obsessed Don José.
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Sun 27 Sep 7.30pm Butterworth Hall £17.50 Tickets Selling Fast
Fri 9 Oct 8pm & Sat 21 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £22.50 Tickets Selling Fast
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Russell Kane Human Dressage Sun 4 Oct 7.30pm Theatre £12.50 (£10.50) Fresh from his sell-out 2009 tour Gaping Flaws and one month residency at the prestigious Melbourne Comedy Festival, Russell returns with his highly anticipated new show. Preening, posing, prancing. Why do we? How do we? Join the double if.comedy nominee and star of Live at the Apollo for an evening of fast-paced, tub-thumping merriment.
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Now, uberminstrel Tim Minchin lugs his piano back out on the road to give those poor souls who missed out another chance to see his biting and brilliant show. Tim wants to know if you are Ready For This… without really specifying what 'this' is.
“An exceptional comedian, his pace is relentless and his material beautifully observed and exquisitely crafted...inspiring and brilliant.” Chortle “The kind of gags that make you snort beer out of your nose.” Metro
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In Melbourne, they say he’s “witty, smart and unabashedly offensive” (The Age). In New York they call him “dazzlingly daffy” (NY Times), and in Norway, they say “Tim Minchin er noe av det morsomste jeg har sett noen gang” (Stavanger).
A heady mix of artistic integrity, loyalty and avarice has put Jimmy back on the road. If you only see one comedy show this year… what’s the matter with you? Get out more. A ‘rapier’ is the long sword of a gentleman. ‘Rapier wit’ is defined as clever, quick, intelligent humour. Please note, Jimmy Carr doesn’t have ‘the long sword of a gentleman’ and even if you like him, ‘clever, quick and intelligent’ is a bit of a stretch.
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After selling out the Theatre with this show last year, Tim Minchin is back at Warwick Arts Centre. In London, they reckon he is “the next big thing in musical comedy” (Time Out).
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Sun 11 Oct 7.45pm Studio £12 (£11) Tickets Selling Fast
Sun 18 Oct 7.45pm Studio £12.50 (£10.50) Tickets Selling Fast
Observational comedy, droll storytelling and fantasy all collide to create very funny sort-of-jokes amusingly articulated by arguably the best comedian you’ve never heard of, Alun Cochrane.
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"A brilliant comic brain... this stand-up cracks some of the best one liners I've ever heard." The Guardian
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“One of the best you’ll see this year… deserves to be a huge star.” The Mirror
Seeks free thinking, slim audience, with nice legs, 18-75, must be willing to go to Warwick Arts Centre on 18 October, to watch comedian Stewart
Francis, who you may have seen before on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Mock the Week and 8 out of 10 Cats. Could lead to sore cheeks.
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often about weird stuff that other people don’t really talk about.’
Sean Hughes What I Meant To Say Was...
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The star of The Last Detective, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Sean’s Show, whose dark, explosive style and quick-fire audience banter made him a household name, is not to be missed. "One of the best stand-ups of his generation." Daily Telegraph "Hugely impressive and intelligent." Time Out
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The youngest comic ever to win the Perrier Award, for his Edinburgh Fringe debut in 1990, Sean Hughes is back with a brand new show.
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Fri 23 Oct 7.30pm Theatre £16.50 (£14.50) Tickets Selling Fast
The co-writer of Jerry Springer The Opera follows his award-winning UK tour 41st Best Stand-up Ever with a provocative performance inspired by an altercation in a High Street coffee chain. “This guy makes more enemies in 30 minutes than most of us do in a lifetime.” The Times
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Sun 25 Oct 7.30pm Theatre £15 (£13) Tickets Selling Fast
Sun 1 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £20 (£17.50)
American stand-up Reginald D Hunter will be known to most Brits through his frequent panel appearances on shows like Have I Got News For You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Since he first began playing on the British circuit in 1998, he has played Edinburgh religiously and was nominated for the Perrier Award for ‘Best Newcomer’ in 2002.
I, Julian Clary, have done for mincing what Michael Flatley did for Irish dancing. But has the bottom fallen out of the homosexual meat market? I must tour my kingdom to find out… In these difficult times I feel I should go and comfort my people in the provinces. My friend Damien tells me the men are very hard up in Sheffield. I only hope I’m not too late.
He has lived in the UK for the last 11 years and is now something of an Anglophile. Expect intelligent debate on politics, society, sex and living in the UK. A very strong stand-up who oozes charisma and confidence on stage. “One of the most skilled, powerful, charismatic comic performers around.” The Scotsman
I’m 50. The shame of it. This will be an intimate evening a celebration, no less, of my twenty-five years in the camp spotlight: how I got there and why I refuse to leave. Come and see me before they put me in a home for tired old knackers.
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Jason Manford Re-scheduled from Fri 13 Mar Sat 7 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £14.50 (£12.50) Tickets Selling Fast Following a sell-out show in Autumn 08, he’s back! Jason started his comedy life as a lowly pot collector at Manchester’s longest running comedy club, The Buzz. After an act didn’t turn up one night, Jason offered to step in and went on to do a very promising set in front of a demanding audience.
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Then, after only five weeks and four gigs, he won the prestigious North West Comedian of the Year Award, previously won by Caroline Aherne, Johnny Vegas and Peter Kay. The multi award-winning comedian and star of As Seen On TV, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Live at the Apollo, will be returning with his hilarious show which will have audiences begging for more. "Very funny." Peter Kay
Southern Softies
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plus Q&A with director Graham Fellows Sun 8 Nov 6.30pm Cinema £10 (£8) “Sheffield’s funniest man” (The Independent) travels to Jersey to discover if it’s Soft down South. Hilarious sequel to critically acclaimed spoof documentary It’s Nice Up North. "A bit of a shambles frankly, and utterly inspired." Daily Telegraph "Eccentric, beautifully inconsequential." Time Out
Al Murray The Pub Landlord’s Beautiful British Tour Sat 14 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £25 Following the five star success of his sell-out Spring UK tour, including two nights at London’s O2 Arena – Al Murray The Pub Landlord has extended time at the bar; adding new dates in Autumn 2009 across the country. The Guv’nor will once again be hitting the road to raise a glass with you, the beautiful British public, whilst merrily musing over a heady brew of topics; including the global financial crisis, London 2012, and his personal crusade to fix Broken Britain. Don’t miss this last chance to see the Guv’s biggest ever live show. Al Murray is the star of the hit TV show Happy Hour, a second Audience with Al Murray The Pub Landlord, and the critically acclaimed Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder. “A national treasure to cherish.” The Daily Telegraph
Daniel Kitson We Are Gathered Here Sat 14 Nov 7.30pm Theatre £12.50 (£10.50)
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Everyone you have ever known will die. And so will you. And yet we dance in the looming shadows of mortality, we dance and we talk and we eat and we argue. We read books. We care for people. We buy houses. We plant trees and we start to drive and we learn how to make milk frothy. Because something, somewhere in the middle of it all has to matter.
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Sun 15 Nov 7.45pm Studio £12.50 (£10.50)
Sun 22 Nov 7.45pm Studio £13 (£11)
Milton’s Paradise Jones! is a brand new show by Britain’s funniest Milton. Veteran of seven series for Radio 4, as well as appearing on For One Night Only (ITV) twice last year with Joan Rivers and Tom Jones. The spiky haired marvel is set to bring you his unique brand of nonsense as he charges about tickling the provinces this Autumn, using only the power of the English language and some hats. Caution: Contains weak language
Triple Perrier Award nominee Adam is one of Australia’s most talented and widely respected comedians. His unique style of thoughtful and uplifting comedy and rampant spontaneity have won him rave reviews and a legion of fans worldwide. One of the hottest tickets at the Edinburgh Fringe, his credits also include Never Mind the Buzzcocks and host of Radio 4’s Four at the Store.
“One of Britain’s top gagsmiths.” The Guardian
“Hills delivers comedy so effortlessly brilliant you wonder why some comedians even get out of bed.” The Guardian
“King of the surreal one-liners.” The Times
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Rob Brydon
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Wed 25 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £17.50 Tickets Selling Fast
Sat 28 Nov 8pm Butterworth Hall £15
Thu 3 & Fri 4 Dec 8pm Butterworth Hall £18.50
“Byrne is at the top of his game.” Sunday Telegraph
BAFTA nominated for his critically acclaimed performance as Uncle Bryn in Gavin and Stacey and with a number one Comic Relief single under his belt, Rob’s other credits read like a compendium of modern British comedy, including; Marion & Geoff, Human Remains, I’m Alan Partridge, Black Books, The Keith Barrett Show, A Cock And Bull Story, Little Britain, Director’s Commentary, Have I Got News For You, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, Q.I. and Would I Lie To You.
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“a masterful display of the comics art… This is a seamless and perfectly timed show that could stand proudly next to any Izzard, Bailey, Carr or Skinner stadium-filler.” Sunday Times
Alistair will take to the road (and the rails) this Autumn with a brand new, one-man show resurrecting his legendary celebrity impressions and introducing audiences to a host of new never-before-heard voices along the way – nobody does it better! But Alistair’s stand-up is about much more than impersonation – expect sharp observations, poetry and romance, animals and surrealism, love and anger, wordplay and ‘greenery’ as well as footballers and film stars. No make-up or costume changes... just one man, a microphone and an amazing multitude of voices – including, most importantly, his own.
Following his smash hit, sell-out national tour of 42 venues across the UK and a three week run at The Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, Rob Brydon comes to Warwick Arts Centre with an evening of brand new, stand up comedy.
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Irish comic and star of BBC2’s Mock the Week, Ed Byrne returns with his blisteringly funny critically acclaimed one man show about marriage, class, the youth of today and anything else that strikes him as humorous.
The nation’s favourite impressionist, Alistair McGowan (The Big Impression), is set to embark on his first, solo, standup tour in ten years.
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“There’s probably no God. But I wish there was. I’ve got some things I need to ask him.” One of Britain’s finest comedians and broadcasters, Marcus Brigstocke, is taking his hotly anticipated new show God Collar on tour this Autumn. The award-winning comedian is a firm favourite with comedy fans and God Collar promises to be as sharply observant and quick-witted as his much loved catalogue of work. Marcus’s talent was noted early on in his career in 1996 when he won the BBC New Comedian Award at the Edinburgh Festival. He is now regarded as a major comedy, writing and acting talent, performing stand up nationally to sell out audiences both on tour and on the well trodden comedy circuit. BBC Radio 4 has become somewhat of a second home to him with regular appearances on The Now Show and Just A Minute, and he has notched up an impressive list of TV credits including team captain on Argumental and the host of The Late Edition and I’ve Never Seen Star Wars.
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Elvis Has Left The Building
Sun 7 Feb 7.30pm Theatre £15
Going Out
The Feelgood Factor
Sat 13 Feb 8pm Butterworth Hall £18.50 Tickets Selling Fast
Sat 20 Feb 8pm Butterworth Hall £16.50
Sun 24 Jan 7.45pm Studio £12.50 (£10.50) The multi award-winning comedian and star of For One Night Only, Michael McIntyre’s Roadshow, Skins, The Late Late Show and 8 Out of 10 Cats performs his exciting and hilarious show that will leave audiences begging for more. “A comic revolutionary… Not to be missed.” The Independent “If you fail to laugh like a lunatic, check yourself into a mortuary: You are probably dead.” Metro
At last! Mr. Chris Addison from BAFTA award-winning comedy The Thick of It, In The Loop, Skins and Lab Rats is back with a brand new show of his critically acclaimed stand-up. Daftness! Whimsy! Jokes! Lies! Smartarsery! Flapping about! All present and correct. “The best stand-up I’ve seen.” The Observer “He’s brilliant. No question.” The Times “Downright hilarious. His stories reduced a packed crowd to tears of helpless laughter.” The Sunday Times
Critically acclaimed BAFTA-winning comedian Lee Mack returns to the live stage with a hotly anticipated new show. Lee will be bringing his trademark brand of high energy banter, well crafted gags and sharp one-liners to venues across the country on his biggest ever live standup tour. Lee is best known to BBC1 viewers as the star of multi awardwinning Not Going Out and as team captain on Would I Lie To You? “Lee Mack’s star continues to rise… go and see what all the fuss is about.” Sunday Times
Stephen K Amos is back with a brand new show for 2009/2010. It’s full to bursting with more fun, warmth, bonhomie and love than ever before. Forget the credit crunch and welcome to The Feelgood Factor! "A hurricane of relentlessly energetic charisma, Amos has the crowd eating out of his hand and unites everyone in laughter." The List "Radiates charm and exudes joy... a truly uplifting performer." Time Out "For sheer entertainment value Amos is tough to beat." Evening Standard
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and the Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst Sat 28 Feb 8pm Butterworth Hall £16.50 (£15) Following last year’s sell-out tour and sensational performances on The Royal Variety Performance, Live At The Apollo, and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, the Welsh Wonder is back on the road with a brand new show. Last year, he punched a shop-assistant over the duvet tog-rating system and went berserk over a mince pie.
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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.
Tim Vine The Joke-amotive Thu 11 Mar 8pm Butterworth Hall £16 The King of the one-liner and star of BBC1’s Not Going Out tours the country with his brand new stand-up show with support from John Archer. Here it comes over the brow of the hilarity. It’s Tim Vine in a train. Stand back from the platform in case you get hit by a prop. Every carriage is packed full of gags.
Can you hear them? Chug chug joke joke, chug chug joke joke. Be on your guard. This train Timinates here. “No one else will give you as many gags for your money. Vine is superb, as clever as anything being done today.” The Guardian
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.
“Vine is a supreme punmeister.” Time Out
Dave Gorman Sit Down, Pedal, Pedal, Stop and Stand Up He’s obviously getting lazy. So now only the last bit of the title makes sense. But look at it from his point of view. Same show, fewer blisters. What would you do? “The man is a true genius.” The Mirror
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In 2009, Dave Gorman set off on a unique national tour. The intention: to cycle over 1500 miles across Britain in 33 days… with a gig each night… that explains the title. But demand for the show has been so high that he’s decided to keep performing it… but this time without cycling from venue to venue.
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We All Fall Down Sun 4 Oct 3pm Mon 5 Oct 10.30am & 1.15pm Studio £7.75 (£5.75) Ages: 8+ 1hr 5mins 1665. The plague is sweeping the country and Death is everywhere. One small village full of selfish souls have caught the deadly disease. And it’s up to a young boy named Simon to undertake an epic voyage into the depths of Hell to find a cure. But when he meets an array of dark spirits, can he trick the tricksters and make it back in one piece?
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A troupe of travelling players relay this heroic tale of self-discovery using an abundance of live music, playfulness, and oodles of shocks and giggles. “We are players of the theatre: Engineers of the imagination, creatures of illusion, casters of spells." Award-winning en masse theatre returns to Warwick Arts Centre with this inventive piece of storytelling inspired by the true tale of the Eyam plague village and Dante’s Inferno.
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adapted from Shakespeare’s play by Nick Wood Sun 1 Nov 3pm Mon 2 Nov 10.30am Studio £7.75 (£5.75) Ages: 8-11 1hr Such signs as dreams are made on… Prospero has been exiled to an island with his daughter Miranda. They are alone except for Ariel, a spirit rescued by Prospero, and Caliban, who he has made his slave.
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Prospero rules his island by the use of his magic arts. When he realises that his old enemies are close by in a ship, he uses his powers to raise a tempest to try to destroy them. The shipwrecked company survives on the island, and Ferdinand, the King’s son, falls in love with Prospero’s daughter Miranda, who, apart from her father, has never seen another human being. Before they can marry, Ferdinand must succeed in meeting Prospero’s tests…
Aided and abetted by the Mystical Air Spirit Ariel, the Earthy Creature Caliban, and two bewildered comic servants Trinculo and Stephano, the mystical tale of revenge and forgiveness unfolds in this vibrant, accessible and contemporary integrated theatre work. Featuring a deaf/hearing cast of four actors, plus puppets, music, song and sign language, this fast moving production uses Krazy Kat’s style of emotive image theatre and child– centred presentation. With fully integrated British Sign Language, A Tempest introduces children to the richness of Shakespeare’s language and storytelling.
Gomito Productions
The Night Keeper Sat 14 Nov 2pm Studio £7.75 (£5.75) Ages: 4+ 45mins + 15mins meet the puppets session Join five adventurous storytellers as they embark on a journey back in time. In a mysterious museum, Maggie stumbles through a magical dustbin into a secret wing full of strange creatures. Can the museum’s Night Keeper convince Maggie that history is more than a load of old rubbish? Striking visuals, puppetry, live music and a lot of mess conjure up the final part of Gomito’s trilogy for children. Following on from Little Red Things and The Sun Dragon, The Night Keeper is a show that will capture the imagination of the whole family and is not to be missed! “A truly magical hour of storytelling. Gomito Productions use real creative flair to captivate every audience member” Ed Fest on The Sun Dragon “For anyone who enjoys resourceful and imaginative storytelling, Gomito will rarely let you down” What’s on Stage
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We’re delighted to continue our programme of regular weekend movie events for you to enjoy as a family. We present, for families to enjoy together, a collection of films selected from a main feature with a combination of live shorts, classics, foreign family films and cartoons.
Whale Rider PG
The Wizard of Oz U
Sat 17 Oct 2pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50) Dir: Niki Caro New Zealand 2002 102mins Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes
Sat 31 Oct 2pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50) Dir: Victor Fleming USA 1939 98mins Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton
A magical and deeply moving story of a young girl's struggle to fulfil her destiny, Whale Rider is an awardwinning film from New Zealand filmmaker Niki Caro. In a small New Zealand coastal village, a young girl must fight her beloved grandfather and 1000 years of patriarchal rule to take her place as chief of the tribe.
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Whale Song Dir: Gerald Conn UK 1989 4mins A short film made using sand animation and paint on glass, commissioned by S4C and Channel 4 about the history of the whaling industry and how our view of these animals has changed over time.
Somewhere over the rainbow is a world that’s certainly not Kansas! When Dorothy Gayle hits her head in a tornado she wakes up in a land of munchkins, wizards and witches. With the help of a scarecrow, tinman and cowardly lion can she sets off on an adventure to find her way home.
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Down to the Cellar Do Pivnice
Dir: Jan Svankmejer Czechoslavakia 1983 15mins subtitled Cast: Monika Belo-Cabanová, Ol’ga Vronská, Aleksandr Letko Ages: 8+ A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday U Les Vacances des Monsieur Hulot
Sat 21 Nov 2pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50) Dir: Jacques Tati. France 1953 114mins subtitled Cast: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud It's laugh-vacation time as Jacques Tati romps through the most gloriously mad lark ever to tickle the ribs of young and old alike!
Christmas Programme The Snowman U Sat 12 Dec 2pm Cinema £4.50 (£2.50) Dir: Dianne Jackson UK 1982 minutes 26mins
Father Christmas U Dir: Dave Unwin UK 1991 25mins Voice: Mel Smith Raymond Briggs' classic tales promise to fill you with festive cheer. Go “walking in the air” with The Snowman and join a rather cantankerous Father Christmas as he goes on his “blooming” holidays. This programme will be accompanied by further short programmes, as yet to be confirmed.
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Children’s Saturday Art Club Mead Gallery Tickets available in advance or on the day from Box Office on 024 7652 4524. Families are more than welcome. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
A Duck For Mr. Darwin: Half Term Events Poetry & Stories Mon 26 Oct 12noon – 7pm Ages: All. FREE drop in. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Collect and Display
A Duck For Mr. Darwin?
Sat 17 Oct 12noon – 2pm Ages: 5+ Admission £3.50 per child, accompanying adult free. Places limited, so book early.
Sat 14 Nov 12noon – 5pm Ages: All. FREE drop in. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Transform bits n bobs we normally throw away into a cabinet of curiosities. Why not bring along the kind of things you normally collect or a collection of things you love?
Drawing without Paper! Sat 24 Oct 12noon – 2pm Ages: 5+ Admission FREE but tickets must be booked through Box Office. Get playful and try drawing without paper. Be inspired by nature and arrange shells, leaves etc to make artworks on the gallery floor. Following the workshop, between 3pm-6pm, come along and take part in the Big Draw, there will be drawing materials available for you to draw anything you like. Admission free.
Scary Creations! Sat 31 Oct 12noon – 2pm Ages: 5+ Admission £3.50 per child, accompanying adult free. Places limited, so book early. Have a ‘hair raising’ time thinking about beasts and monsters… make scary creations for Halloween!
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Sat 7 Nov 12noon – 2pm Ages: 7+ Admission £3.50 per child, accompanying adult free. Places limited, so book early. Do you think you have green fingers? Come along and find out… we will be making living sculptures!
What happened here? You’ll have to piece the puzzle together, look over the results of the experiments and conclude what happened… help us unravel the mystery surrounding the Duck!
Make your own evolutionary creature! Sat 21 Nov 12noon – 2pm Ages: 5+ Admission £3.50 per child, accompanying adult free. Places limited, so book early. Make your very own evolutionary creature! This workshop will be crafting creatures, what will yours be? A butterfly, a bee…?
Crawl & Mark Sat 28 Nov 12noon – 2pm Ages: Early learning (0 – 5 yrs) Admission FREE but tickets must be booked through Box Office. A workshop specifically aimed at early years. Express yourself on the paper; think about the movement of a human, bird, insect, fish or some other creature. All participants must be accompanied by an adult.
Take inspiration from the exhibition A Duck For Mr. Darwin and write a poem or a short story. You can take it home with you or leave it to be part of the exhibition.
All The World’s A Stage Tue 27 Oct 12noon – 6pm Ages: All. FREE drop in. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Come along and pick a part. Who do you want to be today?
An Evolutionary Tale Wed 28 Oct 12noon – 2pm Ages: 5+ FREE but places limited so please book your place through Box Office. Come along for an evolutionary tale about the animals today who have survived the animals of yesterday!
Be Creative! Thu 29 Oct 12noon – 4pm Ages: All. FREE drop in. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Come along and see what you can create out of your bag of random materials.
Games & Activity Day Fri 30 Oct 12noon – 5pm Ages: All. FREE drop in. Children must be accompanied by an adult. There will be a quiz to accompany the exhibition, and a game to play…
Make your own Christmas Decoration! Sat 5 Dec 12noon – 3pm Ages: All. FREE drop in. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Come along and use a variety of materials to make your own personalised festive decoration. Be inspired by the current exhibition (A Duck For Mr. Darwin), our Christmas shows Cinderella and The Snow Dragon, or just Christmas and festivities in general.
For further details of Mead Gallery events phone the Mead Gallery on 024 7652 2589 or email louise.adams@warwick.ac.uk. To book tickets please contact Box Office on 024 7652 4524.
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Sat 28 Nov 09 – Sun 3 Jan 10 For everyone aged 7+ 2 hours, (incl. interval) Theatre £14.95 (£12.95), £16.95 (£14.95), Under 16s £12.50 This year, Warwick Arts Centre is bringing the classic fairytale Cinderella to life. After the huge success of last year’s Beauty and the Beast we have joined with the Lyric Hammersmith once again to produce a piece of beautiful storytelling in what is both an intelligent and fun interpretation. Melly Still, the acclaimed director of Coram Boy and Watership Down says goodbye to Buttons and the Fairy Godmother and returns to the original story. It’s winter. The King has declared that there will be a glittering festival of music, magic and dancing so that his son can find the girl of his dreams. Everyone is invited to his enchanted palace. BUT… Cinderella won’t be going to the Ball – unless she manages to complete the impossible tasks her sisters have set her. Cinderella is determined. Maybe her friends from the forest can help her? “..an inventive, involving telling of this endlessly rich story.” The Times “….one of the finest Christmas shows this festive season is likely to offer.” The Telegraph
Tall Stories presents
The Snow Dragon based on the story by Toby Mitchell
Wed 2 Dec 09 – Sun 3 Jan 10 Studio £10.50 (£8.50) Ages 3-6 55mins The night of the Snow Dragon approaches…
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Following the huge success of The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child, Tall Stories returns with the story of Billy the Goat and the mysterious Snow Dragon.
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Billy is the kid. He has everything a young goat could need – and more besides. When New Year’s Eve approaches, Billy’s parents tell him to leave out berries for the legendary Snow Dragon so that it will bring him even more goodies. But collecting berries is hard work, and Billy finds it much easier to ‘borrow’ from his friends. As a result, New Year doesn’t turn out quite how he expected… There are wolves in the woods, and every kid has to start growing up one day… Story-telling, comedy and songs create a magical, mysterious world for everyone aged 3 and up. “The Snow Dragon is Tall Stories at its finest” The List “If you are a kid, if you have kids, if you ever were a kid, go and see The Snow Dragon” Three Weeks
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Evolutionary Thinking and the Struggle to Exist Sat 10 Oct – Sat 12 Dec
Artists: Charles Avery, Marcus Coates , Dorothy Cross, Mark Dion, Andrew Dodds, Mark Fairnington, Ben Jeans Houghton, Tania Kovats, Conrad Shawcross
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A Duck for Mr. Darwin
A Duck for Mr. Darwin is an exhibition of the work of nine contemporary artists who explore evolutionary thinking and the Theory of Natural Selection. The exhibition focuses on the legacy of Charles Darwin’s ideas, and is informed by the spirit of experimentation which characterised the time in which he lived. The works mix fact and fiction, experimentation and observation. Some works have been developed through the artists’ own research of the Galapagos Islands. Journey with the Blue Footed Booby around the Islands in a new film by Marcus Coates, examine the workings of earthworms through Tania Kovat’s work, and explore Mark Dion’s re-presentation of collected equipment, artefacts and trappings of the Tropical Collectors.
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Mark Dion, TROPICAL COLLECTORS (Bates, Spruce and Wallace) 2009, Various equipment, sand Courtesy of the artist and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Photography by Colin Davison
The exhibition title references the story of an exchange of letters between the young naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin. In 1857 Wallace planned to send Darwin a specimen – a domestic duck from the island of Lombok. Just a year later he would send Darwin a short twenty page essay on species variation. This correspondence proved to be an important catalyst precipitating the publishing of Darwin’s monumental theory – the Origin of Species on 24 November in 1859. Exhibition developed by BALTIC in connection with Darwin 200.
Conrad Shawcross, PRE RETROSCOPE V 2008, Wooden boat, motor, video projector, found objects, drawing on wall, two photographs
Courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London, Photography by Colin Davison
Events Opening Party Tue 13 Oct Mead Gallery 7pm – 9pm Everyone welcome
Warwick Connections Introducing the work of other departments of the University of Warwick in connection with the Mead’s exhibition programme.
Music for Worms Curator’s Tour Tue 24 Nov 6.30pm Join Alessandro Vincentelli, curator of A Duck for Mr. Darwin, for a tour of the show which marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
Gallery Assistant Tours Mead Gallery Assistants offer whistle stop tours of the exhibition every Monday and Wednesday at 1pm and 4pm.
Children’s Saturday Art Club For further details please see page 40.
Wed 11 Nov 6.30pm – 7.30pm Mead Gallery FREE For more than 40 years, Darwin conducted experiments to identify the characteristics of earthworms. His experiments included playing music to worms – particularly the bassoon – to assess their ability to hear. In the year of Darwin’s bicentenary, the University of Warwick Music Centre will play a short concert of music to the earthworms on show in the Mead Gallery to see if their response to music is any different to that of their nineteenth century forebears.
Explaining the World: How Science Works John Ellis, Emeritus Professor, Biological Sciences Thu 26 Nov 6.30pm – 7.30pm The New Space FREE (but places are limited so please reserve a seat through Box Office) This talk, centred on theories of evolution, derives from a set of lectures by Professor Ellis, aimed at first year undergraduates in biology. They aim to help students discover how to think, by discussing the considerations that should be borne in mind when formulating views about the nature of the world. These considerations apply not just to scientists but to artists and anyone who thinks about the world we inhabit. This talk will be of particular interest to young people who would like a taster of how they will be encouraged to think about ideas at University.
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quick guide
September Sun 27 7.30pm Tim Minchin
p29
October
Thu 1 6.45pm NT Live: All's Well That Ends Well p04 Fri 2 7.30pm Scattered T. p12 Sat 3 7.30pm Scattered p12 7.45pm AlanBarnes/Ken Peplowski Quintet p15 Sun 4 3pm We All Fall Down p37 7.30pm Russell Kane p29 Mon 5 10.30am We All Fall Down p37 1.15pm We All Fall Down p37 Tue 6 8pm Soweto Gospel Choir p15 8.15pm Iris Brunette p06 Wed 7 7pm Iris Brunette p06 8pm Gala Opening Concert: Philharmonia Orchestra p26 9pm Iris Brunette p06 Thu 8 1.10pm FREE Lunchtime Concert p25 7.45pm It Came From PILOT p06 Fri 9 7.30pm The Bays & Run Lola Run p15 8pm Jimmy Carr p29 Sat 10 6pm Met Opera Live: Tosca by Puccini p28 Sun 11 2pm Beginning With Blobs p37 7.30pm Tango Fire p13 7.45pm Alun Cochrane p30 Mon 12 11am Beginning With Blobs p37 Tue 13 7pm A Duck For Mr. Darwin: Opening Party p43 7.30pm Deep Cut p05 7.45pm Music Centre: Free Concert p25 Wed 14 7.30pm Deep Cut T. p05 Thu 15 1.10pm FREE Lunchtime Concert p25 7.30pm Deep Cut p05 8pm Kings of Convenience p16 Fri 16 7.30pm Deep Cut p05 8pm St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra p26 Sat 17 12noon Children's Saturday Art Club p40 2pm Family Film: Whale Rider p39 2.30pm Deep Cut p05 7.30pm Deep Cut p05 8pm The Legendary Gypsy Queens & Kings p16 Sun 18 7.30pm Newton Faulkner p16 7.45pm Stewart Francis p30 Mon 19 7.45pm Mark Lockheart Quintet p17 Tue 20 7.45pm Watch Me Fall p07 Wed 21 7.30pm Sean Hughes p30 7.45pm Watch Me Fall p07 Thu 22 1.10pm FREE Lunchtime Concert p25 Fri 23 7.30pm Stewart Lee p31 8pm Carousel:The Songs of Jacques Brel p17 Sat 24 12noon Children's Saturday Art Club p40 6pm Met Opera Live: Aida by Verdi p28 8pm The Proclaimers p17 Sun 25 7.30pm Reginald D Hunter p31 7.45pm The Treehorns & Shackletons p24 Mon 26 12noon Mead Gallery: Poetry & Stories p40 7.30pm Spymonkey's Moby Dick p07 Tue 27 12noon Mead Gallery: All The World's A Stage p40 7.30pm Spymonkey's Moby Dick p07 Wed 28 12noon Mead Gallery: An Evolutionary Tale p40
7.30pm Spymonkey's Moby Dick p07 7.45pm By the Bog of Cats p11 Thu 29 12noon Mead Gallery: Be Creative! p40 1.10pm FREE Lunchtime Concert p25 7.30pm The Unthanks p18 7.45pm By the Bog of Cats p11 Fri 30 12noon Mead Gallery:Games & Activity Day p40 7.30pm The British Police Symphony Orchestra p27 7.45pm By the Bog of Cats p11 Sat 31 12noon Children's Saturday Art Club p40 2pm Family Film: The Wizard of OZ p39 2.30pm By the Bog of Cats p11 7.45pm By the Bog of Cats p11 8pm Tinariwen p18 November Sun 1 3pm A Tempest p38 8pm Julian Clary p31 Mon 2 10.30am A Tempest p38 Tue 3 7.30pm Insane in the Brain T. p13 Wed 4 7.30pm Insane in the Brain p13 7.30pm Actors v Spectators p07 Thu 5 1.10pm FREE Lunchtime Concert p25 Sat 7 12noon Children's Saturday Art Club p40 6pm Met Opera Live: Turandot by Puccini p28 8pm Jason Manford p32 Sun 8 3pm Coull Quartet p27 6.30pm Southern Softies p32 Mon 9 7.45pm The Idiot Colony p08 7.30pm Tomasz Stanko Quintet: Dark Eyes p19 Tue 10 7pm County Music Service String & Orchestral Spectacular – 7.45pm The Idiot Colony p08 Wed 11 6.30pm Mead Gallery: Music For Worms p43 7pm County Music Service Wind & Brass Spectacular – 7.30pm Kellerman p08 Thu 12 1.10pm FREE Lunchtime Concert p25 7.30pm Kellerman p08 8pm Staff Benda Bilili p19 Fri 13 7.30pm Jos Houben: The Art of Laughter p09 7.45pm Kristy Gallacher plus Ben Calvert p24 Sat 14 12noon Children's Saturday Art Club p40 2pm The Night Keeper p38 7.30pm Daniel Kitson p33 8pm Al Murray p32 Sun 15 7.45pm Milton Jones p33 Mon 16 7.30pm UoW Wind Orchestra & Brass Band Concert p25 Tue 17 7.30pm The Black Album p10 7.45pm Make-believe p09 8pm Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra p27 Wed 18 6pm The Black Album : Pre-Show Talk p10 7.30pm The Black Album p10 7.45pm Make-believe p09 8pm Naturally 7 p19 Thu 19 1.10pm FREE Lunchtime Concert p25 7.30pm The Black Album p10 7.45pm Jiggery Pokery p09 8pm Alison Moyet p20 Fri 20 7.30pm The Black Album p10
7.45pm Jiggery Pokery p09 Sat 21 12noon Children's Saturday Art Club p40 2pm Family Film: Monsieur Hulot's Holiday p39 2.30pm The Black Album p10 7.30pm The Black Album p10 7.45pm Jiggery Pokery p09 8pm Jimmy Carr p29 Sun 22 7pm County Music Service Choral Spectacular – 7.45pm Adam Hills p33 Tue 24 6.30pm A Duck For Mr. Darwin: Curator's Tour p43 8pm Madeleine Peyroux p21 Wed 25 7.45pm Pictures of John Gray p11 8pm Ed Byrne p34 Thu 26 1.10pm FREE Lunchtime Concert p25 6.30pm Explaining the World@ How Science Works p43 7.45pm Pictures of John Gray p11 Fri 27 7.45pm Pictures of John Gray p11 8pm Ojos de Brujo p20 Sat 28 12noon Children's Saturday Art Club p40 2.30pm Cinderella p41 7.45pm Pictures of John Gray p11 8pm Alistair McGowan p34 Sun 29 3.30pm UoW Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Concert p25 7.45pm Zoe Rahman Trio p21 Mon 30 1pm Cinderella p41
December
Wed 2 10am Cinderella 10.45am The Snow Dragon 1.30pm Cinderella 1.45pm The Snow Dragon 8pm The Saw Doctors Thu 3 10am Cinderella 10.45am The Snow Dragon 1.10pm FREE Lunchtime Concert 1.30pm Cinderella 1.45pm The Snow Dragon 7.30pm Aurelio Martinez 8pm Rob Brydon Fri 4 10.30am Cinderella 10.45am The Snow Dragon 1.45pm The Snow Dragon 8pm Rob Brydon Sat 5 12noon Children's Saturday Art Club 11am The Snow Dragon 2.30pm Cinderella 2pm The Snow Dragon 7pm Cinderella Sun 6 3.30pm Music Centre Christmas Concert 7.30pm Marcus Brigstocke Mon 7 10.30am Cinderella 1.45pm The Snow Dragon Tue 8 10am Cinderella 10.45am The Snow Dragon 1.30pm Cinderella 1.45pm The Snow Dragon 8pm Soul Noël Wed 9 10.30am Cinderella 10.45am The Snow Dragon
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1.45pm The Snow Dragon p41 Thu 10 10.30am Cinderella p41 10.45am The Snow Dragon p41 1.10pm FREE Lunchtime Concert p25 1.45pm The Snow Dragon p41 Fri 11 10.30am Cinderella p41 10.45am The Snow Dragon p41 1.45pm The Snow Dragon p41 7.30pm Paul Weller - SOLD OUT p22 Sat 12 11am The Snow Dragon p41 2pm Family Film: Christmas Programme p39 2pm The Snow Dragon p41 2.30pm Cinderella p41 7pm Cinderella p41 8pm London Symphony Orchestra: Gala Concert p27 Mon 14 10.30am Cinderella p41 10.45am The Snow Dragon p41 1.45pm The Snow Dragon p41 Tue 15 10am Cinderella p41 10.45am The Snow Dragon p41 1.30pm Cinderella p41 1.45pm The Snow Dragon p41 Wed 16 10.30am Cinderella p41 10.45am The Snow Dragon p41 1.45pm The Snow Dragon p41 Thu 17 10am Cinderella p41 10.45am The Snow Dragon p41 1.30pm Cinderella p41 1.45pm The Snow Dragon p41 Fri 18 10.30am Cinderella p41 Sat 19 11am The Snow Dragon p41 2pm The Snow Dragon p41 2.30pm Cinderella p41 4pm The Snow Dragon p41 7pm Cinderella p41 8pm Kate Rusby p23 Sun 20 2pm The Snow Dragon p41 4pm The Snow Dragon p41 7.30pm Steeleye Span p23 Mon 21 11am The Snow Dragon p41 2pm The Snow Dragon p41 Tue 22 11am The Snow Dragon p41 2pm The Snow Dragon p41 2.30pm Cinderella p41 7pm Cinderella p41 Wed 23 2pm The Snow Dragon p41 2.30pm Cinderella p41 4pm The Snow Dragon p41 7pm Cinderella p41 Thu 24 11am The Snow Dragon p41 2pm The Snow Dragon p41 2.30pm Cinderella p41 HAPPY CHRISTMAS Sat 26 2.30pm Cinderella p41 7pm Cinderella p41 Sun 27 2pm The Snow Dragon p41 2.30pm Cinderella p41 4pm The Snow Dragon p41 7pm Cinderella p41 Mon 28 11am The Snow Dragon p41 2pm The Snow Dragon p41 4pm The Snow Dragon p41 Tue 29 11am The Snow Dragon p41 2pm The Snow Dragon p41
2.30pm Cinderella 7pm Cinderella Wed 30 2pm The Snow Dragon 2.30pm Cinderella 4pm The Snow Dragon 7pm Cinderella Thu 31 11am The Snow Dragon 2pm The Snow Dragon 2.30pm Cinderella
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January
Fri 1 HAPPY NEW YEAR Sat 2 2pm The Snow Dragon p41 2.30pm Cinderella p41 4pm The Snow Dragon p41 7pm Cinderella p41 Sun 3 11am The Snow Dragon p41 2pm The Snow Dragon p41 2.30pm Cinderella p41 Sat 9 6pm Met Opera Live: Der Rosenkavalier by Strauss p28 Sat 16 6pm Met Opera Live: Carmen by Bizet p28 Sun 17 3pm Coull Quartet p27 Sat 23 8pm Way To Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake p23 Sun 24 7.45pm John Bishop p35 Sat 30 1.45pm NT Live: Nation p04
February Sun 7 7.30pm Chris Addison Sat 13 8pm Lee Mack Sat 20 8pm Stephen K Amos Sun 28 8pm Rhod Gilbert
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March
Thu 11 8pm Tim Vine Fri 19 8pm Dave Gorman
p36 p36
Christmas Show Prices The Snow Dragon –––– £10.50 (£8.50) –––– schools performances call Box Office on 024 7652 4524 Cinderella –––– £14.95 (£12.95), £16.95 (£14.95), Under 16s £12.50 –––– schools performances call Box Office on 024 7652 4524
T - Post show talk GODIVA AWARDS 2009 - Thu 22 Oct The Godiva Awards is the leading business and lifestyle event in the region, rewarding excellence and recognising business achievements with shining examples of creativity, flair, ingenuity, endeavour, passion and commitment. Attracting thousands of votes from destinations throughout the world it’s easy to see why they have grown to become the most prestigious lifestyle awards in the UK. Held for the first time at the award winning Warwick Arts Centre, we look forward to a dazzling and inspiring evening to congratulate and celebrate with the very best businesses in our region. www.godiva-awards.com
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