2011 theatre programme
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York Theatre Royal and the Touring Consortium Theatre Company present
Written by Christopher Sergel Based on the novel by Harper Lee Directed by Damian Cruden Designed by Liam Doona Lighting designed by Richard G Jones Music composed by Christopher Madin
This most beloved and widely read Pulitzer Prize winner, now in it’s 50th year of publication, tells the extraordinary and unforgettable story of life in the American Deep South through the inquiring eyes of a child. Jem and Scout Finch are growing up during the 1930s depression but their idyllic childhood innocence is shattered with the realisation that bigotry and prejudice rule in their small town of Maycomb, Alabama. When their father Atticus defends a young black man falsely accused of raping a white woman, the whole family become the target of gossip and abuse. Set in America’s scorching Deep South at a time when racial tensions were at an all time high, the challenging and uncomfortable issues this classic addresses are as relevant today as they were when the book was first written.
Following his critically acclaimed “towering performance” (Yorkshire Post) in The Touring Consortium’s 2007 production of To Kill A Mockingbird, Duncan Preston is recreating his role as lawyer Atticus Finch with York Theatre Royal in a new production of this gripping classic. Duncan is probably best known for his recent appearance in Emmerdale, as well as the hugely popular TV series Dinner Ladies and Surgical Spirit and his starring role in the award winning musical Acorn Antiques with Victoria Wood.
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With Duncan Preston as Atticus Finch
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FRI 11 – SAT 26 FEB
After opening in York this production will then go on a national tour.
An extensive education programme accompanies the show, please contact: education@yorktheatreroyal.co.uk or see our website for more detail.
Times: 7.30pm with 2pm (Thu)/ 2.30pm (Sat) matinees Performance Location: Main House Tickets: Tue- Thu Fri & Sat Matinees SIF Gallery £10 £12 £12 £10 Upper Circle £13 £15 £12 £10 Dress Circle £17 £20 £12 £10 Stalls £15 £18 £12 £10
Students, Schools & U25s £7 £7 £7 £7
Most suitable for ages 11+ Members 15% off 2 tickets Concessions available see inside back cover for details Signed performance: Tue 22 Feb, 7.30pm Captioned: Sat 26 Feb, 2.30pm Audio Described: Sat 26 Feb, 2.30pm & 7.30pm
After Show Discussion: Wed 16 Feb
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York Theatre Royal presents
Written by Arthur Miller Directed by Juliet Forster
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SAT 7 – SAT 28 MAY Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
We open the ensemble season with an opportunity to see one of the most outstanding plays of the Twentieth Century. When a group of girls are discovered dancing naked in the woods late one night rumours of witch-craft and devilworshipping spread through the small community setting off a series of irreversible events.
Jealous John Pro ife Elizabeth of the truth and pursuit of justice ultimately drives this play to its thrilling and tragic conclusion. Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!
This classic text will be brought to life by a cast of 12 professional actors and 8 final year drama students from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in their first professional roles. An extensive education programme accompanies the show, please contact education@yorktheatreroyal.co.uk or see our website for more detail.
Times: 7.30pm with 2.30pm (Sat) matinees Performance Location: Main House in the round Tickets: Tue- Thu Fri & Sat Matinees Stage Bank £16 £18 £12 Stage Dress Circle £16 £18 £12 Dress Circle £16 £18 £12 Upper Circle £10 £10 £10
SIF £10 £10 £10 £10
Students, Schools & U25s £7 £7 £7 £7
Family Ticket: Tue – Thu £44, Fri & Sat £48 (2 adults, 2 children u16) Members 15% off 2 tickets Concessions available see inside back cover for details
Signed performance: Wed 18 May, 7.30pm Captioned: Sat 28 May, 2.30pm
After Show discussion: Tue 24 May
Audio Described: Sat 28 May, 2.30pm & 7.30pm
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York Theatre Royal presents
By Gerald Durrell Adapted by Janys Chambers
Directed by Damian Cruden
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FRI 3 – SAT 25 JUN Corfu, 1935
Leave the grey skies of England behind and enjoy this new adaptation of a much-loved book that has never lost its appeal from generation to generation. Gerald Durrell looks back at his unconventional upbringing on the sun-soaked island of Corfu with his eccentric family in a landscape rich in natural and cultural life. Enjoying a life of freedom and adventure, Gerald is intrepid in his pursuit of an extraordinary array of exotic animals and reptiles that lead to his life-long love of the natural world.
Times: 7.30pm with 2.30pm (Sat) matinees Performance Location: Main House in the round Tickets: Tue- Thu Fri & Sat Matinees Stage Bank £16 £18 £12 Stage Dress Circle £16 £18 £12 Dress Circle £16 £18 £12 Upper Circle £10 £10 £10
The wry observations of a curious young boy do not stop at the animal kingdom, but also offer a richly comic view of the hilarious encounters of his bohemian family, their friends and the local population. Sometimes it's pretty hard to tell them apart... My family and the animals, that is. I don't know why my brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, our house, on the island of Corfu, is a bit like a circus. So they should feel right at home...
SIF £10 £10 £10 £10
Students, Schools & U25s £7 £7 £7 £7
Family Ticket: Tue – Thu £44, Fri & Sat £48 (2 adults, 2 children u16) Members 15% off 2 tickets Concessions available see inside back cover for details
Signed performance: Wed 15 Jun, 7.30pm
After Show Discussion: Thu 23 Jun
Captioned: Sat 25 Jun, 2.30pm Audio Described: Sat 25 Jun, 2.30pm & 7.30pm
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York Theatre Royal and Riding Lights Theatre Company present
Written by Anthony Minghella Directed by Juliet Forster and Paul Burbridge
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FRI 1 – SAT 16 JUL Midsummer 1392, York
York’s community has a long standing reputation for staging Mystery Plays and this production is an exciting stepping stone towards producing the 2012 York Mystery Plays in the Museum Gardens. In the shadow of York Minster labourers from the Painter’s Guild are preparing to perform their Mystery play for the festival of Corpus Christi. To their surprise King Richard II and Queen Anne arrive in the city to escape the political intrigues of the London Court. Suddenly, from the Mayor to the marketplace, the entire community of York explodes in a fever of affectation, expense and hilarious posturing as rival guilds battle it out to impress the royal party with their wagon plays.
Times: 7.30pm with 2.30pm (Sat) matinees Performance Location: Main House in the round Tickets: Tue- Thu Fri & Sat Matinees Stage Bank £16 £18 £12 Stage Dress Circle £16 £18 £12 Dress Circle £16 £18 £12 Upper Circle £10 £10 £10
But, as thousands of community Mystery players have proved here over the years, it only takes two planks and a passion to put on the best show of all. A wonderfully funny and poignant play about the people and history of York, this is Anthony Minghella at his most glorious. A large-scale production of The York Mystery Plays will be staged in the Museum Gardens in August 2012 by a partnership of York Theatre Royal, Riding Lights Theatre Company and York Museums Trust. If you have an interest in becoming involved in Two Planks and a Passion and the York Mystery Plays, both onstage and off, please contact mysteryplays2012@yorktheatreroyal.co.uk
SIF £10 £10 £10 £10
Students, Schools & U25s £7 £7 £7 £7
Family Ticket: Tue – Thu £44, Fri & Sat £48 (2 adults, 2 children u16) Members 15% off 2 tickets Concessions available see inside back cover for details
Signed performance: Wed 13 Jul, 7.30pm
After Show Discussion: Tue 12 Jul
Audio Described: Sat 16 Jul, 2.30pm & 7.30pm
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York Theatre Royal presents
WRITTEN BY JEZ BUTTERWORTH DIRECTED BY KATIE POSNER
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THU 30 JUN – SAT 23 JUL A hilarious black comedy exploring what happens behind closed doors on a typical suburban street. Barbecues with the neighbours, a quick pint after work and Sundays spent mowing the lawn. Life on this modern suburban estate meanders along just as it should... So why hasn't Ned slept a wink in months? Why do things keep going missing from his house?
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This black comedy explores the deceit, paranoia and murderous desires that can lurk in the most unlikely households. Can you ever trust what's on the surface and do you ever really know your neighbours? Jez Butterworth won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play with Jerusalem in 2009 which premiered at the Royal Court. Times: 7.45pm with 2.00pm (Sat) matinees Performance Location: Studio Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions Age suitability 14+ (Strong language) After Show Discussion: Wed 20 Jul
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York Theatre Royal presents
A play written by J.M Barrie in a new adaptation by Mike Kenny Directed by Damian Cruden
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FRI 29 JUL – SAT 3 SEP Bloomsbury, London, 1904
From the team that brought you The Railway Children and The Wind in the Willows comes another family summer spectacle. Join Wendy, John and Michael Darling as they re-count their wonderful, actionpacked adventures in Neverland. Stories of Lost Boys, Indians, Mermaids, Crocodiles and Pirates unfold before your eyes in a magical land, free from grown-up rules. The enchanting story of the boy who refuses to grow up is given sparkle and soul in this new adaptation by Mike Kenny (who also adapted The Railway Children and the The Wind in the Willows) and promises to be fun for all the family.
When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. We are delighted that this production is presented by arrangement with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity and Samuel French Ltd. Belt Up Theatre will work alongside the York Theatre Royal team to create an unruly bunch of Pirates and a young cast will feature as loveable Lost Boys.
Times: 7.00pm with 2.30pm matinees (see diary on 41) Performance Location: Main House in the round Tickets: Tue- Thu Fri & Sat SIF & Matinees Stage Bank £16 £18 £10 Stage Dress Circle £16 £18 £10 Dress Circle £16 £18 £10 Upper Circle £10 £10 £10
Students, Schools & U25s £7 £7 £7 £7
Family Ticket: Tue – Thu £44, Fri & Sat £48 (2 adults, 2 children u16) Members 15% off 2 tickets Concessions available see inside back cover for details
Signed performance: Wed 24 Aug, 7.00pm Captioned: Sat 3 Sep, 2.30pm Audio Described: Sat 3 Sep, 2.30pm & 7.00pm
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York Theatre Royal presents
Written by AlAn bennett DirecteD by DAmiAn cruDen
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FRI 23 SEP – SAT 15 OCT
Regarded as a modern classic from Yorkshire’s cherished playwright, Forty Years On is one of Bennett’s funniest works. It’s the last day of school term. Join the staff and students of The Albion House dramatic society as they present Speak for England, Arthur a rip roaring revue featuring sketches, songs and dances that take us back a quarter of a century to the announcement that the second world war has broken out.
The Headmaster will do his best to keep the show on track, and keep it clean, as he contests against unruly pupils and disruptive staff…not to mention the rugby team. ‘Bennett’s most gloriously funny play…a brilliant, youthful perception of a nation in decline, as seen through the eyes of a home-grown school play…a classic’ Daily Mail Actors from Belt Up Theatre will join the ensemble company to add to the raucous group of sixth form school boys.
Times: 7.30pm with 2.30pm (Sat) matinees Performance Location: Main House in the round Tickets: Stage Bank Stage Dress Circle Dress Circle Upper Circle
Tue- Thu £16 £16 £16 £10
Fri & Sat £18 £18 £18 £10
Matinees £12 £12 £12 £10
SIF £10 £10 £10 £10
Students, Schools & U25s £7 £7 £7 £7
Family Ticket: Tue – Thu £44, Fri & Sat £48 (2 adults, 2 children u16) Members 15% off 2 tickets Concessions available see inside back cover for details
Signed performance: Wed 12 Oct, 7.30pm
After Show Discussion: Tue 11 Oct
Captioned: Sat 15 Oct, 2.30pm Audio Described: Sat 15 Oct, 2.30pm & 7.30pm
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York Theatre Royal presents
Written by tom mcGrath
DirecteD by Damian cruDen
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FRI 21 OCT – SAT 5 NOV
An un-missable comedy contemplating the life, loves and losses of the prolific comedy duo Laurel and Hardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stuck in a waiting room somewhere between death and eternity. Before they can pass into the next world they take a look back at their lives and loves and offer a fascinating insight into their off-screen relationships and personal heartaches. With some of their finest comedy routines, musical numbers, dance and slapstick, the charm and wit of Stan and Ollie are reborn in a warm and affectionate homage to one of the most successful and prolific comedy teams in history. Times: 7.30pm with 2.30pm (Sat), 2.00pm (Thu) matinees Performance Location: Main House in the round Tickets: Tue- Thu Fri & Sat Matinees Stage Bank £16 £18 £12 Stage Dress Circle £16 £18 £12 Dress Circle £16 £18 £12 Upper Circle £10 £10 £10
SIF £10 £10 £10 £10
Students, Schools & U25s £7 £7 £7 £7
Family Ticket: Tue – Thu £44, Fri & Sat £48 (2 adults, 2 children u16) Members 15% off 2 tickets Concessions available see inside back cover for details
Signed performance: Wed 2 Nov, 7.30pm
After Show Discussion: Tue 1 Nov
Audio Described: Sat 5 Nov, 2.30pm & 7.30pm
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York Theatre Royal and Pilot Theatre present
Written by David Harrower Directed by Katie Posner
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Why now? Why here? What does she want from him? He was 40. She was 12. It wasn’t right, but despite what they said he was never ‘one of those’. Ray has done his time. Now, 15 years later he just wants to get on with his life. But today she has come and found him again. Winner of the 2007 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, David Harrower’s unflinching portrait of two people trying to make sense of a painful past is uncomfortable, tragic and full of tension. ‘Neither condoning nor condemning, Harrower has produced a fine, thought-provoking piece on a taboo subject.’ The Independent Designed by Lydia Denno
Times: 7.45pm with 2.00pm (Sat), 2.30pm (Thu) matinees Performance Location: Studio Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions After Show Discussion: Wed 9 Nov
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York Light Opera Company present
All singing! All dancing! All Gershwin!
CRAZY FOR YOU
Bobby Child, a banker from New York, has been banished by his father to a family-owned ranch, where it is hoped he will mend his irresponsible ways. He travels West to Deadrock, Nevada to foreclose on a run down theatre but falls in love with local Polly Baker and persuades her to put on a show that will pay off the debt her father owes on the theatre.
Music and Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin Book by Ken Ludwig
This multi award-winning show ran on Broadway for 1622 performances and includes the much loved Gershwin classics: They Can t Take That Away From Me, Someone to Watch Over Me and I Got Rhythm.
TUE 1 – SAT 12 MAR
This high energy musical comedy is packed full of fabulous dance numbers, plenty of plot twists and classic Gershwin music. Not to be missed. An amateur production by arrangement with MusicScope and Stage Musicals Ltd of New York Directed and choreographed by Martyn Knight
Times: 7.30pm with 2.30pm (Sat) matinees Tickets: Tue 1 & Other U16s, Tue 1 Matinees perfs & Matinees Stalls £17 £19.75 £10 Dress Circle £19.75 £22 £13 Upper Circle £13.50 £15.50 £8 Gallery £5 £5 £3
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Group discount: 1 in 10 tickets free Special Offer: Mon 7 & Tue 8, buy one get one half price in the Upper Circle Performance Location: Main House
Audio Described: Sat 12 March, 2.30pm & 7.30pm
TICKETS ON SALE 1 APR 2011 YORK MUSEUM GARDENS
YORK MYSTERY PLAYS2012 Celebrating York800 and the Cultural Olympiad
FRI 1 – SAT 2 APR We invite you to join us for a gala night celebrating 25 years of LipService lunacy. Yes, it’s hard to believe from their youthful good looks and physical elasticity, that the ladies of LipService have been performing together for a quarter of a century, (well they started incredibly young, four years old apparently). To mark this momentous occasion, they present a comedy confection of the best bits of LipService - from Withering Looks, Very Little Women, King Arthur and the Knights of the Occasional Table, The Importance of Being Earnest, film clips from B-Road Movie and Horror for Wimps and many more. This promises to be the LipService Silver Jubilee event of the year. ‘Sublimely silly and screamingly funny’ The Independent ‘Comic invention of a rare and gentle kind, totally goodnatured and disarmingly innocent... it’s a unique style of comedy, it’s what they do and they do it superbly.’ Manchester Evening News Times: 7.30pm with a 2.30pm (Sat) matinee Tickets Fri & Matinee Students, Sat eve Schools & U25s Gallery £12 £12 £7 Upper Circle £15 £12 £7 Dress Circle £20 £12 £7 Stalls £18 £12 £7 Performance Location: Main House
Produced by York Theatre Royal, Riding Lights Theatre Company and York Museums Trust
2 – 27 AUGUST 2012 A spectacular production of York Mystery Plays in the Museum Gardens during summer 2012. This extraordinary production will feature a cast of professional actors performing alongside a large community company and will be delivered with the highest aesthetic and production values to create a spectacle against the backdrop of St Mary’s Abbey ruins. For more information please visit www.yorkmysteryplays2012.com To register your interest to become involved please email mysteryplays2012@yorktheatreroyal.co.uk Tickets on sale from 1 April from the York Theatre Royal Box Office £15 - £40 Supported by City of York Council
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J-Night with York Theatre Royal present
COURTNEY PINE EUROPA WED 30 MAR Direct from the London Jazz Festival this is the first national tour of Courtney Pine’s new work Europa, a mammoth, musical history charting the birth of Europe. With inspiration from Gregorian chants, the warmth of Mediterranean music and the evocative melodies of the far north, Courtney traces a series of stepping stones that lead to the sounds of today's European generations. Pine has assembled a heavyweight musical line-up that includes Zoe Rahman on Piano and Cuban violin star Omar Puente. ‘Jazz legend Courtney Pine's been at the top of his game for more than twenty years’ BBC News
Time: 8pm Tickets: £20 (Dress Circle), £18 (Stalls), £15 (Upper Circle & Gallery), £7 student & u25 available in the Gallery Performance location: Main House
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STACEY KENT QUINTET RACONTE-MOI WED 20 APR World-renowned American jazz star Stacey Kent makes a rare UK appearance to celebrate the release of her latest Blue Note album “Raconte-Moi” (“Tell Me”). Voted best jazz vocalist at the 2001 and 2002 BBC Jazz Awards, she was also a 2009 Grammy nominee. Her greatest success came with the release of her Blue Note debut album “Breakfast On the Morning Tram” which clocked up worldwide sales of over 300,000 and a sell-out nationwide tour. Stacey’s love for both Brazilian music and the classics of the American songbook is present on Raconte-moi. Time: 8pm Tickets: £19 (Dress Circle), £17 (Stalls), £15 (Upper Circle & Gallery), £7 student & u25 available in the Gallery Performance Location: Main House
CAROL KIDD MBE WITH NIGEL CLARK TUE 19 JULY Carol Kidd is acknowledged in jazz circles as “Britain's finest ballads singer” Jazz Review. She has secured the Best Vocalist title at the British Jazz Awards on four separate occasions and, in 1998, received the MBE for Services to Jazz. Kidd is renowned for her impeccable phrasing and delivery along with an innate ability to breathe fresh life into jazz standards. Throughout her career, Kidd has cut a distinctive path through the Great American Songbook. ‘Carol Kidd is the best kept secret of British Jazz’ Frank Sinatra
Time: 8pm Tickets: £15 (Stage Bank, Stage Dress Circle & Dress Circle), £10 (Upper Circle) Performance Location: Main House in the round
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Seabright Productions and Gilded Balloon Productions present
COMEDY DOUBLE BILL
HARDEEP SINGH KOHLI THE NEARLY NAKED CHEF
SHAPPI KHORSANDI AND JON RICHARDSON
TUE 29 MAR
TUE 19 APR
Grab a seat and tuck in, as a guest of Hardeep Singh Kohli. This celebrated broadcaster, raconteur, writer and cook combines comedy with inventive cuisine in a wonderfully funny, laid back evening's entertainment.
One of the hottest comedy prospects in the country, Shappi is feisty, flirty and effortlessly funny handling every subject with a razor sharp wit. Star of Live At The Apollo, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, and Have I Got News for You and Radio 4’s Shappi Talk.
Just think Ready Steady Cook but with great cooking (Hardeep was runner-up on the first series of Celebrity Masterchef) and funny anecdotes, all delivered by Glaswegian Hardeep in his own unique, articulate and utterly charming way. ‘Kohli’s evening of cookery and anecdotes… left a reassuringly warm aftertaste.’ HHHH The Times
‘Britain’s best young female comic by any yardstick’ The Guardian Funny Magnet sees everyone’s favourite young grumpy man, Jon Richardson, return to the stage. Embracing his misanthropy, the show features the best bits from his sold out, critically acclaimed Edinburgh show ‘Don’t Happy Be Worry’ as well as some brand new material. Discussing the everyday items that have a profound effect on his outlook, Richardson takes his audience on an eclectic journey from cheating footballers to decapitated alligators.
Time: 7.30pm Tickets: £12 (Stalls & Dress Circle), £10 (Upper Circle & Gallery) Performance Location: Main House Suitable for: 14+
Time: 7.30pm Tickets: £14 (Stalls & Dress Circle), £12 (Upper Circle) £10 (Gallery) £7 u25s & NUS (Upper Circle & Gallery) Performance Location: Main House
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TUE 12 – SAT 16 APR You know the story; ugly sisters, a pumpkin carriage, a lost slipper…or do you?
York Musical Theatre Company present
THE SLIPPER AND THE ROSE THE REAL STORY OF CINDERELLA
Cinderella waits nervously. Poised to enter the ball in her beautiful, sparkling ball gown. Desperately hoping she can win Prince Edward’s heart and live happily ever after with him. Will her mean stepmother and ugly sisters succeed in reducing her to nothing but a hard working, house servant? Or will the King and his court find another bride for the prince, to protect the Kingdom of Euphrania Featuring all the charm and magic of the original story, this beautiful musical version of the classic fairytale Cinderella surprises the audience with many unexpected twists and turns. Nominated for two Oscars, two BAFTAs and a Golden Globe for Best Original Song Score, this enchanting production includes songs such as Suddenly it Happens, Once I Was Loved and I Can’t Forget the Melody. York Musical Theatre Company bring this charming show to the stage after their sellout production of The Wizard of Oz in May 2010. Come and enjoy the magical adventure for yourself… Directed by Paul Laidlaw Music and lyrics by Richard M Sherman and Robert B Sherman Book by Brian Forbes and Robert Sherman & Richard Sherman Stage adaptation by Philip Burley An amateur production by arrangement with NODA Limited on behalf of Excelsior Group Productions and Paradine Co Productions Limited
Times: Evenings 7.30pm, Fri and Sat matinee at 2.30pm Tickets: Tue – Sat Under 16s NUS & & Matinees means tested Dress Circle £18 £16 n/a Stalls £16 £14 n/a Upper Circle £14 £12 £5
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Family Ticket (2 adults, 2 children) n/a n/a £45
Groups 1 in 10 go free Schools £10 student tickets, 2 teacher tickets free in every 10 Performance Location: Main House
Audio Described: Sat 16 Apr, 2.30pm & 7.30pm
BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET FRI 22- SAT 23 APR
Photo: Bill Cooper
One of Britain’s leading ballet companies shows off its extraordinary diversity in performances that feature a selection of highlights from our favourite classical ballets, including the witty and engaging family treat La Fille mal gardée and The Dream. This beautiful and breathtaking montage is followed by George Balanchine’s Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, a crazy 30s comedy; its humour and vitality provide sparkling entertainment. After discovering a hitman in the audience is to target him as soon as his stage routine is over, a luckless leading man has no option but to extend his frantic solo until the cops can arrive!
Times: 7.30pm with a 2.30pm Sat matinee Tickets: Fri & Sat eve Matinee Gallery £12 £12 Upper Circle £15 £12 Dress Circle £20 £12 Stalls £18 £12 Students & u25s £7 ticket available in the Upper Circle only, 50 per perf Performance Location: Main House
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L A V I T S E F R E V O E TAK MON 14- SAT 26 MAR
OPERATION VERVE 2011 FITZROVIA GREENFIELD WED 16 MAR RADIO The award winning by LittleBulbTheatre. HOUR postgraduate performance MON 14 – TUE 15 MAR Four teenagers are preparing for Judgment day. With a stage full of instruments and an eclectic mix of recorded music, this Edinburgh Fringe hit captures the confusing, awkward and beautifully naïve time of adolescence. Total Theatre, Arches Brick and Fringe First winners. HHHH Guardian Time: 7.30pm Tickets: £10, , £7 u25s & NUS Performance Location: Main House
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company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, features dancers fresh from intensive technical training at some of Europe’s leading conservatoires. An invigorating mixed bill of new dance works created by leading international choreographers. Time: 7.30pm Tickets: £10, £7 u25s & NUS Performance Location: Main House
by The Original Theatre Company By Seabright Productions SAT 19 MAR and Fitzrovia Productions Summer 1936. A cottage in FRI 18 MAR the remote Irish village of Recreating the unique Ballybeg where the Mundy spirit of 1940’s radio plays, sisters live a simple life in and brilliantly evoking a the shadow of the hills of dinner-jacketed age of Donegal. Their recently casual imperialism and returned brother Jack is stiff upper lips this show played by Daragh O’Malley tours fresh from three (Withnail and I, Sgt Harper critically acclaimed London in Sharpe).Brian Friel’s residencies, and a sell-out gentle and touching play Edinburgh Festival run. paints a vivid and life Time: 7.30pm affirming portrait of five Tickets: £12,£7 u25s & NUS brave women. Performance Location: Main House
HOW THE KOALA LEARNT TO HUG
OPEN MIC NIGHT
By The Peoples Theatre Company Thu 17 Mar 11am Main House | Age 5+ | £5 ‘Enchanting!’ South Wales Guardian
Thu 17 Mar 7.30pm £3 or £2 for performers. Tickets on the door
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
Time: 7.30pm Tickets: £12, £7 u26s Performance Location: Main House
NATURE DAY
HIS NAME IS TIM
Sat 19 Mar Studio performance 11am, craft activities and story hunt £7 first child. £3 additional children, adults free All Children must be accompanied by an Adult. Age 6-10. ‘An absolute must’ Primary Times
By Thomas J Millington Tue 22 Mar 7.45pm Studio £8, £2 u25s
4:48 PSYCHOSIS
COMEDY NIGHT!
BEACHY HEAD
TUE 15- SAT 19 MAR Sarah Kane’s last shocking play presented by TakeOver's vibrant young company. A powerful insight into the mind of one woman’s struggle with her inner conflicts; a deeply personal reflection of the writers own psychological turmoil. Shocking, aching and stark this compelling play will pull you in and leave you stunned.
MON 21 MAR Enjoy an evening of big laughs as four of the countries exciting comedy acts take to the stage. Jarred Christmas, Dan Nightingale, Chris Stokes and Seann Walsh have impressed critics, promoters, judges and audiences around the country with assured delivery and superb material.
by Analogue. TUE 22 MAR A powerful look at the ripple effects of one man’s decision to take his own life. Mixing text, 3D animation and a dynamic physicality this is the follow up to the awardwinning Mile End from “visionary young company” Analogue (Metro).
Directed by Rhiannon Jackson Time: 7.45pm Tickets: £7 u25s & NUS Performance Location: Studio
LIFE SUPPORT By Catapulting Cocoon Wed 23-Thu 24 Mar 7.45pm Studio £10, £7 u25s ‘Songs and dialogue are witty, surprising and enlightening’ The Press
Time: 7.30pm Tickets: £12, £7 u25s & NUS Performance Location: Main House
ANOTHER SOMEONE By Rash Dash Fri 25 –Sat 26 Mar 7.45pm Studio | £10, £7 u25s HHHH‘delightful...wonderfully uplifting...stunning...such a fun show’ The Scotsman
Directed by Liam Jarvis and Hannah Barker Script by Dan Rebellato, Emma Jowett and Lewis Hetherington Time: 7.30pm Tickets: £12, £7 u25s & NUS Performance Location: Main House
THE BEGGAR’S OPERA by Belt Up Theatre. THU 24 - SAT 26 MAR From the York Theatre Royal resident company behind The Tartuffe, The Trial, Macbeth and a widespread reputation for breaking down classic stories and reigniting them with energetic dynamism comes a brand new version of John Gay’s epic story of thieves, lechery and villainy. Time: 7.30pm with a 2.30pm (Fri & Sat) matinee Tickets: £12, £7 u25s & NUS Performance Location: Main House
In association with CPP this is a program supported by A Night less ordinary and Arts Council England
Full programme of events and lots more info at www.takeoverfestival.co.uk
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O I D U ST
The Digital Opera Ensemble present
Eamonn Fleming presents
Old Bomb Theatre present
York Settlement Community Players present
Angus and Ross Theatre Company in partnership with The Georgian Theatre Royal
Mind the Gap presents an award winning adaptation of John Steinbeck’s
A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
WHEN I WAS TEN I COULD FLY
PINTERESQUE
GHOSTS
FRANKENSTEIN LIVE
OF MICE AND MEN
WED 16 – SAT 26 FEB
WED 2 – SAT 12 MAR
WED 30 – THU 31 MAR
FRI 1 – SAT 2 APR
WED 9 FEB
FRI 11 – SAT 12 FEB
Written by Henrik Ibsen In a new version by Amelia Bullmore
By Mike Kenny
What if the things you believe in as a kid are really true? When I Was Ten I Could Fly is a funny and insightful journey through everything from Action Man and Séances to Debbie Harry and the Hubble Space Telescope. Using comedy, confessions and a bit of acting, YTR regular Eamonn Fleming (Two, The Dumb Waiter) and co-writer/Director Andy Burden (Tobacco Factory) bring you an hour of rambling insight and pertinent nonsense.
Harold Pinter has been described as the most influential, provocative and poetic dramatist of his generation.
Written by Tom Needham
Based on the book by Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey is a digital opera in development. It is scored for a mixed ensemble of 4 musicians, 4 laptops, and an actor/singer. It will feature the improvising duo ev2 - Craig Vear (Railway Children, White Crow) and Jonathan Eato (York University Music Dept), cellist Audrey Riley (Icebreaker, Gavin Bryars, Foo-Fighters), and special guests.
Is a monster born or made? Where does our responsibility lie?
An extraordinary tale of friendship, loyalty and the power of dreams.
Based on Shelley's classic, this gripping adaptation explores the extraordinary attachment between Dr Frankenstein and his Creation – a bond, they both grow to realise, that only death can break.
George and Lennie are drifters who have only each other and their shared search for the American Dream. George is the little guy who looks out for Lennie who, unaware of his own strength, seems unable to keep out of trouble. Finding work on a ranch, they plan to stay long enough to buy a place of their own… but their arrival triggers a chain of events that threatens the dream that unites them.
The evening will be streamed on the internet and will include a pre show talk from Patrick Wildgust, curator of the Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall. Time: 7.45pm Tickets: £10, £7 students & u25s Performance Location: Studio
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Old Bomb Theatre (Waiting for Godot, On the Shore of the Wide World) present some of Pinter's short plays alongside new writing inspired by his work. Expect a potent cocktail of power games, sexual politics and laughter. ‘This excellently executed series of short dramas... a palpable hit‘ The British Theatre Guide on Cigarettes and Chocolate
‘Smart, funny & warm-hearted’ Nick Lane, Associate Director, Hull Truck
Times: 7.45pm with a 2.00pm (Sat) matinee Performance Location: Studio Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions
How far will someone go in order to leave the past and move into the future? Mrs Alving is preparing for the opening of an orphanage in memory of her late husband. When her son, Osvald, returns to the family home to celebrate the heroic memory of his dead father, she is forced to reveal the ghosts of the past she is desperate to forget. A vibrant new version of Ibsen's powerful and controversial psychological drama.
Times: 7.45pm with 2.00pm matinee, Sat 26 (no performances on Sat 19) Performance Location: Studio Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions
Times: 7.45pm with 2.00pm matinee, Sat 12 Performance Location: Studio Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions
By BAFTA nominated Tom Needham (Silent Witness, The Bill). Featuring Emanuel Brierley and Dominic Goodwin Directed by Em Whitfield Brooks Supported by Arts Council England
Times: 7.45pm Performance Location: Studio Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions
Times: 7.45pm Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions Performance Location: Studio Suitable for: 11+
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O I D U ST
The Digital Opera Ensemble present
Eamonn Fleming presents
Old Bomb Theatre present
York Settlement Community Players present
Angus and Ross Theatre Company in partnership with The Georgian Theatre Royal
Mind the Gap presents an award winning adaptation of John Steinbeck’s
A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
WHEN I WAS TEN I COULD FLY
PINTERESQUE
GHOSTS
FRANKENSTEIN LIVE
OF MICE AND MEN
WED 16 – SAT 26 FEB
WED 2 – SAT 12 MAR
WED 30 – THU 31 MAR
FRI 1 – SAT 2 APR
WED 9 FEB
FRI 11 – SAT 12 FEB
Written by Henrik Ibsen In a new version by Amelia Bullmore
By Mike Kenny
What if the things you believe in as a kid are really true? When I Was Ten I Could Fly is a funny and insightful journey through everything from Action Man and Séances to Debbie Harry and the Hubble Space Telescope. Using comedy, confessions and a bit of acting, YTR regular Eamonn Fleming (Two, The Dumb Waiter) and co-writer/Director Andy Burden (Tobacco Factory) bring you an hour of rambling insight and pertinent nonsense.
Harold Pinter has been described as the most influential, provocative and poetic dramatist of his generation.
Written by Tom Needham
Based on the book by Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey is a digital opera in development. It is scored for a mixed ensemble of 4 musicians, 4 laptops, and an actor/singer. It will feature the improvising duo ev2 - Craig Vear (Railway Children, White Crow) and Jonathan Eato (York University Music Dept), cellist Audrey Riley (Icebreaker, Gavin Bryars, Foo-Fighters), and special guests.
Is a monster born or made? Where does our responsibility lie?
An extraordinary tale of friendship, loyalty and the power of dreams.
Based on Shelley's classic, this gripping adaptation explores the extraordinary attachment between Dr Frankenstein and his Creation – a bond, they both grow to realise, that only death can break.
George and Lennie are drifters who have only each other and their shared search for the American Dream. George is the little guy who looks out for Lennie who, unaware of his own strength, seems unable to keep out of trouble. Finding work on a ranch, they plan to stay long enough to buy a place of their own… but their arrival triggers a chain of events that threatens the dream that unites them.
The evening will be streamed on the internet and will include a pre show talk from Patrick Wildgust, curator of the Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall. Time: 7.45pm Tickets: £10, £7 students & u25s Performance Location: Studio
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Old Bomb Theatre (Waiting for Godot, On the Shore of the Wide World) present some of Pinter's short plays alongside new writing inspired by his work. Expect a potent cocktail of power games, sexual politics and laughter. ‘This excellently executed series of short dramas... a palpable hit‘ The British Theatre Guide on Cigarettes and Chocolate
‘Smart, funny & warm-hearted’ Nick Lane, Associate Director, Hull Truck
Times: 7.45pm with a 2.00pm (Sat) matinee Performance Location: Studio Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions
How far will someone go in order to leave the past and move into the future? Mrs Alving is preparing for the opening of an orphanage in memory of her late husband. When her son, Osvald, returns to the family home to celebrate the heroic memory of his dead father, she is forced to reveal the ghosts of the past she is desperate to forget. A vibrant new version of Ibsen's powerful and controversial psychological drama.
Times: 7.45pm with 2.00pm matinee, Sat 26 (no performances on Sat 19) Performance Location: Studio Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions
Times: 7.45pm with 2.00pm matinee, Sat 12 Performance Location: Studio Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions
By BAFTA nominated Tom Needham (Silent Witness, The Bill). Featuring Emanuel Brierley and Dominic Goodwin Directed by Em Whitfield Brooks Supported by Arts Council England
Times: 7.45pm Performance Location: Studio Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions
Times: 7.45pm Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions Performance Location: Studio Suitable for: 11+
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O I D U ST
York Theatre Royal Youth Theatre present
European Arts Company presents
The Crick Crack Club present
GIFTED…
CHEKHOV’S SHORTS
METAMORPHOSES
THU 7 – SAT 9 APR
THU 28 – FRI 29 APR
SAT 30 APR
A box is delivered to a rehearsal room, addressed to an 11-13s youth theatre group and sent with the best wishes of another. The contents are fascinating, weird, wonderful and inspire the group to create a piece of theatre-our gift to you…
European Arts Company presents a hugely entertaining collection of classic one-act farces by Anton Chekhov. Including The Evils of Tobacco, ‘The Dimwit, The Bear, Swan Song’ and The Proposal, this is Chekhov at his comic best, before Uncle Vanya started shooting, The Seagull got stuffed, The Cherry Orchard was ‘car-parked’ and The Three Sisters started moaning.
by Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden
Directed by Jessica Fisher, Paula Clark and Jenna Drury Dramaturg Bridget Foreman
‘Chekhov wasn't all doom and gloom... European Arts Company’s production of Chekhov Shorts is fast-paced, witty and engaging’ The Stage
Times: 7pm & 8.30pm Tickets: £7 Adults, £5 students & under 25s Performance Location: Studio
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Times: 7.45pm Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions Performance Location: Studio
Enter another world a world of gods Orpheus, whose musical and poetic powers were so great that they even survived an encounter with Hades; Midas, with his golden touch; the abduction of Persephone, Queen of the Underworld; the nymph Echo, repeating the last words of others, and the beautiful, vain, Narcissus. Inspired by Ovid’s tales of transformation, Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden breath life onto some of the most famous myths in the world. Storytelling at its most poetic. Times: 7.45pm Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions Performance Location: Studio
A co-production between Pilot Theatre, Elsinor Teatro, Milan and RSAMD
EUROPEAN PLATFORM FESTIVAL
WHAT LIGHT
TUE 24 – SAT 28 MAY
WED 11 – SAT 21 MAY
A week of performances, play readings and workshops from countries including Italy, Finland and Portugal together with performances from young people in York.
Written by Richard Hurford and Guiditta Mingucci 2061 and it’s a different world for fourteen year old Sid. No school, no shops, no internet, no escape from the rain that keeps on falling, but it’s the only life he’s ever known. Then one day a girl with blood on her hands appears and the world begins to change. Together they discover life wasn’t always like this and find out what really happened to all the bright lights and the good times. One of the new plays to be commissioned for young people as part of Platform11+, a European Culture 2008 project with 12 Countries across Europe. Fri 20 May will be a double bill performance alongside Manor School York, What Goes Up when you live in a perfect world the only way is down. www.platform11plus.eu Directed by Katie Posner Designed by Ilaria Ariemme
Elsinor Teatro Fantastic stories told with paper, stories about paper, paper that becomes stories in the hands of the actor, the Paperteller. Suitable 3+ Beginning Three childhood friends revisit the games and dreams of their youth and wonder is the adult world they head for any different from the children’s playground they have left behind? Suitable 9+ To find out more details on what is happening during the week please visit both the York Theatre Royal website and www.pilot-theatre.com
Times: 1.30pm, 2pm, 7.45pm (see diary for perf schedule) Performance Location: Studio Tickets: £7 students & u25s, £5 u16s Suitable for: 9+
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O I D U ST
makin projects in association with Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre present
CLARE SUMMERSKILL presents
SHERLOCK WELL THAT HOLMES… EXPLAINS IT! THE DEATH AND LIFE FRI 3 – SAT 4 JUN TUE 31 MAY – THU 2 JUN ‘A fantasy based upon a fiction’, finds Conan Doyle tiring of his ‘intolerably arrogant Sherlock Holmes’, and inventing the malevolent Moriarty, to dispose of him. But Doyle's dangerous strategy, combined with his passion for raising the spirits of the dead, has rather more surreal and dramatic consequences than he bargains for! Roger Llewellyn returns in this spine tingling new play, written by David Stuart Davies, and directed by Gareth Armstrong with original music by Simon Slater. Times: 7.45pm Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions Performance Location: Studio
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Let’s talk about Sex! Sexual Orientation! Being single, being married, being Gay, Bi, Lesbian, Queer, Straight and those who just see themselves as a little bit on the wonky side… Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about all these matters but were too afraid to ask …in case someone gave you a funny look! All is finally explained and revealed by lesbian actress/singer/stand-up, CLARE SUMMERSKILL who in this new show will take you through a fast-moving, song-singing, sidesplitting, costume-changing evening of comedy and music.
Time: 7.45pm Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions Performance Location: Studio
Script York present
YORKWRITE TUE 7 – WED 8 JUN Script Yorkshire York presents three short plays fresh from the pens of local writers. Prepare to be stimulated, amused and surprised... We are the local branch of Script Yorkshire which exists to support and develop local writers for stage, radio and TV. For more details, check our website – www.scriptyorkshire.co.uk York Settlement Community Players are proud to continue their association with Script Yorkshire York. Working collaboratively with new writers, we recruit local acting and directing talent in order to promote the performance of original scripts. For more information about our activities please email yscp@berylnairn.plus.com Times: 7.45pm Tickets: £5, £4 SY and YCSP members Performance Location: Studio
Tayo Aluko and Friends present
Belt Up Theatre presents
CALL MR ROBESON
THE BOY JAMES & ATRIUM
SAT 11 JUN
TUE 21 - SAT 25 JUN
Paul Robeson is a great and famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner.
Following total sell out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, York Theatre Royal company in residence, Belt Up Theatre bring two new interactive plays to home ground.
When over the years he gets progressively too radical and outspoken for the establishment's liking, he is branded a traitor to his country and denied opportunities to perform or travel.
The Boy James by Alexander Wright tells a story of playful innocence and cruel experience inspired by the life of J.M. Barrie. Atrium by James Wilkes (The Tartuffe) stages the deluded fantasies of an ageing artist fragmented across a jigsaw narrative. ‘I saw the future of theatre... and its name was Belt Up’ York Press
The play is a roller coaster journey through Robeson's remarkable and eventful life and features some of his famous songs and speeches, including a dramatic rendition of Ol' Man River.
Time: 7.45pm Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions Performance Location: Studio
Times: 7.45pm Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions Performance Location: Studio
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O I D U ST
Script Yorkshire and York Settlement Players present
York Theatre Royal Young Actors Company presents
Third Party presents
SCRIPT FACTOR ALL WINNERS FINAL
LITTLE ANGELS
THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DR FAUSTUS
MON 18 JULY The popular Script Factor events continue and after several rounds of new writing evenings the finalists come together in the All Winners Final hosted in York Theatre Royal’s Studio. See several new plays brought to life and performed as rehearsed readings in association with York Settlement Players. Discuss them with the writers and then finally you’ll have the chance to vote for your favourite.
WED 14 – SAT 17 SEP Written by Hannah Davies Chloe is 17, single and lives with her aunty and new baby. Struggling to cope with her new life and facing an uncertain future, she tries to find solace and answers by delving back into her troubled past. With knowing the truth comes a dilemma; does she follow the family mould or choose to follow her own path? A dark, touching and poignant new play from a York based writer, of a young girl going backwards in the need to go forwards.
WED 12 – SAT 15 OCT All in the words of Christopher Marlowe (but not necessarily in the right order) Some of the most popular dramatic verse ever written and some splendid comedy to go with it. Dance, song, the dulcet tones of the ukulele: a touch of ventriloquism; smoke, mirrors and cheap tricks. To keep themselves amused, Lucifer and Mephistopheles enjoy a picnic and do a few cabaret turns while Faustus, in exchange for his soul, gets a very poor deal indeed. Directed by John Wright
Time: 7.45pm Tickets: £5, £4 SY and YCSP members Performance Location: Studio
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Times: 7.45pm with a 2pm (Sat) matinee Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions Performance Location: Studio
Times: 7.45pm with a 2pm (Sat) matinee Tickets: £12, £7 students & u25s, £10 concessions Performance Location: Studio
N E R D CHIL
Tucked In productions present
Half Moon presents
TIM AND LIGHT
RIP, FOLD, SCRUNCH ANIMAL TAILS
WED 1 JUN
THU 2 JUN
WED 22 – SAT 25 JUN
Tim and Light is a brave new fairy tale told through beautiful puppetry and beguiling moments of visual beauty.
A butterfly flutters. A kite soars. But not everyone has something to play with. Join Rip, Fold and Scrunch as they journey into the multicoloured world of friendship, with the help of some magical paper creations.
A feast of fun storytelling inspired by animal stories from around the world. This charming and magical show will give a new twist to well-loved stories and introduce you to new characters and old favourites. Another inspiring collaboration between tutti frutti and York Theatre Royal, Animal Tails will be imaginative and visual theatre at its best.
Poor Tim is a 12 year-old boy with little confidence and no friends, apart from his pet cat, ‘Light’. One day Tim and Light embark on a dangerous rescue mission that will bring them face to face with friendship, identity and a terrifying painter with a metal smile! Can they save the girl in the red dress before it is too late?
Half Moon’s enchanting new show fuses theatre, Kathak dance and live music within a paper world. After the performance come and experiment with paper– rip, fold and scrunch your own creations!
tutti frutti and York Theatre Royal present
Directed by Wendy Harris
Calling to mind Coraline, Spirited Away and Edward Scissorhands; Tim and Light will steal your heart.
Times: 12noon & 2.00pm Tickets: £10 adults, £6 children u16 Performance Location: Studio Suitable for 4+
Times: 12noon & 2.00pm Tickets: £10 adults, £6 children u16 Performance Location: Studio Suitable for 2 – 5 year olds
Times: 11.00am & 1.30pm Tickets: £10 adults, £6 children u16 Performance Location: Studio Suitable for 3+
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York Theatre Royal Young Actors Company present
The Lord Chamberlain’s Men present
CELEBRATING SEVERUS
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
SAT 19 - SUN 27 FEB
THU 1 – SAT 3 SEP
York Theatre Royal Young Actors Company will be creating a new devised work as part of a week of performances, events, new exhibits, and workshops at The Yorkshire Museum to celebrate the life and legacy of African Roman Emperor Septimius Severus who came to Eboracum (Roman York) in 208, and died in the city in 211.
The Lord Chamberlain's Men return to York with A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Inspired by the objects, stories and life of Septimius Severus and taking a sideways look at our source material our work will present a contemporary re-imagining of fragments of our ancient history. Celebrating Severus is part of Precious Cargo, and the national Stories of the World project, which is part of the "Cultural Olympiad”.
Performance Location: The Yorkshire Museum Performances are free and will be on at various times please see www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk for full performance details
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Young lovers. An oppressive father. A forced marriage. A troupe of grandiose amateur players. Add into this mixture an enchanted forest, a fairy king and queen and a mischievous sprite and you have a recipe for a comedy so charming, so hilarious and so utterly enchanting that it has been delighting audiences for hundreds of years! Get set for the most magical comedy of them all in Summer 2011! Time: 7.30pm Tickets: £18, £7 students & u25s, other concessions £2 off Performance Location: Museum Gardens
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REHEARSED READINGS
MUSIC MONDAYS
SHAME
THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE
Written by David Schaal (Glyn Taffy - the warehouse manager in The Office) Dramaturg Chris Jury A rehearsed reading directed by John R. Wilkinson and performed by some of the cast of To Kill a Mockingbird
by George Bernard Shaw
Enjoy free entry music events in our café bar and on our patio 6 Jun, 4 Jul (Independence Day), 1 Aug (Yorkshire Day), 5 Sep, 3 Oct
Wilkinson’s Crew follow their rehearsed reading last season of Gilbert’s Engaged with another rehearsed reading of Shaw’s courtroom comedy.
New England 1776. Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary In the wake of the X Factor and American Puritan, is mistaken Big Brother culture this new play for local minister Rev. Anthony explores the lengths many young Anderson and arrested by the people will go to for fame and British. Dick discovers himself fortune. A black comedy. A sad incapable of accusing another indictment of the obsession with human to suffer and continues celebrity. Proof that in reality, to masquerade as the reverend reality is harsh! with remarkable consequences. Date: Wed 23 Feb Time: 2.30pm Venue: Studio Tickets: £4
Date: Tue 29 Mar Time: 7.45 PM Performance Location: Studio Tickets: £5
BACKSTAGE TOURS SUNDAY 30 JANUARY Book a free backstage tour as part of York’s Residents Festival. Tours will take place every 20mins between 12noon and 4pm. Backstage tours happen on the last Friday of every month (schedule permitting please book via Box Office) or specific tours can be arranged for groups by contacting the Deputy Front of House Manager on 01904 715465
SATURDAY NIGHTS AT THE BALLROOM
Enjoy some special nights out in the newly refurbished De Grey Rooms. Restored back to its former glory the spectacular Ballroom is the ideal location to rock and roll the night away, get into the spirit of war time with a live big band or stomp around to the sound of a folk ceilidh band. Feel free to dress up to suit the period and don’t worry if you’ve never jived or waltzed before as an optional dance class will precede the first dance. The Ballroom in its heyday 1950
Sat 16 April - Open Morning from 10am and Afternoon Tea Dance from 2pm - £7 Sat 21 May, 7.30pm - Ceilidh - £15 Sat 9 July, 7.30pm- Big Band 1940’s night -£17 Sat 20 Aug - Summer Tea Dance 2pm - £7 Sat 17 Sep, 7.30pm - 1950’s Jive Night - £15 Dance classes additional cost of £3.
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D E V L O V N I GET
FEB HALF ADULT THEATRE WORKSHOP TERM ACTIVITIES Tue 22 Feb 10am-4pm 8-10s play in a day £15 Wed 23 Feb 10am-1pm Puppetry workshop for 5-7 year olds £10 2pm-5pm Physical theatre workshop for 1 1-13 year olds £10
This ongoing series of workshops covers a wide range of dramatic disciplines and focuses on expanding your experience, confidence and development. Whether you are just beginning to act, looking to enhance your skills or just enjoy discovering more about theatre, participants are always welcome to learn in a comfortable, relaxed environment. The sessions are led by professional actor and practitioner, Michael Lambourne, and feature regular masterclasses from other Theatre Royal artists. New students are welcome throughout the term. Check our website for details of the content of each class. Cost £8 per session, or book for the whole term for £60. Time Mondays 7.30pm – 9.30pm 10 week term, starting Mon 24 Jan 20 places per session 18 +
PLAY IN A WEEK Create and perform a play in just one week. Work with a professional theatre practitioner to increase your theatre skills. Have lots of fun and make new friends! The final play will be performed to parents on the Saturday in our studio theatre. Dates: w/c 8th August 5-7s and 8-10s w/c 15th August 11-14s For more information, please contact the Education department on 01904 658162 or email education@yorktheatreroyal.co.uk
STORYMAKERS Once upon a time......” Storymakers is a storytelling, drama and arts based session for 3 -5 year olds and their mums, dads and carers! Each week we will explore a different story through arts and craft and creative play. This seasons stories will focus on traditional tales and fables so come and join in the storytelling and help the queen remember the name of the little man, is it Timothy, Jeremiah or .....Rumplestiltskin? Or perhaps find out who wins the race....are you a hare or a tortoise? The sessions will take place at the York Theatre Royal on a Wednesday morning from 10.15am – 11.30am running from Jan 12 for nine weeks. Ticket price £2.00 per child Why not drop in to our Story Corner in the York Theatre Royal café bar on a Saturday morning 10:20am - 10:35am & 10:45am - 11:00am Free, just turn up and enjoy (runs term time only)
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FRIENDS The Friends of York Theatre Royal are an enthusiastic, theatre loving group keen to support their local theatre, raise funds and meet others who share a passion for the arts. The club also organize a range of theatre trips and social events and are always looking for new members. To join the Friends please contact 01904 638302.
CAFÉ BAR York Theatre Royal’s café and bar provide the perfect setting for a relaxed coffee, lunch with friends, pre show drink or business meeting. All our food is lovingly prepared on site by our wonderful catering team using the finest locally sourced produce.
COSTUME HIRE From the historical to the hysterical we have thousands of extraordinary costumes to hire.
WE ARE MOVING… Costume Hire will close at our Walmgate premises on Sat 12 February and will re-open in the De Grey Rooms (next door to the theatre) on Sat 5 March
Open from 10am Mon – Sat We can also cater for formal meetings, events and parties for adults or children. For more information please contact 01904 550171 or email catering@yorktheatreroyal.co.uk
FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN
As part of the re-location we will be selling off a large range of costumes that have appeared on the York Theatre Royal stage over the years. Don’t miss this opportunity to purchase a piece of theatre history.
We continue to raise funds for our Access For All campaign to make all our activity in the De Grey Rooms fully accessible. You can donate online at the end of a ticketing transaction, when you make a booking at the box office in person or by telephone or you can pick up a Gift Aid envelope front of house at the theatre. We thank you for your continued support.
New Contact Details from 5 March 01904 715444 costumehire@yorktheatreroyal.co.uk
Look out for special fundraising events throughout the year. Join in if you can.
COSTUME SALE Sat 19 Feb from 10am at The Maltings Walmgate YO1 9TT
From 5 March our opening times will be: Tuesday 10am – 4pm Thursday 10am – 2pm (by appointment only) Saturday 10am – 4pm
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AD: C: BSL: D: SIF:
Audio Described Performances for the blind and partially sighted Captioned Performances for the deaf, deafened and hard of hearing British Sign Language interpreted performances After show discussion See it First
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WED 09 THU 10 FRI 11 SAT 12 SUN 13 MON 14 TUE 15 WED 16 THU 17 FRI 18 SAT 19 SUN 20 MON 21 TUE 22 WED 23 THU 24 FRI 25 SAT 26 SUN 27 MON 28 TUE 01 WED 02 THU 03 FRI 04 SAT 05 SUN 06 MON 07 TUE 08 WED 09 THU 10 FRI 11 SAT 12 SUN 13 MON 14 TUE 15 WED 16 THU 17 FRI 18 SAT 19 SUN 20 MON 21 TUE 22 WED 23 THU 24 FRI 25 SAT 26 SUN 27 MON 28 TUE 29 WED 30 THU 31
STUDIO A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
7.30 SIF 7.30
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
7.30 7.30 D 2.00 & 7.30 7.30 2.30 & 7.30
WHEN I WAS TEN I COULD FLY WHEN I WAS TEN I COULD FLY
7.45 7.45 2.00 & 7.45
PINTERESQUE PINTERESQUE PINTERESQUE
7.45 7.45 7.45
CELEBRATING SEVERUS 19 - 27 FEB YORKSHIRE MUSEUM
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 7.30 BSL TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 7.30 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 2.00 & 7.30 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 7.30 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 2.30 C & AD & 7.30 AD
PINTERESQUE SHAME/ PINTERESQUE PINTERESQUE PINTERESQUE PINTERESQUE
CRAZY FOR YOU CRAZY FOR YOU CRAZY FOR YOU CRAZY FOR YOU CRAZY FOR YOU
7.30 7.30 7.30 7.30 2.30 7.30
GHOSTS GHOSTS GHOSTS GHOSTS
7.45 7.45 7.45 7.45
CRAZY FOR YOU CRAZY FOR YOU CRAZY FOR YOU CRAZY FOR YOU CRAZY FOR YOU
7.30 7.30 7.30 7.30 2.30 AD 7.30 AD
GHOSTS GHOSTS GHOSTS GHOSTS GHOSTS
7.45 7.45 7.45 7.45 2.00 & 7.45
4:48 PSYCHOSIS 4:48 PSYCHOSIS 4:48 PSYCHOSIS 4:48 PSYCHOSIS THE BIG BUZZ/4:48 PSYCHOSIS
7.45 7.45 7.45 7.45 11.00/7.45
OPERATION GREENFIELD OPERATION GREENFIELD VERVE HOW THE KOALA LEARNT TO HUG FITZROVIA RADIO HOUR DANCING AT LUGHNASA COMEDY NIGHT BEACHY HEAD THE BEGGARS OPERA THE BEGGARS OPERA THE BEGGARS OPERA
THE NEARLY NAKED CHEF COURTNEY PINE
7.30 7.30 7.30 11.00 7.30 7.30 7.30 7.30 7.30 2.30 & 7.30 2.30 & 7.30
7.30 8.00
7.45 2.30/ 7.45 7.45 7.45 2.00 & 7.45
HIS NAME IS TIM LIFE SUPPORT LIFE SUPPORT ANOTHER SOMEONE ANOTHER SOMEONE
7.45 7.45 7.45 7.45 7.45
THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE FRANKENSTEIN LIVE FRANKENSTEIN LIVE
7.45 7.45 7.45
USE
MAY
APRIL
HO MAIN
STUDIO
FRI 01 SAT 02 SUN 03 MON 04 TUE 05 WED 06 THU 07 FRI 08 SAT 09 SUN 10 MON 11 TUE 12 WED 13 THU 14 FRI 15 SAT 16 SUN 17 MON 18 TUE 19 WED 20 THU 21 FRI 22 SAT 23 SUN 24 MON 25 TUE 26 WED 27 THU 28 FRI 29 SAT 30 SUN 01 MON 02 TUE 03 WED 04 THU 05 FRI 06 SAT 07 SUN 08 MON 09 TUE 10 WED 11 THU 12 FRI 13 SAT 14 SUN 15 MON 16 TUE 17 WED 18 THU 19 FRI 20
LIP SERVICE "THE BEST BITS" LIP SERVICE "THE BEST BITS"
SAT 21 SUN 22 MON 23 TUE 24 WED 25 THU 26 FRI 27 SAT 28 SUN 29 MON 30 TUE 31
THE CRUCIBLE
7.30 2.30 & 7.30
OF MICE & MEN OF MICE & MEN
GIFTED GIFTED GIFTED
THE SLIPPER &THE ROSE THE SLIPPER &THE ROSE THE SLIPPER &THE ROSE THE SLIPPER &THE ROSE THE SLIPPER &THE ROSE
7.45 7.45
7.00 & 8.30 7.00 & 8.30 7.00 & 8.30
7.30 7.30 7.30 2.30 & 7.30 2.30 AD & 7.30 AD
JON RICHARDSON/SHAPPI KHOURSANDI 7.30 STACEY KENT 8.00 BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET
THE CRUCIBLE
THE CRUCIBLE THE CRUCIBLE THE CRUCIBLE THE CRUCIBLE THE CRUCIBLE
THE CRUCIBLE THE CRUCIBLE THE CRUCIBLE THE CRUCIBLE
THE CRUCIBLE THE CRUCIBLE THE CRUCIBLE THE CRUCIBLE THE CRUCIBLE
7.30 2.30 & 7.30
CHEKHOV'S SHORTS CHEKHOV'S SHORTS METAMORPHOSES
7.45 7.45 7.45
WHAT LIGHT WHAT LIGHT WHAT LIGHT WHAT LIGHT
1.30 1.30 7.45 2.00
7.30 SIF
7.30 7.30 7.30 7.30 2.30 & 7.30
7.30 7.30 BSL 7.30 7.30 2.30 & 7.30
7.30 D 7.30 7.30 7.30 2.30 C & AD & 7.30 AD
WHAT LIGHT WHAT LIGHT WHAT LIGHT WHAT GOES UP WHAT LIGHT WHAT LIGHT
1.30 & 7.45 1.30 1.30 & 7.45 6.00 7.45 2.00
EUROPEAN PLATFORM FESTIVAL EUROPEAN PLATFORM FESTIVAL EUROPEAN PLATFORM FESTIVAL EUROPEAN PLATFORM FESTIVAL EUROPEAN PLATFORM FESTIVAL
SHERLOCK HOMES
7.45
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JULY
JUNE
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AD: C: BSL: D: SIF:
Audio Described Performances for the blind and partially sighted Captioned Performances for the deaf, deafened and hard of hearing British Sign Language interpreted performances After show discussion See it First
USE
STUDIO
WED 01 THU 02 FRI 03 SAT 04 SUN 05 MON 06 TUE 07 WED 08 THU 09 FRI 10 SAT 11 SUN 12 MON13 TUE 14 WED 15 THU 16 FRI 17 SAT 18 SUN 19 MON 20 TUE 21 WED 22
MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS
7.30 SIF 7.30
MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS
7.30 7.30 7.30 7.30 2.30 & 7.30
MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS
7.30 7.30 7.30 7.30 2.30 & 7.30
MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS
7.30 7.30
THU 23
MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS
7.30 D
FRI 24
MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS
7.30
SAT 25
MY FAMILY & OTHER ANIMALS 2.30 C AD & 7.30 AD
SUN 26 MON 27 TUE 28 WED 29 THU 30 FRI 01 SAT 02 SUN 03 MON 04 TUE 05 WED 06 THU 07 FRI 08 SAT 09 SUN 10 MON 11 TUE 12 WED13 THU 14 FRI 15 SAT 16 SUN 17 MON 18 TUE 19 WED 20 T
TWO PLANKS & A PASSION TWO PLANKS & A PASSION
TWO PLANKS & A PASSION TWO PLANKS & A PASSION TWO PLANKS & A PASSION TWO PLANKS & A PASSION TWO PLANKS & A PASSION
TWO PLANKS & A PASSION TWO PLANKS & A PASSION TWO PLANKS & A PASSION TWO PLANKS & A PASSION TWO PLANKS & A PASSION
CAROL KIDD
12.00 & 2.00 7.45 12.00 & 2.00 7.45 7.45 7.45
YORK WRITE YORK WRITE
7.45 7.45
CALL MR ROBESON
7.45
BSL
7.30 SIF 7.30
7.30 7.30 7.30 7.30 2.30 & 7.30
7.30 D 7.30 BSL 7.30 7.30 2.30 AD & 7.30 AD
8.00
TIM & LIGHT SHERLOCK HOMES RIP FOLD SCRUNCH SHERLOCK HOMES CLARE SUMMERSKILL CLARE SUMMERSKILL
BOY JAMES & ATRIUM ANIMAL TAILS BOY JAMES & ATRIUM ANIMAL TAILS BOY JAMES & ATRIUM ANIMAL TAILS BOY JAMES & ATRIUM ANIMAL TAILS BOY JAMES & ATRIUM
7.45 11.00 & 1.30 7.45 11.00 & 1.30 7.45 11.00 & 1.30 7.45 11.00 & 1.30 7.45
PARLOUR SONG PARLOUR SONG PARLOUR SONG
7.45 7.45 7.45
PARLOUR SONG PARLOUR SONG PARLOUR SONG PARLOUR SONG PARLOUR SONG
7.45 7.45 7.45 7.45 2.00 & 7.45
PARLOUR SONG PARLOUR SONG PARLOUR SONG PARLOUR SONG PARLOUR SONG
7.45 7.45 7.45 7.45 2.00 & 7.45
SCRIPT FACTOR FINAL PARLOUR SONG PARLOUR SONG
7.45 7.45 7.45 D
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
E HOUS MAIN THU 21 FRI 22 SAT 23 SUN 24 MON 25 TUE 26 WED 27 THU 28 FRI 29 SAT 30 SUN 31 MON 01 TUE 02 WED 03 THU 04 FRI 05 SAT 06 SUN 07 MON 08 TUE 09 WED 10 THU 11 FRI 12 SAT 13 SUN 14 MON 15 TUE 16 WED 17 THU 18 FRI 19 SAT 20 SUN 21 MON 22 TUE 23 WED 24 THU 25 FRI 26 SAT 27 SUN 28 MON 29 TUE 30 WED 31 THU 01 FRI 02 SAT 03 SUN 04 MON 05 TUE 06 WED 07 THU 08 FRI 09 SAT 10 SUN 11 MON 12 TUE 13 WED 14 THU 15 FRI 16 SAT 17 SUN 18 MON 19 TUE 20 WED 21
STUDIO PARLOUR SONG PARLOUR SONG PARLOUR SONG
PETER PAN PETER PAN
7.00 SIF 2.30 & 7.00
PETER PAN PETER PAN PETER PAN PETER PAN PETER PAN
2.30 & 7.00 2.30 & 7.00 2.30 & 7.00 2.30 & 7.00 2.30 & 7.00
PETER PAN PETER PAN PETER PAN PETER PAN PETER PAN
2.30 & 7.00 2.30 & 7.00 2.30 & 7.00 2.30 & 7.00 2.30 & 7.00
PETER PAN PETER PAN PETER PAN PETER PAN PETER PAN
2.30 & 7.00 2.30 & 7.00 2.30 & 7.00 2.30 & 7.00 2.30 & 7.00
PETER PAN PETER PAN PETER PAN PETER PAN PETER PAN
7.00 7.00 BSL 2.30 & 7.00 7.00 2.30 & 7.00
PETER PAN PETER PAN PETER PAN PETER PAN PETER PAN
2.30 & 7.00 2.30 & 7.00 7.00 7.00 2.30 C AD & 7.00 AD
7.45 7.45 2.00 & 7.45
MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM IN MUSEUM GARDENS 1 – 3 SEPT
LITTLE ANGELS LITTLE ANGELS LITTLE ANGELS LITTLE ANGELS
7.45 7.45 7.45 2.00 & 7.45
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NOVEMBER
OCTOBER
E HOUS MAIN THU 22 FRI 23 SAT 24 SUN 25 MON 26 TUE 27 WED 28 THU 29 FRI 30 SAT 01 SUN 02 MON 03 TUE 04 WED 05 THU 06 FRI 07 SAT 08 SUN 09 MON 10 TUE 11 WED12 THU 13 FRI 14 SAT 15 SUN 16 MON 17 TUE 18 WED 19 THU 20 FRI 21 SAT 22 SUN 23 MON 24 TUE 25 WED 26 THU 27 FRI 28 SAT 29 SUN 30 MON 31 TUE 01 WED 02 THU 03 FRI 04 SAT 05 SUN 06 MON 07 TUE 08 WED 09 THU 10 FRI 11 SAT 12
FORTY YEARS ON FORTY YEARS ON
STUDIO 7.30 SIF 7.30
HARE & TORTOISE HARE & TORTOISE HARE & TORTOISE
1.30 11.00 & 1.30 11.00 & 1.30
FORTY YEARS ON FORTY YEARS ON FORTY YEARS ON FORTY YEARS ON FORTY YEARS ON
7.30 7.30 7.30 7.30 2.30 & 7.30
HARE & TORTOISE HARE & TORTOISE HARE & TORTOISE HARE & TORTOISE HARE & TORTOISE
11.00 & 1.30 11.00 & 1.30 11.00 & 1.30 1.30 & 6.00 11.00 & 1.30
FORTY YEARS ON FORTY YEARS ON FORTY YEARS ON FORTY YEARS ON FORTY YEARS ON
7.30 7.30 7.30 7.30 2.30 & 7.30
HARE & TORTOISE HARE & TORTOISE HARE & TORTOISE HARE & TORTOISE HARE & TORTOISE
11.00 & 1.30 11.00 & 1.30 11.00 & 1.30 1.30 & 6.00 11.00 & 1.30
FORTY YEARS ON FORTY YEARS ON FORTY YEARS ON FORTY YEARS ON FORTY YEARS ON
7.30 D 7.30 BSL 7.30 7.30 2.30 C AD & 7.30 AD
DOCTOR FAUSTUS DOCTOR FAUSTUS DOCTOR FAUSTUS DOCTOR FAUSTUS
7.45 7.45 7.45 2.00 & 7.45
LAUREL AND HARDY LAUREL AND HARDY
LAUREL AND HARDY LAUREL AND HARDY LAUREL AND HARDY LAUREL AND HARDY LAUREL AND HARDY
LAUREL AND HARDY LAUREL AND HARDY LAUREL AND HARDY LAUREL AND HARDY LAUREL AND HARDY
N G SOO d COMIN an e Royal tr a e h T sent York tions pre c u d ro p i tt u fr i D tt N tu RE A
THE HA RTOISE THE TO THEATRE IN THE
7.30 SIF 7.30
7.30 7.30 2.00 & 7.30 7.30 2.30 & 7.30
7.30 D 7.30 BSL 2,00 & 7.30 7.30 2.30 AD & 7.30 AD
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD
7.45 7.45 7.45
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD
7.45 7.45 2.30 & 7.45 7.45 2.00 & 7.45
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD
7.45 7.45 2.30 & 7.45 7.45 2.00 & 7.45
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD
7.45 7.45 2.30 & 7.45 7.45 2.00 & 7.45
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By Telephone: Box Office 01904 623568 Lines are open Mon – Sat 10am – 8pm (6pm on non-performance days) Please note on the first Tue of each month we open at 10.30am due to staff training. Book securely online and choose your own seat www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk (no booking fee) Email us boxoffice@yorktheatreroyal.co.uk In person or by post York Theatre Royal, St Leonard’s Place, York, YO1 7HD
How to Pay: We accept cash, cheque, debit or credit cards. Tickets booked over the phone can be posted to you for £1. Online bookings will be held at the Box Office for collection. Reserving Tickets: You can reserve tickets for 4 days. If you have unpaid tickets on reserve please collect them at least 30 mins before the performance as reserved tickets may be released for re-sale after that point. Exchanging Tickets: We must have the tickets at Box Office to perform a re-sale or exchange. We are unable to refund tickets but will aim to do our best to re-sell them. Please note that our own unsold tickets will take priority. Provided we have the tickets at least 24 hours before the performance we will exchange them for other tickets of equivalent value for an admin fee of £1 per ticket (free to members). No ticket refunds will be given on the announcement of a subsequent special offer. For some performances not all levels of the auditorium may be open. Concessions: apply to Over 60s and those in receipt of means tested benefits. £2 off standard tickets in the Stalls, Dress Circle and Upper Circle and in the round Stage Bank, Stage Dress Circle and Dress Circle. Excludes matinees. Registered Disabled customers £10 (Tue – Thu Main House and Tue – Sat Studio) £12 (Fri & Sat Main House) Schools may claim 1 teacher ticket free with every 10 pupils over 8, 1 in 5 free with pupils 8 years and under. Additional teacher tickets can be purchased at £7 when accompanying a school party. Cream tea matinees are £16 and include a ticket, programme and a cream tea Groups 10+ are entitled to a discount of £2 off per ticket. This excludes matinee performances Access: We are committed to making our performances as accessible as possible. We have wheelchair spaces available in the stalls (Main House) and in the Studio. Please state at the time of booking if a wheelchair seat is required. There are accessible toilets and baby changing facilities. We have a wireless system for audio described performances and the hard of hearing (please collect relevant equipment from Box office) and also programme signed and captioned performances. Companion tickets are available and access dogs are admitted. For shows in the round the accessible entrance to the Stage Bank is located next to the Antiques Centre on Duncombe Place Latecomers: Latecomers may be asked to wait until a suitable break in the performance before taking their seats. On some occasions it may be impossible to admit latecomers until the interval. Please note for Studio performances without an interval, latecomers will not be admitted at any stage due the layout of the performance area. York Theatre Royal has a customer services policy
CORPORATE BUSINESS HIRE ONE OF OUR ROOMS FROM £60 Holding your meeting, conference or event at York Theatre Royal is sure to provide your guests with a unique experience. The Keregan Room is a 12th Century crypt. These days it is used as a meeting room and can easily seat 20 people board room style or up to 40 class-room style. Our rehearsal rooms next to the theatre in the De Grey Rooms include two versatile workshop spaces and a beautiful ballroom. Our fully equipped Studio (100 seats) and Main House (800 seats) at York Theatre Royal are perfect spaces to host large conferences, presentations and events.
HOST AN EVENT WITH US Bringing a group of staff or clients to the theatre can be made into an extra special event, you just need to ask. For parties over 20 we can offer backstage tours, a VIP area to have pre-show drinks or a buffet, the option to meet the cast after the show or be taken on set for a closer look. Whether it’s a celebration or a corporate event your trip to York Theatre Royal can be bespoke and a novel way to entertain the people who make your business tick.
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CAFÉBAR Enjoy a laid back latte, lazy lunch, tea and cake with friends, pre-show suppers or a post-show drink in our newly refurbished café bar. With freshly prepared dishes from locally and ethically sourced produce, delicious sandwiches, warming soups and sumptuous sweet treats, our warm, friendly and comfortable café bar is the perfect place to let life drift by... Informal Meeting? With free Wi-Fi and strong coffee, get out of the office and rediscover your creative side in the heart of historic York. Open from 10am Mon – Sat Parties or Events? We can cater for private parties, including children’s parties, and corporate events. For further details and more information please telephone 01904 550171 or e-mail catering@yorktheatreroyal.co.uk.
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