YOU’RE NOT LIKE THE OTHER GIRLS, CHRISSY
by Caroline Horton
, (Caroline Horton)
, £5.00/£1.00
Thursday, February 16, 2012
, show starts 13:45 |
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An Arts and Allsorts presentation
January 1945, Paris is liberated. Christiane waits in Gare Du Nord for a ticket to England where she will be reunited her with her fiancé. Whilst she waits, this gloriously irrepressible Madmoiselle recounts the extraordinary love story between her, an eccentric, acutely myopic Parisienne and a tongue-tied teacher from Staffordshire. From a chance encounter at Cheadle tennis club, their story takes us on to cosmopolitan 1930s Paris before their inevitable separation by war. A separation which she hopes, today will finally come to an end. A fond, comical and ultimately poignant portrait of one woman's experience of love and war
www.carolinehorton.net
Tickets £5 (over 60’s £1)
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PETER AND THE WOLF
, (Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre)
, £6.00/£4.00
Thursday, February 23, 2012
, show starts 16:15 |
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A very popular large-scale puppet show for family audiences from this renowned Scottish company. Follow the adventures of Peter’s visit to his grandfather’s cottage at the edge of The Great Forest. Meet all the familiar characters – the Duck, the Cat, the Little Bird and of course, the wonderful life-sized WOLF!
£6 (children £4) Family £16 D
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TRUE
by Emma Rydal
, (La’al Marra Productions)
, £7.00/£7.00
Friday, March 16, 2012
, Saturday, March 17, 2012
, show starts 20:00 |
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Charlotte is furious with her mother Sheila. Sheila is furious with her daughter Charlotte. Charlotte needs her mother. Her mother needs a Gin and Tonic! A rollercoaster relationship chronicled through monologues performed by local actress and writer Emma Rydal, and Lancaster’s Roberta Kerr.
True invites you into an evolving mother daughter relationship, providing an amusing, yet often poignant insight into human understanding. This play, premiered at the Kirkgate last summer, went on to win the Audience Award for Best Play at Manchester’s 24:7 theatre festival.
"Rydal milks comedy from the banal and the everyday rather like a young Victoria Wood." David Chadderton, British Theatre Guide.
Directed By David MacCreedy.
Duration : approx 1 hour
All tickets £7
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CLOUD MAN
, (Ailie Cohen, puppet-maker)
, £6.00/£4.00
Sunday, March 25, 2012
, show starts 15:00 |
| Sunday 25 March 3pm
CLOUD MAN
Cloudia has always had her head in the clouds. She is a cloud expert and all of her life she has dreamt of seeing a cloud man- an extremely rare creature who lives a quiet life high up in the sky. Follow the clues to the very top of cloud mountain, where the views are always surprising. If you are lucky, you may see something very special indeed. This beautiful show delighted audiences young and old at the Edinburgh Fringe. “A deceptively simple story that will melt even the flintiest of hearts” (The List.)
Recommended for Children aged 4 upwards and their parents. Duration 45mins.
www.cloud-man.co.uk
£6 (child £4, family £16) D
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HEALTH HAZARD
, (Laurence Clark)
, £10.00/£10.00
Friday, April 13, 2012
, show starts 20:00 |
| Monday 13 April 8pm
Sit-down stand-up comedy from Laurence, who has suffered from cerebral palsy since being oxgen-starved at birth, and therefore has a love-hate relationship with the NHS. His “Health Hazard” show includes a hilarious account of his one-man mission to help Obama sell the benefits of free healthcare to the American people and wowed packed audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year. Laurence has just finished filming a documentary for BBC 1 (due to be shown in February) about himself and his family. It is provisionally titled "Disabled Parents? You're Having a Laugh!" and follows Laurence and his wife Adele through the ups and downs of having their second child, with plenty of comedy along the way.
"Clark has got some great material here - it's intelligent and incredibly mischievous. 'I would rather make people laugh than raise awareness,' admits this likeable prankster, and he certainly does that with aplomb." The Metro
£10 D online booking
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DUST
by Ade Morris
, (Quidem Productions)
, £10.00/£5.00
Thursday, April 19, 2012
, show starts 20:00 |
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It’s the morning of Margaret Thatcher's death. In his Barbican flat Arthur Scargill and his publisher have a visitor from their past – an ageing militant miner with his own take on Scargill's controversial legacy and a dark forty year family secret. In a Britain partly shaped by their actions these fierce old fighters slug it out over the dust of history, while in Doncaster, a pregnant young woman stares at recession-hit Britain. A passionate, humorous, tragic snapshot of Britain now. This timely play, which manages neither to demonise or exculpate Scargill, was highly-acclaimed at the Edinburgh Fringe.
“It has a raw, grown-up energy, in its confrontation with the real economic history of Britain over the last generation, and its winning roars of applause from audiences who find themselves both moved, and politically challenged.”- The Scotsman
“Provoking enduring images of the personal destruction caused by the Thatcher years with unexpected humour thrown in – Mr Chuckles meets Abigail’s Party – it deserve s to reach a wider audience.” – The Stage
£10 (£5 u.18) online booking
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GASPING
by Ben Elton
, (Cockermouth Amateur Dramatic Society)
, £8.00/£6.00
Thursday, April 26, 2012
, Saturday, April 28, 2012
, show starts 20:00 |
'Gasping' is what you might expect of Ben Elton - a clever, satirical play which sends up big business in an amusing, witty and cutting way. Lockheart industries have the wonderful idea of selling designer air - but only to those who can afford it. A machine - the 'Suck and Blow' is invented - a machine which does not always work according to plan................. Add to the mix a love interest in the form of a bossy, classy bitch of an advertising executive and you have an explosive comic mix.
Contains strong language
Tickets £8, u.18 £6
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A GEORGIAN COUNTRY DANCE(AT CHRISTCHURCH)
, £7.00/£7.00
Friday, May 04, 2012
, show starts 21:00 |
| A GEORGIAN COUNTRY DANCE , with the Village Green Ceilidh band and caller. Includes demonstration of dances from Jane Austen’s time.
Tickets £7 for each event , or £12 for combined entry with History Wardrobe show.
Period dress optional.
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LADIES OF A CERTAIN AGE(AT CHRISTCHURCH)
, (History Wardrobe)
, £7.00/£7.00
Friday, May 04, 2012
, show starts 19:00 |
| Friday 4 May 7pm
At Christchurch, Cockermouth, as a Prelude to the Georgian Fair, History Wardrobe presents
“LADIES OF A CERTAIN AGE” - a lively and humorous celebration of all the dreadful dowagers, spluttering spinsters and haughty matrons of Jane Austen’s novels.
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THE HONEYMAN
by Tyrone Huggins
, (New Perspectives Theatre Co)
, £9.00/£5.00
Friday, May 25, 2012
, show starts 20:00 |
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'How can I remember things I never knew?'
A fascinating and beautifully-detailed account of the unlikely relationship that develops one summer between Misty, a 15 year-old girl, and The Honey Man, an 'ancient' afro-caribbean man who has taken up residence in a derelict cottage at the edge of the picture-postcard English village where she lives.
It's a tale of growing up and growing old, of individual responsibility and shared history, of dying bees, healing herbs and (possibly) just a little magic.
Suitable for adults and older children.
£9 (£5 u.18) family £23 D
In association with Arts Out West
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COUNTRY BOY’S STRUGGLE
by Maxwell Golden
, (Contact Theatre)
, £2.00/£2.00
Friday, June 01, 2012
, show starts 19:00 |
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Written and performed by
Countryboy's Struggle is a unique show which uses an exciting Hip Hop aesthetic to tell a very delicate, tender and honest story of one man’s search for a sense of belonging in a foreign environment.
It is inspired by Maxwell Golden’s own time spent growing up in the coastal community of Bude. It’s about what it’s like living in a rural area and wanting to make urban music, then moving to the city and finding it’s not what you expect – especially when your heart and soul is on the beaches and with the community you grew up in.
CountryBoy’s Struggle integrates music, poetry, MCing, as well as physical comedy to reflect both rural and urban environments.
This one-man show perfectly captures how it feels to grow up with a sense of isolation – a ‘fish out of water’ story – which is full of humanity, pathos and warm wit.
“Maxwell Golden delivers a searing beat monologue to music … An excellent piece that does a lot with a little.” **** British Theatre Guide, on Everything Must Go monologue.
£2
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