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Friends of HLB present
Harmony Singing Workshop with Helen Chadwick: 13th February 2010 2 - 4 pm
Helen Chadwick is a singer /composer who has run workshops and performed all over the world.
Her relaxed, open style of teaching has charmed song participants for decades and not least the people of Stroud where she has run several sessions over the years. She is delighted to be running a workshop for the first time in the newly refurbished Playhouse and looks forward to testing out the acoustics with 30 plus other voices. She will be teaching songs from all over the world with a sprinkling of home-grown. All levels of singers welcome.
A benefit event for Harry Banks
Tickets £12 in advance or £14 on the day
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Friends of Harry present
A Jolly Good Night Out: 13th February 2010
featuring Paradiso, Nicholas Allan, The Lazy Susans, Stroud Jazzers, Sarah Ruff and Ed Currie.
A benefit concert for Harry Banks. Harry is a 29 year old local actor/musician who was treated for spinal cancer in 2008 and now needs funds for intensive physio-therapy to increase her mobility.
not to be missed...
...one of those special evenings that you wish you hadn't missed when everyone's talking about it the next week!
Tickets £15
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The Cotswold Players present
La Cage Aux Folles: March 2010
'La Cage aux Folles', set in a gay nightclub in the South of France, is a love story with a great deal of laughter and some wonderful music. It is a play with great warmth and will send the audience out humming the music and with a real 'feel-good' reaction. The songs include - 'I am what I am', 'With you on my arm', 'Masculinity' and 'The Best of Times'. Book by Harvey Fierstein, Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. |
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Musical Storytime: 24th April 2010
Musical Storytime presents two classic tales: Paddington Bear’s First Concert, story by Michael Bond, music by Herbert Chappell and The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant, words by Jean de Brunhoff, music by Francis Poulenc.
Former BBC Play School presenters Rosalind Wilson and Fraser Wilson use a range of soft toys, props and their considerable acting skills to illustrate the stories, with sensitive piano accompaniment by Stephen Binnington.
Suitable for ages 5 to 10 and adults! Performance time is 65 minutes.
Tickets £5 adults and £3 children
www.musicalstorytime.co.uk
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Miles Productions
BURTON: 1st May 2010
BURTON vividly presents the life of the great Welsh actor in his own words from humble beginnings to Hollywood mega-stardom. Beautiful women (not least Liz Taylor), alcohol, wealth, stage and screen are the threads woven into this sad, happy, exuberant often hilarious one-man show. Drink was the only real anodyne to his deteriorating health and mental state, his doomed tempestuous relationship with Taylor and his constant guilt over the abandonment of his family.
RHODRI MILES,(Eastern Promises, Torchwood, Holby City) takes on the role of the younger BURTON fresh from a successful run to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009 which received glorious 4/5 star reviews.
Written by: Gwynne Edwards - Directed by: Hugh Thomas
Fantastic, the whole audience was in the palm of his hand from beginning to end ***** Edinburgh Guide
Charming, elegant one-man show which struggles to remove itself from the memory **** The Scotsman
Tickets £10
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"I was put on this earth to raise sheer hell"
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Bristol Old Vic Theatre School present
David Copperfield: 15th May 2010
This timeless classic is a story of struggle and intrigue, of deceit and enduring love. It tells of a young life fashioned on the anvil of Victorian society, written from the heart of one of our greatest ever story-tellers.
When Charles Dickens first picked up his pen to scrawl the opening lines of David Copperfield, he was writing with a painful recollection of his own personal experiences.
In Alastair Cording’s vibrant dramatization, the unforgettable characters of Steerforth, Macawber and Peggotty spring from the page with a vitality that brings the saga of young David Copperfield movingly to life before your very eyes. |
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The Cotswold Players present
The House of Bernarda Alba: 15th to 19th June 2010
Lorca's great masterpiece of love and loathing, sexual repression and frustration in a Spain under Catholicism, was completed only shortly before his murder by fascist supporters of Franco in 1936.
Bernarda herself is a tyrannical matriarch ruling her five unmarried daughters with a rod of iron and forbidding their contact with the men of the village - "...in that eight years there'll be not a breath of air from the street. No. It'll be as if we've bricked up the very doors and windows."
The frustration among them in the searing heat of a Spanish summer leads to a heightening of tension and eventual tragedy.
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The Cotswold Players present
Saturday, Sunday, Monday: 5th to 9th October 2010
A colourful and funny portrait of Italian family life. The comedy starts on Saturday, when a major family row starts to brew whilst Sunday lunch is being prepared. The row breaks over lunch on Sunday (the traditional day for family quarrels!) and is movingly resolved on Monday.
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