north lincolnshire rural touring scheme autumn
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AUTUMN 2018
North Lincolnshire Rural Touring Scheme
bgroup Point of EchoesBox Tale Soup The Picture of Dorian GraySophia Hatfield/Stute Theatre Common LoreTheatre Newfoundland Labrador Our FrancesAlan Barnes & David Newton In ConcertJames Wilton Dance LeviathanRebecca Perry Productions From Judy to Bette – The Stars of Old HollywoodCollette Murray Projects The Lost Words: Seek, Find, Speak
Bringing theatre, dance and music to a village near you
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Theatre Newfoundland LabradorOUR FRANCESBarton-on-HumberThis play by Berni Stapleton is an extraordinary story celebrating the life and heroism of Frances Cluett. Frances was born and lived in Belleoram, Newfoundland. In 1916, she joined the Volunteer Aid Detachment. After a scant month of medical training she was shipped overseas and served for four years at the 10th General Hospital in Rouen, France. Although she would likely argue the point, during those years she became as heroic as the men and boys who fought. The play is inspired by her many letters home, detailing the horrors and heartbreak she witnessed, and revealing how her humour and resilience captured the love and loyalty of all she encountered. Thirty-one letters provided a true, concise and compassionate
account of women at war, giving a genuine and personal snapshot of what life was like in the casualty hospitals of England and France during those years of slaughter that we call World War I and the toll that it took on the women who worked there.
TNL produce and present plays from a national and international repertoire and create work. They are a year round full-time professional company committed to the stories they tell, the artists who tell them and the community they live in. We welcome TNL from Canada for the third time.
Audience: All Ages
www.theatrenewfoundland.com
Theatre Newfoundland Labrador – Our Frances © Robyn Matthew Craig
Box Tale SoupTHE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAYBrigg • Wroot • Goxhill Award winning Box Tale Soup present a brand new adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Dorian Gray, young and exceptionally beautiful, sinks deep into a frivolous lifestyle of glamorous luxury and selfish abandon, seemingly unchanged by corruption and untouched by age. But behind a thick, locked door, beneath a dark, heavy curtain, Dorian’s portrait tells a different story...
“What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”
Witness Wilde’s haunting story of evil, debauchery and scandal, featuring puppetry and a powerful original soundtrack.
This production was commissioned by the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA.
Audience: Adults and children over 12 years – not suitable for under 12yrs
www.boxtalesoup.co.uk
They are wonderful. The Times KKKKK
A magnificent show. SGFringeazine KKKK
Captivating from the start. Reviews Hub
Sophia Hatfield /Stute Theatre COMMON LORE Scunthorpe “I’m Scarlet, 18. I live round here.Wear red, well read.Young bones, old head.”
Meet Scarlet, as she reinvents the childhood stories told to her by her nan in her own unique way.
Common Lore is storytelling theatre, developed for young adult audiences and will appeal to people of all ages. In a modern take on traditional stories, this unique and relevant show sees fairy tales and modern life collide!
An inventive, fast-paced reinvention of traditional theatre, technology and spoken word – all performed by one young woman (and her mobile phone!).
Supported by Spot On, Northern Broadsides and New Vic Education.
For all ages, especially young people – suitable over 11 years +
www.stutetheatre.co.uk
Alan Barnes & David NewtonIN CONCERTBurton-upon-Stather Alan Barnes and David Newton have been playing duets for 40 years. These multiple award winners cover a vast repertoire from Louis Armstrong to Chick Corea and play with an empathy that can only come with long experience. David is one of the greatest solo jazz pianists this country has ever produced and Alan plays multi reed instruments – all the saxes, clarinet and bass clarinet. They have developed an empathy and telepathic sympathy which only playing together for many years can bring.
The emphasis, as always, is on swinging, accessibility and interplay. Expect a hugely entertaining programme of straight ahead jazz flawlessly played and interspersed with lots of anecdotes and peppered with humour.
Audience: All Ages – anyone who likes music
www.alanbarnesjazz.com
They played a blinder!
Real mellow jazz and I enjoyed the anecdotes too.
Very special to see two masters of jazz playing in a village hall. Just superb
bgroupPOINT OF ECHOESWroot The year is 1978 – isolated from the mainland, Eric Valentine and Bernard Humphries have been stationed at Echo Point lighthouse, somewhere off the coast of England. The unlikely strangers have just begun to lay down foundations for this odd working relationship when the uncanny occurs.
Renowned international choreographer Ben Wright and musician and writer Stuart Warwick collaborate to bring you bgroup’s most intimate and theatrical production to date. Point of Echoes is a haunting tale of love, death and monsters, blending the tones of a Wes Anderson movie with the eerie dread of The Twilight Zone, told through dance and original music and commissioned by the Rural Touring Dance Initiative, Warwick Arts Centre and Dance East.
Audience: Adults and young people 14+
www.chinaplatetheatre.com
The show is absolutely beautiful and totally transformed the space. The whole audience was mesmerised throughout.
Body and language combine in beautifully crafted characters to tell a haunting tale of love and loss through dance and theatre. Funny, thoughtful and disturbing in equal measure.
Totally original – unique.
Photo © Mark Dawson Photography
Collette Murray ProjectsTHE LOST WORDS: SEEK, FIND, SPEAKCrowle • Goxhill • Scunthorpe Seek Find Speak is an interactive installation spoken-word performance adaptation tailored to your environment. Your hall will be transformed to create The Lost Words Wood – birdsong underscore and golden charms will be hidden around the centre pageant stage for audience to seek, find and speak. Creating a sensory landscape of birdsong, dance and poetry, the audience will become part of the performance as they join the performers (a charm of goldfinches) in summoning back the Lost Words.
This work was commissioned by Wild Rumpus CIC to create a new theatrical adaptation of The Lost Words, and was premiered at TIMBER, first International Forest Festival at the National Forest, in July 2018. This is an adaptation of The Lost Words, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s illustrated book about words that have disappeared from the Children’s English Dictionary.
Audience: All Ages
www.seekfindspeak.com
The way the troupe worked together, melded music and speech, movement and gymnastics was incredible and I think will stay with me a long time.
James Wilton Dance LEVIATHANBarton-on-Humber Leviathan follows a ship’s captain hell-bent on capturing the white whale: Moby Dick, a beast as vast and dangerous as the sea itself, yet serene and beautiful beyond all imagining. Ahab’s crew are drawn into the unhinged charisma of their captain, blindly following him on his perilous adventure towards almost certain destruction.
Multi-award winning choreographer James Wilton re-imagines Herman Melville’s seminal novel, using his trademark blend of athletic dance, martial arts, capoeira and partner-work. Leviathan will have you on the edge of your seat. It will leave you gasping for air under the sheer ferocity of movement, all accompanied by a powerful electro-rock soundtrack by Lunatic Soul.
Audience: All Ages
www.jameswiltondance.org.uk
Trailers: https://vimeo.com/241380697 https://vimeo.com/185697032
Part of the National Rural Touring Strategic Dance Project.
Extraordinary. The Stage
Handsomely crafted, ambitious and exciting. The Times
Leviathan © Steve Tanner
Rebecca Perry ProductionsFROM JUDY TO BETTE: THE STARS OF OLD HOLLYWOOD Winterton • Gunness • Worlaby It’s the 1930s, movies are being made faster than you can say MGM, and being made to make you feel good. Budgets are increasing and the studios are making pictures bigger and bigger. Within the industry, four women emerge who refuse to be “just another ingénue”.
Judy Garland, Betty Hutton, Lucille Ball and Bette Davis each made their own strides to make women a more prominent and powerful force in Hollywood – they were trailblazers during the golden age of cinema. An evening of scandalous headlines and marvellous melodies. Critically-acclaimed Toronto performer Rebecca Perry takes to the stage to look at the lives of the ladies who broke convention and started something bigger, perhaps, than even they knew. With this affecting show, Perry shows that she not only creates her own marvellous characters, but beautifully inhabits those characters – perhaps even larger still than her own – that inspire her.
Audience: All ages, but seems particularly popular with age 40+
www.rebeccaperry.ca
Perry doesn’t do impersonations … she channels the women.
Perry’s performance is nothing short of stunning … connecting with the audience and never losing us for a second.
Perry has a gorgeous jazz voice, capable of Cole Porter-esque perkiness and soulful richness.
Expertly weaving stories, songs, and impressions, Perry once again shows off her knack for making everyone forget that they’re watching a one-woman show.
Autumn 2018Date Time Venue Contact
bgroup Point of Echoes
Tue 18 Sep 7.30 Wroot Village Hall DN9 2BT01302 771802/ 07912 490323 • [email protected]
Sophia Hatfield/Stute Theatre Common LoreThu 4 Oct 7.00 Scunthorpe, Crosby One Centre DN15 7LU 01724 277757
Box Tale Soup The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sat 6 Oct 7.30Brigg Live Arts: Brigg & District Servicemen’s Club DN15 7LU
07716 126982 • [email protected]
Sat 10 Nov 7.30 Wroot Village Hall DN9 2BT01302 771802/ 07912 490323 • [email protected]
Sun 11 Nov 7.30 Goxhill Memorial Hall DN19 7JJ01469 530363 • [email protected]
Collette Murray Projects The Lost Words: Seek, Find, Speak
Thu 11 Oct 6.00Crowle, St Norbert’s Catholic Primary Academy DN17 4HL
01724 710249 • [email protected]
Fri 12 Oct 6.30 Goxhill Primary School DN19 7JR01469 530743 • [email protected]
Fri 23 Nov 7.00 Scunthorpe, Crosby One Centre DN15 7LU 01724 277757
Theatre Newfoundland Labrador Our Frances
Sun 14 Oct 7.30 Barton-on-Humber, Assembly Rooms, Queen Street DN18 5QP
01652 637568 • [email protected] • www.champltd.org
James Wilton Dance Leviathan
Fri 9 Nov 7.30Barton-on-Humber Assembly Rooms DN18 5QP
01652 637568 • [email protected] •www.champltd.org
Alan Barnes & David Newton Live in Concert
Fri 9 Nov 7.30Burton-upon-Stather, St Andrew’s Church DN15 9BS
01724 721274
Rebecca Perry From Judy to Bette: The Stars of Old HollywoodWed 14 Nov 7.30 Winterton, All Saints’ Church DN15 9TU 01724 734285
Thu 15 Nov 7.30Gunness Village Live Arts: Sports & Community Centre DN15 8TW
01724 783372 • 07764 479355 • [email protected]
Sun 18 Nov 7.30 Worlaby Village Hall DN20 0NA 01652 618832 • [email protected]
listings
Autumn 2018 SeasonNorth Lincolnshire Rural Touring SchemeBringing theatre, dance and music to a village near you
BookingCall the contact number given for each venue for details of ticket prices, booking information, venue directions and access details or watch for posters with local information.
Most of our shows are suitable for family audiences. See target audience information for each entry.
LiVe Lincs contact:e [email protected]
w www.blaize.uk.netFurther leaflets are available in libraries, Tourist Information Centres and other outlets in the area or by request from Blaize.
LiVe Lincs is grateful to the NRTF for their support.
The scheme is funded by North Lincolnshire Council and the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Both ArtERY live and Live Lincs projects are managed by Blaize, a community arts organisation and Social Enterprise Company based in Yorkshire.
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