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Empire
Theatre, Halstead. Tel: 07778 025490
Friday 26th March, 7.45 for 8.15pm, Tickets:
£10.00
EMPIRE COMEDY NIGHT This is the first in
a series of comedy shows being brought to Halstead
Headliner: Nick Revell, Support Acts: Imran Yusuf
and Holly Walsh, Compere: Mike Manera
Sunday 28th March, 7.00 for 7.30pm, show
t.b.c.
ROCK N ROLL NITE. A show capturing the sounds
of the 50s and 60s with Terry Dene, Wee Willie Harris,
& Naturally Tales From The Woods House band plus
Brian Licorice Locking, Clem Cattini and Dave Sampson
Sunday April 11th Doors open 7.00 for 7.30pm,
Tickets: £14.00
CLOSE TO YOU - A Carpenters Tribute. 'Close
To You' is a magical celebration of the songs of The
Carpenters.
Sunday 6th June 2010 at 7.00 for 7.30pm,
Tickets: £14.00
THE RING OF FIRE. Europes Leading Johnny
Cash Tribute will take you back to the sounds of those
magical 1950's shows that became the birth of Rock'n'Roll.
The Quay Theatre, Sudbury, Tel: 01787 374745
Tuesday 9th March 2.00pm
& 7.30pm. Film @ Quay presents: THE SOLOIST 117
Minutes (12A). Tickets £5.00 Friends £4.00.
Scurrying back to his office one day, Lopez, a columnist
for the L.A. Times, is stopped short by the ethereal
strains of a violin. Searching for the sound, he spots
a homeless man coaxing those beautiful sounds from
a battered two-string violin. When the man finishes,
Lopez compliments him briefly and rushes off to write
about his newfound subject, Nathaniel Ayers, the homeless
violinist. Over the next few days, Lopez discovers
that Nathaniel was once a promising classical bass
student at Juilliard, but that various pressures—including
being one of a few African-American students and mounting
schizophrenia—caused him to drop out.
Friday 12 March 8.00pm. All-Electric Productions
presents: CANTABILE – FROM MADRIGAL TO McCARTNEY.
“one of the finest vocal groups in Europe.” Classic
FM Magazine. Tickets: £16.00 Children £14.50. We are
truly fortunate to be able to bring this quartet to
the Quay. Since their formation as a student group
in Cambridge, they have pushed the boundaries of a
capella singing back and back. A thoroughly international
reputation is well deserved. Their unique combination
of virtuoso singing and side-splitting comedy makes
this evening a must book.
Saturday 13 March 8.00pm. By arrangement
with Samuel French Ltd., Jamie Marcus Productions
presents: MISERY BY STEPHEN KING. Tickets
£11.00 Children £9.50. Adapted for the stage by Simon
Moore. Author Paul Sheldon awakes after a terrible
road accident to find ex-nurse Annie Wilkes standing
over him. She is his number one fan. But Paul is not
as fortunate as he thinks. One of the greatest thrillers
ever penned, Stephen King’s novel twists and turns
in this excellent adaptation. You will be kept on
the edge your seat.
Sunday 14th March 7.30pm. HISTORY OF SUDBURY
– 2010 Season. Tickets £7.00 per individual
session.
Tuesday 16th March 2.00pm & 7.30pm Film
@ Quay presents: FISH TANK 123 Minutes (15) Tickets
£5.00 Friends £4.00 This award winning film which
took the Jury Prize at Cannes. Everything changes
for 15yr old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
British filmmaker Andrea Arnold took everyone by surprise
three years ago with her debut Red Road. Not only
did it win the jury prize at Cannes and scoop five
Scottish Baftas, the uncompromising crime drama was
heaped with near universal acclaim. Arnold's follow-up
should leave nobody in any doubt of her talent. A
neo-kitchen sink drama, Fish Tank immediately ranks
her among the greats of social realism, right up there
with Tony Richardson, Ken Loach and perhaps even John
Osborne.
Wednesday 17th March 7.30pm THE QUAY PLAY
READERS GROUP. Please note that we now meet
on the 3rd Wednesday of the month upstairs in the
Geoff Kisby Room. An informal group that meets once
month to read and discuss a play selected by the group.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 17-19 March 8.00pm.
Tickets £18.50 Friends £16.50 Lip Service presents:
MOVE OVER MORIARTY – For your delectation
and delight, LipService go all music hall! After too
long an absence – over ten years – Maggie Fox and
Sue Ryding, who are delighting audiences the length
and breadth of the country, are back for a short season
at the Quay, effortlessly (well almost) moving from
frock to frock as they piece together another improbable
adventure. While death stalks the boards at the Strand
Theatre, who better to call in to investigate than
Brilliant violin playing, French-knitting Sherlock
Holmes and his smaller side kick Dr Watson. In this
murderous music-hall melange they come face to face
with Vesta Curry, Death-Defying Dan and his Whelk
infested Tank of Terror, the Musical Motherless Twins
and lots more alliterations – truly a three pipe problem.
Sunday 21 March 7.30pm. OPEN MUSIC NIGHT
in the Bar of the Quay Theatre, Quay Lane, Sudbury.
Free entry. All welcome. Bring an instrument, your
voice or just listen.Open Music Night (details as
above)
Monday 22nd March 2.00pm & 7.30pm. Film
@ Quay presents: ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
99 Minutes (PG) Tickets: £5.00 Friends £4.00. Werner
Herzog takes his camera to Antarctica where we meet
the odd men and women who have dedicated their lives
to furthering the cause of science in treacherous
conditions.
A scientist studies neutrinos, which are everywhere,
yet elusive; he likens them to spirits. A researcher's
night time performance art includes contorting her
body into a luggage bag. A survival guide teaches
his students to survive white-out conditions by wearing
cartoon-face buckets over their heads. Animal researchers
milk mother seals as part of their study. Volcanologists
offer advice on what to do when a volcano erupts.
A pipefitter shows us the anomaly in his hands that
he says are a sign he descended from Atzec royalty.
A former Colorado banker drives what he has christened
Ivan the Terra Bus. An underwater diver shows his
colleagues DVDs of apocalyptic sci-fi films like Them!
(1954). And -- though Herzog declares he's not "making
another film about penguins" -- we meet a penguin
researcher who answers the filmmaker's questions about
homosexuality and insanity in his subjects. We also
meet an individualist penguin, who breaks away from
the other birds to run toward the mountains, facing
certain death.
Friday 26th March 8.00pm. Black Ram Theatre
Company presents: ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE
DEAD. Tickets £11.00 Friends £9.00. In Stoppard’s
famed modern masterpiece, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Are Dead plays out the comic flip side of Shakespeare’s
Hamlet, as seen through the eyes of his most enigmatic
duo, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Complete with musicians,
acrobats and circus performers, blazing fire and trailing
glitter, the plot follows these vaudeville anti-heros
as they trip, traipse and fall through the dark world
of Hamlet in search of hope and purpose, leaving greasepaint
and sparkle in each footprint.
Spanning the spectrum of theatrical genres and visual
techniques, including dance, live music, and music
hall set pieces, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern melds
the beauty of the bard with the imaginative visuals
of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland, through the mind of
Britain’s best loved living playwright.
Black Ram Theatre Company are a Norwich-based professional
theatre company specialising in big-name dramas, who
have moved from strength to strength in the last three
years, achieving critical acclaim for their Shakespearean
and contemporary dramas, and have become one of East
Anglia’s leading repertory theatre companies.
Saturday 27th March 8.00pm. MAGIC IN MIND,
BODY AND SOUL Tickets £7.00 Friends £5.00.
An Evening of close up magic, mind games and soul
singing makes this an evening for all the family.
All in support of the Quay Theatre. David J Marks
is an experienced performer who is highly regarded
for his Close-up, Cabaret and his Childrens Magic.
David has performed for Two successful Summer seasons
at the prestiges house of illusion a magic theatre
and bar in Salou, Spain. With television and radio
appearances and a host of clients including Suffolk
and Essex County Councils, Cine-World Cinemas, RNIB,
Horizon Inns, Top Hotels, Schools and Colleges and
Numerous Private Functions . He will be appearing
with Nutty Norman and Guest Star Flora Charlton. Monday
5th April at 7.30pm. A Quay Bar Event. BOOK CLUB @
THE QUAY. Free Entry Open to all. Book Club is an
informal group that meet to read and discuss the book
of the month.
Tuesday 6th April 2.00pm & 7.30pm. Film
@ Quay presents: JULIE AND JULIA 123 Minutes (12A).
Tickets £5.00 Friends £4.00. Julia Child and Julie
Powell - both of whom wrote memoirs - find their lives
intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both
women are at loose ends... until they discover that
with the right combination of passion, fearlessness
and butter, anything is possible.
In 1949, Julia Child is in Paris, the wife of a diplomat,
wondering how to spend her days. She tries hat making,
bridge, and then cooking lessons at Cordon Bleu. There
she discovers her passion. In 2002, Julie Powell,
about to turn 30 and underemployed with an unpublished
novel, decides to cook her way through "Mastering
the Art of French Cooking" in a year and to blog
about it. We go back and forth between these stories
of two women learning to cook and finding success.
Sympathetic, loving husbands support them both, and
friendships, too, add zest.
Wednesday 7th April 7.30pm. Milkbottle Theatre
presents THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES:– read by Robert
Crighton. The Empty House & The Norwood Builder.
Tickets £5.50 Friends £5.00. Having survived his apparent
death, Holmes returns to fight with the last of Moriarty’s
henchmen in these stories from Conan Doyle’s third
collection of stories.
Thursday 8th April 2.00 & 4.30 pm Image
Musical Theatre presents THE LITTLE PRINCESS from
the Story by Frances Compton Burnett. Tickets
£7.00 Friends £5.50 Family of four £22.00. When her
father dies India Sarah Crew is left penniless and
alone. Her privileged life is over. She adapts to
her new circumstances with a courageous heart. The
resolution of her plight and to downfall of her tormenters
is a satisfying conclusion to an inspiring story.
Image Musical Theatre present the story with their
customary ingenious set, costume and original music.
Friday 9TH April 8.00pm. SID KIPPER “Mud
and Pullets”. Tickets £10.00 Friends £9.00.
In this sizzling new show Sid recreates in song and
story 'Gentleman' Jack Kipper's infamous ride from
Kings Lynn to Mundesley in 1826. His route was simple
- he took the Trans-Norfolk Highway, now more commonly
called the B1145, which runs, straight as a bow, from
Norfolk's west to east coasts. Leaping toll bars and
scattering sheep, 'Gent' left many a tale of the exploit
in his wake for us to relish.
He was, however, quite impervious to the everyday
lives being led in the halls and cottages along the
way. But we will take time to meet some of the meddlesome
maids, timorous tailors and swaggering squires who
occupied them, as ribs are gently tickled and fun
is thoroughly poked.
No animals will be harmed in the course of this performance,
though some reputations may well be.
Saturday 10th April 8.00pm. THE COMMITTED.
Tickets £10.00 Friends £8.50. We’ve all seen the film
The Commitments and have rocked along to the excellent
Rock and Roll. One of the most authentic tributes
to The Commitments, this band have truly emulated
the original sound. Uncanny look & soundalike
to Andrew Strong, singer Neal is backed by a passionate
band 'committed' to making your event amazing! We
have local top class interpreters coming to the Quay
this Saturday – and next – if you can’t make tonight
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Mercury Theatre Company, Colchester, Tel: 01206 573948
Thursday 25 February
to Saturday 13 March. ROMEO AND JULIET. Tickets:
£8.50 - £19.50. Concessions available. The Mercury
Theatre Company unites with the critically acclaimed
seven-piece Astillero Tango Orchestra and international
actors to perform Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare’s
classic tale of forbidden love, in a co-production
with Salida Productions.
Through the power and passion of the evocative tango,
the decline of the lovers is seen not as fate, but
an act of orchestration. The musicians intertwine
with the actors creating their world, their love,
and ultimately their fate.
The cast includes Mercury Company actors: Keith Dunphy,
Gus Gallagher, Gina Isaac and Shuna Snow, performing
alongside Astillero. Formed in 2005 and renowned as
the only tango orchestra in the world playing original
tango compositions, Astillero have released two CDs
to great acclaim and recently completed a tour of
the UK including a performance at the Mercury and
two sold out performances at the Southbank as part
of the London Jazz Festival.
Friday 12 to Saturday 13 March MOON FOOL
- ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT Tickets: £9.75 / £6
concessions. Moon Fool is an inventive re-imagining
of Shakespeare's well-loved play, A Midsummer Night's
Dream. In this engaging, funny and visually striking
production, Titania, Oberon and Puck play out events
from their past, hosting nightly revels in their attempt
to woo audiences off the path and back into the woods.
Combining original music and playful movement, Moon
Fool is the fairys' tale with an amplified twist.
Monday 15 March C H SPURGEON – THE PEOPLE’S
PREACHER Tickets: £8 / £6 concessions. An
innocent country lad from the Fens goes to London
where he earns the love and respect of a nation as
one of its most influential figures. But his strong
principles run against the grain of the culture, and
in standing up for them he becomes isolated, ridiculed
by the media and broken-hearted.
This powerful, inspirational drama documentary faithfully
recreates the times of C H Spurgeon and brings the
‘peoples preacher’ to life, following his trials and
triumphs with historical accuracy.
Tuesday 16 to Wednesday 17 March JUS' LIKE
THAT Tickets: £13 / £16.50 / £17.50 / £18.50.
‘I got a new car for the wife yesterday… not a bad
swap!’ Jus’ Like That brings Tommy Cooper back to
life with all the familiar trademarks - the fez, the
laugh and the magic. Jus’ Like That is an hilarious
tribute to one of the greatest comedians this country
has ever seen.
‘Someone left a note on my car the other day. It said
“Parking Fine”… so that was nice.’
Clive Mantle - best known for his role as Dr Mike
Barratt in Casualty and Holby City as well as Simon
Horton in The Vicar of Dibley, stars as the legendary
comedian ... all 6'4 of him! This show is the closest
you can get to seeing the late, great comedian live.
Book now for a genuinely funny and outstanding evening
of stand-up comedy.
Thursday 18 to Saturday 20 March HUCK
Tickets: £10.50 / £13 / £14 / £15, Children £9.50.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain’s all-time
classic novel of taking chances and pushing boundaries,
is brought crashing onto the stage by award-winning
theatre company Shapeshifter. With live music and
a charmingly funny script, HUCK is a messy, raucous
and uncouth epic for young, old and
everyone in between.
Suitable for ages 8+, contains issues of racism and
slavery – especially suitable for Teachers and Students
Key Stage 3
Monday 22 to Saturday 27 March DAD'S ARMY
MARCHES ON Tickets: £9.50 - £20.50
The boys are back in town! To celebrate 70 years of
the Home Guard, Dad’s Army is returning to the stage
with a brand new production of the classic sitcom.
The same team who cleverly breathed life into the
Lost Episodes are dusting down their uniforms and
polishing their medals to bring these much loved characters
back to the Mercury Theatre. Sign up now for an evening
of nostalgic pleasure and madcap mayhem with the would-be
heroes of Walmington-on-Sea.
Wednesday 24 to Thursday 25 March SHOOT/GET
TREASURE/REPEAT AND ESCHARA Tickets: £9.75
/ £6 concessions. A harrowing cycle of short plays
exploring the effects of war and terrorism on modern
society. Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat is a highly acclaimed
collection of short plays that will leave you questioning
your social mores. Eschara is the first play to examine
the after-effect of the 7/7 attacks on the London
transport system. A winner of the Norden Farm ‘Granted’
scheme, it has also been sponsored by Transport for
London. Both productions received 5 star reviews at
The Brighton Fringe Festival. Contains strong language.
Suitable for 14+ years
Saturday 27 March SOUL PLAY Tickets:
£9.75 / £6 concessions
Soul Play depicts an intimate contemporary story of
one man’s personal journey, following his mysterious
and untimely death. Suitable for 12+ years
Monday 29 March YOUNG ESSEX ASSEMBLY: BEAT
BULLYING As part of Essex County Council’s
anti-bullying week in 2009, members of the Young Assembly
voted to make bullying their top issue. Beat Bullying
brings together groups and schools who have been working
on telling their own stories about bullying with the
hope that adults will listen to what children have
to say! Tickets are FREE but must be booked in advance
Tuesday 30 March THE ELO EXPERIENCE
Tickets: £13 / £16.50 / £17.50 / £18.50. In the 1970s
Jeff Lynne and the Electric Light Orchestra became
one of the world’s best known and greatest recording
bands, packing stadiums throughout the world.
Now you can relive the days of progressive rock once
more as these talented musicians take you through
the greatest hits of ELO including Living Thing, Telephone
Line, Wild West Hero, Sweet Talking Woman and perhaps
their most famous, Mr Blue Sky.
Wednesday 31 March THE SORCERER
Tickets: £16 / £19.50 / £20.50 / £21.50. Chaos and
havoc prevail in an unsuspecting country village when
John Wellington Wells, the celebrated dealer in “magic
and spells” places a powerful aphrodisiac in the village
hall teapot! This inspired company have moved Gilbert
and Sullivan’s first great success from quaint Victorian
Britain to the flower power 70’s.
Thursday 1 to Saturday 3 April LA MUSICA
Tickets: £7.50 / £5.50 concessions. La Musica is the
meeting point of two ordinary people in a hotel lobby
on the day their marriage is finally dissolved. Wrestling
with desire, regret and anger, they struggle to come
to terms with their past, their present and their
future.
Saturday 3 April HAPPY BIRTHDAY FASCINATING
AIDA Tickets: £13 / £16.50 / £17.50 / £18.50
Britain's top female comedy trio is 25 years old and
due to popular demand the girls are coming back to
Colchester and are still celebrating! For those of
you who thought they’d retired, this isn’t a comeback;
it’s a chance for you to help them celebrate this
auspicious birthday.
Monday 5 to Saturday 10 April FRANKIE &
JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE Tickets:£9.50
- £20.50. Hard-boiled waitress Frankie and cock-sure
chef Johnny find themselves in bed together after
a first date. Johnny is certain he has found his soul
mate, but Frankie is far more cautious and less inclined
to jump to conclusions. As the night unfolds, they
slowly begin to reveal themselves to each other as
they take tentative steps towards the start of a possible
relationship in this funny and tender, bittersweet
romantic comedy. Suitable for ages 16+.
Wednesday 7 April MY MOTHER TOLD ME NOT TO
STARE Tickets: £7.50 / £5.50 children and
concessions. A deliciously dark operetta for curious
children and their grown ups that presents the rules
that must absolutely not be broken …and then absolutely
breaks them! An operatic play suitable for ages 8+
years
Friday 9 to Saturday 10 April THE DRAGON'S
DAUGHTER Tickets: £7.50 / £5.50 children
and concessions. Once upon a time in a far away land,
lived a lonely little boy called Hans who spent his
days imagining the most fantastic adventures. One
starry night, a tiny ball of light falls from the
sky and there, lost in the darkness, is a real-life
baby dragon. Can Hans return his new-found friend
to her mother before it is too late?
Tuesday 4 to Saturday 8 May Spike Milligans'
ADOLF HITLER: MY PART IN HIS DOWNFALL. Tickets:
£9.50 - £20.50. Spike Milligan’s celebrated war memoirs
arrive in Colchester in this gloriously absurd and
exuberant hit comedy drama, which has had both audiences
and critics in stitches.
High comedy and tragedy collide, as we follow Gunner
Milligan and his jazz quartet, adrift on the tide
of great historic events, discovering how humour,
music and comradeship enabled a hapless bunch of young
men to prevail against the might of the Nazi War machine.
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