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Compass Theatre, Winston Churchill Theatre and Manor Farm April to Theatres August 2018

comedy • plays • ch ildren ’s show s • music • events

www.hillingdontheatres.uk Celebrating 50 years of the

Would you like to help put on a show? Hillingdon Theatres is planning an anniversary production of Hans, The Witch and the Gobbin by Alan Cullen. This is a fantasy play, which will be performed by adults for an audience of children, and was the first show ever performed at the Compass Theatre in 1968. Production week will start on Monday 9 July, with two performances on Saturday 14 July. To do this, we will need a director, stage manager and actors, plus help with simple scenery, makeup and wardrobe. Whether you’re a familiar face or new to the Compass Theatre, if you’d like to be involved, please get in touch by emailing [email protected], calling 01895 250615, or join the Compass Theatre 50th Anniversary Group on Facebook. Saturday 14 July at 11am and 3pm Cost: £6.50 Book: www.hillingdontheatres.uk 01895 250615

Compass Club We are also re-launching the Compass Club – an audience membership scheme where supporters of the venue can gain benefits and discounts, while helping to raise funds for the Compass Theatre and Hall. As well as discounts and offers for selected events, free postage and our gratitude, members can now claim 20 per cent off their food bill (excludes drinks) for up to four people at Home Bar & Kitchen, Ickenham. Full details online at www.hillingdontheatres.uk. Cost: Standard membership £25 / Anniversary membership £50 / Seat sponsorship (includes five years’ membership) £120 Join: www.hillingdontheatres.uk 01895 250615

2 NEW Manor Farm audio guide launch day Monday 2 April, midday to 4pm This Easter, we’re launching a brand-new free audio guide for Manor Farm. Join us for a fun, family-friendly interactive afternoon of activities, with an egg hunt and sack races in the orchard, plus craft and poetry-writing workshops in the Great Barn. The new 40-minute audio guide allows visitors to experience the highlights of Manor Farm, which has been at the heart of for more than 1,000 years. Download the guide online at www.hillingdon.gov.uk/mfaudio. If you don’t have a mobile device, for a small deposit, you can borrow an MP3 player with headphones from the Manor Farm Library – ask inside for details.

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Friends of Ickenham Hall presents Comedy Compass Sunday 8 April, 13 May and 10 June at 8pm Compass Theatre Compass Find great value entertainment for a good cause at our monthly comedy nights in the Compass Bar. Featuring a line-up of professional and up-and- coming comedians. Raising funds for Friends of Ickenham Hall. Visit the website to see who’s appearing next. Cost: £5 Book: www.hillingdontheatres.uk 01895 250615

Ruislip Operatic Society presents The Pirates of Penzance Winston Churchill Theatre Winston Wednesday 18 to Friday 20 April at 7.30pm Saturday 21 April at 2.30pm and 7.30pm A comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and Libretto by W S Gilbert, The Pirates of Penzance is a Gilbert and Sullivan classic with policemen, pirates and a bevy of witty maidens and packed full of Gilbert and Sullivan melodies. Cost: Wednesday £13 / Thursday to Saturday £15 / Concessions £13 (excluding Saturday 7.30pm) Book: www.ruislipos.org 07905 932366 [email protected]

Encore Theatre Company presents Encore Junior Theatre Wednesdays on 18 and 25 April; 2, 9, 16 and 23 May; 6, 13, 20 and 27 June; 4, 11 and 18 July at 7pm Theatre Compass Weekly sessions of singing, dancing and acting – working towards productions. Encore Junior Theatre members also get to perform in shows within the main company and take part in concerts and other activities. Cost: £12 per week (in advance for the term/half term) Book: www.encoretheatre.org.uk [email protected]

5 Hillingdon Council presents Tea dances for over-65s Thursdays on 19 April, 17 May, 21 June, 19 July and 23 August from 1.30pm to 4pm Put on your dancing shoes and step back into an age of elegance. Dance the afternoon away and socialise with friends. Open to Hillingdon residents and up to three guests. Book with your HillingdonFirst card.

Compass Theatre Cost: Free (advance booking required) Book: www.hillingdon.gov.uk/teadance 01895 556688

Hillingdon Council and DKproDuKtions present Compass Kidz Saturdays on 21 and 28 April; 5, 12 and 19 May; 9, 16, 23 and 30 June; 7 and 14 July at 10.30am (4 to 6-year-olds) and 11.30am (7 to 14-year-olds) Learn about performance and teamwork in a fun, safe and creative environment. Sessions help increase confidence and communication skills, while developing performing arts disciplines: drama, music and dance. Compass Theatre April to July term cost includes two tickets to attend the 50th anniversary performance of Hans, The Witch and the Gobbin on Saturday 14 July. Cost: £60 (in advance for the term) Book: www.dk-pro.co.uk 01628 605981

Stars at Knight presents Saturday Drama Classes Saturdays from 14 April through to 7 July Weekly classes where 5 to 18-year-olds can gain confidence in fun and sociable sessions, while learning stagecraft, voice production, mime and improvisation. Students can also prepare for associated exams and are taught by trained Trinity, Guildhall and LAMDA coaches. Compass Theatre Cost: £84 (in advance for the term) Book: [email protected] 020 8841 8940

6 Proscenium presents Top Girls Wednesday 25 to Saturday 28 April at 7.45pm Compass Theatre Compass In this amusing and provocative play by Caryl Churchill, we meet Marlene, who celebrates her promotion to head of a recruitment agency by inviting five women from history to dinner. Their achievements and struggles are compared with those of Marlene, her family and friends. Cost: £14 Book: www.hillingdontheatres.uk 01895 250615

WOS Productions presents Calamity Jane Winston Churchill Theatre Winston Wednesday 2 to Friday 4 May at 7.30pm Saturday 5 May at 2.30pm and 7.30pm WOS Productions is delighted to be performing this action-packed, rip-roaring musical western, based on the 1953 film starring Doris Day. The whole family will enjoy this show, which includes the Oscar-nominated score and the award-winning song (Once I Had a) Secret Love. Cost: £15 (Wednesday £13) / Concessions £13 Book: www.wos-productions.org.uk 07401 116994

Argosy Players present The Darling Buds of May Wednesday 9 to Friday 11 May at 7.30pm Saturday 12 May at 3pm and 7.30pm Theatre Compass The Larkins live in rural idyllic bliss with their six children. Pop Larkin makes a fortune from scrap-iron deals but has never paid income tax. One May afternoon in 1957, a young tax official, Mr Charlton, arrives and is swept up by the rural life. Cost: £12 / Concessions £10 Book: www.hillingdontheatres.uk 01895 250615

7 Ruislip Dramatic Society presents Robin Hawdon’s Perfect Wedding Wednesday 16 to Saturday 19 May at 7.45pm When a bridegroom wakes on his wedding day to find a strange girl in bed beside him in the bridal suite, his best man must help him avoid disaster! But when the bride arrives with her parents, and finally the hotel staff, the chaos reaches nuclear proportions in this riotous comedy, filled with hilarious confusions, confessions and Compass Theatre nightmares for the best man. Cost: £12 / Concessions £11 (available on Wednesday and Thursday only) Book: www.hillingdontheatres.uk 01895 250615 or 07856 246517

The Chameleons Amateur Dramatic Society presents Twelfth Night (Or What You Will) Thursday 24 to Friday 25 May at 7.30pm Saturday 26 May at 2.30pm and 7.30pm “If music be the food of love, play on.” Let The Chameleons entertain you with this energetic performance of Shakespeare’s finest comedy. Crammed full of mistaken

Compass Theatre identity, unrequited love and, of course, silly jokes. You are in for a real treat! Cost: Thursday £12 / Friday and Saturday £14 / Concessions £12 Book:  www.hillingdontheatres.uk 01895 250615 or www.thechameleons.co.uk Ickenham Festival 2018 Saturday 9 to Sunday 17 June During nine days, nearly 100 events will be taking place in and around Ickenham – concerts, shows, performances, talks, outdoor theatre, exhibitions, open gardens, sports, competitions, rock bands, local history, nature walks, stand-up comedy, the Grand Duck Race! Gala Day (Saturday 16 June), a parade through Ickenham, a musical concert and fireworks. Ickenham FestivalIckenham From May, the full programme will be available online at www.IckenhamFestival.org.uk or Twitter.com/IckFest

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www.hillingdon.gov.uk/arts Friends of Ickenham Hall presents Ickenham Hall Open Day Saturday 23 June, from 1pm until 5pm

(with a talk at 2pm and 4pm) Ickenham Hall In celebration of 50 years since a theatre was built in its back garden, the Friends of Ickenham Hall welcome visitors for a talk and guided tours around the Compass Theatre and the Grade II listed Ickenham Hall. Cost: Free Full details to follow online at www.ickenhamhall.org.uk.

Proscenium presents Not About Heroes Wednesday 27 to Saturday 30 June at 7.45pm Compass Theatre Compass To commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War, Proscenium proudly presents Stephen MacDonald’s Not About Heroes. Told through letters and poetry, this is the story of the chance meeting and subsequent relationship between two of the finest Great War poets at Craiglockhart Hospital in 1917: Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Cost: £14 Book: www.hillingdontheatres.uk 01895 250615

Hillingdon Council and DK produktions present Aladdin:

Relaxed performance Theatre Compass Friday 14 December at 4pm For the first time at the Compass Theatre, the annual pantomime will include a relaxed performance, where the house lights are left on, sound levels are lowered, and flashing and pyrotechnic effects are not used. We hope this provides an opportunity to welcome those with learning or communication difficulties or those with an autism spectrum condition, who may have felt unable to attend in the past. Cost: £16.50 / Under-16s £12.50 Book: www.hillingdontheatres.uk 01895 250615 11

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Venue hire to travel by public transport or allow Open Monday to Friday, 10.30am to 5pm plenty of time to find suitable parking – more details are available online at [email protected] www.hillingdontheatres.uk. 01895 277643 Space specifications and costs can be found Access online at www.hillingdontheatres.uk. The Compass Theatre is wheelchair accessible, with Tickets space for two wheelchairs Bookings made via Hillingdon Theatres inside the auditorium and has Box Office incur no booking fees. three disabled parking bays. Customers can book anytime online at The Winston Churchill Theatre is www.hillingdontheatres.uk or by wheelchair accessible, with space for up calling 01895 250615 (Tuesday to to four wheelchairs inside the auditorium Saturday, 10.30am to 5pm). and has five disabled parking bays. Parking Both theatres have a loop hearing A parking space is not included in the system in place and welcome price of a ticket. Customers are advised assistance dogs.

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...at Manor Farm Duck Pond Artisan and Pilates with Elizabeth Craft Market Mondays at 12.30pm, Heritage Third Sunday of the month Thursdays at 11.30am and The Heritage Visitor www.duckpondmarkets.com 2.30pm, Saturdays at 9.30am Centre, in the 16th century Children’s Meditation Manor Farm House, is Crafts in The Cart Sheds Tuesdays at 6pm open from midday to 3pm Mita Samanta on Wednesdays to Fridays, Designing and handcrafting Pilates with Christine until 4pm at weekends and leather goods. Mondays at 7pm www.sumilondon.com bank holidays, and from Hartbeeps 11am to 4pm on Market Shaun Higgins Baby and toddler classes. Sundays. Admission is free Hand making bespoke Tuesdays and Wednesdays and group tours can be furniture. at 9.30am booked in advance. www.shaker-maker.com artsvenues@hillingdon. Pilates – Dash for Fitness gov.uk The Fairy Maker Tuesdays at 1.30pm 01895 277643 Individually handcrafted Soul Performing Arts miniature fairy art. Tuesdays at 6pm Markets www.thefairymaker.com Ruislip Country Market Yoga In the Community Hut, Little Willows Illuminated health. Friday mornings from Personalised ceramics and Tuesdays at 7pm, 10am to 11.30am keepsake boxes. Thursdays at 1.15pm, Saturdays at 11am www.facebook.com/ www.little-willows.co.uk ruislipcountrymarket1 Classes in The Stables Diddi Dancers Duck Pond Little Shakers Wednesdays at 9.40am Foodies Market Pre-school music and Zumba with Graham First Sunday of the month movement. Wednesdays at 6.15pm and www.duckpondmarkets.com Mondays at 10am Sundays at 10.15am

14 Meditation Bury Street Arts: Pandit Ram Sahai Sangit Thursdays at 9.30am Contemporary Arts and Vidyalaya (PRSSV) Craft Indian music and Irish Dancing Sunday 19 to dance class. Thursdays at 5.30pm Saturday 25 August Sundays at 9.30am Dinky Dancers www.indian-music- Fridays at 10am Floral Exhibition: The dance.co.uk Great Barn, Manor Farm Workers’ Educational The Cow Byre Ruislip Central Association (WEA) Art Gallery Horticultural Society’s Weekday adult education Stained Glass by Summer Flower Show. classes. Anthony Wimshurst Saturday 16 June, from 1pm www.london.wea.org.uk Sunday 1 to Saturday 7 April Coffee Mornings at Brush Strokes Winston Churchill Hillingdon Sunday 8 to Saturday 14 April Theatre Music Hub Hillingdon Artists Free and friendly On Wednesdays, Sunday 15 to Saturday 21 April coffee morning Thursdays and Saturdays, Every other Friday (starting the Hillingdon Music Hub Ickenham Arts Society 13 April) at 10.30am Sunday 22 to provides a music school at Saturday 28 April John Locke Academy, ...at the . Octavia Art Group Compass Theatre Sessions allow young Sunday 6 to Saturday 12 May Wednesday Wardrobe musicians from Grade 1 level play in bands and Eclectic Artists: Paintings, A team of volunteers are on orchestras, Those with no Textiles, Ceramics hand to hire out costumes previous experience can Sunday 13 to Saturday 26 May at Compass Theatre from 8pm on Wednesdays join choirs – all in a very Field End Photographic during term-time. friendly atmosphere. Society www.hillingdon.gov.uk/ Sunday 27 May to Classes music Saturday 9 June Encore Junior Theatre [email protected] For 8 to 18-year-olds. 01895 558108 Middlesex Federation of Wednesdays at 7pm WIs: Craft Exhibition www.encoretheatre.org.uk Sunday 17 to Saturday 23 June Compass Kidz Art Society For 4 to 14-year-olds. Sunday 1 to Saturday 7 July Saturdays at 10.30am and 11.30am Chandos Art and Crafts www.dk-pro.co.uk/ Sunday 8 to Saturday 14 July compass-kidz Arbutus Group of Artists Stars at Knight Sunday 15 to Saturday 21 July For 4 to 18-year-olds. Patricia Ogundero Saturdays at 9.30am Sunday 5 to www.starsatknight- Saturday 11 August schoolofdrama.co.uk

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