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SPRING SEASON 2018 The Friars, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2AS Box Office: 01227 787787 marlowetheatre.com KIT Opening doors... ...to stories and storytellers. Return Of The Unknown: Coming Spring 2018 100 years since the Armistice One inspiring week Five Kent towns 400 people What are our unknown stories from the First World War? A Marlowe Production at Dover Marine Station in November 2018. Donate to help us remember marlowetheatre.com/support £1 = £2 Your donation doubled Stubbings. Tim by . photos Matching your support with Arts Council England’s Catalyst:Evolve Fund A project delivered in partnership All donations are made to The Marlowe Theatre Find out more at with The Marlowe and Canterbury Development Trust, a UK registered charity (no 1120751). Helping everyone to experience theatre. Unknown Return Of The marlowetheatre.com/kit Museums & Galleries. BEST PANTOMINE 2016 GREAT BRITISH PANTO AWARDS (DICK WHITTINGTONWINNER ) EVOLUTION PANTOMIMES AND THE MARLOWE PRESENT FRI 24 NOV–SUN 14 JAN Peak performances £36.75-£18.75 Non-peak performances £31.75-£16.75 Saver performances Hook your tickets now for this amazing show! £25.75-£14.25 Don’t miss our fun-filled, family pantomime, Peter Pan, Relaxed performance starring Shaun Williamson (EastEnders and Extras), £10 Wendi Peters (Coronation Street), with children’s Our Friends save £1.25 per ticket favourites Gemma Hunt (CBeebies’ Swashbuckle), David (no booking fees) and get £4 o Ribi (Channel 5’s Milkshake) and Samantha Dorrance top three prices on Non-peak performances & Saver performances (CBeebies’ The Tale Of Mr Tumble). The show will also feature the hilarious Marlowe favourites Ben Roddy Discounts (on selected seats and and Lloyd Hollett. performances) Concessions Once again, the show will be written and directed Discovery Tickets by Paul Hendy and brought to you by Evolution, the Groups Schools same creative team behind last year’s award-winning Family show, Dick Whittington (which was seen by over Access performances (see p.56) 95,000 people!). With lots of audience participation and spectacular special eects, this promises to be AD CAP RP our biggest and funniest pantomime ever. The croc is ticking so hook your tickets now! Backstage Tours NOVEMBER Sun 10 1pm 5pm Thu 28 2.30pm 7pm 10.30am on Wed 6 Dec, Wed 20 Fri 24 7pm Fri 29 2.30pm 7pm “ Another sumptuous feast of entertainment.” Dec & Wed 3 Jan. Sat 25 2.30pm 7pm Mon 11 No performances Sat 30 10.30am 2.30pm 7pm KENT ON SUNDAY Sun 26 1pm 5pm Tue 12 1pm 7pm Sun 31 10.30am 2.30pm Tickets £6.50 per person Wed 13 1pm 7pm “ I don’t think I stopped laughing from the minute I sat Mon 27 No performances Thu 14 1pm 7pm JANUARY SOLD OUT down to the minute I left.” HEART FM Tue 28 1pm 7pm Fri 15 11am 7pm Mon 1 No performances Marlowe Friends Talk & Tour Wed 13 Dec 10.30am Wed 29 10am 1.30pm Sat 16 10.30am 2.30pm 7pm Tue 2 2.30pm 7pm “ This gleaming Rolls Royce of a pantomime.” Free, booking required. Thu 30 10am 1.30pm Sun 17 1pm 5pm Wed 3 2.30pm 7pm SARDINES MAGAZINE Thu 4 1pm 7pm DECEMBER Mon 18 No performances Fri 5 1pm 7pm “ Hugely entertaining, visually arresting and full of SOLD OUT Fri 1 10.30am 7pm Tue 19 2.30pm 7pm Sat 6 10.30am 2.30pm 7pm great song and dance numbers.” KENT ON SUNDAY Sat 2 10.30am 2.30pm 7pm Wed 20 2.30pm 7pm Sun 7 1pm 5pm Sun 3 1pm 5pm Thu 21 2.30pm 7pm “ Pantomime at The Marlowe is legendary.” Make an occasion of it Fri 22 2.30pm 7pm Mon 8 No performances êêêêê THE REVIEWS HUB Meal packages available in Mon 4 No performances Sat 23 10.30am 2.30pm 7pm Tue 9 No performances The Green Room (see p.55) Tue 5 1pm 7pm Sun 24 10.30amSOLD OUT 2.30pmSOLD OUT Wed 10 7pm Reviews of Dick Whittington Wed 6 1pm 7pm Thu 11 1pm RP 7pm Thu 7 10.30am 2pm Mon 25 No performances Fri 12 10.30am 7pm Sponsored by Fri 8 10.30am 7pm Tue 26 2.30pm 7pm Sat 13 10.30am 2.30pm 7pm Sat 9 10.30am 2.30pm 7pm Wed 27 2.30pm 7pm Sun 14 1pm 5pm 4 5 JAMIE WILSON AND GAVIN KALIN PRESENT THE WATERMILL THEATRE PRODUCTION OF TUE 16-SAT 20 JAN Evenings 7.30pm Crazy For You Wed, Thu & Sat matinees 2.30pm Starring Tom Chambers and Claire Sweeney Fri & Sat performances £48.25-£30.75 Tue-Thu performances A multi-award-winning romantic comedy musical. £45.75-£28.25 High energy, high kicking and gloriously glamorous, Our Friends save £1.25 per ticket the acclaimed Watermill Theatre production of Crazy (no booking fees) and get £5 o For You is the ultimate feel-good musical starring top three prices on Tue-Thu Tom Chambers (Top Hat and winner of Strictly Discounts (on selected seats) Come Dancing), Claire Sweeney (Chitty Chitty Bang Concessions (Tue-Thu) Bang, Hairspray, Tell Me On A Sunday) and Charlotte Discovery Tickets (Tue–Thu eves) Groups Wakefield (Sound Of Music, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) as Polly, featuring a fabulous score from the Gershwin brothers’ songbook. Mistaken identities, heartbreak, happiness and a wealth Make an evening of it of memorable tunes, including I Got Rhythm, They Can’t Meal packages available in Take That Away From Me, Nice Work If You Can Get The Green Room (see p.55) It and Embraceable You all feature in this exhilarating celebration of the great Broadway musicals. “Irresistible, irrepressible and inventive.” êêêêê MARK SHENTON, THE STAGE “ The production is a delight.” êêêê THE TIMES 6 7 Trim: 297mm H x 210mm W CRAZY FOR YOU - Canterbury DPS Brochure FM1 EMG 10.20.17 PB CFY- 330 RD2 PRODUCTION: MELTDOWN | T: 3233806949 | JULIANMELTDOWN.LA | DONMELTDOWN.LA 5806 WARING AVE #7 | LOS ANGELES, CA 90038 | WWW.CREATIVEX.US CFY-330_Canterbury-DPS-Brochure_RD2b | CREATED ON: 01/07/16 SELLADOOR PRODUCTIONS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE MARLOWE PRESENT MON 29 JAN-SAT 3 FEB Evenings (not Tue) 7.30pm Of Mice And Men Tue, Thu & Sat matinees 2.30pm Fri & Sat performances A brand new production of the most iconic and £37.75-£22.75 powerful story in American literature. Tue-Thu performances £35.75-£20.75 Set in the trying times of the Great Depression, Preview (Mon 29) Of Mice And Men is a compelling portrait of the £33.75-£18.75 American spirit and a heartbreaking testament to the Our Friends save £1.25 per ticket bonds of friendship and what it means to be human. (no booking fees) and get £5 o top This landmark play, by the Nobel Prize winner John three prices on Mon-Thu Steinbeck, tells the story of George and Lennie, two Discounts (on selected seats) migrant ranch workers who dream of owning their Concessions (Mon-Thu) Discovery Tickets (Mon & Wed) own ranch. Groups (Mon-Thu) Still painfully relevant to today, this is a moving story Schools about trying to hold on to your dreams and friendships £12 (Mon-Thu, booking by phone or during dicult times. in person) From the producers of Avenue Q, The Crucible, Access performances (see p.56) American Idiot and Flashdance comes this American AD CAP classic for all time. 8 9 WINNER: UK THEATRE AWARDS & DANCE AWARD CRITICS’ CIRCLE NATIONAL GARY CLARKE COMPANY PRESENT THU 8 FEB Coal 7.30pm £24.75-£17.25 A riveting dance theatre show about life at the Our Friends save £1.25 per ticket coal face. (no booking fees) and get £3 off Created to mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the Discounts (on selected seats) miners’ strike, award-winning choreographer Gary Clarke Concessions Discovery Tickets proudly presents Coal, a riveting dance theatre show. Groups Using Clarke’s striking physical language Coal explores Schools the darker underbelly of the mining industry unearthing £8 tickets (when booking by phone or in person) the true nature and body-wrecking demands of a working class industry now almost forgotten. Show Talk Performed by a company of seven stunning professional Post show, free dancers, women drawn from the local community and a live brass band, Coal is an emotional, moving and ever- relevant exploration of community, solidarity and survival. “ An absorbing, immediate slice of history rendered with the kind of emotional truth that deepens its impact as popular entertainment.” êêêê THE TIMES 10 11 DAVID PUGH & DAFYDD ROGERS + GARY BARLOW, HOWARD DONALD, MARK OWEN TUE 20 FEB-SAT 3 MAR RAYMOND GUBBAY PRESENTS MON 5-SAT 10 MAR AND ROBBIE WILLIAMS PRESENT Evenings (not Fri) 7.30pm Swan Lake Wed (21 Feb) & Sat matinees The Russian State Ballet & Mon-Wed 7.30pm The Band 2.30pm Wed matinee 2.30pm Fri 5pm & 8.30pm Cinderella Thu 7.30pm Do you remember what it was like to grow up with £50.75-£20.75 Orchestra Of Siberia Romeo And Juliet a boyband? Fri 7.30pm Our Friends save £1.25 per ticket New for 2018, sprinkled with magical It’s Manchester. It’s 1992 and we meet five 16-year-old (no booking fees) and get £3 o The Nutcracker girls for whom ‘the band’ is everything. Join us on this top three prices Mon-Thu special eects. Sat 2.30pm & 7.30pm Swan Lake: The greatest romantic ballet of all time. £43.25-£20.25 emotional rollercoaster as this group of girls who were Discounts (on selected seats) once inseparable reunite after 25 years apart and try Groups (Mon-Thu & Fri 5pm) From the splendour of the Palace ballroom to the Our Friends save £1.25 per ticket moonlit lake, this tale of tragic romance has it all.