Bedales Petersfield Live Events DANCE | DRAMA | MUSIC | SOCIAL TALKS | DRAMA MUSIC DANCE Autumn 2021 After the summer break, we are bringing the sunshine inside with this new season packed full of events. Let’s celebrate our collective love of the arts: come and watch comedy, music, theatre, and poetry right on your doorstep. After nearly 18 months of the live arts sector being closed for business, we are jubilant at the prospect of bringing events back to Bedales. We are positive you will enjoy this season as much as we enjoyed creating it. Starting off with an old favourite, Hackney Colliery Band are ready to raise the roof with their foot-stomping covers and original music. Later in September, the HandleBards are cycling over to us, set and costume slung over their shoulders: bring your picnic blankets for their all-female, outdoor version of Macbeth. Red Fox Theatre bring the warmth of a traditional pub theatre to the Lupton Hall, combining music and puppetry with captivating storytelling. The best and brightest in the country join us for talks and lectures including furniture maker and industrial designer Sebastian Bergne, AI expert and co-founder of CognitionX Tabitha Goldstaub (OB) and inspirational headteacher Tony Hartney CBE. Families and young audiences are treated to a choose-your-own adventure spectacular from friends of Bedales, Quick Duck Theatre. If it is comedy that piques your interest, but you are looking for an evening out after so many evenings in; The Noise Next Door are back again to entertain, enthrall and surprise. As the nights draw in, Phosphoros Theatre arrive to ignite our hearts and minds – ‘All the beds I have slept in’ is an insightful and stirring piece of theatre made by lived experience refugee performers. Cecilia Knapp, Poet Laureate for London, returns to Bedales in November to spend an evening reading poetry, answering questions and teaching students. Benny Wenda joins us for the annual Global Awareness Lecture – this talk has been an opportunity delayed and we are very lucky to have Benny joining us in December. Woven in between all these brilliant visiting artists is our renowned Home Grown work – two school shows, two contemporary music events, four classical concerts, and two Theatre Studies exam pieces. These are performances created and staged at the heart of Bedales by the wonderful students that study here. Eve Allin Events Programme Co-ordinator Bedales Events [email protected] | @BedalesEvents 2 Jack Offord Jack Booking bedalesevents.co.uk (no transaction fee) Click on the event of your choosing. Your tickets are sent directly to mobiles or email addresses. From here the attachment can easily be downloaded, or printed at home, ready for your visit. 0333 666 3366 (Mon-Fri 09:00-19:00, Sat 09:00-17:00 transaction fee applies) Order one ticket for one event or multiple tickets for multiple events to pay a flat fee of £1.50 that covers the cost of printing the tickets and sending them to your home address, time permitting. Printing service is on request. Tickets cannot be refunded or exchanged once purchased. Please switch off your mobile phones and recording equipment before entering Bedales Olivier Theatre and related venues for our shows. Follow the Bedales bee at the bottom of each event to find out exactly why they’ve been programmed for you. 3 MUSIC Hackney Colliery Band Fri 03 Sep, 19.30–21.00 Theatre (£17/15) Hackney Colliery Band have only become better and we are delighted to welcome them back to Bedales as live events return to what they once were. This East London collective have blown their way into the public consciousness with their genre-bending combination of brass, reeds, percussion and electronics, firmly establishing themselves as one of the most exciting live bands in the UK. Last at Bedales in 2017, this talented group brought audiences to their feet. We were clapping, stomping and dancing along to the larger-than-life energy the band brought to the theatre. From playing a 45-minute set at the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics and sets at the MOBO, Brit and Mercury Awards to live sessions on BBC Two, BBC Radio 2, Jazz FM Hollie Fernando and worldwide airplay from many more, from collaborations with the likes of Amy Winehouse and Madness “One of the greatest to selling out venues across London live bands we have including KOKO and The Forum, in this country” to a European tour, Hackney Colliery Band have not stopped. BBC Radio 2 At the top of their game and ready for a raucous return, Hackney Colliery Band are kicking off the hackneycollieryband.co.uk Autumn with a bang and a blast. hackneycolliery 4 DRAMA Macbeth The HandleBards Thu 16 Sep, 19.00–20.45 Sotherington Barn Amphitheatre (£16/14) Pedalling from venue to venue with all of their set, props and costumes on the back of their bikes, the HandleBards are a four-strong troupe of actors who are spending the summer bringing environmentally sustainable Shakespeare to venues across the UK. Join the all-female troupe at Bedales for a bicycle-powered production of Shakespeare’s classic. Forget the tears and tragedy - this is a frantic, delirious, full-of-beans show like you’ve never seen before. This is an outdoor production, so please bring blankets and spare chairs to sit on if you’d like them, a picnic to dig into Dougie Evans and dress for the weather! Macbeth will take place in the amphitheatre behind the Sotherington Barn in Outdoor Work. “Explodes with energy If you are not sure where to go, head to and is a genuine treat the theatre and one of our stewards will from start to finish” point you in the right direction. The Stage, on the HandleBards’ Twelfth Night The HandleBards are a wonderfully inventive company, cycling to their touring destinations with their whole show in tow. This work goes right to the handlebards.com heart of Bedalian innovation, love for the outdoors handlebards and passion for arts. 5 DRAMA Catch of the Day Red Fox Theatre Jack McGuire Jack Following an award-nominated run at Fri 01 Oct, 19.30–21.00 Edinburgh Fringe, critically acclaimed Lupton Hall (£14/12) shows in London and Oxford, and its sell-out Irish tour, Catch of the Day Age guide 12+ visits Petersfield for the first time. One fish can make a big splash. Ireland, 1966. An ordinary skipper sails into Dingle Bay with a very unusual catch… “An hour’s worth of crazy musical What follows is a ridiculous series enjoyment” of events involving Eamon De Valera, Queen Elizabeth, and a whole bunch Everything Theatre of nuns. An almost unbelievable true story, ‘Catch of the Day’ is “side-splittingly funny” (The Irish Post) a mash-up of live music, comedy and theatre that makes one craic-ing night out. Weaving together music and theatre, Red Fox Theatre is a company that connects wholeheartedly with the Bedales ethos. Created especially for alternative redfoxtheatre.co.uk spaces, we cannot wait to see ‘Catch of the Day’ RedFoxTheatre light up the walls of the Lupton Hall. 6 TALKS Sebastian Bergne in Conversation Tue 05 Oct, 19.30–20.30 Lupton Hall (Free) British Industrial designer Sebastian Bergne (OB) is renowned for making everyday objects special with his essential and human approach to design. Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1990, he founded his studio in the same year. His achievements have since been widely recognised with international design awards, frequent publications, exhibitions and inclusion in museum collections such as The Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the Design Museum (London). His wealth of experience makes him Iona Wolff sought after as a curator, lecturer and commentator on design. Join us in conversation with Sebastian as we explore what constitutes good design and the role design plays within society. Invited by our Design department, Sebastian Bergne is a noteworthy addition to this years’ programme; a must attend for all budding designers or those interested in how to be sebastianbergne.com an agent of change. SebastianBergne 7 COMEDY In Charge The Noise Next Door The quickest wits in comedy are charging into their sixth national tour with a spectacular new show that will trample your expectations. The charismatic quartet has always astonished with their ability to spin audience suggestions into comedy gold, but for this show they’re putting you, the audience, in charge in brilliant and bombastic new ways. Join comedy’s unstoppable force for an evening like no other... Hilarious scenes! Mind-blowing songs! Finely tuned anarchy! The Noise Next Door are twelve times sell-out veterans of The Edinburgh Fringe and have appeared on BBC One, ITV1, BBC Three and BBC Radio 4. They have also appeared alongside the likes of Michael McIntyre, Katherine Ryan, Romesh Ranganathan and Harry Hill. “Comedy gold... Thu 04 Nov, 19.30–21.15 Staggeringly well Theatre (£14/12) executed.” Age guide 14+ Guardian We revelled in the wit and charm of the Noise Next thenoisenextdoor.co.uk Door boys back in Spring 2019 and we are delighted NoiseNextDoor to welcome them back to light up another cold NoiseNextDoor winter evening. NoiseNextDoorVideos 8 FAMILY Fashion Spies Quick Duck Theatre Matthew Cawrey Matthew Sat 06 Nov, 14.30–15.30 Picture the scene: Fashion Week. Deception and divas, catwalk crooks Theatre (£12/10) and YOU busting the case wide open. (Family of 4 – £35) Age guide 7+ Mighty Boosh meets Devil Wears Prada in this fabulous and surreal choose-your- own-adventure comedy. The stakes and the shoulder pads have never “Magnificent” been higher..