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SUMMER May 2017 - September 2017 Welcome to Our Summer Season Programme! SUMMER May 2017 - September 2017 Welcome to our Summer Season Programme! As you will probably have seen, our theatre seats have now been refurbished, and a big thank you to all those of you that sponsored one. By the time this is published we should also have redecorated the auditorium, and the new rehearsal studio and costume store backstage should be nearing completion. And then we have the busiest programme of events ever for you this summer! We have no less than fifteen Ledbury Poetry Festival events, including two brilliant joint promotions with The Market Theatre - Duende and Chopping Chillies. The Poetry SLAM which the Theatre sponsors is also a must, as is Rob Gee’s brilliant Forget Me Not which we have seen and thoroughly recommend. LADS has two comedies in the frame with the award winning The Last Bread Pudding and Breath of Spring. There is also a Market Theatre showcase in September called The Yelllow Box. And do not miss Ledbury Community Brass Band’s Last Night at the Proms! Add to this, eight satellite screenings and fourteen films and you have a huge variety of evenings out at The Market Theatre! The Market Theatre - is situated in Market Street (off Bye Street). The Market Theatre, is a trading name of Ledbury Amateur Dramatic Society (LADS) who own and run the Theatre for the benefit of the community. It provides a dedicated venue for amateur and professional performing arts. It has 128 seats, foyer, bar, wheelchair access, disabled toilet and a hearing loop. The Theatre or Foyer may be hired by phoning 01531 633760. Ledbury Film Club Showings - For just £10 you will be able to get in for half price to all The Market Theatre promoted films (about 20) from now until the end of the year. All you need to do is to either pay on line via the theatre’s website (www.themarkettheatre.com), or by sending a cheque (payable to “LADS”) to Ledbury Film Club, 2 Church House, Church Lane, Ledbury HR8 2DP. Of course if you do not want to join the Film Club, you can book in the normal way (see front cover) or buy tickets on the door (subject to availability). LADS Youth Theatre Company - We are afraid that membership is currently full. OUR LIVE SHOWS ARE SPONSORED BY ORME & SLADE SOLICITORS C M Y CM MY CY LEADING SOLICITORS CMY K GOOD QUALITY, COST EFFECTIVE ADVICE IN MANY AREAS OF LAW Natwest Bank Chambers Ledbury Herefordshire HR8 1AB Tel: 01531 632226 [email protected] www.ormeandslade.co.uk GONE CUCKOO LADS presents THE LAST BREAD PUDDING 6th May 13th May Saturday 8pm // £11 (£7 Students) Saturday 8pm // Pay what you feel In their new show, storyteller Malcolm Green and Coming from their recent success as winners of musician Joshua Green follow the trail of the the Hereford County Drama Festival at The Cuckoo to explore the fascinating world of this Courtyard (and now through to the Regional extraordinary creature through stories, music Semi Finals!), LADS presents its award winning and song. one-act comedy, The Last Bread Pudding; a hilariously melodramatic bird’s eye view on an It’s shortly after dawn at RAF Fylingdales on the AmDram committee’s decision on what their North York Moors and a male Cuckoo is having a next play should be. The meeting soon goes off tiny 4.5g radio transmitter strapped to his back. A agenda and secrets are revealed! Written by few weeks later he will have flown thousands of Nick Warburton, the play showcases the talent miles south and 5km up over the Sahara Desert, of two of the Hereford County Drama Festival’s sending signals back to England as he travels individual award winners – Toby Burchell who through Libya and Chad to the Congo. won Best Actor for his portrayal of Chairman Ken, and Best Director Ben Mowbray. For thousands of years the Cuckoo has been part of folklore and its call present in songs, LADS will be supported by the Eardisley Little poems and stories. But now this bird is Theatre Youth Club’s self-devised Playback disappearing in England and we may soon stop Time. The play focuses on innocence versus hearing that iconic ‘cuck-coo’. cruelty in tackling the issues of mental health. A strong and mature performance by this young and talented group was rewarded by their award for their ensemble work in the recent HCDF. 4 Worcester Gilbert & Sullivan Society presents Hotbuckle Theatre Company presents THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS OF MUSIC HALL FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD 19th-20th May 26th May Fri - Sat 7.30pm // £12 (£5 Students) Friday 8pm // £12 (£8 Students) Come and join the Worcester Gilbert & Sullivan I shall do one thing in this life – one thing certain Society for an entertaining and fun-filled – that is, love you, and long for you, and keep evening in the traditional style of the music hall. wanting you till I die. An evening packed with well-loved songs, close harmony singing and comedy all under the As three very different suitors compete for her watchful eye of our worthy chairman, a veritable heart, spirited, independent Bathsheba virtuoso of vocabulary. Everdene must choose between them. Will she choose to marry for passion, for obligation or for Our special guest is the ever-popular and very true love and companionship? Or will she value talented Barry North. her independence and not marry at all? You will be transported back to Those Good Old Celebrating their tenth anniversary, their fifth Days of Music Hall, so, dress up (only if you visit to The Market Theatre, and following on want to), turn up and sing up. You'll be glad you from Emma, perfect theatre with seemingly did. no effort at all BBC Radio, Persuasion - pure theatre magic **** The Stage and David Copperfield – Brimming with wit and charm Remotegoat, Hardy’s romance is brought to life with live music and Hotbuckle’s trademark ensemble style. 5 HIS WAY – the Frank Sinatra Show LADS presents BREATH OF SPRING 27th May 15th-17th June Saturday 8pm // £12 (£8 Students) Thurs-Sat 8pm // £10 (£5 students) The remarkable story of Francis Albert Sinatra – When Dame Beatrice is given a mink shawl by from band singer to 1940s 'pop idol'; from his her maid, the resident lodgers – a fall from popularity to swinging his way through pension-minded brigadier, a vivid vocal coach, the 1950s; recording his most famous songs and a dithery chins restorer – band together with and albums; and building his own record label Dame “Bee” and her friend, to return the filched Reprise. fur. That successful mission is quite an invigorating experience, prompting the eclectic Award winning singer Robert Habermann tells group to form a Robin Hood like crime the Chairman of The Board’s ‘whole' story, and syndicate, which steals furs and gives the sings the great Sinatra classics : Come Fly With proceeds to charity. But when Scotland Yard Me, Fly Me To The Moon, Witchcraft, You Make gets wind of those high-minded thefts, things get Me Feel So Young, Strangers In The Night, My even more interesting. Way, New York New York and many more. 6 LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVAL To buy tickets see next page MOTOWN - BIG SING FIRST ACTS Spoken word on film Ben Norris 24th June 1st July 12 noon to 6pm // £25 (group discounts available) Saturday 5 - 6pm // Free but ticketed For tickets: 07908 853 914 Rural Media presents a screening and live or https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bigsinguk performance of some bold and innovative micro-short spoken word films made by West If you are new to Big Sing, here is a brief Midlands based Spoken Word Artists for the description of what your afternoon will involve. Channel 4 Random Acts strand. The artists We will start with some fun vocal warm up include 1990s Chris, Paul Stringer (Beatfreeks), exercises within groups, and then we teach a Aliyah Hasinah, Sipho Dube, Dion Kitson and medley of songs from a West End Musical. With Tom Chimiak. The event and Q&A with artists West End Performers as your Singing Coaches, will be hosted by Ben Norris (2013 UK All-Star the tuition is delivered in an enjoyable fun Poetry Slam Champion). method. There are no Auditions, and you will not be required to sing on your own. We will work towards an end of Workshop presentation which your family and friends are welcome to attend at no extra charge. (Do not miss the Rogers & Hammerstein Big Sing on Sat 2 September – see later in brochure) 7 @ THE MARKET THEATRE tickets available from Festival Box Office phone 01531 636232 or www.poetry-festival.co.uk from 18 May LEDBURY POETRY SLAM FORGET ME NOT – THE ALZHEIMER’S WHODUNNIT 1st July 3rd July Saturday 8pm -10.30pm // £9 Monday 7 - 8pm // £9 Brace yourselves for a knockout night of Comic, poet and ex-psychiatric nurse Rob Gee performance poetry as worldly wordsmiths take presents a murder mystery set on an the page onto the stage to compete for points Alzheimer’s ward. that lead to prizes! It's a cut-and-thrust contest where do-or-die versifiers parade their poems in Jim’s wife, a patient on a dementia ward, has a bid to reach the hearts and hearing parts of died from what appears to be natural causes. the public. Random judges award points for Jim is a retired police detective and he smells a style, content and warmth of the applaudience, rat. He’s determined to solve this one last so who will fire on all syllables into the final and murder.
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