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Autumn 2014 box office: 01425 612393 www.forest-arts.co.uk www.hants.gov.uk Saturday 13 September 8pm Welcome to Autumn 2014! Kris Drever & Eamonn Coyne As you read through our new brochure you THE TEAM Give us your email! Award-winning vocalist Kris Drever (part of will see that we have an extraordinarily strong line up for Judy Kyle We are increasingly using email to the acclaimed group Lau) first teamed up with the new season - with 2 nights of stand–up comedy from Administrator let customers know about our last the equally talented banjo and tenor guitarist minute offers and announcements, Eammon Coyne (of Treacherous Orchestra) the ‘maestro of feel-good’ Stephen K Amos, an evening Jackie Goddard so be first in the queue and ensure about eight years ago, after meeting on the Arts Development Officer of comedy magic with Pete Firman, and music from BBC you don’t miss out by giving us vibrant Edinburgh music scene. Tonight the Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014 ‘Best Duo’ Phillip Henry & Ann Henderson your email. duo will play from their new Marketing Co-ordinator album ‘Storymap’. Hannah Martin. Just send it to forest.arts@hants. We also have the poignant ‘A November Day’ by Suzy Needle gov.uk with ‘e-news’ in the subject Tickets £14, £13 concs Thingumajig Theatre to mark the 100th anniversary of the Operations Co-ordinator heading or check when you book that Tuesday 9 September 8pm we have your email and we’ll make outbreak of World War One. Toni Kearl Lee Nelson Administrative Assistant sure we keep you up to date! A new choir is being launched on Monday afternoons with He’s hosted Live at the Apollo, sold out Data Protection Richard Timbs his three times extended live tour Lee tutor Moira Rock. Cleaner/Caretaker We are continually updating our Nelson Live Tour, had over two million Voices is open to everyone who wants to sing upbeat database. If you do not wish to people watching BBC Three’s Lee Nelson’s numbers from The Beach Boys to Adele. For adults we are CONTACT DETAILS receive information from us, please Well Good Show; now it’s time for him contact us and we will remove your also launching a Ballet Basics class on Tuesday mornings Admin: 01425 619983 to return to Forest Arts with a night of details from our mailing list. Your and as a result of the successful workshop and show last Box Office: 01425 612393 qwaliteeee jokes, games and banter. personal information will only be Everyone’s welcome. season by The Buffalo Gals, we are delighted that The [email protected] used to send you relevant information Appaltappers will be holding contemporary tap dancing www.forest-arts.co.uk from HCC Arts Venues and/or The Tickets £17.50 classes at Forest Arts. And one last thing to mention – due @forestartsNM Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant. Warning: Comedy may contain strong Your details will only be shared with to popular demand our kids art clubs with Lisa Compton- Find us on Facebook language and adult themes an external organisation to enable us Christopher have been expanded and are now available to contact you and will not be shared on Monday evenings as well as the original Wednesday with any other organisation. sessions. We look forward to seeing you soon! 2 box office: 01425 612393 www.forest–arts.co.uk 3 Friday 19 September Tuesday 23 September 8pm Saturday Tuesday 30 September 7.30pm 27 September 8pm & Wednesday 1 October 8pm Tom Stade: Stephen K Amos: Forest Forge Theatre Decisions Decisions Martin Carthy & Company presents: Dave Swarbrick Welcome To My World The free-thinking Canadian Woman Of Flowers The maestro of feel-good comedy philosopher returns to ponder Winners of Lifetime is back on tour with his new show. An innovative re-telling of an timeless questions and reflect Achievement Award – BBC Fresh from sell-out tours of Australia ancient Welsh myth where nothing upon life’s choices and Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014 and New Zealand, as heard on is quite as it seems. decisions. He’s recently stormed Their experienced approach BBC Radio 4 Life: An Idiot’s Guide Rose cannot remember what came BBC One’s Live at the Apollo to their art lacks none of the and What Does the K Stand For? before the house at the edge of and Michael Mcintyre’s Comedy fervour of their early days, ’Warmest comic around, able to the isolated forest. Gwynne says he Roadshow as well as Ch4’s and brings a maturity born riff off a crowd and make them conjured her out of the flowers, but she’s not so sure. Comedy Gala, performing to of many years living with feel good about themselves’ his largest live audience yet the music that is an integral part of their beings. All the old She has played the part of the perfect farmer’s wife for weak Sunday Times minded Lewis and accepted her lonely existence. Then a at London’s O2 Arena. Direct skills are demonstrated with a new collection of traditional stranger comes to town. What lengths will she go to, to from sell-out performances at songs and instrumentals. www.stephenkamos.com the Melbourne and Edinburgh escape the life chosen for her? Tickets £17 Comedy Festivals, catch this ”Intense and demanding, this is hard core traditional music. Using a cross-art form approach, this beautiful piece of exuberant and spellbinding talent as he continues his assault Sublime fiddle playing and the passionate For ages 16+ only delivery of evocative old songs by their storytelling will feature live music, dance, video, integrated on the global comedy scene. Incisive comedy with the usual sprinkling of sign language and subtitles. ablest interpretor.” Daily Telegraph Warning: Comedy may Stade magic and expertly-crafted mayhem. A true master of his craft. contain strong language This performance includes subtitles and is accessible to an Tickets £14, £13 concs and adult themes audience with hearing impairments “Unmissable” Edinburgh Evening News Tickets £16 “Powerful, striking and unique in many ways” The Stage Warning: Comedy may contain strong language and adult themes Tickets £12, £11 concs Suit ages 12+ A story of desire, duty, adultery and revenge. www.forestforge.co.uk 4 box office: 01425 612393 www.forest–arts.co.uk 5 Saturday 4 October 11.30am & 2.30pm Thursday 9 October 8pm house and Wizards presents: Juan Martin presents: 2 Guitarras I Believe In Unicorns Malagueñas with Chaparro de Málaga By Michael Morpurgo Fiery Latin rhythms are on the agenda tonight as Juan and This intimate show is set in a library full of books that hold more Chaparro (who both come from the Málaga tradition of flamenco) than stories within their pages. It is a tale of the power of books, and bring us a pure, powerful and sometimes explosive performance. the bravery of a young boy called Tomas who hates reading and Juan is a renowned guitarist and Chaparro is a prize winning school. However his world is turned upside down the day he meets guitarist from Málaga who has toured widely accompanying the Unicorn Lady in his local library... famous flamenco singers. Add your own piece of magic to the story by bringing a children’s Tuesday 7 October 7.30pm Thursday 2 October 8pm Their pieces evoke the visceral power of authentic flamenco in a book to become part of the set, and swap it for another at the end. house and Dumbshow theatre company present: musical dialogue between two masters of this great and esoteric Pete Firman: Trickster “Breathtakingly beautiful and utterly charming...a must-see” The Pearl art of flamenco. Primary Times “The leading flamenco guitarist of his generation” The Guardian After sell-out performances on his 2013 tour ‘the UK’s leading When impoverished pearl-diver Kino finds the ‘pearl of the world’ Tickets £7 or £22 for group of four comedy magician’ (Time Out) hits the road again with his he believes his family’s life will be transformed forever. Seduced by Tickets £14, £13 concs astonishing new show. The star of BBC1’s ‘The Magicians’ and Suit 5 – 11 year-olds and their grown-ups! the pearl’s beauty and promise of riches, he is blind to the danger special guest on countless other TV shows, which recently of having something that everyone else wants. Instead of bringing include BBC2’s ‘The Sarah Millican Television Programme’, BBC1’s hope, the pearl leads Kino and his family down a dark and ‘Celebrity Mastermind’ and Channel 4’s ‘Comedy Mash-Up’. dangerous path. Expect Pete’s trademark blend of crowd-pleasing comedy and A timeless fable about the allure of wealth, the confines of class, jaw-dropping magic. This is a show not to be missed! and the redemptive power of love. “The new poster-boy for British comedy magic” The Telegraph Dumbshow bring John Steinbeck’s novella to life with their www.petefirman.co.uk trademark visual inventiveness and playful theatricality. @petefirman “An imaginative joy to behold”, The Scotsman Tickets £15; £13 concs www.dumbshow.org For ages 14+ only Tickets £12, £11 concs Suit ages 13+ 6 box office: 01425 612393 www.forest–arts.co.uk 7 Friday 10 October 8pm Thursday 16 October 8pm Phil McIntyre Entertainments presents: Jenny Éclair: Eclairious James Acaster: Recognise Welcome to Jenny Eclair’s new stand-up show. James Acaster has something he’s been After thirty years in the business she should meaning to tell you. He’s been putting it off vaguely know what she’s doing? Professional for some time.