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WELCOME A Note From Our Theatre Manager Welcome to our 9th Season Brochure. Our previous season has been a great success. I have seen some fantastic performances both by professional and amateur visiting companies. The team and I very much hope you will like the new programme of shows. We have listened carefully to the feedback we have received from you and believe you will enjoy what we have to offer. It has become very apparent to me in the first six months of working here at Braintree Arts Theatre that we are very fortunate to have fantastically loyal customers. Thank you as ever for your continued support, and I look forward to welcoming you to our great little theatre once again. With kindest regards Phil Pattie Theatre and Technical Manager Box Office Information Opening times (phone and walk-ins) Phone number: 01376 556 354 Monday-Friday: 11am-4pm Email: [email protected] 2 hours before scheduled performances. Address: Braintree Arts Theatre, Notley Road, Braintree, Essex CM7 1WY Theatre App For Theatre goers on the move! Search for ‘Braintree Arts Theatre’ in your app store and permanently have us in the palm of your hand. This handy little app, is easy to use and will give you all the info you need, from seating plans to our latest shows. Available for both IOS and Android users. Changes we have been working on! Check out our even easier to use new website - www.braintreeartstheatre.com In July this year, we installed a brand new sound system and lighting rig to ensure our customers, visiting acts and hirers experience the sound and lighting they should expect. Check out our Facebook page for more improvements as they happen facebook.com/braintreeartstheatre DISCOUNTS Family Ticket Offer We are pleased to offer discounted tickets for groups or families for several of our Family shows. This applies to groups of four and all four tickets must be purchased at the same time. Look for the Family Ticket offer for participating shows. Funhouse Comedy Night Offer Buy two tickets in advance and get the third 1/2 price on all Funhouse Comedy Nights! All three tickets must be for the same Comedy Night and be purchased at the same time. Theatre Hire Looking for a venue to host a conference, dance show or private event? Our modern venue can hold up to 300 people in the main auditorium and has full projection and AV facilities. We also have several smaller seminar rooms each housing their own dedicated media facilities. Situated on the outskirts of Braintree, the theatre has free parking for 250 vehicles, with six dedicated disabled parking bays. Wheelchair access is provided throughout the building including backstage. We are pleased to offer all hirers free WiFi. For further details and pricing, please contact Theatre Management on 01376 556357. Technical specifications of our main auditorium can be found on our website. Online Bookings You can find show information, view seating plans and book tickets to any of our shows 24 hours a day by visiting our website www.braintreeartstheatre.com Key: Theatre Tribute Live Music Comedy Family box office: 01376 556 354 1 twitter.com/BATheatre Fun House Comedy Monthly Carey Marx Junior Simpson Funhouse Comedy is one of the UK’s foremost promoters and bookers of live stand-up comedy. Funhouse Comedy Clubs are run by Nottingham comedian Spiky Mike and are renowned for having exceptionally friendly audiences and a wonderful atmosphere which have led to twice winning Best Midlands Comedy Club awards with leading comedy website Chortle. DATE COMEDIAN Fri 25 September, 8:00pm Carey Marx Fri 30 October, 8:00pm Brian Higgins Vince Atta Fri 27 November, 8:00pm Junior Simpson Fri 18 December, 8:00pm Vince Atta Fri 29 January, 8:00pm Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue Fri 26 February, 8:00pm Nathan Caton £10, buy 2 tickets and get the 3rd half price (advanced bookings only) 2 braintreeartstheatre.com facebook.com/braintreeartstheatre Lewis Schaffer is Free Ed Byrne: Outside, until Famous Looking In SOLD OUT Fri 2 October, 8:00pm Fri 9 October, 8:00pm The acclaimed New York comic now That bloke. You know. The Irish guy. No, not based in the UK returns. the bald one. The other one. You know him. The one Carol from work really likes. Wait, Pronounced “Shay-fer”, Lewis Schaffer that might be Jason Byrne. Anyway. Funny combines the comedy genes of Joan Rivers chap. Has a new show! and Jackie Mason with the relevance of the freshest British comedians. Reviews from previous shows: Lewis Schaffer’s free-wheeling style, often 5* Comedy’s holy grail... Go see! - The described as “jazzy”, makes every show Sunday Times different and thrilling. Fasten your seat belts. Lewis Schaffer was the house compere 5* A masterful display of the comics art… of the Comedy Cellar and the Boston This is a seamless and perfectly timed Comedy Club in New York. In London, show that could stand proudly next to any Lewis Schaffer has the longest-running Izzard, Bailey, Carr or Skinner stadium-filler. - residency at the prestigious Leicester Sunday Times Square Theatre; he is the regular MC of Peter Cook’s Establishment Club; and is 5* Hilarious anecdotes! l assure you the star of Nunhead American Radio on Ed Byrne is one comedian you should Resonance FM London. DEFINITLEY see. - Edinburgh Festival Magazine Recommended by the Times, The Guardian, The Independent and many 4* Jokes come so fast that hecklers other publications and websites. don’t have a chance to get a word in edgeways. - The Times Who better to give it to us straight than this New Yorker? - The Independent. 4* Byrne is at the top of his game. - Sunday Telegraph £Free* £0.50 booking fee £19 box office: 01376 556 354 3 twitter.com/BATheatre Parkway Dreams I Can’t Believe It’s Not Buddy Sat 17 October, 7:30pm Fri 23 October, 7:30pm Directed by Ivan Cutting Designed by When Buddy Holly died in a plane crash in Charlie Cridlan Music by Simon Egerton. 1959 aged just 22 he was already a star... today he is a legend! It’s 1972 and a young family are about to make a fresh start in an exciting New Town. Starring Spencer J as Buddy Holly and Using the authentic voices of those who backed by the superb Copycat Crickets, worked for the Peterborough Development this exciting, high-energy show features all Corporation back in the 1970s and the classic hits - That’ll Be the Day, Peggy 1980s, Eastern Angles has recreated the Sue, Heartbeat, Maybe Baby, True Love backroom story of how a small historic Ways, Oh Boy, Not Fade Away, Everyday, Fenland city turned into buzzy New Town, how ancient villages morphed into modern Rave On, Raining In My Heart. townships and discovers why a comical Roman Centurion came to front the city’s I CANT BELIEVE IT’S NOT BUDDY is publicity campaign…all told through the guaranteed to have the whole audience eyes of Mary, Jack and Peter - a typical Rockin’ and Boppin’ in the aisles...”the best London ‘overspill family’. ‘Buddy’ party in town”! This quirky mix of oral history interviews, In terms of energy, originality and ability to television game show spoofs and political connect with an audience, Buddy, Jerry, satire combines with a poignant family story Niki & Joe B, the original Crickets, had few to create a fascinating and funny insight equals, beyond Elvis. Through hard work, into the development of a typical English impeccable musicianship and dedication New Town. to authenticity, Spencer, JJ, Gerry and Spencer succeed in re-creating The Parkway Dreams is a product of the Eastern Crickets’ special brand of “feel-good fifties Angles/Vivacity Forty Years On archive fun” at venue after venue. And whenever project funded by the Heritage Lottery they are on stage, fans everywhere agree Fund. that, once again, Buddy Holly lives! £13, £12 conc. £16, £14 conc. 4 braintreeartstheatre.com facebook.com/braintreeartstheatre Marty MacDonald’s Café 6 Farm Why not order your interval drinks at the bar before the performance and have them waiting for you. This is a free service and will allow you more time to relax before the next act. Café 6 is the perfect meeting point for a relaxed pre show and interval drink, cup of tea or coffee and a snack. Sun 1 November, 2:00pm Our fully stocked bar “Marty MacDonald needs your help! offers a wide variety of wines, spirits, lagers, ciders He’s looking after his uncle’s farm but Old MacDonald has left things in a mess and local real ales. – the animals have gone on holiday, the farmyard is topsy-turvy and the crafty crows The café bar is open 45 are eating the crops in front of his eyes! minutes before the start Help Marty, Pongo the Pig, Molly-Moo the of the performance and Cow and Sheena the Sheep as they work together to find a way to rescue the corn during the interval. Our and save their farm… café is fully accessible Come and join in the adventure, make including the outdoor new friends and sing along to your favourite songs & nursery rhymes, in a live and patio. interactive theatre show with bags of fun and laughter, down on Marty MacDonald’s Farm!” With a colourful farmyard and host of loveable puppet characters, Marty MacDonald’s Farm is a family show particularly suitable for 3 – 7 year olds. Running time: 90 minutes, including interval (Please note that Justin & Nicole do not appear in person.) £8.50, £6.50, £26 family ticket box office: 01376 556 354 5 twitter.com/BATheatre Ultimate Elton and The Rocket Band Sat 7 November, 7:30pm Some tribute artists look like their idol, some made the headlines recently when they sound like their idol.