arts richmond Newsletter of Richmond upon Thames Arts Council

April 2009

Great authors at Book Picnic This year’s artsrichmond May Fair Book Picnic features two the ideas involved in the play, is a highly entertaining authors: Lee Langley (this year’s joint marvellous opportunity. For the President of artsrichmond) and Gyles Brandreth – plus the audience, it is a chance to see some chairman’s suitably ‘mystery guest’. It’s on Sunday 10 May in the talented new writers testing out their marquee on from 12.00 pm skills, and some of our best local actors putting their all into making Gyles Brandreth has created a new murder-solving detective, none other than the play successful. Oscar Wilde, and Lee Langley’s next novel has, intriguingly, the heroine of a Puccini opera and an American President among her characters. Previous New Writing competitions have been won by highly talented Oscar Wilde – Christopher Columbus – Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan plays which were capable of building Doyle – Napoleon Bonaparte – Walter Sickert – Voltaire – Franklin D new careers for their writers, so the Roosevelt are all among the famous characters summoned up by our eminent standard to be maintained this year is writers, who will be talking about the perils and joys of using real people in high. their fiction. You can follow them on a detective trail between history and fiction, truth and lies, at the picnic when they discuss researching and writing Tickets for the limited seats in the their books – Gyles with the scintillating world of Oscar Wilde, set in the audience for the competition are London of his time, and Lee with 18 th century France, Venice, Egypt and available from The Orange Tree Japan. Theatre Box Office in advance on 020 8940 3633 or from 12.30 pm on BRING YOUR OWN PICNIC: we provide the marquee, tables and chairs, the conversation, and a Buck’s Fizz on arrival. Tables for ten people can be Sunday 29 March, price £5.00. The reserved in advance. Doors open at 12.30 pm; the conversation will begin at plays will start at 1.15 pm, and the about 1.30 pm. awards are expected to be announced at about 5.30 pm. Tickets £12.50 (£10.00 for Friends of the Arts and Libraries – includes a welcoming glass of Buck's Fizz. More information from 020 8892 9446. Major Shakespeare New Writing March with the first play starting at Exhibition at 1.30 pm. Competition The plays are performed in-the-round in the famous , From 18 April to 7 June, Orleans nce again, arts richmond Richmond, an ideal environment for House Gallery is staging a really top- provides the opportunity for demonstrating the talents involved in class national exhibition to celebrate Otalented playwrights to have creating new works. Four expert the 250 th anniversary of the delivery their plays performed and assessed in judges will assess the plays, select of Roubiliac’s statue of Shakespeare a professional theatre. The 2009 the winner, and comment on why to Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare New Writing competition, organised different plays appealed or, perhaps, at Hampton, which set off a decade for arts richmond by Edie Purdue in failed to meet the aspirations of their of Shakespeare celebrations memory of her husband Roy Purdue, writers. The winner receives the Roy culminating in the first Shakespeare who was a leading light in amateur Purdue Salver and is invited to take Jubilee at Stratford-upon-Avon. The dramatics in the borough of part in a creative writing workshop at original statue is now in the British Richmond upon Thames for many the Soho Theatre in London. Library, and Garrick’s Temple has a years, has six short plays by writers For a playwright, working in the face fine copy. The Orleans House which are performed by some of the exhibition follows from the National leading local amateur dramatic of some of the toughest competition in any of the arts, the chance to have Portrait Gallery’s 2006 exhibition groups, giving the chance to see which took the search for the true entertaining, often experimental, your work performed in a theatre, with the actors bringing out the face of Shakespeare up to 1719. The works interpreted by skilled actors exhibition is given added interest by and directors. It’s on Sunday 29 emotions, the humour, the pathos and the claim – disputed by the curators - Orleans House on list for that the ’Cobbe portrait’ is the Petersham Festival original portrait of Shakespeare, top prize painted from life, from which all others were derived. The Orleans House Gallery is on a his year’s Petersham very distinguished long list for the Festival runs from 11 to 19 At Orleans House, the bust and full Art Fund Prize for Museums and April, over Easter length figures by sculptors Rysbrack, T Galleries. The citation says ‘ the weekend and week, combining its Scheemakers, Cheere and Roubiliac Gallery [the Stables block] has been now well-established mix of the will be seen alongside each other for transformed from a group of intimate with the highly the first time. The frontispiece decaying buildings into a thriving portraits from all the 18 th century and inspirational community hub for professional. A full list of events editions of Shakespeare will also be heritage, arts and learning, with can be obtained from shown with major paintings by regularly-changing contemporary and www.petershamfestival. org , and Mortimer, Hayman, de Quertenmont historical exhibitions alongside its the box office is at and Kaufmann, with a copy of permanent collection’. [email protected] Gainsborough’s double portrait of (0844 586 7644). Shakespeare and Garrick (destroyed You can support the nomination by in the Stratford Town Hall fire in completing the online form on the Highlights include the John 1946), with an original engraving, website www.artfundprize.org.uk or Williams guitar recital on plus many artefacts and engravings. by sending comments by post/in Monday 13 April in St Peter’s person to Orleans House Gallery and Church at 8.30 pm (sold out); The exhibition is curated by Iain they will placed on the site. Mackintosh, designer of the Orange (children aged 8-16 are invited to Tree Theatre in Richmond and of The winner will be announced on 18 his 15 minute warm-up at 7 pm - theatre spaces such as Glyndebourne June. Congratulations to all the queue up quietly with a and the Cottesloe, and Marcus LBRuT arts team. responsible adult at 6.50 pm), a Risdell, librarian and curator of the Young Writers performance of Handel’s Messiah Garrick Club’s collections. on Tuesday 14 April at 8.00 pm, The arrangements for the 2009 again in St Peter’s, an illustrated Sunday arts richmond competition for young talk for anyone over the age of 7 Shakespeare Shuttle writers, which attracted a record on Thursday 16 April at 11.00 am number of entries in 2008, will be at the Russell School Junior Hall: The Shakespeare Exhibition at announced shortly. The competition Little Leap Forward: A Boy in Orleans House can be combined with runs over the summer, with Beijing , by the wonderful Chinese a visit to Garrick’s Temple at workshops for hopeful participants, Hampton, built by the actor David and culminates in a highly enjoyable bamboo flautist Guo Yue from Garrick on the banks of a fine stretch awards event in the Orange Tree Richmond and his wife Clare of the Thames, with pictures Theatre. Details from 020 8892 9446 Farrow. commemorating Shakespeare and There’s a folk music night on Garrick and the fine life-sized copy Art tent at May Fair of the famous Roubiliac statue. Friday 17 April at 8.00 pm in Once again, arts richmond is inviting Petersham Village Hall with On Sunday afternoons during the painters to show, and offer for sale, Suntrap and Jo Burke, on exhibition a free shuttle bus will take affordable paintings in the Saturday 18 April an illustrated visitors between the Gallery and the arts richmond tent at the Richmond lecture by Andrew Carwood, Temple: they’ll leave the Gallery at May Fair on Saturday 9 May. Director of Music at St Paul’s 2.30, 3.30 and 4.30 and come back at Details are being circulated to art 3.00, 4.00 and 5.00 pm. Light snacks Cathedral, at 3.30 pm, in the societies, and will be available from village hall. That follows the are available both at the North 020 8892 9446 and our website. Stables Café at Orleans House and at prize-giving in the poetry the Temple, providing a fine and Two artsrichmond competition at 2.00 pm there. fascinating afternoon out. summer events The same day there are two short The exhibition is open Sundays from concerts by The Cardinall’s 2.00 to 5.30 pm, Tuesdays to Our Joint President for 2009, Lady Musick in St Peter’s at 6.30 and Saturdays from 1.00 to 5.30 pm. Panufnik, is hosting our summer 9.30 pm, and the festival finishes garden party on Saturday 11 July in on Sunday 19 April with Songs of April mailing her garden at Riverside House. And we have a special event on Thursday Praise in St Peter’s at 6.00 pm. Flyers for events in May 11 June for her photograph In between there are open studios, should be delivered to the exhibition in the Stables Gallery. an egg hunt, a 5 km run, concerts at the Dysart and rock and more arts richmond office on Eel artsrichmond website Pie Island by Thursday 16 at the Fox and Duck, wine tastings, and much more. Many April. Information for the The arts richmond website lists society events notified to us, with a events are over-subscribed, so be Newsletter should be sent sure to get your tickets well in by 3 April page and hotlink for each affiliated society. Contact Pam Frazer on advance. [email protected] Embankment Frank Wedekind’s sex Music tragedy Lulu (020 8744 0547) Art & Exhibitions St Mary’s Church Barnes Sunday 5 Journeyman Theatre Company Orleans House Gallery, April at 6.00pm, A Service of Music The newly revived Journeyman Riverside Until 12 for Passiontide, including cantatas Company presents My Sister in This April Jane Spencer Retrospective from Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu House by Wendy Kesselman from 16 18 April to 7 June Shakespeare 1709- Nostri (020 8741 5083) to 18 April at the Drama Studio, 1790 (see article above) Richmond Adult Community Richmond Concert Society Tuesday College, Parkshot, Richmond at 8.00 Stables Gallery at Orleans House 21 April at 7.45 pm, German School, pm (020 8894 1283). 19 March to 17 May Creative 500: Petersham Nash Ensemble of the changing face of mixed media London : Richard Strauss, Richmond Film Society at the reflecting the last 50 years Schoenberg and Brahms (020 8892 RACC, Parkshot, Richmond at 8.00 Riverside Gallery , Old Town Hall. 1456) pm. Tuesday 14 April Shoot ‘Em Up , (UK/Italy), directed by Michael Whittaker Avenue, Richmond Age & Florestan Trio Saturday 25 April at Davis. Memory until 25 April 7.30 pm, at The Wathen Hall, St Tuesday 28 April My Best Friend Twickenham Art Circle 4 to 9 April Paul’s Shool, Barnes Debussy, (France), directed by Patrice Leconte Easter Exhibition – affordable art in a Ravel and Messiaen, with Richard (020 8893 3503) wide variety of media and styles. Hosford, clarinet (020 7731 1940) Orange Tree Theatre Richmond 25 Main Hall, St Catherine’s School, Eel Pie Club Wednesday 1 April at March to 25 April, The Story of Cross Deep, Twickenham, 10.30 am 9.15 pm at The Patch, 67 London Vasco , by George Schehade, the to 7.00 pm (5.00 pm on final day) Road (doors open at 8.30 pm) The world premiere of an adaptation by ([email protected]) Kast-Off Kinks 2. (07732 322610). Ted Hughes, directed by Adam Ham Art Group 1 to 4 May Spring Wednesday 15 April, as above The Barnard (020 8940 3633). Bank Holiday Exhibition in Stb Robin Bibi Band 29 April to 30 May: Factors Unseen Thomas Aquinas Church Hall, Ham (A la Renverse) by Michel Vinaver, Street, Ham – a selection of new Wednesday 24 April, as above The translated by Catherine Crimp, paintings in a variety of styles and John Warwick Band directed by Sam Walters. subjects at affordable prices (Friday TOP EEL PIE EVENT: The , Richmond 6.30 to 8.30 pm; Saturday, Sunday Yardbirds at the Live Room, (0870 060 6651) 30 March to 4 April Monday 10.00 am to 6.00 pm Twickenham Rugby Stadium, on Duet for One , with Juliet Stevenson ([email protected] ) Friday 24 April at 8.30 pm (doors and Henry Goodman, by Tom Riverside Artists 2 to 3 open 7.30 pm) Advance bookings Kempinski and directed by Matthew May Spring Art Exhibition Ss Peter www.eelpieclub.com . Lloyd. and Paul Church Hall, Church Road, Landmark Centre Wednesday 29 7 to 11 April Noel Coward’s Brief Teddington ([email protected] ) April at 7.30pm: Teddington Stacey Encounter, as performed by Fountain Gallery , East Molesey Kent in Concert Kneehigh Theatre , the mix between theatre and film which got (020 8941 5865) 31 March to 12 Among the other glorious concerts tremendous reviews when at the April Parallels by Sharon Withers on Saturday 28 March (see March Haymarket Cinema. 14 to 26 April Cool, Calm and arts richmond Newsletter), the John Collected by Alan White, Lee Colet Singers and Orchestra will 13 to 18 April The Songtime Theatre Campbell and Emma Johnstone be singing Haydn’s Creation (Parts 1 Arts production of The Wizard of Oz. 26 April to 10 May A Translation of and 2) at 8.00 pm at St Mary’s 20 to 25 April Noel Coward’s A Nature by Susy Abrahams and Kathy Church, Barnes (020 8741 5422) Song at Twilight with Peter Egan and Belinda Lang. Miller Drama/Film 27 April to 2 May Sign of the Times Richmond Hill Gallery, Hill Rise, by Tim Firth, starring Stephen Richmond 5 March to 26 April, Teddington Theatre Club 19 to 25 Tompkinson. Spring Show of Royal Academicians April at the Playhouse: and other leading artists; 30 April to a double bill directed by John Roth Coming up at the Richmond 7 June, Barbara Rae (020 8940 5152) of Garrick’s Miss in Her Teens and Theatre from 26 to 30 May: Arthur Richmond & Twickenham Sheridan’s The Critic (Act 2) (0845 Miller’s A View from the Bridge , the in-demand West End production. Photographic Society: Annual 838 7529). Exhibition - Wednesday 8 - Sunday OHADS (Old Hamptonians 19 April, 12.00 - 6.30 pm week days, Amateur Dramatic Society) 1 to 4 TopS’s Godspell 10.00 - 6.30 pm weekends. April in the Coward Studio in the Landmark Centre, Teddington Hampton Hill Playhouse Last Tango Don’t miss one of the first musical productions in the new The exhibition includes print panels, in Little Grimley and Last Panto in slides and digital images. Weekend Live Room at Twickenham Little Grimley, a double bill by David demonstrations on digital imaging Tristram (020 8977 4926). Stadium: Godspell, TopS’s 2009 are planned. Shop for books, with Richmond Shakespeare Society 28 production, from 6 to 10 May. cards and prints made by members. March to 4 April at the Mary Box Office now open: 020 8866 www.rtps.org.uk Wallace Theatre, Twickenham 4384. ShowCoach visit: 6 May Whittaker Friends of Bushy and Home Parks Avenue, Richmond (020 8332 1141) Talks and meetings Thursday 23 April at at Elleray Hall, Exhibition From Henry VII to Henry Teddington – The Next VIII in Richmond , celebrating the Borough of Twickenham Local Generation by Sophie Bryant and 500 th anniversary of Henry VIII’s History Society Monday 6 April at Hannah Pritchard (020 8979 1586). accession, continues until 29 August. 8.00 pm at Mary's Church Hall, Richmond and Twickenham The exhibition looks at the links of Twickenham: Dr Samuel Johnson - Photographic Society has regular both the kings to Richmond, and A Tercentenary Celebrated by Dr twice-weekly meetings: on what the area was like in 1509, with David Allen (020 8878 7041). Thursdays general meetings with images from national and local Richmond Local History Society talks, prints and/or projected images, collections and artefacts of the period Monday 20 April at 7.30 for 8.00 pm, at St Luke's Community Centre Saturday 25 April at 10.00 am Time Duke Street Church, Richmond: The in The Avenue, Kew at 8.00 pm; and Team: a Special, Role of the Selwyn Family in the on Tuesdays specialist group first shown on Channel 4 in 1998. History of Richmond by Nick Selwyn meetings at MWB Business (020 8891 3825). Exchange, 5 Kew Road. Wednesday 29 April at 6.00 pm Membership 020 8892 5710. Tudor Film Season Carry on Henry Barnes and History VIII. Society T hursday 16 April, Sheen Lane Centre at 8.00 pm: Illustrated 25 The lecture Cromwell House and the Calendar of Embankment, Twickenham The Wigan Family in Mortlake by Helen History Centre for Twickenham, Deaton (020 8878 4071). ShowCoach events Whitton, Teddington and the 24 April: 5 day holiday in Jersey Hamptons. The current exhibition, Richmond Scientific Society Then and Now, demonstrates the Wednesday 22 April at 8.00 pm 1 April: Excursion to Down changing face of the old borough of Vestry Hall, Paradise Road, House, Charles Darwin’s newly Twickenham. Open Tuesdays and Richmond: The Experiences of a restored home in Kent Saturdays, 11.00 am to 3.00 pm; Concorde Pilot by Captain David Leney (retd) (020 8977 8551). 6 May: TOpS’s Godspell in the Sundays 2.00 to 4.00 pm Live Room at the RFU stadium Barnes Literary Society Saturday Libraries 26 April, Literary Walk 11.00 am: 10 June: War Horse at the New Samuel Pepys’s London – Bloody, London Theatre Old Town Hall Reference Library , Flaming Poxy London (020 8748 24 June: Excursion to Whittaker Avenue, Richmond 23 2558). Chiddingstone Castle April at 7.00 Author/barrister Derek Wheatley talks about his book The Richmond Association for the 18 July: The Odd Couple at The National Trust 20 April London Silent Lady , the fascinating tale of Mill at Sonning visit to Sherlock Holmes Museum the murder trial in which the (020 8894 9262). 15 August: Excursion to defendant could not give evidence Waddesdon because she claimed to have been Le Cercle Français de Richmond struck dumb (020 8912 0653). Thursday 9 April from 7.30 to 9.30 14 September: Hairspray at the pm, Vestry Hall, Paradise Road, Shaftesbury Theatre 30 April at 7.00 pm The New Richmond: Les nouveaux mots Romantics - A Celebration of Love 21 September: Suffolk and francais by Germaine Jones (020 and Literature - launch of the New Constable Country. 6 days 8892 6139). Romantics, contemporary writers 17 October: Excursion to Apsley who are passionate about the power Richmond Society Thursday 16 House of literary love (020 8912 0653) April at 7.30 for 7.45 pm at the Vestry Hall, Paradise Road, Details from Vice President Edie Library 24 April at 3.00 Richmond: Moving with the Times Purdue, 020 8891 4991 pm Author Roy Davies on The by Gail Hebert, editor of the Bulletin Darwin Conspiracy Was the great and Nostalgia pages of the Richmond scientist a plagiarist? (020 8876 and Twickenham Times (020 8948 8801) 0643)

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