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What’s on AUTUMN 20 18 castletheatre.co.uk Box Office01933 270 007 BOX OFFICE 01933 270 007 Mon – Fri 10am – 6pm Sat 10am – 5pm Or until 15 minutes after the start of the last show. Look out for this icon throughout the brochure which PG highlights audience age guidelines on specific events LIVE BROADCAST With a wide range of live comedy, ARTS music, drama and dance, there Watch the very best of live theatre is something for screened to Castle Theatre from the everyone at Castle National Theatre, Royal Opera House, Theatre. Royal Shakespeare Company, Branagh Theatre and more. COMMUNITY OFFERS Enjoy live performances from our Make savings where you talented local societies and schools. see this icon throughout the brochure. With a range of Family and Group discounts, see the best entertainment for the best price. CONTENTS THEATRE FILM FOR Catch some of the biggest CHILDREN blockbusters guaranteed to entertain the whole family. Look out for our selection of You are never too young to Autism Friendly film screenings enjoy theatre! Look out for our throughout the brochure. For Theatre for Children icon for more information about what our performances created for our Autism Friendly performances youngest audience members entail, see page 39. and their families. CONNECT DIARY AT WITH US A GLANCE castle theatre, wellingborough Use our handy Diary feature @castle_WEL to quickly find out what’s happening at a glance! castletheatrewel Box Office | 01933 270 007 The Happy 15 Prince In a cheap Parisian hotel room, Oscar Wilde lies on The boys are back with a brand-new show full of opera, his death bed and the past classical, West End and crossover as well as their unique, floods back, transporting him unrivalled on-stage banter. Combining 4 big voices with 4 to other times and places. big personalities, The Opera Boys deliver a fabulous show full Was he once the most of music and laughter! famous man in London? The artist crucified by a society Operatic arias and classical favourites from Nessun Dorma that once worshipped him? to Time To Say Goodbye are mixed with showstoppers from Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera right through The lover imprisoned and to Jersey Boys. The show also features brand new classical freed, yet still running towards arrangements of modern day pop hits, all performed in The ruin in the final chapter of his Opera Boys inimitable style. life? Making classical music accessible to the masses, The Happy Prince is a portrait The Opera Boys combine their exceptional classically of the dark side of a genius trained voices with their experience, showmanship and who lived and died for personality to deliver a wonderfully entertaining show not to love in the last days of the be missed! nineteenth century. Starring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan, Edwin Thomas and Emily Watson. Sat 1 Sep, 7.30pm Sun 2 Sep, 5pm £18.50 £7 Group Offer: 11 for 10 SEPTEMBER 4 castletheatre.co.uk Swimming With Men 12A Adrift 12A Faced with a full-blown mid-life crisis, From the director of Everest and starring accountant Eric (Rob Brydon) joins an all-male Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies) and Sam group of synchronised swimmers, discovering Claflin (Me Before You), Adrift is based on the that making patterns in a pool can, for a incredible true story of two young adventurers couple of hours at least, smooth out the bumps whose chance encounter leads them first to in his work and marriage. Initially keeping their love, and then to a fight for survival. personal lives in the locker, the ramshackle Setting off on the journey of a lifetime across squad and coach Susan (Charlotte Riley) the Pacific Ocean, Tami Oldham (Woodley) slowly learn to reveal their inner lives, as well as and Richard Sharp (Claflin) are pushed to their their paunches. But can they get their lives and limits as they sail directly into one of the most routines in sync as they embark on an unlikely catastrophic storms in recorded history. In the journey to Milan to compete in the aftermath, Tami awakens to find Richard badly World Championship? injured and their boat in ruins. With no hope for rescue, novice sailor Tami must find the strength and determination to save herself and the only man she has ever loved. Adrift is an unforgettable story about the resilience of the human spirit and the remarkable power of love. Mon 3 Sep, 7.30pm Tue 4 Sep, 7.30pm £7 £7 SEPTEMBER 5 Box Office | 01933 270 007 National Theatre Live 15+ An Evening 13+ Julie with Teddy by Polly Stenham after Strindberg Sheringham Vanessa Kirby (The Crown, NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire) Teddy Sheringham is an and Eric Kofi Abrefa (The Amen Corner) feature in the cast English born footballer who of this brand-new production, directed by Carrie Cracknell boasts a 25-year playing (NT Live: The Deep Blue Sea) and broadcast live from the career. His clubs include National Theatre to cinemas. Millwall, Manchester United, Notts Forest, Tottenham, West Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late-night party. In Ham and Portsmouth, as the kitchen, Jean and Kristina clean up as the celebration well as 51 appearances for heaves above them. Crossing the threshold, Julie initiates England. His honours include a power game with Jean – which rapidly descends into a 3 Premier League Titles, savage fight for survival. Champions league, FA Cup, This new version of August Strinberg’s play Miss Julie, written Premier League Golden Boot by Polly Stenham, remains shocking and fiercely relevant in its and PFA players’ player of new setting of contemporary London. the year. Sheringham will be talking about his career and giving you an insight of what his life was like with some fantastic stories. The evening will be hosted by Talksport favourite Perry Groves. This event is proudly sponsored by Rutherfords Trophy shop and Play at the Palace. Thu 6 Sep, 7pm Fri 7 Sep, 8pm £15.50 (£13.50) £25 (£20) Studio Theatre SEPTEMBER 6 castletheatre.co.uk Hotel U Ocean’s 8 12A In The Fade 18 Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation Join our favourite monster Five years, eight months, 12 Inspired by real-life events, this family as they embark on days and counting. That’s gripping, edge-of-your-seat a vacation on a luxury how long Debbie Ocean has thriller tells the story of Katja monster cruise ship so Drac been devising the biggest (Diane Kruger), whose life is can take a summer holiday heist of her life. She knows torn apart when her husband from providing everyone what it’s going to take - a and young son are suddenly else’s vacation at the hotel. team of the best in their field. killed in a bomb attack. It’s smooth sailing for Drac’s The target is a cool $150 A police investigation points Pack as the monsters indulge million dollars in diamonds. to a pair of young neo-Nazis in all the shipboard fun the The plan is rock solid, but as the key suspects, but when cruise has to offer, from everything will need to be a lack of evidence fails to monster volleyball to exotic flawless if the team is going fully incriminate them, Katja excursions, and catching up to get in and get away with is forced to take matters into on their moon tans. But the the ice. her own hands and her hunt dream vacation turns into With an all-star cast including for justice begins to take a nightmare when Mavis Sandra Bullock, Cate dangerous and realizes Drac has fallen for Blanchett, Anne Hathaway unexpected turns. the mysterious captain of and Rihanna. the ship, Ericka, who hides a Foreign language film dangerous secret that could destroy all of monsterkind. Sat 8 - Sun 9 Sep Mon 10 Sep, 7.30pm Tue 11 Sep, 7.30pm Sat, 11am* & 3pm £7 £7 Sun, 1pm £7 (£5 Under 16s) * Autism Friendly Screening SEPTEMBER 7 8 SEPTEMBER Box Office | 01933 270 007 3+ castletheatre.co.uk RSC Live The Bookshop PG NC Jazz The Merry Wives Matt Ridley of Windsor Quintet Down on his luck in the Set in a small town in 1959 The quintet’s music suburbs, John Falstaff England, The Bookshop is takes the listener on an plans to hustle his way to a the story of a woman who absorbing journey, which comfortable retirement by decides, against polite but marries the exhilaration seducing the wives of two ruthless local opposition, of jazz improvisation wealthy men. to open a bookshop, a with intricately sculpted decision which becomes arrangements. At the heart Unknown to him, it’s the apolitical minefield. of each composition is a women of Windsor who really strong melodic theme, the pull the strings, orchestrating Starring Emily Mortimer, Bill realisation of which draws on Falstaff’s comeuppance Nighy, Patricia Clarkson. any number of influences to amidst a theatrical bring fullest expression. The smorgasbord of petty rivalries, ferocious improvisational skills jealousies and over-inflated of each member make for an egos. absorbing and entertaining For a fat Englishman, a listening experience. Welshman and a Frenchman, Matt Ridley on Bass, John the only way is Windsor… Turville on Piano, Ant Law on Guitar, Jason Yarde on Saxes and George Hart on Drums. Wed 12 Sep, 7pm Thu 13 Sep, 3pm & 7.30pm Thu 13 Sep, 8pm £15.50 (£13.50) £7 £14 (£12) Studio Theatre Studio Theatre SEPTEMBER 9 Box Office | 01933 270 007 Jive Talkin’ Mary Shelley 12A Whitney 15 Perform The Bee Gees in Concert Back by popular demand, The tempestuous romance With over 200 million album Jive Talkin’ return to Castle that inspired one of Gothic sales worldwide and Theatre following their first literature’s most influential remaining the only artist to performance which brought works is brought to life in chart seven consecutive US the house down with their Mary Shelley, a luscious and No.1s, Whitney Houston was magnificent renditions moving period drama starring the voice of a generation.