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A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR INSIDE YOUR How nice to be reporting upcoming events at MAGAZINE... last! Please let me know if you are a member of a CUT CONVERSATIONS 5 local club or organisation and would like to share Best-selling gardening writer Anna your activities and maybe boost your membership Pavord on stage at The Cut by appearing in the ‘Hoot’. My email is: lou@ tidecollection.com. HALESWORTH MUSEUM 9 Volunteers wanted ‘Come and join us’ Our magazines are for you, the community, and Louise about your community – I would love to hear from BURSARIES FOR PERFORMING 10 Gissing you ARTS STUDENTS – FESPA supports local home-grown Please visit Tide Collection Online Magazine Archive | Leiston Press to talent view our other titles and ‘Online Extra’ HALESWORTH TO SOUTHWOLD 11 NARROW GAUGE RAILWAY QUOTE OF THE MONTH: SOCIETY Work goes on! This month’s update The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. SOUTHWOLD ARTS CENTRE 12 An exciting programme of events for Alfred Austin June 2021

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Greetings and warm wishes, hoping that you are remaining safe and well through such very difficult times for us all. Changes to Covid-19 SUMMER SEASON 2021 restrictions on May 17th allowed live, indoor theatre to begin once Live theatre is back at more, and Aldeburgh Classic Theatre are very pleased to be able ALDEBURGH to announce an exciting and extended summer theatre programme Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall! CLASSIC THEATRE for 2021 with four laugh-out loud comedies; a Roaring 20s classic by Noel Coward, Ayckbourn’s only Comedy Whodunnit, a Spy-themed Noël Coward’s Adventure Romcom, and a Noises-Off style Farce in a Fawlty-style hotel! Fallen Angels 19th to 31st July Indoor audiences may be required to wear face masks, and we plan to continue to provide some measure of social distancing so that our It Could Be Anyone of Us! audiences can be confident as we reacclimatise ourselves to sharing by Alan Ayckbourn space with people not from our families or Bubbles. 2nd to 14th August Although Covid prevented us from performing live, a significant Our Man in Havana investment was already committed prior to Lockdown 1 in 2020, and by Graham Greene, adapted by Clive Francis expenses to enable us to survive as a viable theatre company into 2021 16th to 28th August have continued - albeit as reduced as overheads permit. So, we are most grateful for funding from Arts Council ’s Cultural Recovery Who's Who? Fund which will help offset the additional costs and reduced income by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall of the past year, and also means we will be able to continue to offer 30th Aug to 4th Sept affordable ticket prices.

For more details and to pre-book tickets As the company that officially took over production of summer theatre Call: 07771 593218 seasons from Jill Freud & Company, AFS, and Suffolk Summer Theatres Ticket Source, website, and in-person booking available soon. (SST) we have strong links with experienced and talented local creatives Supported by Arts Council England and HM Govt. Cultural Recovery Fund – developed over many years. We are passionate about producing #Covid safe environment ACT is a trading name of high-quality live theatre and entertainment, and are confident that we Southwold and Aldeburgh Theatre Ltd. can do so again this year. We look forward to seeing you all very soon.

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The next in the series of Cut Copies are available from Halesworth Received Emergency Response Funding Conversations sees Anna Pavord at The Book Shop and Books & Prints in and Cultural Recovery Funding from Arts Cut, on the stage, talking to journalist Council England (ACE), Theatre Trust, and writer Catherine Larner about her and 20+ years as a gardening correspondent, writer of over 12 books, and gardener. Successfully applied for funding to install solar panels and upgrade the theatre This will be the first live performance in lighting to LED the series which started in November 2020. The theatre experience will be on Planned a new website which is currently bubbles or households with distancing in under construction place and you can book advance tickets Planned a digital archive of our art for the theatre or receive a link for the exhibitions since 2003 with artist livestream. interviews, an ACE funded project The While Anna Pavord is best known and Cut Digital Archive greatly loved as a gardening writer, Installed the first and second phase of her internationally bestselling classic, upgrading the theatre sound system The Tulip, is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has driven Planned streaming events and received men mad. Greed, desire, anguish and Sunday 20 June, 3pm. Tickets are free funding to buy new equipment devotion have all played their part in and all donations to assist The Cut’s the development of the tulip from a sustainability are gratefully received. The remainder of the work is paid for wildflower on the Asian steppes to Doors open at 2.30pm and a link to the by The Cut funding account and a the worldwide phenomenon that it is live stream will be sent on the day http:// successful application to BEE Anglia, a today. No other flower carries so much bit.ly/TheCut-AnnaPavord subsidiary of Suffolk County Council and baggage: it charts political upheavals, the Bounce Back Fund. A Theatre Trust illuminates social behaviour, mirrors Cut Conversations is a series of monthly grant enabled us to buy PPE. economic booms and busts and plots the writers’ events. We have hosted Melissa ebb and flow of religious persecution. Harrison in conversation with fellow We have been amazed and deeply writer Catherine Larner; Hermione Lee touched by the generosity of the private How could a simple flower influence so on Tom Stoppard and artist Maggi donations we have received. many, for so many centuries, in so many Hambling with Ros Green countries? The emergency funding from the Arts Lockdown Council enabled us to survive in 2020, Anna Pavord, a self-confessed and the Cultural Recovery Fund in 2021, tulipomaniac, spent six years looking for The devastating effects of C-19 has led we are applying for more funding all the answers, roaming through eastern Turkey The Cut to pause, take stock and have a time. and Central Asia to discover how this look at what we do while our doors have humble flower made its way along the been shut and the world has been in a Unlike many arts centres, The Cut has Silk Road, eventually to take the whole of series of lockdowns. residual income from unit rental – we are the Western world by storm. fortunate. We have decided to treat it, on one Anna explains, “The soul needs to look level, as an opportunity. We can’t wait to (safely) reopen our out at things and find rest and peace and doors. We want to see The Cut buzzing beauty in the things that the eyes are While the building has been closed with visitors again and we’re doing seeing. I think that’s a need. It’s a need during all three lockdowns we have: everything we can to make that happen as much asai16218417837_Narwhal having a roof over Quarter your headLandscape June 21.pdf 1 24/05/2021 08:36 and to be ready when it does. Repainted the whole interior of the

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THEATRE ON THE COAST Britain’s world-leading performing arts three weeks we had raised more than Michelle MBE, Hello Norma Jeane by sector has been brought to its knees £8,000. This overwhelming support Dylan Costello will be running from by the pandemic. But here, projects demonstrates two things. Firstly, that August 11th. director Matthew Townshend of Matthew the local community is as hungry as we Townshend Productions (mtp), claims are for live theatre to make a comeback. An mtp revival of Tomfoolery – a musical that a recent Crowdfunder for this year’s And secondly, that we are heading for a revue with the songs and words of Tom Theatre on the Coast in Southwold real rebirth of the theatre in the years to Lehrer - is also on the cards from August proves that the public won’t let the come. After all, this is not the first time in 25th. performing arts go down without a fight. our British history that theatres – and the performing arts as a whole – have been Plus, Robert Powell will be returning to It has been a catastrophic year for threatened. Southwold in his brand new one-man- theatre. Thousands of people have been show celebrating the genius of Jane made redundant and many more have Theatres of the Elizabethan and Austen. struggled to access vital Government Jacobean eras were frequently closed support schemes such as furlough. down because of health scares and civil Finally, we have some exciting plans on unrest. And in more recent times war and the horizon including a Treasure Island Now here we stand as the industry opens terrorist attacks have rocked its core. But open air workshop and production with up again – with many of us as anxious each and every time, the arts has found young performers as well as music and as we are excited about what the future ways to reach an audience. even a circus. holds. Throughout the last 18 months, theatres Theatre on the Coast has been running For us at mtp, this anxiety was felt have adapted to meet the demands of 80 years uninterrupted. We have every acutely when we realised we could not an art-hungry public and we were among intention of continuing for another 80 proceed with the Theatre on the Coast them – providing a virtual Theatre on years and more. this year without a cash injection. the Coast. And now we are geared up to return to the stage with full force. As Shakespeare himself once said: “All Alongside the continued support of our the world’s a stage, and all the men and sponsor Suffolk Secrets, the Friends of We have three fantastic productions women merely players. They have their Performing Arts (FESPA) and taking place from July 21st – September exits and their entrances and one man in successfully applying for regional grants, 4th with more events to be added in the his time plays many parts.” we tentatively launched a Crowdfunder very near future. to try and raise the £6,000 we needed Theatre has not been killed by to bring the performances back to Our first production - taking place coronavirus. And mtp will continue to Southwold, acutely aware that people from July 21st - is Cleo, Camping, play many parts in whatever shape it continue to struggle with financial Emmanuelle and Dick by Terry Johnson takes in future. hardship of their own as a result of the and will be directed by Theatre on the pandemic. Coast favourite Sarah Redmond. Book your tickets to this year’s season: Starring our very own Theatre on the www.totc.co.uk But our fears were misplaced and within Coast patron and ‘Allo ‘Allo star Vicki

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HALESWORTH & DISTRICT MUSEUM team of volunteers? The Museum also taken possession of a new secure has big plans for the rest of 2021 and offsite store for some of our larger we need not only more Stewards to objects and this will allow us to create give up a few hours a week, meeting more storage and working space. COME AND JOIN US! and greeting visitors, answering their queries and explaining items And then there are new displays, a “Come and join us” is the message on display. We also need more new book, new lectures – all to come coming loud and clear from volunteers working behind the in 2021. The ‘star turn’ will be the Halesworth & District Museum as scenes, cataloguing, producing unveiling of the hoards of Iron Age it reopens after the long months of documentation, researching, creating and pre-Roman coins from Cookley lockdown. and maintaining displays, working on and which, with the help publicity and the many other tasks of generous local donors, will be “Come and join us” by revisiting that maintain the museum. We need coming home soon and will need your ‘Museum at the Station’. Catch good graphic design for new displays, to be displayed attractively as the up with the displays. You’ll now find photographers to capture images centrepiece of the ‘new museum’. them bright and shiny under new of our collection for the Museum’s LED lighting, installed during the So do think about “coming and catalogue and volunteers who will be lockdown. There will be old friends on joining us”. If you’re tempted, do able to take responsibility for sections view and some new, so refresh your contact us to chat about how you of our website (WordPress). memory. For the moment usual hours might like to get involved in our apply: Tuesday to Saturday 10.00 This would be a great time to get exciting future. Send us an e-mail at am to 12.30 pm and Wednesday involved. Later this year the Museum [email protected] afternoons from 2 pm to 4 pm. will open up a brand new area to or call Brian, our Curator, on 07715 enlarge the gallery space, create new 679711 for a no-commitment chat. Or But why not get more involved? audio-visual displays and provide just drop in. We would love to hear “Come and join us” as one of our opportunities for group visits. We’ve from you.

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HALESWORTH DEMENTIA CARERS’ FUND With lockdown restrictions easing the Films at The Cut As ever, HDCF are delighted to bring a couple of HDCF would forthcoming events to your attention. These have proved immensely popular like to thank in the past and we are delighted to be you for your I-Chameleon Shop able to resume showing them. The first wonderful one will be on Wednesday 21st July at continuing From 17th – 23rd June the HDCF will 2.45 for 3.00. As yet we don’t know what support be holding a sale in I-Chameleon in the the film to be shown is so please look out that helps Thoroughfare. There will be huge range for posters around the town or contact us provide of different items for sale, so if you are HDCF on information.hdcf@btinternet. respite care looking for a gift for someone, or just com or view our Facebook page. for those want to have a browse, please call in and We hope to be back to showing films whose loved ones have dementia. see us. The shop will be open daily from every two months, so the following one 10.00 till 4.00 (except Sunday). will be on Weds 15th September. John Wood

BURSARIES SUPPORT YOUNG LOCAL TALENT Young people who seek to pursue a each year. awarded bursaries worth more than career in the performing arts sometimes £56,000 to students of acting, dancing, face huge challenges. Not only is FESPA bursaries are designed music and stage management. there fierce competition for places to provide financial support and in recognised colleges, but the costs encouragement to deserving students If you are hoping to start a specific of travel, living and accommodation of the performing arts who either performing arts course in the autumn on top of tuition fees and associated live in the area or have strong local this year, now is the time to submit an expenses can represent a daunting connections and who have already application. You can let FESPA know obstacle to prospective students and obtained a place at a recognised later if and when you receive a definite their parents. institution. Each student is required to offer of a place. The closing date for submit an application form and CV and completed applications is midnight on In a bid to help home-grown talent fulfil specifically to explain how the bursary Saturday July 31 2021. its potential, the local charity, Friends would be of help. References also have of East Suffolk Performing Arts (FESPA) to be supplied. To ask for full details and to obtain an awards one-off bursaries of up to £1500 application form, please email David to a few carefully selected students In the last twelve years, FESPA has Bunkell at [email protected] .

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SAXMUNDHAM NEWS SOUTHWOLD ORGAN WOODBRIDGE TALK 11 HALESWORTH HOOT SOUTHWOLD ARTS CENTRE The Southwold Arts WARNING: CONTAINS GUNSHOT nominations: the Laurence Olivier and the Centre emerges from SOUNDS Whatsonstage Award for ‘Best Actor in lockdown with an a Musical’). For BBC Television, Graham exciting programme of Tues 8th June – Sat 12th June @ 7.30pm. played the role of Joey Boswell in Carla events for June 2021. Matinee Thurs & Sat @ 3.30pm. Tickets: Lane’s comedy series, Bread. £20 Around the World Southwold’s Outdoor Cinema Coming in Eighty Days – Theatre Royal, Bury Two of A Kind–Mary and Graham indoors to Southwold Arts Centre StEdmunds Two of Britain’s Brightest singing stars In collaboration with the Southwold Open We are delighted to announce that we are coming to Southwold this June. West Air Cinema, Southwold Arts Centre brings have been invited to host a production of End star Graham Bickley and international you a season of highly acclaimed films that Around The World in 80 Days produced by concert performer Mary Carewe come to you can watch indoors at The Southwold the prestigious and historic RegencyTheatre Southwold to give us a sensational evening Arts Centre. Film maker Richard Curtis and Royal, . Paul Hegarty, our of songs of Love and Romance following BBC Radio presenter Emma Freud have devoted Trustee and West End performer their recent recording of a new album generously donated the films. As local was able to persuade Owen Calvert-Lyons, ‘Long Ago and FarAway’ with theRoyal residents they are avid supporters of all Artistic Director and CEO of the Theatre Philharmonic Orchestra. Mary and Graham projects that benefit our community and Royal to extend the theatre’s performance regularly appear on BBC Radio 2’s ‘Friday local economy. By presenting these films at to us in Southwold. Night Is MusicNight’. You will be treated the Southwold Arts Centre, we are showing to songs from the 1920s–1940s such as support for those who would like to enjoy “I’m really pleased that we have been able ‘My Funny Valentine’, ‘A Fine Romance’, the films but require an indoor environment to extend the run of Around the World ‘A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square’ and/or earlier times. Southwold’s Outdoor in Eighty Days to include Southwold Arts and ‘Every Time We Say Goodbye - songs Cinema is organised by ‘My Southwold Centre” says Owen. “My wife (Rosanna by George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Business Partnership’ and supported by Miles) performed here every summer for 10 Porter and Rodgers & Hart. You really are in Southwold Town Council. All proceeds from years with the Jill Freud Company, so I have for a treat. the events are donated to Comic Relief or great affection for the town. I’m delighted reinvested back into the town to benefit the to be bringing live performance back to Mary appears on the soundtrack recording residents, visitors and local businesses. Southwold this summer.” for hundreds of films including The Hobbit and The Pirates of the Caribbean, 19th June: The Bourne Ultimatum Around The World in 80 Days is a sparkling and has sung live with the likes of Paul new version of one of the world’s greatest Young, Cat Stevens, Eric Clapton and Joe Tickets from £12.50 adventure stories, using only 3 actors to Cocker. Graham has performed in The St Edmunds Hall, Cumberland Road, play all 20 characters. Victorian adventurer Pajama Game, (Dora Award ‘Best Actor’ Southwold, IP18 6JP Phileas Fogg embarks on a fantastical nomination, Toronto), Les Misérables, Email: [email protected] journey to travel across the globe in record Miss Saigon, Sunset Boulevard (playing Tickets: Tel: 01502 722572 or visit: www. time. opposite ), and , (Two southwoldartscentre.co.uk

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12 ALDEBURGH TIMES HALESWORTH HOOT LEISTON OBSERVER VIEW OUR FULL COLLECTION AT TIDECOLLECTION.COM THIS FEARFUL THING A new novel has just been published detailing the little-known story of Ann Camell of Southwold, who, in 1645 was accused of bewitching a sailor, William Whitton.

‘This Fearful Thing’ by Reydon author L M West is extensively researched and tells the sometimes harrowing story of a woman accused of witchcraft, not once, but three times and her fight to survive. Ann was the wife of Thomas Camell, whose family once owned what is now Sutherland House in Southwold High Street and the novel is set very much in Southwold and the surrounding landscape as it may have been 400 years ago.

‘This Fearful Thing’ is available on Amazon as a paperback at £8.99 and Kindle version at £2.99 and also from Halesworth Book Shop, Southwold Books, Aldeburgh Bookshop, Books and Browsers Books, Woodbridge.

THE ARTS SOCIETY, SOUTHWOLD June 8th Zoom Lecture @ 2pm This is a change from the original After the June lectures the next one will William Morris – Socialist & Entrepreneur programme. For more information be on September21st Lecturer-Joanna Banham please email: [email protected].

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YOXFORD CRICKET CLUB

The new season started well on 1st May chance we will reach a century mark by which will follow is also attracting new with a home win against Braintree in the the end of the summer which would be members and will start in July at the 2 Counties Division 6. were put a fantastic milestone! Matches are now same time as The Hundred. This brand in to bat and started well but then began underway and on 27th April, the U11s new competition will see cricket return to lose wickets. William Driver, batting got off to a winning start against Melton to free to air on the BBC this summer at no. 3, steadied the situation and was Youth , scoring 165 runs against 102 in holidays and hopefully inspire the next the mainstay of our innings with 53 runs, an enjoyable first Super 8s game. The generation to pick up a bat and ball and including eight 4s and a 6, and he was Girls U11 also played Melton Achilles join in the fun. the last man out. The innings closed on on 2nd May and narrowly lost by just 138 for 9. Our bowlers then took control 1 run in their first softball fixture of the Our Womens softball cricket also returns and Braintree were soon in trouble. The summer. Our U9s were also in softball with weekly coaching sessions every first 3 wickets only added 6 runs and action on May 9th with both wins and Sunday morning 11 - 12 for any ladies after a brief rally they were 27 for 5. Keith losses in a mini festival as we hosted or young girls who would like to get Merrell and Andrew Gowers then put on against Walsham & . Our first U13 involved. Monthly softball festivals will 50 runs for the 6th wicket but when the fixture was sadly lost to the weather, but follow later in the summer for those also latter was out it was the beginning of there are lots more fixtures to come for looking for social evening activity with the end and the innings closed on 121 all our teams in the coming weeks. For friends. If you are interested, please for 9, leaving us the winners by 17 runs. more details on our youth cricket please contact: [email protected] William Driver was our top performer in contact: [email protected] Groundsman: We continue to look for the Braintree innings, taking 4 wickets At the time of writing, we are looking someone to help look after the ground while only conceding 11 runs off his 8 during the week. This would ideally overs. He was well supported by some forward to launching this year’s ECB All Stars Cricket scheme for 5 – 8 year olds suit a local retired person. Full training economical bowling and excellent from our existing grounds volunteers fielding by his teammates. on 16th May. This has again proved very popular with over 20 young boys and would be provided. Further information The match against on 8th girls eager to get started on Sunday can be obtained from Jamie Thurston May was cancelled owing to rain and, mornings. The new ECB Dynamos [email protected]. with Caribbeans being unable to raise a initiative for older 8 – 11 year olds full team for the scheduled match on 9th May, it was a frustrating weekend for our players after their excellent start.

We are looking forward to the further easing of Covid-related restrictions so that we can again welcome spectators to our beautiful Grove Park ground. For details of future fixtures, please check our website: www.yoxfordcc.co.uk.

As reported previously, our youth cricket is going from strength to strength with new players and volunteers joining regularly. At the time of writing, the club has already brought up its half century of youth members and across all our club and ECB schemes there is a very good

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Thurs 3rd June at 3.00 & 7.15 Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield and Jesse Plemons in

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH 15 ————————————————————— Fri 4th June at 3.00 & 6.00 Sat 5th June at 11.00, 2.00 & 5.00 Sun 6th June at 12.00 & 3.00 Mon 7th June at 5.00 Tues 8th & Wed 9th June at 6.00 Thurs 10th June at 5.00 Sat 19th June at 11.00, 2.00 & 5.00 Sun 20th June at 12.00 & 3.00 A man struggles with aging as his daughter moves into his flat with Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson and James Cordan in him and he refuses all assistance from her as he ages. As he tries PETER RABBIT 2: to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and the fabric of his reality. The performances by THE RUNAWAY U Hopkins and Colman are phenomenal. On screen from Friday 11th June. ————————————————————— Mon 7th June at 7.30 Tues 8th & Wed 9th June at 3.00

Thurs 10th June at 7.30 Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried and Lily Collins in

MANK 15 ————————————————————— Fri 11th & Sat 12th June at 7.15 On screen from Friday 4th June Sun 13th June at 6.00 Mon 14th-Thurs 17th June at 3.00 & 7.15 LIVE ON STAGE Fri 18th & Sat 19th June at 7.15 Friday 25th June at 7.30pm Sun 20th June at 6.00 Tickets: £17.50 NOW BOOKING Mon 21st-Thurs 24th June at 3.00 & 7.15 The Everly Brothers and Friends features Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Coleman and Mark Gatiss in over two hours of classic hits from three

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Toni Collette, Damian Lewis and Joanna Page in

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